Ep. 207 - ...And One More Thing - The Thing (2011) - Big Dumb Monsters

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None. Hey everybody, welcome to big
dumb monsters. I'm Nick.
And I'm Chris. And this week we take a trip
back to 2011 for a prequel, which is the same title as the

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original movie. The thing, yeah, at least make
it easy on us. Give it like a little bit of a
different title. It could have been.
It could have been like. The other thing would have been.
The first thing, yeah. Yeah, The thing, The beginning,
Yeah, we we go through the ups and downs of this movie.
It's all the potential in the world.

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And we didn't hate it. We didn't love it.
Yeah, it's it's it's good. It's not great.
It's nothing to write home about, yeah, but it's
entertaining. Yeah, I'm not upset that I watch
this movie. Exactly.
And we'll tell you exactly why in this episode of Big Dumb
Monsters. Enjoy the show, it's a perfect

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diet of. Mystery and power.
The air itself is milled in the monsters.

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There we are. We're here.
It is golden in here because that light is off again.
And I'm fine with it. All right, this looks this looks
fantastic. All right, all right.
What's going on, everybody? I don't like that light.
Really. Yeah.
It makes me look pink. Anyway, what's going on

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everybody? It is a sweaty ass mundane.
Oh. My God, yeah.
A lot of bat wings today. And we don't mean like, in the
creepy sense, like, yeah. Well, they're.
Creepy, just in a completely a totally different way.
What's going on? We could not completely
coincidentally, we picked a, youknow, a a movie set in the

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Antarctic where it would be nice, Looks refreshing.
Yeah. Like, if I could just get, like,
a breeze. Yeah, that would be great.
But we're watching the 2011 prequel to The Thing.
Yeah. As far as prequels go.
Not good. Yeah, we could do a lot worse.
Yeah, I think this movie's, those movie has two big sins.

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They made a movie using practical effects and then just
the studio was like, no, and made them layer over fucking
CGI. Mistake number one.
Yeah, because the CGI in this movie is fucking terrible.
It's bad, yeah. It's not the worst I've ever
seen. No, no, it's not like The Rock
and and The Mummy 2. Yeah, yeah, we're not looking at

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PlayStation 2 graphics. Yeah, it's, but it does feel
video gamey. Yeah, I can see that.
The other sin I think this moviecommits is that it doesn't
really justify its existence until like the last 20 minutes
of the movie. Yeah.
And it doesn't really go far enough in doing so because like

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I do want to say, I do like thismovie.
I thought it was good, you know,definitely not as good as the
Theo, the original, the thing. Well, yeah, it never stood a
chance of being as good as that movie.
But I think it's a, it's a solidmovie.
It's just that like, it's the first 75% of the movie is just
too similar to The Thing. It's basically a rehash of it.

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Yeah. And then we only get new
information once they like, go onto the ship.
Basic I. Like I like a lot that they're
doing in this movie actually, when the effects are practical,
they look amazing. Like the the designs that they
came up with CG or not look really good.

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Like the designs of the monster stuff is great.
Like the one woman who like, whohas the giant mouth, like, open
up in her stomach and fucking yeah, yeah.
I wish it was all practical. Yeah, I'd like.
I really, really do. I would like that would have
added probably like 2 points to my score.

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I like that. It's not exactly the thing it's
they style it differently 'causethis is more of a like action
thriller. Where we we do get more of like
a typical monster movie, we do see more of like a yeah, a a
monster. Yeah, it's a little, it is a

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little stereotypical in in the format, but I'm glad that they
didn't just rehash the the thingfrom 82.
Like, yeah, 'cause you would have been wildly unsuccessful.
This has its own flavor. It's it's faster pace, It's more
actiony. I mean, I wish they slowed it

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down a little bit. I wish it wasn't just like,
bang, bang, bang, bang, bang andall these big effects going on
all the time, you know, like, give me a little bit more of
that, you know, like paranoia that, you know, like, 'cause
they, they, they dip into it a little bit in this movie.
It's just not enough. And so I think they I think they

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just went too far left field, but I understand why they did
it. You know, they didn't want it to
be a remake of the original. So like it's, it's got its own
flavor. Pardon me.
Cast is like mostly forgettable though.
Yeah, it's mostly unknown peoplelike who the better known ask

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for this is going to be quick because like some of the people
we've got on here we've done before already.
And then everybody else is just in like, Oh yeah, they're in
this thing. Like I'm, I'm really mercy like
crediting people today. Yeah, yeah, it's fine.
Like even even beyond, like evenbeyond like the actors being

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kind of forgettable. Like the characters they play
are forgettable. They're all just.
Lose track of the count, you know, like, oh, all right, that
guy was there, you know, like was.
That Heinrich or Lars or or Peter?
Who was that guy? I.
Don't know any other fucking. News.
Yeah, yeah. Not a one.
Yeah, I yeah, they are kind of forgettable.

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Which is unfortunate because like make it a character driven
story you know? Like even if you are doing
faster pace action Y, you can still have it be character
driven, it just isn't. I do like that it is like the
story of the Norwegians, like you know, we we get that the
first movie, like it is cool to get that part of the story.

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I do feel like they shoehorn thedog and at the end like they
forgot like oh fuck we got to get this dog somehow like.
Well, I think actually, I think that that was actually, I think
that was done pretty well because the dog is there in the
beginning of this movie and theneverybody forgets about the dog.
Like as a viewer, you've forget about, forget about the dog.

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Like in the back of your mind, if you know the the original
movie really, really well, you're like, oh, how do they tie
in the dog? How do they tie in the dog at
the end? They're like, they're running
out of Norwegians, like what? What's going on?
And then for them to bring the dog back just at the very end, I
think it's cool. I, I it adds a little bit of

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that like, Oh yeah, kind of factor.
Yeah, yeah. I like that we see this version
of it in the beginning, you know, not in the beginning, like
in the middle of the movie when it gets, you know, busts out of
the ice. Like you don't know what the
fuck you're looking at. Like you, you can see it.
You're not supposed to. Yeah, like that's the great.
It's a great thing about. It I see things I recognize,
like I see legs, I see claws, like teeth, but like, I don't

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know what it is I'm looking at. Like, yeah.
Yeah, it almost looked like one of the bugs from Clendathu and
fucking Starship Troopers. Yeah, yeah.
But there's also like, you know,it's got the insect legs, but
then there's like, crab claws and like.
What the fuck? It's just supposed to be, well,
like, I don't know if that's itsoriginal form or if it was like
in the middle of doing somethingwhen it got frozen.

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That's what I was. It's something I was like,
thinking as I was watching this,like, is that supposed to be the
original form? Yeah.
Or is that just something that it infected and was using to
pilot the ship? Sorry, there's a dog on my boot.
Yeah, he's on my foot. Oh, he moved a little bit.
I can actually get into a less uncomfortable position.
Yeah. I was like, there's pressure on
my toes. Why is there pressure on my

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toes? Yeah.
Warm, sleepy dog. Yeah, I mean, there's the movie
is just so like mid, you know, like I don't hate it.
I didn't love it. But it doesn't yeah, Excel like

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where you kind of want it to where you think it's kind of
going to go and then it just. Yeah.
And again the this shitty CGI really pisses me off.
Especially really didn't help itat all.
Yeah, that they made a practicaleffects movie and they just laid
this shit on top of it. Yeah.
God, like if you have the resources, just.

