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IT CAME FROM SCREAMBOX: ROAD GAMES! · WASD and Beyond

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You boys ready to hit it? Yes, ready to hit the road.
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We hit the road, Jack. Ready to get on the get on the
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road, get on the CB radio, pick up a lot lizard.
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Oh, we ain't doing no lot, lizard bro.
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You don't want that, no. You know, fun.
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Yeah, you get sickness that way. We don't like Disturbed anymore.
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We don't like them anymore. Why do we not like Disturbed?
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Yeah, why? David Draymond signed a bomb
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that went into Gaza. Oh yeah, he not cool.
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Yeah, that's bad. Yeah, well, you know, I never
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liked him. Everyone likes that song.
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No. You don't like that with the
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sickness? Oh.
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Why you cannot? I mean, terrible guy, terrible
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guy. But Game has to recognize game.
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The song's a banger. Give us one more, One more with
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the. Part anyways, he does that in
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the song too. Welcome back everybody to It
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came From Scream Box. We're hosts Nick, Noah and Alex
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Boys. Welcome to 2026.
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Even though Crack Coons is coming out in 2026.
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Well, this is the first movie that we've watched.
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This is the first movie we've watched in 2026, so your second
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review, but our first movie watched this was Noah's Picks.
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Noah got to bring us into the new year, so that's fucking
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awesome. If you've stuck around with us
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at some cool shit, so get ready for that.
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We're working on it right now, but we're not here to talk about
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the cool shit we got in the background.
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Noah, this is your pick meet on Bubba.
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This week I picked 1981's Road Games.
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Rd. Games is an Australian made
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thriller directed by Richard Franklin starring Stacy Keach.
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Is that how you say that? I think so.
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And Jamie Lee Curtis, there's a bit, I got a bit of business as
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I usually do. So you can't really talk about a
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movie like this without mentioning the genre of movie
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known as Ozploitation. Ozploitation refers that is so
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that this movie is a well known example of that.
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What Ozploitation is is a genre of low budget movies that are
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produced in Australia. The term comes from a fringe
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branch of the new wave movement in film production.
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Often times the movies would be low budget and feature some well
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known actors but some unknown actors.
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Often times those well known actors are imports.
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In this case we have two American leads while everybody
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else in the cast is Australian. Similar to what we talked about
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for Black Christmas, countries like Australia and Canada sort
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of mandate that a certain percentage of the media there in
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the country be local. So that's why this movie ended
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up being made in Australia is because they approached the
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director who is from Australia, although he lived in the US to
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come over and and make his movie there.
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That that's cool. The the the genres where you get
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movies like the Mad Max franchise, which is considered
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to be ospotation film. There's a ton of like, yeah,
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like the original Mad Max and even Mad Max.
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That makes sense. That that makes sense.
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Like when you look, when you look at like lists of ospotation
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movies, Mad Max is always on those lists, even the new ones.
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So even Furiosa was on that list.
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OK. But it it is somewhat of a Gray
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area because movies like Crocodile Dundee, which is a
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very famous Australian film series, is not considered to be
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Ozploitation. So I'm not really sure what it
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takes to qualify. But it seems that like a lot of
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them have to be it's they have to be like trauma level movies
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but made in Australia. It just seems so odd.
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Yeah, it it's, it's, it's a thing of like film production.
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They want to boost that industry in those countries.
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In America, we have the massive Hollywood machine, but they
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don't have that in other countries.
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But it does bring in a lot of money and a lot of jobs.
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You saw a big example of that was when they made the Lord of
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the Rings movies and then The Hobbit movies.
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There was all like a whole thing, 'cause they had an entire
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New Zealander team and it was a big deal when they were like,
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we're actually going to bring in an American team and they were
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like, well, you're not going to do it in New Zealand then.
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Because what they're trying to do is like create jobs in these
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industries. But it's not really something we
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think of in the States because the film industry is like huge
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here. Well, it's also got like a
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shroud of mysticism to it. You don't look at the background
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like almost like production of it.
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You you just, you get the outcome or you see the behind
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the scenes footage. Do you remember?
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Do you remember better? Watch out.
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Yeah. Entirely Australian casted
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movie. So is that an AUS like?
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No, because. I I don't think that would.
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Be an Australian accent. Necessarily, I think because it
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had a higher budget or I don't know what, like it's hard.
