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#343: Dance of the Dead (2008) – Tubi or Not to Be · What's Your (Least) Favorite Scary Movie?

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Hello. What's your least favorite scary
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movie? To the prom to kick some zombie
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ass. Yeah, Welcome to What's your
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least favorite scary movie? The podcast where we talk about
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the good, the bad, the ugly and the absurd and all of our
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favorite. And least favorite scary movies?
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Because we believe every horror movie rightfully has its
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fanbase. Even if we don't don't always
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get it. My name's Travis.
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My name's Jessie, and welcome back to another Uncut.
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Live undrawn. Mostly undrawn episode of our
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and check out movies we might not have already been aware of.
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And you get all of our bloopers this time 'cause we do not do
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second takes. Full disclosure, I had a nap
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right before we came in here and recorded SO I'm a slow to wake
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up person. Yeah, it's all good.
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We just did our our wrap up recording for found destination.
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So we we got a little bit of juices flowing with that right
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there. Yes, and that may or may not
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come out the same day that we put this out.
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So if you don't see it on the feed, don't panic.
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It'll be from. It'll be.
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If it's not there now, it will be from today or Thursday.
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Just it'll be there. Don't worry about that.
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All right, this month, this prom month, I picked a prom movie on
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TV. We talked last week about how
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there was a movie we saved that we were very excited to have
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saved for prom month, and it was gone.
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So we went with Dance of the Dead, which is something I'd
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read a lot of hype about online, and that's what we're going to
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talk about. All right, I'm I'm ready to do
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this. All right, I'm going to jump
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right in. Dance of the Dead premiered
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March 9th, 2008 at South by Southwest Film Festival.
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How does Why DVD release in the US on October 14th, 2008?
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We watch it on tube, but there are several free streaming
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options to watch it on. As of this weekend.
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This is the second to last weekend in May, The last full
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weekend of May. So for free you can stream it on
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to be Pluto TV or Fandango at home.
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Dance of the Dad was written by Joe Ballerini, directed by Greg
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Bishop, music by Christopher Carter.
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And then I have Toby Sells as the makeup department head.
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We had several folks that were involved in the special effects
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makeup. He is one of the names, but he
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was listed specifically as the makeup department head.
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So that's why I want that. Yeah, that makes sense.
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He probably did the zombie makeup effects, I'm sure.
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Although I guess Toby could be she or they could be.
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Yeah. Yeah, I've known female tobies
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before. So starring Jerry Kuznetz as
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Jimmy Dunn, Grace and Chadwick as Lindsay, Chandler Darby as
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Steven, Carissa Fowler as Gwen, Randy McDowell is Jules Reiner,
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Michael Mammoliti as George, Justin Welborn as Kyle Grubin
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and Mark Oliver as Coach Keel Travis, it is time for her
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favorite game on this show. Budget or bug Ted?
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Bug Ted. I'm going to guess those I don't
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have fucking shit. Yeah, I didn't think you would,
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but it's it's just one of those ones where you you look at it,
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you know it. Yeah, it's it's a bug, Ted.
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Yeah, it is not high dollar production here.
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I can tell you that it has a 5.8 out of ton on IMDb.
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Oh, wow, OK, I'm happy for that. There's that.
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Good for that. I bought 3 movies from 2008.
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I had a hard time coming up with like a cohesive theme.
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OK, so this is kind of a double theme of like ensemble casts and
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also relationship drama is the real horror.
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Oh, OK. So the first one Prom night.
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Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah.
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Right. It it that just felt too
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appropriate to not add on there. So the prom night, this is the
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remake that released April 11th, 2008.
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A budget of 20 million. A worldwide gross of 57 million.
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20 million to make that movie. Yeah, what the fuck?
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Yeah, IMDb scored 4.0 out of 10. Not good. 2nd movie we've
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covered on the show. Love it a lot.
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The Ruins. Yeah, Aw man, that movie's
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awesome. That released April 4th, 2008 on
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an $8 million budget, $22 million gross.
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IMDb score 5.9 out of 10. Hurts my heart.
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Deserves way more. What the fuck?
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It deserves way more. Yeah, I got at least in the
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sixes. I know it's almost there but
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like just bump it up like .1 I'll be happy.
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More just a little. More I will be happy.
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In the third movie we've also covered on the show OK, Joyride
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2 Dead ahead. Yes, so that released October
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7th, 2008. A budget of $5,000,000.
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I don't have a worldwide gross because this one went straight
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to DVD. It has a 5.1 out of 10.
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IMDb also hurts my heart, but I get that one.
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I get that one too. I'm actually relieved that it's
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at a 5.1. I expected it to be much lower
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than that. Not a perfect movie, It's a fun
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one. It's a good one for Travis and
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Jesse. It is.
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Yeah, OK, I have one tagline. OK, it's their night to come
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alive. I kind of like that.
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It's OK. It's pretty good it.
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Feels like a promy type of Invitational wording.
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So I like that they, you know, obviously that's in reference to
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the zombies. Yeah.
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So I think that's cool. Yeah, I think it's cool.
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Yeah. OK, so some get in the good,
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bad, ugly and absurd. It is and you will.
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Go ahead. And we don't do fun facts on
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these. Since these are bonus episodes,
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they're designed to be a little bit shorter.
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Travis, go ahead and kick us off.
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What did you think was good? OK, so there are a lot of things
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that are fun about this movie. I think that I like that they
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have fun with the whole zombie premise.
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It's almost like they have like a, they treat like a playground,
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you know, like they're, they're able to like like, let's just do
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some fun stuff with zombies. So one of the things I really
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enjoy feels like they do like wrestling scenes with the like
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zombies, like whenever, like Kyle is just like fucking them
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up on the front line of like the street or whatever and he's
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basically performing wrestling moves against.
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Them that's the same actor who would be in the Final
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Destination the next year as the person who.
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The racist. The racist.
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Yeah, Oh my God, that is so weird to.
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Me, it is so weird because Charles, like he does not look
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like high school age. I was like, he does not.
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Let's take a look because he was well into his 30s.
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He's older than us. He's almost turning 40 in this
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movie, and he's playing a high schooler.
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And I was like, it's not just his age that's distracting.
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He looks very familiar. So if you've seen this and you
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also really look familiar, that's why.
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Yep, that was such a weird thing to learn.
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But yeah, I like that. Another cool thing that they did
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with the zombies. I like that they get distracted
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by music, you know? That's such a fun thing to do.
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I wish that they would have toyed around with that more.
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I thought it would be more important.
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Yeah. I mean, ultimately it does serve
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a purpose because they're able to use it as a distraction at
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the prom. But like I thought.
