Latest / Thirsty For More - Movie Review / EP180 - Rebel Ridge
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I heard down Oh the chad meme.
- 0:13Speaker 2: Oh is that dirt?
- 0:18Speaker 1: Dirt? Dude? I love that song so much? What is it?
- 0:27Speaker 1: It's uh, it's like it's this band called Bring Me
- 0:31Speaker 1: the Horizon, who are kind of like people like talk
- 0:35Speaker 1: about them as if they're like the spiritual torch bearers
- 0:38Speaker 1: of of Lincoln Park in a lot of ways. Yeah,
- 0:42Speaker 1: that makes sense. They started out as like a deathcore
- 0:45Speaker 1: band or like a metalcore band, and they were like
- 0:47Speaker 1: big in the they were big in the like scene,
- 0:50Speaker 1: like the Warped tour scene. Yeah, but I think then
- 0:53Speaker 1: they like sort of saw the writing on the wall
- 0:56Speaker 1: and like, you know, I don't know, like they kind
- 0:59Speaker 1: of just started making more new metally kind of stuff
- 1:01Speaker 1: because it was like poppier. Yeah. So yeah, they have
- 1:05Speaker 1: a lot of songs that are like very They have
- 1:08Speaker 1: very hooky choruses, like that song. Uh, And I don't know,
- 1:24Speaker 1: I really like I actually really like that bad and
- 1:26Speaker 1: I like that song. We were on tour with them
- 1:29Speaker 1: and they also that song, you know that song? I
- 1:40Speaker 1: don't think so Yeah, Well, listen, you're a philistine. You're
- 1:47Speaker 1: nowhere near as new Middle as I am. No. I mean,
- 1:50Speaker 1: I would never claim.
- 1:51Speaker 2: I would never claim, dude, Yeah, I mean.
- 1:55Speaker 1: Only one of us was in a new metal band.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Were you in a new metal band? Yeah, new metal band.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Not not sid for dude, A oh, A veil repute,
- 2:04Speaker 2: A veil repute X. I mean a veil repute is
- 2:07Speaker 2: a pretty good good name.
- 2:08Speaker 1: It's a good name. It's a good name.
- 2:10Speaker 3: I thought I was trying to think of, Like, Yeah, anyway,
- 2:25Speaker 3: we had a couple of songs, dude, we recorded with
- 2:28Speaker 3: Legend Toronto recording Legend Doug Romano back in like fucking
- 2:33Speaker 3: two thousand and one two.
- 2:36Speaker 1: I mean that's cool.
- 2:38Speaker 2: And at a time where it was it wasn't like oh,
- 2:41Speaker 2: like what can I look up on the internet?
- 2:44Speaker 1: No, exactly completely different than that. Are you ready? Let's
- 2:50Speaker 1: do it? Hello everyone, and welcome to Thirsty for More.
- 2:53Speaker 1: I of course I'm your host, Malenko. And today we're
- 2:56Speaker 1: doing like, uh, well, we're doing like a little Netflix
- 2:59Speaker 1: special because we were sort of like hipped to this
- 3:02Speaker 1: movie by K's of course, of course, and it's it's
- 3:07Speaker 1: a twenty twenty four is Rebel Ridge, which is streaming
- 3:12Speaker 1: on Netflix now, And the reason we were hipped to
- 3:14Speaker 1: it is because K's kind of described it as like
- 3:17Speaker 1: it's a pandamn movie.
- 3:18Speaker 2: But uh but really it's Dei Rambo, which to me
- 3:24Speaker 2: isn't that.
- 3:26Speaker 1: Despite Well do you think, like no, like the movie
- 3:29Speaker 1: is we're gonna talk about race in the movie, of course,
- 3:32Speaker 1: because I think that it's like obviously like a huge
- 3:37Speaker 1: underlying theme. But I think the way they did it
- 3:39Speaker 1: and the way they like updated this format of movie
- 3:43Speaker 1: that normally didn't really talk about things like this and
- 3:47Speaker 1: they just included it as a matter of fact, which
- 3:50Speaker 1: is like it raised the stakes of the movie in
- 3:53Speaker 1: such an interesting way, like something that could be just
- 3:56Speaker 1: like a stupid like no stakes, like just a flick
- 4:01Speaker 1: kind of like is like given this weightiness by this
- 4:04Speaker 1: like unexplained force of racism. And and also like we
- 4:08Speaker 1: see like the way institutional violence is like perpetuated and
- 4:12Speaker 1: like in this like obviously like glammed up movie, but
- 4:16Speaker 1: we'll get to it.
- 4:17Speaker 2: Well, Like, I mean, I actually think that the opposite
- 4:20Speaker 2: is true. I don't think the movie is glammed up
- 4:23Speaker 2: at all. I mean the filmmaking is glammed, but the
- 4:26Speaker 2: but the like normalcy of everything.
- 4:29Speaker 1: The normalcy of all the suplexing, the awkward, the weight
- 4:33Speaker 1: weightiness of the bodies and like feeling like every like.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Oh dude, man, I want to talk about so much
- 4:40Speaker 1: in this movie. I'm so excited. I watched it again
- 4:43Speaker 1: this morning.
- 4:44Speaker 2: Man, I didn't watch it again. I'm watching it right now.
- 4:47Speaker 1: It's so good, it's so awesome.
- 4:48Speaker 2: Well, okay, the movie starts out. It's first of all,
- 4:52Speaker 2: it's directed by Jeremy Solnier, who did so far has
- 4:55Speaker 2: had three of four good movies, which are Blue Ruin,
- 5:03Speaker 2: Green Room, this Rebel Ridge.
- 5:07Speaker 1: Uh and you like, you're a big fan of this guy,
- 5:09Speaker 1: and it's a guy that we've discussed on this show. Yeah,
- 5:12Speaker 1: I mean we discussed his movies.
- 5:14Speaker 2: He's also a guy who seems like he if he
- 5:17Speaker 2: hasn't experienced a lot of I mean, he's not a
- 5:21Speaker 2: black guy, so he probably hasn't experienced racism. But you
- 5:26Speaker 2: could clearly tell from Green Room that he was in
- 5:28Speaker 2: a band or new band people.
- 5:31Speaker 1: Well, because the movie starts off with the number of
- 5:33Speaker 1: the Beasts by Iron Maiden, What did I see? Then
- 5:42Speaker 1: saw that night? And then not just Fantasy, which is
- 5:48Speaker 1: an amazing, amazing start, like just on a bicycle being
- 5:53Speaker 1: followed from behind with the with the police lights on.
- 5:56Speaker 2: And it's immediate too, like, and he gets hit by
- 5:59Speaker 2: a like he.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Gets nudged by by a police car in a way
- 6:04Speaker 1: that like destabilizes his wheel and he like falls off
- 6:06Speaker 1: the bike. And I'm like, man, like, he's not wearing
- 6:10Speaker 1: a helmet, like he could have like or is he
- 6:12Speaker 1: wearing a helmet? No, he's not. He could have done
- 6:15Speaker 1: brain damage and died. Yeah, and this how did you guess?
- 6:20Speaker 4: How did you guess?
- 6:21Speaker 2: Apparently Jumpego was supposed to be the original guy.
- 6:26Speaker 1: Which would have been cool. Not only that, but they
- 6:27Speaker 1: like shot half the movie with him. I don't know
- 6:30Speaker 1: about that, That's what Kay said. That's crazy, So you
- 6:34Speaker 1: don't know what happened. I don't know about that.
- 6:36Speaker 2: Yeah, but they got this beautiful, handsome guy. But what
- 6:41Speaker 2: what was nice about how the scene, this first scene
- 6:46Speaker 2: plays out, is that it gives you all the necessary
- 6:49Speaker 2: information without it being a dump of like exposition. It
- 6:54Speaker 2: is a dump of exposition, But the interesting thing about
- 6:57Speaker 2: it is that it's contextualized so well.
- 7:00Speaker 1: They hit him.
- 7:01Speaker 2: Off the bike, they express that it's like, oh, we
- 7:06Speaker 2: got a call that there was a stolen bike, and
- 7:08Speaker 2: then they put him in the back of the car
- 7:10Speaker 2: to ask him what he's doing, and we get all
- 7:14Speaker 2: the information about his cousin.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Oh my god, cousin.
- 7:17Speaker 4: You got to see the.
- 7:18Speaker 2: Show getting busted for like a.
- 7:21Speaker 1: Weak rugs just weed possession, he says it.
- 7:24Speaker 2: But also he has like so much They pull out
- 7:26Speaker 2: from his bag that he has so much money, and
- 7:29Speaker 2: it's like wait, what, like why is there this?
- 7:33Speaker 1: We get also the setup of the Chinese restaurant and
- 7:35Speaker 1: like it's in a Chinese restaurant bag. It's like it's
- 7:37Speaker 1: not Chinese food, like the Quippi. The way it's like
- 7:40Speaker 1: Aaron Sorkiny kind of written, but like it's just you
- 7:45Speaker 1: were saying that the things like it's pared down with
- 7:49Speaker 1: all of the reality of the movie, but where it's
- 7:51Speaker 1: paired up is the writing is very snippy, very quick.
- 7:55Speaker 1: It's very quick witted, very smart. Everyone is sort of
- 8:00Speaker 1: when they're verbally sparring, they're speaking in the same voice,
- 8:04Speaker 1: it seems, which is cool. Yeah, because like they're all
- 8:07Speaker 1: taking on a persona and it's like this like whole
- 8:12Speaker 1: like the tough guy element of the movie, but like
- 8:15Speaker 1: the tough guy as in preservation, self preservation and how
- 8:19Speaker 1: that's commented on in the movie is really smart. And
- 8:23Speaker 1: really good writing. It also has everybody doing it.
- 8:27Speaker 2: Everybody is doing it. Some people are doing it better
- 8:30Speaker 2: than others.
- 8:31Speaker 1: Aaron Pierre is fucking amazing, dude, Aaron Stone Pierre, I
- 8:38Speaker 1: had no idea about this guy. Yeah, he did an
- 8:41Speaker 1: amazing job. From Brixton, he did a really really incredible job.
- 8:48Speaker 1: Like from the get go, you're just like you. He
- 8:52Speaker 1: kind of is able to embody that sort of like
- 8:55Speaker 1: van damn disarmingness. He has like the charm of event. Yeah,
- 9:01Speaker 1: but like with like sort of like adapted to like
- 9:04Speaker 1: who this character is and like this like he's stoic,
- 9:08Speaker 1: but he's stoic because he's like capable, but he there's
- 9:13Speaker 1: a reservedness because of the self preservation. Yeah, he knows
- 9:17Speaker 1: that his safety is dependent on how calm he is
- 9:21Speaker 1: able to appear and how like maybe not non threatening
- 9:27Speaker 1: because he is really strong and he's aware of his appearance,
- 9:30Speaker 1: so he's he knows how to like pull back Yeah
- 9:33Speaker 1: kind of in a way like physically he says sir
- 9:37Speaker 1: to people, like shows respect in a way that like
- 9:40Speaker 1: he knows that it's contingent on his safety that he does.
- 9:43Speaker 2: And it all works really well with both the theme
- 9:47Speaker 2: of the movie being that there is like a huge problem,
- 9:53Speaker 2: especially like now in this time, about race, perception of race,
- 9:59Speaker 2: and and.
- 10:02Speaker 1: To make that dichotomy the like main baddie and the
- 10:05Speaker 1: main goodie of the movie was I think a brilliant choice.
- 10:08Speaker 2: Yeah, And also it is it reminds me of another
- 10:12Speaker 2: movie that we've talked about, which is Dragged Across Concrete,
- 10:16Speaker 2: although in that one there had to be this level
- 10:21Speaker 2: of kind of built up gratitude and respect for like,
- 10:32Speaker 2: oh yeah, the law or like codes amongst men, whereas
- 10:38Speaker 2: this one is very much like no, the laws should
- 10:41Speaker 2: reflect like a betterment of everyone and a safety for everyone.
- 10:48Speaker 2: Which is interesting because Don Johnson basically plays the same
- 10:52Speaker 2: kind of character in both both.
- 10:54Speaker 1: Of the movies. A really interesting parallel.
- 10:58Speaker 2: And What's Awesome two about He's so good? Yeah, he's
- 11:02Speaker 2: really good. And James Cromwell in this movie James Cromwell,
- 11:06Speaker 2: David Denman, the guy who is the guy who speeds into.
- 11:11Speaker 1: You're talking about David Morris. Yeah, David Morris. Evidence. It
- 11:14Speaker 1: looks so much like David Morris.
- 11:15Speaker 2: He looks dude, he's such a good David Morris guy.
- 11:20Speaker 1: But this character is amazing, like such a so well
- 11:23Speaker 1: played and like the we'll talk about what the twist is,
- 11:26Speaker 1: but did you know you were on my mist I
- 11:30Speaker 1: mean you were on my twist but yeah, and then
- 11:33Speaker 1: he's also pulled over by Lows. Oh yeah, yeah, that
- 11:37Speaker 1: he that guy, the beard guy, the younger guy who
- 11:41Speaker 1: kind of they're like versions of each other. It was
- 11:44Speaker 1: such great intentional casting for the two of them, like
- 11:48Speaker 1: the kind of dumber younger younger guy. Yeah, David Denman,
- 11:52Speaker 1: and and then and Emory Cohen dud Emory con who
- 11:56Speaker 1: who did such a good piece of ship job like,
- 11:59Speaker 1: but a meaner piece of shit. Weaner piece of ship,
- 12:02Speaker 1: who's like a little bit like of a lackey but
- 12:04Speaker 1: also like like has a very enthusiastic lackey.
- 12:08Speaker 2: Yeah, totally wants to like get into being as shitty
- 12:13Speaker 2: a dude as possible. He's basically has the beard until
- 12:18Speaker 2: he can earn a goatee.
- 12:22Speaker 1: He's he's low dude. He's the guy who looks like
- 12:25Speaker 1: he's the guy who looks like this uh weird internet
- 12:29Speaker 1: celebrity that that the case hit me to just like
- 12:34Speaker 1: some random guy dude. The guys who's he's in the
- 12:37Speaker 1: universe of like the rizzler and big big Justice and
- 12:42Speaker 1: so they take they seize the money and they and
- 12:46Speaker 1: they're like a forfeiture. So we're just gonna have to
- 12:49Speaker 1: take it.
- 12:50Speaker 2: But but they also tell him like, oh, you have
- 12:52Speaker 2: to like sign these papers and you'll get it back
- 12:55Speaker 2: in like four weeks or whatever.