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Just do it just. Do it.
Yeah. Because it's going to look
better. Like even I will take mediocre
real shit over pretty good CGI, yeah.
Yeah, for sure. And we didn't even get pretty
good CGI. We got OK, it's fine.

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I like that we learn a little bit more about how it kind of
like assimilates people too, because in the first movie, you
don't know how it's doing, what it does.
Yeah. Like you just know, like it's in
a room with somebody for a little while.
And like when they, when they come out, they're infected.
Yeah. And this like, kind of shows you
like, oh, it's actually like absorbing them and then like
spinning out a clone basically. Yeah, yeah, I like, I like that

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they they figured out ways to tie in like.
Yeah, I know. Stuff that you see in the
original movie like so like the the 2 headed one, you're like,
Oh yeah, where does that show upin this movie?
And you you see it like it's cool.
It looks like shit, but you know.
That was a cool scene too, wherethey're like the one guy who's

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still alive and not infected, like he's on the ground because
he's wounded. And then like this thing just
happened to like rub it's face against him and it's just boom,
stuck to him. Yeah, that was pretty cool,
yeah. Yeah.
I mean, there was no shortage ofgross in this movie.
Like it. Like it.
It's doing the thing. It's just not great at it.

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Just cutting corners where like it didn't need to, the CGI, like
the one towards the end, like the final version of it when
it's got the guy's face on, it looks so bad.
Like yeah, it looks so. Bad.
It looks terrible. Like, I think another thing is
like, they're just trying to hitstory beats.

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And so basically this is like, let's fill in the gaps, you
know, Because like, we want to show you these things from the
original movie. So like, this is how that thing
happens. What can we feel for time in
between? Yeah.
Oh, flamethrowers and yelling. How about flamethrowers and

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yelling? Yeah, Yeah, that's in the first
movie, right? Yeah, it's just like the if the
original didn't exist, I would like this a lot more.
You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.
Because I, I could see this for what it is and know that it's
not trying to fill gaps. I'd probably still be a little

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disappointed in it, yeah. But I I would probably think a
little higher of it. I like, I'm not.
I don't think I'm crazy about Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Like, surviving at the end. Like, I think this is like a
case of like, last voyage of thedemeanor where everybody should
die except that dog. Yeah.

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You know, Yeah. When the the two guys at the
end, yeah. That's very, Yeah.
The two guys in the helicopter, Yeah, yeah.
You technically don't know if she lives.
She's got to go 50 miles. Yeah, in Antarctica.
The guy says she should, you know, they've got enough gas to
get there. Yeah, no, I I agree with you.

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Like, you should see her, like, frozen to death, you know, out
in the waist somewhere. Yeah, that should be one of the
clips. But.
I mean, cause theoretically if she gets it's 50 miles away,
even if she's going 10 miles an hour, it's only going to take
her like half a day to get whereshe's going.
Yeah. Like that's enough time to warn
somebody and like get the word out to the other base, like.

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Yeah, They, they, she would havecome across a radio that she
could call, you know, the other station.
Yeah. It's just.
It's what we'll call plot hole. Yeah.
I don't know man, I didn't love the design of the ship either.
It is just, yeah, kind of. It's just, you just see it's big

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and it's got vents, OK, like, but what, you know, I don't know
what really shape it is. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know what it looks like really.
Other than the top like the vented part, what else is there?
CG mouth smoke, they from the the steam from when they're in
The Cave. Yeah, that's great.

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That that's not obvious at all. I was looking for the tell at
the end, like, you know, in the in the first movie they say
like, you know, McCready, you could see his breath and child,
you don't see his breath when they're at the end.
Yeah, indicating that child's isthe.
I was looking for like the the, the gleam in the eye thing.
Yeah, doesn't exist in this movie.
Yeah, no, because right at the end when it's her and Joel

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Edgerton, you can see his breathas they're running for the yeah,
for the like the snow cat or whatever it's called.
But again, like if they're trying to do their own thing and
not just harp on the the original, 'cause that's all
theory stuff, right? Like that's not, that's not like
from the book, that's not from the original movie.

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That's that's all just like a lot of fan stuff.
I think. Same as the the flask has
gasoline in it or whatever. Oh yeah, yeah.
It's just that's just fan theorystuff.
Let's see any other holes. Complaints.
Any other complaints? I.

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Don't know. It's, it's, it's good.
It's just not great. It's fine, Yeah, it's fine.
Like, I don't think, I don't think that they did a bad enough
job where they're like disrespecting the original.
I I think they were trying to dosomething, you know, in the vein
of that, but like its own spin, right then I can respect that

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it's not just a rehash of the original movie, but it.
Also in a different it. Well, it, it has to be to a
degree because like, that's thisthing's MO, right?
Like you can only change so muchof what that monster's gonna do.
So they took a lot of the, the, the extended paranoia and the,

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and the dread and shit out of itand they replaced it with more
like fast-paced action and it works like it makes it a
different movie. It's, it's different enough, I
think to validate its own existence, but it's that it's
just not necessary. I don't think like it.

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It's fine that it exists, we didn't need it.
Yeah, It doesn't really add, like, a good prequel should,
like, retroactively make the first movie better.
Like, the perfect example is Rogue One.
Rogue One makes A New Hope a better movie.
Yeah. Because you, you, there's more

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of an emotional stake in, like, the Death Star now.
Like, you know what went into getting those plans is.
It crazy. You know what?
Here, I'm going to fucking say it.
Rogue One is the better movie. I, I it is.
It is my second favorite fuckingStar Wars movie.
It's so. Good.
Yeah, It it it's fucking awesome.
But it, it, it, it it meets thatgoal.

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Like it makes A New Hope retroactively better.
Yeah. And this, like it doesn't it
doesn't take away from the original thing, but it also
doesn't really add much to it. Also, what's going on TJ and
Alex? Oh shit.
What's going on Empire Strikes Back?
Hell yeah. That is my number one.
Of course, the obvious. But yeah, Rogue One is my #2

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Star Wars movie. Yeah, I did just pause telling
Nick I polished off that can of Hades I bought from you the
other day just before the show started.
So I'm feeling nice right now. And TJ, I'm not a trucker.
I used to work with some of themand they're horrible people.
But that's neither here nor there.

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He's. A mother trucker.
Yeah. Bad mother Trucker.
But Solo sucks and I didn't hateSolo, not gonna lie.
It's fun. It wasn't a good enough Star
Wars movie, and it wasn't a goodenough heist movie.
Yeah, Yeah. It failed at being both.
Yeah. Yeah.

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It's just like, it's kind of like a Fisher Price heist movie
and a Fisher Price Star Wars movie.
Like, yeah. No, thank you.
Yeah, I don't know. I still watch it every now and
again. Once was good for me.
Let's see. Fuck you, TJ.

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Yeah, if it wasn't called, if itwas called the Smuggler and it
wasn't in Star Wars, it wouldn'thave been good.
Yeah, I could. I could get on board with that.
Yeah, it's still not a good heist.
Yeah, it does. It's not a great heist movie.
Like, OK, you like, I love, like, perfect example.
I love the idea of them going like, I wanna make a like a

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heist movie, like an Ocean's 131112, whatever the fuck.
Yeah. Set in the Star Wars universe.
Amazing. I'm here for it because you're
doing something different insideof this thing that I love.
Yeah, it's gonna have a young Han Solo.
OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, it's not that good. Yeah, well, points for trying.

