February 13, 2025 • 37 mins
A look back at the crappy year that was 2024 and some news about the double crappy start to 2025. Plus my movie watches of last year, the highs and lows and things in between. I'm such a lucky boy.
Me on TPB talking about Radio On (1979): https://www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2024/08/episode-702-radio-on-1979.html
Me on TPB talking about Radio On (1979): https://www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2024/08/episode-702-radio-on-1979.html
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Wake Up Heavy is a weirdy Way media podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome to Wake Up Heavy, the world's greatest horror movie podcast.
In this episode, my weird dad will be talking about.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Hello and welcome to Wake Up Heavy recollections of horror.
This is Mark Begley, your host. It is the twelfth
of February twenty twenty five, and I'm doing look back
at the last year, talk about crap that's been going
on with me and whatever else pops into my head
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type of episode. Run through some watches from last year,
new stuff, family stuff, best of for favorites for me,
I guess, talk about some news in my life. Had
a major life event that some of you may already
know about. And then I'm not going to lay anything
out for twenty twenty five because who knows what's going
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to happen. All right, let's get started on this, so
as you all know, if you listened to the episode,
follow me on social media. My father passed away back
in August of twenty twenty four. We had his memorial
service in October at the assisted living facility where my
parents live lived my mom still lives. It was very nice,
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it was very well done by then them man and
the people that spoke about my dad just had a
lot of amazing things to say, and I kind of
a lot of stuff that I had sort of forgotten about.
The surprising thing for me was I was the only
one that lost it during this. I thought for sure
my sister was going to I didn't think I was
going to lose it at all. But I walked in
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and I saw the setup and a couple of personal
items of his that were up that my mom had
kept over the years, and I thought, oh crap, I'm
done for Yeah. I ended up being pretty emotional for me,
and it was a very lovely service. I wanted to
say thanks again to the friends of mine and my
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wives and my families that showed up. Thank you to
Courtney and Juni for showing up, and thanks Steve and
Rebecca for showing up. Greatly appreciate it. So it was
a lot of our first holidays without my dad. Towards
the end of the year, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's I
can't believe it's been six months already. So in a way,
twenty twenty four was a pretty shitty year, but we
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still had twenty twenty five to look forward to and
isn't this a lot of fun? I may be looking
back on twenty twenty four as the golden days, who knows,
but twenty twenty five has started it out as a
shit burger. For one thing, one of my personal film
I don't want to say hero, but maybe Hero David
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Lynch passed away and kind of was prepared for it
or expected it when he announced, and I think this
was back in August two of last year, that he
was battling with a very bad case of emphysema, and
I kind of thought, oh boy, here we go. And
it happened, and it actually really shook me. One of
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my all time favorite film directors. I could listen to
that man talk for hours and hours and hours, as
I know I've mentioned on the show and even on
Cambridge and with Sean. You know, sometimes I just throw
on the eraser Head stories, not even the film. I
just watched that quote unquote behind the scenes part of
it that's included with that old DBD. I have just
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to hear him talk and tell stories. So that was
a real bummer, even.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Or not, Eraserhead is my most spiritual film.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Shortly after that, Yours truly had himself a little accident.
So again, if you follow me on social media, particularly.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That doesn't sound right.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Particularly Instagram, you know that I took a nasty spill
off of a very tall ladder while I was limbing
the tree in my front yard, which I know I've
talked about at some point last year, because I did
a good portion of it last year with the help
of my brother in law, my nephew, and my daughter,
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and this year it was just my daughter and I
worked on it one day, got a bunch done, had
just a little bit left to do. My dumb ass
decided to finish it off on Mlkday on my own.
I don't remember anything about what happened, but apparently from
what I've heard and can kind of suss out, I
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got knocked off of the ladder by one of the
that I was cutting. Took about a fifteen foot fall.
I broke my femur, I broke some ribs, I broke
my scapula, I had some hairline fractions.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I believe MARKMNT fractures.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
In lumbar in my back, punctured my lung and.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Was treated to a lovely chest tube.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And spent five days in the hospital. So that Monday
through that Friday, and then I was transported to a
local rehab facility to rehab my leg and the rest
of my body. Not a fun experience, although I have
to say, as bad as all of that sounds, I
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did not suffer much pain. Like I said, I don't
remember the accident itself. I remember seeing the EMTs show up.
Of course, my wife was horrified and terrified and traumatized,
and I think that's probably the worst part of all
of this. My daughter was off with friends, so she
kind of found out later. I don't remember much. I
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remember showing up at the hospital and then very hazy
after that, and then I remember being in the er
and then being taken up to my room, and you know,
family came and visited. The only non family member that
came and visited was my co host for Cambridge on
Mashawn Ronald Zuriggian. He brought me some cool toys. Go
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check out Cambridge on mashan if you're not already listening.
I got back home after two weeks of being in
those facilities, and again, really not a lot of pain.
I mean I was pumped full of meds in the hospital.
At rehab, I was just getting gabapenton for the pain,
some blood thinners and other miscellaneous stuff, but surprisingly pain
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free for the most part, I must say, and kind
of relearning how to walk, not again. I can motor
around pretty good. I am currently in a wheelchair, but
I can use a walker and even a cane to
a certain extent. And so I'm going through PT at
home now and getting myself all situated and hopefully back
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to normal. I got a real fucking nasty scar on
my leg. Man, I shouldn't say nasty, but it's pretty
damn long. They did a nice job of sewing it
up or gluing it up, or whatever the heck they
do these days, and so I'll have that fun thing
to talk about for the rest of my life. That
and the twelve inch long metal rod that is now
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in my leg from my femur to my knee. The
funny thing or the ironic. Man, maybe it's neither of
those things. It's neither funny nor ironic. The shitty thing
is is I was almost done with the job. There's
one long branch left, and my anger at myself and
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the situation made me think, oh, somebody needs to cut
that fucking thing down. For me, and then by the
time I got to rehab, I started to rethink it
a little bit, and I thought, you know what, No,
I'm leaving that thing up there for as long as
I can, and screw it. It's going to be the reminder.
This one long finger looks like the death finger of
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the ghost in a Christmas Carol, is going to remind
me of the idiotic thing that I did. So it'll
be up there for a while. I hope my neighbor
doesn't take it upon himself to just cut it down
without talking to me, but that is a possibility. Now.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
If you're playing the movie on a telephone, you will
never in a trillion years experience the film. You'll think
you have experienced it, but you will be cheated. It's
just such a sadness that you think you've seen a
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film on your fucking telephone to get real.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So, yeah, that was kind of my shitty start of
the year. Glad to be on the mend and back home,
and I started looking at stuff and thought, you know what,
let's get an episode out, Let's talk about this stuff,
let's talk about movies, gosh darn it, and try to
get twenty twenty five off to a decent start and
hope to God Almighty that the next four years just
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don't absolutely kill all of us. As you all have
heard me say throughout last year, watching movies has been tough.