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Starts off with the quarter punks auditioning to play at the
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prom, so I thought that I was going to play a much bigger
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piece. Yeah, I did too.
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But I ultimately just like that, that that's just like a fun,
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like a cool little thing to throw in there too.
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That's something that I would see from like, I would expect
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from Deathgasm, you know? Yes, but and I did definitely
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give Deathgasm vibes there and I think like you said, treating it
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like a playground that gave Return of the Living Dead vibes.
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And we both in fact were like had a craving to watch that and
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so we ended up watching it the next night.
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Yeah, we did. Yeah, that's cool.
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And jeez, what else? I don't know.
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They did like a lot of cool visual effects, things like that
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scene when they are running away from them in the cemetery and
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you like as they're running, you just see them like launch out of
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the graves and start running alongside them.
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I thought there is something really cool with.
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Obviously, spoiler alerts are in effect here.
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The Steven and Gwen at the end when they're making out and
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they're kind of like chewing each other's faces off because
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they're both zombies. I thought that was a fun little
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piece of practical effects, and that was cool.
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Yeah. It's actually something that got
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applauded a little bit on the newest season of Drag Race All
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Stars 'cause they had a challenge where they were the
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home spooky network and somebody was a zombie and she, like,
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peeled off her mouth. Like she had like a whole layer
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of latex underneath and like, peeled off her mouth.
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And it was, I just thought that those were like, that was a fun
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little in real life connection to draw.
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And it was also something that was really well applauded for
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her for her work on that. Yeah, they did a lot of fun
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things with the zombies in this movie, and that was a lot of fun
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to see. So yeah, I think that pretty
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much wraps up my good. OK, yeah, no, I agree.
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There were there were some fun things.
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I really liked the the couple at that, like them realizing they
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had feelings for each other and they make out and they turn into
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zombies and there's zombies sneaking out but also eating
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each other. I know I was like, you know, I
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don't, I feel like I've ever seen that in a zombie movie, and
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I like it. Yeah, yeah, that was, that's
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what I'm saying, like they they just like they did things
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different. They didn't just say like, OK,
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we've got like a whole bunch of pre-existing zombie movies that
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we have to like follow those rules.
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They're like, let's just do some new things.
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Like, let's explore a little bit here.
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I also thought that the kids felt like high school kids, the
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way they acted, the decisions they.
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Made even Kyle. Even Kyle, he was held back a
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few years, but I. Wonder if that was supposed to
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be the joke. I feel like it almost has to be,
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but I don't know. Also, I just feel like this
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movie, the way it shot, like it lends itself well to the sub
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genre that it's a part of. But it also does a lot of really
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clever tricks to hide how low the budget is.
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Yeah. And I thought that's always
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nice. I always appreciate that because
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you have the budget you have and working within it, you know it
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can make a big difference. A lot of people have been
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talking about obsession which just came out sub $1,000,000
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budget. I read that too.
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That blew my mind. You see that's the thing that
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always like I look at those movies and I'm like when you do
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these bikes straight to DVD, like studio output movies that
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have like still like a million, $2,000,000 and they look cheap.
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And then the like these people are making movies like that
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under $1,000,000 that look and are just really good.
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It's just lazy. Yeah, laziness.
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Yeah, there's there's a lot of tricks that you can do to hide
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those things and I thought this movie did a really good job with
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it. OK, what were your bad?
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So I felt like the whole story was kind of aimless.
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Yes. They didn't have any direction.
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They, like, are just going about their day and there's nothing
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drive. There's no driving force.
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Yeah. Like, why do they have to go to
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the prom? They just suddenly feel an
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obligation to, you know, just to like, go warn the people and.
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It's just that's the only large gathering in town.
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It's a large gathering of teenagers, which of course
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teenagers are going to think of other teenagers first because
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that's their world. Why do they have to take it upon
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themselves? I mean, that's fine.
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Like I I'm all for that because that's the side.
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Story They're going to die. Yeah, like, OK, what I'm saying
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is like that, that's cool. I I'm fine with that.
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Like we need to have interesting things for the characters to do.
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Like, I'm not just trying to say like, like call the cops, you
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know, and like movie over. But I just wish we were like
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given a good reason because like, they're just wandering
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around just fighting zombies. And then the way that the
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characters all kind of come together just doesn't really
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make sense. You know, it's just I just it
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did not have direction. I feel like they needed
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something there to drive this movie and they didn't.
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I think that they were just kind of leaning on the whole funness
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of like zombies and, you know, let's just have set pieces and
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stuff like that. And without that thread, it just
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left me wanting more. Yeah, I think that's one of the
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main things for me is that I read so much about how this is
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such a fun movie. It's like a cult zombie movie.
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Everybody loves it. And I felt kind of it didn't
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meet those expectations for me. It had really good moments.
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And like I said, I can see some really great things in this.
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This is not taking away from the good of it.
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But like you said it, it's not everything isn't tied together
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super cohesively. You know, we've already talked
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about the music at the beginning.
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It almost seems like Jimmy and Steven are friends, but then
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they don't seem to interact at all the rest of the movie.
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So that was confusing and it it, there's such a thin line between
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horror and comedy, and we've talked about this a lot because
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it's all about building tension and then release.
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Setup and like punchline basically.
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Yeah, and we have a lot of really great and creative
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moments that the zombies in this movie, but they're the setup and
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the release are just not enough to get me there each time.
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And it's kind of like because I can see it there.
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I can see it. Yeah, you can see what they're
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going for. Yes, and I just wanted more from
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it. And then I also have to add
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this, the the blood, all of it was just bright red, really just
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bright red pains Blatter blood. I didn't even pay attention.
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To that which drives me nuts, as we all know, yeah.
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Yeah, that's a big, big no no for you.
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OK, ugly stuff. Yes.
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Well, right off the bat, I'm just going to say the frog
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dissecting that we see at the beginning of the movie.
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I just don't like seeing that shit.
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I didn't like doing that when I was in school.
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I don't want to see other people have to do that.
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I get the point of it, but why do people have to actively
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participate in something like that?
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Just watch a video. Asshole to the girl who felt
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uncomfortable with it. Yeah, I know.
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It's just, I hated it. Don't like it.
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Just let's move on from that as a whole thing.
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And, you know, teaching kids. Let's just put on a goddamn
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video. That's all you need.
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And so this is another thing. So you're talking about how they
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were able to hide their low budgetness.
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For me it was super obvious whenever they did low light
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recordings, which is a majority of this movie.
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They did not have a camera that was equipped for that.
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OK. Yeah, yeah.
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No, it's those are very like. Pixelated.
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Noisy shot. It's very noisy.