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It does. It does fail in the primary goal
of does it, like make Han Solo abetter character?
No, it doesn't. Yeah, Should have made.
Yeah, mimic heat. And yeah, that'd be Star Wars.
Can you imagine Danny Trejo in aStar Wars heist movie?
Yes. Yeah.
Space tacos. Fuck, I want that.

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Danny Trejo's making Wampa tacosin the other like in the kitchen
on the Millennium Falcon like. Hauled around.
Space but he's still wearing like flip flops and high socks.
I love Danny Trejo. I I don't think I've ever met

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anybody who doesn't. Yeah.
Have to draw some space tacos Doit Ocean Planets 11 yes all
right, I think we can I think wecan throw some some ratings on
this. All right, we had to.
We had to fill time because we were under that 20 minute mark.

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We were, where are we now? We're 24 minutes.
Oh, 24. Got it.
All right, I'll start, man. Like my heart wants to say 55
but that seems unfair. I'm going to go 6.

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All right, I was going to go 6, but I think I'm going to bump it
up to A-65. Just we're not on the same spot.
But like I do, I think I like this movie, like just in talking
a little bit more than you. I don't know.
Maybe not because I like I want.I don't know if it's that I want
to like this so much. I want.

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I did really like, I gave this an honest shot 'cause I was so
afraid of this when it first came out.
Yeah. I was like, like, what are you
going to add to that original fucking masterpiece?
Yeah. And it really is like The thing
is a fucking masterpiece. Yeah, I guess like, the best
thing I can say is that it doesn't take away from the

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thing. The original one, Yeah.
And I, you know, as far as thesefucking prequel cash insurance
or sequels, you know, it could go a lot worse.
It could go a whole lot worse. Yeah.
So I, I'm, yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna land on the 65I.
I 'cause I do think this does things well.
It's just got big shoes to fill.And it's, you know, it's just
not the CGI really, really fucking ticked me off.

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But if it was all practical, I could easily go up to A-75 like
no problem. Yeah, I think the story would
still block it down. Like it's, I think this, I think
the story and like how they get from point A to point B is so
just like generic and plain thatlike, it, it like that's really

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what holds a lot of it back. Yeah.
You know, like, OK, you, you understand, you know, the
pedigree of this fucking franchise that you're dipping
your toes in. You have to fucking deliver a
home run. You have to.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
It's just like the same thing when we talked about Nightmare

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on Elm Street. If you're going to call yourself
that, like step up to the fucking plate.
Yeah. But yeah, TJII do enjoy Mary
Elizabeth Winstead. Yeah.
Yeah, no, it's, it's good. It's just, I guess it doesn't
justify its own existence until like the last 20 minutes of the

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movie. That's when like it works to
expand the story of the first movie.
And like what it does offer us, we don't really.
It's not much I. Didn't need it.
Yeah, yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't.
It doesn't add value to the first first movie.
There is there's nothing in thismovie that I couldn't either
theorize from what they gave me in the first movie or just

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outright know from what I had inthe first movie.
Yeah, so. All right, I think it's time to
move on to the trivia. How to bother you with trivia?

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That is some refreshing Utica Club.
Yeah, we've been, we've been stuck up to Utica Club in a
while. Yeah.
Oh, perfect time for hydrate, TJ.
Thank you. Yeah.
They don't even answer our emails.
Yeah, yeah. We're we're still here.
Where are we? Where's my mate?
Here we go. We're still here.
Utica Club. Drinking your delicious
delicious OH. Double hydrate.
Oh shit. Oh God, this motherfucker's

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trying to kill us out here. Oh, got to die something.
Yeah, I am not above whoring myself out for Utica Club.
Exactly. Yeah, it's a delicious beverage.
I even have a T-shirt. All right.
Here we go, all. Right, ready to trivialize this

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movie? Let's get trivial.
Yeah, all right. Due to constant.
Oh my. Lord.
Due to constant studio interference, director.
Swedish guys or Norwegian guy? I'm going to I'm.

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Going to say Mathias van Heinengen Junior had such a
negative experience with the film that he claimed to have
lost the passion for filmmaking and retired for nearly a decade.
One of the issues was that he had to battle with five or six

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different studio executives in charge of the project, which
made it difficult to make any creative decisions.
I from what I remember when thisis being made, I do remember
there like being a lot of stories about the studio.
Like again with the CGI, they made him put the CGI in over the
practical. Yeah, so here's and I'm sure
this is part of the reason here.At one point, production was

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shut down for a week because Universal wanted the the film to
be in 3D, and the release was eventually pushed back six
months for studio mandated reshoots.
Yeah, they did do a conversion I.
Think yeah. Although Van Heinigen has since
made the acclaimed war movie TheForgotten Battle for Netflix and
has also been working on films in Norway, he has vowed never to

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work with American studio again.I can't say I blame him.
You know, like here's like the dude was in charge of something
super fucking relevant and important and they're like like,
it's basically the office space.Every time I mess up I hear
about it 5 different times, You know what I mean?

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Like. Yeah, yeah, shit, I was going to
say something and I forgot. Oh, what was it?
It's important. No, it was a joke.
No, it's not going to be funny now.
Yeah. All right, moving on.
Yeah. An enormous number of
screenshots from the first moviewere kept on set while filming

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at all times in order to ensure that the Norwegian station would
be rebuilt to the smallest details.
All right. Yeah.
So it's. It's not like the guy didn't
care, you know, like, and you can see that he wanted to make a
good movie and just, you know, it's kind of fell flat.
If we did another hydrate Jesus Louis while you're here, Alex,

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you at the at the at the bill and B Friday, I might stop by.
If so, let me know. Hey, anybody listening or
watching? Yeah, can also be at the bill
and B Yeah, which we highly suggest because.
It's delicious. It's delicious and it's a rad
little spot. Yeah, I remember I was going to

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say before, too, when you were saying like, oh, he's not going
to work for American, you know, an American studio again.
Yeah, pretty sure right now a lot of people aren't going to be
working with Americans again. Yeah, not just in movies, but
just a lot of things. It's just.
All around the film, makers usedKurt Russell's height as an

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estimate as to how big the sets would have to be to faithfully
recreate the Norwegian camp, as no blueprints existed from the
John Carpenter movie. Did we see the Norwegian?
No, they did go to the Norwegiancamp.
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah.
Well, because that's where they find like the two headed one
they I want to say they found the ice block.

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I think you're right. Yeah, it's been a little bit.
Yeah. Anybody remember out there?
Jesus, these three are going to murder us by the end of the
show. What?
Huh. They're they're adding up how
many points they have between all of them.
Oh no, look, I'll keep drinking.Yeah, you don't have to go

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anywhere. Twist your fucking arm, right?
Yeah, yeah. Let's see one of the mandates
that writer Eric Heiss. Heiss, that guy, He's Sarah.
Yeah, that guy, a guy from the studio was that the lead
character had to be a woman. So he did his research to

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prevent her from being the, quote, stereotypical female
commodity in order to in order to not try to compete with Kurt
Russell's portrayal of the 1982 films protagonist RJ McCready.
The character of Kate Lloyd was designed to have traits more in
common with the character Ellen Ripley from the Alien film

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series. All right, that's fine.
Yeah, Yeah, I would that if you're gonna go with a female
like prototype character, Ellen Ripley is a fucking bad ass.
Why not do it? Go for it.
It's better than like, you know,mimicking barbed wire or
something like. That, oh, I don't know if you

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heard me all right. Yes, believe it or not, Ripley.
Yeah, go on, This is our last IMDb trivia fact for the
evening. Like the John Carpenter 1982

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movie, this was also a box office flop, earning just 31
million from a budget of 38 million.
Yeah, I do remember that. Yeah, which is not the worst
flop I've ever seen. Yeah, yeah, but I, I don't know,
I I think it's better than it flopping like it's got a Six 2

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rating on here. And that's, I think, about right
for once on IMDb. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Hey, I'm not charity rude at.