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It's hard to say what exactly would.
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Yeah, exactly. But that was all Aussie actors
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doing an American accent. This was 2 American actors and
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just everybody else around them is just Australia.
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You scared us so bad. Yeah, what?
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Because we we heard everything you just said, luckily, but
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everything froze on your end. The YouTube video is about to
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look wild. Here's what.
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Seems like, oh, now I see you, I see you guys reacting to
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something and I. Wasn't meeting.
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Actually, they're going. I'm like, oh, like looking
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behind me in the camera. Like 2 little kids with saucer
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eyes going. All right, Well, as long as the
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audio's fine. It works.
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It's worth. Watching me freeze.
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I'll ride it perfectly, OK. All right, OK, so the movie was
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it sort of came about while that while Franklin was not Franklin.
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Jeez, tripping over my words here.
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Richard Franklin. He was making a movie called
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Franklin with his writing partner and he gave him a copy
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of the 1954 movie Rear Window, which was a mystery
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psychological thriller to show him how he wanted Rd. games to
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play out, which explains a lot about the movie.
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It's somewhat of a thriller, somewhat of a serial killer
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movie, but all it's it's very much like a mystery.
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Originally they wanted to give the lead role to Sean Connery,
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however they couldn't afford him, so they went with Stacy
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Keach, who is well known for TV work and stage work, and he's
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had a long prolific career after the movie, despite spending some
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time in prison after making this one.
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What? Why?
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Yeah, he went to jail. He went to prison for like 6
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months for some financial crime. Oh whatever.
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Fuck off. Yeah.
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Yeah, some. Well, yeah, it was just a little
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bit, but it didn't really seem to affect his career.
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He. Did his time too.
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Yeah, he did. And then he got out.
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It was never, nothing really ever seemed to come of it didn't
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affect his career. Old Wesley's night situation.
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Yeah, he's been in a ton of things.
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They were going to cast Lisa Pierce for the female lead. the
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US distributors insisted on an American costar and suggested
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Jamie Lee Curtis, who was well known for her role in Halloween
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at this time. She had only done like a couple
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of other small projects before this.
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There was some trouble with the production trying to cast to
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Americans for this Australian film, which resulted in a delay
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of production until eventually the suits in Sydney approved of
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her casting and they expanded the role of Hitch to take full
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advantage of having Jamie Lee there.
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That's cool. This movie bombed pretty bad.
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It bombed twice, once in Australia on its first release
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and then again later in the same year in the US, and the director
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blamed that on the marketing of the movie that he they were
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trying to market it as more of like a slasher.
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Oh, instead of like a psychological.
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Yeah, where he he was angling for more of the mystery.
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You know, that's the whole thing, the whole.
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Yeah, suspense. The whole thing plays out like a
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chase. But eventually, eventually, this
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movie did find somewhat of a cult following and has a 92% on
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Rotten Tomatoes and a 71 out of 100 on Metacritic.
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So it's considered to be better than average.
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But some critics called it said that it was a little bit
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pretentious. What was pretentious about this
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movie? It's.
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Just, I don't know, I think they just kind of felt like it was up
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its own ass a little bit. I think maybe what would do it
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for me, What is the out loud monologuing that the main
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character is doing with the dingo the whole time?
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Yeah, there is, because he's kind of, he's kind of doing the
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Redditor thing. He's kind of like, it seems that
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this is a man. I can't place my finger on it.
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A little bit, a little bit of him, like just driving the truck
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and stroking his chin, like I wonder what could be going on.
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He's like, he is quoting a lot of poetry.
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He's doing a lot of like that type of shit too.
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Yeah, he's like it's. Also a lot of inner thought you
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hear and then he talks out loud to himself or.
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Bazzi, well, that I like that because that that was like
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playing on the whole like, well, yeah, he's talking to Bazzi, but
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his dog or Dingo, he. Thinks it's a dingo, but it's a.
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Dog, he thinks it's a dog, but like the trucker exhaustion is
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very real. And I like that they played into
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the trucker exhaustion because you can see like he is like at
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his fucking rope dude. Like he's at the end of that
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shit. And he says like he's
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hallucinating. Yeah.
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Did you get a jump scare out of? Yeah, you do they.