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It looked like I'm back in like high school watching YouTube
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videos and the video quality crashed all the way down to 360
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P because I've got a poor connection like it is just.
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And it was like to the point where I was questioning, I was
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like, is there something wrong with the TV, the Internet,
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something? But like it would cut to an
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indoor like well lit scene. And all of a sudden camera
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quality is great. Like everything looks fine, you
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know? But man, it just did not like, I
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wish they would have thought it through because they're like,
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we're going to shoot a lot of this in the dark.
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Like it's going to be a night time movie.
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They're going to be outside, no lights.
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It just ends up making the movie look bad.
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OK, It looks like a bootleg that like you would have bought
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online accidentally like what you did with return away or
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return from Sleep away camp. Yeah, return to sleep away camp.
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Yeah, Yep. Yeah, all right.
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What's your ugly? My ugly Jules is definitely a
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red pillar and like I feel like we don't get any resolution to
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that. Like he just seems to hate women
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until he like one of them reveals that she thinks UFOs are
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real and then he's like oh maybe all women, not bad.
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Yeah. Like, I just, I didn't like him
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as a character. Coach Keel had a Confederate
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flag in his garage. I noticed that too, yeah.
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And there were a lot of slurs that I was super uncomfortable
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with. Yeah, yeah.
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It was very 2008 in that sense. That was, I mean, unfortunately
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very common at this time. And I recognize like, I can't
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judge a movie by today's standards, but I can still say
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that it made me uncomfortable. Watch it.
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Yeah, if you if you watch it today, you're not going to like
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have fun with. It it's still impacting my
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experience of watching it so. Yeah, you can still comment on
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it. And so like knowledge.
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Although I do need to say Coach Keel, I was like, this man looks
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familiar, Mark Oliver looks familiar.
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And I go through his IODB and I'm scrolling down and I'm not
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seeing anything. I'm like, I don't know, maybe
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it's just something. And I get to his very first
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acting entry. He is fucking Tony in the third
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sleepway camp movie. You know, our hero of the
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underprivileged. Campers.
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Yeah, that was such a crazy thing.
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Yeah, he was a fun character in this.
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I liked him. He had another one of those
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moments where he's wrestling zombies in the background of a
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shot, just like fucking taking them to town.
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It was really cool. I liked him.
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All right, absurd. Well, I had the Kyle's actor's
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age thing. That was just such a huge weird
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thing for me. And the second thing for me was
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the zombie make out session. I I appreciate it.
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It was cool. Never thought of that before.
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And the fact that they like did that, it was like, damn.
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It was like a highlight of the movie before me.
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Yeah, it was a zombie make out it.
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Was pretty neat. For me, the prom, like they were
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auditioning the band the day of prom.
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They made tickets available for sale the day of prom.
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Wow, that's not how any of that works.
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And then you get to the actual prom and he'll like lame as hell
18:06
it looks so boring. It was.
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And then even after the zombies took over, it still looked like
18:11
a boring as hell prom. It was a like a typical school
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dance where there wasn't anything special about it.
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Yeah. And then my other thing is
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because I'm sitting here and I'm taking these notes and Jimmy,
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it's like, you know, I want to do something with my life.
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If I if I die while I'm doing it, that's fine.
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I'm going to sacrifice myself and go get this detonator from
18:29
the gym. And I wrote that they name this
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God damn character Jimmy because his fate is to die in the gym.
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Jimmy, go to the gym. Hopefully that's not what they
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did, but my 7th grade literature class inside of me is looking at
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that symbol and I'm going did they fucking really?
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That is funny. OK, all that said, what are you
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rating miss? I give it 5.
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That's where I'm at with it, too.
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Yeah, it's like solidly there in the middle for me.
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There were some really good moments, and maybe we'll
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discover more of those good moments as we're talking.
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You know, maybe we'll have a different rating when we get to
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the end, but. Probably it's yeah.
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It's just, it's a, it's a fine movie.
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It has some like, it has some things going for it.
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It has plenty of things going against it for me.
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Yeah. All right.
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So starting average 5, OK. Let's do this.
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Start off with the gravedigger and he hears moaning.
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Not like sexy moaning, but like. Could be sexy moaning.
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He doesn't know that's true. It could be getting on under
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there. But he, like, puts his ear next
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to a grave and a hand pops up and chokes him, but he cuts it
19:40
off with hedge Clippers. And I thought this was just
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absurd and silly right away. Like, he was not fazed.
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He was just like, all right, well, that's inconvenient.
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Well, if you notice, he drops it in the wheelbarrow and he's
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already collected several other severed zombie pieces there, so
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he's been doing this for some time here.
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And then we when we pan out, we see that the cemetery is next to
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a nuclear power plant. And we're like, oh, OK, We we
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got a little bit of the Troma. I was thinking Troma there too.
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Yeah. All right.
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So. It's band tryouts.
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Yes, because the hula themed prom is tonight.
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Yeah, Hawaiian hula prom. Yeah, we cut to a science club
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meeting, but it wasn't the Amnesty International meeting,
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so a lot of people laughed besides the four.
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Yeah, our four nerds that are going to be in the movie here I.
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Thought clubs met after school but after this we cut to a
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biology class. It could be like a dead period
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type thing where like some people take study hall.
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I guess you can like do a club and stuff that.
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Makes it hard to do a club because if everybody doesn't
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have. That's fair.
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Free period at the same time. I, you know, that was never a
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thing. That was part of my school.
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So I don't know, I guess. See.
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All of our clubs had to have a teacher sponsor.
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Oh really? Yeah.
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So everything was just after school by default.
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So yeah, we're in science class. They're having to do dissections
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of frogs and we got some kids not wanting to do it.
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We have some kids playing around and not taking it seriously.
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And we have this one teacher that's a fucking asshole.
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He's. Such a Dick So Gwen is one of
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the ones that like feels uncomfortable with this.
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She's like, I like frogs and he just like goes over there like
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cuts it up and squeezes it and it's just nasty and sad.
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I. Like it, I hate watching this
21:26
type of shit. And then Jimmy is of course one
21:28
of the ones not taking it seriously.
21:29
This is his whole character arc through this movie is that he's
21:33
everything's a joke, nothing serious.
21:35
He's like that kid from the key and pill sketch where like he's
21:39
over there just like making. He's trying to be the class
21:41
clown. Is it Joseph?
21:44
No, it's not Joseph. It's.
21:45
The American dad that I'm thinking.
21:46
Of it's the one like where he's just like impersonating the
21:49
teacher and he's like, Oh yeah. Oh yeah, there we go.
