July 31, 2025 • 61 mins
328 ROAD HARD AND PUT AWAY WET!
Netflix just happens to be killing it in the anime department, but what does that mean to us?
Also discussed: Ballerina, Back Rooms, Marshmallow.
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It's a great movie. I was really glad, happy I watched
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it.
Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break yourconcentration?
Somewhere between science andsuperstition,
such sights to show you.
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Strange eons. Welcome to strangeeons. Radio that is Eric over
there, hello, that is Vanessaover there. Hello, and I am
Kelly. You guys. I read thisreally interesting report that I
wanted to share with you. Youknow that I am kind of a poo
poo, er, of anime and animation,yeah, all of that stuff. So I
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just read this reallyinteresting article Netflix
showed up to the Anime Expo inLos Angeles, with some pretty
impressive viewership numbersfor anime,
while Crunchyroll built theirentire business around anime
fans, Netflix quietly became theplace most people actually watch
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anime. Wow, over 50% of Netflixis global user base, which is
150 million plus now watchesanime, which is a three times
jump from five years ago.
33 anime titles cracked. Netflixis global top 10 in 2024
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which is more than double than2021 and Netflix leads with 48%
of anime viewers, followed byDisney plus at 32% and Prime
Video at 29% Crunchyroll comesin last
two focused I guess. Well, theysay like, what is their Top
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Animated No, but they did kindof get into what that really
means. Netflix becomes thebiggest simply because of the
viewership, yeah subscribers,and their process is to drop
their anime titles right next toall of their other big shows.
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Yeah, and so people are justlike, you know, oh well, check
that out, I guess. And I've donethat with a couple of their
things. Even, I think attackTitans, I'm sure is one of their
big ones. And that's when Iwatched a little bit of and I'm
gonna, okay, I like some animemovies still, but I don't know
if I'm into the shows. The showsare still, yeah, yeah. I wonder
if some other things likeCastlevania and stuff like, does
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that count? Yes, yeah. Thatmakes a lot of sense, because
they've had a couple that arereally strong or blue eyed
Samurai, you know, like, there'ssome, okay, that one was pretty
right, yeah, even the he man,yeah, Revelations, or whatever
that was, and the Transformersone they did, yeah? So when
you're when you're droppingthose right next to your your
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big movies that are droppingthat weekend on Netflix. The
same viewers are going to seeall of that stuff. So, yeah, I
just thought that was kind ofinteresting, cool, because you
know, you, if you don't knowwhat Crunchyroll is, you're not
going to only people who areinto anime are even looking at
crunchyroll, so you have such afinite audience already, like
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from the get go. But so doesthat change your viewpoint or
your thought process around? No,I'm discovering stuff the same
way that all these other peopleare. As I turn on Netflix and
it'll say, you know, it has itsvarious things, and I come down
and I see the animated thing. SoCastlevania, I gave a watch to
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just for nostalgic reasons andstuff like that.
I just don't think that I lovethe the
series animation. I'm with youon that. I tend to I've liked
some films, quite a bit, but,but not a lot of series like the
he man one is interestingbecause isn't that Kevin Smith
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written? Yeah, so it's, it'sjust, they'll say it's anime, as
long as the studio isan Anime Studio, as opposed to
who the creative team is. Yeah,sure. Why not? Wow, interesting,
yeah. And the one I reallyliked, I think that was on
Netflix. I'm forgetting the nameof it, but the one based on
League of Legends, arcane,right? Oh, that's, yeah, that's
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really good. Yeah, that was so.
So I feel like, when they takeswings, they take pretty big
swings. I don't know how muchanime I like or don't like
because there's so much of it.
It's like, it's, it's like,saying I like TV or don't like
TV. It's like, well, what, whatdo you the range of content?
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Yeah, there's plenty I reallydon't like. I a friend of mine.
I visited him and hisboyfriend's place. They were.
Watching this, like, bigbreasted volleyball anime series
where they're, like, thesechicks with crazy large breasts.
Were like, playing. And it waslike, you know, who's gonna win
the big volleyball champions? Azillion episodes of this thing.
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And I was like, I amuninterested, and I know you two
are as well. You're onlywatching this for camp, but
like, it's, yeah, you're talkingto your gay friends. Yeah, not
us too. No, I don't genuinelyinterested
anime. I Okay, look, there'slike, big breasts where it's,
like, nice, then there's like,comical, like, you couldn't walk
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down the street, you'd put themin a shopping cart. Like, this
is not, this is like, do youhave tumors? Do you need
assistance? Reminds me of an ex.
Anyway, yeah, there's been somereal winners. We all have quite
a you know, I don't know aboutEric. I have a catalog to
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compare, so you're good.
Sorry.
I got married for 9 million Iknow 26 years sounds, of course,
he was 28 when I got married.
So, yeah, no,all right, how about we get into
some movies? Yeah,I saw ballerina. Oh, gosh. How
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was it? Has anybody else seenit? No, okay, so it was
confusing. It was good. I'lljust say that it was good. I was
watching it going. When doesthis take place? This ballerina
is a spin off of the John Wickuniverse, and it deals with the
group of, you know, Black Widowtype characters that are
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introduced in, I guess, episodethree of John Wick.
It's It also reminded me that Ihave not seen Part Four of John
Wick yet. John Wick is in thismovie. And I was like, when,
when does this take place? And Ithought, well, it must take
place. You know, if you followthe John Wick universe, can't be
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after one, right? Because he'sinto all this stuff. Well, it
does turn out to take placebetween scenes in
episode three. Oh, okay. Oh,okay,
so it's like, I am about to die,but here you go. But there's a
very, I mean, important sequencewith him in it. And I was like,
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this doesn't quite make sensefor his character arc. So, you
know, that kind of stuff. Ialmost wish that he wasn't in
the movie, because it wasdrawing my attention. As I was
like, let's see what happened.
And I'm gonna have to watchthose movies again. And part
four, finally. But I will saythat,
you know, Anna de armas is justfucking gorgeous, and she pulls
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off kind of, you know, Assassin,cool. Didn't she do that one
amazing scene in a James Bondmovie? Yes, that was her, yeah,
yeah.
And she's also great in she wasin the gray man with Ryan
Gosling as this kind ofcharacter, also just a real
badass. And so she's kind of, Idon't know if this is the
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direction she's trying to pushher acting career in is just
kick ass action star,but she's doing it right. So
ballerina, I thought was betterthan, you know, I remembered I
started John Wick four when itbecame free to stream. And I was
like, Oh no, I'm kind of bored.
And so I don't think I finishedit and I was able to finish this
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one. So if that tells youanything, this is available as a
rental right now, but it's beenout for a while. I imagine it's
coming to a streamer very soon,and it's called ballerina, nice.
Well, I hate myself sometimes,Winnie the Poop, blood, honey,
too.
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Shockingly, no, sometimes Idon't know, like, I like to
watch things that are gonnaemotionally distress. Oh, that
kind of and it's like, I knowit's probably cathartic somehow.
But I watched a show called madewhich is really interesting,
because it stars the hot versionin substance, the hot version of
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Demi or Yeah. So I was like, Oh,my God, you're so familiar. Oh
shit, it's you. And the storyfollows a mom who basically has
to escape an abusiverelationship and steals, takes
her daughter with her and thenhas to work her way through the
system. It's based off a bookwhich is based on real story of,
yeah, just how hard it is tosurvive when you have no money
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and you're trying to not beabused and keep holding your kid
and yeah, it made me cryconstantly and hold my daughter
very.
Close.
This is M A, I D, yeah, okay,yeah. But it was really cool. I
mean, I realize our listenersprobably are not that interested
in this show, but it was cool tosee her acting in a different
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role, and I know that she'sgoing to be coming out in a
seems like a really cool moviepretty soon, against Chris
hams fine Pratt would perhapsEvans winner.
A lot of Christmas. I was likeworrying up like I can see his
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face. I know what he looks like.
But yes, so if you want to seeher doing more and you just want
to cry a lot, feel free to checkout me. Wow, I just looked this
up this. This came out in 2021,so before the substance, yeah,
yep, I think this is how theyknew she existed. Okay,
she can act. So I was reading anarticle about eight to four
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signing this 19 year old kid todirect one of their films. His
name was Ken can Kane KaneParsons. I was like, What the
hell is this kid done? So Ilooked up and he did this series
on YouTube called back rooms,aha, which is
25 episodes ranging in lengthfrom 35 some odd seconds to 40,
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almost 50 minutes.
I think it's a little bit of avictim of its success, because,
man, it starts off strong. Thefirst few episodes, there's some
creepy shit going on, yes, andit
drags a lot as it gets towardsthe end, it wraps up fairly
well, but I think, you know, 20,maybe 20 episodes might have
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been it's like it started beingsuccessful, and then the more
they tried, they had to explainwhat was happening. And I think
it got stupider and stupider themore they filled in the blanks.
Yeah, yeah. But the first fewepisodes, it's kind of this. The
idea is there's this areasomeplace, not entirely certain
where it is, that looks like themost neutral office you've ever
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seen. And I don't know wherethey found it. I know there's
videos talking about where itis. I haven't watched those yet,
but it's great, because the wayit's shot, it looks like it's
cavernous and gigantic, androoms alter slightly. But then
they they set up likeobservation area to figure out
what's going on, and they startsending in people in hazmat
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suits. And we're just weird shithappens. And every once in a
while there is a wonderfullywell developed scare, yeah, and
it's, it's pretty good, yeah. Imean, especially the way I
watch, where I just, you know,watch a few, yeah, went back,
watch few later. And, you know,watched all of them eventually
over, like, I don't know, a weekor something, but I get why they
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hired him, Yes, and he had to belike, 15 or 16 when he started
this thing. Yeah, no, because hewas 19 now. No, I mean, he's
really young, and he actually, Imean, he, I don't want to say,
invented liminal horror, but here popularized liminal horror,
like it was just a crazydynamite success. I think it
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started as like a schoolproject, like you just wanted to
leave it did, yeah, and it's sowell done for a kid in high
school. Yeah, it's, if you haveany, it's kind of found footage,
E but it's not at the same time,although some episodes are
really found footage, but someare investigative. So it does a
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wide variety of stuff, and hedoes a nice job of I'm assuming
most of the cast members areprobably schoolmates of his,
with the occasional teacher orsomething, maybe, but with the
hazmat suits on, you can havethese people seem like they're
the knowledgeable scientists andstuff they need to be for the
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story. When reality, there mightbe, you know, some 15 year old,
right kid, but would look reallyweird talking about the stuff
he's talking about. I neverthought about that. That's
really true, yeah. So I, I'mvery curious to see what he's
gonna do, because the when thestuff, when this was good, it's
really, really good.
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Bucha, did this start out as,like a creepy pasta or something
like that? Yeah. I think it was,yeah, as, I mean, it was
definitely, like a it was duringthat time YouTube, maybe a
little bit after the beginningof the creepypasta. But he
definitely took things in adifferent direction. Yeah,
did? Is he doing a film orsomething? Yeah, 84 has hired
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him to direct something. I don'tknow if it's his writing style
as well, or if they brought himin to direct something. Yeah, I
heard that. So that's, that'sright, that's back rooms, and it
is available on YouTube. Yep.