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I mean, I think it's really, it's really good that they play
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into that. Like when the woman flags him
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down by she put like toilet paper across the road.
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Was it pink ass paper? Was that like, was that real?
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Because they never remove it and he just drives past.
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So I I wonder if that was real. It was she had a she's sat down
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the role of it when she got in the truck.
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Oh, OK. Yeah, he looked at it.
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Gotcha. So he when it when the movie
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starts out, he's at a hotel and he's going to he's going to get
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a room for the night and he sees this green van and this like SUS
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looking guy with a little cooler and trash bags.
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And he goes in the room. And then it just like hard cuts
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to the next morning and he's outside and his dog is like
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sniffing around in the trash and the guy in the window is
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watching like right off the RIP. It's like setting up that he's
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clearly seen something that he's not supposed to be seeing, and
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then it just sort of cascades that way.
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He's got a job that he's doing, but it's along the same route
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that this guy is also travelling.
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So it is that cat and mouse game.
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But it does kind of feel like it's lucky that the job also had
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him on this route because he was going to follow that guy no
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matter what. Yeah, yeah, he wasn't going to
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stop following this guy. Yeah, as much as he said he
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didn't care, he. The entire time, I mean, he led
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he, he kind of leaned into his insanity a bit too.
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He's like, I'm not doing this. And he's just like just a little
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bit further and like there's always something compelling and
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like something would happen that would compel him to go further
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and further and follow. I like that a lot.
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There's also, like, there's a lot of things that are like,
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setting up something that don't necessarily lead to anything
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else. Like he does.
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He ends up picking up an older woman who says that her husband,
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like, drove off without her. And like, when they're in the
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truck driving and like, the radio is playing and she's
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telling him about how there's like, someone out there
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kidnapping girls. And he's like telling her about
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the guy he saw, and she thinks that he's the killer.
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Yeah. And then when she runs off, I
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don't know if you caught it, but when they're standing at the
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Cliff, she's like, I'm in some trouble and there's some people
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after us. I, I think she thinks that he's
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like an unrelated third party who's giving her family trouble
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for causing the strike. That is the reason why there's
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no meat in Perth, which is the reason that he has got the meat
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to take to Perth. It's just so interconnected.
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It was, it was really crazy. Like I got to go back and watch
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Rear Window because I think that movie has a lot more to do with
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this one than we think that. 'D be cool.
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What? Nothing.
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Everything connects bro. It it does.
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And I, I was confused with that at first.
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I'll know it has brought that up because she was like, yeah, no,
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don't hurt. Me it was so quick in trouble so
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quick and you'll miss it. And also like she says that
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she's been left behind by her husband, but she like when they
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get to they go to the Roadhouse and she doesn't even try to call
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anybody. She just immediately starts
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chatting with the the motorcycle.
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Guy and it's the same conversation she started having
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with him. Exactly, exactly.
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It's just like. They brought up the husband and
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family on the radio at one point when he was driving Floyd.
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Yeah, fucking weird bro. So there's a bit of when they
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are driving before they get to the Roadhouse, they do see the,
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the woman, her name is Sunny. She sees our guy like the killer
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digging a hole, but she doesn't know that it's the same guy from
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the hotel and he's got trash bags and a little red cooler,
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which is sort of a through line of like the, our, our main guy,
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Pat Quid. He thinks like that's the body
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and that's like the chopped up body of the victim.
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Spoiler it is, but the whole thing is like, he's not sure of
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it, but the guy's acting all SUS and they're driving around and
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he's like, he'll get in front of him or he'll be behind him and
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they get like separated for a bit.
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But the whole thing is like him trying to figure out like,
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what's in those bags? What's in that cooler?
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Yeah, when he pulls out the binoculars.
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Yeah, he pulls. Down at him and the the killer
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notices him and he just like, puts it down and like looks up
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into the sky and whistles. Like you're not the only three
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people in the middle of the fucking desert with nothing
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around. Like there's not nobody within
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200 miles of this place. So there's a very smart assy
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type of guy too. Doesn't like, almost doesn't
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give a fuck. Like he knows it's on them.
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That part, like he knows that this guy knows something.
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Yeah. I think at a certain point he's
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like, I'm not going to, I'm probably not going to be able to
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get away with this. Yeah, not getting out of this
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time type shit. Yeah.
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But eventually they he almost did.