- 12:57Speaker 1: I don't have four weeks. You have to go there
- 12:59Speaker 1: right now. And like the the urgency of the cousin
- 13:03Speaker 1: story and the fact that he's on a bike to
- 13:07Speaker 1: do it, like and we realize why he sold his truck,
- 13:11Speaker 1: he sold everything to like make the money to bail
- 13:14Speaker 1: his cousin out and then go and like start a
- 13:17Speaker 1: business together. He wants to.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Actually, I love the the starting a business together.
- 13:22Speaker 1: Businesses. We're going to give text reduction, but like small business.
- 13:27Speaker 2: Here's here's the thing. This is what's what's awesome And
- 13:30Speaker 2: the difference between motivations in Rambo versus this is that
- 13:36Speaker 2: Rambo is interesting because he's kind of like a little
- 13:41Speaker 2: bit of a dumb guy, like smart, but like he's
- 13:46Speaker 2: a bit of a dumb guy, and like that's what
- 13:49Speaker 2: gives him the like naive quality that the audience can
- 13:54Speaker 2: be like, oh, he's such a sweet guy. And then
- 13:57Speaker 2: the twist of like, oh my god, he's such a badass,
- 14:00Speaker 2: whereas this one is like, no, no, he's what, He's
- 14:06Speaker 2: doing everything right, Like he's doing everything right, and like
- 14:14Speaker 2: the the thing that pushes him to do the wrong
- 14:17Speaker 2: thing up until every point, it's trying to do everything right.
- 14:23Speaker 1: And this is you know, I'm really glad you bring
- 14:25Speaker 1: that up. I'm really glad you bring that up because
- 14:27Speaker 1: I think there's an element to this movie. You know,
- 14:29Speaker 1: like you said the di I Rambo thing, and I
- 14:31Speaker 1: think it's like an interesting way of framing it. I
- 14:35Speaker 1: know you meant it like as a joke, but I
- 14:37Speaker 1: think there is an element of this movie that's very
- 14:41Speaker 1: staunchly right wing. Really oh yeah, dude, Like the he
- 14:46Speaker 1: has superiority over this racist police force because he's status
- 14:53Speaker 1: of being in not only the military, but being a
- 14:57Speaker 1: trainer for military to use de escalation tactics and then
- 15:02Speaker 1: de escalating himself single handedly racism in Middle America, in
- 15:07Speaker 1: small town Middle America, do you know what I mean?
- 15:09Speaker 1: So I feel like, well, because he has to be
- 15:13Speaker 1: like extra like American in order to be like accepted,
- 15:19Speaker 1: like for his blackness in a way, Well, no, I
- 15:23Speaker 1: just used to be Indian, but but then she became black.
- 15:27Speaker 2: No, I think that it's got the opposite end of
- 15:30Speaker 2: the patriotism, where it's like black people are so more
- 15:34Speaker 2: American than most people because they have no other but
- 15:37Speaker 2: like context.
- 15:38Speaker 1: But that's what I'm saying. That's that I understand what
- 15:41Speaker 1: you're saying, But by virtue of that, it's still celebrating
- 15:44Speaker 1: American exceptionalism thereby being very patriotic nationalistic in a way
- 15:50Speaker 1: that is very right wing, right like, so it's like
- 15:53Speaker 1: he's more Americans. I think that's too.
- 15:56Speaker 2: Like to me, what signals like a right a right
- 16:00Speaker 2: wing thing. It has to have less steps than than well.
- 16:05Speaker 2: I mean, he's part of the military. The military is nationalist,
- 16:08Speaker 2: like nationalism is patriots. Patriot is mostly like the steps no, no,
- 16:15Speaker 2: no to get there.
- 16:16Speaker 1: It's like simpler. Then I think it's not maybe not
- 16:20Speaker 1: right wing, but conservative. It's conservative in its view. I
- 16:23Speaker 1: mean that's fine. I mean, like it's an action movie.
- 16:27Speaker 1: It's it's always an action movie is gonna glorify violence
- 16:32Speaker 1: in some way, and in this movie, it glorifies it
- 16:34Speaker 1: by making it justified, by making it justified like by rage,
- 16:38Speaker 1: right Like, it's like Yeah, there's a kind of like
- 16:41Speaker 1: Injustice where you're like, this guy better fucking kill all
- 16:45Speaker 1: these guys, and you're like on his team right away.
- 16:48Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean, I do, I do.
- 16:51Speaker 1: I like, I don't think it's bad.
- 16:53Speaker 2: I don't think I don't.
- 16:55Speaker 1: I don't think that that it's it's bad either. I'm
- 16:58Speaker 1: just like, to me, it's a bit of a stretch.
- 17:01Speaker 1: I understand all the things that you're saying. Is I
- 17:04Speaker 1: think is.
- 17:05Speaker 2: I totally agree with and I totally think it's right.
- 17:07Speaker 2: I just don't think the conclusion is right.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Well, we can talk more about that as we tease
- 17:12Speaker 1: out what happens in the movie, because the details are important.
- 17:16Speaker 2: The details are important, and the also the interesting thing
- 17:19Speaker 2: about the shooting of the movie is that it's also
- 17:25Speaker 2: reminiscent of Rambo, where it's like everything is is in
- 17:29Speaker 2: wides you see the the sort of loneliness of his
- 17:33Speaker 2: character in this, like instead of the mountains which was Rambo,
- 17:38Speaker 2: it's like kind of like farmy, like outside of a
- 17:42Speaker 2: city scape. It's a small town.
- 17:45Speaker 1: It's just like sad. Yeah, it's there's there's gorgeous but
- 17:49Speaker 1: but it's but but there's a you're you were right
- 17:52Speaker 1: about the emptiness.
- 17:54Speaker 2: Yeah, Like there's a loneliness to it that's like everything
- 17:58Speaker 2: is far away now, thing is too much at my hand.
- 18:02Speaker 2: You know.
- 18:02Speaker 1: In Rambo, the mountains have scope, you know what I mean,
- 18:05Speaker 1: and like there's like depth to the like what you
- 18:08Speaker 1: see here when it's wide it's nothing. Yeah.
- 18:11Speaker 2: Well, in Rambo there's an intimacy, there's a beauty and
- 18:14Speaker 2: an intimacy that that especially at the beginning where he
- 18:18Speaker 2: like goes to see his friend's mom and is like, hey,
- 18:21Speaker 2: I'm I'm here and and she's like Agan Orange killed
- 18:25Speaker 2: my son.
- 18:26Speaker 1: Oh man. Yeah.
- 18:29Speaker 5: Whereas in this Terry Terry, Terry, Terry Richards Terry, Yeah,
- 18:33Speaker 5: which is hilarious because I texted both you and K's
- 18:35Speaker 5: about how this guy, this guy could be a good spawn.
- 18:39Speaker 2: But I think it was because he's black and named Terry.
- 18:42Speaker 2: But he would be an awesome spawn, dude, I mean
- 18:44Speaker 2: so too or a universal soldier dude, he would.
- 18:48Speaker 1: That would be amazing.
- 18:49Speaker 6: I think.
- 18:50Speaker 1: I mean, this guy, this guy fully could easily take
- 18:53Speaker 1: the torch of h one hundred, one hundred percent, but
- 18:58Speaker 1: he's going to get marveled maybe, I hope not. I
- 19:01Speaker 1: hope not, but he probably will. Why not? Why wouldn't
- 19:05Speaker 1: he He's already jacked, Like, he's gorgeous and can do accents,
- 19:10Speaker 1: you know what I mean. That's true.
- 19:12Speaker 2: But in regards to the contrast between this and Rambo,
- 19:16Speaker 2: where this guy is going to see a civil servant
- 19:19Speaker 2: as opposed to and he goes to see a lawyer.
- 19:21Speaker 1: And he's like, oh man, like.
- 19:26Speaker 2: The guy, the guy is the most like, well see
- 19:29Speaker 2: you later.
- 19:31Speaker 1: I'm I really like well. I like the interaction though,
- 19:35Speaker 1: because he's like, hey, he kind of like feigns some concern,
- 19:39Speaker 1: which which also plays in Tired. It plays into his
- 19:43Speaker 1: character later on too, because this character does end up
- 19:46Speaker 1: being pretty interesting.
- 19:47Speaker 2: White liberal tired concern.
- 19:50Speaker 1: Totally where he's like, yeah, you know, we don't want
- 19:53Speaker 1: to we don't want anything bad to happen to you guys,
- 19:55Speaker 1: but uh, you know, good luck? Was it? Was it
- 19:57Speaker 1: a drug charge? Sorry? Just why would you assume that?
- 20:02Speaker 2: Oh yeah, totally totally Why would you assume that?
- 20:05Speaker 1: And like but that he's like, but yeah, yeah, like
- 20:12Speaker 1: I don't know that. I found I found this exchange
- 20:15Speaker 1: in particular very interesting.
- 20:17Speaker 2: I found it interesting too, I did once.
- 20:22Speaker 1: Did you explain that he was like, you know, well
- 20:25Speaker 1: they have my money. They forfeited it, and they were
- 20:27Speaker 1: like He's like, it's you know, they're the same logo
- 20:31Speaker 1: that's on this door, is on is on this paper
- 20:34Speaker 1: that I have, so you already have the money. He's
- 20:37Speaker 1: making that argument, right, which is like, God, it's a
- 20:40Speaker 1: good idea. It's a very bossa slash mama move, which
- 20:43Speaker 1: it could work sometimes, I.
- 20:44Speaker 2: Mean when you're in like a panic about like what
- 20:49Speaker 2: you're gonna do and thinking on his feet in that
- 20:52Speaker 2: kind of way. Every part of the movie is so
- 20:57Speaker 2: well done from his perspective that it's like, yes, this
- 21:01Speaker 2: is what I would do. Yes, this is where he
- 21:03Speaker 2: what kind of information he needs to eliminate and what
- 21:06Speaker 2: kind of information he needs to emphasize is really awesome.
- 21:10Speaker 1: But the guy's reaction, the like prosecutor guy's reaction or
- 21:16Speaker 1: what was he was like a judge guy or I
- 21:17Speaker 1: don't know, he was like he's the bail guy. So
- 21:22Speaker 1: his reaction is like, yeah, that same logos on my
- 21:24Speaker 1: checks too, so who's paying him the money? And so
- 21:27Speaker 1: he's involved. Like it's really an allegory for directly for
- 21:32Speaker 1: institutional racism because it shows the institution and the function
- 21:36Speaker 1: of it in almost like the wire way, right, like
- 21:39Speaker 1: but like it's like, uh, it's just as as a
- 21:44Speaker 1: a matt over the movie rather than like, you know, like,
- 21:48Speaker 1: rather than it's being specifically talked about. And it drives
- 21:51Speaker 1: the plot exactly, which is what it informs the storytelling
- 21:56Speaker 1: by driving the plot. And I think that that's really
- 22:00Speaker 1: cool because it's like it's not him fisted. Yeah, totally.
- 22:03Speaker 2: And then when Summer gets introduced, uh like also like
- 22:10Speaker 2: a sort of doe eyed kind of I am new here,
- 22:14Speaker 2: and it's very like cener energy, right, but also like
- 22:20Speaker 2: in the in the same way that the the other
- 22:23Speaker 2: rotten cop who hasn't earned his goatee yet is like
- 22:27Speaker 2: a keener. She's also a keener in that kind of
- 22:30Speaker 2: way where it's like, well, I want to help, I
- 22:31Speaker 2: want to be you know, I want to do justice
- 22:35Speaker 2: in a real way. And then she takes him out
- 22:37Speaker 2: for coffee and he explains the situation and she she
- 22:40Speaker 2: says it's called civil asset forfeiture, which like, yeah, which
- 22:46Speaker 2: which the best part about like the normalcy stuff is
- 22:51Speaker 2: how people instead you know, how corporations, instead of calling
- 22:54Speaker 2: people clerks, they call them customer service representatives in this
- 22:58Speaker 2: kind of way, it feels like this sounds more normal,
- 23:03Speaker 2: reasonable and legal than it actually was. And it's just like,
- 23:08Speaker 2: you just stole my fucking money, dude, Like what the fuck?
- 23:11Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very like that's and he has to remain
- 23:16Speaker 1: calm about it and like be inquisitive.
- 23:19Speaker 2: And then and then what would she like buys him
- 23:22Speaker 2: a coffee or whatever, and he's like, so you can
- 23:24Speaker 2: help me get get the money back, and she was
- 23:26Speaker 2: like no, and he was like, okay, thank you, like
- 23:31Speaker 2: calmly but sternly to let her know you've wasted my time.
- 23:36Speaker 2: I could have I could have rambowed some sort of
- 23:39Speaker 2: situation right now, but I didn't know if I took
- 23:42Speaker 2: it that way.
- 23:43Speaker 1: I thought they were just like getting to know each
- 23:44Speaker 1: other in this part, or we should say she's played
- 23:48Speaker 1: she her name in the movie is Summer. Well yeah,
- 23:55Speaker 1: I said, oh, okay, sorry, and Sophia yeah, but yeah.
- 23:59Speaker 2: He he's about to leave and she kind of offers him,
- 24:08Speaker 2: like she starts to offer him some advice, but then
- 24:11Speaker 2: another cop comes in and she's like, well, let's.
- 24:14Speaker 1: Leave, yeah, and then they as they're leaving. This exchange
- 24:18Speaker 1: is really interesting.
- 24:19Speaker 2: The chief has many allies in.
- 24:24Speaker 1: And she like she gives him his name, So right
- 24:26Speaker 1: away we get like a hint that there's like a
- 24:29Speaker 1: little bit of corruption in this town. Yeah, I mean
- 24:33Speaker 1: if the like illegal forfeiture of funds wasn't enough.
- 24:36Speaker 2: But she also points out that that the bail was
- 24:39Speaker 2: really high for.
- 24:42Speaker 1: Possession. Yeah, And then so that that sets up like
- 24:47Speaker 1: the kind of the driving force of like what the
- 24:50Speaker 1: what kind of informs the rest of the narrative of
- 24:55Speaker 1: this movie because it feels like a lot of the
- 24:57Speaker 1: stuff because the cousin we still it's it's very urgent
- 25:02Speaker 1: that this guy gets out of prison because we find
- 25:05Speaker 1: out in this scene also that he was a rat
- 25:09Speaker 1: in a capital murder case that put away some like
- 25:15Speaker 1: really tough guys, right, and so that if he gets
- 25:19Speaker 1: into prison those there's going to be a bounty on
- 25:21Speaker 1: his head. So that's also a bit of a conservative
- 25:25Speaker 1: follow me here, a bit of a conservative view, right.
- 25:28Speaker 1: He's somebody who cooperated with the system and he's being
- 25:33Speaker 1: punished now for something, and like the extreme punishment of
- 25:37Speaker 1: it is also going to like fund their like police shit,
- 25:43Speaker 1: it's funding because they forfeit this guy's money and they
- 25:48Speaker 1: want to use the money that's for his bail that's
- 25:50Speaker 1: already exorbitantly high. Yeah, to hold what We'll find out
- 25:55Speaker 1: what happens why, like the way they were what they
- 25:58Speaker 1: were doing with criminals. Yea when when James Cromwell explains it.
