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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hello, and welcome to Deep Blue Sea the Podcast. I
am Mark Chetah the Sea half Meyer, and.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I am Jay thumbs Up Cluet. Welcome to you board
Deep See the podcast. On this show, we normally go
through Deep Blue Sea. The trilogy is scene by scene.
We do occaly do some Deep Blue adjacent films and
very occasionally we do new Deeply adjacent films. And that's
what we're doing today with a special preview of Dangerous Animals.
(00:41):
What is Dangerous Animals? This is going to be a
spoiler free thing free. We will do a full episode
on Dangerous Animals once it's come out. But Mark and
I have both been fortunate enough to see it and
we both love it, so we figured, hey, let's get
the word this thing. So. Dangerous Animals is the third
film by Sean Byrne. It stars legend Hasse Harrison as
(01:02):
a surfer who finds herself captured by Jay Courtney who
has a boat and he likes to trap people on
it and you know, film them interacts with shucks. Actually
that's more than I'd of going in. I kind of
new like Shark serial Killer kind of I don't know,
but I I really really like this film Mark, and
(01:24):
I think you do too.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Listen, it's gonna be hard to talk to it with
talk about it without you know, spoilers. But I guess
the thing I'm most impressed with this film is I've
always liked Sean Byrne. I mean, the loved ones in
The Devil's Candy are very good films. They look gorgeous,
excellent performances, they find a lot of heart. The Devil's
(01:48):
Candy features the best performance ever from Ethan Embry Well
maybe tied for Cheap Thrills, because Cheap Thrills he's awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And sure one thing in that as well, oh yeah,
so good. Oh my gosh, it's always great.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Like I love metal, so I mean anytime that of
movie is like playing metal, I'm like, yeah, sure. But
what I like about this movie is, you know, we're
gonna be talking about fear Below soon. Another Australian shark
film released this year, Yep, and the director of that,
Matthew Holmes, was like, couldn't get scripts made, but this
producer's like, listen, man write about sharks. Can I can
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get that made? So you know, Burne had made a
movie since twenty seventeen and then you hear like he's
making a shark film, and so I was a little
bit worried because you know, he loves serial killers. His
movies all feature serial killers. But like I was like, Okay,
he's probably tossed in like the Shark angle, because this
is he didn't write this script just to get like
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the film made. He was supposed to have something made,
the Pandemic Wreck that couldn't get funding. But like even
though it's a it's a very Sean Bernie like you
have a hair like you have ah, it's a very
Hymn film, But I was worried maybe like he just
added in the sharks to get funding, because let's face it,
movies are easier to make when you have sharks in them.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah. So absolutely, But like this.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
One really is gorgeous. The the like just the opening
shot of the coral Sea on the Gold Coast with
this nice saturn framing and just the cinematography. I mean
this thing was storyboarded. The entire ship was lit to perfection.
I mean Jy Courtney's hair lighting in this movie is ridiculous,
and like all the actors on are on board. Like
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I've been a fan of Hassey Harrison since the Coombe
f D. I really, you know, like it's been fun
watching Jy Courtney's kind of getting low down and dirty.
He's in this western on Netflix. He's all dirty and
he was funny in a movie called Buffalo. It's like
I like him embracing just kind of I don't know
a grosser side of Jy Courtney, if that makes sense,
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and he's like he's like, I'll see he's like six'
one and beefed up in this movie too.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
He got he got a bad rap early on, and
I I will say I was part of that bad
rap of like being in films that weren't great and
being the lead or like the Colea, like you know,
the Terminato Genesis or A Good Day to die Hard
and the First Suicide Squad.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
They do that to every Australian jay. They're like that
guy from Avatar, Terminator, Clash of the Titans, and then
Chris Hemsworth, Four Men in Black, Everything, and then William
Hemsworth Hunger Games, all of this, and then Jy Courtney.
(04:35):
They pop them in all these things. But I think
he worked best in shows like Glad, What Spartacus or
Reacher when he had a menace to him. And you
know my surprise in this one though, is I really
like Ellen Newton. She's one of the captives in the beginning.
There's something really likable about her. And also Josh Houston, Like,
this guy's really likable, and I like the dynamic that
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he and Hassei have, like when they she's just pissed
at him, and I like him a lot. I think
any movie that references CCRM call with two.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So, like I I didn't recognize Hassie Harrison like to
comb Revdi never had a UK release, but clips of
it just just keep popping up in my YouTube feed.
So I've seen her a bunch in just like random
scenes from Tim Reptee and I watched this thing, I
recognized if it where from. And she's just playing such
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a different kind of role like this isn't this isn't
a comedic role at all. This is crueling. But but
I mean this kind of it all hinges on Jake
Cortney's performance. I think's he's got such a great fun role.