21:54
Yeah, the teacher calls. He calls the teacher out for
21:57
being a Dick, and then the teacher decides to be even more
22:00
of a Dick and give some detention.
22:02
And. Steven detention too, just
22:04
because like Steven is who was being called out.
22:07
He, he, he tears him down in front of everybody.
22:09
He's like, this kid is destined to be a fast food worker or
22:13
something like that. And.
22:15
Jesus like ways to demotivate a child, but also like talk down
22:19
about service workers. Yeah, that's what this guy, this
22:22
guy just sucks. But Jimmy, he snaps back.
22:25
I can't remember what he says exactly, but he he gets some
22:29
good. Yeah.
22:30
So he and Steven are in the office waiting to talk to the
22:33
principal and Kyle Grubber is there and he is a guest, just
22:41
kind of a delinquent. He did something with fire in
22:45
the scene. Maybe I write down the full
22:47
details. Yeah, either way, he's there.
22:49
He's headbutt Jimmy. He's big boy, yeah.
22:51
And yeah, Jimmy looks at him and I guess that's enough to wear a
22:54
head button. I guess he doesn't have a super
22:56
hard head, though, because Jimmy doesn't have any kind of
22:58
bruising or bleeding from it at all.
23:02
Yeah. So Steven wants to ask when to
23:04
prom. But when she comes over, it
23:06
seems like they're friends. And I like that we have, you
23:09
know, this nerdy kid who's part of the sci-fi club is just seems
23:13
to be genuinely friends with the cheerleader.
23:15
Yeah. She, her date got food
23:18
poisoning. So that's why she's she's like,
23:21
I don't know what to do. I need somebody to go with.
23:25
Girl, you can go to the prom. I'm alone.
23:27
It's fine. Like, I know you're 17, so you
23:29
don't understand, but you know, when you're 34, like, yeah, it's
23:34
so much easier for me because I would probably feel the same as
23:37
her, you know, when I was half the age.
23:39
I am. Yeah.
23:40
You know, like, it was fine. I had a good time.
23:42
You know, it was totally cool. This might also be one of those
23:46
things that's different between girls and boys too, like.
23:49
Maybe, I don't know. I mean, like even as a boy you
23:51
probably like, I mean, I know you don't really feel great that
23:54
you can't get a date. You know, like, like you kind of
23:57
do feel like a little bit of a loser.
24:00
So she's over there talking to him about it and he's like, you
24:03
can tell he's wanting to ask, but then she's like, do you
24:06
think I should ask Nash if, if you were him, would you say yes?
24:11
And I get writing his name as Ash until it's all that is
24:13
actually Nash. And that did not come across at
24:17
all. So she goes over there to ask
24:19
him and he's like, no, can't do it.
24:21
You couldn't catch me dead at the prom over there because they
24:25
didn't like our band. So we're not going to do that.
24:27
We're doing a show instead. And if you want, you can come
24:30
over here and watch the show and give me head.
24:33
What a charmer. Yep.
24:35
Meanwhile, as they're decorating the gym, Lindsay tells Mitch
24:38
who's the class, she's the class vice president.
24:40
Mitch is the class president, that she's going to prom with
24:42
Jimmy and he clearly has the hearts for her.
24:45
And she's like, well, he's my boyfriend.
24:46
We're going together. Yes, really.
24:49
And Jimmy, meanwhile, is in detention with Coach Keel.
24:53
I. Was so confused my nose says
24:56
teacher shows Jimmy the bricks show.
24:58
I'm like what the fuck did he do to him?
25:02
But what he says, he's just making him watch a wall.
25:06
And he he calls it the Brick Show.
25:08
Yeah, it's like this. Is your punishment you get 30
25:11
minutes of the brick? Show is he just like fucking
25:13
like flexing in front of him? Check out the Brick show right
25:16
here 'cause he is the PE teacher, you know, It's not like
25:19
I wouldn't put it past him necessarily.
25:22
I'm not going to say anything beyond that, but.
25:24
I also went to what you're thinking too.
25:26
Don't say anything. You know, you know.
25:29
The Brick Show, it's very captivating.
25:35
Yeah. So with that going on, we have
25:39
the girlfriend who. Is Lindsay, Yeah.
25:41
She's sick of Jimmy. He's not taking anything
25:43
serious. What her corsage is going to be.
25:45
He's like, oh, I didn't get you a corsage.
25:47
And she was like, wait, are you serious?
25:49
Because yeah, why would I get you a corsage usually?
25:51
Like, so you didn't even really ask me.
25:53
Probably because, yeah, I did with, you know, the frog in
25:55
class sitting and she's like, you don't take anything
25:57
seriously. I'm not going to work with you.
25:58
He goes, what? Are you serious?
26:00
Because. Yeah, I am.
26:02
Yeah, so Jimmy got to learn. You got to take things serious
26:05
now. So we get a pre prom montage.
26:09
I called it a promtage. Nice.
26:11
And right before Jimmy's going stag, Yeah, you don't care.
26:16
But before he's going, he's got a call to make a pizza delivery.
26:20
And he doesn't have a choice because it's the company's
26:22
delivery track. He.
26:23
Uses the truck, so he's got to go.
26:26
So we also see, we see the people.
26:30
Gwen is going for a run because she doesn't have a date and so
26:34
she's just like, well, I guess I'll be healthy while I do it.
26:38
And we got the sci-fi group who are going to go to the cemetery
26:41
in Goose Hunt. And Mitch has picked up Lindsay.
26:45
She's going to prom with him now instead.
26:48
And he's like, hey, we're going to make a detour.
26:50
We're going to go stop and, like, go, like some drinks to
26:53
kind of get the nerves out of the way.
26:55
And, you know, that's his. That's what he's saying.
26:58
Yeah. It's not his true intentions
27:00
here. It's not his true intentions but
27:02
he's like you've been working so hard you deserve to relax.
27:04
So he's making it sound like they're just doing some pre
27:06
gaming, but really he wants to try and put the moves on her.
27:10
So when we see the the sci-fi club, the gravedigger person,
27:15
the caretaker, he's like stay on the path and everything will be
27:20
fine. Yeah.
27:22
OK, so like is this zombie attack purely because they get
27:25
off the path? Like do the zombies not react
27:28
until somebody is near them? I don't know, 'cause I mean,
27:30
they like they're about to go into a crypt here, but the
27:33
zombies already out anyways, so it doesn't really make much
27:36
sense. Yeah, this is also.
27:39
That's apparently where Mitch and Lindsay are parked.
27:42
Because they pass by the car and they just keep one walking.
27:45
So they go into a mausoleum or a crypt, Yeah.
