July 3, 2025 • 62 mins
326 1960s SCI-FI!
The dream is over: Kelly finally abandons Zune! And the gang talks 1960s science fiction flicks!
Also discussed: Mickey 17, The Drop, The Severed Sun.
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Unknown (00:00):
It's always good to double check things. If you
double check, you won't screw itup. Let's not go that far.
Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break yourconcentration?
Somewhere between science andsuperstition. Oh, I
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have such sights to show you.
Strange eons. Welcome to strangeeons. Radio that is Eric over
there, hello. It is Vanessa overthere, and I am Kelly, you know,
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I'm really glad you guys arehere, so I can share with you a
big piece of news that theaudience will also be very
fascinated with. We no longerhave our one zoom. Listener,
oh, my God, you got rid of this.
No, I knoweras. Eras are ending your
identity. Kelly, who are younow? Second,
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zoom, I gave up the Zune.
Well, the Zune was dying anyway.
It was starting to skip prettyregularly.
It's been true for like, fiveyears for you.
The the new work truck I havedoesn't even have a jack for the
3.5 millimeter plug. Oh, wow. Soand of course, the Zunes
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Bluetooth doesn't talk toBluetooth of this century. So
all of these things, then Idecided, well, let's see. I'll
check out one of these newpodcast apps. And I ended up
loving podcast addict. And Istarted downloading those and
everything. And I just decided,well, I'll just use the Zune in
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the car. And then I was like,Well, if I want to keep
listening to the episode I waslistening to at work, I've got
to have it on my phone. And Istopped. Here's the sad part. I
kept the Zune updating andcoming with me to work for the
last several days. And then Iwas like, I'm not even using
this. I just have it in the car.
And so I I unplugged it from thecomputer, and I grabbed all the
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Zoom stuff I had, which was ashocking amount, five zooms, and
I have five zoom motherboards,in case something happened. And
I was just like, you know, endof an era.
Pick one, replace, encase it inacrylic, and then get rid of all
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the rest.
Really sad about this, I'm like,deep if you don't get a Zune
tattoo,that's an awesome idea. Dude,
right here, right back here.
Yeah, right there, lower back,dude,
if you guys do stamp, tramp,yeah. I feel bad for the other
podcasts that I listened to,because I would hear, every once
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in a while, they would talkabout it. They like, we still
have one guy who's listening onZoom. Somehow, whoever you are,
we thank you. And I'm like,That's me. I'm no longer
special. I have nothingdistinguishes me from anybody
else. Thetechnology outran you. It
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took a longtime. I was a, you know, an
adopter of that when it firstcame out, and then when
everybody went to iPods, I waskind of like, I still like this
one better. I got myself aniPod, and I was like, I don't
like the way this works, and Idon't like the Apple podcast app
that would, you know, so I justkept going with it. And then
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after it was discontinued, andif mine would break and I
couldn't repair it, I would goon eBay and buy a new Zune. And
there it is, end of an era. Idon't know who you are anymore.
I am a pod person now. You justlisten to your device, your
handheld fancy. It's like a newiPhone, isn't it, or something?
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No, this Samsung Galaxy. Oh,well, la, la.
If I could transfer out of Applewithout losing my ability to
cloud everything, then I wouldtoo. But whatever,
I went the other way around. Iwas in Android for long. I
actually came across being ofold tech I read the other day of
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I had the first Android phoneever made. I came across an
article talking about that. It'slike, it was pretty cool.
I like, Oh yeah, I'm, I don'tknow I I'm part of the apple
plan where I get a new one everyyear. And I have to say, the
last three years, I don't knowwhat the difference is. Like,
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yeah, nothing.
That's pretty true of allphones. Now, if you keep, if
you're if you'd like, if you'vegot, if you did Samsung, it's
basically, it's like the becauseI watch a lot of tech videos,
and they're all like, Hey, newone out. Slightly better camera,
slightly better battery life.
When I, when I moved to this,this was a big jump, because my
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phone before this was like an s8and this is 22
that's how you do it. Turn offtheir annual one. Wait five
years, then get an apple.
I noticed a huge jump in qualityin my pictures and stuff like
that. Yeah. But I also noticed,I went up to Bellingham this
weekend, and there are patchesup there where, you know, you
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don't get good service. And soI'm listening to my podcast, and
it suddenly just stops. And Iwas like, this would not have
happened in the Zoom Yeah,because it's
true. I mean, and that's alsodown to your network, because
they're assholes.
Are the kind of app use, likethe the one I listen to,
downloads and stores them. Soevery once was like, why is
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this? Oh, this one, I got abunch of friggin podcasts. I
need to deletefive gigs worth of podcasts.
Yeah. So well guys, thank youfor being here with me on this
thing.
I wish you luck in your newtransition as you become a
butterfly. Who knows what coloryou'll be when you get out of
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this pod, but I'm zoomless.
Fly away. Little creature. Flyaway. Hi,
you guys. I have watched somestuff quick about I
guess I'm going to talk aboutthe severed son, okay, which is
a folk horror movie that really,really badly wants to be the
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witch, and I was rooting for it.
It doesn't have the budget anddid not have the cinematographer
or director or writer. There wasa lot to not like about this,
but it is set in, you know,whatever. I don't know if it's
100 years ago or 200 years agoor what, but it's a young girl
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with an overbearing father whois also the the pastor of this
small village, and they startseeing this dark creature who
keeps tempting her, andeventually she goes for it. And
so there's all sorts of witchystuff happening, but I just
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like, Man, I really want this tobe a little better, because I
think it's a first time film forthis guy, and it just, it needed
either a more experienced well,it needed another pass on the
script. It needed a moreexperienced PP, and it needed
probably another $15,000 in thebudget, just to, you know, to
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make it look nicer. It's one ofthese things that occurs. You
know, every shot is a daytimeshot, and all that stuff. And
I'm like this, this would amp upa little nicer if it was a
little darker, or even if theyhad gone in and color corrected
it a little differently,something to make it I don't
know. It's called the severedsun. The trailer was really,
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really promising, and I didn't,I ended up not loving it. That's
too bad. I do remember seeingthe trailer for this and being
like, I'm definitely going tosee this film. And then just it
came and went. So,yeah, well, you should see it
and tell me if I'm wrong. Okay,there you go. Yeah, I have
have time.
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Well, I so I'm halfway throughthe latest season of Doctor Who
with inshutti gatwa, and I'm ahuge fan of his. I watched all
of sex education like I reallylike this actor a lot, doctor
who's been very weird with himin that season one, he seemed to
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not be in like two or three theepisodes. And in this season,
there's like a couple where he'sbarely in them too. And bearing
in mind, each season is eightepisodes, which is like the
shortest amount of any series.
And I just found out, becausesomebody was like, I don't like
him that much as the doctor. AndI was like, Fuck you. He's
great, but it is Doctor Who, sosome of it is shit, because it
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is Doctor Who, sure, yeah. Sothat's just part of the
territory. And it's, he's not,it's, they're done. They're done
with him.
Is it normal? So he's the doctorand he hasn't been in several of
the episodes, yeah. Is thatnormal?
I not this normal? Yeah. I'm notsure what was going
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on. If, what happens in thestory when he's not in it?
Well, his companion, oh, theyfall around his companion, or
he'll be like, in one shot init. So there was one where his
companion, like, gets out of thephone booth and like, sees
somebody on the other side ofthe hill, and then goes to that
hill, and then she has to try tofind her way back to the booth.
And, like, basically a lifetime,essentially goes by and she
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can't get back. So that was oneepisode, and there's, yeah,
there was a couple where it wasjust, like, really focused on
her, which was a littlefrustrating, because she's sort
of irritating. And then seasontwo, they have a totally new
companion, which is prettyquick, I feel like, and then at
the end of season two, they'vecanceled him out. So yeah, and
he's going to be the secondshortest run of Doctor Who I
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don't know why. I don't think itwas his choice. Because of the
messages he left on Twitter. Itsounded like, hey, fam, we had a
great time. And italmost sounds like, I mean, was
he in a big movie or somethingthat took him away from filming?
No. I mean, he finished up sexeducation. I think that might
have been his contradictingschedule with the first Doctor
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Who series. But I don't knowwhat. I don't know why on earth
they don't it is a littlestrange. Maybe people just don't
like a very gay, very blackactor being Dr Who, he's very
woke. There's a lot of wokestorytelling. So
that's not that unusual fordoctor, who I was just gonna
say, the fans don't care,though, right? I
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don't know. The fans are gettingolder. Maybe the fans are not
liking this version of it's veryteen friendly, like it feels
like the same audience is beingspoken to that sex education was
speaking to. So I'm really sad.
I think that they overuse histrope of crying. I think he does
cry in every single episode,which is very unnecessary, but
at the same time, he's reallyenergetic and interesting. And I
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don't there's, well, there's adefinite problem with I'll say
this as being a member of thisgroup, sci fi geeks that are
getting older, yeah, and notunderstanding that shit isn't
going to grow up with you, yeah,if doctor, who's always really
been a kids directed show, yeah,even though that period in 2000
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say, got away from that a littlebit and amped it up more
towards, I don't know, 20 yearolds, but um, so it's going, you
know, the original Star Wars wasmade for kids. Yeah, yeah, the
first of the new trilogy of StarWars was definitely made for
kids. But so, you know,feels like, maybe watch it a
doctor. Maybe it's like a Disneyplus, like, ratings issue or
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something, because I know Disneywas heavily involved in this,
and, yeah, it's just a bummer,because I feel like, I feel like
you're right, because PeterCapaldi was one of the doctors.
I did not see that series, so Idon't know, but I feel like
maybe that was maybe aimed alittle bit older, and Matthew
Smith was probably for 20somethings. And this 100% feels
like people who are 18, to 21like it feels like a really
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specific coming of age.
Storytellers, Gen Z, Gen a kindof, yeah, for sure.
But so anyway, I'm sad I'm onlyhalfway through the season. I
just got to a really lameepisode, and I'm like, Well, I
hope the Final Four interestingbecause then I have to change
gears, and I don't know if I'mgoing to watch this for another
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two doctors and then pop backin. Oh, already, sorry,
continuing on the watchingshorts. Thing I did with the
last one, I did a I read,somebody someplace said
something about, well, you thinkAri asters movies are tough. You
should see some of his shortfilms. Oh, well shit. I'll go
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watch his short films. And hehas 12345678, short films. Wow.
Okay, most of them pretty short.
Some of them like, there'sbasically in c'est la vie. Are
pretty much just two peoplebitching at Cameras about
things, one being a homelessman, one being a debutante
woman. They're fine. Now, acouple of them are really
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interesting. The turtle heads alittle weird. Tinos, Dick fart
is descriptive of what actuallyhappens in the short so it's
unique. There's a Herman's cureall tonic, which I think was his
first short it's pretty good.
It's just some guy made a cureall tonic. And what makes it the
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cure all tonic is not pleasant,and it's interesting, and it's
kind of well executed. It lookslike shit. I mean, he looks
almost like it was shot on VHS,Bo, which I haven't seen. Beau
is afraid. So I don't know ifthere's a relation. It's an
obviously, it's not the sameactor, that's for sure. But
that's what it sounds like,because the short film is Bo
being afraid of somebodybreaking into his apartment.