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Least not until the operation don't.
Mind him. He's.
A rescue you ready for one Star reviews?
Let's do it. All right, I still have not made
a thing for one star reviews. Yeah, I'm sorry.
We'll get there. I haven't done it either so
well. Well, it's kind of my shtick.

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I could make like a little bumper or something.
I haven't done shit. We ain't found shit.
Let's make a bet right now. And how quickly do you think
that joke is going to be referenced in Spaceballs 2?
I'm going to say first half hour.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, for sure.

(32:11):
Yeah. But it's going to be we still
ain't found shit. Yeah, yeah, it's going to be
something like that. Yeah, it's.
Variation. Good God.
Oh, that's one down. Yeah.
Oh, I'm almost done with two andthe Hades.

(32:34):
Jesus Christ. It's like a third of the can.
So it wasn't wow. Yeah, huge.
Yeah, OK, this one star review is entitled Why did this movie
suck so much? Whatever.
It didn't, Yeah. What a surprise, someone
complaining about a recent Hollywood prequel of a beloved

(32:55):
franchise on the Internet. How original, right?
Listen, I get it. I hate having to be that guy.
I wish I could be writing how much I love this movie and how
amazing it is. Hell, I would love to have found
at least one thing positive to hold onto.
But that, unfortunately, would just be a lie.
Yeah, I mean teach their own, but.
It's not that bad, it's not thatbad.

(33:20):
This one title is awful. Whoever made this movie didn't
understand what was great about John Carpenter's 1982 version.
The thing was a tear. The Thing was terrifying because
there was tension. There was no tension in this
prequel. The creature does not attempt to
hide inside an intimate, and it blew hide inside an imitation.

(33:46):
That's hard to say. It does though like it a. 100%
does. Yeah, the whole point is to her
trying to figure out like, whichone of us is not the, you know,
is not human. Yeah.
It tries to kill everyone in itsproximity without ever being
threatened or exposed. It's not true.
This movie contradicts or screwsup everything we know about the
time frame what took place at the Norwegian camp from the

(34:10):
original movie. Yes, some bodies and objects end
up in the same place we saw themin 1982, but other major events
are completely altered. There is nothing worse than
making a movie under the title or license of an established
classic and butchering it into apaint by numbers Hollywood.
Cliche, but. What major events are altered
like Right, Yeah. What are we talking about?

(34:32):
I don't get it. The major events are the ass end
of this movie The the the dog. The dog gets away.
Yeah, the dog and the helicopter.
Yeah, that's it. And then seeing some of the
aftermath of what happens in this movie.
Alex, I know you like paint by numbers.

(34:58):
The Monique mentioned the Stewarts in Vermont.
I saw a video today. It was on the Two Buttons Deep
Instagram page. Yeah.
It was some charity auction where they were auctioning off a
tour of like, the Stewart's factory, and it was going for,
like, thousands of dollars. Watches.
Yeah. I think it's hilarious how how

(35:22):
much they've latched on to Stewart's like to the point
where like they're like head office is an abandoned
Stewart's. It's Stewart's.
Oh yeah, Yeah, it is very of theregion.
It's true. Yeah.
Listen, I love Stewart's just asmuch as anybody.
Stewart's Coffee, that's the go to.
Where I got this club with the Stewart's around the corner.

(35:44):
Yeah, man. OK, here we go.
Boring, predictable. Do not waste your money from the
beginning. Oh, Alex, it's a tour of the
Stewart's factory. That's what they're awkward.
Yeah, that's what that's what the winning prize.
Is make Stewart's is. Like probably the ice cream and
shit and like, you know, yeah, Idon't know if they make the

(36:06):
milk. Hell.
It's just a bunch of cows, like suspended in the ceiling.
They're milking us. Anybody seen Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles? Mutant Mayhem?
You. I know what I'm talking about.
That's a great movie. That is a great movie.
Yeah. And fucking you get the ODB

(36:30):
needle drop right in the fuckingmiddle.
Yeah, actually. There were a lot of great needle
drops in that movie. Yeah, like just how if like 30
years ago somebody was like, hey, in like the twenty 20s,
you're going to be watching a kids movie and there's going to
be an ODB song and it's going tobe awesome.
Like, no, there's not. You're.
Fucking kidding me. No, Sir.

(36:54):
Oh, and they're going to have, oh, and they're going to do a
fucking needle drop of fucking MOP Andy up.
Yeah, really. Craziness.
That movie is so awesome. Yeah.
Oh, God. All right, here we go.
One more review. Two more reviews.

(37:15):
Sorry. Boring, predictable.
Do not waste your money. From the beginning, it is
obvious that Hollywood is tryingto make quick buck on the name
and cheesy CGI alone. I knew before going in it was
going to be cheesy, but I was looking for a fun movie.
I nodded off and became increasingly annoyed at the
awful dialogue and possibly the worst background music ever.

(37:38):
No, definitely not. Yeah, it was extremely
predictable. The CGI looked like a video
game. And talk about cliche.
I mean, it has to be predictable.
We know what happened. Yeah, we know how it's going to
end. Like, yeah, we're getting to a
fixed point in time, like. Yeah, whatever.

(38:03):
I do feel bad for the lead actress, Mary Elizabeth
Winstead. She did the best she could given
what she had to work with. Do not waste your money.
These positive reviews must be from the studio people
themselves. Yeah, 'cause studio execs are
going on IMDb. And just like, yeah, he's
awesome. I love it.
Yeah, I'm sure that's what they're doing.

(38:26):
And this one, I love the title and then the first sentence.
So that's all I took from this one.
Oh dear, this film is dreadful. Can't a bunch of film snobs like
yeah, sitting around, yeah. I don't appreciate anything that
was made after 1986. Yeah, foreign.

(38:49):
Films. Only.
Yeah. All right.
No. Let us move on to the better
known as portion of the show. We will start off of course with

(39:15):
the director, as we always do. Really not much to talk about
because this is probably his most well known movie.
I don't know how the fuck I'm going to pronounce that.
I you said like yeah, OK, I'm. Mathias.
I'm pretty Mathias Van. Heinengen.

(39:36):
Is it Heinengen or Heinengen? Yeah.
It's Heinen. Sure.
There's AJ right in the middle. Yeah, it's both of them.
It's like the J, like AY sound like.
Is it Hyengen like Hyengen? Nyen in a jar.

(39:57):
Yeah, I mean, aside from this, you mentioned he directed the
Forgotten Battle, which I have never seen.
Me neither. Yeah, other than that, he's
directed like a lot of like commercials and like little like
just segments for like bigger things like NFL Sunday Ticket
for YouTube to TV directed the segment, The Magic of Sunday,
Coca-Cola and Disney the Multiverse Awards.

(40:20):
That's awaits. Yeah, awaits Jesus Christ.
Need new glasses? Less alcohol.
I think Samsung Xenos play time is over.
Heineken yeah, Heineken Samsung LGG 4 phone Kia Pierce Brosnan

(40:40):
Canal Pluse. That was a short.
But yeah, nothing really like this is really his only like big
move and that and the other one that I again, haven't heard of
Yeah. So yeah, moving on, Mary
Elizabeth Winstead, who we have talked about before several
times, so we're going to just gloss right over her.