27:50
And they find a casket that have been knocked over and emptied,
27:55
and a zombie attacks rod. Yep, and Rod is dead so the rest
27:59
get chased by the zombie. Lindsay is being kissed by Mitch
28:04
and she wants him to stop and he just gets more aggressive and
28:08
then he's pulled out of the car by a zombie and it's it's really
28:10
hard to feel sorry for. Him.
28:12
I mean it, it turned into a sexual assault at that point.
28:15
Yeah, like. Zombie did her a solid except
28:19
that he becomes a zombie with his head ripped off and he's
28:21
still like harassing her the rest of the movie.
28:24
So the zombie swarmed the car, the groundskeeper shows up and
28:28
he tells them how to kill. Them he's like a fucking told
28:31
y'all to stay on the path, but since you didn't, what you need
28:33
to know is you got to hit the brain.
28:36
Standard zombie? No, gentleman, as you're
28:38
watching Return of the Living Dead, which that's not the case
28:40
in that movie. Lindsay starts driving Mitch's
28:43
car and she runs into the sci-fi crew, so she picks them up as
28:47
well. We cut to a convenience store
28:50
and see the zombies in there and they're eating stuff and the
28:53
convenience store owner's like you can't eat food in the store.
28:57
So prom king and Queen are already awarded?
29:00
I thought we were going to get more prom in this movie.
29:03
Have the saddest little prom queen sash ever.
29:07
There's the whole thing, like sad like this prom queen.
29:10
Like we'd even gotten her specifically as part of the
29:13
montage of her, like, praying to hope that she gets yeah, prom
29:16
queen. Nothing really comes of, you
29:19
know, it just kind of happened here off screen.
29:21
So in the classroom we get the mean teacher from before he's
29:24
over there. Doesn't seem.
29:25
Like he's doing much chaperoning from inside the classroom.
29:28
He. Ain't doing shit but he hears
29:30
something and then he notices some movement and then he looks
29:34
and frogs alive it jumps in his mouth.
29:36
Good. I'm glad the frog got its
29:38
revenge. I know.
29:39
Me too. And I like that it was one of
29:41
the like, about to be dissected frogs.
29:43
Or maybe even previously dissected frog.
29:45
Yeah, I didn't write down in my notes how cut up it was.
29:48
Kind of. It transforms him.
29:49
I think he becomes a special type of zombie because it's.
29:52
Like it yeah, he'd be like not the biggest boss in the game,
29:56
but he'd be like a mid tier boss and a video game version he'd.
30:00
Be a mini boss. Yeah, Yeah.
30:02
So Jimmy is delivering his pizza and he goes to the door and the
30:06
person that the door is not really responding so he just
30:09
opens the door and instead it's a whole family of zombies that
30:13
run out and chase him. So he drives away and finds a
30:17
wreck in the middle of the road. And crouched next to that wreck
30:20
is a crying Kyle. He didn't go to the prom.
30:23
He was out driving around with his friends who are now all
30:25
dead. And they're kind of like Kyle
30:29
doesn't like the Jimmy singing and crying.
30:32
But then they get distracted because the zombies steal
30:35
Jimmy'z delivery truck. I I was so confused at first
30:39
because I thought they were like staging a sting or whatever to
30:42
like, steal his car. Yeah, but that's not what
30:44
happened. It was actually zombies stealing
30:46
I. Thought for a minute it was like
30:48
non zombie adults behaving as irresponsible children and
30:51
stealing a child's vehicle to get away.
30:54
But no, Kyle does have a gun and so he starts shooting zombies
30:59
and he's he's a dead eye. Like he is so good at hitting
31:03
them right in the brainstem he almost shoots Gwen.
31:06
He's like dude, what the fuck? Yeah.
31:08
So, yeah, Gwen just happens to be running along there and joins
31:11
them now and then. This is where Kyle, I think he's
31:14
out of boy. So he just starts to wrestle on
31:15
the zombies and it's a fun little sequence.
31:17
Yeah, I had a fun time with that part.
31:21
The car, Linds, Mitch's car dies and Jules is just like, this is
31:27
my thing with him is that he just seems to hate Lindsay
31:29
because she is a a woman, a girl.
31:33
Like he was like, why can't you fucking do anything?
31:36
Just drive the car. And she was like it died.
31:39
The zombies got into that. Like I don't know what you want
31:42
me to do. What what idea do you have?
31:44
He goes, why don't you even come up with an idea?
31:46
He's he's. An.
31:48
Asshole. Yeah, he's not a fun character.
31:51
And she tries to call Jimmy and he doesn't answer but she sees
31:57
the delivery truck not being true Jimmy.
32:01
They run into a house and end up barricading the doors and Jules
32:04
is just still being a shit to her.
32:06
Like and that's The thing is I'm not saying it's just because
32:08
he's being a Dick to her. Like he isn't a Dick to the
32:11
guys. Yeah, he's not really mean to
32:14
anybody else in the movie. Yeah, I I get where you're
32:16
coming from with that. Yeah, So Jimmy calls Lindsay
32:19
back and asks where they're at, and they all decide that they're
32:23
going to go to her. This this is a fun moment
32:26
because Jimmy's like, all right, we can go through the zoo,
32:29
sewers, get to this place underground.
32:31
It all connects. I used to play here as a kid.
32:33
And Kyle goes, you had a messed up childhood, didn't you?
32:35
And Jimmy goes, yeah. And Kyle goes, me too.
32:37
Yeah. It's like, hey, look at that.
32:39
It's. All making sense.
32:40
It's all quick and they're going to become buddies after it's
32:43
pretty. Cool.
32:45
Yeah, so they go to the Super. He is like 1 like rodent sensing
32:50
away from being a teenage mutant ninja turtle.
32:53
It could it almost. Happens very involved with pizza
32:56
in his daily life. Oh, my God, you're right.
32:59
Yeah, he was. He was right there.
33:03
So we now see the band is they're they're just like
33:06
spitballing lyrics. I like this because Jensen has
33:09
really good lyrics and every single time he comes up with
33:12
something they're like, no, no, that's stupid.
33:14
We're not going to do that. They go with like the more
33:15
generic like lyric option and stuff.
33:17
They're all high as fuck and it's interesting to see who is
33:22
actually inspired by like in the in that mindset versus like
33:26
we're going to do the more generic ones.
33:28
Yeah, it was really funny. Yeah.
33:30
And then they they realize that they're probably way too high,
33:33
so they open the garage door for airflow and the zombies come in,
33:39
they start playing music and it holds them back.