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Basically what it is that nowthe two that are the most
uncomfortable. There'sMunchausen, which is
Mother Son story that'sfairly dark and disturbing, not
real fun. The I think for me,the best one he did, and it is
fucking haul. Hardcore. Thestrange thing about the
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Johnsons, and the strange thingabout the Johnsons is the
relationship of the father andson, and it is disturbingly
dark. It is uncomfortable,incredibly well done. That is
that that feels like the guy whomade hereditary that short more
than any of the others. Ifyou're a big fan of his stuff,
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and he's well worth watching.
None of them are particularlylong. I think the Johnsons one
is about 15 or 20 minutes isthat long, yeah. So they're
short shorts overall. AndMunchausen is a little bit
longer as well. Oh, yeah. No,oops. No. Strange thing about
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the Johnsons is half an hour, Iguess it just moves well. But
all onYouTube, does he have, like, his
own YouTube channel orsomething?
No, I just put in his name shortfilms and then went to letterbox
and just okay, type in this one.
There it is. Type in the nextone, and is able to watch all of
them pretty sure they're uncut.
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Speaking of short films, we havea short film. Is that coming to
YouTube anytime soon?
Probably will thewe got turned down for another
festival this week, and Ithere's one more we're in the
running for, and I've got tocheck with the guy if it's okay
if we're on YouTube. And youknow, I don't if we're gonna I'm
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not saying if we get in or not,if we get in, can we be on
YouTube? And if we are, then I'mgonna just post it. Okay? So
soon as it's up, believe me, Iwill give you all links, yeah,
let you know where it's at, andyou can all finally watch this,
the brisk, easy, easy watch.
Yeah, Ilet my brother watch it while I
was up there, and he watched itfor the first time, and it was,
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you know, the expected response,oh, my God. He was cracking
up. I just realized my familymight watch this. Maybe we
should not put this online.
Well,you didn't have anything to do
with the story, so you don'thave anything to be ashamed of.
Thatis, you know what I will take
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that I will run with it.
Let's see. What else did Iwatch? I I don't know. Was it
you guys that suggested I watchthe series duster on prime?
Or no, I just that's the onewith the guy from lost, right?
Yeah, I just figured you wouldwatch it.
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This show is up my alley. It iscalled duster. The guy drives
looks like a 71 or 72 duster,and it's all classic rock muscle
cars and 70s clothing andeverything. And it's a really
interesting it's a crime drama,and the other lead is a black
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female FBI agent, and probablythe first black female FBI agent
in the 70s. So she's gettingzero help from the rest of the
Bureau there, actively wantingher to fail. And so there's some
really interesting stuff goingon in it, double crossing and
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all of that, and I'm just like,oh shit, yes. This show was
written for me. Is actuallycreated by JJ Abrams, so it's
not as weird as I thought it wasgoing to be, but it's got a lot
of the kind of lost feeling toit in that you'll see a scene,
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and you'll just be like, holyshit, what's going on? And then
it goes 17 hours earlier, andeverything in the episode then
starts leading up to this sceneyou saw. And a couple episodes
have started that way, and I'mlike, Okay, I'm I'm digging all
of this. Sohow is the because he left
acting for a long time, didn'the? I
didn't know what his reasoningwas. He's great. I didn't know
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if he just made enough money.
And I was like, fuck it. I willsay he looks a little weird
because he's still got the sameshoulder length hair. He's still
an attractive man, but he's now,you know, my age, so he's maybe
shouldn't have hair like this.
It's a little further up on hishead than it used to be and
lost. And I'm like, but it worksfor his character. So that's
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cool, yeah, so I'm liking it,and a lot of people show up.
There is one episode where he isat a party and he runs into
Adrian Barbeau, the personplaying Adrian Barbeau, and he
kind of helps her get her firstmovie role. And then Adrian
Barbeau shows up in the episodeplaying an older woman. And I
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was like, Whoa, wild. That'scrazy. So, yeah, I like. Like
it. And I can't remember if it'son prime or if it's on HBO
Max. Okay, yeah, I've seen thethumbnail.
I think it's prime. I thinkit might be prime also, but I'm
really liking it. It's calledduster. Nice, nice.
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Well, I checked him out of filmthat I know that Kelly has seen.
I don't know if you've seen yet.
And Eric drop, I have not, okay,yeah. I mean, it's pretty
uncomplicated. It's like, just afun way to waste some time.
Yeah, so I don't know, like itwas, I guess part of me wished
there was a little bit more toit. Maybe I don't know if it
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needed to be longer, or if,like, there need to be an
additional twist, or what, butit was fun. It was decent. I
didn't, I wasn't mad, but itwasn't like a it wasn't a
thinker.
This is the movie. I think I wassaying I needed something else
in it, that everything in it isgood, but there was something
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missing to make it great. Yeah,for sure, yeah, because it felt
like they're just, I don't know.
Like the beats that happenedwere good there. The acting was
great. I like the way the textmessages were popping up. Was
really that was fun. That wassuper fun. And then you kind of
get to the end and you're like,Okay, I don't, I don't know,
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that's fine. This was a wellmade movie. Yes, this was played
by numbers. This sure was amovie about drops.
Let me get out my save the catbook.
Exactly. Perfect.
10 out of 10. Yeah, no, it's,you know, it was fine. I'm
actually kind of glad I didn'tgo to the theaters to see it,
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yeah, yeah,yeah. Is it? Did you rent it
free, some stream free now?
Yeah, I think so. I don't thinkI paid. Well, you know what? I
take that back. I think I didpay like, a couple bucks for it
on the Amazon pretty sureit's rental still. Yeah, okay.
Oh, cool, cool. I checked outone of the cool ones, the new
one from bonk, John Hope. Mickey17, Yeah, what'd you think? Dude
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can make all kinds of movies,man. It's just insane. Yeah. Did
you like it? Yeah? I mean, it'sweird. It's Robert Pattinson. Is
impressive as hell in this film.
Good actor, because he isplaying such a dork and such a
weird guy to look like. He looksbut act very differently. And I
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it's, yeah, I thought it'spretty good. It's, it is a boy.
I think it will bear repeated,repeated viewing. There's a lot
going on in this that is reallyinteresting
to have either of you seen it.
Yeah, no, you saw it in thetheaters. I think, yeah, I it's
streaming free. I max haven'tfinished it yet. I was like,
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This is a movie is not grabbingme for some reason, but I do
think he is a great actor. Yeah,yeah. I
didn't watch it in one sitting,so maybe that might make a
difference. I watched a bunch ofit and then watched it later.
Yeah, I cansee how that might help, just
like sitting and watchingpieces, but because it does feel
like almost Chapter II, but ohyeah, because it's based on a
book that makes a lot of sense.
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Oh, okay, but I thinkI mean nuts and bolts of the
story are pretty basic. Yeah, Ithink it's largely Robert's
performance that kept meinterested in watching what was
going on, because it was, youknow, there's little spoiler two
of them, and he's very 17 and 18are very different, and he's
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pulling both of them off reallywell. Did you like it at all, or
was it just tooI really liked it. Yeah, I liked
it very much. And I think thatthat was a big part of it, for
sure. Like Robert Pattinson issuch a joy to watch, like his
fluidity in that you feel likeyou're watching two different
coned versions of a guy, yeah?
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And then, you know, there'smoments where you see flashbacks
to other the previous 17, or theprevious 16, and you're just
like, man, like, you can seethis weird difference between
them, where it's subtle, andthat's a really fucking hard
thing to pull off. And like yousaid, he's a normally very
attractive guy, but like the wayhe plays it, you can see how
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much attractiveness builds on apersonality. Because you're just
like no man, you're a fuckingloser. Girl wants to have sex
with you at all good for you.
Take that win and run with it.
But yeah, no, I really enjoyedit, and it reminded me more of
the sort of Okja stuff.
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Yeah, I did also enjoy uh, Markruffalo's and Tony Colette's
stuff. Was weird. It wasinteresting. It's a lot, yes,
exactly. That's why it was kindof fun. As I thought, Okay, this
guy is going something specifichere. Do you
kind of feel like Tony Colettehas been playing like the same
character? Like, two or threefilms in a row now, because
she's also in that unicorn filmas like, let's eat this unicorn
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and get its properties, orwhatever. So,
don't know, I think that I thetrailer made it feel like a a
kind of wacky, zany movie. Andthe movie is not nearly wacky or
zany enough. I guess for me, Iwas like, I wanted this to be a
little broader comedy.
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I did not see the trailer, so Iagain, sort of like, Oh, let's
see what this isabout. Yeah, I think the trailer
did it a real disservice. Like,it's such a weird tone that
maybe they just couldn't figureout how to tell that
it seems like, almost likesomething, oh shit. What's his
name? Director of 12 Monkeys,Terry Gilliam. Terry Gilliam
would have done, like, 20 or 30years ago. Yeah, I can see that.
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But, yeah, okay,I think you should finish it
though. Kelly, I think, like, itdoes speed up near the end,
like, there's really strange.
Yeah. It gets really weird.
Like, there's, there's, like, along period, and then all of a
sudden, it's like, fucking,we're out. And it's, yeah, it's
kind of neat, okay,yeah. I mean, I didn't finish it
because it was slow or anything.
It was, it was just like, oh,this is not what I was in the
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mood for. I was in love for acomedy, and I was not getting it
out ofthat. My ultimate one of that
ever was Slumdog Millionaire.
Oh, let's go watch this funcomedy, as the trailer made it
look like a balls out comedy.
Oh, I know,wow, that was Yeah, so I know
what you're talkingabout. Yeah. Slumdog
Millionaire, the famous, like,poster of him, like, winning
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with the confetti. And you'relike, what this is gonna be a
feel good drama.
Well, okay, cool. That's Mickey17, and it's available, I think,
on why don't we take a littlebreak, guys, and then when we
come back, we're talking aboutsci fi movies again, from the
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60s, though. I you.
The zeroids are here from theplanet zero the zeroids. Xerach,
the zero commander, freeshimself from his own zeroid
capsule. Advance so boy thezeroid transporter, change his
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zero capsule into a cosmobilefor hauling Centaur the zeroid
Explorer. Change his zeroidcapsule into a lunar sled.
Command, the zeroids to defend,move forward, backward and
transport. Command, the zeroand we're back, Eric, you had
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said something about encasingone of those zoons. And I'm
like, You know what? I think Iwill actually take one of those
zooms back out and just have itsitting out on the There you go.
On the oddity, smooth. I lovethat. Vanessa, this was your sub
genre pick. It sure was. Youwent right along with the Sci Fi
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stuff again.
You know, I love sci fi. Igotta say, out of this run of
stuff we've done, I've beenmostly like, Oh, I've had good
choices. Checkthe 90s out, and is a pretty
good about the 90s. But theother,
I think the 60s has been myfavorite so far, because i There
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were so many on my list that I'mjust had not seen yet. So now
I'm gonna have to try to conquerthis outside of Sar. But yeah,
there's some great stuff I havenot seen. I did not realize how
untapped this was for me sowell. And then, of course, the
dirty little secret is, if you,if you watch a movie and you
like, you just have to figureout what sub genre that is, so
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you can make us all watch amovie so you can,
how do I make this work?
