March 29, 2025 • 24 mins
Ash: a thrilling ride that kicks off with a spark and ends with a BANG!, but the middle? Oh, that’s where the real horror lies! Well, let’s just say it left us wondering if we were watching ‘Ass’ or ‘Ash’! So grab your popcorn and grab your seat and sit down as we dive into this review.
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
What's Up? And welcome back to thirteen thirty one. I'm
your host, mister Ripper, and as always I have my
lovely co host here to help me and the birthday
Boy speaking of the One the Only Tide of Thunder,
what's Up? And the Mistress of the Monsters Atlantas And
we're back with a new movie review for you, the
(00:53):
new twenty twenty five smash hit Ash that nobody's heard of.
Literally were checking to see what was playing in our
local theater and some movies. We were like, I don't
know what that is, and we googled the trailer. Who
watched it? It was like, oh fuck, this is a horror movie.
(01:14):
So we ran out and watched it real quick, and
we're gonna give you a brief rundown of it, because yeah,
it's it's something. So mister Thunder is going to actually
give us the synopsal ass all right. Well.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
On a distant planet, an astronaut wakes up to find
her entire crew of space stations has been killed. Rhea
has no memory of herself or the station in which
she finds herself, jogged by only quick nightmares flashes of
her partners and their mission feeling paranoid, she must decide
(01:52):
if she can trust the man who she supposedly knows,
sent to rescue her after he received a distress signal
from the location.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
That very much kind of sums it up. I can
do it in about five seconds, Alien backwards whatever you
know what, player hater. Anyway, we're gonna kind of keep
this short and simple, not really too much to dive into.
By the way, I believe this is like a Shutter
exclusive kind of thing. Briefly in theaters. I don't even
(02:23):
think it's in theaters now, so it's probably coming to
Shutter soon. I just know it was in the credits
at the beginning. Shutter is definitely a partner with its
distributing company. It's probably gonna be on Shutter probably, I
don't know, in a month or so. But overall, brief
takeaways in watching this movie, Misscellana.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
There were things that I definitely appreciate about the movie.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
There are some asthetic things in practical effects that I
thought were done really well. Overall, I feel like it
was very much a slow burn for the majority of
the movie, but when it picked up, it turned pretty
good enough to save it a little bit. In the
ranking system Thunder.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's pretty much how I feel about the film. The
things that it did, right, I think it did really well.
I just once we get into talking about it, I'll
express that I would have just liked more of the
things that they did, right. I wish it was more
of it in it. Okay, does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, if you're listening out there, just be warned that
we're going to be diving into spoiler territory. But at
this point it's probably going to be on your streaming service,
so you can listen to this and see what you
think after you watch it, or watch it and then
come back and see if we're full of space that
exterial terrestrial Dodo. But overall, I thought this movie was
(03:40):
kind of mid I think that the movie editor for
this movie should be taken out back old Yallish style
and shot in the fucking head. My personal opinion, Wow, well,
I'm just kind of jumping into the my negatives because
I don't know, I have a lot more negatives than positives.
So I want to end on a happy or not
I guess in this one, the graphics were good, the
(04:03):
practical effects were amazing, but then it was some points
in the movie where the CGI was like, oh, we
are watching a smaller budget film. It kind of took
me out of it a little bit. And this movie
felt so fucking long. It felt like it was two
and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And it really wasn't a long run time.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Right, it was an hour fifty five minutes. I believe
it was a ninety five minute No, yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I thought I was an hour and a half, like
an hour thirty five yeah, really.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Which makes it even worse that you feel like it
was two and a half.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh my god. Yes, this movie dragged and dragged and dragged.
What was some of your negatives, mister thunter from down Under?
I know you said you had some things that kind
of deterreed you. Well, just piggybacking off of what you said.
I thought the special effects were fine. There were scenes
were much better than others. Like you said, you could
tell that it was, you know, smaller budget or whatever.
(05:01):
It didn't quite take me out of the film. What
did take me out of the film is the entire
first fucking hour. We're basically on this journey with this
girl and she can't remember shit, and we don't know shit.