- 26:02Speaker 1: But I feel like that part of the movie can't
- 26:06Speaker 1: be underlooked. But we don't know any of that yet,
- 26:09Speaker 1: just finding out shit slowly.
- 26:12Speaker 2: He calls mister low like like at first, I was like, oh, man,
- 26:18Speaker 2: is this guy just gonna be a cool presence on
- 26:20Speaker 2: the phone?
- 26:21Speaker 1: And they did. You didn't say though that He first
- 26:24Speaker 1: talks to his friend, who puts on purvously an Asian accent,
- 26:28Speaker 1: and then when he knows that it's not, when he
- 26:31Speaker 1: knows that it's his friend, he's like, oh hey man, totally.
- 26:37Speaker 1: It's like a running gag throughout the movie that he
- 26:40Speaker 1: just like, hey, are you putting on the accent? Like
- 26:42Speaker 1: he mentions it, Yeah, totally totally.
- 26:45Speaker 2: And then we get our first scene of it's our
- 26:50Speaker 2: second real Rambo scene because the first scene was him.
- 26:55Speaker 1: We don't take too kindle totally that but then he
- 27:00Speaker 1: he he It cuts.
- 27:03Speaker 2: To him like fingering a lake with like goo in
- 27:07Speaker 2: it or whatever.
- 27:08Speaker 1: Oh no, he gets he's cool.
- 27:10Speaker 2: He gets oh, he gets some maggots and then goes fishing,
- 27:13Speaker 2: which is crazy.
- 27:14Speaker 1: Catches a fish with his hand. Yeah that was so
- 27:16Speaker 1: immediately we get also like very capable. Yeah totally.
- 27:20Speaker 2: And then he's got like some sort of signal on
- 27:23Speaker 2: his cell or whatever, and it's like it's like updated.
- 27:27Speaker 1: Rambo Aaron Pierre, dude, he was amazing. He catches the
- 27:31Speaker 1: fish and then he he cooks it on a pen
- 27:33Speaker 1: and then we get the battery life dying. So it's
- 27:36Speaker 1: like got realistic steaks of like your battery would die
- 27:39Speaker 1: if you were just like listening to metal all day
- 27:41Speaker 1: while riding on your bike. Yeah totally.
- 27:43Speaker 2: But then the cut to cut to this from going
- 27:48Speaker 2: from like a military esque into like a quote unquote
- 27:51Speaker 2: uncivil way of doing things into cutting to two cups
- 27:56Speaker 2: of coffee and him dressed in a different shirt, not sweaty,
- 28:00Speaker 2: being like very I have to.
- 28:02Speaker 1: Be very very neutral. Can I just shout out the
- 28:08Speaker 1: like second needle drop in this that I think is
- 28:11Speaker 1: also very relevant to this movie. He rides his bike
- 28:15Speaker 1: to the song right brigade by by the bad brains
- 28:19Speaker 1: who are who were one of the very first who
- 28:39Speaker 1: were the very first all black punk band or a
- 28:44Speaker 1: punk hardcore band, and they're really good and that's such
- 28:47Speaker 1: a good song. So and also Deftones performed a live
- 28:52Speaker 1: version of it once. But uh, yeah, I just wanted
- 28:57Speaker 1: to I just wanted to mention that because obviously, like
- 29:01Speaker 1: she used to be Indian but now she's black. Black
- 29:06Speaker 1: wants to be known as black. But in this movie, uh,
- 29:10Speaker 1: you know, we with a black protagonist, they can't be
- 29:13Speaker 1: overlooked that they would play legendary black punk band. Yeah, exactly.
- 29:18Speaker 2: There there's a level of, I don't know, a level
- 29:23Speaker 2: of seeming care for those kinds of details. A lot
- 29:27Speaker 2: of his movies I've noticed feel very wishful filmindy. Yeah,
- 29:31Speaker 2: in a good way, in the way that that it
- 29:34Speaker 2: feels like he's like, oh man, not only did I
- 29:36Speaker 2: watch characters like this, but I'm including so much of
- 29:39Speaker 2: myself in these characters. It's it's I think that's where
- 29:44Speaker 2: the writ his writing has been like very very top notch,
- 29:48Speaker 2: where it's like it feels like his own experiences, his
- 29:52Speaker 2: own trials are like included in a lot of the characterizations.
- 29:56Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, he starts to Blaine too, what's her name?
- 30:03Speaker 1: Oh man, she was such a good character. She was
- 30:07Speaker 1: so good.
- 30:08Speaker 2: That was that was such a good different twists.
- 30:11Speaker 1: Well, okay, and sorry, so I didn't want to hear.
- 30:13Speaker 1: Her name is officer, officer Jess, I think, but I'm
- 30:19Speaker 1: not sure how to say her name. It's like it
- 30:23Speaker 1: starts with a Z s A n E so zany
- 30:27Speaker 1: or shaney j Maybe I'm not sure. I maybe I
- 30:31Speaker 1: butchered that. But she was great, and I you know,
- 30:35Speaker 1: I don't know to speak to this experience. Obviously I'm
- 30:38Speaker 1: not black, but but I think in the movie, what
- 30:43Speaker 1: what you were saying earlier, like what the movie kind
- 30:46Speaker 1: of tried to capture is like this relationship between these
- 30:49Speaker 1: two characters, because like he's basically like, hey, I'm black
- 30:55Speaker 1: and you're black. You know, Yeah, an understanding. There's like
- 30:59Speaker 1: an understand and they show that in like very subtle
- 31:02Speaker 1: ways of like just reactions and kind of looks.
- 31:05Speaker 2: Well when yeah, when when, especially in this scene when
- 31:09Speaker 2: she goes to take the down the what happened to him?
- 31:15Speaker 2: And he starts to describe the guy he's like six
- 31:19Speaker 2: ' four and then he says his.
- 31:21Speaker 1: Name, yeah, yeah, and she stops and looks yeah, she.
- 31:25Speaker 2: Sees him coming in, and.
- 31:28Speaker 1: We have to believe that Los is six y four No, no,
- 31:32Speaker 1: the other I think they meant David.
- 31:34Speaker 2: Morris and and him like looking around for clues on
- 31:39Speaker 2: the walls, like the scheduling of certain officers and stuff
- 31:43Speaker 2: like that.
- 31:43Speaker 1: The minor detail of him plugging is hey, can you
- 31:46Speaker 1: can I just plug my phone in? But he's also recording,
- 31:49Speaker 1: we find out. And then Don Johnson swings Dick in
- 31:53Speaker 1: every single direction, but he's like pacing around before that Steve,
- 31:58Speaker 1: which no offense to Eddie. Steve's out there. I know
- 32:02Speaker 1: good Steve's but Steve is such a good name for
- 32:06Speaker 1: a guy. That's like, even if Steve would admit that,
- 32:09Speaker 1: I know, I know, not.
- 32:11Speaker 2: A Steve Stephen Steven, but.
- 32:14Speaker 1: Steve Steve with a V V is crucial, I mean
- 32:20Speaker 1: to the to this kind of behavior and and the whole.
- 32:23Speaker 2: Like I I know that I would also if I
- 32:26Speaker 2: was a douche cop hold my jacket like by the
- 32:30Speaker 2: collar collar holding, I would, Yeah, I would totally bane.
- 32:37Speaker 2: But it's such a douchey it's such a douchey power move.
- 32:42Speaker 1: But then John.
- 32:43Speaker 2: Johnson Johnson, Yeah, Don Johnson looking very very Matthew McConaughey
- 32:50Speaker 2: with this dude with his new surgeries didn't look like
- 32:55Speaker 2: Don Johnson anymore. Fully looked like Matthew McConaughey's dad.
- 32:58Speaker 1: Still looked like DoD Johnson. It I don't know. I
- 33:01Speaker 1: thought he was really good.
- 33:02Speaker 2: Dude, he was really good. But how is I mean
- 33:05Speaker 2: stealing this much money must give you good plastic surgery
- 33:07Speaker 2: in this town.
- 33:09Speaker 1: Well, they already got the mar Margarita machine. Dude, Yeah, totally.
- 33:14Speaker 1: And then and then like weird power moves like powers
- 33:19Speaker 1: booths where where Aaron Terry goes.
- 33:24Speaker 2: Your officers allow me to finish.
- 33:27Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the allow me to finish. And it's like
- 33:30Speaker 1: and we What I'm to understand is that this was
- 33:33Speaker 1: a perfectly legal within the bounds of the law, and
- 33:36Speaker 1: you can.
- 33:36Speaker 2: Turn your recording sustained minor injuries.
- 33:40Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned, you stained minor injuries, and
- 33:43Speaker 1: that you and that you were offered medical assistance which
- 33:47Speaker 1: you declined. It was like the sparring. The verbal sparring
- 33:51Speaker 1: was the best part of the movie. I'm exit my station.
- 33:55Speaker 1: You got to get some of the lines, though, dude, Yeah,
- 33:57Speaker 1: there's so many good lines that I feel like we'd
- 34:00Speaker 1: be doing a disservice to the audience not to shout
- 34:03Speaker 1: out some of the one I just don't remember them,
- 34:06Speaker 1: even though I watched the movie fucking twice.
- 34:08Speaker 2: And then like the pointing out the dim Sum restaurant,
- 34:15Speaker 2: pointing out that he sold the car.
- 34:18Speaker 1: And bought intends to buy a new truck.
- 34:21Speaker 2: New truck, Yeah, totally, and like just the the can
- 34:26Speaker 2: you make a xerox with it?
- 34:28Speaker 1: Oh, the like feigning some sort of not legality but
- 34:34Speaker 1: paperwork because because he does it in response to Terry
- 34:40Speaker 1: mentioning that he has like that, He's like, hey, listen,
- 34:45Speaker 1: just give me the ten thousand back, and like you
- 34:47Speaker 1: can keep the twenty six thousand. He like kind of
- 34:50Speaker 1: tries to cut a deal.
- 34:51Speaker 2: The peaking the interest, but at the same time the
- 34:55Speaker 2: like the the later on.
- 34:57Speaker 1: How dare you try? I've made it like more technical.
- 35:02Speaker 1: It's about him calling the shots. He's like, how dare
- 35:04Speaker 1: you call the shots?
- 35:06Speaker 2: No, no, no, I know that I'm just saying that like
- 35:08Speaker 2: through the cover of the law, being like like making
- 35:14Speaker 2: it seem like.
- 35:15Speaker 1: That I would never do that. All of that stuff
- 35:18Speaker 1: was so good because like like you were everything is
- 35:22Speaker 1: like listed as like perfectly within the bounds of the
- 35:24Speaker 1: law if there's a reason to suspect, and there is
- 35:28Speaker 1: reasonable doubt because he says that there's a cousin who's
- 35:31Speaker 1: got a drug charge. Oh well, this is money for
- 35:34Speaker 1: drug trafficking. Like that's there, that's their reasonable doubt. And
- 35:37Speaker 1: he's like no, like, look, I have explanations for all
- 35:40Speaker 1: of this. Ye, they're like using it all totally. And
- 35:43Speaker 1: then and then when.
- 35:43Speaker 2: He goes when when he's like thank you, and it's like,
- 35:47Speaker 2: it's crazy, how sincere his thank yous are up until
- 35:51Speaker 2: a point where they become sarcastic because he's like thank you, Like,
- 35:55Speaker 2: I guess.
- 35:55Speaker 1: Does genuinely give him respect? Yeah, he does totally. And
- 36:00Speaker 1: that's that's the parallels with Rambo that exists, and and
- 36:04Speaker 1: Brian Dennahey's performance that is also very similar to this,
- 36:09Speaker 1: but he gives it.
- 36:10Speaker 2: He gives some respect, but he says thank you, and
- 36:13Speaker 2: then he's like, now fuck off, which is just like.
- 36:16Speaker 1: Whoa, dude, whoa? I just gave you fucking so much
- 36:20Speaker 1: of my money. Like he's like, yeah, there's some forfeiture
- 36:25Speaker 1: documents you can sign. He says it casually kind of
- 36:28Speaker 1: not trying to show that tip his hand that he's uh,
- 36:31Speaker 1: he's about the money, dude. Yeah, totally.
- 36:33Speaker 2: And and part of what Officer Jessica embodies too is
- 36:39Speaker 2: the discomfort that people have within the system, knowing that
- 36:43Speaker 2: something wrong is happening, but feeling powerless to do it
- 36:47Speaker 2: and participating in it, both for them selves and the
- 36:51Speaker 2: other person. And it cuts to back to you know,
- 36:57Speaker 2: Terry outside in a fire and he lights the what's
- 37:01Speaker 2: it called? He lights the piece of paper with the
- 37:06Speaker 2: truck on it from the instagram at not the Instagram
- 37:09Speaker 2: at the whatever.
- 37:11Speaker 1: Printed out like the visual that they had to have
- 37:15Speaker 1: because it would just be like an it's like, look
- 37:19Speaker 1: it's on my Instagram here. Let me just hold on.
- 37:22Speaker 1: Can you get a picture of that exactly? Actually just
- 37:27Speaker 1: drop it. Yeah. Her name is pronounced Zoannie j And
- 37:32Speaker 1: what what is her? It's not officers, like it's officer,
- 37:37Speaker 1: just something? What is it? Let me just see? Nah,
- 37:40Speaker 1: I can't find the fuck? Oh, here we go, Jessica
- 37:42Speaker 1: Sim Jessica Sim Officer Sims, Sims. That's it, dude, She's
- 37:49Speaker 1: she was so good and like her her sort of
- 37:52Speaker 1: like realizing that something's she knows. Also, she knows the
- 37:57Speaker 1: whole thing. Yeah, she knows, and she's like, she's also
- 38:01Speaker 1: been complicit in the way that the station has operated
- 38:06Speaker 1: when she's been able to turn a blind eye, but
- 38:08Speaker 1: when she's faced with it directly in these instances and
- 38:11Speaker 1: in every instant Terry's in the in the scene she's
- 38:15Speaker 1: faced with it directly.
- 38:16Speaker 2: Dude, this scene where this is one of the best
- 38:19Speaker 2: scenes I think in the movie, where he comes right
- 38:23Speaker 2: at nine am when they make a deal with when
- 38:25Speaker 2: they made the deal for and fucking this piece of
- 38:29Speaker 2: shit is like.
- 38:30Speaker 1: Oh you're here.
- 38:31Speaker 2: You just missed him. You're three minutes late. And like
- 38:35Speaker 2: he's just like, what the fuck are you talking about,
- 38:38Speaker 2: like in a calmway, obviously, and he's just like fuck
- 38:42Speaker 2: and then he just blops after.