I'm not sure exactly what the reasons are. I know
that my attention span last year was nearly non existent.
Watching movies with Cleo even became harder, and it was
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more family watches than individual watches with her, although we
did do a number of the as well. I can
tell by looking at my list here and what I've
gone through. But I can tell you this lowest total
watches of the year by far. Since I started with Letterboxed.
I logged one hundred and fifty three movies and or
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one hundred and forty five since there were some duplicate
watches throughout there. That's I mean, considering I was close
to five hundred a couple of years ago. That's a big,
huge difference. I've been whiling away the hours watching a
bunch of crap on YouTube, looking at stuff that doesn't
require a great deal of thought and I can forget
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about immediately. So if you can believe it, I only
released five episodes of Wake Upebi last year, and I
looked at that and I thought, I can't be right,
but oh, it sure is.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
And if you can believe it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
So I kind of turned it into a bi monthly show,
which doesn't even pan out, because I'm sure that wasn't
every couple of months that I released something. But you know,
I'm still keeping this place. I'm still planning on doing stuff.
There are some movies I like to watch with Cleo
and talk about. There are some movies i'd like to
maybe have Christashu or somebody else come on and talk about.
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It's just finding the time to get around to it
anymore has become a real struggle for me for whatever reason.
Maybe it's self imposed, I don't know, but there you
have it. Regardless of all that, It's been a while
since I've done one of these look back episodes, but
the basic structure is the same.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Here.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I'm going to talk about the family and or Cleo
watches first, and then my individual watches, and a lot
of this will be rewatches. I'll note the new watches.
Apologies on some of this that may have been in
past episodes. I did also have a subdural hematoma and
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I was unconscious when I fell obviously, since I don't
remember any thing about it, and so there is a
little bit of brain loss going on here, and I
don't particularly remember every little instance of stuff that we
already talked about, So forgive me for that. I tried
to suss that out as I was making my list
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and going, Okay, you don't really need to bring that
up again. You and Cleo and Carlita talked about that,
or you and Cleo talked about that. Forgive the repeats
as a family. In twenty twenty four, we started out
the year with a Lord of the Rings trilogy rewatch.
We have the extended edition DVDs that were released pretty much,
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you know, first thing after the films came out on
physical media, and they are the two disc versions, so
they couldn't even fit the full movies back then on
one disc for a DVD. And I believe that Cleo
also watched them. She went over to a friend's house
for a sleepover and they watched them again. You know,
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she likes them. She actually likes the Hobbit movies, which
you know, whatever kind of count for taste sometimes, but
great way to start the year. That was probably a push,
you know, the holiday type stuff which I'll get into
here that seems to crop up every year. I rewatched
every which way but Loose, a childhood favorite of mine.
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Kind of bring that up because of my dad. I
know that he really enjoyed that film, probably talked about
it on that Dad episode that I did Cleon and
I watched Donnie Darko. That was her first time. She
amazes me. She catches on to stuff so much more
quickly than I do. I always have a little bit
of trouble with that time loop aspect of the film.
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But she got it right away and got the clues
and the connections and all that junk. And I'm kind
of like, oh yeah, I am right. And I've seen
it three or four times. Probably I introduced her to
a an absolute favorite film of mine, Harold and Maud.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Was it you want to sing Out, Seeing Out and
if you want to be Free? The Free?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And I am proud and happy to say that she
got it and really liked it. It's something that we
have almost watched again a couple of times, and I
think would like to watch with my wife. I mean,
it's just one of those movies it's just such a
joyful experience, even with the sad sadness of the ending.
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It's a beautiful film. I'm so happy she liked it.
And the next film, though I don't think she enjoyed
or they enjoyed. I watch this with Cleo and Carlita
as much as that was All That Jazz And we
watched that because we had done a rewatch of Chicago.
I'm like, well, you guys got to watch All that
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jazz Man and I think it's just a little you know,
it's a little it's a little rough. It's about a
really awful per and I've always liked that film since
I saw it as a kid on TV. Cleon and
I did a lot of poking around the A twenty
four catalog, and in a pretty quick succession of time,
we watched The Witch. I believe that was Khleio's first time.
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Have we watched it together again.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Go back and listen to episode Let's see if I've
already talked about that. A Hole on the Ground, which
I have watched two or three times and have really enjoyed.
And Lamb, which is just a heck of a lot
of fun and I think kind of weirded her out
a little bit. But she loved that little baby lamb
child thing. I mean, who doesn't, And I guess I
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kind of. As I'm reading through my list here, I
mixed this up with family watches, Kleo watches, and my
own watches, so ignore what I said earlier. Blame it
on the brain damage. I watched a bunch of the
original Planet of the Apes films and that was in
prep for an episode of Camber Joe, Maashan or Ronnie.
I knew Ronnie was going to be talking about his
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obsession with those domes. That led to finally watching the
new versions, which I really liked, and then watched again.
I watched again with the family and they really enjoyed
as well, and we still haven't watched the new one
yet though, need to do that. I introduced Cleo first
time watches for her with The Exorcist three and The
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Dead Zone, which I believe she liked. I know the
Dead Zone she kind of feels the way I do
about it. It's a very melancholy and sad film, but
so well done, one of the best Stephen King adaptations
and a heck of a Cronenberg movie. We watched, of course,
because we did an episode on this, the Blues Brothers
and sleep Away Camp. Go check out the Skamad's episode
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of Wake Up Heavy for our discussion about that and
a bunch of other movies we watched, and then I
think this was Cleo's idea. We watched pretty much all
of the Jurassic Park slash Jurassic World slash Jurassic A Kingdom,
whatever the fuck they're called films, other than the first one,
which I still really love. They're all kind of hit
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and miss with me, but enjoyable schlock. I guess I
caught one of those perennial favorites of mine three Days
of the Condor. I think a couple of times it
was playing on maybe MGM or something, and I'll pretty
much sit through it if I catch it, so I know,
I caught it a couple of different times in different
spots and ended up rounding it out, finishing it off
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much like and Cleo kind to watch this with me.
It was on MGM again. I believe I caught it
the near the beginning, and she was in the room,
and I thought, Okay, I'm gonna make her sort of
watch this, and that is the taking of Pelham one
two three. I don't know that she was paying real
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close attention, but I know that shortly thereafter I put
part of the score, which I just freaking love on
my phone and so's it's come up a couple of
times in my car and we've looked it up in
relation to you know, that's David Schier, Tallya Shire, Jason Schwartzman,
what the connection was with all of them, and but
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she sorted that all out for me in the car.
It was kind of fun. Another perennial gosh, almost bi monthly.