Therefore we're just in a world full of shit. So
it's like, I get shit on the walls. I get
(05:23):
what they're trying to do. They were trying to take
us on a journey with this girl, and as the
flashbacks happened, it's supposed to be revealed to us as
it's revealed to her kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And it was just I think they just did too
many scenes where it came to her and then oh
she woke up, like, oh it came to her, Oh
she woke up. It kind of got repetitive and old
at a certain point, and I think that if they
would have shortened them, like down a little bit, it
(05:58):
wouldn't have felt as long. But other than that, I think,
like maybe the last thirty to forty five minutes of
the film I really enjoyed, but the first half is
kind of ugh, deep, like sleep.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Night night, Miss Lanta. What was some of your negative
takeaways for Ash?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I definitely got to the point where I'm like, Okay,
is this ever going to pick up or is this
just is what it is? So I was grateful that
it did and that the ending last probably say thirty
minutes was give us something to actually.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Enjoy third act and did on a high note.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, but I actually I actually have a lot more
positives than I do negatives. I really don't have much
more to add to what you guys have already said.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I'll finish up my negatives and then we'll jump into
the positives. The overall, like I said, cutting of this
movie was just fucking abysmal. Pretty much like Todd said
that they can kept doing his jump back dream sequence.
She's awake, doesn't remember, Now she remembers. Now she's awake,
now she's asleep, and it was just like God, they
(07:12):
had the plot of aliens, an alien and every other
type of alien movie where you know they're infected. They're
the aliens, they're the presence.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
In the beginning, though while we're trying before they let
us figure it out, we don't know if it's a
person or if it's a thing that killed everybody.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
That's true. That was the cool thing about it. It
was some alien plant, thing, organism species. I hate to say,
but I knew she was an alien from like three
four minutes into it. I'm like, as soon as they
did the flashback, I was like, she killed him and
she's an alien. Don't ask me how, but I didn't
ruin it this time, because Todd said, you know, you
(07:51):
don't have to be the asshole room all the time,
but nobody fucking believes you if you don't say anything elitist, elite.
Oh lick my nuts. I know everything about this fucking movie.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Because I hadn't quite figured it out yet. I had
my suspicions towards the reveal, but before that, I was
sitting there like is there another human on this ship
with her? Is there a creature of some sort, like
a face hugger?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Where is it?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And as the film kind of went on, it became
less important about like who killed them.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
More important of why.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, you know, because I think at one point she
was just like, yeah, I killed them, but I don't
know why. And it was like, Okay, well, now the
plot is you killed them, but you don't know why.
And I think we pretty much all figured out that
she she killed the rest of the crew because she
probably had to because they were infected with something. It
(08:54):
wasn't just that she went crazy and killed them. I
think we all kind of figured that out.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, right, Okay, So I think the movie should have
ended where it began.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
It had a really dope opening sequence, yes, and then.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
They came all the way back to that point. If
they would have cut that movie, oh man, this movie
would have been so dope. I would have loved it
a little bit more. They should have taken the action
part and put it before that for that, and then
you know, have that action part happen in the middle,
and this movie would have been way further up.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah. I think it would have been so much better
to see the crew interact with one another. Therefore, when
they were infected one by one, we could have felt
something for it, like, oh no, not that one, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And this and that.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Instead of concentrating on this one character trying to remember
to me, it kind of devalued kind of the rest
of the other people's performances. You just couldn't feel anything
for anybody else. There was no development there.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Like they tried to give you some stuff later on
you're like, okay, yeah, and they.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Do some really sappy, stupid shit, like.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
But it's sappy and stupid because of how they cut it.
If it would have been, like you said, a story
getting to know these people in the beginning, it wouldn't
have been sappy or stupid. It would have been detrimental
to the story and how you felt about these characters.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well, yeah, that's what I was getting at. If we
would have saw these characters, we wouldn't have had these sappy,
fucking bullshit flashbacks of like apparently she was lovers with
the captain or whatever. And they had this one little
thing like right in the middle of the movie that
I absolutely fucking hate it, which was this, you know,
she he comes to her in the dream and they
(10:42):
have like this real moment and it's like driving home
that they were together, and it's like it felt so
out of place to me.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It was a little weird, but like I said, it's
how the movie got cut. But I'll tell you my
scene that made me want to like throw popcorn in
my eyes was when the alien was on the screen
and it looked like a fucking butthole, and I was
talking about like that we will never be part of
Earth or whatever. It was, yeah, yeah, you know, like
(11:13):
we're superior. You know, they will never take our Earth.
And I'm like, why, why, why why are we having
dialogue with these fucking parasite alien things. I guess it was.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Just their way of it was trying to explain like
why they felt the need to destroy these uh.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Fucking unnecessary Well, yeah, because and talking about taking you
out of the fucking element. Yeah, but it was pretty
stupid because they went and found this thing. It's not
like this organism was searching for them. So the whole
dialogue didn't quite make sense. It's like, we're taking over,
(11:53):
but an hour ago you didn't know who these people were,
So how was you trying to take over? Yeah? We
went from Aliens to Critters in five seconds. Yeah, it
was like no, seriously, it's like, you know, you hear
the xenomorphin is scary and everything like that, and then
we cut the Critters and I don't know if you
remember Critters that much, but they're like subtitles. Oh fuck.
