Latest / Frightmares / Ep. 379 - Nope (2022)
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- 1:49Speaker 4: Welcome back to Frightmar's podcast. I'm your host Austin Procter
- 1:52Speaker 4: and joining me today for episode three seventy nine is
- 1:55Speaker 4: my good friend Matt Stokes. How are we today, good man?
- 1:59Speaker 5: How are you to be here? As always?
- 2:01Speaker 4: Yes, thank you for joining me today. On another installment
- 2:05Speaker 4: of Melian Invasion, we're discussing our modern pick Nope from
- 2:09Speaker 4: twenty twenty two, a movie that will literally make you
- 2:12Speaker 4: afraid of the clouds, or at least it made me
- 2:14Speaker 4: afraid of the clouds for a little while. So let's
- 2:17Speaker 4: see where this lands on the nightmare index. All right, okay,
- 2:25Speaker 4: so a lot of stuff, A lot of stuff I've watched,
- 2:29Speaker 4: but I always like to kick it over to the guest. Oh,
- 2:31Speaker 4: I'm doing well, by the way. I don't think I
- 2:33Speaker 4: ever answered you, Adhd.
- 2:34Speaker 5: Thank you. I was like, what the hell, man, Adhd?
- 2:38Speaker 4: Have you watched anything good in like the past week
- 2:41Speaker 4: or so that you would care to talk about? Or bad?
- 2:44Speaker 4: I always love hearing about a bad movie as well.
- 2:46Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm looking at the old letterbox. I just I.
- 2:51Speaker 1: Watched so much stuff for my podcast for one week
- 2:53Speaker 1: rental everything one week Rental. I watched a bunch of
- 2:57Speaker 1: child's play movies because we did a Chucky movie, saw
- 3:00Speaker 1: Gangs of New York for the first time since I
- 3:02Speaker 1: was a teenager, I really liked it. Sweet did Sweet
- 3:05Speaker 1: Home Alabama starring Reese Witherspoon on the podcast this week,
- 3:08Speaker 1: that was okay, it was it was it was Reese
- 3:12Speaker 1: Witherspoon's charming.
- 3:12Speaker 5: That's my review.
- 3:14Speaker 1: And read reviews from the time, and that's what every
- 3:16Speaker 1: single review said, is like, I mean, this movie could
- 3:18Speaker 1: have been written by AI, but she is so charming.
- 3:22Speaker 1: And I watched Captain America Civil War. I don't remember
- 3:26Speaker 1: why I chose to do that, but I gave it
- 3:28Speaker 1: half a star. I truly think it's the worst blockbuster
- 3:30Speaker 1: of the modern era. I think everything bad can be
- 3:33Speaker 1: traced back to that. But we don't have to get
- 3:35Speaker 1: into it. No, I want to get into it. Half
- 3:37Speaker 1: a star for Civil War interest?
- 3:41Speaker 5: What uh?
- 3:43Speaker 4: What about it? I mean half stars? Half stars as
- 3:46Speaker 4: low as you can go. Well, I mean, I guess technically,
- 3:48Speaker 4: if you wanted to, you could just do no rating.
- 3:50Speaker 4: But half star is the lowest you can do. On letters.
- 3:52Speaker 1: Note how it's trying to be a provocateur. I think
- 3:55Speaker 1: there's worse. I think there's worse Marvel movies in that,
- 3:58Speaker 1: like there are worse ones that are more incompetently made
- 4:01Speaker 1: or often it's just like they're not making any decisions
- 4:04Speaker 1: ahead of time, where the studio can't decide on a direction.
- 4:07Speaker 1: So it feels like it feels like you're watching five
- 4:09Speaker 1: different movies that were stitched together. But I feel like
- 4:11Speaker 1: this one they're making exactly what they want to make,
- 4:13Speaker 1: and it annoys me because they decide every single character
- 4:15Speaker 1: in the movie needs to be an idiot and needs
- 4:18Speaker 1: to not be the same person from scene to scene,
- 4:20Speaker 1: and it has your beloved hero Steve Rodgers being the
- 4:23Speaker 1: dumbest person of all in the movie.
- 4:25Speaker 5: And I can't stand it. I can't stand what they're
- 4:27Speaker 5: doing to this man who.
- 4:27Speaker 4: I like, are you Are you at this point or
- 4:31Speaker 4: are you even excited for Doomsday coming out this year?
- 4:35Speaker 5: Am I excited? No? No, it's homework. It's homework. This
- 4:39Speaker 5: is all homework, rogu, that's homework. It's all just if
- 4:44Speaker 5: I didn't No, I mean, are you excited for for Doomsday.
- 4:50Speaker 4: At this point? It's not so much excitement as it
- 4:54Speaker 4: is just obligation.
- 4:57Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 4:57Speaker 4: If I don't see it asap, it's gonna get ruined
- 5:01Speaker 4: for me. Someone's gonna spoil it somewhere. So I'm really
- 5:05Speaker 4: that's the problem.
- 5:06Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the problem the movies enjoyment shouldn't hinge on
- 5:09Speaker 1: whether or not I know.
- 5:10Speaker 5: Which, Oh my god, can you believe which cameo? We saw?
- 5:13Speaker 5: There should be a little more.
- 5:14Speaker 4: To it, right, And that's that's the issue is. I mean,
- 5:17Speaker 4: I did ruin Spider Man Far from Home for myself
- 5:21Speaker 4: by looking up the cast list, just because I had
- 5:23Speaker 4: to know. And of course I saw who was in it,
- 5:25Speaker 4: and I was like, I just just introduce him and
- 5:28Speaker 4: here we go or No Way Home or whatever, whatever
- 5:31Speaker 4: the fuck it was with all the Spider.
- 5:32Speaker 1: Man, the one with so many differences. Yeah, but at
- 5:34Speaker 1: least in that one, it's like there's more, there's more
- 5:37Speaker 1: story mileage you can get out of just seeing the
- 5:39Speaker 1: three Spider Man interact. It isn't just oh wow, dopamine
- 5:43Speaker 1: hit of seeing the actor appear on screen and then
- 5:45Speaker 1: that's yeah.
- 5:46Speaker 4: That's true. That's true. So yeah, I mean, I don't know.
- 5:50Speaker 4: I was unexpectedly surprised by Thunderbolts. I a hot take
- 5:56Speaker 4: from me on that one. It's my favorite Marvel movie.
- 5:58Speaker 4: I fucking love the Thunderbowl. It's probably because I related
- 6:01Speaker 4: to it on an emotional level through Bob, but it
- 6:06Speaker 4: just felt so different and like they were actually trying
- 6:10Speaker 4: to break the formula and in a way, but I
- 6:13Speaker 4: love Thunderbolts, but yeah, at this point, it's just I'm
- 6:15Speaker 4: watching them to keep up. At this point, I think
- 6:18Speaker 4: I will definitely be dead before they finished the Marvel
- 6:22Speaker 4: Saga universe. And it's probably one of my biggest regrets
- 6:26Speaker 4: is I'll be dead before I actually see the culmination
- 6:28Speaker 4: of it. Just fucking ending.
- 6:30Speaker 5: So that's the whole thing. Though.
- 6:31Speaker 1: It's like like comic books, or it's like a soap opera,
- 6:34Speaker 1: or it's like wrestling, like there's no actual end. They
- 6:37Speaker 1: just keep dangling the you know, you wear a greyhound
- 6:40Speaker 1: running around a track and there's a rabbit in front
- 6:42Speaker 1: of us, and oh, we're gonna get resolution, and it's
- 6:45Speaker 1: like we did, we did. This story ended in twenty
- 6:47Speaker 1: nineteen Avengers in game. Everyone went to see it, and
- 6:50Speaker 1: I think it was pretty good. I feel like the
- 6:52Speaker 1: world ended and we're all like we're dead, but we
- 6:55Speaker 1: don't know it yet. We're still acting like we're alive.
- 6:58Speaker 1: We're like, oh, there's a new Avengers movie coming out,
- 7:00Speaker 1: but you don't understand.
- 7:01Speaker 5: No, no, no, it's over. We're dead.
- 7:03Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, how many times have we died at
- 7:04Speaker 4: this point. Let's see two thousand for Y two K,
- 7:08Speaker 4: twenty twelve, twenty twenty. I mean, I think we have
- 7:12Speaker 4: to be in like the fourth alternate version of this
- 7:15Speaker 4: universe at this point, because every couple of years we're
- 7:18Speaker 4: just dying again. It's the state.
- 7:21Speaker 5: The computer.
- 7:22Speaker 1: Yeah, the universe is running out of disk space. It
- 7:24Speaker 1: keeps needing to reboot, it keeps needing to clear its cookies.
- 7:28Speaker 4: Clear that cash on a daily basis of Jesus.
- 7:31Speaker 1: So maybe, I mean, maybe we'll get excited, is that
- 7:33Speaker 1: it's still long ways away. Maybe maybe when the movie
- 7:35Speaker 1: comes out, we'll get that old feeling again, which I
- 7:37Speaker 1: did used to get, did I have not. I've not
- 7:40Speaker 1: always been a Marvel hater. I used to be really
- 7:42Speaker 1: enthusiastic about it.
- 7:43Speaker 4: But right right, I mean, I'm with you. And they're
- 7:47Speaker 4: also releasing Dune Part three that day, so step aside, Barbenheimer.
- 7:51Speaker 4: We have Dune's Day coming up. They're gonna change that.
- 7:55Speaker 4: They fucking better. I mean, it's the same audience. If
- 7:58Speaker 4: people like Dune, you you probably like the Avengers movies.
- 8:02Speaker 4: It's a pretty at least with Barbenheimer, those were drastically
- 8:06Speaker 4: different audiences for the most part. Obviously, I was interested
- 8:09Speaker 4: in both, but if it push came to shove, I
- 8:12Speaker 4: was going to see Oppenheimer, so you know, yeah, But anyways, uh.
- 8:18Speaker 1: I mean with Civil War, I would you say, uh uh,
- 8:21Speaker 1: I'm truly not trying to be a troll. I think
- 8:23Speaker 1: that that is sort of a turning point where the
- 8:25Speaker 1: movie stopped trying to function as individual movies about real people,
- 8:29Speaker 1: and it just became whatever the individual movie calls for
- 8:32Speaker 1: characters to have to be, that's what they will be.
- 8:34Speaker 5: There will be nothing that actually carries over from movie
- 8:36Speaker 5: to movie.
- 8:37Speaker 4: No, I get you, and and for a second I
- 8:39Speaker 4: did think you were talking about the Winter Soldier. That's
- 8:41Speaker 4: why I was like, wait, half a start. No Civil War,
- 8:44Speaker 4: I under I can totally understand the explanation for that.
- 8:49Speaker 4: That does make a lot of sense, to be quite honest.
- 8:51Speaker 4: So all right, I haven't raised anything that low. Typically,
- 8:55Speaker 4: I did rate something one star though, which we'll get
- 8:58Speaker 4: to watch the new Mortal Kombat two. I was in
- 9:01Speaker 4: the very small section of people who really enjoyed the
- 9:04Speaker 4: first Mortal Kombat. I gave it four out of five.
- 9:07Speaker 4: It has like a two point five average. I love
- 9:10Speaker 4: that one. This one has one hundred percent more Carl
- 9:13Speaker 4: Urban and it was like one. I gave it five stars, No,
- 9:17Speaker 4: no fucking regrets. Won't be taking comments on it. Mortal
- 9:20Speaker 4: Kombat two was utterly hilarious, gorier than the first one,
- 9:24Speaker 4: had a really interesting story and a pace that didn't
- 9:28Speaker 4: stop for a two hour movie. I want to say,
- 9:31Speaker 4: Mortal Kombat two was fucking awesome. What was my review?
- 9:35Speaker 4: Oh yeah, anything less than five stars just feels like
- 9:37Speaker 4: a crime. So that was my Did you see Mortal
- 9:40Speaker 4: Kombat two by chance?
- 9:42Speaker 5: No?
- 9:42Speaker 1: But I did see the first one a cup twice.
- 9:45Speaker 1: It was like one of the first movies I saw
- 9:46Speaker 1: back in theaters back in twenty twenty one. Okay, and
- 9:49Speaker 1: it was fine.
- 9:50Speaker 5: I liked it fine. I liked how bloody and rated
- 9:52Speaker 5: it was.
- 9:53Speaker 1: Hearing that they added Carl Urban, it's like, yeah, I
- 9:56Speaker 1: feel like that's one of the things that was missing,
- 9:58Speaker 1: is just an.
- 9:59Speaker 5: Actor who popped.
- 10:00Speaker 1: Yeah, because all of those people felt so anonymous except Kano.
- 10:03Speaker 5: I liked him.
- 10:04Speaker 4: Kino was great. No spoilers for the sequel, but like, yeah,
- 10:08Speaker 4: Carl Urban in this movie, not all he is. It's
- 10:10Speaker 4: just he's at his peak right now like he is
- 10:14Speaker 4: Carl Urban is peaking all over the place. He was
- 10:17Speaker 4: so good. He was not the only comic relief as well,
- 10:20Speaker 4: although he was the majority of it. He plays a
- 10:22Speaker 4: washed up actor who gets thrown into Mortal Kombat and
- 10:25Speaker 4: kind of just figures out a way to survive. It
- 10:28Speaker 4: is such a goddamn fun movie. Watched Haunting in Connecticut
- 10:32Speaker 4: for the first time probably since two thousand and nine.
- 10:35Speaker 4: Three stars, Like it's enjoyable for what it is, but
- 10:38Speaker 4: it's not a great story. I watched the something called
- 10:43Speaker 4: Oh Spy from twenty fifteen with Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham.
- 10:48Speaker 5: That's a great, great movie.
- 10:49Speaker 4: It's a great movie. Is so goddamn funny. I was
- 10:51Speaker 4: not expecting it. Oh in Rose Byrne playing a villain.
- 10:54Speaker 4: Jude Laws in it as well. Alison Janney's in it.