- 38:45Speaker 1: Dude hops on the bike. The feet of strength of
- 38:48Speaker 1: like catching up with the bus is very two one
- 38:52Speaker 1: thousand running and being faster than a motorcycle energy. Yeah,
- 38:56Speaker 1: and like it could have been corny cool and dude,
- 39:01Speaker 1: the catharsis of seeing the cousin seeing Mike and he's
- 39:05Speaker 1: like Mike and like, we just we also have this familiarity,
- 39:09Speaker 1: immediately implicit familiarity with Mike because he set up his
- 39:13Speaker 1: cousin and his love for his cousin so much by
- 39:15Speaker 1: being there by having the money, by wanting to give
- 39:17Speaker 1: him a better life and pull him out of like
- 39:19Speaker 1: a whatever lifestyle or whatever.
- 39:21Speaker 2: And also like a feeling of like, well he was
- 39:24Speaker 2: pulling out of that.
- 39:25Speaker 1: He's already been pulled out of the lifestyle. That was
- 39:28Speaker 1: the thing. No, no, no, exactly. So he had this
- 39:30Speaker 1: drug charge, so it's like an unfairness.
- 39:32Speaker 2: It's an unfair exactly.
- 39:33Speaker 1: And and then and then but you also he wants
- 39:36Speaker 1: to like start he was like that, but he does
- 39:38Speaker 1: say I want to set him straight, like that's why
- 39:40Speaker 1: I'm here to set him straight. And he but that's
- 39:42Speaker 1: more for the cops. That's more for like, well, these
- 39:45Speaker 1: guys will play ball if I'm like humble or whatever.
- 39:50Speaker 1: And it's awesome because when he gets there and he's
- 39:53Speaker 1: got so much sympathy for him, he's like Mike or
- 39:56Speaker 1: or Terry, I fucked up, and he's like, dude, just
- 39:58Speaker 1: lay your head low and stay so and then he
- 40:00Speaker 1: fucking yeah, this is a jail, right, And then he
- 40:04Speaker 1: rides up to the front of the bus to show
- 40:08Speaker 1: the guy that he could ride as fast as he was.
- 40:11Speaker 1: It was amazing. It was amazing, and the guy kind
- 40:13Speaker 1: of scared looks at him and then and then my cousin.
- 40:19Speaker 1: It felt like, that's my brother. It was so glorious, dude.
- 40:25Speaker 1: And like the way the music Q works in that
- 40:27Speaker 1: part and the way the bars shake and he and
- 40:30Speaker 1: then later on when he's riding the bike and his
- 40:32Speaker 1: muscles are just shaky.
- 40:33Speaker 2: Yeah, and he he like slows down a little bit
- 40:36Speaker 2: and puts his fist up and then Mike fist bumps him.
- 40:39Speaker 1: He was amazing. It was amazing. It was really cool
- 40:42Speaker 1: and like and then such an exciting part in this
- 40:45Speaker 1: movie and such a great character building. Quirk also will
- 40:50Speaker 1: give us so much sadness when whatever comes next comes next. Yeah,
- 40:54Speaker 1: but this is such a great way of setting up
- 40:57Speaker 1: characters in a van damn way, where like that, even
- 41:00Speaker 1: though Michael ends up being a bit of a Danny
- 41:02Speaker 1: maul Roune, he has so much weight in the movie
- 41:05Speaker 1: because he's the reason the whole movie starts right. Yeah, totally.
- 41:09Speaker 2: And then he calls mister Lou and immediately is like,
- 41:12Speaker 2: drop the accent, it's me.
- 41:15Speaker 1: Because his friend answers, and then he talks to mister
- 41:17Speaker 1: Lou and mister is like, terms have changed that, like
- 41:20Speaker 1: mister Lou being like like a scary like gangster dude
- 41:25Speaker 1: is like the terms have changed there. But but then
- 41:28Speaker 1: being like, no, you told him about my business and
- 41:31Speaker 1: he's like, I'm sorry, I did that for my credibility.
- 41:33Speaker 1: I don't doubt that. But he's like.
- 41:38Speaker 2: Disappointment, but also of the circumstance.
- 41:41Speaker 1: Well, because later we find out he's Chinese and he
- 41:44Speaker 1: fought in the Korean War on the on the other side,
- 41:47Speaker 1: which was really interesting. Really, thank you for your service.
- 41:52Speaker 1: I fought on the other side. Well then I guess
- 41:54Speaker 1: glad we can all come together. I thought that was great,
- 41:57Speaker 1: such a perfect line. But the sparring dude like, and
- 42:01Speaker 1: then when he confronts Don Johnson again after that and
- 42:04Speaker 1: they have that match of like you didn't see my
- 42:07Speaker 1: shit eating grin not yet.
- 42:10Speaker 2: No, after this, she like she had done some investigating.
- 42:17Speaker 2: What's your summer summer? He keeps summer safe, that's how
- 42:24Speaker 2: I remembered. Yeah, And he's like she she's got some
- 42:29Speaker 2: stuff for him, but like it's it's she. She basically
- 42:36Speaker 2: flags a whole bunch of cases that had a similar
- 42:39Speaker 2: circumstance where it's like small drug charges.
- 42:41Speaker 1: But the the.
- 42:43Speaker 2: Bail was really high and he's like, well, how do
- 42:48Speaker 2: we pursue this? And she's like, I'm gonna print out
- 42:50Speaker 2: a bunch of stuff for you and give it to you.
- 42:54Speaker 2: But I'm also like not allowed to get in trouble
- 42:57Speaker 2: because I'm a former drug addict and have a little girl.
- 43:00Speaker 2: She doesn't get into the drug addict, yet.
- 43:02Speaker 1: It plays in in a big way. Yeah, it kind
- 43:05Speaker 1: of is like the second act where the where the
- 43:10Speaker 1: second act where the like motivation changes. Yeah, totally.
- 43:15Speaker 2: And I love the fact RaSE that she's like I'm
- 43:18Speaker 2: having a smoke.
- 43:18Speaker 1: You don't smoke, Elliott. She's like, all right, Elliott, I'm
- 43:22Speaker 1: having a smoke. You don't smoke, and that he's come on.
- 43:26Speaker 1: There was the kind of like outrageous impatience. Usually what
- 43:30Speaker 1: would really happen is passive aggression. Like totally, but it was.
- 43:33Speaker 1: It was to set up a long time that you spent,
- 43:38Speaker 1: You really spent a long time outside.
- 43:40Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, totally. But also it was set up in
- 43:43Speaker 2: a way so that the camera can slow the slow
- 43:46Speaker 2: dolly into a bunch of things.
- 43:48Speaker 1: Is so much Jeremy Sally's style, but it was to
- 43:52Speaker 1: like set up.
- 43:54Speaker 2: Oh, it's so tense. It's everything tense is happening.
- 43:57Speaker 1: Because she she pulls him aside because they're now kind
- 44:01Speaker 1: of hot on her tracks too, Yeah, and so she's
- 44:04Speaker 1: sort of like implicated herself by like asking too many questions,
- 44:09Speaker 1: which is also like a cool sort of domino effect,
- 44:12Speaker 1: because if you help the person that we're targeting, then
- 44:16Speaker 1: you're gonna you're you're part of that problem or whatever.
- 44:18Speaker 2: And also in the next scene where he's like, uh mcmapp,
- 44:24Speaker 2: can you google that, Steve? I love regular people talking
- 44:28Speaker 2: about Google.
- 44:29Speaker 1: The way that these scenes were playing out in a
- 44:32Speaker 1: parallel way too, was really cool because they're suddenly realizing
- 44:36Speaker 1: slowly that he's like a scary guy. Yeah, totally.
- 44:40Speaker 2: And he just pulls up as theut I loved this
- 44:44Speaker 2: because it was like, ah, the internet's not working, unplug
- 44:47Speaker 2: it and plug it back in. And then just as
- 44:49Speaker 2: she unplugs it and plugs it back in, he pulls
- 44:51Speaker 2: up and stands menacingly outside the fucking station.
- 44:56Speaker 1: And Don Johnson goes outside and meets him and they
- 45:00Speaker 1: have this amazing, amazing exchange where he's like, you didn't
- 45:03Speaker 1: see my shirt eating Grant and he's like, well, i'd
- 45:04Speaker 1: like to see it. It's not great if I do
- 45:06Speaker 1: it on command. I just I thought that was so great.
- 45:10Speaker 1: And then like he as they continue talking, what's what's
- 45:16Speaker 1: what's the how the does the rest of it go?
- 45:18Speaker 1: It was so good, lay it on me. Well, it's
- 45:22Speaker 1: not the same if you don't ask. If you ask, man,
- 45:25Speaker 1: I thought we had a deal. I can just play
- 45:31Speaker 1: it if you want. I mean, it's amazing. I think
- 45:33Speaker 1: you should. Yeah, hold on because like it's it's parts
- 45:40Speaker 1: like this where I was like this movie. This is
- 45:43Speaker 1: what makes it transcend, just like a vandam.
- 45:55Speaker 4: Robbie, let's go ahead and.
- 45:58Speaker 1: Call it lunch.
- 46:00Speaker 4: It's sly everybody.
- 46:02Speaker 7: Yeah, Robbie, miss, go ahead and call that.
- 46:06Speaker 1: I love him. It's the calm panic.
- 46:10Speaker 4: Glad you're back. He left before you see my ship
- 46:15Speaker 4: eating grand God. It's not the same you ask. I
- 46:21Speaker 4: thought we had to do. Well, that was the point.
- 46:27Speaker 1: For this is the betrayal. It's great misleading.
- 46:30Speaker 4: See, it wasn't unreasonable.
- 46:37Speaker 7: In fact, it was more than fairs for trouble.
- 46:39Speaker 4: It would say.
- 46:41Speaker 1: So you don't see it's so good.
- 46:45Speaker 7: It wasn't the offer you made, the fact that you
- 46:48Speaker 7: thought you were entitled to make one.
- 46:49Speaker 1: Yeah, entitled. It's like you're like overt racist like moment.
- 46:56Speaker 2: No, no, the overt like subtle racism, like the the
- 47:03Speaker 2: like I need you to know, but I have to
- 47:07Speaker 2: couch it in these terms.
- 47:08Speaker 1: But as this scene plays out, we should we should
- 47:11Speaker 1: keep keep going because I think it's really.
- 47:12Speaker 7: In front of my officers set terms.
- 47:16Speaker 6: I wasn't aware it was a piss contest, now, isn't
- 47:21Speaker 6: it always?
- 47:21Speaker 4: So whatever I say, yeah.
- 47:23Speaker 7: You get offer me eternal laugh or a can't fish sandwich,
- 47:27Speaker 7: and the answer would still be the same, eternally, especially
- 47:30Speaker 7: since you stopped calling me sir, which about the only
- 47:33Speaker 7: thing you had going.
- 47:34Speaker 4: Oh that's the courtesy I extend only.
- 47:36Speaker 1: So far that like the jabs, dude, you know, one
- 47:40Speaker 1: of the versus civilian life.
- 47:43Speaker 4: Let's not go reminiscent about the core now.
- 47:46Speaker 1: So wait, wait, so this is like where he's discovered,
- 47:48Speaker 1: he knows he's in the Core, and he's like, but
- 47:50Speaker 1: you were never deployed. He's like, because they found other
- 47:53Speaker 1: uses for me. I'm sure they did all these things.
- 47:56Speaker 1: But and then slowly.
- 47:58Speaker 2: And what I'm sure they did it means something totally different.
- 48:03Speaker 2: It doesn't know because it doesn't ye because it's like, oh,
- 48:06Speaker 2: were you just a diversity exactly exactly.
- 48:10Speaker 1: It's that's where the DEI comes exactly calling him that,
- 48:14Speaker 1: and it's like, no, actually, I'm fucking so dangerous, dude.
- 48:18Speaker 1: You never left the base checking up on me, never
- 48:21Speaker 1: left the base motive.
- 48:23Speaker 4: But they found a use for me. Stay sigh. Good
- 48:26Speaker 4: for them.
- 48:28Speaker 7: I've had no such a lot, so I guess it's
- 48:31Speaker 7: time you hit it on. I've been grateful because if
- 48:34Speaker 7: I still had a jail, be grateful, he'd already be
- 48:37Speaker 7: in it.
- 48:38Speaker 4: I mean, you got me in a tight enough spot
- 48:39Speaker 4: as is.
- 48:41Speaker 2: What's awesome is the renovation of the jail. They tore
- 48:44Speaker 2: down the jail that was the next to the station
- 48:46Speaker 2: or whatever.
- 48:47Speaker 1: What a nice in the community. Well, yeah, totally right.
- 48:52Speaker 1: They're investing in their own community, dude. That's why the
- 48:57Speaker 1: budgets have to keep increasing every year, even under Olivia check.
- 49:05Speaker 1: They need their raiss dude. It's inflation, oh man.
- 49:11Speaker 2: And the one thing I can't shake from the core
- 49:14Speaker 2: is acronyms pace.
- 49:18Speaker 1: Oh dude, pace being explained. It's amazing, dude. Uh pe,
- 49:23Speaker 1: See that's where we were when when this all happened?
- 49:26Speaker 1: Can you can you get you man? Yeah, you got
- 49:28Speaker 1: to play that part too. I'm sorry. Is the WiFi
- 49:39Speaker 1: up yet?
- 49:40Speaker 6: The acronym you need to worry about right now is
- 49:42Speaker 6: pace P A CE.
- 49:46Speaker 4: Never heard of it.
- 49:47Speaker 6: It's a plan in methodology used for comm systems, but
- 49:50Speaker 6: they found it could be applied anywhere, nursing, engineering, parachute, infiltrations,
- 49:57Speaker 6: posting bail. So the P is for cryme therey. That's
- 50:01Speaker 6: me riding in the town with my bag of money.
- 50:05Speaker 6: As for alternate, that's the deal we apparently never made.
- 50:11Speaker 6: See is my contingency. That's the restaurant owner. You put
- 50:15Speaker 6: out a business this morning, and there it is.
- 50:18Speaker 1: The shit eating grin and there it is. I love that.
- 50:21Speaker 4: Too, like you just ate ship.
- 50:25Speaker 1: So good.
- 50:25Speaker 6: Anyway, you got me burning through all these letters and
- 50:29Speaker 6: after this conversation we already on eh.
- 50:33Speaker 4: You know what that stands for.
- 50:35Speaker 1: Marine Corps Martial Arts Program. That's where you we find
- 50:38Speaker 1: out such.
- 50:39Speaker 2: A good cut for the acronym stuff to the like
- 50:44Speaker 2: payoff stuff so nicely get.
- 50:46Speaker 4: By hand in hand close quarters.
