January 30, 2026 • 27 mins
In this episode of TV Reload, Benjamin Norris is joined by his movie review partner, Brose of Avard, to discuss the brand new genre-bending thriller Send Help.
They dive into the film's unique blend of dark comedy and horror. Praising its unexpected twists and turns. The conversation also touches on the film's score, cinematography and the performances of Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien.
With a mix of humour and insight, Benjamin and Brose break down the film's strengths and weaknesses, giving listeners a compelling look at this exciting new release.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's in the news today, but it was actually on
TV Reload the podcast last week that lie. Hey everyone,
welcome back to TV Reload. My name is Benjamin Norris,
and today I'm joined by my movie review partner in crime,
brose of Art, who I'm going to say is very
well known for doing Chad Flex the podcast, which that
era was one of my favorite eras ever. And if
you haven't heard that podcast, go back and listen to
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the catalog. But bros, welcome, and I have to say,
how many episodes of chat flix did you do it?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Thank you for welcoming me first of all, and get
aid everybody. We did a three hundred and fifty. I
think we stopped chat flicks at including every single Police
Academy film, which I think is probably the most important thing.
Amdive popcast vision of Moscow was tough. It's only eighty
three minutes, but it feels like a lifetime. But yeah,
no chaflicks. We did a lot, a lot of franchises
and a lot of big films and a lot of
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classic films. Generally, we didn't get you on chat flick
in the end, though, which we tried.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
We tried. It's just me thinking I'm doing chad flex
to be honest with you, so vikerously inserting myself into it.
You know, I want to ask you what was your
favorite like three hundred and fifty episodes epic like so epic,
you did so well with all of it, and if
I can't sleep at night, that is definitely what I
listened to. But what was your favorite film? And I
know this is very hard.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, I'll give an example. I think bad films are
more interesting, obviously the unpack and the reason being I
like to find out why something was a flop. Like
it's all well and good that a film was a flop,
but why so Last Action Hero was one we did
and I didn't know much about that film except that
it was, you know, a super expensive mega flop. But
in the research for that episode, we found out that
the director only had like two weeks I think, to
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edit in the end. So the film that was released
is basically a rough cut and he never got a
chance to finesse it, which is why the jokes all
fall so flat, because the film hadn't been tightened up,
it hadn't had a comedy pass on it, and I
find that quite interesting and it's not a film that's
ever going to get a re release, But it's like,
can we just cat someone just re edit that and
just tighten it up a bit. It might actually be funny.
But I find that kind of stuff really interesting. It's like,
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no one sets out to make a piece of crab.
But it's the why of it all that I find
more interesting. Is why was that so bad? It's got
to be a reason.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I think it's funny when you watch movies like that. Though,
when I think of The Last Action Hero, I think
of that movie through my child lem you know, I'm
thinking about it the way that I saw it as
a kid, And I thought that movie was fun and
I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And there are a lot of high points in it,
right like who who doesn't love Sylvester Sloan's kind of
been in there and Sharon Stone has a cameo and
T one thousand Patrick what's his name?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Anyway, we're going I've got a tangent here.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But yeah, no, it is a really good like I
think it is sensularly, I think it could have been
a great film. But two weeks editing, what are you
going to do in two weeks? Insane? Isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I mean, it was a great poster. I remember that
it was great.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Do you have a favorite film that we reviewed. You've
listened to them all?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, I think there's some stuff like Jurassic Park and
Back to the Future, and there's some stuff in there
that I thought was dark.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And Aliens were both interesting franchises. Because everyone likes to
crap on the sequels like different ones. I loved all
of them. I thought, like, Alien is one of the
greatest films of all the time, right, I'm not going
to knock it in Jurassic but the first one is
also a great film. But their sequels are still fun,
and I still, because I hadn't seen them at the time,
watch them for the pod. It's like, these are still
really fun films. What's everyone being so nasty for.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I also thought what was great about the podcast was
how much rich content there was in there. There were
some episodes like Bring It On, where there was so
much that everyone brought to what they'd researched on, what
had happened behind the scenes that Bring It On.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Those types of films are fun to unpack too, because
they're just kind of, you know, lollipop films. Or whatever,
and then you look into them it's like there's some
interesting stuff in there.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
There really is, and I do stress to people go
back and check that out. But today we are reviewing
the brand new genre bending thriller Send Help, a I
know so good. And the thing I like about this
is it blends two things that I really love about cinema,
and that is dark comedy with horror. That is a
sweet spot for me. Particularly with Sam, I think he
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does it very well.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, he doesn't take himself too seriously, which makes it
a lot easier to watch the film and not take
it too seriously but enjoy it. A couple of really
good jump scares from Sam as well, which is awesome.
And you know, I think Sam the last film I
remember if his was that awful Marvel Doctor Strangehowan, which
I didn't really like. So it's nice to see him
to a genre film, even though it's a bit genre bending,
but it's nice to see back to his you know,
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bread and butter and doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Well, before we get started, I'm going to play a
little tease. This is just a thirty second promo to
get people juiced for Send Help.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I am next in line for VP, and Bradley takes
over for his father tomorrow. Your father promised for a promotion.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Diddy as an executive. I see no doubt you in you?
Does that make sense? What we have? The wurger coming up?
Prove me wrong, bringer and then we'll ship for hour.
Check this out. I'm Linda Little. I want to be
the next Are there any others? Have you tried making
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a distress signal or a bigger fire?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Getting this here?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It should be your focus, not being Susie hallmat here.
You do know you would have died out there? Yeah,
how do you think that would have worked out for you?
Strategy and planning? Actually Send Help follows two strangers who
survive a plane crash and end up stranded on a
remote island with no food, no rescue, insight, and absolutely
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no idea of help is coming, hence the title of
the film. Now, the film stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien,
and you would be forgiven to think that this is
a standard castaway Robinson Carusoe story, but the film does
kick off with a survival thriller kind of intro, but
slowly morphs into something that is much darker. Funnier and
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way more unhinged than I expected it to be. What
did you think?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, the twists and turns really surprised me because I
guess I was expecting a straight genre film and then
and it's hard. I don't want to give anything away,
because people should go and see this film. It is
absolutely worth saying in the cinema, So I'm going to
be very careful of, you know, spoilers. But yeah, the
twists and turns, they were just magnificent. Didn't you find that?
Just there's a twist I don't know, right at the
end there almost and the whole everyone gasped at that
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kind of twist, you know, there was kind of a
WTF moment and it was so delicious. It was so
well done, really well written, and such a surprise. Did
you find that as well?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I just felt like I walked out of a rollercoaster,
you know, you know what. I love Drag Me to Hell,
And I remember seeing that film and also slowly having
to adjust myself to that story as well, because I
don't think Sam necessarily expects that this genre to be
so funny, like I did hear and I did read
in some of the press that he was writing the
script and didn't think it was going to be as
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funny as it was. And there's some real laugh out
loud moments with this, but it's still got some big, gory,
scary thriller elements to it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, and a magnificent fight scene as well, which is
funny and gory all at the same time.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I know how gonna say yeah with the pig and
with them like, yeah, all of is crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It is definitely worth the price of the ticket. Sheol.