I think we ended up watching Silence of the Lambs
about four or five times last year. It just kept
I think it was on showtime or something, and it
just kept popping up, and we would be in the
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room and we would jokingly say, oh, let's watch it again,
and the joke became a reality and we would click
on it and just kind of sit through it again.
And that was even a lot of the time, my
wife's suggestion or joke that became reality, and I was like,
you know, I'll freaking watch that movie just about any time.
So we went through that a bunch.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Nobody comes out of the water lots of times.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
There's leaves and things.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Who knows, Let's see what we can do in twenty
twenty five with that film. And I know we talked
about this on our Long Legs episode. We watched the
whole Mad Max slash Furiosa franchise. Really enjoyed that experience.
And I'm not sure if I talked about this or not.
Finally getting Cleo to watch Blue Ruin, and this was
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I think, did we watch Green Room or we talked
about watching Green Room and I kept saying, you need
to watch Blue Ruin. You know, it's a lot more
low key, but it's still really amazing my dude making
Blairs in it. And part of it was in prep
for me knowing that Jeremy Sonier had a new movie
coming out on Netflix, which I'll talk about in a
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little bit. And so we did watch it, and she
did enjoy it. You know, I may not overtake Green
Room kind of as our favorite together to watch, but man,
I love that movie and I love making Blair in it.
It's such a great revenge flick. I think around that
same time or even that same day, we watched Color
out of Space, which Cleo really enjoyed. I think my
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wife came home about midway through and was like, what
in the world are you guys watching? That is one
of those really well done Nick Cage performances that fits
the role and man the effects and that are just crazy.
Let's put it that way. I rewatched again. This was
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on the Long Legs episode. I rewatched all of Oz
Good Prickins films. Cleo got to see pretty much all
of them, mainly for the first time. We talked about
that and still haven't gone back. I haven't watched Long
Legs a second time yet. Need to do that. I
need to get my wife to see his other films
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and even the Twilight Zone episode, which is pretty fun.
Another movie that we watched multiple times and watched I
believe before right before my accident is Game Night. You
cannot go wrong with Game Night? How can that be
profitable for Freedom La. I've probably said this, but I'm
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beginning to believe that that is my favorite comedy film
of the last twenty something years, again because of camberd
jem with Shan. Something that my co host Ronnie brought
up was James Bond the books I think in particular,
but maybe also the movies. He hasn't discussed it in
full yet, but he brought it up as an as
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an obsession of his and I kind of poop pooed it.
I remember watching them on TV when I was a
kid and just never really it never sunk its claws
into me as a franchise or as anything. I don't know.
I think, particularly with the Roger Moore stuff, the campiness
of it didn't really work for me as a kid.
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But I decided, Okay, I'm going to watch the ones
with Richard Keel and this relates to Cambridge and with
Shawn as well. I have met Richard Keel when I
was younger, probably have talked about that on this show
as well. So I watched The Spy Who Loved Me,
which has for me the best Bond theme ever.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I wasn't looking, so now you found me.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
I found it hard roun.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
My heaven am.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Spy Steve and all you said, dude, and I relish
any chance to insert a little clip of that on
my show.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So I probably just did that right then and Moonraker
and enjoyed them. And so when Ronnie gets to that,
I will probably go through the Roger Moore films in
total and watch them and Cleo and Carlida were kind
of around when I was watching them, and so they
sort of got interested and hooked, and I think we
watched Moonraker together. They caught a little bit of the
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spy who loved me, and so maybe they'll watch a
bunch of them with me as well. And it had
been so long since I had seen any of those films.
As the holidays rolled around, we did our Cleo and
my annual Rewatch a Trick or Treat and Crampis and
we watched that one with my wife. So we get
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those Michael Doherty films in every year, love them both.
I'm not sure how much my wife likes watching Crampis
every year, but we're probably gonna keep doing it. And
then with Thanksgiving, so Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, I was really
in the mood for watching holiday themed stuff, movies, specials, whatever,
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so we watched all of the Charlie Brown specials, those
into the Year specials. Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. We watched
multiple versions of a Christmas Carol, including the Muppet Christmas Carol,
including the Jim Carrey one. We watched that almost every
year and really enjoy it. You know, the rotoscoping stuff
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doesn't bother me so much in that one because of
the way that the characters look. They're not super super
realistic human characters. We also watched multiple versions of The Grinch.
My daughter has a thing for the again the Jim
Carrey live action version of that, so we watched that
violent night has become an annual staple home alone. We
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watched the Christmas Chronicles, Good Old Kurt Russell, Netflix Films,
and what else did we watch? Not Christmas related? But
we watched Fargo again on my daughter's behalf the heck
do you mean? She kept talking about it and my
wife and I had caught a little bit of it
or most of it on kle and then we went
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ahead and watched it in full with Cleo. I watched Diehard,
which is a Christmas movie as far as I'm concerned.
I got a hankering, and I think this happens almost
every year at that time of year. I watched the
original Star Wars trilogy and ended up watching them twice actually,
and the family joined me for most of that, not
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the second watch necessarily, but definitely the first watch. Our
final rewatches of the year were the first two Guardians
of the Galaxy.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Films, Locator, Mama, Papa, Common for You, I'm a Space, I'll.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Be around, and Big Monkey Bird for the Worst.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Onto at least my first time watches. We started out
the year with a couple of interesting Hulu entries Quiz
Lady and Self Reliance. Check those out, they're interesting. We
watched a couple of crazy movies early on Swiss Army Man,
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which I had been meaning to catch for a long time,
a twenty four film, and that was because of Everything
Everywhere All at Once, which we had watched I don't
know how much before that, but knowing that that was
their other the Daniels Daniels, is that the Daniels or
the David's Daniels, I believe other film prior film, and yeah,
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it's a little bit darker than I expected, but very interesting.
And then we watched Poor Things Your Ghosts Lanthemo's film,
which we all really enjoyed, and the much different are
You There, God, It's Me Margaret, which was cute. Cleio
and I watched Lisa Frankenstein and Abigail, which were new
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to both of us, and I believe that was rounded
out with Freaky so it was like a Catherine Newton
Triple feature. I think we may have talked about that
on one of our episodes together. I believe we did.
That's sort of starting to ring a bell in my
baddled brain. My wife and I watched Killers of the
Flower Moon and really enjoyed it. Again one of the
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man rough rough stuff and Scorsese's still killing it man.
But wow, yeah, hard to watch. I know we talked
about this, I believe on the Long Legs episode. The
Noughty Nun films that we watched Immaculate and the first
Omen that shared some DNA. Those were a hoot to
say the least. Need to watch that first Omen again.
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I believe I had an appearance on the Projection booth
last year for a British film called Radio On, So
I watched that. Very interesting. Check out that episode if
you haven't, I may try and link that here for you.