- 10:58Speaker 4: It was hysterical. The kid was asleep and I had
- 11:01Speaker 4: to just like cry laugh into a pillow because it
- 11:05Speaker 4: was so goddamn funny. Four stars for that one.
- 11:08Speaker 5: There should be a.
- 11:08Speaker 1: Spy coming out every week at movie theaters. It doesn't
- 11:11Speaker 1: make sense. Everyone loves that movie. There used to be
- 11:14Speaker 1: just a new comedy like that or just movie star
- 11:17Speaker 1: driven movie like that coming out every week.
- 11:19Speaker 4: Yeah, I need And I know a lot of people
- 11:21Speaker 4: hate I'm Melissa McCarthy. I do genuinely like her. I
- 11:24Speaker 4: think she's pretty pretty fucking funny ever since Bridemaids. I
- 11:27Speaker 4: think that was the first thing I saw her, and
- 11:29Speaker 4: I enjoy watching her. She just has this doofy mom
- 11:33Speaker 4: energy that I'm completely here for. And then watched White
- 11:37Speaker 4: Zombie from nineteen thirty two below Lagosi, what a fucking film.
- 11:41Speaker 4: Film masters restoration on That Bad Boy. Three and a
- 11:43Speaker 4: half stars. Could definitely see that going up with a
- 11:46Speaker 4: rewatch something called The Ugly from it says this last year,
- 11:52Speaker 4: but for us in the States it was this year.
- 11:55Speaker 4: Directed by the same guy who did Train to busan
- 11:58Speaker 4: very very good mystery thriller with a gut punch ending,
- 12:01Speaker 4: so just be prepared. Four stars for That Bad Boy,
- 12:05Speaker 4: and then another that was sent over from AV Entertainment
- 12:08Speaker 4: as well as White Zombie, and then the last one
- 12:10Speaker 4: sent over from AV Entertainment was No One Will Hear
- 12:12Speaker 4: You Scream? And this is a slasher movie based around
- 12:16Speaker 4: the nineteen ninety World Cup that's set in that was
- 12:19Speaker 4: in Italy, but these people are in Buenos Airis because
- 12:22Speaker 4: Argentina is part of the nineteen ninety nine FIFA World Cup.
- 12:25Speaker 4: Very interesting backdrop, very punk grunge, but also had jallo vibes.
- 12:31Speaker 4: Highly recommend four out of five. If you can watch
- 12:34Speaker 4: that anywhere. I think it's on TB or if I'm
- 12:36Speaker 4: not mistaken, highly recommend that. And then the cult movie
- 12:39Speaker 4: challenge is two more and then I'll shout the fuck
- 12:41Speaker 4: up cult movie challenges. I have to catch up on.
- 12:43Speaker 4: From two weeks ago was Hell's Trap for Exploitation Week
- 12:49Speaker 4: Mexican Exploitation. Just listen to the not the review, excuse me,
- 12:54Speaker 4: just listen to the synopsis because it is the wildest synopsis.
- 12:57Speaker 4: Seven young people go to a desolate forest looking for
- 13:00Speaker 4: a bear. What they don't know is that a crazy
- 13:02Speaker 4: Vietnam vet lives there and he is waiting for fresh blood.
- 13:06Speaker 4: That's it. That's all I'm gonna do. He also has
- 13:08Speaker 4: Freddy Krueger hands. I don't know if you can see
- 13:10Speaker 4: the image there, it's kind of he's got Freddy Krueger hands.
- 13:14Speaker 1: And no, yeah, I like that idea. Now you said
- 13:16Speaker 1: this is exploitation, Yeah, yeah, comes to us from Mexico.
- 13:21Speaker 4: It caught this one is let's see releases, Yes, Mexico
- 13:26Speaker 4: nineteen eighty nine.
- 13:27Speaker 1: Okay, so so presumably this is an American Vietnam psychopath, right, correct?
- 13:34Speaker 4: Yeah. I was wondering that as well, because I thought
- 13:37Speaker 4: to myself, I don't think Mexico participated in the Vietnam War. No,
- 13:41Speaker 4: it was someone from America that I guess. She just
- 13:43Speaker 4: went to Mexico to live in the woods, and he's
- 13:46Speaker 4: apparently deranged from what happened in Vietnam. It all doesn't
- 13:50Speaker 4: make sense.
- 13:53Speaker 5: That sounds lovely. Yeah.
- 13:55Speaker 1: I love the idea of a Vietnam that going in
- 13:59Speaker 1: sane in the woods. But more than that, I love
- 14:02Speaker 1: that seventy people are like, we gotta go check out
- 14:03Speaker 1: this bear.
- 14:05Speaker 5: You got this bear.
- 14:06Speaker 4: I'm gonna leave the context out of it just because
- 14:09Speaker 4: why they're going to search for this bear is just
- 14:11Speaker 4: it's just so ridiculous. Uh. And then this week for
- 14:16Speaker 4: the CMC Challenge was Julias Strain week. No idea who
- 14:22Speaker 4: she or sorry, Julie Strain, no idea who she was?
- 14:25Speaker 4: But apparently she is dubbed the Queen of Bee Movies,
- 14:29Speaker 4: which seems odd because I love b movies. Don't know
- 14:31Speaker 4: who she is. But also I don't know everyone. This
- 14:35Speaker 4: was a waste of time. I'm just gonna say it.
- 14:37Speaker 4: I don't usually I try not to speak ill of movies.
- 14:41Speaker 4: I try to find something redeeming about each Like each
- 14:45Speaker 4: movie I watch, this was just a waste of time.
- 14:48Speaker 4: It was trying to be this art house experimentational experimentation film.
- 14:55Speaker 4: But also it's got this green screen hellscape go on
- 15:00Speaker 4: in the background with a plot that is so nonsensical.
- 15:04Speaker 4: I don't even know how this got made into a movie.
- 15:07Speaker 4: This isn't even a B movie. Okay, this is like
- 15:09Speaker 4: C class movie. It's it's like a home video that
- 15:13Speaker 4: I It's called Purgatory Blues. My god, it's a simple
- 15:19Speaker 4: concept when you read it, and I'm gonna leave it
- 15:22Speaker 4: anonymous for anybody listening, obviously, Matt, if you want to
- 15:24Speaker 4: look it up, check it out. I'll leave it anonymous
- 15:27Speaker 4: for anybody who wants to go read the synopsis. It
- 15:30Speaker 4: is very straightforward, and my god, do they dilute a
- 15:34Speaker 4: very simple description very quickly in this movie. So one
- 15:39Speaker 4: star for that one. That's the lowest I've rated anything
- 15:43Speaker 4: in quite some time. So that one is on tub
- 15:46Speaker 4: and there was only like four ads through the whole movie,
- 15:49Speaker 4: so it didn't stretch it out longer than it needed
- 15:51Speaker 4: to be, which was great. But I can't recommend that one.
- 15:55Speaker 4: No offense to Julie Strain. She was good in it,
- 15:58Speaker 4: but she also did appear her first appearance in the film.
- 16:01Speaker 4: She was just naked and I was like, this is
- 16:04Speaker 4: my first impression of you.
- 16:06Speaker 5: Okay, she was a very very sexy lady. But she was.
- 16:12Speaker 5: She was.
- 16:12Speaker 4: She was in real movies, Yeah, she was. She was,
- 16:16Speaker 4: to be fair.
- 16:17Speaker 1: She was in the great Steven Sagolla movie Out for Justice,
- 16:20Speaker 1: an absolute classic. He's a he's an Italian guy, like
- 16:23Speaker 1: Thha'm Italian. I need to get justice in these streets.
- 16:26Speaker 4: And he's She was in Beverly Hills Cop three, Double Impact,
- 16:30Speaker 4: The Doors Repossessed, which is a horrible but fun movie
- 16:34Speaker 4: starring Linda Blair being possessed, but it's it's it's very
- 16:38Speaker 4: like Exorcist coded obviously, and Liam Neese, Liam Neeson Leslie
- 16:42Speaker 4: Nielsen is in it. Uh So, Yeah, she's been in
- 16:45Speaker 4: real movies, but a lot of the titles were things
- 16:48Speaker 4: like sex Court the Movie or Fucking Bikini Beach and
- 16:52Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, this is why I haven't heard
- 16:54Speaker 4: of her. This is a different grade of B movies
- 16:57Speaker 4: that are just not my thing. So yeah, not a
- 17:00Speaker 4: fan of this one. There were some cool POV shots,
- 17:04Speaker 4: I'll give it that. There's one thing I liked. There
- 17:06Speaker 4: we go. They had some fun little POV shots here
- 17:08Speaker 4: and there. Other than that, though, woo man, it was rough.
- 17:11Speaker 4: There is definitely an audience for this. It's not me
- 17:15Speaker 4: So unless you have anything further to discuss on what
- 17:19Speaker 4: you've watched, we can move on here.
- 17:22Speaker 5: No, let's let's talk about Nope.
- 17:24Speaker 4: Let's talk about Nope, all right. Here is the body counts,
- 17:31Speaker 4: and now my notes app just wants to fuck off,
- 17:33Speaker 4: go away, all right. So this is Nope from twenty
- 17:36Speaker 4: twenty two, released on July twenty second of that year
- 17:39Speaker 4: in the US. It is rated R for language throughout
- 17:43Speaker 4: and some bloody violence, bloody images, no sex in nudery,
- 17:48Speaker 4: neudery nudity, moderate violence and gore, severe profanity, mild alcohol,
- 17:52Speaker 4: drugs and smoking, and severe frightening and intense scenes. Coming
- 17:56Speaker 4: in at two hours ten minutes. Listed as a horror
- 17:59Speaker 4: mystery size thriller directed by Jordan Peel, Everyone should know
- 18:03Speaker 4: him from Key and Peel, but he also directed get
- 18:06Speaker 4: Out in US. He also wrote this movie, and he
- 18:08Speaker 4: wrote the two movies I just mentioned, composed by Michael Abels.
- 18:12Speaker 4: He also composed get Out in US No Shock There
- 18:16Speaker 4: cinematography by Hoyt van Houdem. If that name sounds familiar,
- 18:20Speaker 4: it's because we just talked about him on Let the
- 18:23Speaker 4: Right One In. But he also did a lot of
- 18:25Speaker 4: work with Christopher Nolan in including Interstellar and Oppenheimer edited
- 18:30Speaker 4: by Nicholas Monsieur, who also edited US. We've got Daniel
- 18:34Speaker 4: Caluja starring in this as oj Haywood. He was also
- 18:37Speaker 4: in get Out as Chris Washington, Keiky Palmer as Emerald Heywood,
- 18:41Speaker 4: who I didn't realize does a lot of work in TV,
- 18:44Speaker 4: but she was also in Hustlers as Mercedes Brandon Piria
- 18:48Speaker 4: as Angel Taurus. He was in Twisters Plural as Boone,
- 18:52Speaker 4: and then Michael Wincott as Antler's Holst. Not only an
- 18:56Speaker 4: incredible name, but you might know him from The Crow
- 18:58Speaker 4: as Top Dollar, and then Steven Yen as Ricky Jukee
- 19:02Speaker 4: Park probably most recognizable from The Walking Dead as Glen.
- 19:07Speaker 4: Estimated budget of sixty eight million dollars, grossing one hundred
- 19:11Speaker 4: and seventy one point two filmed in Los Angeles, Acton
- 19:15Speaker 4: and Agua Dulce, California. Nothing makes me happier when they
- 19:19Speaker 4: say the name of a town in a movie and
- 19:21Speaker 4: they're actually in that town filming ten out of ten on, Matt,
- 19:24Speaker 4: you can watch this on Peacock. Movies that came out
- 19:27Speaker 4: around the same time we have Bullet Train, thor Love
- 19:31Speaker 4: and Thunder. I cannot believe it's been four years since
- 19:34Speaker 4: that movie, or Pray or Fall or Day Shift or Orphan,
- 19:39Speaker 4: First Kill, skinn A Marink, they them glorious and the Leech.
- 19:44Speaker 4: I AMDB summary. Here the residents of a lonely gulch
- 19:46Speaker 4: in Inland, California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling phenomenon.
- 19:51Speaker 4: This is the autopsy, all right, Matt. Have you seen
- 19:57Speaker 4: this before?
- 19:58Speaker 5: Yep?
- 19:58Speaker 4: I'm gonna state that for the record. Did you see
- 20:00Speaker 4: this in theaters? By chance?
- 20:01Speaker 5: I did?
- 20:02Speaker 4: Very nice? All right? So overall thoughts on Nope, What
- 20:05Speaker 4: do you got for me?
- 20:07Speaker 1: Do you think that Jordan Peel thought the cinematographers I'm
- 20:11Speaker 1: spending a lot of time with they're fucking crazy and
- 20:13Speaker 1: they worship the sun. When I'm gonna make a movie
- 20:16Speaker 1: about that, it's there. It's the rare movie that features
- 20:20Speaker 1: a cinematographer as a major character. And he's like, I know,
- 20:24Speaker 1: we just accomplished our goal, but the light.
- 20:26Speaker 5: Looks really good. I gotta go capture it with my camera.
- 20:30Speaker 4: That was such a peak moment when he's like, it's
- 20:32Speaker 4: basically about to be Golden Hour right now, Like this
- 20:35Speaker 4: is the Martini shot. I have to get it right now.
- 20:38Speaker 5: These are really weird.
- 20:39Speaker 1: I've been I've been slowly making my way through Roger
- 20:42Speaker 1: Deakins's book, and it's like, yeah, they all worship the
- 20:45Speaker 1: sun as a god. They're they're like, they're like pagans
- 20:49Speaker 1: the light. Yeah, like Jordan Peel a lot Us is
- 20:54Speaker 1: probably my favorite horror movie of the last ten years,
- 20:58Speaker 1: and I get out a lot as well. I remember
- 21:01Speaker 1: seeing this in theaters and being just the slightest bit disappointed,
- 21:06Speaker 1: thinking this was a step down for I don't even
- 21:11Speaker 1: remember why it is that I thought that. I think
- 21:13Speaker 1: that it's like, uh, it's pleasures are more buried than
- 21:17Speaker 1: those two movies. Those are I think those movies are
- 21:19Speaker 1: a little more straightforward.