33:42
Like they're just kind of like Frozen Place listening to the
33:44
music. Yeah, You know, like I, it's
33:47
such a fun thing. I like, I like the fact that you
33:49
just get the zombies and they can like mosh or something like
33:52
that right there. You know, they don't mosh or
33:54
anything, but that would have been a fun thing if they just
33:56
started like, Oh my God, bobbing their head and like getting into
33:58
the music and stuff. Can you imagine?
34:00
And then that would be like, translate that over to the prom
34:03
scene later. And then that becomes an issue
34:05
for Jimmy when he's trying to get The detonator.
34:08
Because they're going crazy. Yeah.
34:09
Like it gets like lost in the mom crowd.
34:12
That would have been so good. So.
34:14
Fun. Man should have done that.
34:17
So Jimmy, Gwen and Kyle make it to the house.
34:20
Jimmy is mad when he hears that Lindsay was going to the prom
34:23
with Mitch did. A little bit more than that.
34:25
Yeah, well, he he like slut shames her and it's like she
34:28
didn't want what was happening. I mean, she didn't want it, but
34:32
she didn't stop him from kissing.
34:33
She like, she kind of like went into it, but the fact that she's
34:37
still. There's it.
34:41
This becomes a weird thing without knowing what she was
34:45
feeling in the moment, because sometimes reluctantly going
34:49
along with things is a safety mechanism.
34:51
I get that. Yeah, you're right.
34:53
It doesn't mean wanting to, it means what is the safest way for
34:57
me to get out of this? I guess, OK, yeah.
35:00
So shame in probably not the right call there.
35:02
He has a right to be upset about it.
35:04
Yeah, I can see why he's upset that she even agreed to go to
35:06
the prom with somebody else. Yeah, so Gwen says she would
35:11
have gone with Steven if she'd known that that's what he
35:13
wanted. She was like, I like that a
35:14
whole lot better than being here right now.
35:16
That was a weird way to phrase this.
35:18
Like if I had to choose between being in a zombie apocalypse and
35:21
go into prom with you, I would choose go into prom with you.
35:24
Like they would have still been in the zombie apocalypse.
35:26
Well, not only that, but like, yeah, of course.
35:28
You know, like, unless you really are one of those people
35:31
that weirdly want like, a zombie apocalypse.
35:34
I had a friend that wanted a fucking zombie apocalypse to
35:37
happen. Oh my God, he was obsessed with
35:40
zombie movies. And he bought like a whole
35:42
fucking guide to like, you know, learn how to do that shit.
35:46
When we're off here, I'm going to ask you who it is.
35:48
You don't know him. Oh, OK.
35:50
Yeah, he. He's fucking weird.
35:54
Yeah. But you know, like, I guess that
35:56
makes him feel better about he's like, cool, she would have said.
35:59
Yeah, I guess. This is when they realized that
36:03
they're not just in a large state, they are in a Funeral
36:06
Home. So they start running from
36:09
zombies. They wind up in like the the
36:13
morgue area and the lights are out, so they're trying to shoot
36:17
at them in the dark and they hit one.
36:20
Another zombie appears after they've managed to get the
36:22
lights on. Kyle is trying to reload.
36:25
As he is doing so, he gets bit, dies and turns, and then the
36:30
whole group works together to kill him.
36:33
Yeah, they just bash him to. Go.
36:35
Yeah, it's, you know, I think he would have been, if he was going
36:39
to go out that way, I think he would have been OK with that.
36:41
I think there was a lot of pin up aggression like this is for
36:44
fucking breaking my arm. You know, like because that was
36:46
one of the other kids. Like you remember when you broke
36:48
my arm? And he was like, he just kind of
36:50
laughed. Yeah.
36:51
So they realized that prom is going to be a feeding frenzy.
36:55
They need to go get the hearse because it's the only working
36:57
vehicle that they can think of to use.
36:59
And Gwen is the fastest runner, so she's like, all right, I'll
37:02
run and get it. This isn't it happened so fast.
37:05
Like it's such a minor plot point.
37:06
I thought it was going to get stretched out a while.
37:08
There's going to be something that happened.
37:10
But no, she just manages to run and get it.
37:11
Yeah, and it doesn't even matter because they start driving and
37:14
they blow a tire. But Coach Keel is there.
37:17
He's out there killing zombies because the zombies, they just
37:19
stalk. I hated that.
37:22
That was sad. He's getting revenge, you know?
37:24
I'm glad that he's like, fuck these guys, I'm going to get him
37:26
for that. Yeah, but he's ready.
37:29
He's like y'all going to prom to fuck some shit up.
37:31
I'll come with you. Got a fucking Armory in his
37:34
garage. I like how you won't let any of
37:36
the kids use guns. Responsible.
37:38
Yeah. You know, that's, that's right.
37:40
He gets the guns. Everybody else just gets like
37:42
weapons. Yeah, so they're going to go
37:44
save the problem goers. They've also got walkie talkies,
37:47
but. Before they go, Lindsay makes
37:49
them all prey. Yes.
37:50
And here's the thing, whatever opinions you have about
37:55
religion, I don't feel like she was being pushy in this moment.
37:58
This is something that was soothing to her and she wanted
38:03
to share it with other people. And this is again where Jules is
38:06
just being a Dick for no reason. What did he do here?
38:09
He made like some sort of comment about it and like, he
38:11
could have just said, hey, no thanks.
38:13
Like he could have just got out. Like he didn't have to be an
38:16
asshole about it. Like, because The thing is,
38:18
like, I've had people, you know, there's a big difference between
38:21
like, I don't like the way you're living.
38:23
You're going to go to hell for that.
38:24
That's not cool. That's pushing your religion on
38:26
somebody else, saying I want to say a prayer for our safety.
38:30
You're not making me pray with you.
38:32
I mean, she did want everybody to hold hands, but I think she
38:34
would have been OK with him sitting.
38:35
It's like the same thing whenever like somebody wants to
38:37
say grace, I'll do it. I'll like bow my head you're.
38:41
Sharing something that is important to you and you're
38:44
doing it in good faith. Not to be funny, but you know, I
38:49
can understand that your Nana made you got me like a prayer
38:52
cloth for one of my surgeries. Not the type of thing that I
38:56
would normally do, but I appreciate that that meant
38:59
something to her. That was something that that's
39:02
the essence of. It's the thought that counts.
39:03
Yeah, no, I get you. I'm not trying to shame her by
39:06
mentioning it, you know? It's just, you know, like, it's
39:09
a thing like. Yep.
39:11
So they head out. Yep, get in the coach's Hummer
39:14
and we they run into the band who are still performing for the
39:18
Zombies. There's a horde outside of
39:20
Nash's house. Yeah, and the fact that they're
39:22
still like entranced by the music coach goes over there and
39:24
just like, kills them all and the band reveals they've been
39:27
playing for like 5 hours straight.