If I remember, my memory ain't so great. We watched
m Night Shyamalan's Trap with Josh Hartnet and we're be mused,
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be fuddled, and at least I was highly entertained by
that craziness. This is like the happening kind of Shyamalan,
just bizarre. But I think on purpose, I think it's
a comedy. I think he thinks it's a comedy, or
it was supposed to be a comedy. I don't know,
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but something tells me because Josh Hartnett is cuckoo in that.
I mentioned Blue Ruin earlier. Jeremy Solnier, I was really
looking forward to Rebel Ridge looked very interesting, always happy
to watch a new film of his, and I kept
pushing to watch that with Cleo and Carlita. They were
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kind of himmed and hot about it. So one night
they were in the bedroom watching I don't know, maybe
an award show or something else, and I'm like, gosh,
darn it, I'm gonna just watch this my darn self.
So I did, and really really liked it. I don't
know if I talked about that at all on an episode,
but man, oh man, was that good, very very great
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lead performance. And of course I didn't write the actor's
name down, darn it. I'll have my AI helper insert
that here.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
The actor's name is Aaron Pierre. He played mid sized
sedan and old.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Don Johnson was great in it. Was great in it,
just a really interesting I know this comparison gets tossed
around a lot, but a kind of first blood scenario
done in such a fascinating way. Yeah, I do believe
I did talk about it, but yeah, good stuff, watch it.
Watch all of that guy's movies, Jeremy Sonier that is,
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or the actor too. I've only seen him in a
couple things. We caught new flicks when they became available
on streaming, Deadpool and Wolverine and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Yeah, you
know they are what they are, sequels to Tint Poll.
I don't know. I don't know what you would call
beetle Juice beetlejuice. That was a bit of a mess,
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way too many storylines going on, but I believe we
all enjoyed it to a certain extent. I watched To
the Devil a Daughter. I know I talked about that
at some point, I remember, I think because of drf Fan.
Maybe I didn't, did I, or maybe I mentioned because
of Dr Fan and the underage nudity, and so yes,
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I ended up watching To the Devil a Daughter, which
I enjoyed. It kind of reminded me a little bit
of the weirdness in Blood on Satan's Claw on some
of those other folk horror films from that era. Cleo
and I watched The New Salem's Lot. I actually kind
of enjoyed it. I had heard the negative comments about
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it and how it's pretty truncated, which it definitely is
very simplified story, but there were a lot of really
cool creepysual vigils visuals in that movie that worked for me.
I'd actually kind of like to watch it again, just
to compare and contrast in my head. Cleon and I
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had watched the original mini series earlier in the year.
I don't think she was paying all that much attention
to it. I mean, it's a lot, you know, it's
three plus hours long. It's a TV movie, so it's
not super duper exciting, but again, very very creepy visuals
in that. I was surprised that they used the same
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Barlow makeup for this. I'm not sure why they went
with the Nosferatu look for the vampire in this one,
if only, I guess as a nod to the original
mini series, but it doesn't make any sense because that
is not how the character is written in the book,
So I don't know. That's a head scratcher for me
as a family. We watched Will and Herper on Netflix
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and really really enjoyed it. Yeah, I mean, can I
suggest it to everybody? I would like to. I know
that some people are just not going to be up
for that kind of thing, and that's sad, but it
was a very interesting and very touching story. We also
watched Woman of the Hour, and I don't know, I'm
not sure how I felt about that we had just
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watched something about that true story. I think because of
the movie coming out, they were replaying stuff on you know,
dateline and whatever, and the liberties that the movie took
were unnecessary, I think, and just I sort of ended
up rubbing me the wrong way and the way that
it was a nonlinear story also, I don't know, it
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didn't quite work for this kind of true crime thing
to me at least, so that was sort of a
bit of a miss. And we also watched the latest
iteration of the Ghostbusters franchise, which was a big fat
eh for me. Cleon and I watched Alien Romulus, which
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was fine. I like Fiddie Albarez. I would definitely be
up for watching this again, and the next one I'm
kind of I'm not gonna say I'm all in on
alien stuff, but it's intriguing enough to me. The ash
recreation business aside, it was decent enough. We rounded out
the year on a religious note, finished up with Heretic
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with Hugh Grant and Sophie Thatcher Oh gosh, and I
forgot the other girl's name, as well as Conclave. Both
were great. I would watch both again. Really enjoyed the
the religious aspect of both. Actually, that Latter day Saints
thing and Heretic is always fascinating to me, and watching
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a bunch of pissy old priests run around and trying
to pick a pope was just fun as all.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Heck, they say there's just enough religion in the world
to make men hate one another, but not enough to
make them love.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Oh is that what they say? For my top watches
of the year, I'm gonna go with every which way
but loose, even though that's a rewatch. I really enjoyed
seeing that again for the first time in decades and
would definitely watch again and maybe try to get Cleota watch.
And it's kind an orangutang in it. Come on, poor things.
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Killers of the Flower Moon, the first omen of the
two noughty Nun movies. That was my preferred film, Furiosa
Radio on, very low key film, but lots of fun.
To the devil a Daughter, I'd add to that because
of that Blood on Satan's Claw parison. Heretic and Conclave
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would be tops for last year and the two top
and I didn't even mention, well, I guess I kind
of have been passing two top watches for me last year.
Favorite films of last year, Long Legs and Rebel Ridge.
So if you haven't seen any of those films and
are curious, track them down and watch them. Most of
them are probably streaming somewhere. Actually I don't know is
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Long leg streaming right now? Has it come out?
Speaker 4 (35:26):
It was?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
What neon? So which if it is, it should be
on Hulu. So if you got Hulu, check it out.
Rebel Ridge is on Netflix, Uh believe first, omen is Hulu.
I don't go find them, do your homework and find
them all right until next time, which shoo knows when
that'll be. I've got a few things, like I said
on my list, that I'd like to watch with Cleo.
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Probably getting her to record is going to be even
harder now because she's seventeen and she's hanging out with
her friends on the weekends, and I'm losing my little
baby girl. But we'll see. Hopefully I can get us
all to watch a couple of things and her and
I to talk about something, which is always fun. Until then,
maybe by the next time I talk to you, I'm
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completely held up and walking on my own and without
a limp or who knows what, who knows what this
pet will will get me. But here's to hoping that
to twenty five, good lord, twenty twenty five isn't an
unmitigated disaster, and that we all make it through the year.
I don't know, We'll see how that pounds out the
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next time I talk to y'all. Have a great day,
have a great month, have a great however long it
is until I see you next, And thank you so
much for listening. And don't forget anything can happen when
you wake up heavy, fucked up.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Wow, this has just been such a pleasure. I'm such
a lucky boy.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I can't wait to go home. Wake Up Heavy is
a weirding Way Media podcast
Wake Up Heavy is a weirdy Way media podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome to Wake Up Heavy, the world's greatest horror movie podcast.