Whole thing i.
Okay,I watched a kind of cool little
movie. I don't think itcompletely nailed the ending,
but it was called marshmallow.
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Anybody I've heard of this,haven't? It is about a group of
kids who are sent to a summercamp, and our lead kid is kind
of nerdy, andI'm very shy, and maybe you
know, he definitely does notwant to be there for two months,
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but his parents are, you'regoing to have a blast. He keeps
having this recurring dream ofdrowning, and,
yeah, and these dreams arereally visually gorgeous.
Something starts happening thereis the legend of this serial
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killer at the camp, you know. Soit kind of starts off feeling a
little bit like a Friday the13th type movie, and then it
turns into something much, muchdifferent and much deeper and
darker, as you start realizingthese kids all kind of have a
connection, and there'ssomething bigger going on than
this serial killer who isdefinitely there at the camp,
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But Not What He Seems also. So Igotta say,
doesn't completely nail it. Imean, once you realize what's
going on, you're like, Okay,this is wildly complicated. So
you know, how could thispossibly have ever happened? But
it is also a thing where youlike, oh, well, I'm definitely
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more interested in this than Iwas if this was just a Friday
the 13th ripoff. Oh, wow. So,wow. Yeah, it's a cheap rental.
It's called Marshmallow, and Iassume it's coming to shutter in
the next five, six months. So,but I will say that I thought it
was a good way to spend 90minutes, nice, awesome
marshmallow. Well, I'm going totalk about something that I just
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remembered that I saw, which isa film called 100 yards. Have
you guys seen this? No, soundslike a football movie. It's a
martial arts movie. I missed itat Fantastic Fest. I wasn't able
to get in and so watched itrecently. It is a very, very,
very strange martial arts moviewhere it's taking place in like,
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it feels like Chicago or liketurn of the century.
It's all steampunk. Oh, wow,yeah. It's like a weird mashup
of, like, gangster, oldAmerican, plus steampunk plus
martial arts. And I'm a little Ifelt a little bit like the style
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got in the way of the story,because there was so much spent
on clothing and on like coolglasses and hairdos, and I was
very confused as to the maincharacter. There's two, well,
there's two rival characters.
There's trying to inherit thisdojo. And one is the son who
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needs to learn some veryimportant lessons that the son
of the previous like Master anddoesn't quite do it, and so he
doesn't get it, and then theold, like, master student gets
it, but turns out, maybe he'snot a good guy after all. So
there's a lot of, like, battlingand like, What is your secret
fighting style? And then there'sthese women who are involved.
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But like, I was really confusedas to, like, Which woman was
which, and I kept feeling like,is that the actress or the
teacher woman, or is that thesomeone else woman I'm it's very
confusing.
It's cool. It's the fighting isincredible. I will say the
fights are amazing. Like they dosuch a good job showcasing just
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intense, large scale martialarts battles as long as well as,
like, individual talent. But,yeah, the story is a bit much
for me personally. But I don'tlike steampunk, so that's me.
What'd you see this on? I thinkit was an Amazon rental, okay,
yeah, 100 yards. Why is itcalled 100 yards? So they have
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in this town, no crime can getcommitted within 100 yards of
this dojo. And they basicallyact as, like this sort of the
students there act almost like amilitary for the town to ensure
that no crime happens withinthis area. So there's like a
market that's built within acertain number of feet of this
place so that it's kept safe bythem and but if anyone crosses
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that line, then I don't, I don'tthink they kill them, but they,
they get beat to hell. Soweird. Yes, I kind of dig that.
Yeah, yeah, I would say it's,it's fun, it's interesting, it's
fresh. But also, don't, yeah,ah, don't be surprised if you
get a little bit lost.
Much along the way, looking upwhat you're talking about. At
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one of the reviews, headline wasincomprehensible. Yeah, you I'm
not like, I don't want to saythat. I am not great with like,
race or, you know, I'm nottrying to say like, oh, everyone
looks the same. That's not thecase. It's just the plot is so
conf, you're like, one minuteyou were wearing this costume,
and now you're wearing thatcostume. And this chick, they're
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not well defined in spaces. Sothat's my little mini defense
for myself for the day. Sure?
Why not? All right, a fewepisodes back, Kelly talked
about the studio, and hisdescription, although harrowing,
intrigued me, so I decided I'mall check this out. And I ended
up watching the whole series,enjoying it quite a bit. There
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are some most of the series. Theentire series was shot with one
camera,except when Martin Scorsese is
going to be on set, is thereparanoid that he was going to
get annoyed with, Oh, you gotta.
So they got a second camera forthat day, and they told Scorsese
what they're doing is, like,that's great. Let's go for it.
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One camera, let's do it. Yeah,Scorsese, he's gonna Yeah. He's
not in charge of it. So what thehell? Let's have fun, yeah. But,
and Scorsese is in Ron Howard'sin it. There's all kinds of
cameos that are insanely good.
The they do silly little thingsthat work really well, like one
of the guys gets thanked enoughcomedic way at the Golden
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Globes. So that becomes like thecatch phrase for the rest of the
globes, which drives another guyabsolutely batshit crazy. They
mistake the amount of ofmushrooms they take, thinking
they're taking micro dosing whenthey're taking like seven grams
multiple times. And that's aninteresting episode, because
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it's it all happens behind thescenes of them getting ready to
go on stage to announce the KoolAid man, and the slate of the
other films are showing forthat, creating for that year.
And that's a that's a neatepisode, that's one of my
favorite episodes. And thenanother great one was with Ron
Howard, wherethey had a note, and the guy
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didn't want to give Ron thenote, so the whole movie is him
trying to figure out how toeither try to pass it off to
somebody, and they're like, I'mnot telling him anything. Nope,
not me. And they explain whythey don't want to tell this
note because of this the part ofthe movie, it is what it means
to Ron, and it's really welldone. But, yeah, I could see
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anxiety inducing in several ofthe episodes, but it
Seth Seth Rogen did. He also dida very smart thing. He doesn't
show himself laughing very much.
Seth Rogen, weird ass laugh isnot featured.
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Stoner, yes, exactly. But Oh,and one of the really fun
episodes of for modern thinkingwas them trying to figure out if
Kool Aid man can be played by ablack character, by a black
actor.
And then they go back and forthtrying to balance the the
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cast and crew and all this. It'spretty good. Ice Cube is the the
guest guy is the person that didalready cast to be the Kool Aid
voice. And they're like, is thatokay? Should we? And it's crazy,
very fun. It's so funny becausethe trailers for this looked so
god awful to me, but everyonewho's seen it loves it. So
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that's on Apple. It's, yeah, Ithink so, yeah, yeah. It is
apple. It is incredibly welldone. It is the scene that, the
one that thatI could see, why drove you nuts,
especially because the characterthat, when you've been on set,
you'd be much more those twoguys who are in the middle of
fucking everything up. Well, Iidentified with the director in
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that and she was her whole thingwas just trying to placate those
two guys and figure out how toget the damn shot done that she
needed done.
So it was less intense for me,because I the way I watched it,
that's but, yeah, those two guyswere, oh my god, yeah, I will
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have to, you know, move on tothe next episode and see if it
catches my interest again. Itseems like a show that I should
love. Yeah,the studio I was going to
mention when I was talking aboutthe Netflix stuff, I don't know
if you saw this Vanessa, butthey just released the teaser
trailer for Alice in Borderlandsseason three. Oh, my God, I saw
it, like, from the Netflix likeevent, or whatever, the big
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party they threw themselves, butthey, I think they announced it.
I was like, I.
Thought they finished. Well,remember we had talked about
that, and then that last scenethere was, like, something on
the jack, or something like thatthat he had turned over and it,
it opened it up for a seasonthree. But I was like, how,
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yeah, I am very confused. Istill haven't watched, is it
hell bound Season Two that can'tlike, and I was very invested in
it initially, but it's so longnow that I don't remember where
anything's at. So it's just, Ithink I only made it through one
episode of that, so I didn't getcaught up. And of course, as the
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squid games is on, I know Ihaven't finished, I haven't
finished either squid game. Imean, how about we take a little
break, guys, and then when wecome back, we're going to be
talking about road movies.
Maybe,who knows? Vanessa has come up
with you.
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Ah, the father and son, roadtrip, just a little imagination,
and you're good to go deserthighway, scenic vistas, overly
active wildlife. Did they justbuild a souvenir stand that
sells extra hair, nice. Yes,when you build together, the
possibilities are endless. Sogentlemen, hold on to your hats
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and start your Lego road triptoday@buildtogether.com you
and we are back, Eric, this wasyour sub genre pick. Yes,
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talking about, I am talkingabout road well, we are talking
about road movies, road movies.
AndI think you know, we all know
the concept of most of us knowthe concept there
was a road. No, they needed toget to the road. The whole time
they talked about the stupidRoad, usually a movie about
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traveling. Yes, they traveledthrough the cornfield to get to
the road. Okay, that's that is.
Okay, sure. Anyways, Eric, wouldyou like to start a side thing?
I should dive in quickly, fiveminutes on the buzzer. Thank
you. Thank you. Stop doing amovie called butterfly kiss. Not
what to say about me. I mean,live with my mother till I met
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you in this she just didthings I
I'm a human bone today, coveredin petrol, but
she's mean to me, oh, but she'sjust being humanist. Oh,
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I make evil before you make megood.
Are you clicking at all?
Ah, that'll be me. It'll be me.
Chainsset out to do wrong, just things
went wrong. Sorry, God hasforgotten me. God's forgotten
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me all the time. I was with youin this I never stopped looking
for the good in it. You got tolook for for the good in people.
I mean, this good and bad ineveryone,
from, depending on where youlook, came out in 94 or 95
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I don't you know, we don't dothe runs regularly, but I'm
always curious what, just to seewhat they are. And there's a big
divide on this 180 from credits,critics, credits, credits, and
60 from the crowd. So it's notparticularly well liked by
folks. This is available onprime and Plex, or I watched it.
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House of psychotic women. BoxSet two from Severin. I'm not
familiar with this movie. Yeah,that's the box sets are put
togetherwith that in mind, precisely
directed by MichaelWinterbottom, who has directed
welcome Sarajevo, the shockdoctrine greed like 53 directing
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credits because he does musicvideos
written by Frank cortel Cottrellvoice two episodes of Doctor,
who the London 2012 Olympicopening ceremony
island of wonder. And MichaelWinterbourne, who also wrote a
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documentary about Ingar orproduced at Ingmar. Bergman.
Documentaryand starring Amanda plumber, so
not too far off of being in PulpFiction, obviously, she did six
episodes of Star Trek Picard1001 ways to enjoy the
missionary positionand a locally produced film
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called Satan's little helper,which was produced by the
original owners of scarecrow.
Video, yeah, but she's 114credits.
And Kathy Jameson, best knownfor TV shows, Mary C beat, 25
episodes. How we used to live,15 episodes. Do you know these?