We chat about the two main stars who we get
probably seventy eighty percent of the whole film. With Regel McAdams,
I think is one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood.
I think every film she does she's amazing. Like even
you know, even an ordinary script, she seems to you
turn it on and be delightful. I had a little
issue with Rachel McAdams in this film. I think her
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so in the opening sequences she's supposed to be this nerdy, dowdy,
lonely widow, right, but someone would have told her that
what she was wearing to work wasn't appropriate. Come on,
baggy jumpers and big old mum pants and like just
it's not corporate, like it's such a corporate environment. I've
just found that a bit in congruous. And then her
hair was so greasy. It's like, just wash your hair, love,
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just wash it and you'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Washed.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Don't even know if a blow dry it. Just have
clean hair and you'll look better. Like I just thought
that was a bit over the top and a bit
in congruous. It's like, you can make her look dowdy,
you can make her be that character without it being
so obvious and ridiculous. I think. So that bugged me.
And then especially what one week at the beach with
no shower or anything, and her hair looks magnificent all
of a sudden, and she's got highlights for no reason,
and she looks there's that one shot where they're sitting
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opposite each other eating and it's like, okay, well that's
Rachel McAdams. She looks beautiful, she looks amazing. But all
that take you know, like she lived in an apartment
with a shower and with jampoo.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Her destiny. This is where she was supposed to live.
And you've got to remember that with these films, this
sort of a genre of film, particularly, everything's heightened. You know,
everything spelled out to you. You know, this is you know,
I kind of saw her at the start. I was
like Michelle Feiffer, Selena Kyle and Tim Burton's Batman Returns.
You know, you knew that there was going to be
a trajectory for that character. And very similar to Rachel
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McAdams with this is that she looked at her best
when she was having the best time, and that happened
to be her dream and they living Survivor in real life,
but without the cameras.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, I guess. So what did you think of Dylan O'Brien.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I have to admit I don't think i'd seen him
in anything because I hadn't seen Runner, Team Wolf. That's
what it is. That's what I was going to say.
I had not seen his back catalog at work, and
I was leaning over and saying to my partner a
lot of the time, you know, is this sky attractive
or you know what I have to give this guy
so much credit for is how far he took this role.
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He was despicable, he was evil, and he went to
the length of making us appalled by him. You know,
he was feral, but at the same time this movie
wouldn't have worked if there wasn't an element of us
liking him to a certain extent. Maybe that's why Sam
ram I made him be nude in that scene where
he's going down to the beach, so that people were like,
you know, he's an asshole, But.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Is that when you change your mind about him when
you saw his arts?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It's all the podcast now, bros.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
This is all about that guy, that ass that's.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I don't think that anyone, even gay, straight or whatever.
You know, when you see an actor's bum on screen,
you're not judging it. So like I feel like everyone's going, Okay, well,
you know that's not bad. That's not bad, and it's
giving us an idea to come back to that we
will like him. But I'm so pleased that he heightened
it and he made it as over the top as
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he did. He went for broke yeah particular role, and
I guess in some ways they probably both did. Yeah,
I think so.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I love Dylan particularly is so expressive in this film,
and Sam Raimi spends a lot of time with Dylan,
like in close up or in you know, three quarter
close up or whatever, and just watching his face, like
when he's reacting and thinking, you know, as we find
out more about Rachel McAdams's characters, motivations and things like,
he just was spectacular and again just his face had
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some laugh out loud moments when he would react to
things like again like you, it was like, oh, this
has got some TV star guy, you know, some hunk
from some TV show I've never wanted to see, you know, Siminly,
not Michael J. Fox or you know, or even Team
of Two. But yeah, he could be so funny and
he just he had me, you know, on that beach
just with his expressions and with him looking around, he
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just drew me straight in. So I was really impressed
by him. Is he good looking? I don't know, but
you know, for you.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
But you know, what's interesting I would say about this
film is the wrestle that we have as a viewer
about these despicable, unlikable people, you know, like they both
do things that make you go, maybe I'm team you
know Bradley, Bradley and Linda, Oh, Linda Little Linda Little
gout down at Linda little. You know. I just think
that between Bradley and Linda, they polarize their audience and
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we're forever going back and forward as to who you'd
probably hope to survive the Island.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, it is. It's like watching a tennis match, going
back and forth and back and forth, isn't it just
and you know, you really do root for Linda early
on the Island?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Is it a battle of the sexes? Do you think
do you think that men going to watch this movie
are going to be thinking I'm going for the men
or the women are going to be going for her.
I don't know. Do you think it's a battle of
the sexiest film?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I guess it is ultimately because they're both two different genders, right,
It's a man and a woman, So I guess that
it is a battle of sexes. But I just think
there's enough going on, Like you were saying, you know,
you go back and forth between the two characters so
much you can't help but switch sides constantly. It's really
hard to talk about without spoilers, by the way, guys, exactly. Yeah,
so yeah, it is absolutely about a lot of exis.
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But Sam Raimi plays with that idea too. It's just incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
What do you think of his back catalog of films?
When you think of Evil Dead Drag Me to Hell.
And you know, we have to remember he did the
Toby Maguire Spider Man trilogy as well. I'd be very
happy for him to come back and do a fourth
one of that with Kirsten Dunst and Toby Maguire looking older.
I'd love to see what that film is.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
That'd be amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
No.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I love Sam Raimi and always have. You know, his
first film Evil Dead, which people love, and Evil Dead Too,
which is basically a remake of Evil Dead, but the
first film he just toured around everywhere. It was a
traveling show where he'd show the film in different cities
and talk about it afterwards, and he was just a kid,
like It's just it's a great film story. There's a
really good Bruce Campbell's book is really good where he
details a lot of that period because Bruce Campbell start
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in Evil Dead, Evil Dead Too and Army of Darkness.
So yeah, it's just such a rich film kind of story.