- 21:21Speaker 5: Now I watch it.
- 21:21Speaker 1: This is the second time I've watched it, and I
- 21:22Speaker 1: think I was a stupid idiot. This is a goddamn masterpiece.
- 21:25Speaker 5: I love it. Say yep to Nope. Yes that's what.
- 21:29Speaker 4: I put that on a T shirt and sell that.
- 21:32Speaker 4: I feel the same way about this movie. I remember
- 21:36Speaker 4: seeing get Out in theaters very underwhelmed by it, but
- 21:39Speaker 4: I was also God, that was ten years ago. At
- 21:41Speaker 4: this point I was a completely different person, and then
- 21:44Speaker 4: same thing happened with us, right. I came out of
- 21:47Speaker 4: that movie being like, Ugh, that movie, wasn't there great either?
- 21:50Speaker 4: What's all this hype about? Rewatched both of those before Nope,
- 21:53Speaker 4: probably like the week before, and I was like, oh no,
- 21:57Speaker 4: these are brilliant films. And going into Nope, I just
- 22:04Speaker 4: since I had them fresh in my head. Going into Nope,
- 22:05Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, now I kind of know what
- 22:07Speaker 4: to expect, and when you get the reveal of what
- 22:10Speaker 4: the alien actually is, I cannot tell you. My brain exploded.
- 22:14Speaker 4: I was like, this is the why, Like, how long
- 22:17Speaker 4: have aliens been around? And this is the first movie
- 22:20Speaker 4: to do this. That's insane. So I came out of
- 22:23Speaker 4: the theater actually loving it. Funny enough, because it just
- 22:27Speaker 4: I was just stunned by the cinematography. The UFO itself
- 22:31Speaker 4: was just haunting. I don't even know how to describe it.
- 22:35Speaker 4: It was too quiet in some moments, and it would
- 22:38Speaker 4: just lurch past the screen, And every time I saw
- 22:41Speaker 4: it on this watch, I'm just like, ooh, like I
- 22:43Speaker 4: just gassed. Even though I've seen it, this is my
- 22:46Speaker 4: third time. I was just like, Oh, that UFO. I
- 22:49Speaker 4: love it. So I think this is a goddamn masterpiece
- 22:51Speaker 4: as well, and especially after this watch, I think it
- 22:55Speaker 4: might be might be my favorite horror movie of the
- 22:58Speaker 4: twenty twenties so far, which is a pretty yeah. Yeah,
- 23:03Speaker 4: that's kind of where I'm at with it. Like I
- 23:05Speaker 4: was after the credits rolled, I was like, God, damn,
- 23:08Speaker 4: that was really good.
- 23:10Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 23:10Speaker 1: I think that people's people's negative reaction, or just at
- 23:13Speaker 1: least a strong reaction to it is there is something
- 23:15Speaker 1: a little like, uh, it just doesn't go down very smooth,
- 23:19Speaker 1: especially the way it get out did and and us
- 23:21Speaker 1: to a lesser extent, I don't know, it's it's it.
- 23:25Speaker 1: There's a lot to process, a lot to chew on,
- 23:27Speaker 1: and uh, some people don't have the patience for that.
- 23:30Speaker 1: But you even then there's sex sections of the movie
- 23:33Speaker 1: that are just such incredible straightforward horror filmmaking, like him
- 23:37Speaker 1: going into the you know, the barn or the arena
- 23:40Speaker 1: or whatever it's called, and there's a little kids dressed
- 23:42Speaker 1: up as aliens, but you don't know that it's little
- 23:43Speaker 1: kids dressed up as aliens, and it's shot so incredibly
- 23:46Speaker 1: like with one of the alien guys just in the frame,
- 23:49Speaker 1: and you don't know that you're looking at it and
- 23:51Speaker 1: nothing changes in the frame. Here I just notices it,
- 23:53Speaker 1: and you're like, what the fuck is that? Why is
- 23:55Speaker 1: it moving like that? And it's just a fucking person
- 23:58Speaker 1: in a costume. So he's like he is one of
- 24:01Speaker 1: the best at just the nuts and bolts of horror filmmaking,
- 24:04Speaker 1: and maybe by frustrated people because otherwise the movie's not
- 24:06Speaker 1: that interested in making a just a straightforward horror movie.
- 24:10Speaker 4: Well, and also my opinion on this whole because I'm
- 24:13Speaker 4: very tired of the term elevated horror. I really think
- 24:17Speaker 4: that that term is just created by people who don't
- 24:19Speaker 4: like horror movies that make them think that's really all
- 24:22Speaker 4: elevated horror is. It's horror that makes you use your brain.
- 24:27Speaker 4: It makes you think, it makes you question. Nope, is
- 24:29Speaker 4: a lot of that in this movie, especially with the
- 24:32Speaker 4: total fake out that you were just talking about. I
- 24:35Speaker 4: thought there were gonna be little green men, well whatever,
- 24:38Speaker 4: little gray men. Little gray men appear and then it's
- 24:40Speaker 4: just fucking kids and I was like, oh, okay, so
- 24:43Speaker 4: are we gonna see aliens later? And then of course,
- 24:45Speaker 4: you know, bearing the lead early because we go into spoilers.
- 24:48Speaker 4: The ship is the alien, like, holy shit. So there's
- 24:53Speaker 4: not a lot of straightforward horror. It's more of this
- 24:57Speaker 4: looming presence that is hovering over you at any given point,
- 25:01Speaker 4: that could attack at any given point. It's just this
- 25:04Speaker 4: dread that lingers throughout the entire film for me, and
- 25:08Speaker 4: that's what works for me. Of course that's not gonna
- 25:11Speaker 4: work for everyone out there.
- 25:13Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think I would say the genre actually
- 25:16Speaker 1: is it's a Western. Not only does it have so
- 25:18Speaker 1: much Western iconography, but it is dealing with classic Western
- 25:21Speaker 1: themes of like we're trying to tame a world that
- 25:25Speaker 1: we have no and we tell ourselves we have control,
- 25:28Speaker 1: and we have no control.
- 25:29Speaker 5: We have so little.
- 25:30Speaker 1: Control, and we're basically little stupid animals in the universe. Trying,
- 25:35Speaker 1: trying everything we can, so you convince ourselves we can
- 25:38Speaker 1: control things, we can control nature.
- 25:40Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're totally right. I mean, Nope, somehow manages
- 25:43Speaker 4: to be a UFO film, a creature feature, a satire
- 25:47Speaker 4: of Hollywood, a Western, and, in my opinion, one of
- 25:50Speaker 4: the smartest horror movies of the twenty twenties. It none
- 25:53Speaker 4: of that makes sense on how did you How do
- 25:55Speaker 4: you mesh all of those genres together? Nope, that's how
- 25:59Speaker 4: you do it. Peals just I would love to live
- 26:02Speaker 4: in his head for a day and just see how
- 26:04Speaker 4: he thinks, because all of those different genres don't make
- 26:09Speaker 4: sense on paper to me, and he mixes them all flawlessly.
- 26:13Speaker 4: In my opinion, it's it's it's incredible how he's able
- 26:16Speaker 4: to bring so much into a movie that is layered,
- 26:20Speaker 4: But I don't really find it dense. At the same time,
- 26:23Speaker 4: it's what's the word I'm looking for? I guess layered
- 26:26Speaker 4: is just the perfect word for it, because it's not
- 26:27Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot to chew on, but it's
- 26:29Speaker 4: not so much that I'm like, I don't understand what's
- 26:32Speaker 4: happening here.
- 26:33Speaker 1: There's a lot of ideas and a lot of threads
- 26:35Speaker 1: you can pull at. When I first saw the movie,
- 26:37Speaker 1: I was like, this is me and my wife got
- 26:39Speaker 1: in an argument about the movie about what it meant.
- 26:41Speaker 5: Afterward.
- 26:42Speaker 1: I was like, you're wrong. It's about nature. It's about
- 26:43Speaker 1: how we don't understand nature and we're bugs in the universe.
- 26:46Speaker 1: And this time I think like, that's that's it. But
- 26:49Speaker 1: I think more it's about media, and not the media,
- 26:54Speaker 1: but just media or maybe images that we use images
- 26:58Speaker 1: to try to understand the world, but images actually just
- 27:02Speaker 1: distort the world. And the quest they're on in this
- 27:05Speaker 1: movie to get proof of whatever they are seeing, they
- 27:08Speaker 1: are under the under that they're under the delusion that
- 27:12Speaker 1: this will mean anything.
- 27:13Speaker 5: Right, it won't. It won't mean anything.
- 27:16Speaker 1: If it's not going to convince anybody of anything, nobody's
- 27:19Speaker 1: gonna understand the truth.
- 27:21Speaker 5: Nobody there there.
- 27:22Speaker 1: We don't live in a world where everybody can see
- 27:24Speaker 1: the same thing as one people and understand it the
- 27:27Speaker 1: same way if if we ever lived in that world,
- 27:30Speaker 1: we certainly don't live in that world anymore.
- 27:32Speaker 4: No, you're one hundred percent right. I agree with that point,
- 27:36Speaker 4: because to me, the biggest theme of this movie is
- 27:40Speaker 4: uh exploitation not just in Hollywood, but in culture entertainment,
- 27:44Speaker 4: because everyone in this movie is trying to capture something,
- 27:48Speaker 4: whether it's profit, whether it's control. OJ and Emerald they
- 27:51Speaker 4: want the impossible shot. Jupe wants to monetize this alien
- 27:56Speaker 4: coming to eat all these horses. The cinematographer also wants
- 27:59Speaker 4: that perfect image. He's he gives his life for it.
- 28:02Speaker 4: Everyone is chasing spectacle in this movie for different reasons,
- 28:06Speaker 4: and it doesn't work out for anybody except for Emeralds.
- 28:11Speaker 4: I say work out. The only people to not be
- 28:13Speaker 4: consumed by this thing are Emerald, OJ and they're a
- 28:18Speaker 4: little it helper buddy I can't remember his name, Yeah, Angel.
- 28:23Speaker 4: So everything is about spectacle in this and you know,
- 28:27Speaker 4: like the movie repeatedly ask asks what happens when our
- 28:31Speaker 4: desire to witness something overrides our basic survival instinct? Because
- 28:34Speaker 4: everyone puts their survival instinct. I mean, I'd say OJ
- 28:38Speaker 4: is probably the most level headed with that, because there's
- 28:41Speaker 4: times when he figures out that, oh, if you don't
- 28:44Speaker 4: look it in the eye, that it won't attack you.
- 28:46Speaker 4: So he just sits in his car on night He's like,
- 28:48Speaker 4: fuck this. But a lot of people put themselves you know,
- 28:51Speaker 4: their basic survival instinct out the window in this movie completely.
- 28:55Speaker 5: He's the one who's closest to nature.
- 28:56Speaker 1: He literally works with horses, right, And you know one
- 29:00Speaker 1: thing that happens in modernity is we drift further and
- 29:03Speaker 1: further away from nature. Media is a big part of that.
- 29:06Speaker 1: The word media is literally like mediates puts a layer
- 29:09Speaker 1: of separation between us and the thing we're looking at,
- 29:12Speaker 1: so things like survival instincts go away, and instead the
- 29:16Speaker 1: instinct becomes I have to capture this and document it.
- 29:19Speaker 1: And you can see people behaving that way all the time.
- 29:22Speaker 1: I follow all these accounts that complain about music festivals
- 29:25Speaker 1: how the crowds at music festivals are terrible now because
- 29:27Speaker 1: nobody sings or dances.
- 29:28Speaker 5: They just hold up their phones to record.
- 29:30Speaker 1: And the thing with the recordings is like, you're never
- 29:33Speaker 1: ever going to watch what you're recording. Have you ever
- 29:36Speaker 1: recorded a concert and gone back and watched it? Why
- 29:38Speaker 1: would you?
- 29:39Speaker 3: No?
- 29:40Speaker 5: But like we don't live anymore, we don't do that.
- 29:43Speaker 4: I'm guilty of that. I used to go to festivals
- 29:45Speaker 4: a lot, and I would take videos to put on
- 29:48Speaker 4: my Snapchat story, and that's really about it. I would
- 29:51Speaker 4: record every now and again. But after a couple of years,
- 29:53Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm not watching these and they're just taking
- 29:55Speaker 4: up space on my phone. So I stopped doing that.
- 29:57Speaker 4: But you're right, we're so obsessed with catching the moment
- 30:02Speaker 4: on a phone or something that we're not actually living
- 30:05Speaker 4: in the moment and enjoying that moment. We're relying on
- 30:08Speaker 4: this recording we're never gonna watch to. I don't get
- 30:12Speaker 4: the point go to the conference.
- 30:14Speaker 1: To show other people I was there, I am a
- 30:16Speaker 1: lot and I lived. That doesn't matter.
- 30:18Speaker 4: That's why when I saw shit and this was oh
- 30:22Speaker 4: my god, fourteen years ago in twenty twelve, when I
- 30:26Speaker 4: saw a tool at the UFC or you see f arena,
- 30:30Speaker 4: they had a no phones rule. I mean I did
- 30:32Speaker 4: break that a couple of times because I'm like, I
- 30:34Speaker 4: don't know what I'm ever going to see them again.
- 30:35Speaker 4: And I do legitimately go back and watch those because
- 30:38Speaker 4: it's one of my favorite bands. Only seen them once.
- 30:40Speaker 4: But I like it when an artist is like, hey,
- 30:42Speaker 4: no phones, like Maynor.
- 30:44Speaker 5: James Keenan is throwing up right now listening to you
- 30:47Speaker 5: say that.
- 30:47Speaker 4: Oh I know, I know, he's probably so so upset
- 30:50Speaker 4: with me, But yeah, I totally get what you mean.