(12:17):
That's literally like a scene I think from Part three
or something like that before like they get blown off
with a fucking shotgun. It's like, oh, I got weapons,
and then it's like, ah, they can't hurt us, and
it was like he's like he says fuck. Yeah. I
(12:37):
think that's what it reminded me of.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I think this movie pulls a lot of things that
other movies have done better, such as Aliens. Like you mentioned,
critters and a bunch of other like sci fi movies
about the whole aliens being superior to humans and stuff.
And I think whoever wrote this script, they literally try
to write like a greatest Hits of Sciphi horror movies. Yeah,
(13:02):
complain and try to put it into one, and it
ended up being a fucking jigsaw puzzle with a fucking
bunch of pieces missing.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
It was like trying to glue a jigsaw puzzle together
with mashed potatoes.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
When in reality they should have just taken the action
standpoint and what they did in the last thirty minutes
do that the whole time instead of trying to make
this really deep type of movie that you know, some
people jumped off the fucking Titanic before it sank.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
But you can't make it deep and sentimental when you
don't give us nothing to get sentiment about.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's another problem that this film had. You know, they
tried to because they cut out the backstory, and the
backstory was supposed to be in bits and pieces and memories.
They did what they did, and it wasn't a good idea.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Shit in the window. I don't know, Misscellana. You said
you have some positives for this movie take the floor.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Happy to oblige.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
So for me, I feel like the ambiance of the
film was really interesting with the dark esthetic, the lighting
of like the dark blue hue that they had, and
just the isolation of them being on a ship knowing
that there is something that has killed her crew.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
We don't know who or what.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I was obviously played way too long, but for what
it was, I enjoyed that.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I'm an isolation queen.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So I totally understand that because if you are a
fan of thirteen thirty one, that you know you've listened
to previous episodes and you've heard us most about the isolation,
especially the thunder from down Under is a huge isolation
queen himself anyway. Well, one of the main characters in
(14:50):
here is going to be like a familiar face to
some of the year out there, which is the actor
Aaron Paul. You know him from Breaking Bad. He was
the protegee to mister White. I don't know what his
character's name is because I never watched Breaking Bad except
for the first four episodes, So, Sumi whatever, I didn't
dig the show. I didn't think it was that great anyway.
Moving on story for another day, AnyWho, I don't know
(15:14):
how to say his name's character name's character character's name
Coffee Toffee, I don't know it's I think it's pronounced Brian,
but it's b r Ion. All the names in this
movie are spelled really fucking funky. The main person in
this movie, the main character Rhea, her name is spelled funky.
The director's name is.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Dragonfly, flying Lotus.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Whatever. That's not a joke. That last part's not a joke.
I mean, well, like, you know, dragonfly flying Lotus, but
his real name is flying Lotus. But that's I think
the problem with this movie is that it tries to
be so different while using same shit that we've seen before,
and it just doesn't work. You know, you're trying to
(15:58):
make a chicken pot pie with apples. Don't work. Not
working for me. Dog. Last positive i think I've got
on my end is the practical effects in this movie
were very, very on point. It was like late Night
with the Devil good.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I was gonna say that was my favorite part was
the practical effects, like.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
The lighting and the way this movie shot is very
late night with a devil essence to it, And I
love that's that honestly is a big part of why
I kept watching this movie overall. Yeah. And by the way,
your director, you're flying Lotus, ain't my director, it says
on here.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Sometimes he goes by the name fly Low f l Ylo.
And the reason why he has such a stupid fucking name.
Stupid fucking name, he's a fucking record producer, DJ and
rapper from Los Angeles. That's why he sounds so goofy.
Well that's in the movie too.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Well, you know, no shade at him.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I mean this was I guess his first movie he
got to do or whatnot. His debut was directing one
of the segments in VHS ninety nine. I don't really
know which one. Even if I looked it up, I
can't remember.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
It's the one. It's the one under flying Dog shit. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
But anyway, I mean, he like half got this good
and half not. Hopefully with more experience he could tighten
up on and get a tighter story and let this
flow a little bit better, you know what I mean?