And you'll just get addicted to Sam Raimi. Want you
find more, find out more about how he's got started,
and you know how it all happened. They shot Evil
Dead what over two or three years because they got
the funding for and cars dropped out and dropped in
and all that kind of stuff. Likes. It's just an
amazing story and it makes you root for Sam Raimi
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and anything he does, good or bad. But it was
nice to see this film and see that he's done
something kind of delicious and right up his alley, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Well, chaos always ensues, and if you don't know his films,
I think you could easily fly and blind. And that
was the question I had for you today. Do you
think that some people who don't know his back catalog
will expect a straight horror and what do you think
the transition is sitting in the seat from not seeing
standard horror and it actually being a lot funnier than
people are expecting it to be.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I think it's interesting. I mean, I think if you
like the Screen franchise, you're going to like this film,
because you know, they're both genre benders and they start
in the horror kind of area. I think this is
very accessible. I wouldn't be worried about any of that
at all. I don't think did you have a concern
do you think people would find it inaccessible? This film?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I think I just think it's amazing how quickly you
can change, Like the start of the film, if you
did have an expectation that it is going to be horror,
and then you find yourself laughing. You're like, this is okay,
very much like his choices with special effects in his films,
Like it was a choice, you know, as soon as
we saw the pig the war hog, you know, obviously
an origin story for beeB Up and rock Steady from
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the dude ow Bunger, I just was like, that's a
choice because he's clearly not wanting us to really think
that's a real pig, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
It kind of reminded me of the Princess Bride, you know,
it's like this picture of been put in that would
have been amazing, but yeah, that is. It's kind of
a cartoony kind of moment. I guess ultimately, even though
it's generally a realistic pig, it's just not that realistic
at all.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I mean, come on, when it's when it vomits the
green her, it's so gory. But at that point you're
kind of like, Okay, I get it, you know, like
Ireland doesn't always look that real.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Sam Raimi knows his stuff right, and then the two
writers don't have a heap of credits, but they're horror
writers as well, and I'm sure you've seen some of
these because you're a bit of a horror guy. There
two writers that are writing partners, Mark Swift and Amian Shannon.
They wrote Freddy Versus Jason. They wrote for Other thirteenth
in two thousand. They also wrote Baywatch together.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Not a terrible film, but not something that's on anyone's
favorite film list.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I'm sure no, And it's not something I think i'd
ever watch again.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Like ill looking all fit and handsome, what you wouldn't
watch The Rock again?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Hmm? I don't know. I just felt like all everyone
in that movie didn't look real like I thought. Zach
was the beginning of zac Efron's face starting to look
like it had been caught in a drain somewhere. I
don't know. I was so distracting. And also be fit
befit people, But is there two fit bros? Is what
to fit?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And especially if you ask me so?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
A big chunk of this film was shot in Australia
as well, but I didn't really pick it. Did you
pick any kind of Australian looking bits and pieces. Maybe
it was just studio stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I heard that beforehand, but I don't think that there
was much that was on location. I think it was
obviously in a very talented studios. Do we know where
in Australia that was? Was it? No?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
No, I just saw it at the end and I
found that really interesting because I guess it just used
studio space maybe, but you're on location in Thailand as well,
obviously for the island.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
But it's a great looking film, like I mean, but it.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Does mean we get a bunch of Australian cast kind
of pop up. Bradley Preston's fiance, the very tall elegant Zuri,
is a West Astralian actress. She's done, you know, a
handful of things. She's in Ghosts Australia. She was in Libraya,
which shot during Lockdown or around that period here, So yeah,
she's kind of just starting her career. But this is
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a huge opportunity in this and she looks gorgeous in
this film as well, Like she just looks magnificent. Kind
of weird that she seems to be about a foot
taller than Dylan.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
But they came for the women to be not having
to dig the trenches like they used to. You can
hear all the horror stories of Nicole Kibben working with
Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman where they would send people
to set early to dig into the ground. Have you
heard that story. They would dig past plates for her
to walk so that it would look like she was
the same height as Dustin Hoffen and Tom Cruise were
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both very very short rain men.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Wow, that's crazy. I guess that's what's good about rain Man.
They're both the same height.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
They were both midgets. Yeah, that was actually the title
of the film, originally.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
The We're going to call it the Smurfs, but apparently
that name was taken.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I couldn't get the license for it. You know, we
talk a lot about some choices in films when it
comes to like cinematography and score. I did walk out
of the film not particularly remembering the score.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
That look many Elfman on the score. When I saw
his name pop up, then my years kind of pricked
up and I enjoyed almost like this is a super
nerdy of observation for our listeners. By the way, but
if you've listened seen any studio Ghibli films, Joe Hiashi
does the soundtracks for Miyazaki's Ghibli films, and Dannie Eltman
seemed to have a bit of a joh Ashi kind
of feel, which was really really tasty, a little bit
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of johi Ashi trivia for you. By the way, that's
not his real name. He was a huge fan of
Quincy Jones, and Joe is the closest to Jones in Japanese,
and Hiashi is basically Quincy, you know, a bastardization kind
of version, So his name is actually a reference to
Quincy Jones's name, which is really cool, I thought. But yeah,
I felt there was a bit of piano with some
strings and stuff, and it felt kind of Johiyashi. I
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quite like that element. And then there's a really beautiful
kind of piece of school later on when things get
kind of dramatic and it's just over the top and crazy,
and I love that. Like, after lots of do do
Do Do, then just that moment I thought was awesome.
It's like, all right, now shit's getting real. Now we're
getting to the end of things, and the score just
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matched it perfectly. So Yeah, there were some beets I
really enjoyed from Danny Elfman in this, It was.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Fine, but I just was like, I think about iconic
scores of Danny Elfman when I'm thinking Simpson's and Edwards's
a hands and basically anything that away, did you know
what I mean? Like the scores became characters themselves in
those films where I sort of walked out of it,
and I was like, that's right, Danny Elfman. I did
think it gave us. It allowed us as an audience
to acknowledge the change in the tone of the film, like,
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all of a sudden, the film is fucking bonkers and
they don't apologize for it, and the score allows you
to know that it's okay to be like, what the
hell is going on right now? Do you know what
I mean? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
And I think that though, and I understand what you're saying.
I think that's a sign of the times as well,
because I find scores aren't as iconic as they used
to be. You know, you're John Williams and Danny Elfman's
of the eighties, seventies, eighties. We just don't get scores
like that anymore, you know, we don't get like even
like all the superhero films, we don't get anything like
the Superman score anymore. We don't get anything like you know,
Elfman's a Batman theme anymore. Like it seems to be
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a lot more background now. And that's the trend, which
is a shame because I love those big exciting scores
that we had Star Wars, and I love.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Going to the movies when you go back and look
at some of the classic films where you get a
big musical moment with the credit, the start that takes
you to the film and teases you with that big
score and brings it in. I miss that.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Well, So who doesn't have a big, big exciting score
that then you can just make up your own lyrics
to to sing long you know. That's that's what a
good score should be.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
You know, do you have the lyrics to songs? Like?
Do you have the lyrics?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
This doesn't sing Superman when they hear that Superman score?