- 30:53Speaker 4: It's just everyone in this day and age is so
- 30:57Speaker 4: it just they wanted wanting to capture it and wanting
- 30:59Speaker 4: to get something more that because even then if you
- 31:02Speaker 4: capture it, no one's gonna believe you.
- 31:05Speaker 1: They keep talking about how we need to get the
- 31:07Speaker 1: Oprah shot, and they're talking about Oprah as like this
- 31:09Speaker 1: standard of the Oprah determines reality, and like one of
- 31:13Speaker 1: Oprah's and during legacies is spreading all kinds of bogus
- 31:18Speaker 1: information about fat diets and pseudoscience and alternative medicine. She's
- 31:22Speaker 1: the reason doctor Oz is of public figure is because
- 31:24Speaker 1: of her. So it's like she's there's no, there's no uh,
- 31:28Speaker 1: she's She's just as responsible for, you know, breaking reality
- 31:32Speaker 1: in the media as anybody.
- 31:34Speaker 4: I always wondered why they kept saying we got to
- 31:36Speaker 4: get the Oprah shot. I was like, does she even
- 31:38Speaker 4: cover UFO? She doesn't have a show anymore. Yeah, I'm
- 31:42Speaker 4: pretty sure by twenty twenty two she was done. Uh so. Yeah.
- 31:47Speaker 4: But I do love their their camaraderie because the two
- 31:50Speaker 4: of them are just completely different. You know, you have
- 31:54Speaker 4: Ojay is very shy and quiet and reserved an. Emerald
- 31:57Speaker 4: is the just complete opposite of OJ, and I like
- 32:02Speaker 4: their Like I said, I like their camaraderie because towards
- 32:06Speaker 4: you know, once the movie keeps going and going, OJ
- 32:08Speaker 4: starts to come out of his shell a little bit
- 32:10Speaker 4: more and you start to see more emotion from him.
- 32:12Speaker 4: But you also have to remember he's still reeling from
- 32:15Speaker 4: the death of his father. I forgot Keith David was
- 32:17Speaker 4: in this because he's literally in it for five minutes
- 32:20Speaker 4: before he gets struck in the head by a nickel
- 32:23Speaker 4: and then dies like Jesus Christ. So he's still reeling
- 32:26Speaker 4: from that. And they don't really give you much abo
- 32:30Speaker 4: about Emerald's backstory with the ranch and her father. But
- 32:34Speaker 4: I got the impression that she wasn't around as much
- 32:37Speaker 4: because she was doing other things. I don't know, how
- 32:39Speaker 4: do you feel about her relationship with kind of the family.
- 32:42Speaker 1: That she is exactly what you said, but she does
- 32:45Speaker 1: not feel this attachment to the She does feel it,
- 32:48Speaker 1: but she doesn't feel it as personally as OJ. Or
- 32:51Speaker 1: maybe she does feel it as personally as OJ, but
- 32:53Speaker 1: thinks he is a little deluded to be so attached
- 32:55Speaker 1: and she's trying to create something else. For herself that
- 32:59Speaker 1: is attached from like this ancestral uh thing that that
- 33:04Speaker 1: that they're an important part of Hollywood history, this family
- 33:07Speaker 1: that they're their great great great grandfather was the first
- 33:10Speaker 1: subject ever captured an emotion picture. And then you know
- 33:13Speaker 1: their father, who Keith David seems too old to be
- 33:15Speaker 1: their father, but he was their father, and he is
- 33:19Speaker 1: like he seemed to have Hollywood figured out. I do
- 33:22Speaker 1: love this idea of like California's in California, it's the West.
- 33:27Speaker 1: This used to all be horses and stuff, and we
- 33:30Speaker 1: still have it around, but we have it to like
- 33:32Speaker 1: simulate the old world. We have it to put it
- 33:34Speaker 1: in movies, and then we have Stephen Jun's like little
- 33:37Speaker 1: like Western stunt show place we recreate the past as
- 33:41Speaker 1: kitsch and Daniel Kluy is like trying to hold on
- 33:46Speaker 1: to that and be and you know, respect, respect the horses,
- 33:48Speaker 1: respect the traditions. This is an animal with its own will.
- 33:51Speaker 1: And I love the opening sequence with him at the
- 33:53Speaker 1: sound stage of everybody being like yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
- 33:55Speaker 1: I hear it.
- 33:56Speaker 5: It's really important what you're saying.
- 33:57Speaker 1: Let's get on with it, let's get let's get the shot.
- 34:02Speaker 1: I think the first time I saw the movie, I
- 34:03Speaker 1: was also Keith David's like one of my favorite actors.
- 34:06Speaker 1: When he dies within thirty seconds, I felt ripped off.
- 34:09Speaker 1: But it's like, you need Keith David to play this
- 34:11Speaker 1: figure who has to lurk over the rest of the movie.
- 34:14Speaker 1: You can't put You have to put an actor with
- 34:16Speaker 1: that kind of gravitas, even if they're only going to
- 34:19Speaker 1: be in two scenes, so that you get why his
- 34:23Speaker 1: death means so much to everything.
- 34:25Speaker 4: I totally agree with that. You're right because without him
- 34:28Speaker 4: you don't have the anchor that OJ was attached to
- 34:31Speaker 4: because obviously his dad, I'm sure was probably his best friend. Again,
- 34:34Speaker 4: we don't get a lot of backstory, but you have
- 34:36Speaker 4: to assume from his actions afterwards that he clearly is
- 34:41Speaker 4: distraught over the loss of his father, and Keith David
- 34:43Speaker 4: is a commanding presence. Total sidebar. I forgot to say
- 34:47Speaker 4: from the corrections department it was Ken Foray that I
- 34:49Speaker 4: always confuse with Keith David. They don't even look alike.
- 34:52Speaker 4: They're just very prominent actors in horror in the eighties
- 34:55Speaker 4: and nineties. Anyways, Yeah, so I feel like Keith David
- 34:58Speaker 4: is this weird anchor to the movie, even though he's
- 35:01Speaker 4: only in it for a few minutes. But it's because
- 35:03Speaker 4: he makes that scene with what the five or six
- 35:06Speaker 4: lines of dialogue so impactful and you just kind of
- 35:09Speaker 4: feel his presence there even though he's not there for
- 35:12Speaker 4: the movie.
- 35:13Speaker 1: I think Keith David, No, I think Daniel Klulia is
- 35:16Speaker 1: doing a Keith David impression in the movie. His voice
- 35:19Speaker 1: was his voice sounds a lot like Keith David. Now
- 35:21Speaker 1: if you hear David Kalle's real voice, he's like, oh,
- 35:23Speaker 1: I'm Daniel Colulia. Oh I but yeah, he I mean
- 35:28Speaker 1: much deeper than that. But he he really found like
- 35:31Speaker 1: he's trying to mimic Keith David's very specific voice.
- 35:34Speaker 4: Now that you say that, yeah he does. He does
- 35:37Speaker 4: seem to have I didn't notice that at all. But yeah,
- 35:39Speaker 4: he's very very reserved and very just calm about things.
- 35:43Speaker 4: But damn it, now you're you're totally right. You're making
- 35:46Speaker 4: me rethink about all of that stuff. He does seem
- 35:48Speaker 4: to be kind of doing. Uh, his version of of
- 35:51Speaker 4: Keith David.
- 35:52Speaker 1: Between Colula and and and what's his name and and
- 35:56Speaker 1: Michael Wincott, like the sound editor, have a lot had
- 35:58Speaker 1: his work cut out for him just to just to
- 36:00Speaker 1: hear these people speak, like, sorry, what's that?
- 36:02Speaker 5: What's that? Gotta really crank up the volume on both
- 36:05Speaker 5: of them.
- 36:05Speaker 4: Can you please turn you know, you gotta speak louder.
- 36:08Speaker 4: Fucking Antler's Antler's Holst is one of the coolest names.
- 36:13Speaker 4: I mean, that's as cool as top Dollar. I don't
- 36:16Speaker 4: know where Antler's Holst came from, but it is such
- 36:18Speaker 4: a fucking cool name. And Michael Wincott and this is great.
- 36:21Speaker 4: And I love his involvement in this movie as well,
- 36:23Speaker 4: because they go to him immediately as he was the
- 36:26Speaker 4: cinematographer or DP for that shoot that they were doing
- 36:29Speaker 4: at the beginning of the film. And I find it
- 36:32Speaker 4: fascinating that he is clearly a believer and he was,
- 36:36Speaker 4: you know, he's it's something that he's chased his entire life. Clearly,
- 36:39Speaker 4: he gave his life for it. And when he hears
- 36:41Speaker 4: that news report about all the people going missing at
- 36:44Speaker 4: Jupiter's Park or whatever it is, that's when he gets
- 36:48Speaker 4: involved and and and starts to be like, all right,
- 36:50Speaker 4: let's let's figure this out. Let's make a plan. So
- 36:53Speaker 4: I love how he was just like, don't chase that
- 36:55Speaker 4: dream kid, You'll never get it too. I'm gonna just
- 36:58Speaker 4: take I'm just I'm going up the UFO and I'm
- 37:00Speaker 4: gonna use this camera that doesn't use electricity, and I'm
- 37:03Speaker 4: gonna get this fucking money shot. And then the camera
- 37:05Speaker 4: falls to the ground, and you know, I assume they
- 37:07Speaker 4: I assume they got the shot, or at least I
- 37:09Speaker 4: hope they fucking did. He gave his life for it.
- 37:11Speaker 5: So yeah, but like what and then what everybody? People?
- 37:15Speaker 1: You watch it on YouTube and you're like, tam, that's cool,
- 37:17Speaker 1: and then you move on with your life.
- 37:19Speaker 4: That's how desensitized as a culture we are.
- 37:22Speaker 5: No, but you would be right to what what? How?
- 37:25Speaker 5: How the hell?
- 37:26Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I want to ask you, like
- 37:28Speaker 1: it one, just aliens in general? You think aliens were real?
- 37:33Speaker 1: Or or more like, what would.
- 37:35Speaker 5: It take for mankind to accept that there are aliens?
- 37:40Speaker 4: I mean one, yes, it would be, and maybe not
- 37:44Speaker 4: aliens in the sense that we're thinking of these little,
- 37:45Speaker 4: tiny green men, but to think that we are the
- 37:48Speaker 4: only intelligent form of life and a galaxy that is
- 37:52Speaker 4: literally so big it's impossible to comprehend would be such
- 37:56Speaker 4: a ridiculous thoughts. So there has to be something else
- 37:59Speaker 4: out there. What was the second one? I'm so sorry,
- 38:03Speaker 4: Oh what would it take? What would it take?
- 38:05Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 38:06Speaker 4: There's almost like undeniable proof at this point. There was
- 38:09Speaker 4: a few years back where the government released that video
- 38:12Speaker 4: footage from a fucking jet that was basically irrefutable evidence
- 38:17Speaker 4: of a UFO, and people were just like whatever.
- 38:20Speaker 1: No, no, no here, because here's why we have a problem.
- 38:22Speaker 1: Because I hear that, and I'm like, yeah, yeah, of
- 38:24Speaker 1: course the government tell If the government tells you that
- 38:26Speaker 1: it's a lie there doing.
- 38:27Speaker 5: That, it's up. It's an up.
- 38:29Speaker 1: Uh, It's it's like JFK assassination. Like they're never going
- 38:33Speaker 1: to release the document. That's like, yeah, we did it. Sorry, yeah,
- 38:37Speaker 1: I guess that is fair.
- 38:38Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean I have definitely I had
- 38:41Speaker 4: one experience one time. I can't tell you what the
- 38:44Speaker 4: hell this thing was. And there was three of us there, right.
- 38:47Speaker 4: We were standing in the driveway smoking cigarette, smoking weed,
- 38:51Speaker 4: whatever the hell we were doing when we were twenty
- 38:52Speaker 4: years old. None of us were on any sort of hallucinogenic.
- 38:56Speaker 4: It was beer and weed, that was it. And we
- 38:58Speaker 4: literally all three of us, saw this bright light rise
- 39:01Speaker 4: from the ground, go probably about three hundred feet in
- 39:04Speaker 4: the air, A ball shot off from the side, and
- 39:07Speaker 4: then it just disappeared into the night. Like so, I
- 39:10Speaker 4: don't know what that was. Not a fucking clue, wasn't
- 39:13Speaker 4: a firework, wasn't anything. I mean, that's the only experience
- 39:16Speaker 4: I've had with anything that I couldn't explain. But for
- 39:20Speaker 4: mankind to finally accept, I mean, I think we had
- 39:25Speaker 4: this movie has to happen or something like that, like
- 39:27Speaker 4: something's gonna swoop down from the skies and cause havoc.
- 39:30Speaker 1: At this point, I think if this happened, it would
- 39:34Speaker 1: be just like everything else. It gets ingested and digested
- 39:38Speaker 1: and half of people believe it, half of people don't.
- 39:41Speaker 1: Or it's like Trump embraces the alien so people who
- 39:45Speaker 1: hate Trump or like the aliens aren't real, you know,
- 39:49Speaker 1: and then it just gets forgotten about immediately and then
- 39:52Speaker 1: we move on to the next thing.
- 39:53Speaker 4: Or it's a total they live scenario where they've just
- 39:56Speaker 4: been here the whole time and we're just we're you know,
- 39:59Speaker 4: we're not a wake to see them. I don't know
- 40:01Speaker 4: the the option the I feel like the options are
- 40:03Speaker 4: unlimited for for a alien life out there, But I mean,
- 40:07Speaker 4: there has to be something. I sure hope it's not
- 40:10Speaker 4: a something that appears to be a saucer that's just
- 40:13Speaker 4: sucking people up off the ground, because that is a
- 40:16Speaker 4: horrifying way to go. I'd rather have probes in my
- 40:19Speaker 4: butt than be sucked up into a whatever that was.
- 40:22Speaker 4: And actually seeing them inside of this living, breathing creature
- 40:26Speaker 4: was the stuff of nightmares. Wasn't expecting to see that.
- 40:29Speaker 4: But I also wasn't expecting the UFO to be a creature.