Like Ripper said, I mean, it kind of wasn't cut
too well, and it kind of jumped from one thing
to another, and it wasn't flowing, and the pace was
(17:39):
not good. Like, we've talked tremendously about the last thirty
minutes of the film, so we know he knows how
to end a film.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Good, right, you just got to uh, you gotta figure
out the middle part. Good sir. But as always, we
give you the reviews before we give you our reviews.
It's not good. I'm predicting well, IgM in our favorite
gaming network that tells us, you know, the best movies
can't even rate games. Good. I just want to state that,
(18:07):
by the way, IGN gives this movie a five out
of ten. Got it right in the middle, right in
the middle. Oo ky, well thrown in a little extra
one over at letter Box out of a five, it
is at a two point eight.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Out of five, so just over halfway.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Almost halfway. Yeah, just over whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Letterbox sucks too, but go ahead.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, I think we're gonna make an episode because after
what you told me about Letterbox, I think we need
to have a sit down discussion. AnyWho, I'm DEBA or
IMDb as I like to call it. We're on a
first name basis like that, So they have it at
a five point eight out of ten, a little over halfway. Now,
of course, we always save the attack of the Rotten
(18:53):
Killer tomatoes for last Well, the tomato meter is at
a woppin seventy eight percent. Feelings, actions, thoughts, smoking a pancake?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Is it the critics of the audience that's.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Scary the critics the tomato meter?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Is it seventy eight percent?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Seventy eight percent. Haven't got to the popcorn meter.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
It's pretty typical for them to be the opposite.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Of power feel always. But the audience I think is
maybe right there with us at a fifty eight percent,
so kind of in the middle, kind of ish right.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I do find it interesting that the majority of them
are right there at or just above the middle.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Right. Well, mister thunder from.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Down Under, it's the birthday.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Boys Gotta go first started off with you in a while,
and I feel like it's appropriate since it's your sixteenth birthday. Yeah,
it is not his sixteenth birthday. It's like sixteen plus sixteen. Think,
I don't know, we don't do that. It's actually more
than that.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, that would be thirty two.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, you're way past sixty. Oh god, we're
way past sixteen plus six add five more to that. AnyWho,
if a moment we're made of cheese. Would you eat?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I know I would shoot I will. I think the
ending of this film kind of saved it from being
very low to me, So I'm going to put it
at a three three.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Okay, interestingly enough, I'm right there with them. A three, which,
if you think about we go to a five three
is just above halfway because halfway's two point five, So
we're kind of right there with them with everybody else.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Let me say this before I forget to say it.
I do like the last thirty minutes. It saved it
for me. But I think the acting in the film
wasn't offensive to be a lower budget film. I think
it was a lot better than a lot of lower
budget acting. I think they did a lot with the
scenery and the score than a normal low budget film.
(20:57):
I think they did everything right except the story leading
up to the last bit of the film and how
they put it together. If they could have just got
those two things, they would have had a pretty decent
little sci fi or thriller film.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah. Well, I guess I'll throw my two cents into
it to see if it's worth anything. Before I give
my final rating for this movie, I do want to
point out Also, this movie was shot very well. I'm
not insulted by this, I'm just let down by this
movie started off great, ended great. Shit in the middle
(21:32):
shipped a bit hard. The scenery, the costumes, the score
was shot so well, like it was shot so well
to the point that I forgot this was a lower
budget film, and it was almost like it was very close.
It was so close that it was so close to
(21:54):
being Top five if they wouldn't have did the CGI
bug monsters kept with the practical effects and got rid
of as much CGI as possible because all the CGI
we saw that wasn't good was unnecessary, and the stuff
that we saw was very like Star Wars esque. You know,
(22:15):
you could tell it's like not real, but it still
feels real, and it felt very practical. But then, you know,
like I said, there was some CGI and it it
was just unnecessary, unwanted. You could have cut it out
and it wouldn't have made Hillebein's difference. Honestly, if you
cut thirty to forty minutes of this movie, it still
wouldn't make a difference. And that's the problem with this
(22:35):
movie is that the editing is the biggest part of it,
and it tried to go a little too big when
it didn't need to. They would have just kept that.
You would have had a fucking hit in saying that
I'm with you, guys.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I give it a three wow, unanimous.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Unanimous three because it got so much right that I'm
a little bit forgiving on this because the practical effects
always big on it. They nailed the gore in it,
and the action part and the last bit of this
movie really saved it because I was dwindling down to
like two level because of how abysmal this middle part is. Overall,
(23:15):
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(23:35):
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(23:55):
By my little monsters, stay spooky and wait for it
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What's Up? And welcome back to thirteen thirty one. I'm
your host, mister Ripper, and as always I have my
lovely co host here to help me and the birthday
Boy speaking of the One the Only Tide of Thunder,
what's Up? And the Mistress of the Monsters Atlantas And
we're back with a new movie review for you, the
(00:53):
new twenty twenty five smash hit Ash that nobody's heard of.