(41:04):
She's she was in 10 Cloverfield Lane, which is one of our early
episodes. She is also an Abraham Lincoln
vampire hunter, which is one of our first studio episodes it.
Was it? Was like towards the beginning,
Yeah. She of course probably is most
well known for being Ramona Flowers in the Scott Pilgrim

(41:26):
movie and the animated series from a couple of years back.
That movie is so fucking good. That is a really good movie.
She is playing Harrison Doula currently in Ahsoka, the
character that originated on Rebels.
She was the huntress in the Birds of Prey movie.

(41:47):
Aside from that, she was in one of the seasons of Fargo, which
was really good. There's the one, like set in the
70s, I think, or the 80s maybe. Yeah. 10 Cloverfield Lane.
We mentioned she's in A Good Dayto Die Hard, which is not a good
movie. I'm just.
We've done this twice. We're.
Moving on, thank you for reminding me.

(42:08):
Up next, Joel Edgerton is in this movie.
He is probably most well known for being Uncle Owen and like in
the Star Wars prequels. Oh yeah.
Yeah, he's in like in the the first movie in in Phantom
Menace, he's in Revenge of the Sith and then I think he's in

(42:30):
Obi Wan also. He does pop up in things every
now and again. Let's see.
Yeah, he's on one for two episodes of the Obi Wan series,
which I thought was really good.The fight with Obi Wan Invader
at the end is fucking awesome. I still haven't seen it.

(42:51):
Yeah, I thought it was good. I just, I just like so fucking
inundated with Star Wars shit and I'm like, I don't I have
stopped caring like I I love these movies and you have beaten
me to death with new shit. Like I can't keep up.
I can't care anymore. He was in the Green Night a

(43:13):
couple of years back. I really liked that movie.
I've. Tried twice to watch it and like
I've I've really been interestedin it and I want to finish it,
but like it's, it's all of that movie's fucking boring.
It's. Like movie ass movie.
Yeah, it's 8. 24 What do you want?
Yeah. Aside from much what we

(43:35):
mentioned, he didn't ever be black Mass with Johnny Depp,
which was somehow boring. It's a movie about Whitey
Bulger. Yeah, yeah, I I couldn't even
get through it. He's in The Great Gatsby with
Leonardo DiCaprio, Zero Dark 30.He's in a Bob Dylan music video
in 2012. I'm.

(43:56):
I'm so good on that. Yeah.
Oh, that's right. He was the.
He was the fucking the not Tom Hardy character in.
Warrior in Warrior, Yeah, I still have never seen that
movie. I hear it's pretty good.
Yeah, it's pretty good. It's got an 8.1 rating here.
It's probably a little high, but.
And anything else, he's in the movie Smoking Aces from 2006,

(44:22):
and we can probably move on fromthere.
Yeah, yeah. Up next, Eric Christian Olson.
He is the one the other scientist who kind of like
fucking does, what's her name Dirty.

(44:42):
Like when she's like, you saw ittoo.
He's like, I don't know what I saw.
Yeah. Yeah.
He's been in 301 episodes of NCIS Los Angeles.
I have seen zero of those episodes.
That is a whole lot of pussy in the comments.
Those are corgis. Those are corgis.

(45:02):
Oh, I thought it was cats. I don't know, I had 54 bits to
use. And you use them all on corgis,
whatever that. Means I don't know, I'm just
here for the support man. We appreciate that he was in 4
episodes of Community. Let's see, anything else?

(45:28):
Eagle eye with noted lunatic Shia LaBeouf.
Yeah, king of the beef. Actual cannibal Shia LaBeouf,
Yeah. He's one of the German beer
drinking team in in, in Beer Fest.
Yeah, which I think that's better than a 6.2.
That movie's really funny. Yeah.

(45:49):
Yeah, it is. I've been shit pancakes ever
since. Who me and Monique were talking
about, This was last night when I was watching.
I was like, I fucking know that guy, right?
Like, I know him from something.She's like, yeah, he always
plays a dumb. Dumb.
Yeah, It's like, Oh yeah. Yeah, he's like a dumb like
surfer, like in everything or Yeah and.
Then he got on NCIS and now he'slike Mr. Serious.

(46:12):
Yeah, he was in the unfortunate Dumb and Dumber prequel.
Yeah. Dumb and Dumber.
He's a garbage match of drapes. He's in the Hot chick with noted
douchebag Rob Schneider. Not another teen movie.
He's in a Marilyn Manson video, an episode of Smallville.

(46:35):
That movie Pearl Harbor, which Ithink was not as good as a 6.3.
That movie kind of sucked. The Michael Bay one.
Ben Affleck, Yeah, yeah, I don'tknow, Like when it came out,
everybody was like fucking all over it.
We were dumb. It was 2001.
We were dumb. Yeah.
So we were all like, go America.Like, yeah, we've learned better

(46:59):
since then. Have we?
Some of us have. This guy.
You know what? I saw a picture that sums it up
perfectly for me. I don't know about you.
Yeah. And it says me when I think
about America. And it was fucking macho Man
dressed in fucking red, white and blue.
Woo. Yeah, and that says me when I

(47:21):
think about American politicians.
And it was VV for Vendetta, V for Vendetta.
I am gonna attempt to pronounce this.
We somehow have talked about this guy before too.
Adewale akinoye abbaje. Yep.

(47:43):
Sure he was in this movie. He is probably most well known
for being Killer Croc in the first Suicide Squad movie, The
Bad One. He's apparently in a Let's try
that again. He is apparently in eight
episodes of the upcoming season of Euphoria on HBO Max.

(48:08):
He was in that secret level TV show for an episode.
That was fun for like 3 or 4 episodes and then it was like,
I'm done with this. I need a new show.
I finished like a couple of things I was watching.
I mean, it's all shorts, like it's all short shit, but like
you can only be like fascinated by video game themed short clips

(48:31):
for so long. Yeah, the first, the first one
in that show is Dungeons and Dragons, and it's fucking
awesome, all right? It's so fucking like.
I want a show of that. All right, I'll have to check
that out. I forgot to mention this when we
had him up, but today is coincidentally Joel Edgerton's
birthday. We didn't pick that movie, you
know, because of that. It just happens to be a

(48:52):
coincidence. Yeah, other.
Than what is he well known for? Killer Croc.
That might be it. He was in Game of Thrones for
two episodes. Well, you said we talked about
him before. Yes, what the fuck was he in?
He was in. Well, here we go.

(49:14):
Oh, I thought maybe The Mummy Returns, but we haven't done The
Mummy Returns. No.
Then maybe that's why I was thinking he was.
We talked about him before Congo.
He's Cayega. Cayega.
Yeah, yeah, Cayega. So we just talked about him not
that long ago. Yes.
Probably 50 episodes a yard this.

(49:35):
Is quite a while dawg. All right, let's see.
The beef is excellent. I have a gecko in my shoe in
Klingon. Sure.

(49:56):
Up next we have Paul Braunstein.I saved him because we were
desperate for people to talk. He was in.
He's a voice in an avatar video game like I.
Who the fuck is playing Avid? Not the not the good avatar that

(50:16):
everybody likes. The James Cameron Avatar.
Frontiers of Pandora, man. Fuck that shit.
It's in the movie Slasher from, oh, I'm sorry, TV series slasher
from 2023. Have you seen any of that?
I have not. I saw a season of it and I
thought it was pretty good all. Right, like I said, I need a new
show. Yeah, I thought I was watching

(50:37):
like the first season of it. Apparently it was like the third
because it it didn't advertise it as such.
All right, But it doesn't matterbecause each season is
different. He was in three episodes of the
first season of Reacher, and that might be it.
As far as notable things, it's in Shazam in 2019.