- 40:33Speaker 4: That was probably one of the greatest reveals. Uh you know.
- 40:37Speaker 1: Fun idea that yeah, it can you can. You can
- 40:40Speaker 1: even like see it and be like, oh, that's why
- 40:42Speaker 1: we think UFOs look the way they do because we
- 40:44Speaker 1: saw this stupid balloon thing.
- 40:46Speaker 5: Uh.
- 40:47Speaker 1: And it's not an alien chip at all. It's an animal.
- 40:50Speaker 1: It might not even it probably is. This is not
- 40:51Speaker 1: intelligent life visiting us. This is just some stupid space
- 40:54Speaker 1: animal stumbled upon our planet.
- 40:56Speaker 4: Right.
- 40:56Speaker 5: It's just it's probably been years.
- 40:59Speaker 4: It's an instinct shu old predatory alien just that looks
- 41:03Speaker 4: like a flying saucer and is completely quiet, and the
- 41:06Speaker 4: way it flies it's absolutely fucking haunting. This movie so
- 41:10Speaker 4: I want to circle back around here to the beginning
- 41:12Speaker 4: because I noticed, well at least I remembered this time
- 41:16Speaker 4: because I wrote it down, that there's a quote at
- 41:19Speaker 4: the beginning of this movie. It says, I will cast
- 41:22Speaker 4: abominable filth that you make you vile and make you
- 41:25Speaker 4: a spectacle. From Nahum three six. This is actually a
- 41:29Speaker 4: book in the Bible. Never heard of this book in
- 41:31Speaker 4: the Bible. Went to church for most Yeah, nah na
- 41:36Speaker 4: h u m. It is a book in the Old Testament.
- 41:39Speaker 4: Literally never heard of it. I went to church for
- 41:41Speaker 4: most of my you know, adolescent life, and then tapered
- 41:45Speaker 4: off of that. It's just not my thing. So what's interesting, though,
- 41:49Speaker 4: is that I love the Bible.
- 41:51Speaker 1: The Bible is like my thing. No, no book, Yes,
- 41:56Speaker 1: Devin's Book of the Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible,
- 41:59Speaker 1: because do you know, like us, has that made up Bible? Yeah, passage.
- 42:04Speaker 1: So I was wondering, is that is that are they
- 42:05Speaker 1: doing that thing? They're making you think this is a
- 42:07Speaker 1: real Bible thing.
- 42:07Speaker 4: That's exactly why I looked it up, because I remembered
- 42:10Speaker 4: the thing from us because and I also didn't recognize
- 42:12Speaker 4: Nahum or Naham. So I said, Okay, gotta check this out.
- 42:16Speaker 4: So as you said, the seventh of twelve minor prophets
- 42:19Speaker 4: and the author of the Book of Nahem. His book
- 42:21Speaker 4: primarily contains prophecies about the destruction of Nineveh, the capital
- 42:25Speaker 4: of the oppressive Assyrian Empire. Historically, this message brought comfort
- 42:29Speaker 4: and hope to the Israelites by assuring them that their
- 42:31Speaker 4: cruel oppressors would face divine justice. Now, how does this
- 42:35Speaker 4: relate to hope or hope? How does this relate to nope?
- 42:39Speaker 4: The alien, which they dubbed Jane Jacket, becomes a spectacle
- 42:42Speaker 4: for Ricky Jukee Park and later the Heywoods. The creature
- 42:46Speaker 4: literalizes the verse by raining blood and abominable filth down
- 42:50Speaker 4: on the Heywood Ranch. The verse critiques the audience's desire
- 42:55Speaker 4: to consume spectacles such as the TMZ Photographer or the
- 42:58Speaker 4: televised violence of the Gradies rampage. Juke exploits his own
- 43:02Speaker 4: traumatic pass with Gordy to create a new spectacle, ignoring
- 43:05Speaker 4: the danger. Nahem is a prophecy about the fall of Nineveh,
- 43:10Speaker 4: a city of blood that thought it was untouchable. Similarly,
- 43:13Speaker 4: Juke believes he can control an untamable, dangerous predator, resulting
- 43:18Speaker 4: in his death and his audience's death, just as the
- 43:21Speaker 4: arrogant nin of A fell. The verse sets the stage
- 43:24Speaker 4: for the film's bad miracle theme, where unnatural and violent
- 43:28Speaker 4: events are spectacles for viewers consumption, mirroring how God makes
- 43:32Speaker 4: the Sinful City a public example.
- 43:35Speaker 3: Huh.
- 43:35Speaker 4: That was a lot to That was a lot to say.
- 43:37Speaker 4: So it actually ties into the movie in a very
- 43:39Speaker 4: interesting way, which I appreciated because I was kind of
- 43:42Speaker 4: upset with us not having that be a real Bible verse.
- 43:47Speaker 4: I was like, what are we doing here, Jordan Peele,
- 43:49Speaker 4: what's going on?
- 43:51Speaker 3: No?
- 43:51Speaker 1: I love I love making up a Bible verse, cause
- 43:53Speaker 1: most people are gonna be like, oh yeah, yeah, I
- 43:54Speaker 1: read that book all the time.
- 43:55Speaker 5: I see I love.
- 43:58Speaker 1: I love this this thing of turn get it into
- 44:00Speaker 1: a spectacle in the stupidest way. It's like a very
- 44:02Speaker 1: old idea King Kong. What happened in King King Kong
- 44:06Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty three? What do they do with King Kong? Like,
- 44:08Speaker 1: oh my god, Wow, this changed everything we understand about nature.
- 44:11Speaker 1: Let's put it on stage and come look at it. Everybody,
- 44:14Speaker 1: Come look at it on Broadway, and then you know
- 44:17Speaker 1: Jurassic Park. Oh, we brought dinosaurs back from the dead.
- 44:20Speaker 1: It's a miracle. It's it's the scientific revolution we never
- 44:22Speaker 1: thought would true possible. It's a theme park because that's
- 44:25Speaker 1: actually all we can do is a species anymore, is
- 44:27Speaker 1: turn things into shows. Stephen Youwan's doing it with his
- 44:30Speaker 1: own life. He lived with this insane trauma of being
- 44:33Speaker 1: a child actor and seeing all these people brutally murdered
- 44:35Speaker 1: by a chimp, and he's just monetizing it. Even his
- 44:39Speaker 1: co star from the from the show is you can
- 44:42Speaker 1: see her like monetizing it because she's wearing like the
- 44:45Speaker 1: the shirt of herself and you can assume she's like
- 44:47Speaker 1: doing the con circuit and everything because it's all we
- 44:51Speaker 1: can do. It's the only way we can survive.
- 44:53Speaker 4: Yeah, And I find it crazy because that Gordy flashbag
- 44:58Speaker 4: is only is terrifying, not not only bec as it
- 45:00Speaker 4: feels real in a way a UFO kind of doesn't
- 45:04Speaker 4: because there's no music pushing this tension. There's there's no
- 45:06Speaker 4: exaggerated horror framing. It's a chimp ripping people to pieces
- 45:10Speaker 4: which you don't see. I feel like if they were
- 45:14Speaker 4: to show more of it, it probably would have pushed
- 45:15Speaker 4: past r and been NC seventeen. But it's interesting how
- 45:19Speaker 4: that scene kind of mirrors Jean Jacket. Gordy wasn't evil.
- 45:23Speaker 4: He was an animal pushed into an environment or an
- 45:26Speaker 4: unnatural environment until his instinct took over. So Juke completely
- 45:30Speaker 4: misunderstands this lesson. He survives that incident and convinces himself
- 45:35Speaker 4: that he has this special connection with Gordy, that he
- 45:37Speaker 4: was chosen, and he even he even says that right
- 45:40Speaker 4: as he's showing the crowd the horse that he's gonna
- 45:43Speaker 4: have the alien to consume. He to himself, he kind
- 45:45Speaker 4: of whispers, you were chosen. He's not chosen. He looked
- 45:48Speaker 4: he missed that. He missed that. Yeah, it's a real
- 45:51Speaker 4: quick as as he as he turns to the crowd,
- 45:54Speaker 4: or as he turns to the landscape and snaps his
- 45:57Speaker 4: fingers and the sheet comes down, he goes, were chosen?
- 46:00Speaker 4: Were like quietly but I had subtitles on because I'm
- 46:03Speaker 4: fucking deaf. So that's and it's funny because his arc
- 46:07Speaker 4: is cyclical, you know what I mean, Like he does
- 46:10Speaker 4: he thinks he has this connection with his animal, goes
- 46:12Speaker 4: to do it again, but then he just you know,
- 46:14Speaker 4: he gets in this instance, he fucking gets eaten by
- 46:17Speaker 4: Jean Jacket. So I love that hole because the scene
- 46:22Speaker 4: in the beginning is the most what the fuck opening
- 46:24Speaker 4: to a movie that I've seen. You have the chimp,
- 46:26Speaker 4: you have a couple other situations, and then it's like, nope, okay,
- 46:30Speaker 4: let's get some explanation for this. And he tells the
- 46:33Speaker 4: story narratively so well by breaking it down into these segments.
- 46:36Speaker 4: And then finally you get to Gordy, which is kind
- 46:38Speaker 4: of in the middle, and then you get that whole
- 46:40Speaker 4: scene where they almost bump fists and then the uh
- 46:43Speaker 4: the chimp dies. I do have a question about that scene.
- 46:47Speaker 4: What the fuck is with the shoe? Why is the
- 46:49Speaker 4: shoe standing straight up? I cannot figure this one out.
- 46:53Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that later in the movie, when Danielkuley
- 46:55Speaker 1: goes back to the ranch, and it's a mirror of
- 46:58Speaker 1: when Joop is the only one alive on the set
- 47:02Speaker 1: when he.
- 47:03Speaker 5: Was a kid, okay, and it's just this massacre.
- 47:05Speaker 1: Okay, So later h Daniel clues, you know, going through
- 47:08Speaker 1: the ranch, and it's a very similar vibe. What happened here,
- 47:11Speaker 1: this massacre happened here? And there's a pig on the roof,
- 47:14Speaker 1: and it's like it's like it's just the inexplicable that
- 47:18Speaker 1: there there are things about there are things about the
- 47:19Speaker 1: world that you're not going to know. Why is that
- 47:21Speaker 1: shoe just standing the way it's standing? H Did the
- 47:25Speaker 1: chimp put it there? Did the chimp see that? And
- 47:26Speaker 1: that's what set it off? Don't know, You'll never know.
- 47:29Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true. Okay, Yeah, I mean that makes sense
- 47:31Speaker 4: because it's it's I don't really need an explanation, but
- 47:33Speaker 4: I'm just like, what is that shoe? What the fuck
- 47:36Speaker 4: is that shoe doing? But I mean, really, this movie,
- 47:39Speaker 4: as I is two hours of people just misunderstanding animals.
- 47:41Speaker 4: Except for oj and his horses. He understands them very well.
- 47:44Speaker 4: But for the most part, uh, no one and everyone
- 47:47Speaker 4: thinks they can well, at least Joop does. He thinks
- 47:49Speaker 4: he can control these animals that are wild, and.
- 47:53Speaker 5: He's he's running this insane business that's this really kitchy
- 47:58Speaker 5: Old West like stunt show and sit theme park that
- 48:01Speaker 5: also has a museum to his own career as a
- 48:04Speaker 5: child star, and it seems like that's probably where he
- 48:06Speaker 5: makes his actual money. Is like these really insane rich
- 48:09Speaker 5: people come in for a private tour, so he can,
- 48:11Speaker 5: you know, tell them about the trauma he endured, the
- 48:15Speaker 5: trauma that he endured that the rest of the world
- 48:18Speaker 5: did not experience. They experienced it as an SNL sketch, right, Like.
- 48:22Speaker 1: They don't know how horrifying it was, and so he
- 48:24Speaker 1: can't tell them how horrifying it was because then.
- 48:26Speaker 5: They wouldn't want to pay him to come come here
- 48:29Speaker 5: about it.
- 48:29Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why exactly he tells them the SNL's version
- 48:32Speaker 4: of it instead of the real version because trauma for him,
- 48:35Speaker 4: but also you don't want to hear what actually happened.
- 48:39Speaker 4: There's no fucking way like this is.
- 48:42Speaker 1: You know, think of like every I mean everybody who
- 48:47Speaker 1: attends any horror conventions or any any kind of conventions,
- 48:50Speaker 1: which I love that that's there for them, But think
- 48:52Speaker 1: of like Adrian King from the first Friday of the
- 48:54Speaker 1: Thirteenth movie has a Friday the thirteenth line, and I
- 48:57Speaker 1: think there's other people who will give like Friday the
- 48:59Speaker 1: Thirteenth tours at one of the like Crystal Lake. This
- 49:02Speaker 1: this campground student for Crystal Lake for twenty minutes of
- 49:05Speaker 1: one movie. Yeah, it's like everybody squeezing as much juice
- 49:08Speaker 1: out of out of their own lives and career as
- 49:10Speaker 1: they can wherever they can.
- 49:12Speaker 4: Yeah, especially he had that he said what did he say?
- 49:14Speaker 4: He had that Dutch couple pay him fifty grand to
- 49:16Speaker 4: just stay in that room for the night because there's
- 49:19Speaker 4: this weird obsession with this story that everyone doesn't know
- 49:21Speaker 4: the full details of. But he's making money off that
- 49:26Speaker 4: because he literally says, I usually charged for this, bod
- 49:29Speaker 4: here you go, and it's just a shrine to one
- 49:32Speaker 4: of the most traumatic events, not just he is experienced,
- 49:35Speaker 4: but anyone would have ever experienced. I mean, my god,
- 49:37Speaker 4: watching and watching a chimp go crazy. This movie definitely
- 49:41Speaker 4: inspired Primate, though I feel it had to have. That's
- 49:45Speaker 4: my little head cannon, is that someone watched this and
- 49:48Speaker 4: we're like, you know what, we need a full length
- 49:51Speaker 4: feature film of a chimp destroying people. And that's how
- 49:55Speaker 4: we got Primate, which came out last year.