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And Saska Reeves, who was inVera several times, so I saw her
that, and Patrick Stewart'sChristmas Carol, which is pretty
good, three episodes of dune andof the other Dune, not the
current mini series, and Luthersix episodes of that.
So this is these box sets areput together by Kira laje Nice,
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the author of House of psychoticwomen, and she's the curator of
these box sets. And they're bothquite interesting. I talked
about bats from the previous onea while back.
This is kind of a inspired byfilm with a little bit of pulp
fiction, a little bit of thumband Louise, but not a lot.
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The it also borrows from stufflike Bonnie and Clyde and My Own
Private Idaho, because the womenare in a same sex relationship.
The opening credits are theseneat black and white images of a
woman who you don't know hisyet, going through thoughts, and
it's just images of her face asshe's reacting to
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whatever's going on. And thisopened up with Amanda plumber
is doing a British accent. She'snot British. It sounds fine, but
I don't, I'm not the best judgeof how accurate her accent was,
but it was shot in Britain, soall the other actors are
British.
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And she goes into what she doesis she goes into gas stations
and has this song she's tryingto find. And she asked the women
if they know first what theirname is and if their name's
wrong. She then asks, What aboutthis song? And She hums a little
bit of it and says, Do you havethis that I can buy here? Like,
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well, we've just got thecassettes that are over there.
If it doesn't go well, she killsthe person behind the counter.
Oh, wow. Andher segment is her part of the
road. Some of her road movie iswalking, although she does get
into cars later. At this point,she's just walking from gas
station to gas station. For somereason at one of the gas
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stations, the attendant is veryintrigued by her
and also has very protectivemanner. So she starts, kind of
following her around, and findsher at another gas station and
sees she's going through someshit.
Kind of stops her from notdirectly. She has no idea. She
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stopped her from killing thisgas station agent, but then
invites her back to her houseand where her mother, who she's
taking care of, is living. Andso it definitely establishes her
character as being a caretaker,kind of thinker and a person
who's going to try to protectpeople, which works great for
Amanda plumber, because sheneeds a lot of protection. Some
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point she takes her shirt offand she has chains
around her chest that havereceded into her skin in pain,
and there's all kinds of stuff.
So she plays a messed up person.
Sothey go on road trip from here,
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running into people, you know,figuring out what's going on and
trying to make it work. Andthis is pretty good. There's a
really smart, really interestingfilm, their performances. I'm so
so on a man to plumber. I thinkshe's done some good stuff. I've
also think she's done somereally terrible she can overact,
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yes, and she does a little bitbut it works. This character is
extreme, so that aspect of herworks a little better. And the
other woman in the movie isphenomenal,
and shot for a budget of abouthalf a million dollars, with a
crew of less than 20 people. AndI think benefits this film
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greatly, because it moves at aneat, interesting pace. But they
spent some money on thecranberries. Patsy Cline jewel
had songs on here. It's a hellof a soundtrack. Jesus, I don't
know if, like the people whopicked it up said, you need
these songs. We're going to paya little bit, but
the varieties Review.
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Of it was an oftenbreathtakingly original meld of
road movie, lesbian love story,psycho drama and black comedy.
What year did this come out?
9495Wow. Just completely under the
radar.
Andit's a great film. The curation
that she has done that Kira hasdone for these two box sets. Is
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incredible, really, reallyinteresting films. So highly
recommendbutterfly kiss. Wow, nice
Vanessa. I can't wait to hearwhat road movie you did not
pick. Well, I came very close todoing Master and Commander, very
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close. But after Eric sent me adetailed definition of road
movie involving automobile, Iwent ahead and switched to
Michael from 1996Have you ever had an encounter
with an angel?
No, have you ever met an angel?
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Once, I had a flat tire on adeserted country robe and a man
in a white robe suddenlyappeared on the horizon. You're
kidding? Yes, I am.
Are you with the angel? Do yousee an angel?
I don't think I do. Then howcould I be with them? We don't
(36:28):
know exactly how it works withangels. If he's in the room,
then you're with him. If he'ssomewhere else, then you're not
and that's why we can't see himnow, are you impaired in some
way this winters? Probably hasnever heard of an angel living
in a motel.
(36:51):
You think I'm full of you? No,no, nothing like that. Michael,
are you coming down? Dear? Yeah,just gotta find my smokes.
(37:21):
Michael who's come to visit us.
How do youdo Oprah Barbara, the Today Show
hard copy book, The works youguy. This is a written and
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directed by Nora Ephron, who haseight directing credits in 17
writing including things likeWhen Harry Met Sally Sleepless
in Seattle, Julia and Julia alsostarring John Travolta, 100
credits, including Pulp FictionGreece and a little bit more
recently, was in an on AndreBucha Lee music video, I guess
so. Good job. Andy McDowell has92 credits, Groundhog Day, Four
(38:08):
Weddings and a Funeral. Andactually was in the TV show made
so still going, and William Hurtis not still going, but he's 104
things, including altered statesbroadcast news, and he was
Secretary Ross in The Avengersfilms, until Harrison Ford
decided that he would be willingto take the helm. Also, Bob
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Hoskins, Carla Gugino andRichard Schiff
had very, very weird, smallroles. Because not Bob Hoskins,
he's a major role, but the othertwo, because it's very weird to
be like you're a random personwho says one line in a wedding
dress. Crazy, you're an Italianwaiter. Crazy.
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The story follows Frank Huey andDorothy, as well as a fun,
precocious, famous dog. They arethree Chicago tabloid reporters,
and they are tasked withchecking out a report of the
Archangel Michael living with anold woman to find out if it's
true. When they arrived, theydiscovered that he is, in fact,
real, but not what theyexpected. He smokes, he's
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filthy, like physically filthy.
He's rude, he's obsessed withpouring vast amounts of sugar on
everything, and loves fightingas well as sex. But as he said,
He's not an angel, he's anarchangel, and a lot of his
miracles that they talk to himabout are just not in his field.
So he's just not willing to helpout on a lot of stuff. He agrees
(39:35):
to go back to Chicago for aphoto shoot to do the front
cover the tabloid, but only ifthey drive and not fly, because
he wants to see the world'slargest twine ball and then the
largest frying pan, and then etcetera, et cetera along the way,
it becomes clear that heactually has other reasons for
going in the car with thereporters. In fact, he may have
(39:56):
lured them out in the firstplace and.
And he has one final miraclehe'd like to do before he has to
go back to heaven, involvinggetting the two reporters,
Dorothy and Frank together. Butit is harder than it seems.
This movie feels like havingdinner at your grandma's in the
90s.
It's very cozy. It's very 90s,but like old school, and it's a
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little claustrophobic, there'sjust something about it that
feels like kind of walled in,like you're being smothered to
death with a like slightly moldyteddy bear.
Randy Newman is out of control,and he must be stopped. He does
the soundtrack, and it is, Idon't like him, and it is
infuriating to sit through hismusic. It is awful. William Hurt
(40:46):
is great, and him and AndyMcDowell almost sell their
romance, but it's pretty fastthat they go from hating each
other to loving each other. So Iwas a little whiplashy. Everyone
thinks that John Travolta inwings is much funnier than it is
him being rude. It just seemskind of stupid to me. I'm like,
Oh no, he's in overalls with noshirt on. Watch out, guys.
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Wozer, little bit of trivia foryou. Taglines, he's not an
angel, or he's an angel, not asaint. John Travolta took 500
hours of Spanish lessons inpreparation for this film. When
asked why, he said, just in casethere is no Spanish in this
film, William Hurt refused tostop smoking cigarettes while
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shooting and re shoots werealmost rescheduled. Eventually,
the producers decided they wouldjust have to edit it out in
post. I don't think I sawanything of him smoking in it.
So a sequel has been in theworks for nearly 20 years.
TRAVOLTA constantly calls it hisfinest work, expected in 2020
little piece of trivia there.
Guess it didn't happen yet. Themovie was a box office success,
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released on Christmas Day.
Michael finished number one thatweekend, grossing 17,000,001st
of all, congratulations. Oh,thank you. I'm very proud. I
finally figured it out. How manyepisodes are we in? I'm
just gonna turn this five minutebuzzer off. Whoa, yeah, whoosh.
(42:17):
I'm stealing your energy.
I'm like, breathing it in whileyou sleep, much like Barry
Manilow did.
Did you like this movie?
No, not really. I'm glad I sawit, because I think I missed it
at the time. Yeah, it was reallyin like a wall to wall zone of
(42:38):
those kinds of movies Iremember, like phenomena coming
out. And, yeah, how was itpowder? And that one I did see.
I saw this in the theater. Whoa,and did enjoy it. I have never
watched it again. Yeah, I thinkit's just aged so much. It's
like watching The Simpsons, likeold episodes of The Simpsons now
(43:00):
it's like, back then it waslike, Oh, my God, they said that
on TV, oh my god. Oh. How canthey get away with this? The
sensors, and now it's like, kindof mild, yeah. I think of this
as the last of Travolta's goodfilms after the comeback that
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Pulp Fiction afforded him, andprobably the least of Nora
ephrons movies, unfortunately,because she had a string of real
big ones. And it seemed likethis was going to be huge. And I
remember it was kind of huge.
Yeah, it did well, yeah. Butyeah, it's, I feel like you
would love this movie. If you'relike, a middle aged church going
(43:42):
person,you'd be like, Whoa. What are
they doing with Michael? Wow, heis crazy, isn't he? I just, I
don't know, like, I don't findthat much funny anyway. And it
was just Yeah,but it's cool to see William
Hurt. I also don't love AndyMcDowell. That's just me. It's a
me problem. I think I had a bigcrush on her, starting with gray
(44:07):
Stoke, sure. Oh, yeah, goodstarting point. I was irritated
with her starting with FourWeddings and a Funeral. Yeah.
Well, my crush continued withFour Weddings. I love that
movie. I love that movie. Idon't like her in it. That's
fine. It doesn't matter. It'sme.
It's not her, it's me.
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I will go next.
And I am talking aboutKill Bill, the whole bloody
affair.
Bad woman desires her revenge.
We deserve to die then again.
(44:49):
So is she Where is now? I?
Where is thou? Silly?
(45:11):
Caucasian guru likes to playwith samurai swords.
It's mercy of compassion andforgiveness, I lack
of rationality.
She must suffer to her lastbreath. You
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uh, this came out in 2006Written and directed by Quentin
Tarantino written anddirectinoed by Quentin and
tarantinot,who did Pulp Fiction and
glorious bastards once upon atime in Hollywood, Uma Thurman
is also given a writing crediton this because she created the
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character of the bride with him,starring Uma Thurman, who was in
Henry and June, the truth aboutcats And dogs, Batman and Robin,
red, white and royal blue. Alsoin this is Lucy Liu. Was in
Charlie's Angels, Shanghai,noon, 73 episodes of Ally McBeal
and 154 episodes of elementaryMichael Madsen. Rest in peace.