Well, you're gonna go firstthen, because this was yours,
and I'm giving you five minutes.
So I went with a film thatsounded so interesting I'd never
heard of before, which is AkariXB, one Smith, eons.
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Easter, maybe.
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Julie Smith. To set USyou 1963 Yeah, it's also goes by
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voyage to the end of theuniverse. It's a Czechoslovakian
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film, pretty low. Well, I don'tknow if low budget this era or
not, 6 million. It was free onYouTube when I first heard about
it. It is now not free, and itis on the criterion channel. Oh,
interesting. Scraped it off ofthere. So this is directed by
Jindra Pollack, who has 29credits, including skyriders,
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death of hitchhikers, thevisitors TV series, and also
tomorrow, I'll wake up and scaldmyself with tea. The octopus is
from the second floor and MerryChristmas. Octopus, yeah,
written. It's based on a novelby stancila Lem, who also wrote
Solaris, and it's called theloosely based on the Magellanic
(31:38):
Cloud. So the story is in 2163the starship icari XB one
embarks on a 15 year journey. Iwas like man that's convenient
to Alpha Centauri, like to AlphaCentauri and back to Earth,
where they believe there may bea few planets with life while
(31:58):
their loved ones on earth willage 15 years, the people on the
ship will only age 28 months. Sothere's kind of a tension
between them and the peoplethey're leaving behind. The
captain, who I think is maybe inthe narrator, is expecting a
baby, but his wife is stayingbehind. So there's a really sad
video chat in this. Um,definitely not. Early face time,
(32:20):
very cool. 40 people are onboard the ship, and it boasts a
super funky, cool gymnasium, acocktail, cocktail dance floor,
a lunch room, a small movietheater and lots of large rooms
with buttons. On the journeythey do encounter a derelict
20th century spaceship armedwith nuclear weapons, and also a
(32:42):
radioactive dark star whoseradiation, radiation causes a
mental breakdown of one of thecrew that threatens to destroy
destroy the spacecraft. The restof themselves end up very
lethargic and exhausted fromthis dark star thing, and they
slip into sleep, where thecaptain is fighting with the
(33:03):
crew members as to whether ornot they should turn around and
go back to Earth for fear thatonce they've fall asleep, they
will never wake up again. But heis told that it's important to
have faith that they will makeit through. Will they ever wake
up from their radiation sleep?
Will Michael destroy them allfrom level zero. That's the guy
with radiation poisoning who'strying to kill everybody. Will
(33:26):
the triangle gym ever be usedagain? Who knows? Stay tuned.
This is Star Trek, but withexistential dread. Yeah. Oh,
wow. Deep movie. It's a deepfucking
film. It's crazy because it'sgot all the Hokey swinging 60s,
like silver shit, with, like thecrazy 60s sci fi costumes, but
(33:49):
with, like, czechoslovakians,who are super down to earth,
like one guy has this like,weird robot good friend who
shows up and he looks like Hecame right out of Lost in Space.
But he's like, they make fun ofhim for it. And he's like, Hey,
that's my friend. He's got allthis stuff in him. And it's
like, Burr, Burr, Burr, Burr,Burr. And everyone's like, yeah,
(34:11):
the fucker. Why'd you take thishere? It's so like, interesting.
The tone is bonkers. I just lovethe way that it feels. It's just
so unique to me, I don't know.
Like, they also have a lot ofweird conversation pieces, so
they find the vessel that'sfloating out in space that's
left by humans, and they'retalking about, like, we don't
(34:34):
know what's on this thing. Andthey're saying, Okay, well, why
don't we send out a ship full ofrobots to, like, probe? And one
of the guys is like, Well, howwould we feel if a ship full of
robots showed up here toinvestigate us? And you're like,
Oh, that's cool. I like that.
And there's, you know, justother things in there, like they
think when they go into sleep,that maybe they should send off
(34:56):
a probe to let earth know, likethis dark star thing they ran
into, and how it's. Like, a bigproblem, and somebody is like,
oh, yeah, that's kind of like,sending off. You know, back in
the day, people would just throwa bottle into the sea, and the
captain's like, so does thatmake us castaways? What the fuck
like, that's so good. It's alsobeautiful, beautiful, beautiful
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cinematography. This is before2001 A Space Odyssey, and like
it, it's they were inspired.
Like, there's shots that aredirectly taken from this thing
I'm almost done. And just reallyinteresting idea. They have
Gravity Boots that when theGravity Boots, like, hit the
surface, they just light up. Sothey don't really show you, like
(35:40):
they're doing a lot of showingrather than telling. It's really
neat the way they do that. Soanyways, I just, I totally dug
it. I love it very little.
Trivia tagline, do you dare takethe trip to the 25th century?
The version titled voyage to theend of the universe is the
American version, where theytook about 26 minutes out of
(36:01):
this 86 minute film. Theystripped them out finding the
abandoned ship, since it seemedto anti capitalist, as well as
making them go towards Earthinstead of away from it. And
they also altered the cast andcrews names on the credits to
make it look more English. Wow,yes, I was like, Are you
kidding? The newly restoredoriginal, the new really stored
(36:24):
version that you can play oncriterion, is the Czech version.
And it was screened at Cannesclassic The 20 as part of the
Cannes Classic series of the2016 Film Festival. And it was
actually done by the Czech FilmArchives who helped put it
together. So it's veryauthentic, like they did a lot
(36:46):
of like work. There's like fivepages of text at the beginning
of the film from criterion abouthow hard it was to put it back
together. So yeah, Bravo guys.
It looked great.
What's the So, what's the nameof this? Again? XB, what? So
it'scalled Ikari, i, k, A, R, I, E,
X, b1, it's from 19631963 was it in color? No, it's
(37:09):
black and white. Okay, man, I'mgonna search this out. This
sounds very cool. It's crazy.
It's really it's really fun. Ihighly recommend it,
Eric, if you don't mind, I'll gonext dive in. Did you guys know
that there is a sequel toVillage of the Damned? Oh, shit,
what it is called children ofthe damned from 1964
(37:36):
beware. These children. Behindtheir fiery, hypnotic eyes lurk
the demon forces of anotherworld.
It's them or us, for these arethe children of the Damned. I
(38:07):
children of the damn even moreeerie and startling than the
sensational village of the dam,I think they are the cells of
man advanced maybe a millionyears.
Would they actually be creaturesfrom other planets, centuries
beyond us, scientificallyinvading the earth, disguised as
children. There's Paul fromEngland, Nina from Russia,
(38:28):
Rashid from India, mi Ling fromChina, ago from Nigeria, and
Mark from America. Who are theyreally? As we of the earth push
further and further into space,are they the answer to our
probing?
They're not kids. Have you everseen them laugh, run, play? No,
by God, but you've seen themkill the ambassadors of all the
(38:48):
earth's nations experience theirdefiance, Paul, we must know how
to make that machine we'd neverthink of trying to force you, of
course, what?
Theirs is the power of evil,turning friends against
(39:11):
strength, hating killing, yetarmed with no weapon you can see
or touch. Unless we can learn tolive with them, we may cease to
live it all can any force onearth stop their fury at
this very moment they could bemaking all those men out there
turn their guns on one another.
You Oh, geez. Directed by Antonleader, who has one of only. Two
(40:00):
films. This is one of them. Healso did the cockeyed cowboys of
Calico County, nice. And thentons of television episodes,
like Lost in Space, Star Trek,Gilligan's Island. Orange side.
It was written by John brightly,who wrote Hammerhead the Medusa,
touch Gandhi and cry freedom.
And it's kind of based on thebook the mid itch cuckoos by
(40:21):
John Wyndham. He also wrote thenovel Day of the Triffids and
many others, starring IanHendry, who is in Journey to the
far side of the sun. Theoriginal tales from the crypt
and tons of British television,including 26 episodes of The
Avengers. Also stars Alan badel,who was in telephone force 10
(40:42):
from Navarone Shogun, and tonsof British television. And then
finally, Barbara Ferris, who wasin terms of trial, a place to
go, the craze and tons ofBritish television, if you
didn't get it. This is aAmerican British film. We open
on a group of five or sixchildren in a classroom setting,
(41:03):
and they have been asked tosolve a three dimensional puzzle
with blocks that have been setin front of them. There are two
very serious men watching thechildren who are either slowly
figuring out the puzzle or notfiguring it out at all, except
for one, Paul, a little blondeboy who has put the puzzle
together. In record time the twomen, Tom and David, go to visit
(41:24):
Paul's mother, who clearly hatesthe child and insists she was
never touched by a man. Oh, ohmy. If you've seen Village of
the Damned, you will recognizePaul. He is one of the kids from
village of the dam. Oh, wow. Shewants the mom. She wants nothing
to do with Tom and David, andafter they leave, Paul comes in
and stares at her. She walks outof the apartment in a daze and
(41:47):
is quickly hit by a passingvehicle. Paul is then introduced
to a group of other childrenfrom various countries, China,
India, Nigeria, the SovietUnion, the United States and the
United Kingdom, and they arebrought to London for a study
into their advancedintelligence. Quickly, though,
the children seem to form atelepathic connection and then
escape and hide out at anabandoned church in London.
(42:10):
Paul's aunt is his only livingrelative, and she wants to help,
but the kids end up, kind oftaking telepathic control of
her, and they make her help themsurvive in the derelict church.
So they send her out forsupplies and stuff like that,
and she's kind of okay with it.
(42:30):
She really wants to help them.
She also is like, Hey, I wouldjust do this. You don't have to
make me do this. Meanwhile, thearmy and intelligence service
debate whether or not to destroythe kids. The children have
teleconnected, telekineticallyconstructed a complex machine
which uses sonic waves as aweapon, which kills several
government officials andsoldiers. It is far beyond our
(42:52):
understanding, but the armyrealizes that the children only
do this when they are beingattacked, so Tom visits the
children and pleads with them todisband and return to their
respective embassies, which theyall agree to do. However, as
soon as they arrive, each of theambassadors from their
respective countries startthreatening them for information
(43:13):
on how to make the weapon thatthe children had constructed. So
the children murder all of theEmbassy of military officials
before returning to the church.
Meanwhile, one of the scientiststhinks he has discovered
something in the children'sblood, not alien blood, as
suspected, but human blood, onlya million years more evolved
(43:34):
than our own. And how the fuckwould you ever be able to prove
that?
Yeah, what does a million yearsin the future blood look like,
right?