- 49:58Speaker 1: So I gotta see that Primate. I keep think, and
- 50:00Speaker 1: I gotta. I do love a chimp going nuts and
- 50:02Speaker 1: murdering people.
- 50:04Speaker 4: It's honestly really solid.
- 50:07Speaker 1: I know, I don't even know. I don't I don't
- 50:09Speaker 1: need to know. Anything about it. Just I'm going to
- 50:11Speaker 1: like that movie. I have decided you ever could go
- 50:13Speaker 1: to a zoo and if you get near a gorilla
- 50:16Speaker 1: or something, and by near I mean like fifteen feet away,
- 50:19Speaker 1: you do suddenly feel like, Oh, this thing could this
- 50:22Speaker 1: thing could flick.
- 50:23Speaker 5: Me, and I would be dead. I would be fucking dead.
- 50:28Speaker 1: It's it's it's something you will not understand if you
- 50:30Speaker 1: watch it on a screen, which I think is another
- 50:32Speaker 1: thing the movie is dealing with is the way we
- 50:34Speaker 1: the way media will just distort everything. You look at
- 50:37Speaker 1: a picture of a gorilla and you don't understand what
- 50:39Speaker 1: a gorilla is, or you see it you see a
- 50:41Speaker 1: chimp on TV and you're like, oh, chimps, my beloved friend,
- 50:43Speaker 1: the chimp, and it's a fucking wild animal that's gonna
- 50:46Speaker 1: rip off your dick and feed it to you if
- 50:48Speaker 1: a balloon pops.
- 50:51Speaker 4: No, you're right though, because if they did, I mean prime,
- 50:53Speaker 4: it's a little different. But if they did show it
- 50:55Speaker 4: in this it wouldn't have been. They showed just enough
- 50:58Speaker 4: of it, I think because as the story, as the
- 51:00Speaker 4: movie goes on, you see a little bit more and
- 51:02Speaker 4: a little bit more, and the most you see is
- 51:05Speaker 4: the lady's feet be on the couch and him smashing
- 51:09Speaker 4: her face, and then he chases the one guy off
- 51:11Speaker 4: the set and smashes his face as well. Because people
- 51:14Speaker 4: don't realize. And this has weirdly come up a few
- 51:17Speaker 4: times this year on the podcast, probably because Primate came
- 51:19Speaker 4: out this year. Chimps are just like so much muscle
- 51:24Speaker 4: they are. They're all muscle, and they will literally rip
- 51:27Speaker 4: you limb from limb if if they're provoked to a
- 51:29Speaker 4: certain point. So that's what I don't think people actually
- 51:32Speaker 4: understand is these things are stronger than you could ever imagine.
- 51:36Speaker 4: And that's why I would never want one as a pet,
- 51:39Speaker 4: just in case it decided to go crazy and then
- 51:42Speaker 4: rip my deck often feed it to me. I'd rather
- 51:43Speaker 4: not do. That's all.
- 51:45Speaker 5: I still want one. I still want We just did.
- 51:50Speaker 1: We just did the movie Showgirls on our podcast a
- 51:52Speaker 1: few weeks ago, and there's just chimps in that movie.
- 51:54Speaker 1: That's part of this stage show. They just have these
- 51:55Speaker 1: adorable baby chimps, and it was just ubiquitous part of culture, like, oh, chimps,
- 52:00Speaker 1: our friends. They're so they're so kind and sweet, and
- 52:02Speaker 1: you don't understand that if you were seeing it on screen.
- 52:05Speaker 1: That means that there were well trained animal wranglers who
- 52:07Speaker 1: ensured that everything went very, very smoothly correct on set.
- 52:11Speaker 1: And that gives you the idea that, ah, the chimp
- 52:13Speaker 1: can be tamed, the chimp can live with me as
- 52:15Speaker 1: my baby.
- 52:16Speaker 5: No it can't.
- 52:17Speaker 4: It's gonna murder you unless you unless you raised it
- 52:20Speaker 4: from a baby and it's been around people. It's whole life.
- 52:24Speaker 4: If you just take a chimp from the while, and
- 52:26Speaker 4: it's going to rip everything that you love apart. So yes,
- 52:28Speaker 4: I very much agree on that. And even in the
- 52:33Speaker 4: cig Monkey, it's aged a little bit, but it doesn't
- 52:36Speaker 4: look terrible. I don't think.
- 52:38Speaker 1: It sort of bugged me, and I mean, I mean,
- 52:40Speaker 1: I know, you can't put chimps in movies anymore, so
- 52:42Speaker 1: it sucks, but.
- 52:43Speaker 4: Hey, you know they the primate is a guy in
- 52:46Speaker 4: a suit, and I fucking appreciate the hell out of that.
- 52:49Speaker 4: No cg in that movie. But for the purposes of
- 52:51Speaker 4: you know, nope, I totally you had a sixty eight
- 52:53Speaker 4: million dollar budget, just fucking use it. No need to
- 52:56Speaker 4: throw a guy in a suit. But I like the
- 52:58Speaker 4: way they kind of hid this. Some of the seage
- 53:00Speaker 4: with the little tablecloth that was coming over the side,
- 53:04Speaker 4: so they were able to kind of hide some of
- 53:05Speaker 4: it and blur it. But even they the UFO still
- 53:10Speaker 4: looks really great. I mean, I know it's only a
- 53:11Speaker 4: four year old movie, but still I think the UFO
- 53:14Speaker 4: looks fantastic. It is also hidden in the clouds a lot,
- 53:18Speaker 4: and then even at the scene at the end where
- 53:20Speaker 4: it expands and does this, which I don't I don't
- 53:23Speaker 4: know why did that. Do we have any speculation as
- 53:26Speaker 4: to why it puffed up like a jellyfish?
- 53:28Speaker 1: I wasn't thinking about. I mean, it could be, it
- 53:30Speaker 1: could be it feels that these people are actually a
- 53:33Speaker 1: threat to it, and so like a you know, like
- 53:35Speaker 1: a king Kobra like standing up, and Okay, it could
- 53:39Speaker 1: be that.
- 53:40Speaker 5: But I just fucking love the I love the design
- 53:42Speaker 5: of this thing.
- 53:43Speaker 1: I love the idea that an alien is just a stupid,
- 53:45Speaker 1: big jellyfish.
- 53:46Speaker 3: Uh.
- 53:47Speaker 1: The praying mantis that appears in the you know, in
- 53:49Speaker 1: the security camera. And thing about praying mantises and all
- 53:52Speaker 1: kinds of animals is if you look them up really close,
- 53:54Speaker 1: you realize this is an alien. I live on the
- 53:57Speaker 1: earth with lots of little aliens like jellyfish. They're ridiculous.
- 54:00Speaker 1: They shouldn't exist. Why do they exist? Just little are insane?
- 54:05Speaker 4: Yeah, uh yeah, So I think this movie just it
- 54:10Speaker 4: does hen It's just it really is a spectacle. And
- 54:12Speaker 4: it's funny that the whole commentary really is about spectacle.
- 54:16Speaker 4: And I think this is Jordan Peel's. This is his
- 54:19Speaker 4: spectacle because it is something to witness. It has horror
- 54:24Speaker 4: moments in it, It has the overlying dread of this
- 54:28Speaker 4: alien creature you don't know anything about. I mean, they
- 54:31Speaker 4: don't even reveal the fact that it is a living,
- 54:34Speaker 4: breathing thing until about an hour I think it was
- 54:38Speaker 4: like an hour fifteen, so you got about fifty minutes left.
- 54:41Speaker 4: You don't even know that. And then once that reveal happens.
- 54:45Speaker 4: I don't know about anybody else, are you, but just
- 54:47Speaker 4: like that heightened my anxiety so much because I was like, oh,
- 54:50Speaker 4: they're not just beaming people up. This thing is swooping
- 54:53Speaker 4: down and just eating the people or in a lot
- 54:56Speaker 4: of the cases, leaving them in their screaming. I don't
- 54:59Speaker 4: know what that was. He waited sometimes, or the thing
- 55:01Speaker 4: waited to eat for quite some time, because you could
- 55:04Speaker 4: every time it swoop past. You could just hear all
- 55:07Speaker 4: these screams of people, and I was like, that is
- 55:09Speaker 4: the stuff of nightmares. I don't ever want to be
- 55:12Speaker 4: stuck in there. So I don't know why it waited
- 55:16Speaker 4: so long to eat the people. Maybe it was just
- 55:18Speaker 4: part of the digestion. Maybe the digestion takes a little bit.
- 55:21Speaker 5: No, I think that's it.
- 55:22Speaker 1: You know, why does like a why does a python
- 55:25Speaker 1: swallow an animal hole and the animal like gets dissolved
- 55:28Speaker 1: with stomach acid. I don't know that's eaten.
- 55:31Speaker 4: I'll tell you though. That scene it's I think the
- 55:34Speaker 4: most impactful scene for me is when Steven Jupe realizes
- 55:39Speaker 4: he fucked up because the alien shows up early. He's like, oh,
- 55:46Speaker 4: we're early. Usually this is like six thirty every night
- 55:50Speaker 4: or every Friday. Yet it's early because there's forty fucking
- 55:53Speaker 4: people there, and that shit is hungry. It sees it
- 55:56Speaker 4: sees an opportunity, and it's like, I'm taking all you bitches.
- 55:59Speaker 4: And the funniest part it leaves the horse. I found
- 56:01Speaker 4: that to be hilarious. It's like I don't want to
- 56:03Speaker 4: I don't want the horse. I want all of you
- 56:05Speaker 4: fucker's over here. So I love the crowd at that place.
- 56:08Speaker 4: It's so sad, and they are there treating it like
- 56:11Speaker 4: it's a packed house. And they had his wife on
- 56:13Speaker 4: the phone like, Hey, I was reaching out, Maybe you
- 56:15Speaker 4: want of these free press passes. Yeah, the press wants
- 56:18Speaker 4: to come ten You're a tenure.
- 56:20Speaker 1: They want to attend the press this show as much
- 56:22Speaker 1: as they want to attend my podcast.
- 56:25Speaker 5: Record my podcast please.
- 56:29Speaker 4: Yeah, So what about you? Is there is there a
- 56:30Speaker 4: scene in particular that really just uh had a had
- 56:34Speaker 4: an impact on you.
- 56:36Speaker 1: The first time I see Keith David on a horse,
- 56:38Speaker 1: I'm like, this is my my my three favorite things
- 56:40Speaker 1: in a movie. A person on a horse, the person
- 56:43Speaker 1: on a horse in front of a hill, and the
- 56:45Speaker 1: person is Keith David.
- 56:46Speaker 5: You got all three perfect.
- 56:48Speaker 1: And then the last shot of the movie is now
- 56:51Speaker 1: it's Daniel Caluya on the horse looking like a goddamn
- 56:54Speaker 1: hero and movie star. And I was just like, because
- 56:57Speaker 1: I am, you know, I'm getting older and like all
- 57:00Speaker 1: all dads who reach their late thirties but get really
- 57:02Speaker 1: into Westerns and all I want all movies to be Westerns.
- 57:06Speaker 4: I want everybody to be on a horse. That's all
- 57:07Speaker 4: I want. I think I'm getting to that point now,
- 57:10Speaker 4: I really am. I'm thirty six now, and it's like
- 57:14Speaker 4: I can feel it. It's like looming in the background.
- 57:16Speaker 4: Because my buddy loves westerns and there's a podcast on
- 57:19Speaker 4: Someone's Favorite Someone's Favorite Productions that's called Tumbleweeds and TV
- 57:23Speaker 4: Cowboys and it's all Westerns. And I'm like, I feel
- 57:26Speaker 4: like my future is imminent and I should just embrace it.
- 57:29Speaker 1: Now, embrace it. Slip, slip into the bathtub. The water's good.
- 57:34Speaker 1: Close your eyes. No, Western westerns are great, but they
- 57:39Speaker 1: never actually went away. It's just like the things that
- 57:42Speaker 1: I think a couple things Hollywood. In the early days
- 57:47Speaker 1: of Hollywood, westerns were how you could have an action movie,
- 57:50Speaker 1: and I really think that's a big part of it
- 57:52Speaker 1: is that's the only genre where there was action. And
- 57:55Speaker 1: then they realized, oh, we could have action in other genres.
- 57:58Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be in the Old West. But
- 58:00Speaker 1: for some reason, it was like forty years where they
- 58:02Speaker 1: thought that was the only way you could show people
- 58:04Speaker 1: like getting into a fight is if it's in the
- 58:05Speaker 1: oldest But there is just something so in so like
- 58:09Speaker 1: American about the idea of like the Gunslinger and you
- 58:13Speaker 1: see it in so many movies that aren't Westerns. I
- 58:15Speaker 1: think it's why John Wick and like Nobody with Bob
- 58:18Speaker 1: oden Kirk, and like every Denzel Washington movie is it
- 58:22Speaker 1: really does just follow the Western tradition of like a
- 58:25Speaker 1: man with a mysterious past, some guys messed with him,
- 58:28Speaker 1: they messed with.
- 58:29Speaker 5: The wrong guy. Now he's gonna get revenge, and that's
- 58:31Speaker 5: just the Western.
- 58:33Speaker 4: You're not wrong. It feels like some it feels like
- 58:36Speaker 4: a lot of things have taken the Western formula and
- 58:38Speaker 4: just kind of reapplied it to a modorio for a
- 58:40Speaker 4: modern audience. You know. I mean, I guess John Wick
- 58:43Speaker 4: would be a pretty good example of that. So yeah,
- 58:46Speaker 4: I feel it. I feel it's it's it's definitely happening.
- 58:49Speaker 4: It's on its way. So I'm gonna have to but
- 58:51Speaker 4: see if I'm gonna get into him, I gotta I
- 58:53Speaker 4: gotta get the recommendations from the from the people, so
- 58:56Speaker 4: I don't start with something that's gonna put a bad
- 58:58Speaker 4: taste in my mouth and be like, oh, I don't
- 59:00Speaker 4: want to watch this anymore. So I'm gonna have to
- 59:02Speaker 4: get like a list from you or in my buddy
- 59:04Speaker 4: Michael and be like, all right, give me some good
- 59:06Speaker 4: starting points, give me some gateway westerns to like get
- 59:10Speaker 4: me into the genre. I have a feeling that I'm
- 59:12Speaker 4: probably gonna enjoy spaghetti westerns the most.