You know Star Wars Walls give me those Star Wars
like everybody loves doing that, right or is it just me?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
It's just you? And I loved recording with you on
a Friday because everything is a musical to you. On AM,
I don't know what it is you're singing into seeping
into your weekend and you want to sing. You want
to sing as a song.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Damn it, Let's go karaoke, guys, let's make it happen.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
If we're in the same state, I'd be up for that.
To be honest with you, I cannot sing, but you know,
like most things, I can get up and give it
a go.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
You don't have to be able to sing to do karaoke.
That's the no one judges, that's the joy.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Did you see Carrie Bigmore this week doing.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I didn't listen to it, but I saw a pop
up on my feed, Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I thought to myself, white women shouldn't sing black women's songs.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Well, she what did she sing? Which song she sing?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
The new sang? She sing? She sing to the song
she sang the new Raya song? Where the hell is
My Husband? I don't know if you've heard that song yet.
I love it. It's big anyway. But side note, sorry
Carry big Moore if you are listening to this podcast, Yeah,
I think she should have handed the microphone to someone else.
But we're going off on a tangent. I need to
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ask you at this point your score out of five.
I just want just give it to me straight, what
if this is.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
A hard one. When I walked out of the cinema,
I was thinking, maybe it sounds like man only I
shouldn't say I was thinking maybe a three, and I
thought that was a bit bit harsh because it is
a complete movie. You don't walk out, you know, thinking
about poles or any other issues like it is consistent.
It's a strong film. So I'm going to go with
three and a half, which I think is pretty good,
which means I'll watch it again with enthusiasm. If it's
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on streaming, I'll definitely have a look at it, and
I'd recommend it to other people.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
One hundred percent. I would recommend this film to everybody.
I think it's I mean, you don't have you can't
have a weak stomach. I would not send my mum
to it, so we'll scrap her. But essentially, it's a
great popcorn flict. It is something you should go and
see on a date. I think gives you something to
talk about afterwards. It revs up the mood and it's
thoroughly enjoyable. I'm going to stick with a three. And
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the only reason why I brought the score down was
probably similar to the score you know, in terms of
his filmography for Sam, I don't know if it's fair
to give it a three and a half when I
think about the scores of some of his other films,
which were just a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I mean, in my opinion, half star extra from me
just just for the greatest CPR scene in the history of.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Sam what about the eye gouging. The eye gouging.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Scene is so good.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I also loved that they didn't make you know, the
ripping out of people's scalps too realistic a fucking grossy
in this movie. But anyway, but yeah, three stars. Definitely
go along and see it. And you know, before we
conclude this podcast, I want to talk to you about
what you saw before the film. Can you remember the trailers?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I wrote them down so that I had them. And
what I find interesting too is, given all the turmoil
in the world, especially in the United States right now,
interesting that we're getting a lot of big budget or
at least wide release horror films all of a sudden
as well, isn't it is that matching the mood of
the people, perhaps.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Well, the horrible time for everyone in America, Like you know,
they want escapism and they Also, the horror movies need
to be more horrific than what's actually happening in their governments.
So you know, that is the escapism that they want.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
And there's been more things that are live since Trump
was back in power. There's nothing funny about a cold
open with a Trump impersonation at the moment. No, it's
just spressing. But The Bride was one of the trailers,
which is Frankenstein's The Bride, Frankenstein kind of roundmate Bonnie
and Clyde kind of thing, an interesting approach to the
subject matter. There Scream seven, which of course you're super
(23:44):
excited about, which looks interesting. It looks interesting, I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Say a little bit disappointing, you know, a very big
scream everyone online, If anyone's following this, I don't know
if you're a Scream fan as much as I am,
and I'm definitely following it. I've got it on Google Alerts.
But there's been one trailer, and the one trailer has
been so disappointing from the minute I saw it. I'm like,
are they aware that they've told us that Sidney Prescott
Nev Campbell's character has daughters and there's multiple daughters that
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they've talked about in previous films, and now we've got
some eighteen nineteen year old looking daughter. I'm sure they're
going to tell it she's fifteen in the movie, but
it's a botox, that actress, so she's looking. I never
Cambell was so fresh faced in the first screen movie.
I don't believe that that girl, this actress is Sidney
Prescott's daughter. She's adopted. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
It's bizarre, and I mean, Scream seven and we'll both
see it. I know we'll both see it, but.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
We'll be sitting right next to each other holding hands.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, but I just don't know. Yeah, it was interesting.
I'm happy to leave it open, and hopefully the film's
better than the trailer. Let's put it that way. And
then Ready or Not Too, which looks amazing. I saw
Ready or Not on streaming when I did streaming, which
i'd seen the trailer for and stuff, and God, that
film blew me away. It was so much fun, and
this one equally looks like it's going to be a
lot of fun. So Ready or Not Too is I'm
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super excited about it.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And Sarah Michelle Geller Yeah, SMG.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
And I love her playing her age now too that when.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
She's horrible, you know where we all know her from
her My most iconic role is Buffy the bout of course,
but I love her when I think of all my
children back in the day. That goes to show how
old I am. She was not a good character in
that she was a bad girl and cruel intentions. Bad
girl like I love SMG when she and even in
her cameo for I Know What You Did last summer reboot,
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she was evil in that it's her sweet spot like,
I'm like, bring that on.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah, No, I was super excited. It looks like a
great cast. It looks like a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
But we know what we're seeing next week? What is it?
Can you tell me?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Is this on?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Is this on?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Who's on?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
First? Old? And we need to look that up?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Is this thing on? Sorry?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
This thing on? There? We go right now, we're talking
about our own microphones? Is on?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Bradley Cooper directs, stars well Anette, Laura Durned. Great cast
there and the trailer is a lot of fun. I'm
excited about that film.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I can't wait to unpack it next week. And I
think it's a different change of pace to where Bradley
Cooper was going, you know, with The Star Is Born
and then what was his last one, Maestro? Yeah, yeah,
I just felt like he was going for these big, broad,
sort of bolder films where this kind of looks more
intimate intimate, Yeah exactly, you know, like it's looks more
of a short character piece than anything else.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, he kind of leaned into that kind of epic
storytelling and this is yeah a lot more intimate, looks
a lot, but it looks very and some really raw performances.
Will Annette in the trailer already looks amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
So do you love him?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I'm mot and gold we will aren't it? But he's
always good.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yea imagine imagine he would have big balls. That's all
I have to say. I don't know why I think
that every time he's on screen, and maybe it's maybe
it's his voice. I don't know, because he's Batman, because
he was Batman and the Lego movies. Right, well, bros,
thank you so much for joining us on our maiden
voyage of TV reloads. Not So TV podcast is a
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movie review podcast and I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Let's call it not So TV, Not So TV do
we do have a streaming exclusive film and then that's
kind of TV.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Exactly. Well, I love the joke that was of the
Golden Globes. People are now watching movies on TV and
they're watching the TV on their iPads, so it's changing
the way that people watch this content. But whether or
not you go and see Send Help at the cinemas
this week, I'm sure it'll be out on a streaming
platform soon and definitely check it out.