Of course, the authorities havedecided that they must destroy
the children, so the church issurrounded with tanks, bombs and
soldiers, and so begins thefinal siege. The movie is
interesting, not nearly as goodas the original village of the
(43:55):
dead. It's not actually really agood sequel to that movie
anyway, and it seems to more bea sequel to the book The Midwich
cuckoo. So there are momentsthat I really liked and an
ending that I did not seecoming, but I also wish that
they had kind of explained itbetter. I mean, I got what it
was, and I thought it could havebeen shot more interestingly and
(44:17):
had a little more impact, ifthey had cleared it up. Tag
lines, so young, so innocent, sodeadly, they came to conquer the
world and also beware the eyes,the paralyze, terrible, ouch,
trivia. The opening titlespecifically announced, this is
(44:39):
a film. They announced this filmas a sequel to John windhams,
the mid cuckoos. However, Paulis played by one of the kids
from the original village of theDan movie. So it's like we're
we're making a sequel to thisbook, which is different from
that movie by quite a bit, butwe are also including one of the
kids from that movie. It's justto confuse the fuck out of you,
(45:01):
apparently. And then the otherpiece of trivia, I liked Iron
Maiden base their song childrenof the damned from their 1982
album, the number of the beaston this movie. Wow. So I know
that, yeah, it's it's good. It'snot great, okay, so, and it's
not nearly as good as Village ofthe Damned. How's
it compare to carpentersvillage? Of the two, much, much
(45:23):
better, Christopher Reeveand and Mark Hamill and who else
was it was that,yeah, I mean, I should have been
betterthan it should have been so much
better than was. It's weird thatit's a John Carpenter movie.
Yes. I was just like, why areyou doing this?
Very, very strange. Yeah,Eric, you want to go, yes. Five
(45:46):
minutes.
Okay, so funny. You shouldmention Doctor Who in the movies
you've watched, yeah, or the TVshow. This was a surprise,
surprise Severin release that Ipicked up a two pack of the
Peter Sellers, Doctor Who,Doctor Who, and the Daleks, the
(46:07):
first one from 1965allow me to introduce myself. I
am Doctor Who, and this is mytime and space machine. TARDIS,
off we go. It is capable. Oftaking us to any age on any
planet in any universe. Ratherexciting, isn't it? They
(46:42):
are protected and they haveweapons which can destroy what
are we going to do? I fightthem.
(47:10):
Hey, Peter Sellers,Peter Cushing,
oh, okay, thank you. I was like,what I interested? Very
interested.
This was 1965it's available rent some places
on brick box and hope lock. Andit's amazingly gorgeous,
remastered blu ray from Severin,directed by Gordon Fleming, who
(47:33):
also directed Daleks invasionEarth 2150 AD, the saint TV
show. Few other things. TerryNation is one of the writers.
Wrote 14 episodes of the saint.
Death becomes her and over 100Doctor Who related shows, Milton
(47:54):
savaski, who's producer ofseveral King movies, Tales from
the crick Dr terrors, house ofhorror. Good stuff. Sydney
Newman, who is involved in over130 Doctor Who related shows and
videos the stars, I said, PeterCushing, you might know, from
Star Wars and direct all thisshit. We even did a show about
(48:17):
him. Look it up. Also starringRoy Castle, who was in sync the
Bismarck and hello London, andJenny Linden from old Dracula. I
think I mentioned on the show,yeah, thriller, the saint TV
show and nightmare. There's alsoRoberta tovoy, who's in the
blood in Satan's claw and thebeast in the cellar. Are the
(48:41):
things I've been talked abouthere. Okay, movie breakdown.
Well, this is a funky, Jazzystart to the movie. The opening
credits look exactly like youwould think in 1960 mid 1960s
movies would look with color,psychedelic things moving
around, and the music all fairyperiod. And man, it looks good.
The restoration on this becauseit is colorful. This is the
(49:05):
first Doctor Who in color. Andwhy is it in color, techno
color. It has, it looks good.
It's got kind of a strangefeeling to it, almost. It's very
much doctor who is still a kidshow, almost. I mean, it would
did not veer far from that. Theeffect the lead, the person who
(49:26):
does most of the stuff, is alike a 10 or 11 year old girl in
the in the show, she's the onethe the Daleks trust, and the
one Doctor Who and them workwith the most and side story
she's involved with, PeterCushing makes a pretty cool look
in Doctor Who, while the sametime being sort of generic, it's
(49:49):
almost like it took me say, Ohyeah, that is Peter Cushing.
It's a fun movie, but it isdefinitely silly. Mm. There's
some silly stuff. Like the guywho, I guess you'd call his
companion, kind of, for thismovie, comes across a sliding
door that only opens if you'resitting on this lever nearby. So
(50:12):
he has to kind of sit on it andtry to figure out how to run
back and forth to get throughthe door. So it's got some real
silly shit in it. It is veryStar Trek. The layout of the
city when they go to where theDaleks are, has just this
original Star Trek, you know,kind of cheap sci fi look to it.
(50:36):
The Daleks look like Daleks.
They always have looked thesame. You know, it's probably a
better thing than like what StarTrek did with the Klingons,
where, who knows what the fuckthey're gonna look like in the
next movie. The this is based onthe, loosely based on the show
that was the first appearance ofthe Daleks, which is like
(50:57):
episode two or three of DoctorWho and even has little thing
where the Dalek hand is seenwhen they pull it out of a out
of its thing. I never realizedthere's creatures in the Daleks.
I came to Doctor Who very late.
I did not know that there'sthings in there, yep, currently.
And they took one of them out,like wrapped in a blanket, and
(51:18):
put it on the ground, and yousee its hand kind of go, which
is in the when I was looking atthis, there's a photo that looks
just like that in the originalepisode. The the original show
is called the Daleks, but whichthey didn't want to do because
(51:39):
Doctor Who wasn't supposed to bea monster show, but the dogs
were so popular when they firstshowed and like never mind, this
is exactly what the show is. Andthey for a publicity thing there
during the cons Film Festivalwhere this was shown, they
dropped a giant squad of Daleksall over the theater area, the
(52:02):
bears or whatever there, andJohn Lennon was part of the
crowd that was admiring theirdogs running around. He was
Peter Cushing was offered to bea doctor in the show, which he
declined, and later said thatwas a big mistake. You should
have stayed with it and done it.
This was a kind of a box set inthat there's two of them, and
(52:28):
you can get it with a box ornot. I don't know, severance
weird sometimes, so I haven'twatched the second one yet, but
this was fun. It's, I can seewhy. It doesn't sit high on the
list of people who are hardcoremovies, but it's still fun. It
was enjoyable. And Peter Cushingis decent man. The ends the
(52:49):
inside of the TARDIS is freakingweird in this like wires and
shit hanging everywhere in thisweird plexiglass with just stuff
shoved in. It looks strange, butoverall, definitely worth
seeing. Wow. What, what year isthis? Again? 6565 so it's before
(53:12):
Star Trek. Yeah. And how longhad doctor? Who do we know when
Doctor Who startedbecause the late 50s, a lake
50s. Yeah, it was. It's beenaround a
long, long time. So they made amovie. Is this the first Doctor
Who movie, I believe. So, yeah,okay,
it's just the you said, it comesto a box that is this the only
(53:32):
doctor whothere's two, Peter, question,
did two? Oh, Okay, gotcha. Andthen they didn't, I don't think
they did particularly well. Sothey kind of just want to stick
with the TV show, dude,do they tie into the series at
all, like when they came out? Orno? Okay, just, just new
adaptations of a similar storyfrom an earlier Exactly. Thing
(53:53):
that's interesting was thishammer that put these out, or,
I know thinks I didn't see anyhammer things or come across
anything, but who knows? Youknow, hammer had their sub
labels that sometimescould be different. Because if I
feel like BBC is owned, probablyright. So BBC production,
(54:15):
yeah, could have beenproduction, production with
hammer. Ireally want to check this out.
But I am not a doctor who fan,yeah, I didn't start walking to
do Doctor Who until they thenews, the new ones that started
in the early 2000s or whatever.
So the older stuff is and I'vewatched some since then, because
(54:36):
I liked it so much them, I'll gowatch. And so I've watched, like
the first, like the first one, acouple others, I'm going, Wow,
this is, this is different. Ijust don't know if I there's so
many. Yeah, so many. What, 70years, or something, 60 years,
(54:57):
and British television in thefifth. Ease. I mean, that's got
to be quite a bit different thanvery specific sensibility. Yeah,
right,yeah, wild and it has sometimes
when you're watching things likeyou're talking about the
vampires and sinners and stuff,when something's weird. The
first episode was about, Iforgot the exact thing, but kind
(55:19):
of a tribe that was based onthings my mom used to have in
her museum. And it's sohistorically inaccurate, and
it's so far off, and they try topresent it like we are being
accurate, and I don't even thinkit's accurate to the 50s. This
is, this is really weird,but understanding, I think, with
(55:41):
Doctor Who they used to useleftover film sets, like,
whatever, probably film had beennot afraid of that, yeah. I
think they just rolled in andthey were like, All right, now
they're going to roam. Nowthey're going to so I Yeah. I'm
sure there's a lot of just BSwriting in there to just Yeah,
(56:02):
so you know, to the Whovians. Ifthere's any listening, sorry, I
probably screwed up some shitabout Doctor Who again, because
sodamn much there's a lot Doctor
Who fans are called Whovians.
Yeah,that's the last one I heard. I
don't know if they still do thator if they're if there's
distinctive ones like Trekkiesand trekkers, or whatever.
Man, I don't even know that. Nottruckers,
(56:27):
they I don't know it may nothave stuck, but there's a period
in the 80s where they called thecut people who like next
generation trekkers because theydidn't want to be associated
with the trek ease. Lordhelp us all.
Jesus Christ. I'm thinking thatdid not stick. I
don't think it's stuck. Yeah,yeah. I think it's like we're
all just truckies. Now, youknow, if you may, if you made it
(56:49):
through to discovery, after nextgen, after the original who
fucking, it's all game. Now,I'm sure doctor who is very
similar, yeah, oh yeah, okay.
Well, I'm tempted. I'm like,tempted, but we sort of did the
50s a few episodes back.
(57:11):
No, I'm tempted here to watchthis movie, just because I love
Peter Cushing so much, I guess Ididn't even realize he had done
Doctor Who movies. Yeah,I would say, if you watch it,
give it like 1015, minutes. Andif you're not into it, you're
not going to because it is. It'sdone exactly, yeah, change,
although part of the reason Isaid Star Trek, there's a kind
(57:32):
of a, not a side thing, but athing involving the planet of
the people that's on the Daleksthat feels so Star Trek. Oh,
god, did you watch this? Maybe,but
interesting? Well, I know thatthe natural inclination will be
to go to 50s sci fi, but I'mgonna Zig when I should say,
(57:56):
let's go. Or is it I'm gonna saywhen you think, regardless, I'm
doing something different. Okay,cool. You know, we've been
watching just a glut of thesemovies come out that are because
the characters have come intothe public domain. Oh, and it
seems to be almost exclusivelyhorror versions of these
(58:18):
characters, for some reason. Youknow, there's a bunch of Mickey
movies now. There's a bunch ofPopeye movies. There was the
Winnie the Pooh stuff andeverything. And I want you guys
to pick a public domaincharacter movie for the next
one.
Wow. Does it have to be horror,or does it whatever it is,
whateveryou want it to be. But I don't
think you're gonna find anythingexcept horror.
(58:40):
Probably notSteamboat Willie comedy show or
something like that. Yeah,that's just it. They they have
all, for some reason, beenhorror filmmakers, probably
because they realize, if I'mgoing to take this thing, the
only way I'm going to get anaudience, the only people who
seem to give these things achance are the horror? Yeah,
(59:01):
we'll give anything a chance.