(46:39):
He was in reservoir. Dogs DieAnother Day, Sin City, terrible
angels, resurrection road. Hehas 346
acting credits, and even thoughhe just passed away, he has 18
movies coming, Jesus, holyand David Carradine, who has 240
acting credits, tons of 60s and70s television, including 73
(47:01):
episodes of Kung Fu, but alsoDeath Race, 2000 Bound for
Glory. Gray Lady down and thelong writers,
also in this is Vivica. Vivica,a fox, Daryl, Hannah, sunny,
Chiba,Michael parks, Bose, Vincent and
Sid. Haig, you guys have seenKill Bill Volume One and two,
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but have you watched the wholebloody affair? No. Okay, this
movie is the two films of KillBill put together as one, four
hour and seven minute film.
It starts with Uma Thurman,credited only as the bride,
although we learn her name isBeatrix kiddo near the end, and
when the film starts, we are ather wedding to a young man in a
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small chapel in the middle ofnowhere. We can see that she is
pregnant. But that does not stopthe five people known as the
deadly Vipers who interrupt thewedding, kill everyone and
finally put a bullet in herhead. When the cops show up,
though, it's discovered that sheis still alive and she has
rushed to a hospital where sheis operated on, but left in a
coma. Shortly thereafter, one ofthe deadly vipers, El, a driver,
(48:06):
sneaks into the hospital withthe intention of killing her,
but she is stopped by thetitular Bill, who tells her over
the phone to leave the bridealive, there is no honor in
killing a defenseless opponent.
Ooh, boy, that turns out to be amistake, but not until four
years later, when she comes outof her coma. She's distraught to
find out she is no longerpregnant, and very upset to find
that one of the orderlies hasbeen selling her body for dudes
(48:28):
to fuck on the slide while she'sin a coma. I did forget that,
yeah, she manages to kill bothmen, even though her legs aren't
working, and she escapes thehospital with the plan of going
on a road trip and exacting herrevenge on those that did her
wrong. She does this in thepussy wagon,
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of course, going after each ofthe deadly Vipers one by one.
Some of them have left the gangand started new lives, and some
of them have become criminalmasterminds of their own. But
the bride doesn't care, and sheslashes through each of them
with more and more difficulty,much like a video game.
As she does this, the audienceis given little flashbacks to
(49:08):
who these characters all are,plus flashbacks within the
bride's new reawakened life toshow us what has happened
between the chapters as they aredoled out. There's even a really
gorgeous segment that isanimated like a Japanese anime,
but in a much more detailed waythan you would be used to,
especially back then.
It's all very stylish, cool,violent, lots of blood and limbs
(49:29):
being cut off as she goesbecause all of these killers use
bladed weapons. Nobody hasdiscovered guns, except for
everybody in the first part ofthis movie, and never again.
We're also finally given aflashback of the bride as she
escapes Bill's gang when shefinds out she is pregnant with
Bill's daughter,she knew there was no way the
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child could grow up well, inBill's world, and Bill didn't
realize it was his kid. Sothat's what this entire movie
about. Man, this movie isfucking fantastic. I forgot how
good I.
I remember thinking in thetheater at the end of Part Two
that I liked part one better,and watching it all together. I
still feel that way. An hourcould have easily been cut from
the second half, and this wouldhave always been one, three hour
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film. Still, it's so beautiful,you can let it go. This was
Tarantino's movie after JackieBrown, so there was a lot of
anticipation. I really like, Iremember liking this more than
Jackie Brown when I saw it, butI have just recently watched,
re watched Jackie Brown, and Ithink that might be my second
favorite of his films. Now,a couple of trivia things here.
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The movie had a budget of 30million and grossed 180 million
for part one and 153million for part two. But I
couldn't find any box officeinfo on the release of the whole
bloody affair. Wow.
The bride's battle against thecrazy 88 is replaced with the
Japanese version in this film,which is in color to show off
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all the gore and edited slightlydifferent. It's in black and
white. In the originalTarantino developed many of the
bride's characteristics for thecharacter of shosana Dreyfus for
the film Inglorious Bastards,which he worked on before kill.
Bill Dreyfus was to be anassassin with a list of Nazis
she would cross off as shekilled. But Tarantino switched a
character to the bride andredeveloped Dreyfus character.
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Bill was originally written forWarren Beatty, but his character
developed and the role requiredgreater screen time and martial
arts training. Tarantino rewroteit for David carrotten. Beatty
says that he turned down therole because he did not want to
be away from his family whileshooting in China. And then
finally, near the end offilming, Thurman was injured in
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a crash while filming the scenein which she drives to Bill
according to Thurman, she wasuncomfortable driving the car
and asked that a stunt driver doit. Tarantino assured her that
the car and the road were safe.
She lost control of the car andhit a tree, suffering a
concussion and knee injuries,according to Thurman, Miramax
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would only give her the crashfootage if she signed a document
releasing them of anyconsequences of future pain and
suffering. Tarantino wasapologetic, but their
relationship became bitter foryears afterwards, Thurman said
that after the car crash, shewent from being a creative
contributor and performer tobeing a broken tool. Miramax
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released the footage in 2018after Thurman went to police
following the accusations ofsexual abuse against Harvey
Weinstein, whoa.
What a great way to wrap thatup. Yep, yep. I gotta say,
this movie, watching it thisway, was really fucking cool. I
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mean, even sitting down for fourhours is not something I do very
often, but I just poppedmultiple buckets of popcorn and
fucking drank and watched this.
I was just like, god damn it.
You know, I have a love, haterelationship with Tarantino,
you know, like, I don't care fora lot of his movies, and I never
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have to see Pulp Fiction again.
But watching this for the firsttime since I had seen the first
two movies in the theater, I waslike, oh, god damn. I guess this
guy is a fucking genius. Soaside from the black and white
being made into color. Are thereany changes? Is it just like the
two films smashed together?
(53:25):
Yeah, because the,if I remember correctly, the
second part doesn't even do likea recap, you just kind of come
into the movie again. So thisjust is one solid film, okay,
yeah, did it play in theaters?
Or was it just a box set, like aDVD special. I think that it had
a very limited release, but itdid do some theatrical run.
(53:46):
Who's gonna sort of say, I'lltie up my theater for four
hours? Yeah, I know it's a longtime. Maybe something like Sif
might do as a special thing andup to not then, because it
didn't own theaters at that timethat I know of. But yeah, I'm
with you on Tarantino, I don'tthink reading his book was the
best way for now to maintain myfeelings. Oh no, he seems cool
(54:09):
to hear again, worse when heopens his mouth. His thinking on
his knowledge of films isinteresting, but is thinking
that he's the only one thatunderstands why certain films
are good and nobody else getsthem is really fucking annoying,
Oh, for sure. But yeah, he alsodoes some great recommendations,
and he's made some amazingfilms. Yeah, I wonder what he's
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like on set, because, like everyinterview I've heard him, and
I'm like, I would, I couldn't bein a room with you for more than
one minute, like, one minute,I'd be like, I can't. I cannot,
Yeah, apparently he's not a cokehead. But then, what is the
fucking excuse? Thenexactly I could let it go if you
were a coke head. I mean,anybody remember who's like, I'm
a black guy phase? Because thatwas a very coke oriented phase.
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I remember that the oneof the turning.
Points for me and my attitudetowards him was actually very
weird. Way was from the fromdusk till dawn,
audio commentary, all right?
Because until that point,Rodriguez had done these amazing
Robert Rodriguez did theseamazing commentaries on El
Mariachi and Desperado, whichwere like film schools, yeah,
(55:16):
and Tarantino gets on and justBlabs over him the entire time.
I'm like, with you know, histrivia, weirdness and knowledge,
which he's is deep in him. Butit wasn't about making the
movie. It was aboutall kinds of shit. And you could
hear at times, Rodriguez almostgone.
(55:39):
I want to talk about how thisscene was done, you asshole,
yeah? But it'slike, okay, Tarantino's kind of
nuts, yeah? But Rodriguez iscompany, which I can't remember
what it's called now, but he'sthere listed as the producer of
this film. Oh, yeah, they, theygot along great. Yeah, they have
(56:00):
a great relationship. Yeah,well, cool topic, Eric,
but that means that somebodyelse has to pick the next sub
genre. Is that me? It's you,wow. Finally, it's my turn.
It does seem like it's a longertime between picking final it
(56:23):
does it feels like a real feelslike waiting in dodgeball. Am I
gonna get picked one last Okay,since you not that long ago,
somebody made usdo the trademark public public
domain, and we happen to mentionasylum films at the end of that.
(56:43):
I think that would be great. Ithink let's go ahead and do an
asylum film each as all right. Ilove that. If the audience is
not familiar, the asylum is aproduction company that is
responsible for all the whatwould you call these movies?
They're like knockoff sci fi. When there's a new
Transformers movie coming out,they have the trans more 100%
(57:06):
Yeah. When the Merlin TV seriescame out, they put out like
Merlin one, two and three. Yeah.
I'm really shocked that theyhaven't jumped on this public
domain bandwagon. I don't knowwhat the company state is right
now. The last I knew from themwas like they had some
(57:28):
involvement with Z Nation, ofcourse. Oh, that's right, yeah,
they've gone a little more. Ithink they've gotten away from
theparody strictly thing a little
bit. But they are cheap bastard,because my
as an editor, like I had a longstanding bucket wish item, which
was to do one asylum film, yeah,and then I heard how bad the
(57:50):
sets are and how awful it is towork on them. And I was like,
No, right, never mind. I wantedto. I mean, could you imagine
going in there with halfwaydecent scripts and still get the
budget. The budgets are nothing,but they're also, you know,
something 400,000 I mean, thebar is so low, you could just
walk in there and sweep it. Butthey're not interested in that.
That's there. They kind of haveembraced the
(58:14):
whatever you would. They did.
NATO, right, yeah,all four of those? Yeah, I've
got one picked out alreadythat's sitting on my my Plex
that I was like, Oh, I'm gonnahave to watch this. And now I
have a reason. Excellent, nice.
I'm glad I could bring that toyou as a gift. Kelly, I'll have
(58:35):
to be looking something up.
Yeah. Well, that is fantastic. Iconsider this a gift. Thank you,
Vanessa, you're welcome. Okay,so that's the end of the show,
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did appreciate badgers commentson Dr Who Oh, I didn't realize
we had such a Whovian listener.
I knew I could, potentiallycould get in trouble, because I
(59:22):
know just a little bit aboutDoctor Who, but I mean, actually
put out some pretty interestingthings in the comments. So cool.
Thank you. Not just any badger,the badger, real badger, the
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there's like, big breasts whereit's like, nice, then there's
like, comical, like, youcouldn't walk down the street,
you'd put them in a shoppingcart.
It's a great movie. I was really glad, happy I watched
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Strange eons. Welcome to strangeeons. Radio that is Eric over
there, hello, that is Vanessaover there. Hello, and I am
Kelly. You guys. I read thisreally interesting report that I
wanted to share with you. Youknow that I am kind of a poo
poo, er, of anime and animation,yeah, all of that stuff. So I
(00:54):
just read this reallyinteresting article Netflix
showed up to the Anime Expo inLos Angeles, with some pretty
impressive viewership numbersfor anime,
while Crunchyroll built theirentire business around anime
fans, Netflix quietly became theplace most people actually watch
(01:16):
anime. Wow, over 50% of Netflixis global user base, which is
150 million plus now watchesanime, which is a three times
jump from five years ago.