It's in the news today, but it was actually on
TV Reload the podcast last week that lie. Hey everyone,
welcome back to TV Reload. My name is Benjamin Norris,
and today I'm joined by my movie review partner in crime,
brose of Art, who I'm going to say is very
well known for doing Chad Flex the podcast, which that
era was one of my favorite eras ever. And if
you haven't heard that podcast, go back and listen to
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the catalog. But bros, welcome, and I have to say,
how many episodes of chat flix did you do it?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Thank you for welcoming me first of all, and get
aid everybody. We did a three hundred and fifty. I
think we stopped chat flicks at including every single Police
Academy film, which I think is probably the most important thing.
Amdive popcast vision of Moscow was tough. It's only eighty
three minutes, but it feels like a lifetime. But yeah,
no chaflicks. We did a lot, a lot of franchises
and a lot of big films and a lot of
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classic films. Generally, we didn't get you on chat flick
in the end, though, which we tried.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
We tried. It's just me thinking I'm doing chad flex
to be honest with you, so vikerously inserting myself into it.
You know, I want to ask you what was your
favorite like three hundred and fifty episodes epic like so epic,
you did so well with all of it, and if
I can't sleep at night, that is definitely what I
listened to. But what was your favorite film? And I
know this is very hard.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, I'll give an example. I think bad films are
more interesting, obviously the unpack and the reason being I
like to find out why something was a flop. Like
it's all well and good that a film was a flop,
but why so Last Action Hero was one we did
and I didn't know much about that film except that
it was, you know, a super expensive mega flop. But
in the research for that episode, we found out that
the director only had like two weeks I think, to
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edit in the end. So the film that was released
is basically a rough cut and he never got a
chance to finesse it, which is why the jokes all
fall so flat, because the film hadn't been tightened up,
it hadn't had a comedy pass on it, and I
find that quite interesting and it's not a film that's
ever going to get a re release, But it's like,
can we just cat someone just re edit that and
just tighten it up a bit. It might actually be funny.
But I find that kind of stuff really interesting. It's like,
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no one sets out to make a piece of crab.
But it's the why of it all that I find
more interesting. Is why was that so bad? It's got
to be a reason.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I think it's funny when you watch movies like that. Though,
when I think of The Last Action Hero, I think
of that movie through my child lem you know, I'm
thinking about it the way that I saw it as
a kid, And I thought that movie was fun and
I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And there are a lot of high points in it,
right like who who doesn't love Sylvester Sloan's kind of
been in there and Sharon Stone has a cameo and
T one thousand Patrick what's his name?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Anyway, we're going I've got a tangent here.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But yeah, no, it is a really good like I
think it is sensularly, I think it could have been
a great film. But two weeks editing, what are you
going to do in two weeks? Insane? Isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I mean, it was a great poster. I remember that
it was great.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Do you have a favorite film that we reviewed. You've
listened to them all?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, I think there's some stuff like Jurassic Park and
Back to the Future, and there's some stuff in there
that I thought was dark.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And Aliens were both interesting franchises. Because everyone likes to
crap on the sequels like different ones. I loved all
of them. I thought, like, Alien is one of the
greatest films of all the time, right, I'm not going
to knock it in Jurassic but the first one is
also a great film. But their sequels are still fun,
and I still, because I hadn't seen them at the time,
watch them for the pod. It's like, these are still
really fun films. What's everyone being so nasty for.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I also thought what was great about the podcast was
how much rich content there was in there. There were
some episodes like Bring It On, where there was so
much that everyone brought to what they'd researched on, what
had happened behind the scenes that Bring It On.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Those types of films are fun to unpack too, because
they're just kind of, you know, lollipop films. Or whatever,
and then you look into them it's like there's some
interesting stuff in there.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
There really is, and I do stress to people go
back and check that out. But today we are reviewing
the brand new genre bending thriller Send Help, a I
know so good. And the thing I like about this
is it blends two things that I really love about cinema,
and that is dark comedy with horror. That is a
sweet spot for me. Particularly with Sam, I think he
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does it very well.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, he doesn't take himself too seriously, which makes it
a lot easier to watch the film and not take
it too seriously but enjoy it. A couple of really
good jump scares from Sam as well, which is awesome.
And you know, I think Sam the last film I
remember if his was that awful Marvel Doctor Strangehowan, which
I didn't really like. So it's nice to see him
to a genre film, even though it's a bit genre bending,
but it's nice to see back to his you know,
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bread and butter and doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Well, before we get started, I'm going to play a
little tease. This is just a thirty second promo to
get people juiced for Send Help.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I am next in line for VP, and Bradley takes
over for his father tomorrow. Your father promised for a promotion.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Diddy as an executive. I see no doubt you in you?
Does that make sense? What we have? The wurger coming up?
Prove me wrong, bringer and then we'll ship for hour.
Check this out. I'm Linda Little. I want to be
the next Are there any others? Have you tried making
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a distress signal or a bigger fire?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Getting this here?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It should be your focus, not being Susie hallmat here.
You do know you would have died out there? Yeah,
how do you think that would have worked out for you?
Strategy and planning? Actually Send Help follows two strangers who
survive a plane crash and end up stranded on a
remote island with no food, no rescue, insight, and absolutely
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no idea of help is coming, hence the title of
the film. Now, the film stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien,
and you would be forgiven to think that this is
a standard castaway Robinson Carusoe story, but the film does
kick off with a survival thriller kind of intro, but
slowly morphs into something that is much darker. Funnier and
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way more unhinged than I expected it to be. What
did you think?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, the twists and turns really surprised me because I
guess I was expecting a straight genre film and then
and it's hard. I don't want to give anything away,
because people should go and see this film. It is
absolutely worth saying in the cinema, So I'm going to
be very careful of, you know, spoilers. But yeah, the
twists and turns, they were just magnificent. Didn't you find that?
Just there's a twist I don't know, right at the
end there almost and the whole everyone gasped at that
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kind of twist, you know, there was kind of a
WTF moment and it was so delicious. It was so
well done, really well written, and such a surprise. Did
you find that as well?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I just felt like I walked out of a rollercoaster,
you know, you know what. I love Drag Me to Hell,
And I remember seeing that film and also slowly having
to adjust myself to that story as well, because I
don't think Sam necessarily expects that this genre to be
so funny, like I did hear and I did read
in some of the press that he was writing the
script and didn't think it was going to be as
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funny as it was. And there's some real laugh out
loud moments with this, but it's still got some big, gory,
scary thriller elements to it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, and a magnificent fight scene as well, which is
funny and gory all at the same time.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I know how gonna say yeah with the pig and
with them like, yeah, all of is crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It is definitely worth the price of the ticket. Sheol.