Literally were checking to see what was playing in our
local theater and some movies. We were like, I don't
know what that is, and we googled the trailer. Who
watched it? It was like, oh fuck, this is a horror movie.
(01:14):
So we ran out and watched it real quick, and
we're gonna give you a brief rundown of it, because yeah,
it's it's something. So mister Thunder is going to actually
give us the synopsal ass all right. Well.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
On a distant planet, an astronaut wakes up to find
her entire crew of space stations has been killed. Rhea
has no memory of herself or the station in which
she finds herself, jogged by only quick nightmares flashes of
her partners and their mission feeling paranoid, she must decide
(01:52):
if she can trust the man who she supposedly knows,
sent to rescue her after he received a distress signal
from the location.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
That very much kind of sums it up. I can
do it in about five seconds, Alien backwards whatever you
know what, player hater. Anyway, we're gonna kind of keep
this short and simple, not really too much to dive into.
By the way, I believe this is like a Shutter
exclusive kind of thing. Briefly in theaters. I don't even
(02:23):
think it's in theaters now, so it's probably coming to
Shutter soon. I just know it was in the credits
at the beginning. Shutter is definitely a partner with its
distributing company. It's probably gonna be on Shutter probably, I
don't know, in a month or so. But overall, brief
takeaways in watching this movie, Misscellana.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
There were things that I definitely appreciate about the movie.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
There are some asthetic things in practical effects that I
thought were done really well. Overall, I feel like it
was very much a slow burn for the majority of
the movie, but when it picked up, it turned pretty
good enough to save it a little bit. In the
ranking system Thunder.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's pretty much how I feel about the film. The
things that it did, right, I think it did really well.
I just once we get into talking about it, I'll
express that I would have just liked more of the
things that they did, right. I wish it was more
of it in it. Okay, does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, if you're listening out there, just be warned that
we're going to be diving into spoiler territory. But at
this point it's probably going to be on your streaming service,
so you can listen to this and see what you
think after you watch it, or watch it and then
come back and see if we're full of space that
exterial terrestrial Dodo. But overall, I thought this movie was
(03:40):
kind of mid I think that the movie editor for
this movie should be taken out back old Yallish style
and shot in the fucking head. My personal opinion, Wow, well,
I'm just kind of jumping into the my negatives because
I don't know, I have a lot more negatives than positives.
So I want to end on a happy or not
I guess in this one, the graphics were good, the
(04:03):
practical effects were amazing, but then it was some points
in the movie where the CGI was like, oh, we
are watching a smaller budget film. It kind of took
me out of it a little bit. And this movie
felt so fucking long. It felt like it was two
and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And it really wasn't a long run time.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Right, it was an hour fifty five minutes. I believe
it was a ninety five minute No, yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I thought I was an hour and a half, like
an hour thirty five yeah, really.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Which makes it even worse that you feel like it
was two and a half.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh my god. Yes, this movie dragged and dragged and dragged.
What was some of your negatives, mister thunter from down Under?
I know you said you had some things that kind
of deterreed you. Well, just piggybacking off of what you said.
I thought the special effects were fine. There were scenes
were much better than others. Like you said, you could
tell that it was, you know, smaller budget or whatever.
(05:01):
It didn't quite take me out of the film. What
did take me out of the film is the entire
first fucking hour. We're basically on this journey with this
girl and she can't remember shit, and we don't know shit.
Therefore we're just in a world full of shit. So
it's like, I get shit on the walls. I get
(05:23):
what they're trying to do. They were trying to take
us on a journey with this girl, and as the
flashbacks happened, it's supposed to be revealed to us as
it's revealed to her kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And it was just I think they just did too
many scenes where it came to her and then oh
she woke up, like, oh it came to her, Oh
she woke up. It kind of got repetitive and old
at a certain point, and I think that if they
would have shortened them, like down a little bit, it
(05:58):
wouldn't have felt as long. But other than that, I think,
like maybe the last thirty to forty five minutes of
the film I really enjoyed, but the first half is
kind of ugh, deep, like sleep.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Night night, Miss Lanta. What was some of your negative
takeaways for Ash?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I definitely got to the point where I'm like, Okay,
is this ever going to pick up or is this
just is what it is? So I was grateful that
it did and that the ending last probably say thirty
minutes was give us something to actually.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Enjoy third act and did on a high note.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, but I actually I actually have a lot more
positives than I do negatives. I really don't have much
more to add to what you guys have already said.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I'll finish up my negatives and then we'll jump into
the positives. The overall, like I said, cutting of this
movie was just fucking abysmal. Pretty much like Todd said
that they can kept doing his jump back dream sequence.