- 50:51Speaker 1: I think he's on a Wikipedia page, you.
- 50:54Speaker 2: Think he's all that's also such a great and stee
- 50:58Speaker 2: you fucking pulling out his gun.
- 51:00Speaker 1: I think he's on a Wikipedia page. It gives it
- 51:03Speaker 1: so much like, oh shit, this guy's dangerous.
- 51:05Speaker 7: Any units on patrol yep.
- 51:09Speaker 4: Come your peeps, an idea of a kind of transition.
- 51:22Speaker 1: The way the music happens and like how the tension builds,
- 51:26Speaker 1: it's so good, and how he then like disarms the
- 51:29Speaker 1: situation with the like sumplexing and like it was just
- 51:34Speaker 1: like he just neutralizes everything and the whole thing is
- 51:39Speaker 1: very terminator too, no casualties.
- 51:41Speaker 2: He the great thing about it. I'm glad you brought
- 51:44Speaker 2: up terminator because this is I will not kill anyone
- 51:47Speaker 2: because this falls so squarely in the terminator mold, in
- 51:51Speaker 2: the way the guest does as well, where it's just
- 51:53Speaker 2: like or or like even Halloween, like the First Halloween,
- 51:59Speaker 2: where it's just like an unstoppable killing machine, uh, and
- 52:05Speaker 2: just so cool and just like walks into a dangerous
- 52:08Speaker 2: situation with like such gravity and power and the like
- 52:14Speaker 2: the like shifting down beneath him to avoid getting shot
- 52:20Speaker 2: by Steve, like the way the awkwardness of real life
- 52:26Speaker 2: because the way things happen in like those military videos
- 52:30Speaker 2: and stuff about how people train and how close they
- 52:34Speaker 2: keep things isn't very movie Like a lot of movies
- 52:38Speaker 2: will do that thing where it's like, well, this will
- 52:39Speaker 2: look cool, cheat it this way right, whereas this is like, no,
- 52:43Speaker 2: we have to show every show everything as widely as
- 52:46Speaker 2: possible to see dinky and weird things look. But it's
- 52:49Speaker 2: so much better because he just shoves the chief into
- 52:53Speaker 2: Steve and then suplexes Steve.
- 52:56Speaker 1: It's amazing, and like I love the trope of it's
- 52:59Speaker 1: a very tarry move dude of like disarming the guns. Yeah, totally,
- 53:05Speaker 1: very quickly being able to disarm a gun, pulls the
- 53:08Speaker 1: clip out and then the chamber.
- 53:11Speaker 2: Yeah, through his like arm pit, takes out the one
- 53:14Speaker 2: that's like in the in the chamber and then uh
- 53:17Speaker 2: like grabs Steve, throws him down, and then grabs the
- 53:20Speaker 2: chief again, knowing that he's they're not gonna shoot his chief.
- 53:24Speaker 1: And like it's just like hicks hanging out like they're
- 53:28Speaker 1: not even working, they're not cops, they're just like protecting.
- 53:31Speaker 1: It shows this kind of like weird paramilitary threat or
- 53:36Speaker 1: something of like these armed side guys.
- 53:39Speaker 2: I think were they just like regular guys closed.
- 53:43Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's purposely ambiguous, I think. And
- 53:48Speaker 1: there's a lot of them. Yeah.
- 53:50Speaker 2: And then and then the the good interesting thing about
- 53:56Speaker 2: uh this character is, oh, they try to call the
- 54:00Speaker 2: police station and he rips the phone out such a
- 54:03Speaker 2: I love that. And then they both sit behind each
- 54:07Speaker 2: other and he gets Officer Sim to to to like, yes,
- 54:16Speaker 2: I love you, got too. On he tries like where
- 54:19Speaker 2: is she? And she's like, we have a skeleton crew today. Uh,
- 54:23Speaker 2: And he's like he hits the the leaderboard or whatever,
- 54:28Speaker 2: and it's like there's two officers here.
- 54:30Speaker 1: And then he's like, all right, Officer Sim's come out,
- 54:34Speaker 1: don't worry. And then and then she like crawls out.
- 54:38Speaker 1: It's kind of funny. And but the way she talks
- 54:43Speaker 1: to him, the way that I know, the way that
- 54:52Speaker 1: the sorry, the way this scene plays out with her
- 55:02Speaker 1: sort of like he takes all of the bullets out
- 55:05Speaker 1: of the chamber. No no sorry. They go together into
- 55:10Speaker 1: the back room and they look through like the kind
- 55:15Speaker 1: of contraband that's been seized or like the assets that
- 55:19Speaker 1: have been seized from like different people. So it's like
- 55:21Speaker 1: just cash and weapons. Yeah, and they have so many
- 55:25Speaker 1: guns and cash and weapons. Is such a like a
- 55:29Speaker 1: trope of the nineties, but like done in this like way,
- 55:34Speaker 1: like updated for now that's very like wide and casual
- 55:37Speaker 1: and like it's not commented on so much. It's not
- 55:41Speaker 1: like dollied on or anything. It's just like every scene,
- 55:45Speaker 1: literally every scene in this movie has like slow dolly
- 55:50Speaker 1: in but it's not done in that kind of like
- 55:53Speaker 1: nineties eighties way, right, Yea, it's like it's like like
- 55:56Speaker 1: like zooming, like it's all like going in fast, but
- 55:59Speaker 1: it's like slow. And then and then when he gets
- 56:01Speaker 1: his money, he takes the deal still like he gives
- 56:04Speaker 1: the he wants ten grand, count it out, but go
- 56:07Speaker 1: a little over. Yeah, totally I like that part. And
- 56:11Speaker 1: then and then he empties the the the gun and
- 56:15Speaker 1: gives it to her and pretend cuffs himself and so
- 56:20Speaker 1: that she can escort him out of the building and
- 56:23Speaker 1: into the police car and they can drive away. And
- 56:28Speaker 1: as they're going out, these guys are like yelling after
- 56:32Speaker 1: this guy. They're like yo, fuck blah blah blah, and
- 56:35Speaker 1: she's like, hey, leave that guy alone. He's a veteran
- 56:38Speaker 1: going through a hard time.
- 56:39Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 56:40Speaker 1: And then he thanks her for that, No.
- 56:42Speaker 2: But he says she he no, one of the guys says,
- 56:45Speaker 2: you're gonna string that motherfucker up.
- 56:48Speaker 1: It's like, forgot the And then so she so and
- 56:52Speaker 1: that the moment where she says, hey, he's a veteran
- 56:55Speaker 1: going through a hard time. That's what it is, dude,
- 56:58Speaker 1: he has she has to use his veteran status to
- 57:01Speaker 1: earn him humanity status. And that's why I'm saying, it's
- 57:04Speaker 1: like the movie kind of does that in a way too,
- 57:07Speaker 1: not in a way that I think is like bad.
- 57:09Speaker 1: I think in a way that makes it appeal to
- 57:13Speaker 1: its demographic audience, and maybe that's not us, you know
- 57:17Speaker 1: what I mean. I think it wants to appeal to
- 57:20Speaker 1: a wider audience.
- 57:21Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, if you know what I mean, of course.
- 57:23Speaker 2: And then when she passes by and the guy shows
- 57:26Speaker 2: four and she shows four again and he's like, what's
- 57:29Speaker 2: that mean?
- 57:30Speaker 1: But we didn't say the lie that she says though,
- 57:31Speaker 1: because he says thank you for that to the officer.
- 57:35Speaker 1: He says thank you for that because she defends him,
- 57:39Speaker 1: and she's like, I didn't do.
- 57:40Speaker 2: It for you, yeah, for herself.
- 57:44Speaker 1: And I think that was really cool and interesting because
- 57:46Speaker 1: it also informs, you know, is she curproco or not,
- 57:50Speaker 1: we don't know yet. Yeah, because at this point we
- 57:53Speaker 1: think that he in a way treats her. He's like, hey,
- 57:57Speaker 1: we're both black, we both have this same experience, and
- 58:01Speaker 1: there's a solidarity in that from him. So him trusting
- 58:04Speaker 1: her makes the audience want to trust her. Yes, absolutely,
- 58:08Speaker 1: which makes the twist work really well. Yeah, Sopika aka
- 58:17Speaker 1: not the same. I know it was just seventies beteena
- 58:21Speaker 1: dude of course. Uh.
- 58:22Speaker 2: And then this scene where he finally comes back uh
- 58:26Speaker 2: to pay give the money over for his cousin's bail.
- 58:31Speaker 2: Uh and he's like writing down his name and the
- 58:34Speaker 2: security is like reaching down and then pulls out a drink.
- 58:40Speaker 1: Oh man. These scenes were so great because like they
- 58:44Speaker 1: don't He's he tried to buy himself some time, just
- 58:47Speaker 1: enough time to post his cousin's bail, and he's like
- 58:52Speaker 1: there's very paranoid shots of like the like overseeing like
- 58:57Speaker 1: panopticon of the of the like rounded mirror that allows
- 59:03Speaker 1: you to see.
- 59:03Speaker 2: Yeah, the lawyer counting the money, James Cromwell coming out
- 59:08Speaker 2: of his office.
- 59:10Speaker 1: And then Elliott the lawyer being like or the bail
- 59:13Speaker 1: guy being like or bailiff is it bailiff, the bail
- 59:17Speaker 1: guy being like you're over, like like implying that he's over,
- 59:22Speaker 1: but that he's like, you gave me extra money. Yeah,
- 59:26Speaker 1: because he did count out extra money. That was set
- 59:30Speaker 1: up perfectly. Uh and yeah, we see just the shot
- 59:34Speaker 1: of Jay's crubble and at this moment when I watched
- 59:37Speaker 1: it with that, I exclaimed to her, is that James grumble? Well,
- 59:41Speaker 1: yeah you could. It's just you could just totally tell
- 59:45Speaker 1: you the gate. Yeah do you know this. I just
- 59:49Speaker 1: recently learned this expression. Gate. Yeah, yeah, do you know it? Yeah,
- 59:54Speaker 1: Matt Gates. Yeah, I haven't heard him in a while.
- 59:59Speaker 1: So we see the gate, the very familiar now at
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: this point Gate of zephyrom Cochrane played by James Cromwell.
- 1:00:07Speaker 2: And then the cops come and they're like girl, the
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: girl man and the zapping him with the gun and
- 1:00:18Speaker 2: then him pulling out pulling this out the needles. Oh man,
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: that was so cool, and the what's her name?
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: Summer, Keep Summer, Keep Terry safe. She's her iPhone, she's yeah,
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: she's iphoning everything, and then David Morse looks at her
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: dangerously and she retreats into the room. So that she
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: can't so that he can't see her, and we get
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: a pool of blood pooling around the head of of
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: the very concussed head of Terry. Yeah. And oh man,
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: like the next scene where they wake him up in
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: the dank room and like they've taken him clearly to
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: somewhere he's not supposed to be because like the Cell
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: Block ninety nine.
- 1:01:01Speaker 2: Yeah, because that's also that was also this He definitely
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: saw those movies and definitely was inspired by those movies.
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: This guy is really thirsty for a few dollars more,
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: I think. But did it in a.
- 1:01:17Speaker 2: Way the catacombs it's not a jail.
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: Did it in a way that like centered like a
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: black protagonist too, which is a good thing and admirable.
- 1:01:28Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a different thing than than what
- 1:01:30Speaker 2: Dragged Across Concrete did, which was it kind.
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: Of leans into the the the like callousness of the
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: opposite of.
- 1:01:38Speaker 2: That, Yeah, a little bit. And also that movie is
- 1:01:42Speaker 2: much more an ensemble thing of like two different kinds
- 1:01:45Speaker 2: of people are having two different kinds of experiences trying
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: to get to the same thing, whereas this is very
- 1:01:52Speaker 2: very solely, like he's in almost every scene.
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: Yeah, but his motivation changes because it's not about it's
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: first about his cousin and then it's about her. Yeah yeah, totally, yeah,
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: yeah for sure because like her goodness earns her.
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: You know this scene too where he's like, are you
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: up for a drive where David Morris is like, well,
- 1:02:18Speaker 2: we can solve this and whatever I suggest, and then
- 1:02:22Speaker 2: the chief comes out like.
- 1:02:24Speaker 1: These types of scenes where where it's This is also
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: the difference between First Blood and this because First Blood
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: has the.
- 1:02:37Speaker 2: Post traumatic stress element where it's triggered by being held,
- 1:02:43Speaker 2: being like betrayed by your own country being handled, whereas
- 1:02:49Speaker 2: because he he's so skilled, he can remain calm in
- 1:02:54Speaker 2: these kinds of situations and everybody else is kind of
- 1:02:57Speaker 2: panicking around him.
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: Totally dude.
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: And then the the like ah man where where like
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: the explaining of oh, they cut our budget and we
- 1:03:09Speaker 2: can't do anything about it and you.
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: Know, in order to turn a profit. You know this
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: this scene is weird because like he's he's like, he's
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: like gives him a lottery ticket and he gives him
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: an out. But it's like, basically, I didn't understand why
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: they did this like this they want to I get
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: that they want to make the problem go away. But
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: I was like it was kind of like confusing, Like
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: it was cool for the story and for the movie,
- 1:03:41Speaker 1: but I was like I was a bit confused. Here
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: take this money, and here the truck's gonna be waiting
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: for you. Take this as a Oh, because his cousin
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: died because of because of their negligence, and they didn't
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: want that to happen. Yeah, the whole their plan was
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: ruined too. Yeah.
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: Their plan was to get him out and and be like, okay, whatever,
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: we got rid of the cousin and we're gonna get
- 1:04:10Speaker 2: rid of this guy.
- 1:04:12Speaker 6: Leave.
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: But they wanted to go through the procedure of the
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: ninety days, which we find out about after. Yeah, so
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: we get the word from Don Johnson that the cousin's
- 1:04:21Speaker 1: been stabbed. Well, he's been attacked, and he's being transferred.
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: Not not yet.
- 1:04:28Speaker 2: They're still in the car and he's still explaining how
- 1:04:32Speaker 2: he's got like well, you know, I mean, I'm he
- 1:04:39Speaker 2: goes through the de escalation conversation where it's like that's
- 1:04:45Speaker 2: what they call it now, de escalation. That that also
- 1:04:48Speaker 2: reminded me of Dragon Across Concrete. We have an acronym yeah,
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: and also explaining like have you ever heard of a
- 1:04:56Speaker 2: dazzler and he's like non lethal, less lethal.
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: We have to call it that for legal persons.
- 1:05:05Speaker 2: And then they stop outside and he's like, well they
- 1:05:10Speaker 2: pull up to a hospital, which is so it's such
- 1:05:14Speaker 2: a good way of explaining this whole thing where it's like,
- 1:05:20Speaker 2: you know something bad is gonna happen. You know something
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: bad has happened, and you know it's gonna be like
- 1:05:26Speaker 2: based on It's almost.