33 anime titles cracked. Netflixis global top 10 in 2024
(01:36):
which is more than double than2021 and Netflix leads with 48%
of anime viewers, followed byDisney plus at 32% and Prime
Video at 29% Crunchyroll comesin last
two focused I guess. Well, theysay like, what is their Top
(01:58):
Animated No, but they did kindof get into what that really
means. Netflix becomes thebiggest simply because of the
viewership, yeah subscribers,and their process is to drop
their anime titles right next toall of their other big shows.
(02:19):
Yeah, and so people are justlike, you know, oh well, check
that out, I guess. And I've donethat with a couple of their
things. Even, I think attackTitans, I'm sure is one of their
big ones. And that's when Iwatched a little bit of and I'm
gonna, okay, I like some animemovies still, but I don't know
if I'm into the shows. The showsare still, yeah, yeah. I wonder
if some other things likeCastlevania and stuff like, does
(02:41):
that count? Yes, yeah. Thatmakes a lot of sense, because
they've had a couple that arereally strong or blue eyed
Samurai, you know, like, there'ssome, okay, that one was pretty
right, yeah, even the he man,yeah, Revelations, or whatever
that was, and the Transformersone they did, yeah? So when
you're when you're droppingthose right next to your your
(03:02):
big movies that are droppingthat weekend on Netflix. The
same viewers are going to seeall of that stuff. So, yeah, I
just thought that was kind ofinteresting, cool, because you
know, you, if you don't knowwhat Crunchyroll is, you're not
going to only people who areinto anime are even looking at
crunchyroll, so you have such afinite audience already, like
(03:24):
from the get go. But so doesthat change your viewpoint or
your thought process around? No,I'm discovering stuff the same
way that all these other peopleare. As I turn on Netflix and
it'll say, you know, it has itsvarious things, and I come down
and I see the animated thing. SoCastlevania, I gave a watch to
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just for nostalgic reasons andstuff like that.
I just don't think that I lovethe the
series animation. I'm with youon that. I tend to I've liked
some films, quite a bit, but,but not a lot of series like the
he man one is interestingbecause isn't that Kevin Smith
(04:07):
written? Yeah, so it's, it'sjust, they'll say it's anime, as
long as the studio isan Anime Studio, as opposed to
who the creative team is. Yeah,sure. Why not? Wow, interesting,
yeah. And the one I reallyliked, I think that was on
Netflix. I'm forgetting the nameof it, but the one based on
League of Legends, arcane,right? Oh, that's, yeah, that's
(04:31):
really good. Yeah, that was so.
So I feel like, when they takeswings, they take pretty big
swings. I don't know how muchanime I like or don't like
because there's so much of it.
It's like, it's, it's like,saying I like TV or don't like
TV. It's like, well, what, whatdo you the range of content?
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Yeah, there's plenty I reallydon't like. I a friend of mine.
I visited him and hisboyfriend's place. They were.
Watching this, like, bigbreasted volleyball anime series
where they're, like, thesechicks with crazy large breasts.
Were like, playing. And it waslike, you know, who's gonna win
the big volleyball champions? Azillion episodes of this thing.
(05:14):
And I was like, I amuninterested, and I know you two
are as well. You're onlywatching this for camp, but
like, it's, yeah, you're talkingto your gay friends. Yeah, not
us too. No, I don't genuinelyinterested
anime. I Okay, look, there'slike, big breasts where it's,
like, nice, then there's like,comical, like, you couldn't walk
(05:37):
down the street, you'd put themin a shopping cart. Like, this
is not, this is like, do youhave tumors? Do you need
assistance? Reminds me of an ex.
Anyway, yeah, there's been somereal winners. We all have quite
a you know, I don't know aboutEric. I have a catalog to
(05:57):
compare, so you're good.
Sorry.
I got married for 9 million Iknow 26 years sounds, of course,
he was 28 when I got married.
So, yeah, no,all right, how about we get into
some movies? Yeah,I saw ballerina. Oh, gosh. How
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was it? Has anybody else seenit? No, okay, so it was
confusing. It was good. I'lljust say that it was good. I was
watching it going. When doesthis take place? This ballerina
is a spin off of the John Wickuniverse, and it deals with the
group of, you know, Black Widowtype characters that are
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introduced in, I guess, episodethree of John Wick.
It's It also reminded me that Ihave not seen Part Four of John
Wick yet. John Wick is in thismovie. And I was like, when,
when does this take place? And Ithought, well, it must take
place. You know, if you followthe John Wick universe, can't be
(07:08):
after one, right? Because he'sinto all this stuff. Well, it
does turn out to take placebetween scenes in
episode three. Oh, okay. Oh,okay,
so it's like, I am about to die,but here you go. But there's a
very, I mean, important sequencewith him in it. And I was like,
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this doesn't quite make sensefor his character arc. So, you
know, that kind of stuff. Ialmost wish that he wasn't in
the movie, because it wasdrawing my attention. As I was
like, let's see what happened.
And I'm gonna have to watchthose movies again. And part
four, finally. But I will saythat,
you know, Anna de armas is justfucking gorgeous, and she pulls
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off kind of, you know, Assassin,cool. Didn't she do that one
amazing scene in a James Bondmovie? Yes, that was her, yeah,
yeah.
And she's also great in she wasin the gray man with Ryan
Gosling as this kind ofcharacter, also just a real
badass. And so she's kind of, Idon't know if this is the
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direction she's trying to pushher acting career in is just
kick ass action star,but she's doing it right. So
ballerina, I thought was betterthan, you know, I remembered I
started John Wick four when itbecame free to stream. And I was
like, Oh no, I'm kind of bored.
And so I don't think I finishedit and I was able to finish this
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one. So if that tells youanything, this is available as a
rental right now, but it's beenout for a while. I imagine it's
coming to a streamer very soon,and it's called ballerina, nice.
Well, I hate myself sometimes,Winnie the Poop, blood, honey,
too.
(09:03):
Shockingly, no, sometimes Idon't know, like, I like to
watch things that are gonnaemotionally distress. Oh, that
kind of and it's like, I knowit's probably cathartic somehow.
But I watched a show called madewhich is really interesting,
because it stars the hot versionin substance, the hot version of
(09:26):
Demi or Yeah. So I was like, Oh,my God, you're so familiar. Oh
shit, it's you. And the storyfollows a mom who basically has
to escape an abusiverelationship and steals, takes
her daughter with her and thenhas to work her way through the
system. It's based off a bookwhich is based on real story of,
yeah, just how hard it is tosurvive when you have no money
(09:50):
and you're trying to not beabused and keep holding your kid
and yeah, it made me cryconstantly and hold my daughter
very.
Close.
This is M A, I D, yeah, okay,yeah. But it was really cool. I
mean, I realize our listenersprobably are not that interested
in this show, but it was cool tosee her acting in a different
(10:14):
role, and I know that she'sgoing to be coming out in a
seems like a really cool moviepretty soon, against Chris
hams fine Pratt would perhapsEvans winner.
A lot of Christmas. I was likeworrying up like I can see his
(10:36):
face. I know what he looks like.
But yes, so if you want to seeher doing more and you just want
to cry a lot, feel free to checkout me. Wow, I just looked this
up this. This came out in 2021,so before the substance, yeah,
yep, I think this is how theyknew she existed. Okay,
she can act. So I was reading anarticle about eight to four
(11:00):
signing this 19 year old kid todirect one of their films. His
name was Ken can Kane KaneParsons. I was like, What the
hell is this kid done? So Ilooked up and he did this series
on YouTube called back rooms,aha, which is
25 episodes ranging in lengthfrom 35 some odd seconds to 40,
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almost 50 minutes.
I think it's a little bit of avictim of its success, because,
man, it starts off strong. Thefirst few episodes, there's some
creepy shit going on, yes, andit
drags a lot as it gets towardsthe end, it wraps up fairly
well, but I think, you know, 20,maybe 20 episodes might have
(11:51):
been it's like it started beingsuccessful, and then the more
they tried, they had to explainwhat was happening. And I think
it got stupider and stupider themore they filled in the blanks.
Yeah, yeah. But the first fewepisodes, it's kind of this. The
idea is there's this areasomeplace, not entirely certain
where it is, that looks like themost neutral office you've ever
(12:15):
seen. And I don't know wherethey found it. I know there's
videos talking about where itis. I haven't watched those yet,
but it's great, because the wayit's shot, it looks like it's
cavernous and gigantic, androoms alter slightly. But then
they they set up likeobservation area to figure out
what's going on, and they startsending in people in hazmat
(12:38):
suits. And we're just weird shithappens. And every once in a
while there is a wonderfullywell developed scare, yeah, and
it's, it's pretty good, yeah. Imean, especially the way I
watch, where I just, you know,watch a few, yeah, went back,
watch few later. And, you know,watched all of them eventually
over, like, I don't know, a weekor something, but I get why they
(13:00):
hired him, Yes, and he had to belike, 15 or 16 when he started
this thing. Yeah, no, because hewas 19 now. No, I mean, he's
really young, and he actually, Imean, he, I don't want to say,
invented liminal horror, but here popularized liminal horror,
like it was just a crazydynamite success. I think it
(13:21):
started as like a schoolproject, like you just wanted to
leave it did, yeah, and it's sowell done for a kid in high
school. Yeah, it's, if you haveany, it's kind of found footage,
E but it's not at the same time,although some episodes are
really found footage, but someare investigative. So it does a
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wide variety of stuff, and hedoes a nice job of I'm assuming
most of the cast members areprobably schoolmates of his,
with the occasional teacher orsomething, maybe, but with the
hazmat suits on, you can havethese people seem like they're
the knowledgeable scientists andstuff they need to be for the
(14:02):
story. When reality, there mightbe, you know, some 15 year old,
right kid, but would look reallyweird talking about the stuff
he's talking about. I neverthought about that. That's
really true, yeah. So I, I'mvery curious to see what he's
gonna do, because the when thestuff, when this was good, it's
really, really good.
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Bucha, did this start out as,like a creepy pasta or something
like that? Yeah. I think it was,yeah, as, I mean, it was
definitely, like a it was duringthat time YouTube, maybe a
little bit after the beginningof the creepypasta. But he
definitely took things in adifferent direction. Yeah,
did? Is he doing a film orsomething? Yeah, 84 has hired
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him to direct something. I don'tknow if it's his writing style
as well, or if they brought himin to direct something. Yeah, I
heard that. So that's, that'sright, that's back rooms, and it
is available on YouTube. Yep.
Whole thing i.
Okay,I watched a kind of cool little
movie. I don't think itcompletely nailed the ending,
but it was called marshmallow.
(15:08):
Anybody I've heard of this,haven't? It is about a group of
kids who are sent to a summercamp, and our lead kid is kind
of nerdy, andI'm very shy, and maybe you
know, he definitely does notwant to be there for two months,
(15:30):
but his parents are, you'regoing to have a blast. He keeps
having this recurring dream ofdrowning, and,
yeah, and these dreams arereally visually gorgeous.