We chat about the two main stars who we get
probably seventy eighty percent of the whole film. With Regel McAdams,
I think is one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood.
I think every film she does she's amazing. Like even
you know, even an ordinary script, she seems to you
turn it on and be delightful. I had a little
issue with Rachel McAdams in this film. I think her
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so in the opening sequences she's supposed to be this nerdy, dowdy,
lonely widow, right, but someone would have told her that
what she was wearing to work wasn't appropriate. Come on,
baggy jumpers and big old mum pants and like just
it's not corporate, like it's such a corporate environment. I've
just found that a bit in congruous. And then her
hair was so greasy. It's like, just wash your hair, love,
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just wash it and you'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Washed.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Don't even know if a blow dry it. Just have
clean hair and you'll look better. Like I just thought
that was a bit over the top and a bit
in congruous. It's like, you can make her look dowdy,
you can make her be that character without it being
so obvious and ridiculous. I think. So that bugged me.
And then especially what one week at the beach with
no shower or anything, and her hair looks magnificent all
of a sudden, and she's got highlights for no reason,
and she looks there's that one shot where they're sitting
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opposite each other eating and it's like, okay, well that's
Rachel McAdams. She looks beautiful, she looks amazing. But all
that take you know, like she lived in an apartment
with a shower and with jampoo.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Her destiny. This is where she was supposed to live.
And you've got to remember that with these films, this
sort of a genre of film, particularly, everything's heightened. You know,
everything spelled out to you. You know, this is you know,
I kind of saw her at the start. I was
like Michelle Feiffer, Selena Kyle and Tim Burton's Batman Returns.
You know, you knew that there was going to be
a trajectory for that character. And very similar to Rachel
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McAdams with this is that she looked at her best
when she was having the best time, and that happened
to be her dream and they living Survivor in real life,
but without the cameras.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, I guess. So what did you think of Dylan O'Brien.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I have to admit I don't think i'd seen him
in anything because I hadn't seen Runner, Team Wolf. That's
what it is. That's what I was going to say.
I had not seen his back catalog at work, and
I was leaning over and saying to my partner a
lot of the time, you know, is this sky attractive
or you know what I have to give this guy
so much credit for is how far he took this role.
(09:16):
He was despicable, he was evil, and he went to
the length of making us appalled by him. You know,
he was feral, but at the same time this movie
wouldn't have worked if there wasn't an element of us
liking him to a certain extent. Maybe that's why Sam
ram I made him be nude in that scene where
he's going down to the beach, so that people were like,
you know, he's an asshole, But.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Is that when you change your mind about him when
you saw his arts?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It's all the podcast now, bros.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
This is all about that guy, that ass that's.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I don't think that anyone, even gay, straight or whatever.
You know, when you see an actor's bum on screen,
you're not judging it. So like I feel like everyone's going, Okay, well,
you know that's not bad. That's not bad, and it's
giving us an idea to come back to that we
will like him. But I'm so pleased that he heightened
it and he made it as over the top as
(10:08):
he did. He went for broke yeah particular role, and
I guess in some ways they probably both did. Yeah,
I think so.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I love Dylan particularly is so expressive in this film,
and Sam Raimi spends a lot of time with Dylan,
like in close up or in you know, three quarter
close up or whatever, and just watching his face, like
when he's reacting and thinking, you know, as we find
out more about Rachel McAdams's characters, motivations and things like,
he just was spectacular and again just his face had
(10:36):
some laugh out loud moments when he would react to
things like again like you, it was like, oh, this
has got some TV star guy, you know, some hunk
from some TV show I've never wanted to see, you know, Siminly,
not Michael J. Fox or you know, or even Team
of Two. But yeah, he could be so funny and
he just he had me, you know, on that beach
just with his expressions and with him looking around, he
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just drew me straight in. So I was really impressed
by him. Is he good looking? I don't know, but
you know, for you.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
But you know, what's interesting I would say about this
film is the wrestle that we have as a viewer
about these despicable, unlikable people, you know, like they both
do things that make you go, maybe I'm team you
know Bradley, Bradley and Linda, Oh, Linda Little Linda Little
gout down at Linda little. You know. I just think
that between Bradley and Linda, they polarize their audience and
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we're forever going back and forward as to who you'd
probably hope to survive the Island.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, it is. It's like watching a tennis match, going
back and forth and back and forth, isn't it just
and you know, you really do root for Linda early
on the Island?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Is it a battle of the sexes? Do you think
do you think that men going to watch this movie
are going to be thinking I'm going for the men
or the women are going to be going for her.
I don't know. Do you think it's a battle of
the sexiest film?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I guess it is ultimately because they're both two different genders, right,
It's a man and a woman, So I guess that
it is a battle of sexes. But I just think
there's enough going on, Like you were saying, you know,
you go back and forth between the two characters so
much you can't help but switch sides constantly. It's really
hard to talk about without spoilers, by the way, guys, exactly. Yeah,
so yeah, it is absolutely about a lot of exis.
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But Sam Raimi plays with that idea too. It's just incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
What do you think of his back catalog of films?
When you think of Evil Dead Drag Me to Hell.
And you know, we have to remember he did the
Toby Maguire Spider Man trilogy as well. I'd be very
happy for him to come back and do a fourth
one of that with Kirsten Dunst and Toby Maguire looking older.
I'd love to see what that film is.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
That'd be amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
No.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I love Sam Raimi and always have. You know, his
first film Evil Dead, which people love, and Evil Dead Too,
which is basically a remake of Evil Dead, but the
first film he just toured around everywhere. It was a
traveling show where he'd show the film in different cities
and talk about it afterwards, and he was just a kid,
like It's just it's a great film story. There's a
really good Bruce Campbell's book is really good where he
details a lot of that period because Bruce Campbell start
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in Evil Dead, Evil Dead Too and Army of Darkness.
So yeah, it's just such a rich film kind of story.