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: Like a meta.
- 1:05:28Speaker 2: Scene in a movie where it's like, you know something
- 1:05:32Speaker 2: bad is happening, yeah, and.
- 1:05:35Speaker 1: You imagine the bad thing that's happened.
- 1:05:37Speaker 2: Already that's gonna be the catalyst for everything the rest
- 1:05:40Speaker 2: of this movie.
- 1:05:41Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And we find out that Mike has been
- 1:05:45Speaker 1: stabbed and he's being transferred to intensive care.
- 1:05:48Speaker 2: He's meta act, he's alive, but he's been stabbed.
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: And the next scene is he's dead.
- 1:05:55Speaker 2: Current, which I loved the like abruptness of because it's
- 1:06:01Speaker 2: got so much more impact the fact that this fucking
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: douchebag is telling me something that I already know, yeah,
- 1:06:08Speaker 2: which is there's doesn't have to be a scene of
- 1:06:13Speaker 2: crying or or like even like intense stoic emotionality. It
- 1:06:20Speaker 2: all gets portrayed through the scene between him and Don Johnson,
- 1:06:24Speaker 2: which is sad because the more appropriate scene is for
- 1:06:30Speaker 2: it to be with the cousin because you want the
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: characters to like have a final scene. But it's more
- 1:06:35Speaker 2: impactful that it's like that he's robbed of it exactly,
- 1:06:39Speaker 2: and and you see in his face he performs it
- 1:06:42Speaker 2: so well. You just see like he's being meta act
- 1:06:44Speaker 2: and just like his see face doesn't change, but he
- 1:06:47Speaker 2: just swallows a little bit, and it's just like really
- 1:06:51Speaker 2: well done.
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he did such a great job. Yeah. And
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: this scene where he's talking to the is like an
- 1:07:00Speaker 1: orderly in the in the like where the cousin is
- 1:07:05Speaker 1: dead and they're they're together.
- 1:07:07Speaker 2: Yeah, but also Don Johnson is like here, you had
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: a dream and like gives him back the xerox copy
- 1:07:15Speaker 2: of the truck.
- 1:07:17Speaker 1: Don't crumple that now or lose it. You want them
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: to be able to recognize that it's you.
- 1:07:21Speaker 2: Oh man, and and on the Instagram post and we
- 1:07:30Speaker 2: just have like we don't have any scene really of
- 1:07:34Speaker 2: them interacting with him interacting with the body. He just
- 1:07:36Speaker 2: touches the body and it cuts to the summer taking
- 1:07:43Speaker 2: him out. Uh, and she's like, I salvaged your bike.
- 1:07:46Speaker 2: We can swing by my house and and grab it,
- 1:07:49Speaker 2: and he's like, pawn it. It's worth a couple of
- 1:07:51Speaker 2: grand Yeah, you could tell it was good. And then
- 1:07:56Speaker 2: and then like you can see, oh totally, you could
- 1:08:00Speaker 2: see what's his name the cops following them throughout the town.
- 1:08:04Speaker 2: By the way, what are we at for a time?
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: It's twelve eighteen. Yeah, we've got until twelve fifteen, Okay,
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: but yeah, she basically goes through through what's happening and
- 1:08:23Speaker 2: like the suspiciousness of what's happening, and he's like, I'm
- 1:08:27Speaker 2: not interested, I'm leaving. H And then right as they
- 1:08:30Speaker 2: get to the border of the town, the cops like
- 1:08:33Speaker 2: spin around, chasing them out, solving the problem.
- 1:08:38Speaker 1: Yeah, they got rid of the problem. Yeah, but later on,
- 1:08:43Speaker 1: later that night, she gets middle of the night stuck
- 1:08:48Speaker 1: with a needle. Dudeeah, and getting stuck with a needle
- 1:08:52Speaker 1: with unknown substances is terrifying. Yeah, I mean, presumably it's
- 1:08:59Speaker 1: like heroin that they've seized that they're using now in
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: a corrupt way, because the cops are the ones that
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: have stuck her with heroin in order to bribe her
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: with keeping her mouth shut because if she does a
- 1:09:16Speaker 1: drug test, she'll never see her kid again. Yeah, that's
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: it's basically like a Vandam Explanations explanation my.
- 1:09:26Speaker 2: Kids, and she you hear the cops running away, supposedly
- 1:09:30Speaker 2: the cops, and then she calls Terry back into town,
- 1:09:35Speaker 2: which ends up getting Terry in trouble because they're they're
- 1:09:40Speaker 2: he's back in the town and the whole point was
- 1:09:42Speaker 2: to for him.
- 1:09:45Speaker 1: Not to be there.
- 1:09:46Speaker 2: And then she's like, she explains all of what you
- 1:09:49Speaker 2: just explained, which is like the Vandam explanation of of
- 1:09:54Speaker 2: everything becomes unsealed if I test positive for drugs, Yeah.
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: Which she would because they stuck her with heroin. But
- 1:10:03Speaker 1: she knows enough about reactions to heroin to know that
- 1:10:06Speaker 1: she'll be fine. Yeah, she has like a magical knowledge
- 1:10:10Speaker 1: about it that she implies to show the like severity
- 1:10:14Speaker 1: of which her drug habit was at one point, I think, Yeah.
- 1:10:17Speaker 2: And what's nice about this is that it reflects really
- 1:10:21Speaker 2: nicely on the writerliness of adding a lot to a
- 1:10:28Speaker 2: character and not being judgmental, having a person giving her
- 1:10:35Speaker 2: stakes and reason to help him out with a situation,
- 1:10:40Speaker 2: because it feels at the beginning when I watched the
- 1:10:44Speaker 2: movie the first time, or the first time when I
- 1:10:48Speaker 2: watched the movie, I was like, this feels a little
- 1:10:51Speaker 2: bit like whoa, they just like jumped into like her
- 1:10:55Speaker 2: helping him, but with this context of like, you know,
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: I've had a heart time, I'm going to help this
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: handsome guy out.
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the only motivation you need. And then like
- 1:11:06Speaker 1: he also has the same motivation because when she calls
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: him later to be like, hey, I think something's wrong.
- 1:11:14Speaker 1: I think I was like drugged or something, he races back, Yeah,
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: I'm getting the car totally to to to find her
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: in the shower being like I'm okay, I'm going to survive. Yeah, totally,
- 1:11:28Speaker 1: And then basically like they have this conversation like this
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: ship can't go on. We've got to do something with this, and.
- 1:11:35Speaker 2: Then Cromwell tells her that she has to take a
- 1:11:37Speaker 2: piss test and immediately she has to pee in a cup,
- 1:11:40Speaker 2: and like she's like crying in the yeah, what's it called?
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: In the ladies room, and there's a there's a woman
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: who's like, are you okay, sweetheart?
- 1:11:52Speaker 2: And then Steve good old Steve shithead. Steve stops him
- 1:11:58Speaker 2: again and is like, we don't take too kindly, but
- 1:12:03Speaker 2: like it's crazy because it's all like set up in
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: a way where it's like both ends of the street
- 1:12:08Speaker 2: like cops just pull out.
- 1:12:17Speaker 1: Oh dude, all these like like the activated moments in
- 1:12:24Speaker 1: the movie all play out so.
- 1:12:26Speaker 2: Well yeah, and it's like your light's broken and he's like,
- 1:12:29Speaker 2: what are your lights broken? And it's like, oh, no,
- 1:12:36Speaker 2: very observant of you.
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: No, yeah, because if he respects him for it though,
- 1:12:40Speaker 1: he's like, well, very observant of you.
- 1:12:43Speaker 2: Because he waved him down, and he tries to explain
- 1:12:47Speaker 2: to him again calmly. This is this is basically the
- 1:12:51Speaker 2: other start of this movie. This is how Van a
- 1:12:54Speaker 2: Van Damn movie would have started. Just have the one
- 1:12:57Speaker 2: lady be in town as he meets a lady and
- 1:13:01Speaker 2: then she's in trouble to ah and then the feeling
- 1:13:07Speaker 2: smart No, sir, I'll give you credit for catching the
- 1:13:11Speaker 2: lights though, pretty sharp. God, he's such an.
- 1:13:14Speaker 1: Activates that he tells him like he's like, at five
- 1:13:18Speaker 1: o'clock tonight, we're getting dunk and stoyches five floors with cash.
- 1:13:23Speaker 2: Yeah, he very Marv explains, but then he tries to
- 1:13:28Speaker 2: fucking shoot him, and he fucking like uses the door
- 1:13:32Speaker 2: to like his arm.
- 1:13:34Speaker 1: And then he electrocutes him. I love the way he
- 1:13:39Speaker 1: like sippons like falls over just like he's amazing, like
- 1:13:45Speaker 1: the falls.
- 1:13:46Speaker 2: And then he tries to get up and he clicks
- 1:13:49Speaker 2: the gun again.
- 1:13:50Speaker 1: The falls in this movie were amazing. I want to
- 1:13:52Speaker 1: talk about this like stunt actor that that dies because
- 1:13:56Speaker 1: I saw recently how they used to like a stunt
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: actor acting, how they used to die in movies, and
- 1:14:02Speaker 1: how they die now with like quick like oh yeah,
- 1:14:05Speaker 1: the flops. Yeah totally. They they like really captured that
- 1:14:09Speaker 1: about Did you see this where this like stunt actors performance,
- 1:14:13Speaker 1: how he dies just like flops?
- 1:14:16Speaker 2: It's hard. It's that that job is fucking hard.
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: It looks like he's really hurting himself. He is, he is.
- 1:14:24Speaker 2: There's no way. I asked the guy once who was
- 1:14:27Speaker 2: how do you fall correctly?
- 1:14:28Speaker 1: You don't, You don't know you do?
- 1:14:30Speaker 2: There are there are techniques to avoid the avoid hitting
- 1:14:33Speaker 2: your head, avoid breaking things as much as you possibly can.
- 1:14:36Speaker 2: But Summer goes to keep her daughter safe. Uh and
- 1:14:42Speaker 2: and the.
- 1:14:43Speaker 1: Two people come outside and they're like you're not supposed
- 1:14:46Speaker 1: to really, yeah, and if we didn't call them, there's cops.
- 1:14:49Speaker 1: Like it just like fast scenes that like would seem
- 1:14:52Speaker 1: so stupid in a VANDAM movie, but because of how
- 1:14:54Speaker 1: cinematical they look in this movie, and like how they
- 1:14:58Speaker 1: play out in the rest of like the plot, it's
- 1:15:00Speaker 1: like really swift, quick storytelling, Like it's like things happen,
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: Like the amount of things that happened so fast is amazing.
- 1:15:11Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, man. And then when he's just under the
- 1:15:20Speaker 2: bridge and like like pulls himself up, it does this
- 1:15:24Speaker 2: is like very rambo stuff.
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: Yeah, oh man, the like the the realistic dragging of
- 1:15:33Speaker 1: bodies in this where like he you know that he's
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: struggling pulling this like like heavy six pound guy, but
- 1:15:44Speaker 1: like like you just like the way that he's doing
- 1:15:47Speaker 1: it is like he's struggling, but he's still doing it
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: with ease.
- 1:15:51Speaker 2: And it's yeah, the kind of realistic ease A fit
- 1:15:55Speaker 2: dude like this would be.
- 1:15:56Speaker 1: Totally totally and it's really impressive.
- 1:16:00Speaker 2: And then he he walks he like talks to Summer
- 1:16:09Speaker 2: on the phone and then taps on a thing that
- 1:16:14Speaker 2: says Marine Corps. And then she comes into mister Lew's office.
- 1:16:19Speaker 1: Oh man, Yeah, that that was really cool and showing
- 1:16:22Speaker 1: the guy who was doing the accents but he doesn't
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: talk in the scene was so good.
- 1:16:29Speaker 2: And mister low is the guy from Curby Enthusiast. Dude,
- 1:16:33Speaker 2: he did a really good job.
- 1:16:35Speaker 1: He did such a good job, and like he spent
- 1:16:37Speaker 1: some time as a medic in Korea, so he knows
- 1:16:39Speaker 1: how to Like, that's awesome. Dress a wound that was
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: take out a bullet. He's like, there's still some trapnel
- 1:16:44Speaker 1: left in here, but I can't take it out. So yeah,
- 1:16:47Speaker 1: it's like that's fine, thanks for doing this, and like,
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: I don't know, it's so it's so good. And they
- 1:16:53Speaker 1: have that scene where where he's like he was in
- 1:16:56Speaker 1: Korea and she was like, thank you for your service.
- 1:16:57Speaker 1: On the other side, Oh glad we can all get together. Yeah, totally.
- 1:17:01Speaker 1: It's such a hilarious reaction. I mean, the most social
- 1:17:06Speaker 1: democrat reaction she could have did. I mean, she wants
- 1:17:09Speaker 1: to make the system better, dude. It's with regulations and voting.
- 1:17:14Speaker 1: She's going to fix it, dude, don't worry about it.
- 1:17:16Speaker 2: Yeah, all all we actually need is a revolution where
- 1:17:20Speaker 2: right wing authoritarians can fill the power aoid.
- 1:17:23Speaker 1: Of course, dude, that's the only way. So where where
- 1:17:28Speaker 1: were we?
- 1:17:37Speaker 2: She talks about the judge being in on this whole
- 1:17:44Speaker 2: like weird scheme to steal money from people who are
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: I guess trying to pay for bail.
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: They hold them for like a maximum amount or something.
- 1:17:57Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's a plan and they've got
- 1:18:00Speaker 1: it in their institution.
- 1:18:01Speaker 2: It's a corrupt plan that exists within a town that
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: and like they would do a whole season of Cereal
- 1:18:08Speaker 2: on and.
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: People would talk like this about it. Yeah, exactly the
- 1:18:14Speaker 1: exactly it would be NPR voices, Social difficults we were
- 1:18:17Speaker 1: talking about exactly the only people who have policies, not
- 1:18:21Speaker 1: like populos. Where were we?
- 1:18:28Speaker 2: Well, she's just kind of like explaining what is happening,
- 1:18:33Speaker 2: and they're forming a plan as to like what they're
- 1:18:37Speaker 2: gonna do. And then she goes to visit like she
- 1:18:53Speaker 2: she no, she goes to visit the lawyer friend of hers. Yeah,
- 1:18:59Speaker 2: the lawyer friend.
- 1:18:59Speaker 1: She's if she visits his kid, and the kid is like, hey, hey, summer,
- 1:19:05Speaker 1: how's it going, And she's like sneaking up from behind,
- 1:19:08Speaker 1: and then Elliott's like, hey, what the fuck, you're talking
- 1:19:11Speaker 1: to my kid for me. And then the next scene
- 1:19:13Speaker 1: they cut to their outside and I love this because
- 1:19:16Speaker 1: he's basically like, yeah, what do you want me to
- 1:19:18Speaker 1: do about it? Like I know about this, but like
- 1:19:20Speaker 1: what do you want me to do about it? Yeah?