Yeah. So, so, so one of thosemovies for our next excellent
film. Okay, well, so this is theend of the episode. This is
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(01:33):
Bluetooth doesn't talk toBluetooth of this century. So
all of these things, then Idecided, well, let's see. I'll
check out one of these newpodcast apps. And I ended up
loving podcast addict. And Istarted downloading those and
everything. And I just decided,well, I'll just use the Zune in
(01:57):
the car. And then I was like,Well, if I want to keep
listening to the episode I waslistening to at work, I've got
to have it on my phone. And Istopped. Here's the sad part. I
kept the Zune updating andcoming with me to work for the
last several days. And then Iwas like, I'm not even using
this. I just have it in the car.
And so I I unplugged it from thecomputer, and I grabbed all the
(02:21):
Zoom stuff I had, which was ashocking amount, five zooms, and
I have five zoom motherboards,in case something happened. And
I was just like, you know, endof an era.
Pick one, replace, encase it inacrylic, and then get rid of all
(02:43):
the rest.
Really sad about this, I'm like,deep if you don't get a Zune
tattoo,that's an awesome idea. Dude,
right here, right back here.
Yeah, right there, lower back,dude,
if you guys do stamp, tramp,yeah. I feel bad for the other
podcasts that I listened to,because I would hear, every once
(03:06):
in a while, they would talkabout it. They like, we still
have one guy who's listening onZoom. Somehow, whoever you are,
we thank you. And I'm like,That's me. I'm no longer
special. I have nothingdistinguishes me from anybody
else. Thetechnology outran you. It
(03:26):
took a longtime. I was a, you know, an
adopter of that when it firstcame out, and then when
everybody went to iPods, I waskind of like, I still like this
one better. I got myself aniPod, and I was like, I don't
like the way this works, and Idon't like the Apple podcast app
that would, you know, so I justkept going with it. And then
(03:49):
after it was discontinued, andif mine would break and I
couldn't repair it, I would goon eBay and buy a new Zune. And
there it is, end of an era. Idon't know who you are anymore.
I am a pod person now. You justlisten to your device, your
handheld fancy. It's like a newiPhone, isn't it, or something?
(04:15):
No, this Samsung Galaxy. Oh,well, la, la.
If I could transfer out of Applewithout losing my ability to
cloud everything, then I wouldtoo. But whatever,
I went the other way around. Iwas in Android for long. I
actually came across being ofold tech I read the other day of
(04:35):
I had the first Android phoneever made. I came across an
article talking about that. It'slike, it was pretty cool.
I like, Oh yeah, I'm, I don'tknow I I'm part of the apple
plan where I get a new one everyyear. And I have to say, the
last three years, I don't knowwhat the difference is. Like,
(04:59):
yeah, nothing.
That's pretty true of allphones. Now, if you keep, if
you're if you'd like, if you'vegot, if you did Samsung, it's
basically, it's like the becauseI watch a lot of tech videos,
and they're all like, Hey, newone out. Slightly better camera,
slightly better battery life.
When I, when I moved to this,this was a big jump, because my
(05:20):
phone before this was like an s8and this is 22
that's how you do it. Turn offtheir annual one. Wait five
years, then get an apple.
I noticed a huge jump in qualityin my pictures and stuff like
that. Yeah. But I also noticed,I went up to Bellingham this
weekend, and there are patchesup there where, you know, you
(05:42):
don't get good service. And soI'm listening to my podcast, and
it suddenly just stops. And Iwas like, this would not have
happened in the Zoom Yeah,because it's
true. I mean, and that's alsodown to your network, because
they're assholes.
Are the kind of app use, likethe the one I listen to,
downloads and stores them. Soevery once was like, why is
(06:03):
this? Oh, this one, I got abunch of friggin podcasts. I
need to deletefive gigs worth of podcasts.
Yeah. So well guys, thank youfor being here with me on this
thing.
I wish you luck in your newtransition as you become a
butterfly. Who knows what coloryou'll be when you get out of
(06:25):
this pod, but I'm zoomless.
Fly away. Little creature. Flyaway. Hi,
you guys. I have watched somestuff quick about I
guess I'm going to talk aboutthe severed son, okay, which is
a folk horror movie that really,really badly wants to be the
(06:49):
witch, and I was rooting for it.
It doesn't have the budget anddid not have the cinematographer
or director or writer. There wasa lot to not like about this,
but it is set in, you know,whatever. I don't know if it's
100 years ago or 200 years agoor what, but it's a young girl
(07:09):
with an overbearing father whois also the the pastor of this
small village, and they startseeing this dark creature who
keeps tempting her, andeventually she goes for it. And
so there's all sorts of witchystuff happening, but I just
(07:30):
like, Man, I really want this tobe a little better, because I
think it's a first time film forthis guy, and it just, it needed
either a more experienced well,it needed another pass on the
script. It needed a moreexperienced PP, and it needed
probably another $15,000 in thebudget, just to, you know, to
(07:53):
make it look nicer. It's one ofthese things that occurs. You
know, every shot is a daytimeshot, and all that stuff. And
I'm like this, this would amp upa little nicer if it was a
little darker, or even if theyhad gone in and color corrected
it a little differently,something to make it I don't
know. It's called the severedsun. The trailer was really,
(08:16):
really promising, and I didn't,I ended up not loving it. That's
too bad. I do remember seeingthe trailer for this and being
like, I'm definitely going tosee this film. And then just it
came and went. So,yeah, well, you should see it
and tell me if I'm wrong. Okay,there you go. Yeah, I have
have time.
(08:39):
Well, I so I'm halfway throughthe latest season of Doctor Who
with inshutti gatwa, and I'm ahuge fan of his. I watched all
of sex education like I reallylike this actor a lot, doctor
who's been very weird with himin that season one, he seemed to
(08:59):
not be in like two or three theepisodes. And in this season,
there's like a couple where he'sbarely in them too. And bearing
in mind, each season is eightepisodes, which is like the
shortest amount of any series.
And I just found out, becausesomebody was like, I don't like
him that much as the doctor. AndI was like, Fuck you. He's
great, but it is Doctor Who, sosome of it is shit, because it
(09:20):
is Doctor Who, sure, yeah. Sothat's just part of the
territory. And it's, he's not,it's, they're done. They're done
with him.
Is it normal? So he's the doctorand he hasn't been in several of
the episodes, yeah. Is thatnormal?
I not this normal? Yeah. I'm notsure what was going
(09:42):
on. If, what happens in thestory when he's not in it?
Well, his companion, oh, theyfall around his companion, or
he'll be like, in one shot init. So there was one where his
companion, like, gets out of thephone booth and like, sees
somebody on the other side ofthe hill, and then goes to that
hill, and then she has to try tofind her way back to the booth.
And, like, basically a lifetime,essentially goes by and she
(10:02):
can't get back. So that was oneepisode, and there's, yeah,
there was a couple where it wasjust, like, really focused on
her, which was a littlefrustrating, because she's sort
of irritating. And then seasontwo, they have a totally new
companion, which is prettyquick, I feel like, and then at
the end of season two, they'vecanceled him out. So yeah, and
he's going to be the secondshortest run of Doctor Who I
(10:25):
don't know why. I don't think itwas his choice. Because of the
messages he left on Twitter. Itsounded like, hey, fam, we had a
great time. And italmost sounds like, I mean, was
he in a big movie or somethingthat took him away from filming?
No. I mean, he finished up sexeducation. I think that might
have been his contradictingschedule with the first Doctor
(10:48):
Who series. But I don't knowwhat. I don't know why on earth
they don't it is a littlestrange. Maybe people just don't
like a very gay, very blackactor being Dr Who, he's very
woke. There's a lot of wokestorytelling. So
that's not that unusual fordoctor, who I was just gonna
say, the fans don't care,though, right? I
(11:09):
don't know. The fans are gettingolder. Maybe the fans are not
liking this version of it's veryteen friendly, like it feels
like the same audience is beingspoken to that sex education was
speaking to. So I'm really sad.
I think that they overuse histrope of crying. I think he does
cry in every single episode,which is very unnecessary, but
at the same time, he's reallyenergetic and interesting. And I
(11:35):
don't there's, well, there's adefinite problem with I'll say
this as being a member of thisgroup, sci fi geeks that are
getting older, yeah, and notunderstanding that shit isn't
going to grow up with you, yeah,if doctor, who's always really
been a kids directed show, yeah,even though that period in 2000
(11:55):
say, got away from that a littlebit and amped it up more
towards, I don't know, 20 yearolds, but um, so it's going, you
know, the original Star Wars wasmade for kids. Yeah, yeah, the
first of the new trilogy of StarWars was definitely made for
kids. But so, you know,feels like, maybe watch it a
doctor. Maybe it's like a Disneyplus, like, ratings issue or
(12:19):
something, because I know Disneywas heavily involved in this,
and, yeah, it's just a bummer,because I feel like, I feel like
you're right, because PeterCapaldi was one of the doctors.
I did not see that series, so Idon't know, but I feel like
maybe that was maybe aimed alittle bit older, and Matthew
Smith was probably for 20somethings. And this 100% feels
like people who are 18, to 21like it feels like a really
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specific coming of age.
Storytellers, Gen Z, Gen a kindof, yeah, for sure.
But so anyway, I'm sad I'm onlyhalfway through the season. I
just got to a really lameepisode, and I'm like, Well, I
hope the Final Four interestingbecause then I have to change
gears, and I don't know if I'mgoing to watch this for another
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two doctors and then pop backin. Oh, already, sorry,
continuing on the watchingshorts. Thing I did with the
last one, I did a I read,somebody someplace said
something about, well, you thinkAri asters movies are tough. You
should see some of his shortfilms. Oh, well shit. I'll go
(13:26):
watch his short films. And hehas 12345678, short films. Wow.
Okay, most of them pretty short.
Some of them like, there'sbasically in c'est la vie. Are
pretty much just two peoplebitching at Cameras about
things, one being a homelessman, one being a debutante
woman. They're fine. Now, acouple of them are really
(13:48):
interesting. The turtle heads alittle weird. Tinos, Dick fart
is descriptive of what actuallyhappens in the short so it's
unique. There's a Herman's cureall tonic, which I think was his
first short it's pretty good.
It's just some guy made a cureall tonic. And what makes it the
(14:13):
cure all tonic is not pleasant,and it's interesting, and it's
kind of well executed. It lookslike shit. I mean, he looks
almost like it was shot on VHS,Bo, which I haven't seen. Beau
is afraid. So I don't know ifthere's a relation. It's an
obviously, it's not the sameactor, that's for sure. But
that's what it sounds like,because the short film is Bo
being afraid of somebodybreaking into his apartment.
(14:37):
Basically what it is that nowthe two that are the most
uncomfortable. There'sMunchausen, which is
Mother Son story that'sfairly dark and disturbing, not
real fun. The I think for me,the best one he did, and it is
fucking haul. Hardcore. Thestrange thing about the
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Johnsons, and the strange thingabout the Johnsons is the
relationship of the father andson, and it is disturbingly
dark. It is uncomfortable,incredibly well done. That is
that that feels like the guy whomade hereditary that short more
than any of the others. Ifyou're a big fan of his stuff,
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and he's well worth watching.