In this episode, my weird dad will be talking about.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Hello and welcome to Wake Up Heavy recollections of horror.
This is Mark Begley, your host. It is the twelfth
of February twenty twenty five, and I'm doing look back
at the last year, talk about crap that's been going
on with me and whatever else pops into my head
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type of episode. Run through some watches from last year,
new stuff, family stuff, best of for favorites for me,
I guess, talk about some news in my life. Had
a major life event that some of you may already
know about. And then I'm not going to lay anything
out for twenty twenty five because who knows what's going
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to happen. All right, let's get started on this, so
as you all know, if you listened to the episode,
follow me on social media. My father passed away back
in August of twenty twenty four. We had his memorial
service in October at the assisted living facility where my
parents live lived my mom still lives. It was very nice,
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it was very well done by then them man and
the people that spoke about my dad just had a
lot of amazing things to say, and I kind of
a lot of stuff that I had sort of forgotten about.
The surprising thing for me was I was the only
one that lost it during this. I thought for sure
my sister was going to I didn't think I was
going to lose it at all. But I walked in
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and I saw the setup and a couple of personal
items of his that were up that my mom had
kept over the years, and I thought, oh crap, I'm
done for Yeah. I ended up being pretty emotional for me,
and it was a very lovely service. I wanted to
say thanks again to the friends of mine and my
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wives and my families that showed up. Thank you to
Courtney and Juni for showing up, and thanks Steve and
Rebecca for showing up. Greatly appreciate it. So it was
a lot of our first holidays without my dad. Towards
the end of the year, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's I
can't believe it's been six months already. So in a way,
twenty twenty four was a pretty shitty year, but we
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still had twenty twenty five to look forward to and
isn't this a lot of fun? I may be looking
back on twenty twenty four as the golden days, who knows,
but twenty twenty five has started it out as a
shit burger. For one thing, one of my personal film
I don't want to say hero, but maybe Hero David
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Lynch passed away and kind of was prepared for it
or expected it when he announced, and I think this
was back in August two of last year, that he
was battling with a very bad case of emphysema, and
I kind of thought, oh boy, here we go. And
it happened, and it actually really shook me. One of
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my all time favorite film directors. I could listen to
that man talk for hours and hours and hours, as
I know I've mentioned on the show and even on
Cambridge and with Sean. You know, sometimes I just throw
on the eraser Head stories, not even the film. I
just watched that quote unquote behind the scenes part of
it that's included with that old DBD. I have just
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to hear him talk and tell stories. So that was
a real bummer, even.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Or not, Eraserhead is my most spiritual film.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Shortly after that, Yours truly had himself a little accident.
So again, if you follow me on social media, particularly.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That doesn't sound right.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Particularly Instagram, you know that I took a nasty spill
off of a very tall ladder while I was limbing
the tree in my front yard, which I know I've
talked about at some point last year, because I did
a good portion of it last year with the help
of my brother in law, my nephew, and my daughter,
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and this year it was just my daughter and I
worked on it one day, got a bunch done, had
just a little bit left to do. My dumb ass
decided to finish it off on Mlkday on my own.
I don't remember anything about what happened, but apparently from
what I've heard and can kind of suss out, I
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got knocked off of the ladder by one of the
that I was cutting. Took about a fifteen foot fall.
I broke my femur, I broke some ribs, I broke
my scapula, I had some hairline fractions.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I believe MARKMNT fractures.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
In lumbar in my back, punctured my lung and.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Was treated to a lovely chest tube.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And spent five days in the hospital. So that Monday
through that Friday, and then I was transported to a
local rehab facility to rehab my leg and the rest
of my body. Not a fun experience, although I have
to say, as bad as all of that sounds, I
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did not suffer much pain. Like I said, I don't
remember the accident itself. I remember seeing the EMTs show up.
Of course, my wife was horrified and terrified and traumatized,
and I think that's probably the worst part of all
of this. My daughter was off with friends, so she
kind of found out later. I don't remember much. I
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remember showing up at the hospital and then very hazy
after that, and then I remember being in the er
and then being taken up to my room, and you know,
family came and visited. The only non family member that
came and visited was my co host for Cambridge on
Mashawn Ronald Zuriggian. He brought me some cool toys. Go
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check out Cambridge on mashan if you're not already listening.
I got back home after two weeks of being in
those facilities, and again, really not a lot of pain.
I mean I was pumped full of meds in the hospital.
At rehab, I was just getting gabapenton for the pain,
some blood thinners and other miscellaneous stuff, but surprisingly pain
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free for the most part, I must say, and kind
of relearning how to walk, not again. I can motor
around pretty good. I am currently in a wheelchair, but
I can use a walker and even a cane to
a certain extent. And so I'm going through PT at
home now and getting myself all situated and hopefully back
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to normal. I got a real fucking nasty scar on
my leg. Man, I shouldn't say nasty, but it's pretty
damn long. They did a nice job of sewing it
up or gluing it up, or whatever the heck they
do these days, and so I'll have that fun thing
to talk about for the rest of my life. That
and the twelve inch long metal rod that is now
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in my leg from my femur to my knee. The
funny thing or the ironic. Man, maybe it's neither of
those things. It's neither funny nor ironic. The shitty thing
is is I was almost done with the job. There's
one long branch left, and my anger at myself and
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the situation made me think, oh, somebody needs to cut
that fucking thing down. For me, and then by the
time I got to rehab, I started to rethink it
a little bit, and I thought, you know what, No,
I'm leaving that thing up there for as long as
I can, and screw it. It's going to be the reminder.
This one long finger looks like the death finger of
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the ghost in a Christmas Carol, is going to remind
me of the idiotic thing that I did. So it'll
be up there for a while. I hope my neighbor
doesn't take it upon himself to just cut it down
without talking to me, but that is a possibility. Now.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
If you're playing the movie on a telephone, you will
never in a trillion years experience the film. You'll think
you have experienced it, but you will be cheated. It's
just such a sadness that you think you've seen a
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film on your fucking telephone to get real.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So, yeah, that was kind of my shitty start of
the year. Glad to be on the mend and back home,
and I started looking at stuff and thought, you know what,
let's get an episode out, Let's talk about this stuff,
let's talk about movies, gosh darn it, and try to
get twenty twenty five off to a decent start and
hope to God Almighty that the next four years just
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don't absolutely kill all of us. As you all have
heard me say throughout last year, watching movies has been tough.
I'm not sure exactly what the reasons are. I know
that my attention span last year was nearly non existent.