- 1:19:22Speaker 1: And they're like it's really bad, dude, and he's like, uh, okay,
- 1:19:27Speaker 1: I've got a kid, dude. Yeah. They show a lot
- 1:19:31Speaker 1: of that with like, you know, I'm getting a paycheck.
- 1:19:33Speaker 1: A lot of the people are like I have a kid. Yeah.
- 1:19:36Speaker 2: In the yeah, and she calls me a fucking tumor.
- 1:19:40Speaker 1: Yeah, Like she's saying that you're benefiting from this like
- 1:19:42Speaker 1: horrible corrupt system and you're not doing anything about it.
- 1:19:45Speaker 1: He's being like like, yeah, what do you want me
- 1:19:48Speaker 1: to do?
- 1:19:48Speaker 2: Like, I you know, I love that he's like and
- 1:19:51Speaker 2: he tries to do it subtly where he's like what
- 1:19:52Speaker 2: if I didn't know? And like like implying that he's like,
- 1:19:57Speaker 2: I don't know anything, but.
- 1:20:01Speaker 1: Right, and what he does know informs what he doesn't know,
- 1:20:05Speaker 1: and that's that he also knows that too, And that's
- 1:20:09Speaker 1: such an interesting way of giving someone a lot of information. Yeah, totally,
- 1:20:12Speaker 1: you know, really saying a lot, and he's really trying
- 1:20:16Speaker 1: to do that because he doesn't want to like be
- 1:20:19Speaker 1: associate because he sees obviously that there's a target on
- 1:20:21Speaker 1: her back now too.
- 1:20:22Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, and he doesn't want to be involved. And
- 1:20:25Speaker 2: then the kid comes out and he's like, this kid,
- 1:20:28Speaker 2: won can we go? Yes, son, we can go.
- 1:20:31Speaker 1: I love that he uses so you used your children? Oh? Absolutely?
- 1:20:35Speaker 1: And then James Cromwell.
- 1:20:38Speaker 2: As a daughtering old Joe Biden, He's like.
- 1:20:42Speaker 1: We'll talk. He's the spriest eighty four you've ever seen.
- 1:20:46Speaker 2: Totally, he's got very noon in energy. But you can
- 1:20:48Speaker 2: tell the differences between the two different kinds of lurchiness.
- 1:20:52Speaker 1: And also you can tell how hard up this sound
- 1:20:55Speaker 1: is that even at eighty four you can't retire. I mean,
- 1:21:02Speaker 1: he's not supposed to not be eighty four, right, Like.
- 1:21:05Speaker 2: He's he's definitely supposed to be.
- 1:21:09Speaker 1: He's so Cromwell dude. But you know what, Cromwell.
- 1:21:14Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what, it's funny that you mentioned
- 1:21:16Speaker 2: that because he doesn't look old.
- 1:21:20Speaker 1: He doesn't, but he doesn't look old.
- 1:21:21Speaker 2: In the way that fucking Joaquin and de Niro looked
- 1:21:25Speaker 2: old and Joker where it's like what is this is.
- 1:21:29Speaker 1: A little weird? No, dude, fucking Robert de Niro looks
- 1:21:36Speaker 1: so old, like so weirdly old he is because well,
- 1:21:42Speaker 1: but he maybe wouldn't look as shriveled and old if
- 1:21:46Speaker 1: I didn't know what he used to look like. Yeah,
- 1:21:49Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
- 1:21:50Speaker 2: No, he's sleeve, you know, him kicking that dude and
- 1:21:55Speaker 2: the irishman. It was pretty old. But basically, what they
- 1:21:59Speaker 2: find out from Cromwell is that this whole conspiracy is
- 1:22:03Speaker 2: going on, but they still have dashcam footage of all
- 1:22:08Speaker 2: the cases, including the dashcam footage from the eres both
- 1:22:12Speaker 2: his arrest, and I think because the lights were on,
- 1:22:16Speaker 2: the lights were in, Yeah, yeah, totally, and the cops
- 1:22:32Speaker 2: are like always one step behind them as well. He
- 1:22:36Speaker 2: like the cops come.
- 1:22:39Speaker 1: Oh man.
- 1:22:39Speaker 2: And then she has the line this this town couldn't
- 1:22:42Speaker 2: form a spine?
- 1:22:44Speaker 1: What was it? Hold on? Oh? It was such good lines.
- 1:22:48Speaker 1: And then also she's like he alludes to his dead
- 1:22:53Speaker 1: wife and she says she would be ashamed of you.
- 1:22:57Speaker 1: She'd be looking She's like, come on, you knew Mary.
- 1:23:00Speaker 1: And she's like, if she was here, she'd be standing
- 1:23:02Speaker 1: here watching. Yeah, And I thought that was cool and
- 1:23:05Speaker 1: she puts the picture of Mary there, and then we
- 1:23:07Speaker 1: find out that he is feeling guilty because he's taking
- 1:23:10Speaker 1: a whole bottle of pills, so they actually call the
- 1:23:13Speaker 1: paramedics to get him saved. And then because she magically
- 1:23:17Speaker 1: knows about drugs, she's like, he'll be okay, Yeah, she
- 1:23:20Speaker 1: didn't take enough. That wasn't enough to kill someone, I know,
- 1:23:23Speaker 1: because it's like, but he's also like got maybe comobidities held, Yeah, totally.
- 1:23:29Speaker 2: But they find out that the drives are in U
- 1:23:31Speaker 2: Cell Block ninety nine, aka the Catacombs.
- 1:23:33Speaker 1: Yeah, they definitely are going to be trying the tooth
- 1:23:36Speaker 1: with these drives so much. Yeah, one hundred percent.
- 1:23:39Speaker 2: But this scene is great because it also provides us
- 1:23:43Speaker 2: with I feel like some Batman detective skills, where like
- 1:23:48Speaker 2: they try the police are trying to get rid of
- 1:23:50Speaker 2: all the evidence, so they try and light the catacombs
- 1:23:52Speaker 2: on fire.
- 1:23:54Speaker 1: And well, that's a very good observation, the Batman observation,
- 1:23:57Speaker 1: because like it feels very much like the tim Bird
- 1:24:00Speaker 1: need Batman's of like showing a thing through someone having
- 1:24:04Speaker 1: a thing. Yeah. I think I was.
- 1:24:07Speaker 2: Gonna say more of the Batman because that movie tried
- 1:24:09Speaker 2: to uh something, yeah exactly, but it did it did
- 1:24:14Speaker 2: have the detective element. This was way better in terms
- 1:24:16Speaker 2: of the detective element because it builds, whereas Batman not
- 1:24:21Speaker 2: being like flying rat that riddle is too hard for
- 1:24:27Speaker 2: me to figure out.
- 1:24:30Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I know. What I meant though, is like
- 1:24:33Speaker 1: having an object that is like, you know, they don't
- 1:24:37Speaker 1: I don't know if they do this with drives. Maybe
- 1:24:39Speaker 1: maybe they do, like but like having a physical thing
- 1:24:42Speaker 1: like that be like some kind of like motivating factor.
- 1:24:46Speaker 1: Maybe they do do it with drives, but like I
- 1:24:48Speaker 1: just I found that to be like an interesting like
- 1:24:51Speaker 1: storytelling aspect and like I'm not sure if that's how
- 1:24:54Speaker 1: they do it, but it felt like a very vandamn explanation.
- 1:24:57Speaker 4: You know.
- 1:24:57Speaker 2: This also felt like a very vandamn scene where they
- 1:24:59Speaker 2: liked they relight the fire and they come back and
- 1:25:04Speaker 2: they're like did a light? Yeah did, Let's get out
- 1:25:08Speaker 2: of here, just to build some tension. But also like
- 1:25:11Speaker 2: I don't know, it's it's really it's really.
- 1:25:18Speaker 1: I lost it. What it was really nice.
- 1:25:22Speaker 2: It was a really nice scene, nicely done in a
- 1:25:24Speaker 2: way where it was like you're you're building tension through
- 1:25:27Speaker 2: like oh, they put the fire out, maybe they're gonna
- 1:25:29Speaker 2: come back, And then they do come back and then
- 1:25:30Speaker 2: they relight the fire and it's it's just like a
- 1:25:33Speaker 2: fun scene. And then when he fucking gets in the
- 1:25:36Speaker 2: car and the camera is just in the back seat
- 1:25:39Speaker 2: and it's like driving with him, and it's he's like
- 1:25:41Speaker 2: waiting for her to get out because she goes back
- 1:25:47Speaker 2: in to try and.
- 1:25:51Speaker 1: Save some What was that thing that she gets out
- 1:25:59Speaker 1: of the fridge. Oh, yeah, like a heart or something,
- 1:26:03Speaker 1: because it was like biohazard or something. No, it was
- 1:26:09Speaker 1: it was something that what was it? I think it
- 1:26:16Speaker 1: was something that showed that they did something. It was
- 1:26:20Speaker 1: like some kind of evidence, wasn't it, because why wouldn't
- 1:26:23Speaker 1: it be Yeah, but why would it be biohazardous? I
- 1:26:30Speaker 1: don't know. But they capture her, Yeah, they do, and
- 1:26:34Speaker 1: he quickly reverses the Another thing I loved in this
- 1:26:40Speaker 1: movie is he the very realistic driving of an automatic
- 1:26:45Speaker 1: vehicle because they were all automatic, so like he had
- 1:26:47Speaker 1: to like he couldn't do like cool moves, but like
- 1:26:50Speaker 1: he just had to be really quick and like there's
- 1:26:52Speaker 1: ways that you can like very like skillfully and quickly
- 1:26:55Speaker 1: drive and automatic, and he was doing that. Yeah, but
- 1:26:58Speaker 1: also really writing that transmission so hard and it was
- 1:27:03Speaker 1: it was really cool.
- 1:27:04Speaker 2: And also smashing a mirror when you're driving is way
- 1:27:08Speaker 2: easier than.
- 1:27:09Speaker 1: Just doing stunt driving. Yeah, and he follows them and
- 1:27:16Speaker 1: he's able to capture a one of the guys and
- 1:27:22Speaker 1: get him on get get him subdued and get on
- 1:27:26Speaker 1: the horn and be like hey, I love to free
- 1:27:29Speaker 1: this is tent and he's like, hey, we're laying low
- 1:27:33Speaker 1: and then he answers and he's like, hey, are you
- 1:27:36Speaker 1: laying low for the arson or the kidnapping?
- 1:27:38Speaker 2: Oh yeah, totally totally, but him doing the the jiu
- 1:27:42Speaker 2: jitsu move of like putting him in a neck hold,
- 1:27:46Speaker 2: and this Danny maul Roon being like.
- 1:27:48Speaker 1: I have a kid. This is that I have a kid,
- 1:27:50Speaker 1: and so like it's like there's a lot of like
- 1:27:52Speaker 1: justification of like, hey listen, I'm doing what I have
- 1:27:54Speaker 1: to do, so I don't know, yeah, and it's a
- 1:27:59Speaker 1: lot of it's justifying a lot of like the like
- 1:28:02Speaker 1: horrible corruption in this town, right, and so like I
- 1:28:05Speaker 1: think it was really there. Also he goes, so does
- 1:28:08Speaker 1: she exactly exactly? And like so you know, he's justifying
- 1:28:13Speaker 1: his actions now and then he gets on the horn
- 1:28:17Speaker 1: and they do this whole scene and then he calls
- 1:28:19Speaker 1: him on the phone.
- 1:28:20Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I love that.
- 1:28:22Speaker 1: He calls them on the guy's phone and he answers
- 1:28:24Speaker 1: it and he's like, Terry answers it and he's like, hey,
- 1:28:27Speaker 1: and they agreed to meet at Rebel Rage.
- 1:28:29Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 1:28:30Speaker 2: That's which finally gets to the title of the movie.
- 1:28:33Speaker 2: But before we go into that and my thoughts and
- 1:28:36Speaker 2: feelings about the title of the movie, him saying I'll
- 1:28:41Speaker 2: drop a pin, will settle up, do a swap, and
- 1:28:44Speaker 2: he's like, do you think I'm stupid? That line is
- 1:28:47Speaker 2: great because it's during the daytime.
- 1:28:48Speaker 1: It'll benefit you as well, trust me. Yeah, totally, You'll
- 1:28:52Speaker 1: actually be able you might be able to see me coming. Yeah, totally.
- 1:28:56Speaker 1: I love I love that line. And it doesn't sound
- 1:28:59Speaker 1: like a right it sounds like a promise, Yeah exactly.
- 1:29:03Speaker 2: And then I put too much sauce on that, Like
- 1:29:07Speaker 2: it made it a little too Did I put it
- 1:29:10Speaker 2: make it too dramatic?
- 1:29:11Speaker 1: Yeah? Did I hand that up too much? It was
- 1:29:12Speaker 1: nice to like for the like it's very yeah, because
- 1:29:18Speaker 1: like it's acknowledging that, like there is a ridiculousness to
- 1:29:22Speaker 1: that kind of posturing, but it also there's very much
- 1:29:25Speaker 1: a context for it in the movie.
- 1:29:26Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, totally, and but also an awareness that like
- 1:29:30Speaker 2: other action stars and action heroes don't really have where
- 1:29:33Speaker 2: it's like you just said something of the corniest ship
- 1:29:35Speaker 2: in the world, Like it's cool in the moment or whatever,
- 1:29:38Speaker 2: but like that's so corny, and him being like like
- 1:29:42Speaker 2: acknowledging it is fun, you know, now with Rebel Ridge,
- 1:29:46Speaker 2: such a fucking boring title, until I got to this
- 1:29:49Speaker 2: part and I was like, well, I mean they totally
- 1:29:52Speaker 2: justified this.
- 1:29:53Speaker 1: It makes it so much cooler air and he's he's
- 1:29:55Speaker 1: supposed to be the rebel you know, and yeah, yeah totally.
- 1:29:58Speaker 1: And also but in the Dura I I don't like,
- 1:30:04Speaker 1: I kept I kept forgetting the name because it's such
- 1:30:07Speaker 1: a boring like Ridge, I know, the Bridge, and I
- 1:30:10Speaker 1: was like, Rebel Ridge, Yeah, I just didn't. It didn't
- 1:30:13Speaker 1: really connect with me. Yeah, totally. But it's reminiscent of
- 1:30:18Speaker 1: green Room. It's reminiscent even though green Room is a
- 1:30:21Speaker 1: little more iconic sounding.
- 1:30:22Speaker 2: Yeah, Blue Ruin also is very iconic sound.