Something starts happening thereis the legend of this serial
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killer at the camp, you know. Soit kind of starts off feeling a
little bit like a Friday the13th type movie, and then it
turns into something much, muchdifferent and much deeper and
darker, as you start realizingthese kids all kind of have a
connection, and there'ssomething bigger going on than
this serial killer who isdefinitely there at the camp,
(16:18):
But Not What He Seems also. So Igotta say,
doesn't completely nail it. Imean, once you realize what's
going on, you're like, Okay,this is wildly complicated. So
you know, how could thispossibly have ever happened? But
it is also a thing where youlike, oh, well, I'm definitely
(16:41):
more interested in this than Iwas if this was just a Friday
the 13th ripoff. Oh, wow. So,wow. Yeah, it's a cheap rental.
It's called Marshmallow, and Iassume it's coming to shutter in
the next five, six months. So,but I will say that I thought it
was a good way to spend 90minutes, nice, awesome
marshmallow. Well, I'm going totalk about something that I just
(17:03):
remembered that I saw, which isa film called 100 yards. Have
you guys seen this? No, soundslike a football movie. It's a
martial arts movie. I missed itat Fantastic Fest. I wasn't able
to get in and so watched itrecently. It is a very, very,
very strange martial arts moviewhere it's taking place in like,
(17:25):
it feels like Chicago or liketurn of the century.
It's all steampunk. Oh, wow,yeah. It's like a weird mashup
of, like, gangster, oldAmerican, plus steampunk plus
martial arts. And I'm a little Ifelt a little bit like the style
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got in the way of the story,because there was so much spent
on clothing and on like coolglasses and hairdos, and I was
very confused as to the maincharacter. There's two, well,
there's two rival characters.
There's trying to inherit thisdojo. And one is the son who
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needs to learn some veryimportant lessons that the son
of the previous like Master anddoesn't quite do it, and so he
doesn't get it, and then theold, like, master student gets
it, but turns out, maybe he'snot a good guy after all. So
there's a lot of, like, battlingand like, What is your secret
fighting style? And then there'sthese women who are involved.
(18:33):
But like, I was really confusedas to, like, Which woman was
which, and I kept feeling like,is that the actress or the
teacher woman, or is that thesomeone else woman I'm it's very
confusing.
It's cool. It's the fighting isincredible. I will say the
fights are amazing. Like they dosuch a good job showcasing just
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intense, large scale martialarts battles as long as well as,
like, individual talent. But,yeah, the story is a bit much
for me personally. But I don'tlike steampunk, so that's me.
What'd you see this on? I thinkit was an Amazon rental, okay,
yeah, 100 yards. Why is itcalled 100 yards? So they have
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in this town, no crime can getcommitted within 100 yards of
this dojo. And they basicallyact as, like this sort of the
students there act almost like amilitary for the town to ensure
that no crime happens withinthis area. So there's like a
market that's built within acertain number of feet of this
place so that it's kept safe bythem and but if anyone crosses
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that line, then I don't, I don'tthink they kill them, but they,
they get beat to hell. Soweird. Yes, I kind of dig that.
Yeah, yeah, I would say it's,it's fun, it's interesting, it's
fresh. But also, don't, yeah,ah, don't be surprised if you
get a little bit lost.
Much along the way, looking upwhat you're talking about. At
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one of the reviews, headline wasincomprehensible. Yeah, you I'm
not like, I don't want to saythat. I am not great with like,
race or, you know, I'm nottrying to say like, oh, everyone
looks the same. That's not thecase. It's just the plot is so
conf, you're like, one minuteyou were wearing this costume,
and now you're wearing thatcostume. And this chick, they're
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not well defined in spaces. Sothat's my little mini defense
for myself for the day. Sure?
Why not? All right, a fewepisodes back, Kelly talked
about the studio, and hisdescription, although harrowing,
intrigued me, so I decided I'mall check this out. And I ended
up watching the whole series,enjoying it quite a bit. There
(20:47):
are some most of the series. Theentire series was shot with one
camera,except when Martin Scorsese is
going to be on set, is thereparanoid that he was going to
get annoyed with, Oh, you gotta.
So they got a second camera forthat day, and they told Scorsese
what they're doing is, like,that's great. Let's go for it.
(21:09):
One camera, let's do it. Yeah,Scorsese, he's gonna Yeah. He's
not in charge of it. So what thehell? Let's have fun, yeah. But,
and Scorsese is in Ron Howard'sin it. There's all kinds of
cameos that are insanely good.
The they do silly little thingsthat work really well, like one
of the guys gets thanked enoughcomedic way at the Golden
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Globes. So that becomes like thecatch phrase for the rest of the
globes, which drives another guyabsolutely batshit crazy. They
mistake the amount of ofmushrooms they take, thinking
they're taking micro dosing whenthey're taking like seven grams
multiple times. And that's aninteresting episode, because
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it's it all happens behind thescenes of them getting ready to
go on stage to announce the KoolAid man, and the slate of the
other films are showing forthat, creating for that year.
And that's a that's a neatepisode, that's one of my
favorite episodes. And thenanother great one was with Ron
Howard, wherethey had a note, and the guy
(22:15):
didn't want to give Ron thenote, so the whole movie is him
trying to figure out how toeither try to pass it off to
somebody, and they're like, I'mnot telling him anything. Nope,
not me. And they explain whythey don't want to tell this
note because of this the part ofthe movie, it is what it means
to Ron, and it's really welldone. But, yeah, I could see
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anxiety inducing in several ofthe episodes, but it
Seth Seth Rogen did. He also dida very smart thing. He doesn't
show himself laughing very much.
Seth Rogen, weird ass laugh isnot featured.
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Stoner, yes, exactly. But Oh,and one of the really fun
episodes of for modern thinkingwas them trying to figure out if
Kool Aid man can be played by ablack character, by a black
actor.
And then they go back and forthtrying to balance the the
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cast and crew and all this. It'spretty good. Ice Cube is the the
guest guy is the person that didalready cast to be the Kool Aid
voice. And they're like, is thatokay? Should we? And it's crazy,
very fun. It's so funny becausethe trailers for this looked so
god awful to me, but everyonewho's seen it loves it. So
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that's on Apple. It's, yeah, Ithink so, yeah, yeah. It is
apple. It is incredibly welldone. It is the scene that, the
one that thatI could see, why drove you nuts,
especially because the characterthat, when you've been on set,
you'd be much more those twoguys who are in the middle of
fucking everything up. Well, Iidentified with the director in
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that and she was her whole thingwas just trying to placate those
two guys and figure out how toget the damn shot done that she
needed done.
So it was less intense for me,because I the way I watched it,
that's but, yeah, those two guyswere, oh my god, yeah, I will
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have to, you know, move on tothe next episode and see if it
catches my interest again. Itseems like a show that I should
love. Yeah,the studio I was going to
mention when I was talking aboutthe Netflix stuff, I don't know
if you saw this Vanessa, butthey just released the teaser
trailer for Alice in Borderlandsseason three. Oh, my God, I saw
it, like, from the Netflix likeevent, or whatever, the big
(24:53):
party they threw themselves, butthey, I think they announced it.
I was like, I.
Thought they finished. Well,remember we had talked about
that, and then that last scenethere was, like, something on
the jack, or something like thatthat he had turned over and it,
it opened it up for a seasonthree. But I was like, how,
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yeah, I am very confused. Istill haven't watched, is it
hell bound Season Two that can'tlike, and I was very invested in
it initially, but it's so longnow that I don't remember where
anything's at. So it's just, Ithink I only made it through one
episode of that, so I didn't getcaught up. And of course, as the
(25:36):
squid games is on, I know Ihaven't finished, I haven't
finished either squid game. Imean, how about we take a little
break, guys, and then when wecome back, we're going to be
talking about road movies.
Maybe,who knows? Vanessa has come up
with you.
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Ah, the father and son, roadtrip, just a little imagination,
and you're good to go deserthighway, scenic vistas, overly
active wildlife. Did they justbuild a souvenir stand that
sells extra hair, nice. Yes,when you build together, the
possibilities are endless. Sogentlemen, hold on to your hats
(26:28):
and start your Lego road triptoday@buildtogether.com you
and we are back, Eric, this wasyour sub genre pick. Yes,
(26:50):
talking about, I am talkingabout road well, we are talking
about road movies, road movies.
AndI think you know, we all know
the concept of most of us knowthe concept there
was a road. No, they needed toget to the road. The whole time
they talked about the stupidRoad, usually a movie about
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traveling. Yes, they traveledthrough the cornfield to get to
the road. Okay, that's that is.
Okay, sure. Anyways, Eric, wouldyou like to start a side thing?
I should dive in quickly, fiveminutes on the buzzer. Thank
you. Thank you. Stop doing amovie called butterfly kiss. Not
what to say about me. I mean,live with my mother till I met
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you in this she just didthings I
I'm a human bone today, coveredin petrol, but
she's mean to me, oh, but she'sjust being humanist. Oh,
(28:05):
I make evil before you make megood.
Are you clicking at all?
Ah, that'll be me. It'll be me.
Chainsset out to do wrong, just things
went wrong. Sorry, God hasforgotten me. God's forgotten
(28:31):
me all the time. I was with youin this I never stopped looking
for the good in it. You got tolook for for the good in people.
I mean, this good and bad ineveryone,
from, depending on where youlook, came out in 94 or 95
(28:53):
I don't you know, we don't dothe runs regularly, but I'm
always curious what, just to seewhat they are. And there's a big
divide on this 180 from credits,critics, credits, credits, and
60 from the crowd. So it's notparticularly well liked by
folks. This is available onprime and Plex, or I watched it.
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House of psychotic women. BoxSet two from Severin. I'm not
familiar with this movie. Yeah,that's the box sets are put
togetherwith that in mind, precisely
directed by MichaelWinterbottom, who has directed
welcome Sarajevo, the shockdoctrine greed like 53 directing
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credits because he does musicvideos
written by Frank cortel Cottrellvoice two episodes of Doctor,
who the London 2012 Olympicopening ceremony
island of wonder. And MichaelWinterbourne, who also wrote a
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documentary about Ingar orproduced at Ingmar. Bergman.
Documentaryand starring Amanda plumber, so
not too far off of being in PulpFiction, obviously, she did six
episodes of Star Trek Picard1001 ways to enjoy the
missionary positionand a locally produced film
(30:17):
called Satan's little helper,which was produced by the
original owners of scarecrow.
Video, yeah, but she's 114credits.
And Kathy Jameson, best knownfor TV shows, Mary C beat, 25
episodes. How we used to live,15 episodes. Do you know these?
(30:41):
And Saska Reeves, who was inVera several times, so I saw her
that, and Patrick Stewart'sChristmas Carol, which is pretty
good, three episodes of dune andof the other Dune, not the
current mini series, and Luthersix episodes of that.