Watching movies with Cleo even became harder, and it was
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more family watches than individual watches with her, although we
did do a number of the as well. I can
tell by looking at my list here and what I've
gone through. But I can tell you this lowest total
watches of the year by far. Since I started with Letterboxed.
I logged one hundred and fifty three movies and or
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one hundred and forty five since there were some duplicate
watches throughout there. That's I mean, considering I was close
to five hundred a couple of years ago. That's a big,
huge difference. I've been whiling away the hours watching a
bunch of crap on YouTube, looking at stuff that doesn't
require a great deal of thought and I can forget
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about immediately. So if you can believe it, I only
released five episodes of Wake Upebi last year, and I
looked at that and I thought, I can't be right,
but oh, it sure is.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
And if you can believe it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
So I kind of turned it into a bi monthly show,
which doesn't even pan out, because I'm sure that wasn't
every couple of months that I released something. But you know,
I'm still keeping this place. I'm still planning on doing stuff.
There are some movies I like to watch with Cleo
and talk about. There are some movies i'd like to
maybe have Christashu or somebody else come on and talk about.
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It's just finding the time to get around to it
anymore has become a real struggle for me for whatever reason.
Maybe it's self imposed, I don't know, but there you
have it. Regardless of all that, It's been a while
since I've done one of these look back episodes, but
the basic structure is the same.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Here.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I'm going to talk about the family and or Cleo
watches first, and then my individual watches, and a lot
of this will be rewatches. I'll note the new watches.
Apologies on some of this that may have been in
past episodes. I did also have a subdural hematoma and
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I was unconscious when I fell obviously, since I don't
remember any thing about it, and so there is a
little bit of brain loss going on here, and I
don't particularly remember every little instance of stuff that we
already talked about, So forgive me for that. I tried
to suss that out as I was making my list
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and going, Okay, you don't really need to bring that
up again. You and Cleo and Carlita talked about that,
or you and Cleo talked about that. Forgive the repeats
as a family. In twenty twenty four, we started out
the year with a Lord of the Rings trilogy rewatch.
We have the extended edition DVDs that were released pretty much,
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you know, first thing after the films came out on
physical media, and they are the two disc versions, so
they couldn't even fit the full movies back then on
one disc for a DVD. And I believe that Cleo
also watched them. She went over to a friend's house
for a sleepover and they watched them again. You know,
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she likes them. She actually likes the Hobbit movies, which
you know, whatever kind of count for taste sometimes, but
great way to start the year. That was probably a push,
you know, the holiday type stuff which I'll get into
here that seems to crop up every year. I rewatched
every which way but Loose, a childhood favorite of mine.
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Kind of bring that up because of my dad. I
know that he really enjoyed that film, probably talked about
it on that Dad episode that I did Cleon and
I watched Donnie Darko. That was her first time. She
amazes me. She catches on to stuff so much more
quickly than I do. I always have a little bit
of trouble with that time loop aspect of the film.
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But she got it right away and got the clues
and the connections and all that junk. And I'm kind
of like, oh yeah, I am right. And I've seen
it three or four times. Probably I introduced her to
a an absolute favorite film of mine, Harold and Maud.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Was it you want to sing Out, Seeing Out and
if you want to be Free? The Free?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And I am proud and happy to say that she
got it and really liked it. It's something that we
have almost watched again a couple of times, and I
think would like to watch with my wife. I mean,
it's just one of those movies it's just such a
joyful experience, even with the sad sadness of the ending.
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It's a beautiful film. I'm so happy she liked it.
And the next film, though I don't think she enjoyed
or they enjoyed. I watch this with Cleo and Carlita
as much as that was All That Jazz And we
watched that because we had done a rewatch of Chicago.
I'm like, well, you guys got to watch All that
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jazz Man and I think it's just a little you know,
it's a little it's a little rough. It's about a
really awful per and I've always liked that film since
I saw it as a kid on TV. Cleon and
I did a lot of poking around the A twenty
four catalog, and in a pretty quick succession of time,
we watched The Witch. I believe that was Khleio's first time.
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Have we watched it together again.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Go back and listen to episode Let's see if I've
already talked about that. A Hole on the Ground, which
I have watched two or three times and have really enjoyed.
And Lamb, which is just a heck of a lot
of fun and I think kind of weirded her out
a little bit. But she loved that little baby lamb
child thing. I mean, who doesn't, And I guess I
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kind of. As I'm reading through my list here, I
mixed this up with family watches, Kleo watches, and my
own watches, so ignore what I said earlier. Blame it
on the brain damage. I watched a bunch of the
original Planet of the Apes films and that was in
prep for an episode of Camber Joe, Maashan or Ronnie.
I knew Ronnie was going to be talking about his
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obsession with those domes. That led to finally watching the
new versions, which I really liked, and then watched again.
I watched again with the family and they really enjoyed
as well, and we still haven't watched the new one
yet though, need to do that. I introduced Cleo first
time watches for her with The Exorcist three and The
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Dead Zone, which I believe she liked. I know the
Dead Zone she kind of feels the way I do
about it. It's a very melancholy and sad film, but
so well done, one of the best Stephen King adaptations
and a heck of a Cronenberg movie. We watched, of course,
because we did an episode on this, the Blues Brothers
and sleep Away Camp. Go check out the Skamad's episode
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of Wake Up Heavy for our discussion about that and
a bunch of other movies we watched, and then I
think this was Cleo's idea. We watched pretty much all
of the Jurassic Park slash Jurassic World slash Jurassic A Kingdom,
whatever the fuck they're called films, other than the first one,
which I still really love. They're all kind of hit
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and miss with me, but enjoyable schlock. I guess I
caught one of those perennial favorites of mine three Days
of the Condor. I think a couple of times it
was playing on maybe MGM or something, and I'll pretty
much sit through it if I catch it, so I know,
I caught it a couple of different times in different
spots and ended up rounding it out, finishing it off
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much like and Cleo kind to watch this with me.
It was on MGM again. I believe I caught it
the near the beginning, and she was in the room,
and I thought, Okay, I'm gonna make her sort of
watch this, and that is the taking of Pelham one
two three. I don't know that she was paying real
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close attention, but I know that shortly thereafter I put
part of the score, which I just freaking love on
my phone and so's it's come up a couple of
times in my car and we've looked it up in
relation to you know, that's David Schier, Tallya Shire, Jason Schwartzman,
what the connection was with all of them, and but
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she sorted that all out for me in the car.
It was kind of fun. Another perennial gosh, almost bi monthly.
I think we ended up watching Silence of the Lambs
about four or five times last year. It just kept
I think it was on showtime or something, and it
just kept popping up, and we would be in the
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room and we would jokingly say, oh, let's watch it again,
and the joke became a reality and we would click
on it and just kind of sit through it again.
And that was even a lot of the time, my
wife's suggestion or joke that became reality, and I was like,
you know, I'll freaking watch that movie just about any time.