She's awake, doesn't remember, Now she remembers. Now she's awake,
now she's asleep, and it was just like God, they
(07:12):
had the plot of aliens, an alien and every other
type of alien movie where you know they're infected. They're
the aliens, they're the presence.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
In the beginning, though while we're trying before they let
us figure it out, we don't know if it's a
person or if it's a thing that killed everybody.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
That's true. That was the cool thing about it. It
was some alien plant, thing, organism species. I hate to say,
but I knew she was an alien from like three
four minutes into it. I'm like, as soon as they
did the flashback, I was like, she killed him and
she's an alien. Don't ask me how, but I didn't
ruin it this time, because Todd said, you know, you
(07:51):
don't have to be the asshole room all the time,
but nobody fucking believes you if you don't say anything elitist, elite.
Oh lick my nuts. I know everything about this fucking movie.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Because I hadn't quite figured it out yet. I had
my suspicions towards the reveal, but before that, I was
sitting there like is there another human on this ship
with her? Is there a creature of some sort, like
a face hugger?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Where is it?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And as the film kind of went on, it became
less important about like who killed them.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
More important of why.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, you know, because I think at one point she
was just like, yeah, I killed them, but I don't
know why. And it was like, Okay, well, now the
plot is you killed them, but you don't know why.
And I think we pretty much all figured out that
she she killed the rest of the crew because she
probably had to because they were infected with something. It
(08:54):
wasn't just that she went crazy and killed them. I
think we all kind of figured that out.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, right, Okay, So I think the movie should have
ended where it began.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
It had a really dope opening sequence, yes, and then.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
They came all the way back to that point. If
they would have cut that movie, oh man, this movie
would have been so dope. I would have loved it
a little bit more. They should have taken the action
part and put it before that for that, and then
you know, have that action part happen in the middle,
and this movie would have been way further up.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah. I think it would have been so much better
to see the crew interact with one another. Therefore, when
they were infected one by one, we could have felt
something for it, like, oh no, not that one, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And this and that.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Instead of concentrating on this one character trying to remember
to me, it kind of devalued kind of the rest
of the other people's performances. You just couldn't feel anything
for anybody else. There was no development there.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Like they tried to give you some stuff later on
you're like, okay, yeah, and they.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Do some really sappy, stupid shit, like.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
But it's sappy and stupid because of how they cut it.
If it would have been, like you said, a story
getting to know these people in the beginning, it wouldn't
have been sappy or stupid. It would have been detrimental
to the story and how you felt about these characters.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well, yeah, that's what I was getting at. If we
would have saw these characters, we wouldn't have had these sappy,
fucking bullshit flashbacks of like apparently she was lovers with
the captain or whatever. And they had this one little
thing like right in the middle of the movie that
I absolutely fucking hate it, which was this, you know,
she he comes to her in the dream and they
(10:42):
have like this real moment and it's like driving home
that they were together, and it's like it felt so
out of place to me.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It was a little weird, but like I said, it's
how the movie got cut. But I'll tell you my
scene that made me want to like throw popcorn in
my eyes was when the alien was on the screen
and it looked like a fucking butthole, and I was
talking about like that we will never be part of
Earth or whatever. It was, yeah, yeah, you know, like
(11:13):
we're superior. You know, they will never take our Earth.
And I'm like, why, why, why why are we having
dialogue with these fucking parasite alien things. I guess it was.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Just their way of it was trying to explain like
why they felt the need to destroy these uh.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Fucking unnecessary Well, yeah, because and talking about taking you
out of the fucking element. Yeah, but it was pretty
stupid because they went and found this thing. It's not
like this organism was searching for them. So the whole
dialogue didn't quite make sense. It's like, we're taking over,
(11:53):
but an hour ago you didn't know who these people were,
So how was you trying to take over? Yeah? We
went from Aliens to Critters in five seconds. Yeah, it
was like no, seriously, it's like, you know, you hear
the xenomorphin is scary and everything like that, and then
we cut the Critters and I don't know if you
remember Critters that much, but they're like subtitles. Oh fuck.