39:29
He's a witty at the practice. Yeah.
39:31
So they get to prom. It's too late.
39:34
Everybody's already zombies, so they make a plan to take them
39:38
out. Yeah, Coach got a plan.
39:39
He's going to go kaboom. He's got a, he's got a kaboom a
39:41
few spots. So he he put some dynamite like
39:44
in the corners and he's like, all right, you guys go lock up
39:48
all of the exits. That way they can get out.
39:50
And then whenever we get all that done, we'll get out here
39:52
and we'll we'll go kaboom. They find the prom queen and
39:56
some of her friends hiding in the bathroom.
39:59
So they're like, all right, well, you all are coming with us
40:02
because we're going to kaboom. The coach gets everything set up
40:06
and he loses The detonator in the gym.
40:08
It falls into a bowl of potato chips.
40:10
I can't believe it wasn't louder landing into it.
40:16
He tells Jimmy that he's going to need to get it because he
40:19
still has to set up the rest of the explosives.
40:22
And Jimmy is like, you know what?
40:24
If this is how I go out, at least, you know, doing something
40:26
good. So he goes in to get it.
40:28
Lindsay comes with him. They get busted, though, before
40:31
they can grab it. So they start fighting with the
40:34
zombies. But you know who shows up to
40:36
prom after all? The Quarter, Punk.
40:38
The band, they start playing and getting the zombies all
40:41
distracted. I thought it was an interesting
40:43
choice to go with the school song.
40:45
I know. Maybe they didn't want the
40:46
zombies to get too crazy. Maybe they were tired after a 5
40:49
hour practice. Yeah, it could be, yeah.
40:52
It's also possible so they're getting all of the non zombies
40:56
out of the gym before the explosion.
40:58
Gwen pulls Steven to the side. But not yeah, well before that,
41:01
though, they they they shared a dance in there together.
41:03
I thought that that was like a amongst.
41:05
All the chaos, Yes, yes, Jimmy and.
41:08
Lindsay Yeah, they have like a little dance together.
41:10
Yeah. Makeup.
41:13
Glenn pulls Steven inside and she's like, I was bitten.
41:16
And he's like, we got to tell them.
41:18
And she goes, no, they'll just kill me.
41:20
And she kisses him and she turns while she's kissing him.
41:23
So it turns into a body. Lip mid you have mid kiss or
41:27
bites his tongue out something I don't know either way.
41:29
Stretches and pulls out of his face.
41:31
Yeah, but he turns into a zombie and they're just zombies in
41:36
love. They're eating each other and
41:38
make it out. Yep.
41:39
So meanwhile Jimmy and Lindsay, they're now trying to get The
41:42
detonator. They see it, but a zombie, like
41:45
they keep kicking around and then we have another zombie who
41:47
happens to trip over the power cord for the band setup, so the
41:51
music is killed. Yep.
41:53
And so the Mitch's zombie is there 'cause he's not done
41:59
harassing Lindsay still, and he was the zombie thing.
42:03
Though it was kind of cool and like they had those things where
42:05
he's just carrying it around. It felt very reanimated.
42:08
Yeah, it did. Yeah, I was singing the same
42:09
thing. And so they they get chased
42:13
under the bleachers and the zombie hits the bleachers.
42:15
So it's like collapsing in and they have to run and they
42:19
eventually managed to get out and then it gets plugged back
42:22
in. So they get The detonator and
42:26
they run. The bio teacher comes out, Mr.
42:30
Frog Man, he attached it. He attacks Jimmy, but Lindsay
42:35
gives him like tosses Jimmy the axe.
42:38
He acts as the teacher. Yep.
42:41
And then get out and Jimmy stops them as they're running out.
42:44
Also, Jensen died, they were run into the room there they were
42:48
all like running away. And yeah.
42:50
Jason got Jason was my favorite. It made me sad that he got.
42:54
Guy his bandmates didn't appreciate him enough.
42:57
I know. So they run out.
43:01
The school explodes. Jimmy stops Lindsay just in
43:04
front of the explosion so they can kiss in front of it like
43:06
cool guys. And then Coach is going to take
43:09
them all, not to Waffle House, but to Waffle Home.
43:12
For juice and pancakes, Waffle Home for pancakes.
43:18
OK buddy. OK, buddy.
43:21
OK, that's. It and then no, we see the
43:23
groundskeeper there and he enters the school.
43:26
I don't understand the purpose of that.
43:28
A lot of people speculate that it was like a set up for a
43:31
sequel, but obviously nothing has happened in almost 20 years
43:34
so. Yeah, yeah.
43:35
So, yeah, that's the movie. That's it.
43:38
All right. Do you change your rating on
43:40
this? I could bump it to a 5.5.
43:43
Bump in it. Yeah, it has like some OK
43:45
moments. I would still want a lot more
43:47
from it. Yeah, I think I'm keeping mine
43:49
out of five. It's still a perfectly even
43:51
movie for me here. It's still fine.
43:54
It's fine, It's fine movie. So ending average 5.25.
43:58
All right, not too bad. Who did you relate to?
44:00
I relate to the zombies with the music there, you know, like, OK,
44:04
just like getting into like just the members of that.
44:06
You hear that guitar or whatever, you just kind of like
44:08
stop and just like you're what about.
44:13
You probably Gwen because I also hated dissection day at school.
44:18
Made me sad. Yeah, this shit sucks.
44:21
Who fucking thought of this? So sad.
44:25
I know, OK. What was Scout's favorite part?
44:36
I'm going to say Scout really liked it whenever the the band
44:45
started playing and the zombies got into it.
44:48
No, obviously Scout's favorite part was when Gwen and Steven
44:51
were making out because they were fighting and biting each
44:54
other. And that's how she plays with
44:55
her sisters as she's aggressive invites.
44:58
That's fair. The reason I said the music
45:00
thing is that's how they all are.
45:01
Whenever they have a song that they like, they all like come
45:03
out and they're like, Oh yeah, baby.
45:06
We discovered last night that Zoe really loves my Furbies
45:09
singing. Yeah, Furby, it was like party
45:12
time and Zoe came running. Then party time word.
45:17
OK, what's next? Dream sequel.
45:25
OK, so if we were to do something with this, I, I don't
45:34
know, man. I don't know if there's anything
45:36
there I want to see from these characters here.
45:40
And I know this isn't the game. I'm fine with it being a one and
45:42
done, yeah. But like what would happen?
45:45
Like what would we want like for a sequel?
45:48
I guess I would because, I mean, they started up, that coach was
45:51
going to take them all around, they were going to kick zombie
45:52
ass. So I wouldn't mind seeing them
45:54
as like Ghostbusters, but they're zombie Busters.