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He almost did. We will get to that, yes.
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They. At some point I, I like, blinked
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and I missed it. At some point, Jamie Lee Curtis
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goes just missing. Yeah, so basically they're at a
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truck stop and he's like kind of working on his truck.
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He's working on the engine or whatever he's working on,
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doesn't matter. And they go around the corner
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and they see the green van. The the whole thing is the green
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van, the guy in the green van. And he goes into the bathroom
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and sees some feet under a stall.
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And then you see the green van and he's like, just go, you
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know, go check it out, whatever. She goes check it out, crawls in
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there. Cut to the next shot while a car
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horn is going off. The entire scene.
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Yeah, the entire scene. It's fucking blaring, which I
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liked. I'll, I'll bring that up during
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my like, I guess recap. But so that's happening.
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And then the door opens and it's the motorcycle guy.
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And they say, what the fuck, dude?
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And then he goes back outside and the fucking van is gone
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because the guy was in the van the entire time under a sleeping
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bag. So she crawls over and he's just
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like, and he it just, it just cuts right there.
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You're like, oh shit. So yeah, that's that scene.
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Yeah, that's good. That's a good scene.
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It's set up so you're not supposed to really know what
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what happened but he drives off to chase the van first.
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He like steals the motorcycle for like a second for like no
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reason dude. So he like steals the motorcycle
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and drives it like 200 feet to the truck.
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Just to flip it in fall. Yeah, like it's so unnecessary,
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but it was really funny. And then they just like kind of
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drive for a little bit longer till they do finally get to the
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city and then the police from earlier, cuz the police are also
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following them. Yeah, they all kind of catch up
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to each other and then it's a bit of a slow speed chase
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through the city. Yeah, which is a cool little
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chase, yeah. Yeah, it was.
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Very, very slow. Yeah, it is very slow and the
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movie definitely tells you that because there's a few close up
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shots of the speedometer and it's like sub 20 miles an hour.
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I never seen like a action shot of a speedometer when the speed
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is that low. This is how slow this is going.
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We get it, Yeah. But eventually the the van guy,
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he drives into like an alleyway like or a small like service
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road and quid is just like, well, I've come this far and he
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just drives the truck in there. They get wedged, I think the van
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breaks down and then the cops get stuck under the trailer.
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The car get stuck under the trailer.
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The one cop is like go check out what's going on top.
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Yeah and he goes up under the truck and then he gets stuck
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under the truck cuz like our homeboy, what's his name?
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Floyd, Not Floyd. The main guy, Quid.
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No, no. Oh, Floyd.
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Yeah. The the.
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The way truck stop, Yeah, at the weight, at the weight, at the
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weight station. He's all you got some shit under
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your fucking Axel, man. Well, he tells him he's he tells
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him he's over the weight. Limit 75 kilos?
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No, not. Kilos 75K.
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Something like that, yeah, which?
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That which that was the. It's the.
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Anchor. Boat.
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It's the anchor from the boat, from that little.
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Yeah, there's a bit of, there's a there's a small reoccurring
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guy who's towing a boat. That's the thing though, they're
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all reoccurring. Did you notice at the end?
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They're all there too. All really.
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Biker guy, Boat guy Sunny. Lady Well, I know that the biker
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guy and Sunny were there, but I had I thought that like, I mean,
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all the roads lead to Perth because Perth is like the most
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yeah, western city. In Houston was there too.
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They were all there. They were all there at Perth,
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yeah, which is neat, but yeah, the cops.
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Yeah, it is the one. Cop gets stuck.
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I love that. I love the reoccurring guy with
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the boat because the first time you see him he's like going all
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swervy because the truck and the man are trying to get around him
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and it is just windscreen just explodes for no reason.
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I didn't see, did did you guys see anything come off and hit
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his windshield? Because I just saw it break.
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No, I didn't see. Anything.
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I didn't see anything either. Yeah, so his wind windshield
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breaks, and then you see him again in his car at the
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Roadhouse where he's getting his windshield repaired.
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And then you see him again and he's still, like, behaving like
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an asshole on the road and swerving around and then
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eventually just ramming his boat into the truck.
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And then it gets destroyed and flips over, comes off of the car
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and the anchor gets caught up in the truck.
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Yeah, there's. A lot of it's a it's a pretty
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good. I jinx in this.