- 59:15Speaker 5: I just have a feeling I could see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh.
- 59:19Speaker 4: The only thing else I wanted to touch on really
- 59:23Speaker 4: with this. I mean, I have so many more points,
- 59:25Speaker 4: but I don't want to stay here forever. We already
- 59:26Speaker 4: talked about the aliens not being little gray aliens except
- 59:30Speaker 4: for the ones that were fake.
- 59:35Speaker 1: I really love I really really love the act I
- 59:38Speaker 1: love all the actors. I think Daniel Kului is wonderful.
- 59:41Speaker 1: He always is. Keiky Palmer's tremendous. She's gonna be She
- 59:44Speaker 1: has a movie coming out in a week called I
- 59:45Speaker 1: Love Boosters, directly directed by Boots Riley that I'm probably
- 59:49Speaker 1: my most anticipated movie of the year, other than Okay
- 59:53Speaker 1: because he's his first movie. Sorry to Bother, He's one
- 59:56Speaker 1: of my favorite movies. But I love the I love
- 59:59Speaker 1: the mistry between the three of them. When when Angel
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: played by Brandon Perea, comes in, just such an odd
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: chemistry between the three of these just insanely different people.
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: I love him as just this interloper who's just like, no,
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: I mean I I feel like I'm part of the
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: team now. Nobody invited me, but like, yeah, I'm here.
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: Yeah I'm gonna spy. I mean he's yeah, he's violating
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: their privacy, he's invading their home.
- 1:00:22Speaker 5: But yeah, you can't help but love him.
- 1:00:24Speaker 4: And it's great too because the way they meet is funny.
- 1:00:26Speaker 4: You know, they're buying these cameras and and angels, like
- 1:00:31Speaker 4: just kind of he just feels checked out, you know,
- 1:00:34Speaker 4: and he's like, are you gonna not you know, on
- 1:00:36Speaker 4: me to sall these Now I was like, okay, not
- 1:00:39Speaker 4: gonna install them. Good to know. They're like, is this
- 1:00:42Speaker 4: hard to install? He's like, not for me. And then
- 1:00:44Speaker 4: he shows up figures out what they're doing, and he's like,
- 1:00:46Speaker 4: oh fuck, I'm into this. So I love that everybody
- 1:00:49Speaker 4: that that that that is brought into this is just
- 1:00:51Speaker 4: like believers in UFOs and like wants to get the
- 1:00:54Speaker 4: perfect shot. It's just I don't know, it added to
- 1:00:56Speaker 4: the It added to the fun for me. Everyone became
- 1:00:59Speaker 4: very passionate that, you know.
- 1:01:00Speaker 5: I love it.
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: The way that between between the way he plays it
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: and you know, the way Peel directs and writes him
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: is like you you understand everything about this guy just
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: in the way he interacts with them at the store.
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: Like his bosses are telling him, you have to upsell everybody.
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: Either they're buying hundreds of dollars of equipment that's not
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: good enough. You have to get them to pay you
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: to install it, because that's where we actually make our money.
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: He's sick of having to tell people this. But he
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: also has this superiority complex over all these dumb customers
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: who he knows so much more than I love it.
- 1:01:29Speaker 4: Yeah, he's and he's not like a service level character.
- 1:01:32Speaker 4: But you're you're right, you know everything about him very quickly,
- 1:01:35Speaker 4: and I love a character like that, Like I don't
- 1:01:37Speaker 4: need any explanation from him. Uh. His his heart is
- 1:01:41Speaker 4: just very clear. And the three of them together are great.
- 1:01:45Speaker 4: And then of course when Michael Wincott shows up, it
- 1:01:49Speaker 4: just goes. His energy is just completely different than all
- 1:01:52Speaker 4: three of their energies. He's just this old like cinematographer
- 1:01:57Speaker 4: just kind of just I don't know, he doesn't feel
- 1:02:00Speaker 4: checked out like Angel first did. I don't know, He's
- 1:02:03Speaker 4: just he just feels kind of old and frumpy. I mean,
- 1:02:05Speaker 4: I don't. I don't know how else to explain him.
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: I think that he's you know, he's a cinematographer. He
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: lives in the world of images, so it's almost like
- 1:02:12Speaker 1: he's not a part of the world. He's he can't,
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: he don't. He almost doesn't know how to interact with humanity.
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: He's just like sort of this detached ethereal being.
- 1:02:20Speaker 4: There we go detached. Yeah, he feels very detached because
- 1:02:23Speaker 4: he's just behind the camera. So when he gets the
- 1:02:25Speaker 4: chance to possibly get this thing on camera, that's when
- 1:02:29Speaker 4: his character kind of i'd say, comes alive, but just
- 1:02:32Speaker 4: there's a little more energy to him. And then by
- 1:02:35Speaker 4: the end he's got full blown just psycho face when
- 1:02:38Speaker 4: he's being sucked up into the into the monster with
- 1:02:41Speaker 4: that uh you know, the hand crank fucking camera that
- 1:02:44Speaker 4: he has. And what's really cool, I don't know, it
- 1:02:47Speaker 4: says Imax on the camera that he's using in the movie.
- 1:02:50Speaker 4: I don't know if it's actually a real Imax camera,
- 1:02:52Speaker 4: But I know something fun about this is apparently this
- 1:02:55Speaker 4: was the first horror movie shot in Imax, which I
- 1:02:57Speaker 4: thought was fascinating. You can definitely tell when the aspect
- 1:03:01Speaker 4: ratios changes or change that there is there. You know
- 1:03:03Speaker 4: they were using Imax cameras, so maybe that was just
- 1:03:06Speaker 4: a ad for Imax. Who the fuck knows.
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: It was shot on film, including sixty five millimeter for Imax,
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: and it's it's the movie looks incredible. Again, there's nothing
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: better in a movie than a person on a horse
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: back in front of a mountain.
- 1:03:20Speaker 4: Beautiful ten out of ten. Last thing I'll say about
- 1:03:24Speaker 4: this is one other thing that Jordan Peele kind of
- 1:03:27Speaker 4: flips the script on and turns an open space into
- 1:03:31Speaker 4: a claustrophobic space. Because you know, a lot of horror
- 1:03:34Speaker 4: movies trap people and confined places, that's what gives you
- 1:03:37Speaker 4: that claustrophobia. But this movie does the complete opposite, and
- 1:03:40Speaker 4: it traps people under an open sky, so nothing feels safe.
- 1:03:44Speaker 4: In fact, the confined house somehow feels safer than being
- 1:03:48Speaker 4: outside because there's nowhere to hide outside. The environment is massive.
- 1:03:51Speaker 4: They are way out in the mountains and you're constantly exposed.
- 1:03:56Speaker 4: And so that movie it just turns, it turns openness
- 1:03:59Speaker 4: into dread and I find that absolutely, absolutely fascinating, and
- 1:04:03Speaker 4: I love the bit, the reoccurring bit that they did
- 1:04:06Speaker 4: with the cloud. That was really fun. That's the last
- 1:04:08Speaker 4: thing I wanted to touch on. When he's playing that time
- 1:04:12Speaker 4: lapse and he's like, you notice anything, and OJ is like,
- 1:04:15Speaker 4: that cloud's not moving, and then that cloud's just sitting there.
- 1:04:18Speaker 4: It's like, that's the alien's home base, and this is
- 1:04:20Speaker 4: where it sits in a little cloud and just hangs
- 1:04:23Speaker 4: out until it's hungry and then it comes down and
- 1:04:25Speaker 4: fucks people up. So I think that.
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: Nobody notices anything about the world, like something like that
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: could be happening right now.
- 1:04:31Speaker 5: I would.
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: I'd have no idea If the clouds in the sky
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: are the exact same every single day, I'm not looking
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: at the sky.
- 1:04:37Speaker 4: And that's what That's what OJ even says. He's like,
- 1:04:39Speaker 4: it's probably been like that for the past six months
- 1:04:41Speaker 4: for all I know, and it probably has. It's just
- 1:04:45Speaker 4: been hanging out there, waiting, breathing, and you just don't
- 1:04:48Speaker 4: know what's there. H So I think that's all I got.
- 1:04:52Speaker 4: I do feel like this stands out from the twenty twenties.
- 1:04:54Speaker 4: Now now watching it for the third time, it feels, uh,
- 1:04:58Speaker 4: it just feels a very it's a very smart movie
- 1:05:01Speaker 4: that will make you think there is some subtext, there
- 1:05:03Speaker 4: is some theming going on, and it's a hard balance
- 1:05:06Speaker 4: to pull off. But I think Peel fucking nails it
- 1:05:09Speaker 4: in this movie. And I think my rating is gonna
- 1:05:12Speaker 4: go up today because I was totally awestruck by this movie.
- 1:05:16Speaker 4: And it's weird that that happened on the third time.
- 1:05:18Speaker 4: I loved it the first time, loved it the second time,
- 1:05:21Speaker 4: and then for some reason this time, I was like,
- 1:05:23Speaker 4: this is like peak cinema. So that's why I always say,
- 1:05:28Speaker 4: rewatch movies and give them another chance. If it didn't
- 1:05:30Speaker 4: work for you the first time, it might work for
- 1:05:32Speaker 4: you the second time. So that's my final thought of
- 1:05:35Speaker 4: the day. Anything else you'd like to touch on or mention?
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: This, yes, very important, very important. Let me hear the
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: restaurant they eat at, this fish restaurant. I'm like, what
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: is this? This Wiener Schnitzel building. I gotta go to this.
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: So it turns out it's a fake. It's a fake
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: restaurant they made up. But this this like fish chain.
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: But apparently this this chain was also in US. So
- 1:05:59Speaker 1: these two movies, this is it's a cinematic universe. It's
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: all tied together. Lapita and Yango. Will you know make
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: a cameo appearance in Nope two, I'm sure, but apparently
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: the real location is a Jimmy's Charred Roiled Burgers in
- 1:06:14Speaker 1: North Hollywood, So when I do my movie road Trip
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: one day, I will be eating there and I can't wait.
- 1:06:19Speaker 4: Oh, I love it.
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: The other thing is that is that Angel works at
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: Fries Electronics, and I believe all the Fries Electronics are
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: closed and they were already in rapid decline in twenty
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: twenty two. But watch YouTube videos about Fry's Electronics in California.
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: They were these like sort of like circuit city stores,
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: but each had its own theme, very kitchy, like there
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: was a UFO themed store and like an Alice in
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: Wonderland themed store, but otherwise they were kind of just
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: best buys that also sold like pornography and stuff. Just
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: it was like, I've never been to one. I wish
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: I could have gone, but they were like these leftovers
- 1:06:56Speaker 1: from thirty years ago and I wish they were still around.
- 1:07:00Speaker 4: That's so funny because the one that they go to
- 1:07:02Speaker 4: in the movie has the UFO on the building. That's hilarious. Okay,
- 1:07:05Speaker 4: I love it. When are you going on this California tour.
- 1:07:10Speaker 4: When is this happening. It's never happening. I'm never doing it. Oh,
- 1:07:13Speaker 4: it's just the fu it's just the dream trip. Okay,
- 1:07:16Speaker 4: it's the dream. I can't even go to the movie period.
- 1:07:19Speaker 4: How am I going? I'm gonna go to the movie
- 1:07:21Speaker 4: road trip? I can't even fill my car up without
- 1:07:23Speaker 4: it costing a million dollars at this point. She's just
- 1:07:26Speaker 4: too expensive. All right, Well, one day, one day, I
- 1:07:29Speaker 4: do genuinely hope you get to go do this road trip.
- 1:07:31Speaker 4: That would be That would be a lot of fun
- 1:07:33Speaker 4: and hit all these places. I do have some fun
- 1:07:35Speaker 4: trivia that I'll get to in just a second. Because
- 1:07:37Speaker 4: you mentioned the same restaurant popping up in US. So, uh,
- 1:07:43Speaker 4: let's roll on to the final cut here, so taglines,
- 1:07:49Speaker 4: it's the same thing as the IMDb summary, The residents
- 1:07:52Speaker 4: of a Lonely gulch in Inland, California bear witness to
- 1:07:54Speaker 4: an uncanny and chilling discovery. There was no other taglines.
- 1:07:59Speaker 4: I was very, very strange. I'd like to live in
- 1:08:02Speaker 4: the world where NOPE actually stands for not of Planet Earth.
- 1:08:06Speaker 4: I find that to be fun. But that's just me
- 1:08:08Speaker 4: being stupid. That's not even trivia. That's just my own brain.
- 1:08:12Speaker 4: Got some really cool bit of trivia there here though
- 1:08:15Speaker 4: there wasn't a lot, but the stuff I have is
- 1:08:18Speaker 4: is pretty solid. So let's see Jordan Peele sites King Kong,
- 1:08:23Speaker 4: which is which is? This is really funny because we've
- 1:08:25Speaker 4: mentioned most of these King Kong, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters
- 1:08:28Speaker 4: to the Third Kind which we just did, Signs, and
- 1:08:31Speaker 4: The Wizard of Oz as influences on the film. He
- 1:08:34Speaker 4: considers these films as examples of addiction to spectacle, a
- 1:08:38Speaker 4: major theme in the film. And I know Signs is
- 1:08:41Speaker 4: your favorite alien invasion of all time? Correct?
- 1:08:44Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'm so that you know that. Well you
- 1:08:47Speaker 5: I remember you.