There's some scenes here that are like a taxi driver
esqu which is like it's just him just just reacting
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to the world around him just being a guy. You know,
it's not it's not like you're talking to me kind
of stuff, but it's still it's a committed, really engaging,
captivating performance. He can stop watching him.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
And he gets his own Buffalo Bill moment, yes, which
is pretty great. From Silence to the Lambs, he never
over sells it. And you know what's nice, Like I
like when directors realized they got like a six foot
one two and twenty pound person, Like he doesn't have
to act tough, if that makes sense, Like he doesn't.
He's just a big dude in this movie, and like
I think it's in like so he's physically imposing, but
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I also think this is probably his best performance ever.
And like prepping for this, when he did Mushrooms and
got like obliterated out of his mind. Prepping for it,
he was burning like his arm with cigarettes, Like he
got into really like he got into character something fierce
and I love that and even the opening it's like
I love the opening scene where he shows up. He's
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talking to these two a Canadian and an Australian about
like going on a like chartering a tour with Shark
Kashow and what I like is the Canadian. Greg introduces Heather.
He's like, Moto, slow it out, Nate. He's like, she
has a name, you tell me. She's like, well, I'm
Heather and he's like, oh, so no one knows you're here.
Like he says that to him, and because they're at
(07:11):
a hostel, they're supposed to see world. But there's there's
like menace to him immediately, and Heather's almost like immediately
like woof this dude. But he's charming, like funny. So yeah,
I'll just go on this boat with this complete stranger.
But I don't know. I just kind of love how
he doesn't overplay it. They lean into his physicality. Yeah,
he just holds the screen a lot is asked of
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him in this movie.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, and I think, you know, I've underrated him in
the past, and I think I'm learning my lesson that
with the right kind of script, right and row, I
feel he's matured into this more of a character actor,
like you know, he's great, that he's excellent. He's one
of my favorite performances of the ESFO.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, it is Hollywood does that to actors and actresses
like okay, you were in ten episodes of Spartacus. Okay,
you're the lead in Terminator Genesis, like, oh no, So
I feel like if you can survive that kind of
like yeah, Taylor, oh yeah, So Taylor Kitch is coming
back and Taylor American Primeval, he's in the show with
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Joy Courtney. I feel like Peter Burg is collecting people
who were famous kind of died off and now they're
they're on comebacks. Yeah, Taylor Kitch, you were great in
Finite Lights. You're in John Carter and Battleship now, and
so you take these likable people and if they of savages,
if you can survive that, I think like Colin Ferrell,
they did that to him too, and he survived it. No,
(08:34):
he's a great character actor. So I think if you
can like Eric Bonna, like, hey you're in the Hulk. Great, cool.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Comedian.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
And that's another Australian. Hey you were good and Chopper
you're in the Hulk now cool. So I think once
you survived, especially specifically Australians, once you can survive that,
I think, and you have the will to stay around
then then I always like it when people begin their
character actor phase of their career and I think, who's
(09:10):
the guy from Sons of Anarchy in Pacific Rim. They
did that to him too, the ASTI wait, Charliehunham's Australian.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Too, Yes, that's yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Is it? Wait? Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Wait no he's English. He's English. Sorry. Australians they like
shoved them in all these movies. And then he popped
up in the La City of z and the Gentleman.
I'm like, oh, okay, he can act like he's good.
So I think you just got to survive that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I just get out of the late twenties pretty boy
phase of your career and into the mid thirties man.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
But yeah, yeah, exactly. Here's here's a white guy in
his twenties who looks generically like all the other white
guys under twenties. Let's put him the lead in the
two hundred million dollar movie. And ten years later, when
you're in your thirties a little bit more grizzled, that's
when you start doing the good work. But no, I
don't know. There's movie too like just it looks gorgeous.
The production design is good, and I don't want to
(10:06):
go too I don't want to go too far into it.
But I don't know. It's just nice watching kind of.
I don't know. It's so well made. It's not trying
to reinvent the wheel, and I don't think any movies
will ever do that, because reinvent the wheels terrible.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
But I mean it did some stuff I wasn't expecting,
some stuff I haven't seen before. So yeah, it's not
fully invented, but there is some still some new stuff
in there, like when it comes to Sean Burn, I'd seen.
I watched The Devil's Candy and like Preparation of Siness.
I stead haven't seen The Loved Ones, but I want to.
But although I hear I've heard like Devil's candiescritters like, hey,
it's good and that love Love. The Loved Ones is
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like a triple black Diamond horror film. I've it's described
as being like, I don't only go in if you
like really want to go through this. It's like, okay, me,
I've seen.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Through it, you will go through it with The Loved Ones.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I want to. I want to go through it. I'll see.
I'm gonna try and experience it all we do our
proper episode on this, I'll see what I can do.
Uh Yeah, I mean I didn't know what to expect
kind of gore. Why he's going into this because I
was taking it like somewhere between because there was candy,
not that gore of a film. It's more of an
acting film. Whereas the way I've heard, could you could
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drown in the blood come out of the love screen?
I don't know, and this I do probably sits somewhere between.
The There is there is some gore in this, but
it's not like unbearable. There's there's some great kills, you know.