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Yeah, a lot of a lot of shenanigans going on, but.
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Then everything connects. It does.
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It's, it's, it's kind of crazy. Like it's very well written,
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like it was clearly well thought out.
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You know, despite the fact that in my little research I've I
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found that they wrote the first draft of this movie at a hotel
23:02
in Fiji over 8 days. God damn.
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Now of course they probably did edits, but to plan all this out
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in less than 10 days? That's seriously impressive.
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Oh, it's drugs, dude. While you're on vacation?
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Yeah, because you're in Fiji. Well, they weren't.
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They weren't on on vacation. They were shooting Blue Lagoon.
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Oh, OK. Yeah, OK.
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So they were writing it after shooting that movie.
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That's cool. So they all get, they all get
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wedged in the alleyway. It's all coming to a head.
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The killer's getting out of the car and he's smashing the lights
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of the truck. Yeah, it's looking like there's
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going to be like a fight and then he's just like flooring it.
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They're trying to he's trying to restart the the van and the the
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trailer hitch like separates. Yeah, the fifth wheel separates
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from the trailer the. 5th wheel separates and he the the semi
24:01
does like a wheelie in the crushes.
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The van that yell. He did the most real yell in a
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movie prices utopia trailer but. I would have done something like
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that. I'm like, well.
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It's not. It's not like a.
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It's not like a. Whoa.
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It's not like a. It's like a.
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It was like a terrified. It's like the yell your dad does
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when he slips on the ice. Oh my God, yeah, it's.
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That we all know that, yeah. Like.
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Well, mixed with the cock sucking fucking winter.
24:36
I hate it, right? How did that not crush the van
24:42
completely? I don't know.
24:43
A semi truck landed on. It that is death that van, that
24:47
van does not hold up to a fucking Mercedes semi cab.
24:51
I don't. I didn't think so.
24:53
No, no, no, no. That's death, brother.
24:55
You getting? I think with death, especially
24:57
because it landed on the back. It landed on the whole of it.
25:02
Well, it mostly went on the back I think.
25:04
Like the back axle? Well, like the IT, Yeah, it went
25:08
on like the open area of the van.
25:11
The backyard. Yeah, I listen.
25:13
I don't know bro that everyone's dead in that instance except for
25:17
him. Like quid for hitch wine, He's
25:19
fine. Well then Quid gets out and he
25:22
starts. Well, he yeah, he gets out and
25:25
then the killer sneaks up behind him with the with the piano
25:27
wire. And tries to.
25:30
Yeah, tries to choke him and then the other guy Quid and he
25:34
he gets out of the the piano wire and he like beats his head
25:38
into a like sewer and then he grabs the piano wire and wraps
25:43
around his neck. And just then all the cops show
25:46
up and all the people show up for a second there.
25:49
We're like, oh, no, like they're going to he's going to get away
25:54
with it because the the killer starts like back into the crowd.
25:57
And I could see I was watching both like your reactions, like
26:01
he's going to fucking get away with this.
26:03
I was getting pissed. Well, also I thought I had like
26:06
a crazy thought in my head. I was like, OK, this entire time
26:09
this is happening, he's chasing this guy.
26:11
She gets in the car. I was like, what if it's just
26:13
some bystander? And like, like, he was going
26:16
crazy the entire movie, But like, we're seeing him act
26:20
normal, but the entire movie is him going crazy.
26:24
And we're missing the idiosyncraticies,
26:26
idiosyncrasies, idiosyncrasies that the movie is trying to show
26:31
us. Because I was like, this is that
26:34
would be crazy. But what they do in this is also
26:36
good because she's like, OK, cool.
26:38
So like we get a bit of a win here.
26:42
I like, yeah, needed that win. And then what do you know?
26:46
It's Jamie. Lee Curtis was in the sleeping
26:50
bag the whole time. And she tells everybody that
26:53
it's that he's not the killer. Yeah, very angry.
26:56
He's, Yeah, very angry. She's very angry in the end
27:00
here, which I would be too. God knows how long she was in
27:03
that sleeping bag and it's probably hot in there.
27:05
That Van Pride definitely doesn't have AC.
27:08
Don't smell good? No.
27:10
No, probably didn't smell great. I love the the killer, like he
27:16
almost gets away and they bumps into a cop and he's like where
27:18
do you think you're going? His no dialogue either.