(51:02):
He's a voice in Assassin's CreedOdyssey, Far Cry 5.
He was in the movie Jigsaw in 2017 in the other Saw series.
There's an episode of Black Mirror.
Oh yeah, Black Mirror. That was 2017, one of the
seasons of Fargo. That was 2014.

(51:24):
That was the first season. Jesus.
An episode of Nikita that was inUSA series.
No, Was it? Yeah, I thought so.
In 2003, 2011, No, that's different.
Oh, that was La Femme Nikita wason CW Yeah, yeah, yeah, same,

(51:47):
same. They've.
Tired ass story. They've mined that movie like a
dozen times for different things.
Yeah, well, there was the original French and.
There was point of no return. Yeah, which I loved.
I. Bridget Fonda.
Is a great fucking movie. Yeah, and then there was the La
Femme Nikita TV show on USA. I'm pretty sure they did another

(52:07):
American La Femme Nikita. Yeah, with a different title.
Yeah, yeah. And then yeah, the fucking
Nikita, like let it go man, like.
Seriously, let it rest. It's like putting the Joker in
Batman movies. Like, we don't need it.
Yeah, no more. Yeah, this dude was in the
tuxedo with Jackie Chan and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

(52:28):
That was awful. It was that was moving on.
Kim Bubs. She was the other woman in this
movie because there were only two.
She has done a lot of video gamevoice work.
She's in a couple of the Deus Exgames, Mankind Divided, A
criminal Past Breach and MankindDivided.

(52:52):
She's in an episode of Mad Men, the Mr. Peabody and Sherman
movie. Which way to mine a intellectual
property like 50 years too late?I think that movie did pretty
good though. Did it really?
I think about. That French peasant.
Yeah. That reminds me, I bought a
baguette earlier. Fuck, I was going to have some

(53:13):
of that. Chris, what are you doing?
Oh, just drinking Hades meat andeating a baguette.
Tell. Medieval of.
You. That's medieval as fuck, you're
so sweaty. It is warm.

(53:39):
It's it's in here is probably about 20° cooler than my
workplace. Yeah, and it's probably 10°
cooler than outside. Moving on.
Last up, Christopher Hivju. I thought we talked about
before, but I didn't see anything in his biography.
I. Don't think so.

(54:00):
I think. I think we've just watched a
bunch of things with him in it. Yeah, Like Cocaine Bear.
Yeah, Cocaine Bear, which was fun.
Pardon me, he was in Red one last year.
The Christmas movie with The Rock.
Krampus. Yeah, he was the Krampus.
He's like this fucking ripped Krampus.
That's great. He was in the TV series of the

(54:22):
Guy Ritchie movie The Gentleman.I kind of want to give it a shot
because the movie was pretty good, but who knows.
He, of course is. Well, he wasn't an episode of
The Witcher, but he's most well known for being torment giants
Bane in Game of Thrones for 33 episodes.
He's an episode of the Duck Tales revival from a couple

(54:45):
years back. Yorman, Gander.
Yeah, which was a really good show.
I've heard that. Yeah, it was really, really
good. David Tennant is Scrooge Mcduck.
Oh, really? Yeah, Yeah.
He's in the movie Downhill with Will Ferrell and Julia Louis
Dreyfus. Other than that, that's really

(55:06):
the he's in the movie. I mentioned Downhill with Will
Ferrell and Julia Louis Dreyfus,which is a remake of the I
think, Swedish movie Force Majeure, which he is also in.
Does he play the same character?I don't know.
Michael and Matt, so probably heis in After Earth, The Will and

(55:29):
Jaden Smith. Switcheroo.
Yeah. The fuck?
I was so mad at that movie. I was like, all right, this
looks rad. Where's Will Smith?
He disappears and that's going to do it for the better known as
portion of the show. Let's move on.

(55:51):
Oh Jesus, TJ, or did we get thattitle?
No, that's we've had that. You know what?
I'm going to honor it anyway. Yeah.
Because I'm an alcoholic. Yeah.
You're a drunk. Yeah.
Let's. Always go to meetings that's.
True. Yeah.
Let's move on to the crapshoot. Made it to the movies this

(56:16):
weekend. Did you?
I did. I saw it 28 years later.
It's like this movie. It wasn't bad.
Yeah. It didn't justify its existence.
And like does. It wrap it up like is it?
No, no. No, no, it's a preview for the
next movie. Why?
Yeah, that's another thing that pissed me off because like.

(56:38):
What are you going to do? Yeah, I'm like, I'm sitting
there. I'm like, is this fucking movie
ending? Is this?
Yeah, it's ending. Yeah.
Is it just going to be like 28 years later Part 2?
It's a trilogy, apparently. I'd I'd liked that.
It's I might have gotten that. It's a very small story.

(57:00):
It really like, you know, that'sthis community that's, you know,
living in this, you know, the the world set up and in 28 days
later, it is in fact 28 years later, Yeah.
And like, the whole story is like, you know, Aaron Taylor
Johnson is like the dad of his family.
His son is like turning, like, you know, 12 or 13 or whatever.

(57:23):
And he's taking him out, like, outside the city for the first
time, like, you know, out hunting and like exploring the
world. And he wants him to kill his
first, like, zombie. And like they do that and like
they go out and then like while he's out there, they see like a
fire like smoke off in the distance.
And like he asked his dad about it and like his dad just like,

(57:45):
you know, there's people out here, you know, they just, you
know, never mind. And like he asked like his
grandfather or something about it.
He's like, Oh yeah, it's probably this old doctor, you
know, so. And so I'm trying to be a
spoiler free as possible, but like it, there's really not much
to the movie. And like, you know, the kids mom
is sick. She has some kind of like

(58:05):
neurological disease. Like she's kind of crazy and the
whole movie is just like the kidsneaks out and goes to find the
doctor and like brings his mom and like they find the doctor
and like, whatever happens happens and like, that's it.
That's the movie, Yeah. Great.
Of tik toks that I've seen that apparently there's a zombie with
a giant slong flopping. Around This zombie has the

(58:27):
biggest penis I've ever seen on a fucking human in my life.
Yeah. Really.
It it dude, it it like it is a Siobhan I'm.
Willing. Yeah, yeah, if that's what
happens, yeah, I do. Like there's a there's a concept
in the movie, like there's yeah,there's like these alpha zombies
and like whatever the virus is like effects some people and

(58:48):
that it's basically like steroids.
It makes them grow to like 7 or 8 feet tall.
Yeah, it I mean, Italy is a fucking like he's got a club.
Like yeah, like you could be a fucking baby seal to death with
this thing. Is it real or is it a
prosthetic? I hope it's a prosthetic because
fucking I need to see a doctor. Fucking.

(59:12):
I still haven't seen the 1st 2 movies.
Like really? Yeah, I 'cause like I tried and
I've said this before, like I, Iknow that I need to go back for
them 'cause they're a really important part of zombie, you
know, cinema history right now. But when they came out, I was
like, they're fast, They're likeit.