So we went through that a bunch.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Nobody comes out of the water lots of times.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
There's leaves and things.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Who knows, Let's see what we can do in twenty
twenty five with that film. And I know we talked
about this on our Long Legs episode. We watched the
whole Mad Max slash Furiosa franchise. Really enjoyed that experience.
And I'm not sure if I talked about this or not.
Finally getting Cleo to watch Blue Ruin, and this was
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I think, did we watch Green Room or we talked
about watching Green Room and I kept saying, you need
to watch Blue Ruin. You know, it's a lot more
low key, but it's still really amazing my dude making
Blairs in it. And part of it was in prep
for me knowing that Jeremy Sonier had a new movie
coming out on Netflix, which I'll talk about in a
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little bit. And so we did watch it, and she
did enjoy it. You know, I may not overtake Green
Room kind of as our favorite together to watch, but man,
I love that movie and I love making Blair in it.
It's such a great revenge flick. I think around that
same time or even that same day, we watched Color
out of Space, which Cleo really enjoyed. I think my
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wife came home about midway through and was like, what
in the world are you guys watching? That is one
of those really well done Nick Cage performances that fits
the role and man the effects and that are just crazy.
Let's put it that way. I rewatched again. This was
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on the Long Legs episode. I rewatched all of Oz
Good Prickins films. Cleo got to see pretty much all
of them, mainly for the first time. We talked about
that and still haven't gone back. I haven't watched Long
Legs a second time yet. Need to do that. I
need to get my wife to see his other films
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and even the Twilight Zone episode, which is pretty fun.
Another movie that we watched multiple times and watched I
believe before right before my accident is Game Night. You
cannot go wrong with Game Night? How can that be
profitable for Freedom La. I've probably said this, but I'm
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beginning to believe that that is my favorite comedy film
of the last twenty something years, again because of camberd
jem with Shan. Something that my co host Ronnie brought
up was James Bond the books I think in particular,
but maybe also the movies. He hasn't discussed it in
full yet, but he brought it up as an as
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an obsession of his and I kind of poop pooed it.
I remember watching them on TV when I was a
kid and just never really it never sunk its claws
into me as a franchise or as anything. I don't know.
I think, particularly with the Roger Moore stuff, the campiness
of it didn't really work for me as a kid.
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But I decided, Okay, I'm going to watch the ones
with Richard Keel and this relates to Cambridge and with
Shawn as well. I have met Richard Keel when I
was younger, probably have talked about that on this show
as well. So I watched The Spy Who Loved Me,
which has for me the best Bond theme ever.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I wasn't looking, so now you found me.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
I found it hard roun.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
My heaven am.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Spy Steve and all you said, dude, and I relish
any chance to insert a little clip of that on
my show.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So I probably just did that right then and Moonraker
and enjoyed them. And so when Ronnie gets to that,
I will probably go through the Roger Moore films in
total and watch them and Cleo and Carlida were kind
of around when I was watching them, and so they
sort of got interested and hooked, and I think we
watched Moonraker together. They caught a little bit of the
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spy who loved me, and so maybe they'll watch a
bunch of them with me as well. And it had
been so long since I had seen any of those films.
As the holidays rolled around, we did our Cleo and
my annual Rewatch a Trick or Treat and Crampis and
we watched that one with my wife. So we get
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those Michael Doherty films in every year, love them both.
I'm not sure how much my wife likes watching Crampis
every year, but we're probably gonna keep doing it. And
then with Thanksgiving, so Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, I was really
in the mood for watching holiday themed stuff, movies, specials, whatever,
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so we watched all of the Charlie Brown specials, those
into the Year specials. Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. We watched
multiple versions of a Christmas Carol, including the Muppet Christmas Carol,
including the Jim Carrey one. We watched that almost every
year and really enjoy it. You know, the rotoscoping stuff
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doesn't bother me so much in that one because of
the way that the characters look. They're not super super
realistic human characters. We also watched multiple versions of The Grinch.
My daughter has a thing for the again the Jim
Carrey live action version of that, so we watched that
violent night has become an annual staple home alone. We
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watched the Christmas Chronicles, Good Old Kurt Russell, Netflix Films,
and what else did we watch? Not Christmas related? But
we watched Fargo again on my daughter's behalf the heck
do you mean? She kept talking about it and my
wife and I had caught a little bit of it
or most of it on kle and then we went
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ahead and watched it in full with Cleo. I watched Diehard,
which is a Christmas movie as far as I'm concerned.
I got a hankering, and I think this happens almost
every year at that time of year. I watched the
original Star Wars trilogy and ended up watching them twice actually,
and the family joined me for most of that, not
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the second watch necessarily, but definitely the first watch. Our
final rewatches of the year were the first two Guardians
of the Galaxy.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Films, Locator, Mama, Papa, Common for You, I'm a Space, I'll.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Be around, and Big Monkey Bird for the Worst.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Onto at least my first time watches. We started out
the year with a couple of interesting Hulu entries Quiz
Lady and Self Reliance. Check those out, they're interesting. We
watched a couple of crazy movies early on Swiss Army Man,
(26:28):
which I had been meaning to catch for a long time,
a twenty four film, and that was because of Everything
Everywhere All at Once, which we had watched I don't
know how much before that, but knowing that that was
their other the Daniels Daniels, is that the Daniels or
the David's Daniels, I believe other film prior film, and yeah,
(26:49):
it's a little bit darker than I expected, but very interesting.
And then we watched Poor Things Your Ghosts Lanthemo's film,
which we all really enjoyed, and the much different are
You There, God, It's Me Margaret, which was cute. Cleio
and I watched Lisa Frankenstein and Abigail, which were new
(27:12):
to both of us, and I believe that was rounded
out with Freaky so it was like a Catherine Newton
Triple feature. I think we may have talked about that
on one of our episodes together. I believe we did.
That's sort of starting to ring a bell in my
baddled brain. My wife and I watched Killers of the
Flower Moon and really enjoyed it. Again one of the
(27:34):
man rough rough stuff and Scorsese's still killing it man.
But wow, yeah, hard to watch. I know we talked
about this, I believe on the Long Legs episode. The
Noughty Nun films that we watched Immaculate and the first
Omen that shared some DNA. Those were a hoot to
say the least. Need to watch that first Omen again.
(27:56):
I believe I had an appearance on the Projection booth
last year for a British film called Radio On, So
I watched that. Very interesting. Check out that episode if
you haven't, I may try and link that here for you.
If I remember, my memory ain't so great. We watched
m Night Shyamalan's Trap with Josh Hartnet and we're be mused,
(28:22):
be fuddled, and at least I was highly entertained by
that craziness. This is like the happening kind of Shyamalan,
just bizarre. But I think on purpose, I think it's
a comedy. I think he thinks it's a comedy, or
it was supposed to be a comedy. I don't know,
(28:44):
but something tells me because Josh Hartnett is cuckoo in that.