27:23
You should. It's just, you know, his eyes
27:24
going. He never speaks, he never says
27:26
anything. No, no, I like that a lot about
27:28
this. Like Killer Guy, this is a
27:29
serial killer. Yeah, this one.
27:31
He doesn't say a single thing. Yeah.
27:33
So then I guess after that it kind of just wraps up, I guess
27:38
the the the insinuation is that nobody gets in trouble for
27:44
causing any property damage and they just abandoned the truck.
27:48
Yep. Cuz he said it had $100,000
27:51
worth of damage. It's a part of the city now.
27:54
Bro. That truck is the landmark.
27:55
You leave it there. It's.
27:56
Just part of it. In Detroit, it wouldn't.
27:58
They'd yeah. Leave out there that that's Rd.
28:02
games. That is Rd.
28:04
Games. There was.
28:05
I liked it. One part though, did you all
28:08
hear the fucking ticking coming from the van or was I?
28:12
Yeah, yeah, having no, I heard. That OK?
28:14
OK. Did you think there was a bomb?
28:17
Yes, I did too. OK.
28:18
And the OK cool. Just a ticking.
28:22
No one noticed it in the movie. It was just us or all right.
28:26
I wondered if it was real. As it goes, it starts ticking.
28:33
When she was in crawling towards the When Hitch was crawling
28:37
towards the cooler when she got kidnapped.
28:40
Oh yeah. There's a few times, but yeah,
28:44
all right, cool. I wasn't just me that heard
28:46
that. Yeah, I heard it.
28:47
I just wasn't sure if it was like in the soundtrack of the
28:50
movie or if it was like diegetically heard like if it
28:54
was. It only came from when they were
28:57
in the van though the film. Could have been.
29:00
That would have been. Whenever the whenever the camera
29:02
was in the van. In there just the van just goes.
29:07
Yeah. I thought.
29:09
I thought that's what was going to happen when he was backing
29:11
up. Oh yeah, just kamikaze into the
29:14
truck. Oh.
29:17
Or switched it. Maybe they were on a?
29:19
Budget. I think a lot of these things
29:22
are meant for you to not trust what you're seeing.
29:28
Like they he brings it up early on that there's like
29:31
hallucinations and hearing things and seeing things and the
29:38
movies like shot in that way. Where it's.
29:42
Somewhat trying to trick your eye.
29:45
So I think little stuff like that, these like audio
29:49
hallucinations, might be leaning into that.
29:54
We got a bit of an unreliable narrator situation as well at
29:57
times. At times, not the entire movie.
30:01
I want to get more into the fucking damn ticking, but the
30:03
ticking it was when Hitch was in the van, it played it and then
30:09
when he broke into the van. He was also.
30:13
Doing it. I mean, it's also whenever
30:15
somebody gets close to the cooler, which they have a
30:19
suspicion of what's in the cooler.
30:20
And you it implied that what's in the cooler is probably the
30:24
woman's head. Yes.
30:28
So maybe that's like they were get like they're getting close
30:32
to finding it, but they never really find it because he, the
30:37
killer managed to sneak the head into the top section of the
30:42
trailer. So it's not found until the very
30:45
end when they're scrubbing down the trailer.
30:48
I want to know what the inside of the trailer looks like
30:50
because I've never there's not like a in those trailers.
30:54
It's just a straight back. There's not like a anything in
30:58
the in the ceiling. Well, it's a refrigeration
31:01
truck. So there's probably some kind
31:03
of, well, yeah, ducting, yeah. A reefer.
31:05
Yeah, there's probably, yeah, if it's a reefer trailer.
31:07
But usually a lot of that stuff's on the outside of the
31:09
trailer anyway, so. But I don't know.
31:11
This is also the fucking 80s. Maybe there was a compartment.
31:16
Yeah. And Australia, so that I liked
31:18
that. It was like, oh shit, there it
31:19
is. Yeah, definitely worth a watch.
31:22
Yeah, hopefully you already watched it and now you're back
31:26
here listening to us yap about it.
31:31
Yeah, I would love to, yeah. Yeah.
31:34
I would love to know, like if anybody from the audience who
31:38
was around when this movie hit theaters, I want to know what
31:41
you thought about it back then because I this would have been a
31:44
movie I would have loved to see in theaters.