- 1:08:48Speaker 4: It came up on the Shyamalan episode that we did
- 1:08:50Speaker 4: of at Knock at the Cap. Yeah, I remembered. Stephen
- 1:08:54Speaker 4: Yen's character Jupe has a large pair of metal scissors
- 1:08:57Speaker 4: on his desk, which are these same scissors dominantly featured
- 1:09:01Speaker 4: in Jordan Peele's previous film us So Two Connections to
- 1:09:04Speaker 4: us Interesting. Via his Twitter account, Jordan Peele shared the
- 1:09:09Speaker 4: full intro to Gordy's home shortly after the movie's release.
- 1:09:13Speaker 4: Set to Strange Animal by Gwen. The video Parodi's similar
- 1:09:17Speaker 4: eighties and ninety six com intros while also foreshadowing the
- 1:09:20Speaker 4: more sinister events depicted in the film. The amusements park
- 1:09:25Speaker 4: set of Jupiter's Claim is now a permanent part of
- 1:09:27Speaker 4: Universal's Hollywood Studios back loot. It was converted to a
- 1:09:31Speaker 4: haunted house maze during Halloween Horror Nights twenty twenty two,
- 1:09:35Speaker 4: and like I mentioned earlier, this is the first horror
- 1:09:38Speaker 4: film to be filmed with Imax cameras. Two very petty
- 1:09:42Speaker 4: and dumb goofs, which I love. Nighttime scenes were filmed
- 1:09:47Speaker 4: using a filter to darken scenes, but in all capitals
- 1:09:51Speaker 4: this technique leaves the sky blue, when in fact the
- 1:09:53Speaker 4: night skies is always black. Exclamation point. This technique tends
- 1:09:58Speaker 4: to also leave landscapes bathed in sunlight highly detailed, evident,
- 1:10:02Speaker 4: when in fact it should fade disappear into the shadows
- 1:10:05Speaker 4: and darkness of the background. Night shut up nerd.
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: Substract subtracting a star from my review from your review
- 1:10:14Speaker 1: It's bullshit if we did.
- 1:10:17Speaker 4: When ever World first meets Ricky, she asks him about
- 1:10:20Speaker 4: looking around the memorabilia from his child star days. Ricky
- 1:10:23Speaker 4: says su casa as mi casa, which translates to your
- 1:10:26Speaker 4: house as my house. But the common phrase is mikasa
- 1:10:29Speaker 4: as sukasa. Uh So, I mean, I kind of agree
- 1:10:33Speaker 4: with that one, but it is it is just a
- 1:10:34Speaker 4: dumb thing to point out. He said that, and I was.
- 1:10:36Speaker 1: Like, but that's the point. It's it's just it's that
- 1:10:39Speaker 1: that's telling you about the character that he doesn't know
- 1:10:40Speaker 1: the expression exactly.
- 1:10:41Speaker 4: It's gotten exactly. I noticed that, and I was like,
- 1:10:44Speaker 4: isn't it the other way around? And I was like,
- 1:10:46Speaker 4: that's part of his character. Okay, yeah, uh So here
- 1:10:49Speaker 4: we go. Rated kind of low on IMDb, it was
- 1:10:53Speaker 4: kind of I was kind of shocked. Six point eight
- 1:10:56Speaker 4: out of ten on IMDb are purposes of the Nightmare
- 1:10:59Speaker 4: and makes that a three point four out of five.
- 1:11:03Speaker 4: It has a three point seven out of five on Letterbucks,
- 1:11:07Speaker 4: an eighty three percent on the Tomato Meter, and a
- 1:11:10Speaker 4: sixty nine percent audience score. What do we have this at,
- 1:11:14Speaker 4: Matt What?
- 1:11:15Speaker 5: Rating five? Five?
- 1:11:18Speaker 4: I'm also raising it to a five. It had been
- 1:11:20Speaker 4: a four and a half previously, so I'm also going
- 1:11:22Speaker 4: to give it a five, which gives us a nightmare
- 1:11:25Speaker 4: index of Oh my goodness, four point three zero, No,
- 1:11:31Speaker 4: four point two eight. There we go. I can do math,
- 1:11:34Speaker 4: So that puts this at number three, right behind Trained
- 1:11:39Speaker 4: to Busan at a Oh wait, no, this is above
- 1:11:42Speaker 4: Train to Buson. I'm stupid, So this puts this in
- 1:11:45Speaker 4: the number three spot, ahead of Trained to Busan at
- 1:11:48Speaker 4: a four point two zero and just under Don of
- 1:11:50Speaker 4: the Dead at a four point three five. I like
- 1:11:53Speaker 4: seeing Nope all the way up on that fucking list,
- 1:11:56Speaker 4: and that also means it is a frightmarriage certified slap
- 1:12:00Speaker 4: Love to hear at Similar movies according to IMDb, No Surprise,
- 1:12:05Speaker 4: Hear Us, Get Out, Hereditary, mid Simar, and Talk to
- 1:12:09Speaker 4: Me kind of went off there, and similar movies according
- 1:12:12Speaker 4: to letterbox No One Will Save You, Signs A Quiet Place,
- 1:12:15Speaker 4: the Thing, and Us, I think I have? What do
- 1:12:20Speaker 4: I have? I think it came strapped with like six
- 1:12:22Speaker 4: reviews just in case we had. Oh, I have four
- 1:12:24Speaker 4: reviews from letterboxed. Did you manage to grab any funny
- 1:12:28Speaker 4: reviews to go over with me?
- 1:12:30Speaker 5: I did? He?
- 1:12:32Speaker 1: Now he loves the Twilight Zone Jordan Peel, and I
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: think all three of his movies are Twilight Zone episodes
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: turned into move are basically like feature length Twilight Zone episodes.
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: And I think that as a premise, this is less
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: like a Twilight Zone episode than the other two.
- 1:12:47Speaker 5: But this deals with so many of the themes that
- 1:12:49Speaker 5: the Twilight Zone deals with. And I do a Twilight
- 1:12:52Speaker 5: Zone podcast and it is obsessed with media and the
- 1:12:55Speaker 5: way that TV is changing the way people are able
- 1:12:57Speaker 5: to understand reality. So, if you like Jordan Peele, check
- 1:13:02Speaker 5: out the Twilight Zone from television.
- 1:13:05Speaker 4: From television, you remember television? All right? So I do
- 1:13:09Speaker 4: have four reviews, but I will let you go first,
- 1:13:12Speaker 4: just in case we have any overlapping, because sometimes it
- 1:13:14Speaker 4: does happen.
- 1:13:15Speaker 1: So what do you heart? This is from Rotten Tomatoes.
- 1:13:19Speaker 1: This is half a star quote the worst movie my
- 1:13:21Speaker 1: husband and I have ever seen. We still talk about
- 1:13:23Speaker 1: how bad it was end quote. So I mean, I'd
- 1:13:26Speaker 1: just like to imagine this couple, like late late at
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: night in bed, just being like, yeah, babe, this is
- 1:13:31Speaker 1: such a bad movie.
- 1:13:32Speaker 4: I love. The funny part of that review is just
- 1:13:36Speaker 4: imagining this couple constantly talking about how bad it was.
- 1:13:39Speaker 5: We're always talking about it.
- 1:13:42Speaker 4: Four and a half stars from Frames of Nick on Letterbox,
- 1:13:47Speaker 4: giant gaping butthole in the sky eats Californians.
- 1:13:54Speaker 1: I love a dumb review. All right, what else you got?
- 1:13:56Speaker 1: Half a star? This is from hamad Shake thirty one
- 1:13:59Speaker 1: on Letterboxed. Well, this movie is so bad. I hope
- 1:14:01Speaker 1: Jordan Pell stubs a toe every time he thinks of
- 1:14:04Speaker 1: this awful shit poopy cock cough film. I hate it
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: so much, just a bunch of nothing.
- 1:14:09Speaker 4: Oh my god, five stars from Carston. Gonna go home
- 1:14:15Speaker 4: and murder my ikea plush monkey immediately, And I I
- 1:14:20Speaker 4: agree with you. Yeah, And I don't want any fucking
- 1:14:22Speaker 4: monkeys tearing my dick off. Got any more?
- 1:14:26Speaker 5: You really don't.
- 1:14:30Speaker 4: If I've got If not, it's fine, I've got two more.
- 1:14:32Speaker 4: If you've got a ton.
- 1:14:34Speaker 1: Oh okay, I liked all of them when I when
- 1:14:36Speaker 1: I did screencout, Why did I think this was funny?
- 1:14:39Speaker 5: Why did I think this was good? Yeah?
- 1:14:40Speaker 1: Okay, this is unrotten tomatoes one star, Yeah, no vivid CA.
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: A lot of people start their review with yeah, nope,
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: you good characters cannot save this nonsensical plot. Make it
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: makes sense. Sure, there's some message Peel thinks he's trying
- 1:14:54Speaker 1: to convey, But.
- 1:14:55Speaker 5: No, I don't get it.
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: I like when people's complaint is I don't I don't
- 1:14:58Speaker 1: understand the movie.
- 1:14:59Speaker 4: It's suck. Yeah, that's not a reason to hate a movie.
- 1:15:03Speaker 4: If you don't understand it, learn go educate yourself on
- 1:15:07Speaker 4: what you're not understanding. Go to the internet, go to
- 1:15:10Speaker 4: a nope explained, get yourself some context, man or like, Hey,
- 1:15:15Speaker 4: it's okay to not understand a movie. You don't have
- 1:15:18Speaker 4: to take the step of leaving a review though that
- 1:15:20Speaker 4: what is that? I don't understand most of David Lynch's films,
- 1:15:26Speaker 4: but they're fucking masterpiece. Every goddamn one of them is
- 1:15:29Speaker 4: a masterpiece. I mean, come on, you don't have to
- 1:15:32Speaker 4: understand it to love it. What do I got here?
- 1:15:34Speaker 4: Two more three stars from three Dune, Simmy Colon Sand Butthole. Nope,
- 1:15:43Speaker 4: Simmy Colan Sky Butthole. I'm very excited for Ocean Butthole.
- 1:15:47Speaker 4: And I don't know which one's Ocean Butthole is gonna be,
- 1:15:50Speaker 4: but I'm excited as well.
- 1:15:51Speaker 5: Yeah, what is ocean buttle? I'm very excited about this.
- 1:15:55Speaker 4: I'll come up with the concept.
- 1:15:58Speaker 1: Half a star from Letterbox. This is Joe Swan, Joe Swanson,
- 1:16:02Speaker 1: Biden a whole vibe is annoying me, and despite the
- 1:16:06Speaker 1: movie as a whole being confusing, each individual scene is predictable, lame, lame, lame,
- 1:16:10Speaker 1: actually pretentious, pretentiously am although literary literacy perplexity. Since he's like,
- 1:16:17Speaker 1: now he's doing like a lot of like I'm just
- 1:16:19Speaker 1: using some big words just to be like, I'm a
- 1:16:21Speaker 1: smart movie And this is just another thing that annoys
- 1:16:24Speaker 1: me about people leaving reviews. Again, all these things are
- 1:16:26Speaker 1: okay to think. Why leave a review where you complain
- 1:16:30Speaker 1: about how something was confusing and you're not smart enough
- 1:16:32Speaker 1: to understand it?
- 1:16:33Speaker 4: That is my whole It brings me back to my
- 1:16:35Speaker 4: whole thing about elevated horror. It was a term created
- 1:16:38Speaker 4: by people who don't understand horror movies that make you
- 1:16:41Speaker 4: think that's what it is. They're like, I don't I
- 1:16:44Speaker 4: don't understand this. Go look, go look at the ending
- 1:16:48Speaker 4: explained videos. I've done it myself. If I'm like, ah, fuck,
- 1:16:50Speaker 4: I don't I don't really get that movie. Let me
- 1:16:52Speaker 4: go see an ending explained boom. I'm like, oh, oh,
- 1:16:55Speaker 4: there's my context. Now I like the movie. I don't
- 1:16:57Speaker 4: need to go right.
- 1:16:59Speaker 1: I blame film critics because you know, historically, Uh, you know,
- 1:17:03Speaker 1: they've tutted about horror film, so if one's good, they
- 1:17:06Speaker 1: have to be like, no, you have to see this.
- 1:17:07Speaker 1: One's elevated. It's really trying stuff. It's really the genre.
- 1:17:12Speaker 4: Also, this, this film is not predictable. There's no way
- 1:17:16Speaker 4: on planet Earth anyone of would have predicted that it
- 1:17:20Speaker 4: wasn't a UFO and it was actually a creature. That
- 1:17:22Speaker 4: was one of the fucking wildest reveals of the twentieth century.
- 1:17:26Speaker 4: Last one from me, Karen h appears to be appears
- 1:17:29Speaker 4: to be a female. No stars, just a heart, and
- 1:17:33Speaker 4: it says, Michael Wincott, step on me, please. People are
- 1:17:37Speaker 4: getting weird out there. So that's all. I've got four reviews.
- 1:17:40Speaker 4: If you want to do one more, go for it.
- 1:17:43Speaker 5: Thank you.
- 1:17:44Speaker 4: There's lazy Oh my god, a special guest appearance by
- 1:17:47Speaker 4: Lacey Hellow, I can't hear. You're glowing. You're glowing.
- 1:17:55Speaker 5: When you're glowing, you're growing, Yeah, you're growing, you're growing girl. Okay,
- 1:18:05Speaker 5: all right, look out for umbrella aliens in the sky.
- 1:18:08Speaker 4: Yeah, but hole aliens. All right, you got one more?
- 1:18:12Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I have one half a star It just
- 1:18:14Speaker 1: says nope, but again, our verdict.
- 1:18:19Speaker 4: Say yep to know, Yeah, say yep to nope. I
- 1:18:22Speaker 4: love that so much. I really want to put that
- 1:18:24Speaker 4: on a T shirt and confuse everybody. Oh goodness, gracious.
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- 1:20:22Speaker 4: so at least it will have that going for it.
- 1:20:24Speaker 5: That's always well that instantly like elevations anything anything that
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- 1:20:30Speaker 4: So thank you for joining me, Matt, really appreciate you
- 1:20:33Speaker 4: being here and until next week, guys, stay tuned and
- 1:20:37Speaker 4: stay spooky.
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