And you'll just get addicted to Sam Raimi. Want you
find more, find out more about how he's got started,
and you know how it all happened. They shot Evil
Dead what over two or three years because they got
the funding for and cars dropped out and dropped in
and all that kind of stuff. Likes. It's just an
amazing story and it makes you root for Sam Raimi
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and anything he does, good or bad. But it was
nice to see this film and see that he's done
something kind of delicious and right up his alley, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Well, chaos always ensues, and if you don't know his films,
I think you could easily fly and blind. And that
was the question I had for you today. Do you
think that some people who don't know his back catalog
will expect a straight horror and what do you think
the transition is sitting in the seat from not seeing
standard horror and it actually being a lot funnier than
people are expecting it to be.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I think it's interesting. I mean, I think if you
like the Screen franchise, you're going to like this film,
because you know, they're both genre benders and they start
in the horror kind of area. I think this is
very accessible. I wouldn't be worried about any of that
at all. I don't think did you have a concern
do you think people would find it inaccessible? This film?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I think I just think it's amazing how quickly you
can change, Like the start of the film, if you
did have an expectation that it is going to be horror,
and then you find yourself laughing. You're like, this is okay,
very much like his choices with special effects in his films,
Like it was a choice, you know, as soon as
we saw the pig the war hog, you know, obviously
an origin story for beeB Up and rock Steady from
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the dude ow Bunger, I just was like, that's a
choice because he's clearly not wanting us to really think
that's a real pig, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
It kind of reminded me of the Princess Bride, you know,
it's like this picture of been put in that would
have been amazing, but yeah, that is. It's kind of
a cartoony kind of moment. I guess ultimately, even though
it's generally a realistic pig, it's just not that realistic
at all.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I mean, come on, when it's when it vomits the
green her, it's so gory. But at that point you're
kind of like, Okay, I get it, you know, like
Ireland doesn't always look that real.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Sam Raimi knows his stuff right, and then the two
writers don't have a heap of credits, but they're horror
writers as well, and I'm sure you've seen some of
these because you're a bit of a horror guy. There
two writers that are writing partners, Mark Swift and Amian Shannon.
They wrote Freddy Versus Jason. They wrote for Other thirteenth
in two thousand. They also wrote Baywatch together.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Not a terrible film, but not something that's on anyone's
favorite film list.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I'm sure no, And it's not something I think i'd
ever watch again.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Like ill looking all fit and handsome, what you wouldn't
watch The Rock again?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Hmm? I don't know. I just felt like all everyone
in that movie didn't look real like I thought. Zach
was the beginning of zac Efron's face starting to look
like it had been caught in a drain somewhere. I
don't know. I was so distracting. And also be fit
befit people, But is there two fit bros? Is what
to fit?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And especially if you ask me so?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
A big chunk of this film was shot in Australia
as well, but I didn't really pick it. Did you
pick any kind of Australian looking bits and pieces. Maybe
it was just studio stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I heard that beforehand, but I don't think that there
was much that was on location. I think it was
obviously in a very talented studios. Do we know where
in Australia that was? Was it? No?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
No, I just saw it at the end and I
found that really interesting because I guess it just used
studio space maybe, but you're on location in Thailand as well,
obviously for the island.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
But it's a great looking film, like I mean, but it.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Does mean we get a bunch of Australian cast kind
of pop up. Bradley Preston's fiance, the very tall elegant Zuri,
is a West Astralian actress. She's done, you know, a
handful of things. She's in Ghosts Australia. She was in Libraya,
which shot during Lockdown or around that period here, So yeah,
she's kind of just starting her career. But this is
(16:36):
a huge opportunity in this and she looks gorgeous in
this film as well, Like she just looks magnificent. Kind
of weird that she seems to be about a foot
taller than Dylan.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
But they came for the women to be not having
to dig the trenches like they used to. You can
hear all the horror stories of Nicole Kibben working with
Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman where they would send people
to set early to dig into the ground. Have you
heard that story. They would dig past plates for her
to walk so that it would look like she was
the same height as Dustin Hoffen and Tom Cruise were
(17:04):
both very very short rain men.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Wow, that's crazy. I guess that's what's good about rain Man.
They're both the same height.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
They were both midgets. Yeah, that was actually the title
of the film, originally.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
The We're going to call it the Smurfs, but apparently
that name was taken.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I couldn't get the license for it. You know, we
talk a lot about some choices in films when it
comes to like cinematography and score. I did walk out
of the film not particularly remembering the score.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
That look many Elfman on the score. When I saw
his name pop up, then my years kind of pricked
up and I enjoyed almost like this is a super
nerdy of observation for our listeners. By the way, but
if you've listened seen any studio Ghibli films, Joe Hiashi
does the soundtracks for Miyazaki's Ghibli films, and Dannie Eltman
seemed to have a bit of a joh Ashi kind
of feel, which was really really tasty, a little bit
(17:57):
of johi Ashi trivia for you. By the way, that's
not his real name. He was a huge fan of
Quincy Jones, and Joe is the closest to Jones in Japanese,
and Hiashi is basically Quincy, you know, a bastardization kind
of version, So his name is actually a reference to
Quincy Jones's name, which is really cool, I thought. But yeah,
I felt there was a bit of piano with some
strings and stuff, and it felt kind of Johiyashi. I
(18:18):
quite like that element. And then there's a really beautiful
kind of piece of school later on when things get
kind of dramatic and it's just over the top and crazy,
and I love that. Like, after lots of do do
Do Do, then just that moment I thought was awesome.
It's like, all right, now shit's getting real. Now we're
getting to the end of things, and the score just
(18:38):
matched it perfectly. So Yeah, there were some beets I
really enjoyed from Danny Elfman in this, It was.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Fine, but I just was like, I think about iconic
scores of Danny Elfman when I'm thinking Simpson's and Edwards's
a hands and basically anything that away, did you know
what I mean? Like the scores became characters themselves in
those films where I sort of walked out of it,
and I was like, that's right, Danny Elfman. I did
think it gave us. It allowed us as an audience
to acknowledge the change in the tone of the film, like,
(19:04):
all of a sudden, the film is fucking bonkers and
they don't apologize for it, and the score allows you
to know that it's okay to be like, what the
hell is going on right now? Do you know what
I mean? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
And I think that though, and I understand what you're saying.
I think that's a sign of the times as well,
because I find scores aren't as iconic as they used
to be. You know, you're John Williams and Danny Elfman's
of the eighties, seventies, eighties. We just don't get scores
like that anymore, you know, we don't get like even
like all the superhero films, we don't get anything like
the Superman score anymore. We don't get anything like you know,
Elfman's a Batman theme anymore. Like it seems to be
(19:36):
a lot more background now. And that's the trend, which
is a shame because I love those big exciting scores
that we had Star Wars, and I love.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Going to the movies when you go back and look
at some of the classic films where you get a
big musical moment with the credit, the start that takes
you to the film and teases you with that big
score and brings it in. I miss that.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Well, So who doesn't have a big, big exciting score
that then you can just make up your own lyrics
to to sing long you know. That's that's what a
good score should be.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
You know, do you have the lyrics to songs? Like?
Do you have the lyrics?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
This doesn't sing Superman when they hear that Superman score?
You know Star Wars Walls give me those Star Wars
like everybody loves doing that, right or is it just me?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
It's just you? And I loved recording with you on
a Friday because everything is a musical to you. On AM,
I don't know what it is you're singing into seeping
into your weekend and you want to sing. You want
to sing as a song.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Damn it, Let's go karaoke, guys, let's make it happen.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
If we're in the same state, I'd be up for that.