I mentioned Blue Ruin earlier. Jeremy Solnier, I was really
looking forward to Rebel Ridge looked very interesting, always happy
to watch a new film of his, and I kept
pushing to watch that with Cleo and Carlita. They were
(29:04):
kind of himmed and hot about it. So one night
they were in the bedroom watching I don't know, maybe
an award show or something else, and I'm like, gosh,
darn it, I'm gonna just watch this my darn self.
So I did, and really really liked it. I don't
know if I talked about that at all on an episode,
but man, oh man, was that good, very very great
(29:25):
lead performance. And of course I didn't write the actor's
name down, darn it. I'll have my AI helper insert
that here.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
The actor's name is Aaron Pierre. He played mid sized
sedan and old.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Don Johnson was great in it. Was great in it,
just a really interesting I know this comparison gets tossed
around a lot, but a kind of first blood scenario
done in such a fascinating way. Yeah, I do believe
I did talk about it, but yeah, good stuff, watch it.
Watch all of that guy's movies, Jeremy Sonier that is,
(30:01):
or the actor too. I've only seen him in a
couple things. We caught new flicks when they became available
on streaming, Deadpool and Wolverine and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Yeah, you
know they are what they are, sequels to Tint Poll.
I don't know. I don't know what you would call
beetle Juice beetlejuice. That was a bit of a mess,
(30:22):
way too many storylines going on, but I believe we
all enjoyed it to a certain extent. I watched To
the Devil a Daughter. I know I talked about that
at some point, I remember, I think because of drf Fan.
Maybe I didn't, did I, or maybe I mentioned because
of Dr Fan and the underage nudity, and so yes,
(30:43):
I ended up watching To the Devil a Daughter, which
I enjoyed. It kind of reminded me a little bit
of the weirdness in Blood on Satan's Claw on some
of those other folk horror films from that era. Cleo
and I watched The New Salem's Lot. I actually kind
of enjoyed it. I had heard the negative comments about
(31:06):
it and how it's pretty truncated, which it definitely is
very simplified story, but there were a lot of really
cool creepysual vigils visuals in that movie that worked for me.
I'd actually kind of like to watch it again, just
to compare and contrast in my head. Cleon and I
(31:27):
had watched the original mini series earlier in the year.
I don't think she was paying all that much attention
to it. I mean, it's a lot, you know, it's
three plus hours long. It's a TV movie, so it's
not super duper exciting, but again, very very creepy visuals
in that. I was surprised that they used the same
(31:49):
Barlow makeup for this. I'm not sure why they went
with the Nosferatu look for the vampire in this one,
if only, I guess as a nod to the original
mini series, but it doesn't make any sense because that
is not how the character is written in the book,
So I don't know. That's a head scratcher for me
as a family. We watched Will and Herper on Netflix
(32:12):
and really really enjoyed it. Yeah, I mean, can I
suggest it to everybody? I would like to. I know
that some people are just not going to be up
for that kind of thing, and that's sad, but it
was a very interesting and very touching story. We also
watched Woman of the Hour, and I don't know, I'm
not sure how I felt about that we had just
(32:35):
watched something about that true story. I think because of
the movie coming out, they were replaying stuff on you know,
dateline and whatever, and the liberties that the movie took
were unnecessary, I think, and just I sort of ended
up rubbing me the wrong way and the way that
it was a nonlinear story also, I don't know, it
(32:58):
didn't quite work for this kind of true crime thing
to me at least, so that was sort of a
bit of a miss. And we also watched the latest
iteration of the Ghostbusters franchise, which was a big fat
eh for me. Cleon and I watched Alien Romulus, which
(33:22):
was fine. I like Fiddie Albarez. I would definitely be
up for watching this again, and the next one I'm
kind of I'm not gonna say I'm all in on
alien stuff, but it's intriguing enough to me. The ash
recreation business aside, it was decent enough. We rounded out
the year on a religious note, finished up with Heretic
(33:47):
with Hugh Grant and Sophie Thatcher Oh gosh, and I
forgot the other girl's name, as well as Conclave. Both
were great. I would watch both again. Really enjoyed the
the religious aspect of both. Actually, that Latter day Saints
thing and Heretic is always fascinating to me, and watching
(34:07):
a bunch of pissy old priests run around and trying
to pick a pope was just fun as all.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Heck, they say there's just enough religion in the world
to make men hate one another, but not enough to
make them love.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Oh is that what they say? For my top watches
of the year, I'm gonna go with every which way
but loose, even though that's a rewatch. I really enjoyed
seeing that again for the first time in decades and
would definitely watch again and maybe try to get Cleota watch.
And it's kind an orangutang in it. Come on, poor things.
(34:41):
Killers of the Flower Moon, the first omen of the
two noughty Nun movies. That was my preferred film, Furiosa
Radio on, very low key film, but lots of fun.
To the devil a Daughter, I'd add to that because
of that Blood on Satan's Claw parison. Heretic and Conclave
(35:02):
would be tops for last year and the two top
and I didn't even mention, well, I guess I kind
of have been passing two top watches for me last year.
Favorite films of last year, Long Legs and Rebel Ridge.
So if you haven't seen any of those films and
are curious, track them down and watch them. Most of
them are probably streaming somewhere. Actually I don't know is
(35:24):
Long leg streaming right now? Has it come out?
Speaker 4 (35:26):
It was?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
What neon? So which if it is, it should be
on Hulu. So if you got Hulu, check it out.
Rebel Ridge is on Netflix, Uh believe first, omen is Hulu.
I don't go find them, do your homework and find
them all right until next time, which shoo knows when
that'll be. I've got a few things, like I said
on my list, that I'd like to watch with Cleo.
(35:49):
Probably getting her to record is going to be even
harder now because she's seventeen and she's hanging out with
her friends on the weekends, and I'm losing my little
baby girl. But we'll see. Hopefully I can get us
all to watch a couple of things and her and
I to talk about something, which is always fun. Until then,
maybe by the next time I talk to you, I'm
(36:09):
completely held up and walking on my own and without
a limp or who knows what, who knows what this
pet will will get me. But here's to hoping that
to twenty five, good lord, twenty twenty five isn't an
unmitigated disaster, and that we all make it through the year.
I don't know, We'll see how that pounds out the
(36:30):
next time I talk to y'all. Have a great day,
have a great month, have a great however long it
is until I see you next, And thank you so
much for listening. And don't forget anything can happen when
you wake up heavy, fucked up.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Wow, this has just been such a pleasure. I'm such
a lucky boy.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I can't wait to go home. Wake Up Heavy is
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