45:56
What if they become like, yeah, some kind of like task force or
45:59
whatever the government employs them, some kind of like rogue
46:03
mercenary squad or something like that.
46:05
It's so improbable with that, like a coach, a high school
46:08
coach in high schoolers become this like fucking task force
46:12
team. But this is our man.
46:13
And then Jimmy is like, he's second in command behind the
46:17
coach. So that like, ties up his whole
46:19
arc of not taking things seriously.
46:21
Yeah, yeah, OK. I I can dig it.
46:23
I can dig. It and it's revealed that the
46:26
groundskeeper played a part in it.
46:29
Oh, I like that. Yeah, so he's like the big bad,
46:33
OK. Yeah, OK.
46:36
What would Dom do? Well, I I don't know how Dom
46:44
gets out of this one. I think I mean like I think he
46:47
actually successfully just fights off all these fuckers.
46:49
I. Think he successfully drives
46:51
away. He could drive away.
46:52
I think he would probably drive into them.
46:56
That's true, he would be all for like this gym explosion idea.
47:01
Yeah, like, of course, big explosion, he's going to be a
47:05
huge part of that. It's going to be involved.
47:07
I agree he'd probably just like drive into them the building.
47:10
He would like that somehow causes it to explode.
47:12
Yeah, of course. It's kind of like.
47:15
We have learned nothing from movies if not driving into
47:19
things really fast makes them explode.
47:20
And yeah, car is super safe, yeah.
47:24
Like you can land on him, you can get hit by him, you can do
47:26
anything with a. Car and swing from a rope of the
47:28
car. Cars can provide first aid.
47:30
Yeah, like they can actually do CPR.
47:33
Didn't know that. Did you all?
47:36
Right, I think that leaves us with a particular question.
47:40
To be or not to be, I say go into this if you're looking for
47:47
something, if you want, if you've watched all kinds of
47:49
zombie movies and you're running out of things to watch, go ahead
47:51
and watch this one. You'll you'll have some fun with
47:54
it. It does some fun things with it.
47:57
It's a very like not strong push.
48:01
If you, if it sounds like your type of movie, go give it a
48:04
shot. If you don't really like, if you
48:07
got a lot of other things you'd rather be watching or you got
48:09
like a backlog, go ahead and go with your backlog first.
48:12
We'll get to this one later. That being said, I do have some
48:19
reviews OK to read as well. Let's do it So, and this was
48:24
hard because again, IMDb is being funky.
48:26
So I got some from Reddit, OK, where I was mostly finding
48:29
positive. I'll just I'll read the negative
48:31
because that's, you know, we've kind of been more on that side
48:33
of it. Just I like horror comedy and it
48:36
just didn't hit even though I tried.
48:38
OK, so. I mean, yeah, like, do you have
48:42
a positive review, too? I do.
48:44
OK, Yeah. I mean, yeah, I mean, some of
48:47
the comedy was there and some of it didn't land for me either.
48:50
But you know, like I at least had fun.
48:53
I I can at least appreciate that much from it.
48:56
OK, the performances, particularly those of Leeds,
49:00
Jarrett, Kuznetz and Grace and Chadwick were solid.
49:02
They, along with the rest of the cast, had great chemistry and
49:05
all bounced off of one another fabulously.
49:07
I wouldn't put money on any of them being actual teenagers
49:09
during filming. A couple of them even look close
49:12
to 30 but the store, but they were enjoyable enough for that
49:15
to be overlooked. As for the the story was an
49:17
excellent mix of campiness and genuinely sweet charm about it
49:20
that just worked really well. The characters felt like actual
49:22
people instead of bodies to put on a tally, and because of that
49:25
there was reason to care about whether they lived or died.
49:28
The couple romantic subplots in the mix didn't feel shoehorned,
49:31
and while nothing new, both had great payouts.
49:33
The horror elements were super effective with a good comic
49:36
tinge, and there was never a sense of predictability in terms
49:39
of the kills. In terms of who would die, it
49:41
seems like anybody could go at any point.
49:43
The kills, both Living Anna dead, were fun and had lots of
49:46
variety. They were.
49:48
There were a couple of really nice sequences of characters
49:50
going wild on ZS with all manner of weaponry.
49:53
On top of that, the sentimental moments were wonderful when they
49:56
happened and felt more cute than corny, or at least bad corny.
50:00
Pretty much every little thing had some kind of payoff to which
50:02
was unexpected and very welcome. Additionally, this did something
50:06
really well that I didn't see a lot of other movies do.
50:09
Important bits of story or development delivered in a
50:11
really subtle way. Whether it's characters earning
50:13
respect for one another, sharing a cathartic moment together, or
50:16
getting a taste of sweet revenge, there were lots of
50:18
moments where the script deliberately chose not to call
50:20
too much attention to things and let the event speak for itself.
50:25
It worked. OK, I can like, respect a lot of
50:29
what that person said right there.
50:30
Like I it did have some really fun set pieces.
50:33
It did have some nice sweet moments to it too that I did
50:36
appreciate. Those were kind of cool.
50:38
I I don't agree that everything had really good payoff and I I
50:41
don't need things to be called to my attention.
50:43
Yeah, I don't either. I just also feel like that it
50:47
there wasn't enough lead up to the payoff or the payoff wasn't
50:50
big enough like with jewels like him being like, oh, women, women
50:54
are people interesting. Like I feel like we we didn't
50:57
get enough for that. Yeah, I mean, my my big pick
51:01
with this still is just it felt like it didn't have any
51:04
direction. Yeah, it was just like a we're
51:06
gonna do shit. Yeah, we, we've got this cast of
51:09
people. We need to get them all to the
51:10
gym. Yeah, how don't matter.
51:13
Doesn't matter. All right.
51:16
So I think that's it for this. Mm hmm, Yep, that'll do it.
51:20
See y'all on the main episode on Thursday.
51:25
We'll have our announcement out. You may know by this point or
51:29
you may not know what the movie is at this point, but it is a
51:34
movie and it is happening on Thursday.
51:36
So be on the lookout. It is one that you have probably
51:39
seen. Of course, it's going to be a
51:41
big franchise coverage for us, the debut.
51:44
So yeah, be on the lookout for that.
51:46
It'll be fun. I'm excited for it.
51:48
We're about to record it now. Yay.
51:49
So before we go do that, we have to do our synops.
51:53
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52:05
Oh yeah, Lord Zombie, Yeah. You're the prom king in this
52:09
movie. He would be, yeah.
52:11
And he probably likes to jam out the music, too.
52:13
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