(12:17):
That's literally like a scene I think from Part three
or something like that before like they get blown off
with a fucking shotgun. It's like, oh, I got weapons,
and then it's like, ah, they can't hurt us, and
it was like he's like he says fuck. Yeah. I
(12:37):
think that's what it reminded me of.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I think this movie pulls a lot of things that
other movies have done better, such as Aliens. Like you mentioned,
critters and a bunch of other like sci fi movies
about the whole aliens being superior to humans and stuff.
And I think whoever wrote this script, they literally try
to write like a greatest Hits of Sciphi horror movies. Yeah,
(13:02):
complain and try to put it into one, and it
ended up being a fucking jigsaw puzzle with a fucking
bunch of pieces missing.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
It was like trying to glue a jigsaw puzzle together
with mashed potatoes.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
When in reality they should have just taken the action
standpoint and what they did in the last thirty minutes
do that the whole time instead of trying to make
this really deep type of movie that you know, some
people jumped off the fucking Titanic before it sank.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
But you can't make it deep and sentimental when you
don't give us nothing to get sentiment about.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's another problem that this film had. You know, they
tried to because they cut out the backstory, and the
backstory was supposed to be in bits and pieces and memories.
They did what they did, and it wasn't a good idea.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Shit in the window. I don't know, Misscellana. You said
you have some positives for this movie take the floor.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Happy to oblige.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
So for me, I feel like the ambiance of the
film was really interesting with the dark esthetic, the lighting
of like the dark blue hue that they had, and
just the isolation of them being on a ship knowing
that there is something that has killed her crew.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
We don't know who or what.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I was obviously played way too long, but for what
it was, I enjoyed that.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I'm an isolation queen.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So I totally understand that because if you are a
fan of thirteen thirty one, that you know you've listened
to previous episodes and you've heard us most about the isolation,
especially the thunder from down Under is a huge isolation
queen himself anyway. Well, one of the main characters in
(14:50):
here is going to be like a familiar face to
some of the year out there, which is the actor
Aaron Paul. You know him from Breaking Bad. He was
the protegee to mister White. I don't know what his
character's name is because I never watched Breaking Bad except
for the first four episodes, So, Sumi whatever, I didn't
dig the show. I didn't think it was that great anyway.
Moving on story for another day, AnyWho, I don't know
(15:14):
how to say his name's character name's character character's name
Coffee Toffee, I don't know it's I think it's pronounced Brian,
but it's b r Ion. All the names in this
movie are spelled really fucking funky. The main person in
this movie, the main character Rhea, her name is spelled funky.
The director's name is.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Dragonfly, flying Lotus.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Whatever. That's not a joke. That last part's not a joke.
I mean, well, like, you know, dragonfly flying Lotus, but
his real name is flying Lotus. But that's I think
the problem with this movie is that it tries to
be so different while using same shit that we've seen before,
and it just doesn't work. You know, you're trying to
(15:58):
make a chicken pot pie with apples. Don't work. Not
working for me. Dog. Last positive i think I've got
on my end is the practical effects in this movie
were very, very on point. It was like late Night
with the Devil good.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I was gonna say that was my favorite part was
the practical effects, like.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
The lighting and the way this movie shot is very
late night with a devil essence to it, And I
love that's that honestly is a big part of why
I kept watching this movie overall. Yeah. And by the way,
your director, you're flying Lotus, ain't my director, it says
on here.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Sometimes he goes by the name fly Low f l Ylo.
And the reason why he has such a stupid fucking name.
Stupid fucking name, he's a fucking record producer, DJ and
rapper from Los Angeles. That's why he sounds so goofy.
Well that's in the movie too.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Well, you know, no shade at him.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I mean this was I guess his first movie he
got to do or whatnot. His debut was directing one
of the segments in VHS ninety nine. I don't really
know which one. Even if I looked it up, I
can't remember.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
It's the one. It's the one under flying Dog shit. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
But anyway, I mean, he like half got this good
and half not. Hopefully with more experience he could tighten
up on and get a tighter story and let this
flow a little bit better, you know what I mean?
Like Ripper said, I mean, it kind of wasn't cut
too well, and it kind of jumped from one thing
to another, and it wasn't flowing, and the pace was
(17:39):
not good. Like, we've talked tremendously about the last thirty
minutes of the film, so we know he knows how
to end a film.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Good, right, you just got to uh, you gotta figure
out the middle part. Good sir. But as always, we
give you the reviews before we give you our reviews.