None of them are particularlylong. I think the Johnsons one
is about 15 or 20 minutes isthat long, yeah. So they're
short shorts overall. AndMunchausen is a little bit
longer as well. Oh, yeah. No,oops. No. Strange thing about
(15:46):
the Johnsons is half an hour, Iguess it just moves well. But
all onYouTube, does he have, like, his
own YouTube channel orsomething?
No, I just put in his name shortfilms and then went to letterbox
and just okay, type in this one.
There it is. Type in the nextone, and is able to watch all of
them pretty sure they're uncut.
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Speaking of short films, we havea short film. Is that coming to
YouTube anytime soon?
Probably will thewe got turned down for another
festival this week, and Ithere's one more we're in the
running for, and I've got tocheck with the guy if it's okay
if we're on YouTube. And youknow, I don't if we're gonna I'm
(16:32):
not saying if we get in or not,if we get in, can we be on
YouTube? And if we are, then I'mgonna just post it. Okay? So
soon as it's up, believe me, Iwill give you all links, yeah,
let you know where it's at, andyou can all finally watch this,
the brisk, easy, easy watch.
Yeah, Ilet my brother watch it while I
was up there, and he watched itfor the first time, and it was,
(16:54):
you know, the expected response,oh, my God. He was cracking
up. I just realized my familymight watch this. Maybe we
should not put this online.
Well,you didn't have anything to do
with the story, so you don'thave anything to be ashamed of.
Thatis, you know what I will take
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that I will run with it.
Let's see. What else did Iwatch? I I don't know. Was it
you guys that suggested I watchthe series duster on prime?
Or no, I just that's the onewith the guy from lost, right?
Yeah, I just figured you wouldwatch it.
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This show is up my alley. It iscalled duster. The guy drives
looks like a 71 or 72 duster,and it's all classic rock muscle
cars and 70s clothing andeverything. And it's a really
interesting it's a crime drama,and the other lead is a black
(18:00):
female FBI agent, and probablythe first black female FBI agent
in the 70s. So she's gettingzero help from the rest of the
Bureau there, actively wantingher to fail. And so there's some
really interesting stuff goingon in it, double crossing and
(18:21):
all of that, and I'm just like,oh shit, yes. This show was
written for me. Is actuallycreated by JJ Abrams, so it's
not as weird as I thought it wasgoing to be, but it's got a lot
of the kind of lost feeling toit in that you'll see a scene,
(18:41):
and you'll just be like, holyshit, what's going on? And then
it goes 17 hours earlier, andeverything in the episode then
starts leading up to this sceneyou saw. And a couple episodes
have started that way, and I'mlike, Okay, I'm I'm digging all
of this. Sohow is the because he left
acting for a long time, didn'the? I
didn't know what his reasoningwas. He's great. I didn't know
(19:05):
if he just made enough money.
And I was like, fuck it. I willsay he looks a little weird
because he's still got the sameshoulder length hair. He's still
an attractive man, but he's now,you know, my age, so he's maybe
shouldn't have hair like this.
It's a little further up on hishead than it used to be and
lost. And I'm like, but it worksfor his character. So that's
(19:31):
cool, yeah, so I'm liking it,and a lot of people show up.
There is one episode where he isat a party and he runs into
Adrian Barbeau, the personplaying Adrian Barbeau, and he
kind of helps her get her firstmovie role. And then Adrian
Barbeau shows up in the episodeplaying an older woman. And I
(19:53):
was like, Whoa, wild. That'scrazy. So, yeah, I like. Like
it. And I can't remember if it'son prime or if it's on HBO
Max. Okay, yeah, I've seen thethumbnail.
I think it's prime. I thinkit might be prime also, but I'm
really liking it. It's calledduster. Nice, nice.
(20:13):
Well, I checked him out of filmthat I know that Kelly has seen.
I don't know if you've seen yet.
And Eric drop, I have not, okay,yeah. I mean, it's pretty
uncomplicated. It's like, just afun way to waste some time.
Yeah, so I don't know, like itwas, I guess part of me wished
there was a little bit more toit. Maybe I don't know if it
(20:34):
needed to be longer, or if,like, there need to be an
additional twist, or what, butit was fun. It was decent. I
didn't, I wasn't mad, but itwasn't like a it wasn't a
thinker.
This is the movie. I think I wassaying I needed something else
in it, that everything in it isgood, but there was something
(20:56):
missing to make it great. Yeah,for sure, yeah, because it felt
like they're just, I don't know.
Like the beats that happenedwere good there. The acting was
great. I like the way the textmessages were popping up. Was
really that was fun. That wassuper fun. And then you kind of
get to the end and you're like,Okay, I don't, I don't know,
(21:19):
that's fine. This was a wellmade movie. Yes, this was played
by numbers. This sure was amovie about drops.
Let me get out my save the catbook.
Exactly. Perfect.
10 out of 10. Yeah, no, it's,you know, it was fine. I'm
actually kind of glad I didn'tgo to the theaters to see it,
(21:41):
yeah, yeah,yeah. Is it? Did you rent it
free, some stream free now?
Yeah, I think so. I don't thinkI paid. Well, you know what? I
take that back. I think I didpay like, a couple bucks for it
on the Amazon pretty sureit's rental still. Yeah, okay.
Oh, cool, cool. I checked outone of the cool ones, the new
one from bonk, John Hope. Mickey17, Yeah, what'd you think? Dude
(22:03):
can make all kinds of movies,man. It's just insane. Yeah. Did
you like it? Yeah? I mean, it'sweird. It's Robert Pattinson. Is
impressive as hell in this film.
Good actor, because he isplaying such a dork and such a
weird guy to look like. He looksbut act very differently. And I
(22:29):
it's, yeah, I thought it'spretty good. It's, it is a boy.
I think it will bear repeated,repeated viewing. There's a lot
going on in this that is reallyinteresting
to have either of you seen it.
Yeah, no, you saw it in thetheaters. I think, yeah, I it's
streaming free. I max haven'tfinished it yet. I was like,
(22:53):
This is a movie is not grabbingme for some reason, but I do
think he is a great actor. Yeah,yeah. I
didn't watch it in one sitting,so maybe that might make a
difference. I watched a bunch ofit and then watched it later.
Yeah, I cansee how that might help, just
like sitting and watchingpieces, but because it does feel
like almost Chapter II, but ohyeah, because it's based on a
book that makes a lot of sense.
(23:13):
Oh, okay, but I thinkI mean nuts and bolts of the
story are pretty basic. Yeah, Ithink it's largely Robert's
performance that kept meinterested in watching what was
going on, because it was, youknow, there's little spoiler two
of them, and he's very 17 and 18are very different, and he's
(23:38):
pulling both of them off reallywell. Did you like it at all, or
was it just tooI really liked it. Yeah, I liked
it very much. And I think thatthat was a big part of it, for
sure. Like Robert Pattinson issuch a joy to watch, like his
fluidity in that you feel likeyou're watching two different
coned versions of a guy, yeah?
(24:00):
And then, you know, there'smoments where you see flashbacks
to other the previous 17, or theprevious 16, and you're just
like, man, like, you can seethis weird difference between
them, where it's subtle, andthat's a really fucking hard
thing to pull off. And like yousaid, he's a normally very
attractive guy, but like the wayhe plays it, you can see how
(24:23):
much attractiveness builds on apersonality. Because you're just
like no man, you're a fuckingloser. Girl wants to have sex
with you at all good for you.
Take that win and run with it.
But yeah, no, I really enjoyedit, and it reminded me more of
the sort of Okja stuff.
(24:43):
Yeah, I did also enjoy uh, Markruffalo's and Tony Colette's
stuff. Was weird. It wasinteresting. It's a lot, yes,
exactly. That's why it was kindof fun. As I thought, Okay, this
guy is going something specifichere. Do you
kind of feel like Tony Colettehas been playing like the same
character? Like, two or threefilms in a row now, because
she's also in that unicorn filmas like, let's eat this unicorn
(25:07):
and get its properties, orwhatever. So,
don't know, I think that I thetrailer made it feel like a a
kind of wacky, zany movie. Andthe movie is not nearly wacky or
zany enough. I guess for me, Iwas like, I wanted this to be a
little broader comedy.
(25:28):
I did not see the trailer, so Iagain, sort of like, Oh, let's
see what this isabout. Yeah, I think the trailer
did it a real disservice. Like,it's such a weird tone that
maybe they just couldn't figureout how to tell that
it seems like, almost likesomething, oh shit. What's his
name? Director of 12 Monkeys,Terry Gilliam. Terry Gilliam
would have done, like, 20 or 30years ago. Yeah, I can see that.
(25:52):
But, yeah, okay,I think you should finish it
though. Kelly, I think, like, itdoes speed up near the end,
like, there's really strange.
Yeah. It gets really weird.
Like, there's, there's, like, along period, and then all of a
sudden, it's like, fucking,we're out. And it's, yeah, it's
kind of neat, okay,yeah. I mean, I didn't finish it
because it was slow or anything.
It was, it was just like, oh,this is not what I was in the
(26:14):
mood for. I was in love for acomedy, and I was not getting it
out ofthat. My ultimate one of that
ever was Slumdog Millionaire.
Oh, let's go watch this funcomedy, as the trailer made it
look like a balls out comedy.
Oh, I know,wow, that was Yeah, so I know
what you're talkingabout. Yeah. Slumdog
Millionaire, the famous, like,poster of him, like, winning
(26:35):
with the confetti. And you'relike, what this is gonna be a
feel good drama.
Well, okay, cool. That's Mickey17, and it's available, I think,
on why don't we take a littlebreak, guys, and then when we
come back, we're talking aboutsci fi movies again, from the
(26:58):
60s, though. I you.
The zeroids are here from theplanet zero the zeroids. Xerach,
the zero commander, freeshimself from his own zeroid
capsule. Advance so boy thezeroid transporter, change his
(27:21):
zero capsule into a cosmobilefor hauling Centaur the zeroid
Explorer. Change his zeroidcapsule into a lunar sled.
Command, the zeroids to defend,move forward, backward and
transport. Command, the zeroand we're back, Eric, you had
(27:48):
said something about encasingone of those zoons. And I'm
like, You know what? I think Iwill actually take one of those
zooms back out and just have itsitting out on the There you go.
On the oddity, smooth. I lovethat. Vanessa, this was your sub
genre pick. It sure was. Youwent right along with the Sci Fi
(28:08):
stuff again.
You know, I love sci fi. Igotta say, out of this run of
stuff we've done, I've beenmostly like, Oh, I've had good
choices. Checkthe 90s out, and is a pretty
good about the 90s. But theother,
I think the 60s has been myfavorite so far, because i There
(28:29):
were so many on my list that I'mjust had not seen yet. So now
I'm gonna have to try to conquerthis outside of Sar. But yeah,
there's some great stuff I havenot seen. I did not realize how
untapped this was for me sowell. And then, of course, the
dirty little secret is, if you,if you watch a movie and you
like, you just have to figureout what sub genre that is, so
(28:49):
you can make us all watch amovie so you can,
how do I make this work?
Well, you're gonna go firstthen, because this was yours,
and I'm giving you five minutes.