So this is these box sets areput together by Kira laje Nice,
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the author of House of psychoticwomen, and she's the curator of
these box sets. And they're bothquite interesting. I talked
about bats from the previous onea while back.
This is kind of a inspired byfilm with a little bit of pulp
fiction, a little bit of thumband Louise, but not a lot.
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The it also borrows from stufflike Bonnie and Clyde and My Own
Private Idaho, because the womenare in a same sex relationship.
The opening credits are theseneat black and white images of a
woman who you don't know hisyet, going through thoughts, and
it's just images of her face asshe's reacting to
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whatever's going on. And thisopened up with Amanda plumber
is doing a British accent. She'snot British. It sounds fine, but
I don't, I'm not the best judgeof how accurate her accent was,
but it was shot in Britain, soall the other actors are
British.
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And she goes into what she doesis she goes into gas stations
and has this song she's tryingto find. And she asked the women
if they know first what theirname is and if their name's
wrong. She then asks, What aboutthis song? And She hums a little
bit of it and says, Do you havethis that I can buy here? Like,
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well, we've just got thecassettes that are over there.
If it doesn't go well, she killsthe person behind the counter.
Oh, wow. Andher segment is her part of the
road. Some of her road movie iswalking, although she does get
into cars later. At this point,she's just walking from gas
station to gas station. For somereason at one of the gas
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stations, the attendant is veryintrigued by her
and also has very protectivemanner. So she starts, kind of
following her around, and findsher at another gas station and
sees she's going through someshit.
Kind of stops her from notdirectly. She has no idea. She
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stopped her from killing thisgas station agent, but then
invites her back to her houseand where her mother, who she's
taking care of, is living. Andso it definitely establishes her
character as being a caretaker,kind of thinker and a person
who's going to try to protectpeople, which works great for
Amanda plumber, because sheneeds a lot of protection. Some
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point she takes her shirt offand she has chains
around her chest that havereceded into her skin in pain,
and there's all kinds of stuff.
So she plays a messed up person.
Sothey go on road trip from here,
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running into people, you know,figuring out what's going on and
trying to make it work. Andthis is pretty good. There's a
really smart, really interestingfilm, their performances. I'm so
so on a man to plumber. I thinkshe's done some good stuff. I've
also think she's done somereally terrible she can overact,
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yes, and she does a little bitbut it works. This character is
extreme, so that aspect of herworks a little better. And the
other woman in the movie isphenomenal,
and shot for a budget of abouthalf a million dollars, with a
crew of less than 20 people. AndI think benefits this film
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greatly, because it moves at aneat, interesting pace. But they
spent some money on thecranberries. Patsy Cline jewel
had songs on here. It's a hellof a soundtrack. Jesus, I don't
know if, like the people whopicked it up said, you need
these songs. We're going to paya little bit, but
the varieties Review.
(35:00):
Of it was an oftenbreathtakingly original meld of
road movie, lesbian love story,psycho drama and black comedy.
What year did this come out?
9495Wow. Just completely under the
radar.
Andit's a great film. The curation
that she has done that Kira hasdone for these two box sets. Is
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incredible, really, reallyinteresting films. So highly
recommendbutterfly kiss. Wow, nice
Vanessa. I can't wait to hearwhat road movie you did not
pick. Well, I came very close todoing Master and Commander, very
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close. But after Eric sent me adetailed definition of road
movie involving automobile, Iwent ahead and switched to
Michael from 1996Have you ever had an encounter
with an angel?
No, have you ever met an angel?
(36:06):
Once, I had a flat tire on adeserted country robe and a man
in a white robe suddenlyappeared on the horizon. You're
kidding? Yes, I am.
Are you with the angel? Do yousee an angel?
I don't think I do. Then howcould I be with them? We don't
(36:28):
know exactly how it works withangels. If he's in the room,
then you're with him. If he'ssomewhere else, then you're not
and that's why we can't see himnow, are you impaired in some
way this winters? Probably hasnever heard of an angel living
in a motel.
(36:51):
You think I'm full of you? No,no, nothing like that. Michael,
are you coming down? Dear? Yeah,just gotta find my smokes.
(37:21):
Michael who's come to visit us.
How do youdo Oprah Barbara, the Today Show
hard copy book, The works youguy. This is a written and
(37:44):
directed by Nora Ephron, who haseight directing credits in 17
writing including things likeWhen Harry Met Sally Sleepless
in Seattle, Julia and Julia alsostarring John Travolta, 100
credits, including Pulp FictionGreece and a little bit more
recently, was in an on AndreBucha Lee music video, I guess
so. Good job. Andy McDowell has92 credits, Groundhog Day, Four
(38:08):
Weddings and a Funeral. Andactually was in the TV show made
so still going, and William Hurtis not still going, but he's 104
things, including altered statesbroadcast news, and he was
Secretary Ross in The Avengersfilms, until Harrison Ford
decided that he would be willingto take the helm. Also, Bob
(38:30):
Hoskins, Carla Gugino andRichard Schiff
had very, very weird, smallroles. Because not Bob Hoskins,
he's a major role, but the othertwo, because it's very weird to
be like you're a random personwho says one line in a wedding
dress. Crazy, you're an Italianwaiter. Crazy.
(38:51):
The story follows Frank Huey andDorothy, as well as a fun,
precocious, famous dog. They arethree Chicago tabloid reporters,
and they are tasked withchecking out a report of the
Archangel Michael living with anold woman to find out if it's
true. When they arrived, theydiscovered that he is, in fact,
real, but not what theyexpected. He smokes, he's
(39:13):
filthy, like physically filthy.
He's rude, he's obsessed withpouring vast amounts of sugar on
everything, and loves fightingas well as sex. But as he said,
He's not an angel, he's anarchangel, and a lot of his
miracles that they talk to himabout are just not in his field.
So he's just not willing to helpout on a lot of stuff. He agrees
(39:35):
to go back to Chicago for aphoto shoot to do the front
cover the tabloid, but only ifthey drive and not fly, because
he wants to see the world'slargest twine ball and then the
largest frying pan, and then etcetera, et cetera along the way,
it becomes clear that heactually has other reasons for
going in the car with thereporters. In fact, he may have
(39:56):
lured them out in the firstplace and.
And he has one final miraclehe'd like to do before he has to
go back to heaven, involvinggetting the two reporters,
Dorothy and Frank together. Butit is harder than it seems.
This movie feels like havingdinner at your grandma's in the
90s.
It's very cozy. It's very 90s,but like old school, and it's a
(40:22):
little claustrophobic, there'sjust something about it that
feels like kind of walled in,like you're being smothered to
death with a like slightly moldyteddy bear.
Randy Newman is out of control,and he must be stopped. He does
the soundtrack, and it is, Idon't like him, and it is
infuriating to sit through hismusic. It is awful. William Hurt
(40:46):
is great, and him and AndyMcDowell almost sell their
romance, but it's pretty fastthat they go from hating each
other to loving each other. So Iwas a little whiplashy. Everyone
thinks that John Travolta inwings is much funnier than it is
him being rude. It just seemskind of stupid to me. I'm like,
Oh no, he's in overalls with noshirt on. Watch out, guys.
(41:08):
Wozer, little bit of trivia foryou. Taglines, he's not an
angel, or he's an angel, not asaint. John Travolta took 500
hours of Spanish lessons inpreparation for this film. When
asked why, he said, just in casethere is no Spanish in this
film, William Hurt refused tostop smoking cigarettes while
(41:31):
shooting and re shoots werealmost rescheduled. Eventually,
the producers decided they wouldjust have to edit it out in
post. I don't think I sawanything of him smoking in it.
So a sequel has been in theworks for nearly 20 years.
TRAVOLTA constantly calls it hisfinest work, expected in 2020
little piece of trivia there.
Guess it didn't happen yet. Themovie was a box office success,
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released on Christmas Day.
Michael finished number one thatweekend, grossing 17,000,001st
of all, congratulations. Oh,thank you. I'm very proud. I
finally figured it out. How manyepisodes are we in? I'm
just gonna turn this five minutebuzzer off. Whoa, yeah, whoosh.
(42:17):
I'm stealing your energy.
I'm like, breathing it in whileyou sleep, much like Barry
Manilow did.
Did you like this movie?
No, not really. I'm glad I sawit, because I think I missed it
at the time. Yeah, it was reallyin like a wall to wall zone of
(42:38):
those kinds of movies Iremember, like phenomena coming
out. And, yeah, how was itpowder? And that one I did see.
I saw this in the theater. Whoa,and did enjoy it. I have never
watched it again. Yeah, I thinkit's just aged so much. It's
like watching The Simpsons, likeold episodes of The Simpsons now
(43:00):
it's like, back then it waslike, Oh, my God, they said that
on TV, oh my god. Oh. How canthey get away with this? The
sensors, and now it's like, kindof mild, yeah. I think of this
as the last of Travolta's goodfilms after the comeback that
(43:21):
Pulp Fiction afforded him, andprobably the least of Nora
ephrons movies, unfortunately,because she had a string of real
big ones. And it seemed likethis was going to be huge. And I
remember it was kind of huge.
Yeah, it did well, yeah. Butyeah, it's, I feel like you
would love this movie. If you'relike, a middle aged church going
(43:42):
person,you'd be like, Whoa. What are
they doing with Michael? Wow, heis crazy, isn't he? I just, I
don't know, like, I don't findthat much funny anyway. And it
was just Yeah,but it's cool to see William
Hurt. I also don't love AndyMcDowell. That's just me. It's a
me problem. I think I had a bigcrush on her, starting with gray
(44:07):
Stoke, sure. Oh, yeah, goodstarting point. I was irritated
with her starting with FourWeddings and a Funeral. Yeah.
Well, my crush continued withFour Weddings. I love that
movie. I love that movie. Idon't like her in it. That's
fine. It doesn't matter. It'sme.
It's not her, it's me.
(44:27):
I will go next.
And I am talking aboutKill Bill, the whole bloody
affair.
Bad woman desires her revenge.
We deserve to die then again.
(44:49):
So is she Where is now? I?
Where is thou? Silly?
(45:11):
Caucasian guru likes to playwith samurai swords.
It's mercy of compassion andforgiveness, I lack
of rationality.
She must suffer to her lastbreath. You
(45:50):
uh, this came out in 2006Written and directed by Quentin
Tarantino written anddirectinoed by Quentin and
tarantinot,who did Pulp Fiction and
glorious bastards once upon atime in Hollywood, Uma Thurman
is also given a writing crediton this because she created the
(46:10):
character of the bride with him,starring Uma Thurman, who was in
Henry and June, the truth aboutcats And dogs, Batman and Robin,
red, white and royal blue. Alsoin this is Lucy Liu. Was in
Charlie's Angels, Shanghai,noon, 73 episodes of Ally McBeal
and 154 episodes of elementaryMichael Madsen. Rest in peace.