I saw this a gala screening in London and some
people left like nip nipped to the loo at crucial moments.
(11:39):
I feel sorry for these people, but it was a
it was a real great night. I'm wearing the T
shirt I won. It's got like Dangerous Animals t shirt
Tucker's Shark experience on it. And I got to meet
Chris Here from podcast There, who was introducing the film,
so I got to shake his hand, remind him that
he wants replied to a tweet about us, and I
(12:01):
quoted it word for word, which I may be a
not have done. That's a bit too fanboy, a little
bit like hey, you tweeted me once and great I'm
gonna go now. I'm sorry so so much. I'd like
Christie to be on the show. I don't think you'll
ever reply to me again. I watched this space I
have I have tried once. But yeah, if you're listening
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to this and you haven't seen it, which is kind
of the point, because we're going to release this before
the film comes out, put it on your calendar. Go
and see Dangerous Animals. It's a real fun time. We're
going to do a full show. Will be a full
spoiler film show on it at some point, but list
for now. Check it out, go see it.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Please you spread rolls.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I prefer waffles. Was a pancake, pancakes, pancakes. That was
a beautiful stack of pancakes.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Oh yeah, oh man, yeah, we can't. We shouldn't tell that, right,
Like it's this this movie free.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, and like go and say it on a big
screen of the big crowd of people, because I we
get all these kind of screens that we watch at home.
I think you watched this one at home. But I
had such a great time seeing this in a full
theater with people who had been told to play up
their reactions a little bit because they're being filmed for commercials.
But even still, there were some people who were reacting,
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like the guy too seats up for me. I was
reacting more to him than to the film. He was
like properly yelling for it. But if you look at
an advert for this and you squint hard enough, you
might see me in there. You don't know what I
look like, but that's fine. I might be in there anyway.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, look for a dashingly handsome man.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Look for a guy wearing a t shirt, a white
shirt with fish printed on it, surrounded by people wearing
like black and piercings and tattoos, and just me. Just
look for the squarest guy. You can imagine sat enjoying
a shark movie surround the people who were there to
watch people die. And that's Sae. That's we'll see that.
You'll find me.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
And just one thing about the final thing I'm going
to say about this movie is it's like you could
it could have just been Shark Knight, which is another
serial killers of that crap with Shark, but like.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
They do so much in this movie that it's such
an intelligently made film, And like the way that the
chest pieces move and the way the dominoes fall. It's
just smart and and it does follow certain tropes, but
you know what, like who cares it does it really
well and it's such a smart movie. You will see
some really great overhead shots which I don't want to spoil,
(14:33):
but it's it's a movie that could have really rested
on his laurels, but it was made by a guy
who a very good filmmaker. And I I just love
when you know things I was expecting a good movie
to begin with, but I just think I love it
when people respect the genre and can elevate a certain
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type of film and like they're playing within a certain
you know, there's very familiar elements, but they're all done
so well, and I love that, Like there's something to
be said for somebody who, like, I don't think he
was swinging for a home run on this movie, even
though I think it's a home run of a movie,
But I just I love that just the idea, the
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just I don't know, they shot on the ocean, like
they actually went out on location, and there is tank work,
of course, but I love that they're on the water.
You know. I love how the shots are just smart.
There's so many beautiful wide shots and it's played out
so well. So yeah, I I I'm just keeping praise
on it, but I don't care. I love this movie.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, it's great, go say it.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
We're not gonna pay to say this either. We just
like we watched so many shark movies. It's nice when
this happens.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, we get to say it's a great one. Go
go check it out. It's in cnemas now like this,
this out the Sink, the June of things. So this
Friday and I.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Have a ranking jay of all shark movies released since
twenty eighteen. Okay, and I might insane and it might
be currency biased, but this is what it looks like,
tie for first place, Dangerous Animals and Deep Blue Sea three.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Oh, I was expecting Onto Paris.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Okay, and then Under Paris and then Deep Blue Sea two,
then Meg to the Trench, then forty seven meters down
on caged then the Meg, then Fear Below, which is
economically made film, very straightforward, but I enjoy it. The
last breath maybe I like the last breath, maybe more.
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But we'll see the reef stalked shark bait, something in
the water, the Black Demon, the raking, deep fear Man
Eater into the deep no way up in Great White
now to be fair, no way up and Deep White
or Great White should be like they're like eighteen rungs.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Down and then between them and the rest of Yes,
yeah we have that episode in Great White. We probably
never will and we also haven't done I haven't seen
Man Eater yet, so that's that's still on the list
to get to.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I would die if I could talk a great No,
that's so dramatic. But Great White man, Oh.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, we're not gonna It's fine, don't worry about it.
But yeah, I'll try and do a similar ranking before
the full, the proper episode on this one. So that's
something to look forward to listeners. But for now, that
will do it for our mini preview episode on Dangerous Animals.
Next week's episode is probably something to a deeper see.
I imagine as to come back next week for that,
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But for this I have been Jake Lewett, You're not
Mark half Man, and we'll deep blue see you next week.