31:47
I would have had a really good time in theaters seeing this.
31:49
I think like what the director said about it bombing, that it
31:53
was pitched more of us as a slasher movie.
31:58
It is not that it's definitely a slow burn, like it's only an
32:01
hour and a half, but it is. It's a like I say, it's a slow
32:06
burn you. Have to.
32:07
And if you're going in there expecting like, oh, it's Jamie
32:11
Lee Curtis in another slash movie, it's going to be like
32:13
Halloween. No, it is not.
32:14
No, no. It's way more of like a
32:17
psychological mystery type suspense thriller.
32:25
I sneezed. I'm so hard.
32:26
It was, it was super good, actually.
32:31
Makes you yeah. Makes you think the entire time.
32:35
All of it being. Conducted.
32:36
Such a good touch. Yeah.
32:40
I'm I'm gonna give it a four out of five.
32:44
I'm gonna give it a four out of five.
32:46
I like this movie a lot. I like a lot of what the
32:49
director did. I like, I like.
32:51
I like what the cast was doing with the source material as
32:54
well. The movie likes to subvert your
32:57
attention to other places, kind of like a magician.
32:59
It takes your eyes and kind of plays with your brain a little
33:02
bit to make you look the opposite way.
33:04
I like that a lot. Lots of use of cool camera
33:08
angles. Again, I go back to like the
33:10
Raimi angle and the Raimi run some of that in here.
33:13
There is, like I said, just subversion of expectations.
33:17
I, I, I, I like that and I like the acting in this movie a lot
33:22
'cause it's hard to nail some of the shit they're doing.
33:24
And they fucking did a great job here. 4 out of five.
33:27
Great flick. Go watch this.
33:29
Absolutely get some popcorn, go home, sit on your couch, put a
33:32
blankie on by yourself, veg out. This is a great, this is a good
33:35
time. This is sweet smoke a hog's leg
33:39
too. What do you get with Alex?
33:45
Almost had smoke a three out of five.
33:49
I give this a three out of five. Yeah, three out of five. 3.5 out
33:52
of five. OK.
33:53
All right. I think that's my first half out
33:56
of any of these. I think it is, yeah.
33:58
I'm not sure. It's like I'm not feeling.
34:00
Lazy. You know, if we were going to do
34:01
half points, we could have just done out of 10.
34:05
At first. I don't want to we get over 5.
34:08
This was This was a. Whole it's too late now.
34:09
And I don't want to do it again. It's a solid flick, super solid
34:14
flick. Like Nick said, the some of the
34:17
shooting, like very artsy, but also like, creepy.
34:22
There's one scene specifically where like, he's like talking to
34:24
himself and he's shifting. And every time he shifts the
34:28
camera, like pants back just a little bit.
34:31
Yeah, till it goes behind the curtain of the cab.
34:34
I don't know. I just.
34:35
Oh, that's nice. It is.
34:37
It's really good. A lot of good camera stuff in
34:39
this. They did a lot of, you know, the
34:43
tracking shots where it's like the outside of the truck that
34:48
definitely they had to use like filming cars and like cranes and
34:53
and stuff like that. And they got the shots of the
34:56
road where it's like up and down and up and down.
35:00
Oh yeah. Really, really a lot, a lot of
35:02
good stuff here. It's definitely earned that
35:05
incredibly high score that it has on the the critic sites.
35:11
Yeah, absolutely. No.
35:13
Go watch this movie. We say go watch this movie.
35:17
Absolutely I do. There might be, I, I there might
35:20
be some things you don't like about it.
35:22
I I didn't think it was a perfect movie movie by any
35:24
means. It is a slow burn and there are
35:27
times when it gets slow and you're like, get on with it.
35:30
That's why it's not like a 5 out of five, cuz there's some get on
35:33
with it shit in this movie you're like, come on.
35:35
Or like replace the scene and reshoot.
35:38
That was something different. Because I, I think you wanted to
35:41
do something different here and you didn't have the budget or
35:43
you didn't want to or you didn't have anything extra written
35:46
here. Other than that, though, I loved
35:48
it. Go watch this film.
35:50
It is awesome. Good stuff.
35:53
Noah. Oh yeah.
35:55
Good pick I think. Well, starting off 2026 strong.
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