(59:33):
Like the pacing in the movie is weird.
Like I didn't like it and I I need to go back and try again.
Like without set standards of what a zombie movie is.
Yeah, yeah, the big drawback I'mwatching it now is that it looks
like it was filmed on fucking VHS.
Like it looks shitty. I don't care about that 'cause

(59:54):
I'll watch shitty old movies like yeah, this is not a big
deal. Yeah, yeah, but it introduces
the concept of like these alpha zombies who like, control the
other ones and like, can summon more of them, which is kind of
cool, and they're all naked and just swinging fucking gigantic
Dick everywhere. Pattern to help Dante of the

(01:00:15):
Triffids. I've never seen the rabbit movie
so. Yeah, I know.
I they they're they're, they're all pretty good.
They're not. I wouldn't say they're like
great. I enjoy them.
I like zombie movies though so. I will.
I love zombie movies. But like, yeah, they just like,
it upended everything that I knew about zombie movies and I

(01:00:37):
was like, I I just wasn't ready for that, you know what I mean?
Like for me, a zombie movie was a certain way.
It also introduces slow zombies into that world too.
Oh really? Yeah, yeah.
There's like zombies that are just basically like crawling
around. There's just like this big fat
like pig looking zombies that like just crawl on the ground.
Disgusting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

(01:01:00):
So I don't know. I mean, I would say check it
out, but like, I'm not like, blown away by it.
Yeah, it was, you know, I don't regret seeing it, but like, I, I
wished I was hoping for more. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right. Did you see anything else this
week? I finished watching Tires.
I really liked that show. That was pretty funny, yeah.

(01:01:22):
Yeah, I'll try it again, but like it just.
I don't know, Yeah, I need like a good like half hour comedy,
like with a lot of episodes thatI can watch.
Yeah, maybe thinking of watchinglike either My Name is Earl or
King of the Hill again, like I need something.
My name was Earl was just awful.It started out good and then
just got super shitty. Yeah, yeah.

(01:01:45):
I mean, you could always go backfor scrubs.
Never seen it. Don't listen to anyone about how
good or bad it is. Yeah, because episodes will
vary. Yeah, like I just need that like
the quick comedy that I can kindof have on in the background,
like it's. Comedy, but it's also like
heartfelt. It's, it's very, you know, like

(01:02:08):
all right, that, that, that mix up.
I need something. Try Scrubs I I highly recommend
it as as somebody who actually was not one of those like Oh my
God I love scrubs kind of people.
It scratches a certain itch for sure.
All right. I'm trying to think anything

(01:02:28):
else going on like it was a light week.
I don't know. We went to the in the Atlanta
Farms Rent Fair. How was that?
The same as it is every year. We were, like, almost going to

(01:02:48):
go. Yeah.
We were almost going to go Saturday because it was going to
be the cooler of the two days. Yeah.
And, like, both Amanda and I were, like, both doing the thing
where we weren't sure if the other person wanted to bail on
it. And it was just like, I got
nothing. I'm empty.
I was like, well, you know, we can go.
Well, yeah, if you want to go, we'll go.

(01:03:08):
Like we'll go. Yeah, it's.
Fine, it's it's fun, but like, yeah, like the weather was just
so. Fucking I knew we weren't going
to go on Sunday 'cause it was going to be so fucking hot.
Yeah, we did go on Sunday. Yeah, yeah, No, if we went, we
were going to 'cause I do want the giant Turkey leg.
It's. Overrated dog.

(01:03:29):
It's delicious. Giant Turkey leg is overrated.
The mess to quality ratio is so off.
The ones at Disney are like perfection.
Yeah, yeah. I would rather get the paper
cone of like cinnamon glazed nuts.

(01:03:49):
Yeah, yeah. Which nuts?
Deez Nuts. Yeah.
Yeah, Now, like we didn't reallydo, I had like AI had a medical
thing Friday which pretty much knocked me out all weekend.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

(01:04:10):
Everything good? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know just one of those procedures you have to have when
you get older and that's not fun.
Somebody lubed a thing? Apparently, I am told because I
am basically a giant gorilla whocan handle the sedatives.

(01:04:31):
How'd you wind up that way, Chris?
I don't know, I don't know. I I couldn't get the normal like
shit they just inject into your IV to knock you out.
I had to get like put under. So I had to have a fucking like
I had to get like a throat tube,which my fucking I had a sore
throat all weekend from it cuts in my mouth from just glad they

(01:04:52):
didn't fucking chip my teeth. Jesus.
Christ. Yeah, yeah.
But I apparently started waking up in the middle of it.
Oh no, Hulked. Out I ripped the IV out of my
hand and they had to like hold me down apparently until I
fucking passed back out As. Someone who deals with people in
anesthesia, that is a very real.Thing yeah, I don't remember a

(01:05:16):
moment of that. I remember like, being on the
table, the person. Yeah, they like OK, we're going
to put this mask on you now. I was like, OK and great.
Yeah, I just woke up in the recovery room.
Like, yeah, fucking can't. Leave until you fart.
I didn't have to do that. I must have known when I was in
my sleep maybe. Maybe they just wanted to get me

(01:05:36):
the fuck out of there. Like a very assaulted.
People, you have to fart. Yeah, in case they perforated
your bowel. Oh Jesus, before you.
Leave. Nobody told me that, but yeah,
no, I my, I'm still not 100% to be honest with you.
I will never recover from. No, like my, I don't know if it

(01:05:59):
was like from struggling or whatever, but like my, my neck
and shoulders fucking hurt. Like, Oh yeah, probably from,
like, fighting them, yeah. Yeah, and like my my legs and
calves still hurt. Then my throat was killing me.
I had to blow so many doctors toget out of there.
That's how I escaped from Epstein Island.

(01:06:24):
Yeah. But yeah, no, I like 0 out of
10. Would not recommend.
Yeah. Well, let's see, did we do
anything else this week or watchanything?
I don't think we even watched TVthis week.
Nah, I was in stress mode because I had my boards on.

(01:06:45):
Saturday, Yeah, somebody passed her boards exam.
Nice. There's a clapping sound effect
on the Yeah, yeah, there is. It says clapping.
Come on, you can find it. It's red I.
Didn't. Know how to read?

(01:07:06):
I didn't. Yeah, it was.
Very quiet. It's.
A little like golf. Club it sounds like cheeks
getting clapped. Well, that's.
Later. Oh man.
Yeah, yeah. I finished tires.

(01:07:29):
It's really like there's not much like out.
Yeah, I've been playing Fallout New Vegas.
Yeah, I gotta get back into that.
Fallout New Vegas. I bought it on Steam like maybe
like a year ago and I started playing it and I just stopped.
I Jesus, I would have imagined you played that like through
when it came out. Same thing, I started playing it

(01:07:49):
and just stopped and never picked it up again.
It's a good game and I heard it's like the best Fallout game.
I like it a lot better than three and and.
I'm dying dying for a new Fallout game right now.
Do. You play 4.
I have played four before, I haven't played 76 'cause I heard
it's not great. It's.
Just like a weird online Falloutgame that nobody's.
Yeah, yeah. So like, it's not worth playing

(01:08:10):
now? Yeah, what?
What the hell was the thing withthat was like, there was no
NPCS. Like everybody you came across
was a player. You're a.
Real person. Yeah, but it was also like dead
immediately. Yeah, no, I I need a good
Fallout game that's just going to eat up all of my free time.
Like write a bunch of comics. Did you did you play The Outer

(01:08:34):
Worlds? I did play that game.
That's a good game. Sequel that's coming out pretty
soon. All right, all right.
That that'll hold you over for alittle.
While I haven't picked up Doom yet, I do want to play that.
Oh, Dark Ages. Yeah.
Yeah. Looks fucking brutal.
Yeah, I'll pick it up when it's used.
Now that's not a thing anymore. No, Yeah, yeah, it's