(46:39):
He was in reservoir. Dogs DieAnother Day, Sin City, terrible
angels, resurrection road. Hehas 346
acting credits, and even thoughhe just passed away, he has 18
movies coming, Jesus, holyand David Carradine, who has 240
acting credits, tons of 60s and70s television, including 73
(47:01):
episodes of Kung Fu, but alsoDeath Race, 2000 Bound for
Glory. Gray Lady down and thelong writers,
also in this is Vivica. Vivica,a fox, Daryl, Hannah, sunny,
Chiba,Michael parks, Bose, Vincent and
Sid. Haig, you guys have seenKill Bill Volume One and two,
(47:22):
but have you watched the wholebloody affair? No. Okay, this
movie is the two films of KillBill put together as one, four
hour and seven minute film.
It starts with Uma Thurman,credited only as the bride,
although we learn her name isBeatrix kiddo near the end, and
when the film starts, we are ather wedding to a young man in a
(47:44):
small chapel in the middle ofnowhere. We can see that she is
pregnant. But that does not stopthe five people known as the
deadly Vipers who interrupt thewedding, kill everyone and
finally put a bullet in herhead. When the cops show up,
though, it's discovered that sheis still alive and she has
rushed to a hospital where sheis operated on, but left in a
coma. Shortly thereafter, one ofthe deadly vipers, El, a driver,
(48:06):
sneaks into the hospital withthe intention of killing her,
but she is stopped by thetitular Bill, who tells her over
the phone to leave the bridealive, there is no honor in
killing a defenseless opponent.
Ooh, boy, that turns out to be amistake, but not until four
years later, when she comes outof her coma. She's distraught to
find out she is no longerpregnant, and very upset to find
that one of the orderlies hasbeen selling her body for dudes
(48:28):
to fuck on the slide while she'sin a coma. I did forget that,
yeah, she manages to kill bothmen, even though her legs aren't
working, and she escapes thehospital with the plan of going
on a road trip and exacting herrevenge on those that did her
wrong. She does this in thepussy wagon,
(48:48):
of course, going after each ofthe deadly Vipers one by one.
Some of them have left the gangand started new lives, and some
of them have become criminalmasterminds of their own. But
the bride doesn't care, and sheslashes through each of them
with more and more difficulty,much like a video game.
As she does this, the audienceis given little flashbacks to
(49:08):
who these characters all are,plus flashbacks within the
bride's new reawakened life toshow us what has happened
between the chapters as they aredoled out. There's even a really
gorgeous segment that isanimated like a Japanese anime,
but in a much more detailed waythan you would be used to,
especially back then.
It's all very stylish, cool,violent, lots of blood and limbs
(49:29):
being cut off as she goesbecause all of these killers use
bladed weapons. Nobody hasdiscovered guns, except for
everybody in the first part ofthis movie, and never again.
We're also finally given aflashback of the bride as she
escapes Bill's gang when shefinds out she is pregnant with
Bill's daughter,she knew there was no way the
(49:50):
child could grow up well, inBill's world, and Bill didn't
realize it was his kid. Sothat's what this entire movie
about. Man, this movie isfucking fantastic. I forgot how
good I.
I remember thinking in thetheater at the end of Part Two
that I liked part one better,and watching it all together. I
still feel that way. An hourcould have easily been cut from
the second half, and this wouldhave always been one, three hour
(50:13):
film. Still, it's so beautiful,you can let it go. This was
Tarantino's movie after JackieBrown, so there was a lot of
anticipation. I really like, Iremember liking this more than
Jackie Brown when I saw it, butI have just recently watched,
re watched Jackie Brown, and Ithink that might be my second
favorite of his films. Now,a couple of trivia things here.
(50:35):
The movie had a budget of 30million and grossed 180 million
for part one and 153million for part two. But I
couldn't find any box officeinfo on the release of the whole
bloody affair. Wow.
The bride's battle against thecrazy 88 is replaced with the
Japanese version in this film,which is in color to show off
(50:58):
all the gore and edited slightlydifferent. It's in black and
white. In the originalTarantino developed many of the
bride's characteristics for thecharacter of shosana Dreyfus for
the film Inglorious Bastards,which he worked on before kill.
Bill Dreyfus was to be anassassin with a list of Nazis
she would cross off as shekilled. But Tarantino switched a
character to the bride andredeveloped Dreyfus character.
(51:19):
Bill was originally written forWarren Beatty, but his character
developed and the role requiredgreater screen time and martial
arts training. Tarantino rewroteit for David carrotten. Beatty
says that he turned down therole because he did not want to
be away from his family whileshooting in China. And then
finally, near the end offilming, Thurman was injured in
(51:40):
a crash while filming the scenein which she drives to Bill
according to Thurman, she wasuncomfortable driving the car
and asked that a stunt driver doit. Tarantino assured her that
the car and the road were safe.
She lost control of the car andhit a tree, suffering a
concussion and knee injuries,according to Thurman, Miramax
(52:00):
would only give her the crashfootage if she signed a document
releasing them of anyconsequences of future pain and
suffering. Tarantino wasapologetic, but their
relationship became bitter foryears afterwards, Thurman said
that after the car crash, shewent from being a creative
contributor and performer tobeing a broken tool. Miramax
(52:21):
released the footage in 2018after Thurman went to police
following the accusations ofsexual abuse against Harvey
Weinstein, whoa.
What a great way to wrap thatup. Yep, yep. I gotta say,
this movie, watching it thisway, was really fucking cool. I
(52:43):
mean, even sitting down for fourhours is not something I do very
often, but I just poppedmultiple buckets of popcorn and
fucking drank and watched this.
I was just like, god damn it.
You know, I have a love, haterelationship with Tarantino,
you know, like, I don't care fora lot of his movies, and I never
(53:04):
have to see Pulp Fiction again.
But watching this for the firsttime since I had seen the first
two movies in the theater, I waslike, oh, god damn. I guess this
guy is a fucking genius. Soaside from the black and white
being made into color. Are thereany changes? Is it just like the
two films smashed together?
(53:25):
Yeah, because the,if I remember correctly, the
second part doesn't even do likea recap, you just kind of come
into the movie again. So thisjust is one solid film, okay,
yeah, did it play in theaters?
Or was it just a box set, like aDVD special. I think that it had
a very limited release, but itdid do some theatrical run.
(53:46):
Who's gonna sort of say, I'lltie up my theater for four
hours? Yeah, I know it's a longtime. Maybe something like Sif
might do as a special thing andup to not then, because it
didn't own theaters at that timethat I know of. But yeah, I'm
with you on Tarantino, I don'tthink reading his book was the
best way for now to maintain myfeelings. Oh no, he seems cool
(54:09):
to hear again, worse when heopens his mouth. His thinking on
his knowledge of films isinteresting, but is thinking
that he's the only one thatunderstands why certain films
are good and nobody else getsthem is really fucking annoying,
Oh, for sure. But yeah, he alsodoes some great recommendations,
and he's made some amazingfilms. Yeah, I wonder what he's
(54:30):
like on set, because, like everyinterview I've heard him, and
I'm like, I would, I couldn't bein a room with you for more than
one minute, like, one minute,I'd be like, I can't. I cannot,
Yeah, apparently he's not a cokehead. But then, what is the
fucking excuse? Thenexactly I could let it go if you
were a coke head. I mean,anybody remember who's like, I'm
a black guy phase? Because thatwas a very coke oriented phase.
(54:53):
I remember that the oneof the turning.
Points for me and my attitudetowards him was actually very
weird. Way was from the fromdusk till dawn,
audio commentary, all right?
Because until that point,Rodriguez had done these amazing
Robert Rodriguez did theseamazing commentaries on El
Mariachi and Desperado, whichwere like film schools, yeah,
(55:16):
and Tarantino gets on and justBlabs over him the entire time.
I'm like, with you know, histrivia, weirdness and knowledge,
which he's is deep in him. Butit wasn't about making the
movie. It was aboutall kinds of shit. And you could
hear at times, Rodriguez almostgone.
(55:39):
I want to talk about how thisscene was done, you asshole,
yeah? But it'slike, okay, Tarantino's kind of
nuts, yeah? But Rodriguez iscompany, which I can't remember
what it's called now, but he'sthere listed as the producer of
this film. Oh, yeah, they, theygot along great. Yeah, they have
(56:00):
a great relationship. Yeah,well, cool topic, Eric,
but that means that somebodyelse has to pick the next sub
genre. Is that me? It's you,wow. Finally, it's my turn.
It does seem like it's a longertime between picking final it
(56:23):
does it feels like a real feelslike waiting in dodgeball. Am I
gonna get picked one last Okay,since you not that long ago,
somebody made usdo the trademark public public
domain, and we happen to mentionasylum films at the end of that.
(56:43):
I think that would be great. Ithink let's go ahead and do an
asylum film each as all right. Ilove that. If the audience is
not familiar, the asylum is aproduction company that is
responsible for all the whatwould you call these movies?
They're like knockoff sci fi. When there's a new
Transformers movie coming out,they have the trans more 100%
(57:06):
Yeah. When the Merlin TV seriescame out, they put out like
Merlin one, two and three. Yeah.
I'm really shocked that theyhaven't jumped on this public
domain bandwagon. I don't knowwhat the company state is right
now. The last I knew from themwas like they had some
(57:28):
involvement with Z Nation, ofcourse. Oh, that's right, yeah,
they've gone a little more. Ithink they've gotten away from
theparody strictly thing a little
bit. But they are cheap bastard,because my
as an editor, like I had a longstanding bucket wish item, which
was to do one asylum film, yeah,and then I heard how bad the
(57:50):
sets are and how awful it is towork on them. And I was like,
No, right, never mind. I wantedto. I mean, could you imagine
going in there with halfwaydecent scripts and still get the
budget. The budgets are nothing,but they're also, you know,
something 400,000 I mean, thebar is so low, you could just
walk in there and sweep it. Butthey're not interested in that.
That's there. They kind of haveembraced the
(58:14):
whatever you would. They did.
NATO, right, yeah,all four of those? Yeah, I've
got one picked out alreadythat's sitting on my my Plex
that I was like, Oh, I'm gonnahave to watch this. And now I
have a reason. Excellent, nice.
I'm glad I could bring that toyou as a gift. Kelly, I'll have
(58:35):
to be looking something up.
Yeah. Well, that is fantastic. Iconsider this a gift. Thank you,
Vanessa, you're welcome. Okay,so that's the end of the show,
this part where we say thanks toeverybody out there who's liking
and sharing posts, who's on thestrange eons radio talk page,
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You get some value out of this,we assume, turn around and give
some value back. A quick commenton the YouTube. Thing I know, by
the time you hear this, it'sgonna be a long time ago, but I
did appreciate badgers commentson Dr Who Oh, I didn't realize
we had such a Whovian listener.
I knew I could, potentiallycould get in trouble, because I
(59:22):
know just a little bit aboutDoctor Who, but I mean, actually
put out some pretty interestingthings in the comments. So cool.
Thank you. Not just any badger,the badger, real badger, the
real badger, not the honeybadger,
badger, because honey badgerwouldn't give any shit about Dr
real badger knows his stuff.
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god,fucking cookies. Weeks ago, I
haven't seen you since weeksago. All right, next time, next
time, I'll bring in cookiebecause we got a cookie recipe,
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