So I went with a film thatsounded so interesting I'd never
heard of before, which is AkariXB, one Smith, eons.
(29:26):
Easter, maybe.
(29:59):
Julie Smith. To set USyou 1963 Yeah, it's also goes by
(30:27):
voyage to the end of theuniverse. It's a Czechoslovakian
(30:51):
film, pretty low. Well, I don'tknow if low budget this era or
not, 6 million. It was free onYouTube when I first heard about
it. It is now not free, and itis on the criterion channel. Oh,
interesting. Scraped it off ofthere. So this is directed by
Jindra Pollack, who has 29credits, including skyriders,
(31:14):
death of hitchhikers, thevisitors TV series, and also
tomorrow, I'll wake up and scaldmyself with tea. The octopus is
from the second floor and MerryChristmas. Octopus, yeah,
written. It's based on a novelby stancila Lem, who also wrote
Solaris, and it's called theloosely based on the Magellanic
(31:38):
Cloud. So the story is in 2163the starship icari XB one
embarks on a 15 year journey. Iwas like man that's convenient
to Alpha Centauri, like to AlphaCentauri and back to Earth,
where they believe there may bea few planets with life while
(31:58):
their loved ones on earth willage 15 years, the people on the
ship will only age 28 months. Sothere's kind of a tension
between them and the peoplethey're leaving behind. The
captain, who I think is maybe inthe narrator, is expecting a
baby, but his wife is stayingbehind. So there's a really sad
video chat in this. Um,definitely not. Early face time,
(32:20):
very cool. 40 people are onboard the ship, and it boasts a
super funky, cool gymnasium, acocktail, cocktail dance floor,
a lunch room, a small movietheater and lots of large rooms
with buttons. On the journeythey do encounter a derelict
20th century spaceship armedwith nuclear weapons, and also a
(32:42):
radioactive dark star whoseradiation, radiation causes a
mental breakdown of one of thecrew that threatens to destroy
destroy the spacecraft. The restof themselves end up very
lethargic and exhausted fromthis dark star thing, and they
slip into sleep, where thecaptain is fighting with the
(33:03):
crew members as to whether ornot they should turn around and
go back to Earth for fear thatonce they've fall asleep, they
will never wake up again. But heis told that it's important to
have faith that they will makeit through. Will they ever wake
up from their radiation sleep?
Will Michael destroy them allfrom level zero. That's the guy
with radiation poisoning who'strying to kill everybody. Will
(33:26):
the triangle gym ever be usedagain? Who knows? Stay tuned.
This is Star Trek, but withexistential dread. Yeah. Oh,
wow. Deep movie. It's a deepfucking
film. It's crazy because it'sgot all the Hokey swinging 60s,
like silver shit, with, like thecrazy 60s sci fi costumes, but
(33:49):
with, like, czechoslovakians,who are super down to earth,
like one guy has this like,weird robot good friend who
shows up and he looks like Hecame right out of Lost in Space.
But he's like, they make fun ofhim for it. And he's like, Hey,
that's my friend. He's got allthis stuff in him. And it's
like, Burr, Burr, Burr, Burr,Burr. And everyone's like, yeah,
(34:11):
the fucker. Why'd you take thishere? It's so like, interesting.
The tone is bonkers. I just lovethe way that it feels. It's just
so unique to me, I don't know.
Like, they also have a lot ofweird conversation pieces, so
they find the vessel that'sfloating out in space that's
left by humans, and they'retalking about, like, we don't
(34:34):
know what's on this thing. Andthey're saying, Okay, well, why
don't we send out a ship full ofrobots to, like, probe? And one
of the guys is like, Well, howwould we feel if a ship full of
robots showed up here toinvestigate us? And you're like,
Oh, that's cool. I like that.
And there's, you know, justother things in there, like they
think when they go into sleep,that maybe they should send off
(34:56):
a probe to let earth know, likethis dark star thing they ran
into, and how it's. Like, a bigproblem, and somebody is like,
oh, yeah, that's kind of like,sending off. You know, back in
the day, people would just throwa bottle into the sea, and the
captain's like, so does thatmake us castaways? What the fuck
like, that's so good. It's alsobeautiful, beautiful, beautiful
(35:16):
cinematography. This is before2001 A Space Odyssey, and like
it, it's they were inspired.
Like, there's shots that aredirectly taken from this thing
I'm almost done. And just reallyinteresting idea. They have
Gravity Boots that when theGravity Boots, like, hit the
surface, they just light up. Sothey don't really show you, like
(35:40):
they're doing a lot of showingrather than telling. It's really
neat the way they do that. Soanyways, I just, I totally dug
it. I love it very little.
Trivia tagline, do you dare takethe trip to the 25th century?
The version titled voyage to theend of the universe is the
American version, where theytook about 26 minutes out of
(36:01):
this 86 minute film. Theystripped them out finding the
abandoned ship, since it seemedto anti capitalist, as well as
making them go towards Earthinstead of away from it. And
they also altered the cast andcrews names on the credits to
make it look more English. Wow,yes, I was like, Are you
kidding? The newly restoredoriginal, the new really stored
(36:24):
version that you can play oncriterion, is the Czech version.
And it was screened at Cannesclassic The 20 as part of the
Cannes Classic series of the2016 Film Festival. And it was
actually done by the Czech FilmArchives who helped put it
together. So it's veryauthentic, like they did a lot
(36:46):
of like work. There's like fivepages of text at the beginning
of the film from criterion abouthow hard it was to put it back
together. So yeah, Bravo guys.
It looked great.
What's the So, what's the nameof this? Again? XB, what? So
it'scalled Ikari, i, k, A, R, I, E,
X, b1, it's from 19631963 was it in color? No, it's
(37:09):
black and white. Okay, man, I'mgonna search this out. This
sounds very cool. It's crazy.
It's really it's really fun. Ihighly recommend it,
Eric, if you don't mind, I'll gonext dive in. Did you guys know
that there is a sequel toVillage of the Damned? Oh, shit,
what it is called children ofthe damned from 1964
(37:36):
beware. These children. Behindtheir fiery, hypnotic eyes lurk
the demon forces of anotherworld.
It's them or us, for these arethe children of the Damned. I
(38:07):
children of the damn even moreeerie and startling than the
sensational village of the dam,I think they are the cells of
man advanced maybe a millionyears.
Would they actually be creaturesfrom other planets, centuries
beyond us, scientificallyinvading the earth, disguised as
children. There's Paul fromEngland, Nina from Russia,
(38:28):
Rashid from India, mi Ling fromChina, ago from Nigeria, and
Mark from America. Who are theyreally? As we of the earth push
further and further into space,are they the answer to our
probing?
They're not kids. Have you everseen them laugh, run, play? No,
by God, but you've seen themkill the ambassadors of all the
(38:48):
earth's nations experience theirdefiance, Paul, we must know how
to make that machine we'd neverthink of trying to force you, of
course, what?
Theirs is the power of evil,turning friends against
(39:11):
strength, hating killing, yetarmed with no weapon you can see
or touch. Unless we can learn tolive with them, we may cease to
live it all can any force onearth stop their fury at
this very moment they could bemaking all those men out there
turn their guns on one another.
You Oh, geez. Directed by Antonleader, who has one of only. Two
(40:00):
films. This is one of them. Healso did the cockeyed cowboys of
Calico County, nice. And thentons of television episodes,
like Lost in Space, Star Trek,Gilligan's Island. Orange side.
It was written by John brightly,who wrote Hammerhead the Medusa,
touch Gandhi and cry freedom.
And it's kind of based on thebook the mid itch cuckoos by
(40:21):
John Wyndham. He also wrote thenovel Day of the Triffids and
many others, starring IanHendry, who is in Journey to the
far side of the sun. Theoriginal tales from the crypt
and tons of British television,including 26 episodes of The
Avengers. Also stars Alan badel,who was in telephone force 10
(40:42):
from Navarone Shogun, and tonsof British television. And then
finally, Barbara Ferris, who wasin terms of trial, a place to
go, the craze and tons ofBritish television, if you
didn't get it. This is aAmerican British film. We open
on a group of five or sixchildren in a classroom setting,
(41:03):
and they have been asked tosolve a three dimensional puzzle
with blocks that have been setin front of them. There are two
very serious men watching thechildren who are either slowly
figuring out the puzzle or notfiguring it out at all, except
for one, Paul, a little blondeboy who has put the puzzle
together. In record time the twomen, Tom and David, go to visit
(41:24):
Paul's mother, who clearly hatesthe child and insists she was
never touched by a man. Oh, ohmy. If you've seen Village of
the Damned, you will recognizePaul. He is one of the kids from
village of the dam. Oh, wow. Shewants the mom. She wants nothing
to do with Tom and David, andafter they leave, Paul comes in
and stares at her. She walks outof the apartment in a daze and
(41:47):
is quickly hit by a passingvehicle. Paul is then introduced
to a group of other childrenfrom various countries, China,
India, Nigeria, the SovietUnion, the United States and the
United Kingdom, and they arebrought to London for a study
into their advancedintelligence. Quickly, though,
the children seem to form atelepathic connection and then
escape and hide out at anabandoned church in London.
(42:10):
Paul's aunt is his only livingrelative, and she wants to help,
but the kids end up, kind oftaking telepathic control of
her, and they make her help themsurvive in the derelict church.
So they send her out forsupplies and stuff like that,
and she's kind of okay with it.
(42:30):
She really wants to help them.
She also is like, Hey, I wouldjust do this. You don't have to
make me do this. Meanwhile, thearmy and intelligence service
debate whether or not to destroythe kids. The children have
teleconnected, telekineticallyconstructed a complex machine
which uses sonic waves as aweapon, which kills several
government officials andsoldiers. It is far beyond our
(42:52):
understanding, but the armyrealizes that the children only
do this when they are beingattacked, so Tom visits the
children and pleads with them todisband and return to their
respective embassies, which theyall agree to do. However, as
soon as they arrive, each of theambassadors from their
respective countries startthreatening them for information
(43:13):
on how to make the weapon thatthe children had constructed. So
the children murder all of theEmbassy of military officials
before returning to the church.
Meanwhile, one of the scientiststhinks he has discovered
something in the children'sblood, not alien blood, as
suspected, but human blood, onlya million years more evolved
(43:34):
than our own. And how the fuckwould you ever be able to prove
that?
Yeah, what does a million yearsin the future blood look like,
right?