(01:08:55):
unfortunately like $70. But like, here's the thing, like
everybody's bitching and complaining.
Like, oh, video games are 7080 dollars.
Like they've been $60.00. For. 40 years.
But my counter argument is we'renot paying for them to create
packaging. We're not paying for them to

(01:09:16):
transport fucking copies of thisgame.
But you're. You're paying for them to make a
way crazier looking game. Yeah, that is.
That's true. That's true.
Like if if you compare the technology, well not even the
technology, but like the the thethe scope of content on a
Nintendo game to a fucking PlayStation game.
Yeah. But also we're paying $70.00 to

(01:09:38):
get a game that we're going to have to pay like 20 or $30.00
for again for. For DLC.
Yeah, in a couple of months for DLC and then every three months
after that. Which like I, I guess I don't
really care so much if like the price goes up a little bit.
We're talking, you know, like 1020 bucks.
It sucks. But like, if the game is

(01:10:03):
complete and not a piece of shit, it's fine.
Yeah 'cause you're getting X amount of hours of, you know,
play time out of these moves. These games, like they're adding
more and more time, you know, like a game used to be like, you
know, 20 hours to complete or whatever.
Now you're in these games, people are playing hundreds and

(01:10:25):
hundreds. You could beat Mario Brothers in
10 minutes if you're really good.
Like, yeah, you know, back in the day.
Yeah. No, I, like I said, I've read a
couple of comics. I've gotten back into reading
The Amazing Spider Man. Yeah.
This is like my, my, that's the first comic I ever read.
So like, I'm going to go back toit every now and again.
I mean, how often is an amazing Spider Man's like story gonna be

(01:10:50):
bad? Yeah, they're all like, it's
what you're expecting. Like, you know, St. level hero
stuff like Peter Parker's got a crazy life like, but it's, it's
a comfort food, you know, and. They're never going to put like
a shit team on Amazing Spider Man, it's their fucking bread
and butter. Yeah, so they they restarted it
again recently. So I've been reading that out to
like issue 6. I think it's been pretty good.

(01:11:11):
The hobgoblin was like the firstlike major villain, which is
really cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, it's 'cause like Green Goblin, it's the same as like
the Joker in Batman. Like, alright, yeah, I've given
her, had it. I like that they've gone.
They've like made the hobgoblin more than just a clone of the
Green Goblin. Like, you know, like a pallet
swab. Like the story is like, well,

(01:11:34):
this this person was behind likethe persona the whole time.
All the other, you know, there were other people who were the
hobgoblin, but they were just patsies for this guy who was
like a mercenary, like businessman.
So like, this is all kind of like a money making venture.
And like, I think that's like a cool fucking take on the
character. It's not just like I stole
Norman Osborne's technology. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

(01:11:57):
Got a couple more absolute things, I just haven't read them
yet. Yeah, yeah, I fucking love those
comics. Yeah, fucking the the fucking
Bane character in in Batman, yeah is preposterous.
I've seen pictures. Have that, I haven't read that
issue yet. Jesus Christ, like he's gripping

(01:12:19):
Batman's head like a fucking baseball.
Yeah, and Batman himself is likethe size of a house.
Yeah, Yeah. Ridiculous.
Let's see. I think it's that about does it?
We're just getting a dead. Horse right now I'm trying to
think of. I don't think I've done anything

(01:12:40):
like entertainment wise or extranerdy this week.
I think I talked about this already, went to the night
market last week, the one in Albany, the twilight market.
Sorry. Twilight Market, Yeah.
Yeah, got some cool stuff there.Yeah.
Do you think that's about it? I think it's a good place to

(01:13:02):
move on. I think you're right.
All right. Let's throw some socials.
We'll yeah, we'll throw some plugs first.
Oh yeah, yeah, you. I'd have to remember the fucking
dates of these. You can catch us.
I think it's September 5th, so whatever that first Saturday in
September is. That's right.

(01:13:23):
Look at the the scroll. You should head over to the bone
bee.com use code monster me to check out.
You can get $5 off your online order.
Check out the mirth me. That is fucking next level.
Good. That's the lavender one.
It's like lavender lemonade and they take a little bit of
Raspberry in there too. Yeah, I don't.

(01:13:44):
Think there's Raspberry. There's so there's another fruit
besides lemonade in there. Or lemon.
Yeah, highly, highly. All of their needs are good.
Give them a shout. Get $5 off.
We get to wet our beak a little bit on the on the back end of
that. You can check us out September
5th at the Dark Forest Oddities is in Peabody, MA.

(01:14:08):
I think it's like the Salem Marriott is the name of the
hotel or the venue where it is. It's right outside of Salem, MA.
You can come check out the show.Go check out some cool spooky
shit in Salem afterwards. It's a fun time.
I've been there a couple times and it's a fun city.
Yeah, I do love spooky stuff. Yeah.
I'm a spooky boy. Great.
Like you just walk around, there's all these little shops

(01:14:29):
with all the like spooky shit. There's a cool like comic and
toy shop like. Yeah, we went to went to the the
House of Seven Gables when I wasthere.
Yeah, it's fucking rad. After that we are going to be at
the Expo, the Halloween CannabisExpo that is in Seekonk, MA,
October 25th. More details on that to come,

(01:14:54):
but that looks like it's going to be a fun, fun event.
Oh really? Yeah, yeah.
And that's it for now. Who knows, we might have more
stuff coming up, might be we might be working on stuff behind
the scenes you don't know about.You don't know?
Yeah. Watch the space.
Yeah, there's stuff going on behind the scenes.
All right, let's do some socials.

(01:15:14):
Get the fuck out. That's right, all right.
Our website is www.bigdumbmonsters.com.
You can e-mail us if you need toget a hold of us for anything.
If you want to suggest movies for us to watch, beer for us to
drink, if you. Hard at jdvancecosmetics.com

(01:15:35):
Yes, in order to get out of prison, Art had to volunteer to
be a a lab animal. Basically, they're testing JD
Vance's new eyeshadow on him. I told him he's Ron DeSantis
shoeless. That was supposed to be a
secret. He is the lift.
Yeah, he's literally in his shoejust holding it up.

(01:15:56):
Oh my. Gosh, but tell him about
literally Art's brother we saw at the Renaissance.
Oh my God, yeah. He could have.
Been a clone, it was ridiculous.So one of those really you went
to say hi to him and you're. Like, well, she goes, oh look,
Art's brother, like sarcastic. And I'm like, oh, oh Jesus,
Literally. Yeah, that's fucking hilarious.

(01:16:21):
Christ. I think we do get Arthur back
next week though. Finally, at a long last.
I don't know if he'll remember his job.
I don't know if he knew it in the first place.
Based. On playing junior fire weenie.

(01:16:41):
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(01:17:01):
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(01:18:14):
venture. You mean the network logo?
Yes, yes. I was trying not to say network
because we don't have network inthe name of the thing, but it is
that thing. Network.
Yeah, yeah, the umbrella that covers.
Yeah. And again, go to the Bone
bee.com, get some delicious Mead.

(01:18:35):
For the third time. Yeah, because it's, it's fucking
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And that'll do it for this episode of Big Dumb Monsters.
Let's throw some advice at him. Get out, all right?
Don't let goolies eat your ass. And never sleep in a deathbed.
Bye.

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