- 1:30:25Speaker 1: I don't even know those. He likes the two title,
- 1:30:28Speaker 1: the two word title you know why, because when he's
- 1:30:33Speaker 1: pitching it, he's like check this out, blue ruin, hold
- 1:30:37Speaker 1: on rebel Ridge, Wait a minute.
- 1:30:40Speaker 2: Green room, Yeah, totally, totally.
- 1:30:44Speaker 1: Yeah, he just likes it. He is a pattern, but
- 1:30:48Speaker 1: yeah it was a little rure jury. Yeah yeah, and
- 1:30:54Speaker 1: uh that's fine, that's fine. Yeah, absolutely, And then he
- 1:30:57Speaker 1: calls the police chief and is like has another like
- 1:31:04Speaker 1: serious and scary conversation while at the same time in
- 1:31:10Speaker 1: a car. And then the another police officer, I think
- 1:31:15Speaker 1: the David Morris guy. Oh yeah, hold on, David, he's
- 1:31:21Speaker 1: also named David David.
- 1:31:22Speaker 2: Yeah, David David Morris guy comes to see the car. Uh,
- 1:31:27Speaker 2: and it's the cop duct taped to the.
- 1:31:33Speaker 1: He smashes the window with that little wad. Yeah, a
- 1:31:36Speaker 1: little tap smash and then and then like he's like,
- 1:31:41Speaker 1: there's there's a panic because he's not actually there.
- 1:31:44Speaker 2: He's not actually there and actually he's been putting up
- 1:31:47Speaker 2: fucking what's it called chains to pull out the concrete
- 1:31:53Speaker 2: from from the what's it called wall of the evidence room?
- 1:31:59Speaker 1: So good, which is awesome.
- 1:32:01Speaker 2: I loved this scene and I love that it was
- 1:32:03Speaker 2: just outside and also he like hits the hood of
- 1:32:08Speaker 2: the car, not the hood of the car, the steering
- 1:32:11Speaker 2: wheel of the car in his first moment of like
- 1:32:14Speaker 2: expressed rage, which is very cool. I actually really really
- 1:32:18Speaker 2: liked that scene. Yeah, and and this shithead Steve goes
- 1:32:24Speaker 2: this will all line up pretty nicely because he also
- 1:32:28Speaker 2: figures out a plan where it's like, if he kills
- 1:32:31Speaker 2: this girl, she was involved. If he kills this dude
- 1:32:36Speaker 2: now for tearing up the station, he's involved, so they
- 1:32:39Speaker 2: can all have they can tied up really really nicely.
- 1:32:43Speaker 2: And fucking Terry shoots Don Johnson with the non lethal
- 1:32:49Speaker 2: bullets or whatever less lethal.
- 1:32:53Speaker 1: And we get this moment where he's confronting Officer Sims
- 1:32:58Speaker 1: and he's like Terry's confron take Officer Sims and he's like, hey,
- 1:33:01Speaker 1: I know your curproco, Like did.
- 1:33:03Speaker 2: You get the thing from summer? I know your Curproco?
- 1:33:07Speaker 2: And and she's like what She kind.
- 1:33:09Speaker 1: Of plays it dumb though, because we don't realize that
- 1:33:12Speaker 1: there's a reversal.
- 1:33:13Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 1:33:13Speaker 1: Yeah, so she sort of plays it dumb, I think
- 1:33:16Speaker 1: on purpose to kind of like be like, Okay, I'll
- 1:33:18Speaker 1: let this guy believe this for now, what do you
- 1:33:20Speaker 1: want me to do?
- 1:33:21Speaker 2: Because she says, what do you want me to do,
- 1:33:23Speaker 2: which is such a great line because it's vague enough
- 1:33:25Speaker 2: to imply something about and she's still being made to
- 1:33:29Speaker 2: do something something. Yeah, exactly, man, But they got such
- 1:33:33Speaker 2: good douche cops in this movie, like the style of
- 1:33:39Speaker 2: person that they got to be in this like the
- 1:33:42Speaker 2: secondary Yeah, well I'm talking about like just that the
- 1:33:46Speaker 2: other Danny Malroon's because everybody was no, I I agree,
- 1:33:51Speaker 2: and he loves a certain kind of cost And initially
- 1:33:55Speaker 2: I was like, man, this is like because people were
- 1:33:59Speaker 2: called Blue Ruin, like a very like Coen Brothers esque
- 1:34:02Speaker 2: type movie. But it feels very much his own voice.
- 1:34:06Speaker 1: This guy has his own voice. He's got so much
- 1:34:08Speaker 1: of it.
- 1:34:08Speaker 2: And maybe some of the stuff is like influenced by
- 1:34:12Speaker 2: other filmmakers, but man, this is like he's got vision
- 1:34:15Speaker 2: for vision. Yeah, and speaking of vision, Terry's got vision
- 1:34:19Speaker 2: to use some of the smoke bombs and also the
- 1:34:22Speaker 2: realistic shooting sounds, the realistic smoke bombs, because.
- 1:34:25Speaker 1: You didn't say that the reason he's got smoke bombs
- 1:34:28Speaker 1: is because he pulls, to say, he realistically pulls David
- 1:34:31Speaker 1: Morse to safety after him being shot in the leg.
- 1:34:34Speaker 2: Right, well not yet, oh not yet, because he's taken
- 1:34:37Speaker 2: all the smoke bombs from from the but.
- 1:34:40Speaker 1: Then T one thousand he tournat or two's a smoky room.
- 1:34:45Speaker 2: Yeah, but what happens is Officer sim he gives Officer
- 1:34:49Speaker 2: Sims the gun and is like awesome, like you're with me,
- 1:34:54Speaker 2: your curproco, and then she pulls she pulls the gun
- 1:34:58Speaker 2: on him, and she's like, sorry, we'll take I'll take
- 1:35:01Speaker 2: you somewhere safe. Because she still is with him to
- 1:35:04Speaker 2: some degree, but she's still corrupt.
- 1:35:07Speaker 1: And we show that, we showed that, they show a
- 1:35:09Speaker 1: little bit of her like cracks in all of that.
- 1:35:12Speaker 1: Because after this, when she's in that confrontational situation where
- 1:35:17Speaker 1: Don Johnson comes and like and the guy with the
- 1:35:20Speaker 1: beard who hasn't earned his goatee yet comes and he
- 1:35:24Speaker 1: has the standoff with David Morse.
- 1:35:27Speaker 2: Well wait wait, Steve is like, where are those drives?
- 1:35:33Speaker 2: And he pulls the drives out and steps on all
- 1:35:36Speaker 2: of them right uh, and then is like, well done,
- 1:35:39Speaker 2: Officer Simms, you did exactly what now Like sorry, He's like, well,
- 1:35:52Speaker 2: we'll let your girl go free. And he opens the
- 1:35:54Speaker 2: door and she's been heroined, heroin cheeked. Yeah, and it's
- 1:36:01Speaker 2: so sad. It's like such a because it's like you
- 1:36:03Speaker 2: just see somewhere yeah, and it's like, oh, she's just
- 1:36:08Speaker 2: pretty zonked out. It's so weird and must have hidden
- 1:36:12Speaker 2: it somewhere sneaky.
- 1:36:14Speaker 1: It's like gross grow.
- 1:36:16Speaker 2: And she looks almost dead.
- 1:36:20Speaker 1: And then I think it's just like drugging it with hair, Jesus.
- 1:36:25Speaker 2: And then but then then we get the other David Morris,
- 1:36:29Speaker 2: and he's like like a little bit panicking and a
- 1:36:35Speaker 2: little bit like yeah, yeah, this totally this got it
- 1:36:39Speaker 2: of hand energy. And then all of them are pulling
- 1:36:45Speaker 2: their fucking guns out.
- 1:36:47Speaker 1: They're all they're doing a lot of totally totally do
- 1:36:53Speaker 1: not point that weapon and may stand down, oh man.
- 1:36:58Speaker 2: And then he and then Terry goes cerproco and it's great.
- 1:37:03Speaker 1: He realizes yeah, and and he Don Johnson shot shoots,
- 1:37:07Speaker 1: gets shot in the fucking leg. And then he says,
- 1:37:09Speaker 1: those those cameras are on a three minute pre delay,
- 1:37:14Speaker 1: so if you turn the lights on now, it'll capture
- 1:37:17Speaker 1: the last three minutes. And if I say, you have
- 1:37:19Speaker 1: about two minutes left. So there's this amazing scene where
- 1:37:23Speaker 1: he like realistically beats up in suplexes like a whole
- 1:37:27Speaker 1: bunch of guys and drags David Morris. He like snaps
- 1:37:32Speaker 1: an arm in half in such.
- 1:37:34Speaker 2: I love the snapping and arm and half, and I
- 1:37:36Speaker 2: love the fingering the bullet wound, stick your finger in it.
- 1:37:40Speaker 1: It was amazing, dude, it was amazing. And then like
- 1:37:43Speaker 1: he does reach the car and all the time breaking
- 1:37:46Speaker 1: a bunch of it was amazing. It looked so good.
- 1:37:48Speaker 1: It's such a great action update, like and it's so realistic.
- 1:37:52Speaker 1: It's got such incredible realistic physics and stakes, Like no
- 1:37:56Speaker 1: one's flying in this. They're like when there's like them
- 1:38:00Speaker 1: over clumsily, like snapping and like falling awkwardly and ship
- 1:38:05Speaker 1: and this is where the guy falls where he gets
- 1:38:07Speaker 1: shot and he just goes and flops. Yeah, totally.
- 1:38:11Speaker 2: And then man, there's so much punching Steve's head where
- 1:38:14Speaker 2: it's just like.
- 1:38:17Speaker 1: The side of his face a terminator eight hundreds of
- 1:38:20Speaker 1: the side of his face and he's very.
- 1:38:26Speaker 2: And then the turning on the the cameras or the
- 1:38:30Speaker 2: lights and the cameras and then he tries to tries
- 1:38:32Speaker 2: to go hit.
- 1:38:33Speaker 1: He tries to don just Johnson and he pulls the
- 1:38:38Speaker 1: insane moves to dude, like totally. He's doing it for
- 1:38:42Speaker 1: for self preservation.
- 1:38:43Speaker 2: And then he pulls in. He keeps shooting, and he
- 1:38:46Speaker 2: pulls in what's her name, what's his name? Other David
- 1:38:51Speaker 2: Morris as well, uh, and David Morris is like, get
- 1:38:55Speaker 2: the lock zone, kid, you always should have one.
- 1:38:58Speaker 1: They're free. Yeah, you can get them. Yeah, it's it's
- 1:39:02Speaker 1: so good, it's so good. And then he he's like
- 1:39:04Speaker 1: one spray in one nostril and that's it. That's it. Yeah,
- 1:39:07Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, just stand back. The way it plays
- 1:39:10Speaker 1: out is so good, so great.
- 1:39:11Speaker 2: And then shithead Steve grabs on and uses his little
- 1:39:15Speaker 2: stick to smash into.
- 1:39:17Speaker 1: He grabs onto the side of the car as they're
- 1:39:19Speaker 1: driving away. Yeah, and then and then she wakes up
- 1:39:22Speaker 1: right as he's like trying to get into the other
- 1:39:26Speaker 1: other window, and she MUSHes his face and then he
- 1:39:29Speaker 1: falls off of the side and it's like an amazing,
- 1:39:32Speaker 1: glorious scene. But we get this like super intense fucking
- 1:39:36Speaker 1: car chase where we're like he's got all of the
- 1:39:40Speaker 1: background in for he's got a cop with him, so
- 1:39:42Speaker 1: he's like kind of safe and there's like a bit
- 1:39:44Speaker 1: of relief, but they're being chased and like they're still
- 1:39:47Speaker 1: being chased by corrupt cops, and then a choice is
- 1:39:50Speaker 1: made by Officer Simms to sacrifice herself by driving directly
- 1:39:56Speaker 1: into Don Johnson and smashing him. Yeah. Yeah, and then
- 1:40:01Speaker 1: they get a police escort which is to the hospital,
- 1:40:04Speaker 1: which is awesome.
- 1:40:06Speaker 2: It's such a great way of being like, we're making
- 1:40:08Speaker 2: this situation.
- 1:40:09Speaker 1: So much worse.
- 1:40:10Speaker 2: It's over, We've lost, And it's such a great cap
- 1:40:15Speaker 2: to such a great climax, because the climax of the
- 1:40:19Speaker 2: movie is the like fighting all the shit and then
- 1:40:21Speaker 2: we get the relief of the knock zone. But then
- 1:40:24Speaker 2: we get this like little epilogue of like fuck, like
- 1:40:29Speaker 2: they're still in this fuck situation and it resolves itself
- 1:40:32Speaker 2: in the most realistic way, totally totally, and like it's.
- 1:40:38Speaker 1: Perfect when they arrive because they pull out and the
- 1:40:43Speaker 1: way this plays out, like in one shot, just like
- 1:40:46Speaker 1: they pull out. They they take her into a gurney
- 1:40:51Speaker 1: and take her away, and he then comes and rips
- 1:40:53Speaker 1: out with an axe. He rips out the like drive
- 1:40:57Speaker 1: so the DVR with yeah, he has it with him
- 1:41:00Speaker 1: so that it can't be like taken away as evidence,
- 1:41:03Speaker 1: and like he then just sits down in the waiting
- 1:41:06Speaker 1: room and waits and and and that's it. It's like
- 1:41:10Speaker 1: the credits.
- 1:41:11Speaker 2: Role, Yeah, and the and the what's it called?
- 1:41:13Speaker 1: The tire?
- 1:41:14Speaker 2: The last tire that's been popped is on fire as
- 1:41:18Speaker 2: he carries her into the hospital.
- 1:41:20Speaker 1: It's so over the top and glorious in an old
- 1:41:23Speaker 1: school action hero way, with the lowest and most realistic
- 1:41:26Speaker 1: of stakes, so that when it does happen, you're just
- 1:41:29Speaker 1: excited for it to happen, and you believe it because
- 1:41:32Speaker 1: you're willing to give it so much more faith than
- 1:41:34Speaker 1: you would like a dumb action movie, even though it's
- 1:41:38Speaker 1: pretty like ridiculous as well.
- 1:41:39Speaker 2: It's pretty ridiculous, and it's pretty ridiculous in a B movie,
- 1:41:43Speaker 2: low budget kind of way, made in a with like
- 1:41:46Speaker 2: a crew with cinema.
- 1:41:50Speaker 1: Yeah, a cool two hours and seven minutes.
- 1:41:53Speaker 2: Eleven minutes actually, but yeah, I mean, how.
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- 1:42:26Speaker 2: Who was in Creed three? Jonathan Majors has dropped out
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- 1:42:40Speaker 1: I was like, that would be awesome, dude. We would
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