Of course, the authorities havedecided that they must destroy
the children, so the church issurrounded with tanks, bombs and
soldiers, and so begins thefinal siege. The movie is
interesting, not nearly as goodas the original village of the
(43:55):
dead. It's not actually really agood sequel to that movie
anyway, and it seems to more bea sequel to the book The Midwich
cuckoo. So there are momentsthat I really liked and an
ending that I did not seecoming, but I also wish that
they had kind of explained itbetter. I mean, I got what it
was, and I thought it could havebeen shot more interestingly and
(44:17):
had a little more impact, ifthey had cleared it up. Tag
lines, so young, so innocent, sodeadly, they came to conquer the
world and also beware the eyes,the paralyze, terrible, ouch,
trivia. The opening titlespecifically announced, this is
(44:39):
a film. They announced this filmas a sequel to John windhams,
the mid cuckoos. However, Paulis played by one of the kids
from the original village of theDan movie. So it's like we're
we're making a sequel to thisbook, which is different from
that movie by quite a bit, butwe are also including one of the
kids from that movie. It's justto confuse the fuck out of you,
(45:01):
apparently. And then the otherpiece of trivia, I liked Iron
Maiden base their song childrenof the damned from their 1982
album, the number of the beaston this movie. Wow. So I know
that, yeah, it's it's good. It'snot great, okay, so, and it's
not nearly as good as Village ofthe Damned. How's
it compare to carpentersvillage? Of the two, much, much
(45:23):
better, Christopher Reeveand and Mark Hamill and who else
was it was that,yeah, I mean, I should have been
betterthan it should have been so much
better than was. It's weird thatit's a John Carpenter movie.
Yes. I was just like, why areyou doing this?
Very, very strange. Yeah,Eric, you want to go, yes. Five
(45:46):
minutes.
Okay, so funny. You shouldmention Doctor Who in the movies
you've watched, yeah, or the TVshow. This was a surprise,
surprise Severin release that Ipicked up a two pack of the
Peter Sellers, Doctor Who,Doctor Who, and the Daleks, the
(46:07):
first one from 1965allow me to introduce myself. I
am Doctor Who, and this is mytime and space machine. TARDIS,
off we go. It is capable. Oftaking us to any age on any
planet in any universe. Ratherexciting, isn't it? They
(46:42):
are protected and they haveweapons which can destroy what
are we going to do? I fightthem.
(47:10):
Hey, Peter Sellers,Peter Cushing,
oh, okay, thank you. I was like,what I interested? Very
interested.
This was 1965it's available rent some places
on brick box and hope lock. Andit's amazingly gorgeous,
remastered blu ray from Severin,directed by Gordon Fleming, who
(47:33):
also directed Daleks invasionEarth 2150 AD, the saint TV
show. Few other things. TerryNation is one of the writers.
Wrote 14 episodes of the saint.
Death becomes her and over 100Doctor Who related shows, Milton
(47:54):
savaski, who's producer ofseveral King movies, Tales from
the crick Dr terrors, house ofhorror. Good stuff. Sydney
Newman, who is involved in over130 Doctor Who related shows and
videos the stars, I said, PeterCushing, you might know, from
Star Wars and direct all thisshit. We even did a show about
(48:17):
him. Look it up. Also starringRoy Castle, who was in sync the
Bismarck and hello London, andJenny Linden from old Dracula. I
think I mentioned on the show,yeah, thriller, the saint TV
show and nightmare. There's alsoRoberta tovoy, who's in the
blood in Satan's claw and thebeast in the cellar. Are the
(48:41):
things I've been talked abouthere. Okay, movie breakdown.
Well, this is a funky, Jazzystart to the movie. The opening
credits look exactly like youwould think in 1960 mid 1960s
movies would look with color,psychedelic things moving
around, and the music all fairyperiod. And man, it looks good.
The restoration on this becauseit is colorful. This is the
(49:05):
first Doctor Who in color. Andwhy is it in color, techno
color. It has, it looks good.
It's got kind of a strangefeeling to it, almost. It's very
much doctor who is still a kidshow, almost. I mean, it would
did not veer far from that. Theeffect the lead, the person who
(49:26):
does most of the stuff, is alike a 10 or 11 year old girl in
the in the show, she's the onethe the Daleks trust, and the
one Doctor Who and them workwith the most and side story
she's involved with, PeterCushing makes a pretty cool look
in Doctor Who, while the sametime being sort of generic, it's
(49:49):
almost like it took me say, Ohyeah, that is Peter Cushing.
It's a fun movie, but it isdefinitely silly. Mm. There's
some silly stuff. Like the guywho, I guess you'd call his
companion, kind of, for thismovie, comes across a sliding
door that only opens if you'resitting on this lever nearby. So
(50:12):
he has to kind of sit on it andtry to figure out how to run
back and forth to get throughthe door. So it's got some real
silly shit in it. It is veryStar Trek. The layout of the
city when they go to where theDaleks are, has just this
original Star Trek, you know,kind of cheap sci fi look to it.
(50:36):
The Daleks look like Daleks.
They always have looked thesame. You know, it's probably a
better thing than like what StarTrek did with the Klingons,
where, who knows what the fuckthey're gonna look like in the
next movie. The this is based onthe, loosely based on the show
that was the first appearance ofthe Daleks, which is like
(50:57):
episode two or three of DoctorWho and even has little thing
where the Dalek hand is seenwhen they pull it out of a out
of its thing. I never realizedthere's creatures in the Daleks.
I came to Doctor Who very late.
I did not know that there'sthings in there, yep, currently.
And they took one of them out,like wrapped in a blanket, and
(51:18):
put it on the ground, and yousee its hand kind of go, which
is in the when I was looking atthis, there's a photo that looks
just like that in the originalepisode. The the original show
is called the Daleks, but whichthey didn't want to do because
(51:39):
Doctor Who wasn't supposed to bea monster show, but the dogs
were so popular when they firstshowed and like never mind, this
is exactly what the show is. Andthey for a publicity thing there
during the cons Film Festivalwhere this was shown, they
dropped a giant squad of Daleksall over the theater area, the
(52:02):
bears or whatever there, andJohn Lennon was part of the
crowd that was admiring theirdogs running around. He was
Peter Cushing was offered to bea doctor in the show, which he
declined, and later said thatwas a big mistake. You should
have stayed with it and done it.
This was a kind of a box set inthat there's two of them, and
(52:28):
you can get it with a box ornot. I don't know, severance
weird sometimes, so I haven'twatched the second one yet, but
this was fun. It's, I can seewhy. It doesn't sit high on the
list of people who are hardcoremovies, but it's still fun. It
was enjoyable. And Peter Cushingis decent man. The ends the
(52:49):
inside of the TARDIS is freakingweird in this like wires and
shit hanging everywhere in thisweird plexiglass with just stuff
shoved in. It looks strange, butoverall, definitely worth
seeing. Wow. What, what year isthis? Again? 6565 so it's before
(53:12):
Star Trek. Yeah. And how longhad doctor? Who do we know when
Doctor Who startedbecause the late 50s, a lake
50s. Yeah, it was. It's beenaround a
long, long time. So they made amovie. Is this the first Doctor
Who movie, I believe. So, yeah,okay,
it's just the you said, it comesto a box that is this the only
(53:32):
doctor whothere's two, Peter, question,
did two? Oh, Okay, gotcha. Andthen they didn't, I don't think
they did particularly well. Sothey kind of just want to stick
with the TV show, dude,do they tie into the series at
all, like when they came out? Orno? Okay, just, just new
adaptations of a similar storyfrom an earlier Exactly. Thing
(53:53):
that's interesting was thishammer that put these out, or,
I know thinks I didn't see anyhammer things or come across
anything, but who knows? Youknow, hammer had their sub
labels that sometimescould be different. Because if I
feel like BBC is owned, probablyright. So BBC production,
(54:15):
yeah, could have beenproduction, production with
hammer. Ireally want to check this out.
But I am not a doctor who fan,yeah, I didn't start walking to
do Doctor Who until they thenews, the new ones that started
in the early 2000s or whatever.
So the older stuff is and I'vewatched some since then, because
(54:36):
I liked it so much them, I'll gowatch. And so I've watched, like
the first, like the first one, acouple others, I'm going, Wow,
this is, this is different. Ijust don't know if I there's so
many. Yeah, so many. What, 70years, or something, 60 years,
(54:57):
and British television in thefifth. Ease. I mean, that's got
to be quite a bit different thanvery specific sensibility. Yeah,
right,yeah, wild and it has sometimes
when you're watching things likeyou're talking about the
vampires and sinners and stuff,when something's weird. The
first episode was about, Iforgot the exact thing, but kind
(55:19):
of a tribe that was based onthings my mom used to have in
her museum. And it's sohistorically inaccurate, and
it's so far off, and they try topresent it like we are being
accurate, and I don't even thinkit's accurate to the 50s. This
is, this is really weird,but understanding, I think, with
(55:41):
Doctor Who they used to useleftover film sets, like,
whatever, probably film had beennot afraid of that, yeah. I
think they just rolled in andthey were like, All right, now
they're going to roam. Nowthey're going to so I Yeah. I'm
sure there's a lot of just BSwriting in there to just Yeah,
(56:02):
so you know, to the Whovians. Ifthere's any listening, sorry, I
probably screwed up some shitabout Doctor Who again, because
sodamn much there's a lot Doctor
Who fans are called Whovians.
Yeah,that's the last one I heard. I
don't know if they still do thator if they're if there's
distinctive ones like Trekkiesand trekkers, or whatever.
Man, I don't even know that. Nottruckers,
(56:27):
they I don't know it may nothave stuck, but there's a period
in the 80s where they called thecut people who like next
generation trekkers because theydidn't want to be associated
with the trek ease. Lordhelp us all.
Jesus Christ. I'm thinking thatdid not stick. I
don't think it's stuck. Yeah,yeah. I think it's like we're
all just truckies. Now, youknow, if you may, if you made it
(56:49):
through to discovery, after nextgen, after the original who
fucking, it's all game. Now,I'm sure doctor who is very
similar, yeah, oh yeah, okay.
Well, I'm tempted. I'm like,tempted, but we sort of did the
50s a few episodes back.
(57:11):
No, I'm tempted here to watchthis movie, just because I love
Peter Cushing so much, I guess Ididn't even realize he had done
Doctor Who movies. Yeah,I would say, if you watch it,
give it like 1015, minutes. Andif you're not into it, you're
not going to because it is. It'sdone exactly, yeah, change,
although part of the reason Isaid Star Trek, there's a kind
(57:32):
of a, not a side thing, but athing involving the planet of
the people that's on the Daleksthat feels so Star Trek. Oh,
god, did you watch this? Maybe,but
interesting? Well, I know thatthe natural inclination will be
to go to 50s sci fi, but I'mgonna Zig when I should say,
(57:56):
let's go. Or is it I'm gonna saywhen you think, regardless, I'm
doing something different. Okay,cool. You know, we've been
watching just a glut of thesemovies come out that are because
the characters have come intothe public domain. Oh, and it
seems to be almost exclusivelyhorror versions of these
(58:18):
characters, for some reason. Youknow, there's a bunch of Mickey
movies now. There's a bunch ofPopeye movies. There was the
Winnie the Pooh stuff andeverything. And I want you guys
to pick a public domaincharacter movie for the next
one.
Wow. Does it have to be horror,or does it whatever it is,
whateveryou want it to be. But I don't
think you're gonna find anythingexcept horror.
(58:40):
Probably notSteamboat Willie comedy show or
something like that. Yeah,that's just it. They they have
all, for some reason, beenhorror filmmakers, probably
because they realize, if I'mgoing to take this thing, the
only way I'm going to get anaudience, the only people who
seem to give these things achance are the horror? Yeah,
(59:01):
we'll give anything a chance.
Yeah. So, so, so one of thosemovies for our next excellent
film. Okay, well, so this is theend of the episode. This is
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