To be honest with you, I cannot sing, but you know,
like most things, I can get up and give it
a go.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
You don't have to be able to sing to do karaoke.
That's the no one judges, that's the joy.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Did you see Carrie Bigmore this week doing.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I didn't listen to it, but I saw a pop
up on my feed, Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I thought to myself, white women shouldn't sing black women's songs.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Well, she what did she sing? Which song she sing?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
The new sang? She sing? She sing to the song
she sang the new Raya song? Where the hell is
My Husband? I don't know if you've heard that song yet.
I love it. It's big anyway. But side note, sorry
Carry big Moore if you are listening to this podcast, Yeah,
I think she should have handed the microphone to someone else.
But we're going off on a tangent. I need to
(21:15):
ask you at this point your score out of five.
I just want just give it to me straight, what
if this is.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
A hard one. When I walked out of the cinema,
I was thinking, maybe it sounds like man only I
shouldn't say I was thinking maybe a three, and I
thought that was a bit bit harsh because it is
a complete movie. You don't walk out, you know, thinking
about poles or any other issues like it is consistent.
It's a strong film. So I'm going to go with
three and a half, which I think is pretty good,
which means I'll watch it again with enthusiasm. If it's
(21:42):
on streaming, I'll definitely have a look at it, and
I'd recommend it to other people.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
One hundred percent. I would recommend this film to everybody.
I think it's I mean, you don't have you can't
have a weak stomach. I would not send my mum
to it, so we'll scrap her. But essentially, it's a
great popcorn flict. It is something you should go and
see on a date. I think gives you something to
talk about afterwards. It revs up the mood and it's
thoroughly enjoyable. I'm going to stick with a three. And
(22:06):
the only reason why I brought the score down was
probably similar to the score you know, in terms of
his filmography for Sam, I don't know if it's fair
to give it a three and a half when I
think about the scores of some of his other films,
which were just a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I mean, in my opinion, half star extra from me
just just for the greatest CPR scene in the history of.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Sam what about the eye gouging. The eye gouging.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Scene is so good.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I also loved that they didn't make you know, the
ripping out of people's scalps too realistic a fucking grossy
in this movie. But anyway, but yeah, three stars. Definitely
go along and see it. And you know, before we
conclude this podcast, I want to talk to you about
what you saw before the film. Can you remember the trailers?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I wrote them down so that I had them. And
what I find interesting too is, given all the turmoil
in the world, especially in the United States right now,
interesting that we're getting a lot of big budget or
at least wide release horror films all of a sudden
as well, isn't it is that matching the mood of
the people, perhaps.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Well, the horrible time for everyone in America, Like you know,
they want escapism and they Also, the horror movies need
to be more horrific than what's actually happening in their governments.
So you know, that is the escapism that they want.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
And there's been more things that are live since Trump
was back in power. There's nothing funny about a cold
open with a Trump impersonation at the moment. No, it's
just spressing. But The Bride was one of the trailers,
which is Frankenstein's The Bride, Frankenstein kind of roundmate Bonnie
and Clyde kind of thing, an interesting approach to the
subject matter. There Scream seven, which of course you're super
(23:44):
excited about, which looks interesting. It looks interesting, I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Say a little bit disappointing, you know, a very big
scream everyone online, If anyone's following this, I don't know
if you're a Scream fan as much as I am,
and I'm definitely following it. I've got it on Google Alerts.
But there's been one trailer, and the one trailer has
been so disappointing from the minute I saw it. I'm like,
are they aware that they've told us that Sidney Prescott
Nev Campbell's character has daughters and there's multiple daughters that
(24:09):
they've talked about in previous films, and now we've got
some eighteen nineteen year old looking daughter. I'm sure they're
going to tell it she's fifteen in the movie, but
it's a botox, that actress, so she's looking. I never
Cambell was so fresh faced in the first screen movie.
I don't believe that that girl, this actress is Sidney
Prescott's daughter. She's adopted. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
It's bizarre, and I mean, Scream seven and we'll both
see it. I know we'll both see it, but.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
We'll be sitting right next to each other holding hands.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, but I just don't know. Yeah, it was interesting.
I'm happy to leave it open, and hopefully the film's
better than the trailer. Let's put it that way. And
then Ready or Not Too, which looks amazing. I saw
Ready or Not on streaming when I did streaming, which
i'd seen the trailer for and stuff, and God, that
film blew me away. It was so much fun, and
this one equally looks like it's going to be a
lot of fun. So Ready or Not Too is I'm
(24:58):
super excited about it.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And Sarah Michelle Geller Yeah, SMG.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
And I love her playing her age now too that when.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
She's horrible, you know where we all know her from
her My most iconic role is Buffy the bout of course,
but I love her when I think of all my
children back in the day. That goes to show how
old I am. She was not a good character in
that she was a bad girl and cruel intentions. Bad
girl like I love SMG when she and even in
her cameo for I Know What You Did last summer reboot,
(25:28):
she was evil in that it's her sweet spot like,
I'm like, bring that on.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah, No, I was super excited. It looks like a
great cast. It looks like a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
But we know what we're seeing next week? What is it?
Can you tell me?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Is this on?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Is this on?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Who's on?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
First? Old? And we need to look that up?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Is this thing on? Sorry?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
This thing on? There? We go right now, we're talking
about our own microphones? Is on?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Bradley Cooper directs, stars well Anette, Laura Durned. Great cast
there and the trailer is a lot of fun. I'm
excited about that film.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I can't wait to unpack it next week. And I
think it's a different change of pace to where Bradley
Cooper was going, you know, with The Star Is Born
and then what was his last one, Maestro? Yeah, yeah,
I just felt like he was going for these big, broad,
sort of bolder films where this kind of looks more
intimate intimate, Yeah exactly, you know, like it's looks more
of a short character piece than anything else.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, he kind of leaned into that kind of epic
storytelling and this is yeah a lot more intimate, looks
a lot, but it looks very and some really raw performances.
Will Annette in the trailer already looks amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
So do you love him?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I'm mot and gold we will aren't it? But he's
always good.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yea imagine imagine he would have big balls. That's all
I have to say. I don't know why I think
that every time he's on screen, and maybe it's maybe
it's his voice. I don't know, because he's Batman, because
he was Batman and the Lego movies. Right, well, bros,
thank you so much for joining us on our maiden
voyage of TV reloads. Not So TV podcast is a
(27:00):
movie review podcast and I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Let's call it not So TV, Not So TV do
we do have a streaming exclusive film and then that's
kind of TV.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Exactly. Well, I love the joke that was of the
Golden Globes. People are now watching movies on TV and
they're watching the TV on their iPads, so it's changing
the way that people watch this content. But whether or
not you go and see Send Help at the cinemas
this week, I'm sure it'll be out on a streaming
platform soon and definitely check it out.
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