It's not good. I'm predicting well, IgM in our favorite
gaming network that tells us, you know, the best movies
can't even rate games. Good. I just want to state that,
(18:07):
by the way, IGN gives this movie a five out
of ten. Got it right in the middle, right in
the middle. Oo ky, well thrown in a little extra
one over at letter Box out of a five, it
is at a two point eight.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Out of five, so just over halfway.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Almost halfway. Yeah, just over whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Letterbox sucks too, but go ahead.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, I think we're gonna make an episode because after
what you told me about Letterbox, I think we need
to have a sit down discussion. AnyWho, I'm DEBA or
IMDb as I like to call it. We're on a
first name basis like that, So they have it at
a five point eight out of ten, a little over halfway. Now,
of course, we always save the attack of the Rotten
(18:53):
Killer tomatoes for last Well, the tomato meter is at
a woppin seventy eight percent. Feelings, actions, thoughts, smoking a pancake?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Is it the critics of the audience that's.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Scary the critics the tomato meter?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Is it seventy eight percent?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Seventy eight percent. Haven't got to the popcorn meter.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
It's pretty typical for them to be the opposite.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Of power feel always. But the audience I think is
maybe right there with us at a fifty eight percent,
so kind of in the middle, kind of ish right.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I do find it interesting that the majority of them
are right there at or just above the middle.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Right. Well, mister thunder from.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Down Under, it's the birthday.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Boys Gotta go first started off with you in a while,
and I feel like it's appropriate since it's your sixteenth birthday. Yeah,
it is not his sixteenth birthday. It's like sixteen plus sixteen. Think,
I don't know, we don't do that. It's actually more
than that.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, that would be thirty two.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, you're way past sixty. Oh god, we're
way past sixteen plus six add five more to that. AnyWho,
if a moment we're made of cheese. Would you eat?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I know I would shoot I will. I think the
ending of this film kind of saved it from being
very low to me, So I'm going to put it
at a three three.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Okay, interestingly enough, I'm right there with them. A three, which,
if you think about we go to a five three
is just above halfway because halfway's two point five, So
we're kind of right there with them with everybody else.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Let me say this before I forget to say it.
I do like the last thirty minutes. It saved it
for me. But I think the acting in the film
wasn't offensive to be a lower budget film. I think
it was a lot better than a lot of lower
budget acting. I think they did a lot with the
scenery and the score than a normal low budget film.
(20:57):
I think they did everything right except the story leading
up to the last bit of the film and how
they put it together. If they could have just got
those two things, they would have had a pretty decent
little sci fi or thriller film.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah. Well, I guess I'll throw my two cents into
it to see if it's worth anything. Before I give
my final rating for this movie, I do want to
point out Also, this movie was shot very well. I'm
not insulted by this, I'm just let down by this
movie started off great, ended great. Shit in the middle
(21:32):
shipped a bit hard. The scenery, the costumes, the score
was shot so well, like it was shot so well
to the point that I forgot this was a lower
budget film, and it was almost like it was very close.
It was so close that it was so close to
(21:54):
being Top five if they wouldn't have did the CGI
bug monsters kept with the practical effects and got rid
of as much CGI as possible because all the CGI
we saw that wasn't good was unnecessary, and the stuff
that we saw was very like Star Wars esque. You know,
(22:15):
you could tell it's like not real, but it still
feels real, and it felt very practical. But then, you know,
like I said, there was some CGI and it it
was just unnecessary, unwanted. You could have cut it out
and it wouldn't have made Hillebein's difference. Honestly, if you
cut thirty to forty minutes of this movie, it still
wouldn't make a difference. And that's the problem with this
(22:35):
movie is that the editing is the biggest part of it,
and it tried to go a little too big when
it didn't need to. They would have just kept that.
You would have had a fucking hit in saying that
I'm with you, guys.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I give it a three wow, unanimous.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Unanimous three because it got so much right that I'm
a little bit forgiving on this because the practical effects
always big on it. They nailed the gore in it,
and the action part and the last bit of this
movie really saved it because I was dwindling down to
like two level because of how abysmal this middle part is. Overall,
(23:15):
I think it's three. Well, if you get a chance
to check out our social media's we would appreciate it.
And I say media is with it now. It's because
we're on all your platforms from Facebook to Instagram, to
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know it is what it is. You can go to
our link tree that is located in our Instagram and
(23:35):
we've got all sorts of goodies that takes you across
the multiverse of thirteen thirty one shit to all the things,
all the things, and you know, we do appreciate y'all
listen to us taking the time out of your day
to you know, let us into your lives. But as always,
I'm Ripper and I'm taught of thunderstand to to lou
(23:55):
By my little monsters, stay spooky and wait for it
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