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#300: The Happening (2008) · What's Your (Least) Favorite Scary Movie?

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  Hello. What's your least favorite scary
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  movie? We're just normal people.
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  Oh, Blackwater, keep on rolling this sleeping moon.
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  What? You keep on shining on me.
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  See. Welcome.
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  For the 300th time. Yeah.
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  What's? Your least favorite Scary.
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  Movie, The podcast where we talk about the good, the best, the
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  ugly, and most of all, the absurd in all of our favorite.
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  Family's favorite? Scary movies.
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  Because we believe every horror movie rightfully has its fan
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  base. Even if we don't always get it.
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  My name's Travis. My name's Jesse.
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  And welcome everybody to Big episode #300 on the show.
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  It's a special day for us here. And, you know, we figured we
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  would do it by covering a special movie.
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  What up? What's happening?
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  That's right. And it's the happening.
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  I mean, yeah, like, how else can you celebrate #300 I can't think
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  of a better way. So yeah, we're going to get into
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  that here in a minute. But before we get into our
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  normal coverage, do we have any announcements?
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  Budget to your bubbies. Your bonus episode should be
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  available for you on the Patreon right now.
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  That we decided this actually kind of sort of from an argument
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  we are having to leave it on or not of all things the long Walk,
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  if that was a single location movie or not.
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  And I said obviously not. We started going back and forth
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  and we decided it's time for us to settle this debate once and
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  for all. What is a single location movie?
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  That is September's bonus episode on the Patreon right now
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  for all of our budget tier bubbies.
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  Or if you would like to pay $5 for the single episode, that is
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  an option as well. I'm excited.
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  I'm excited to finally get it, get the groundwork way down.
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  I think this is going to be like the defining piece of work that
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  will establish what a single location movie is for everybody.
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  Yes, yeah, I'm pretty sure we'll be in textbook someday.
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  It's going to be peer reviewed. Yeah, absolutely.
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  By you guys. Yeah, you're the peers.
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  Yeah. All right, cool.
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  So yeah, go check that out. I'm excited to do that.
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  We haven't recorded it yet, so I don't know how that conversation
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  goes. You know, we just felt like we'd
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  be in the perfect headspace after talking about the
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  happening. Yeah.
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  You know, honestly, yeah, I think that that's the right call
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  right there. Yeah, absolutely.
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  All right. I don't have polls for last
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  week's movie. I It's just it's a thing that
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  unfortunately didn't happen. This time it was Travis's
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  medical issues that threw us off.
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  It was my turn. That's right.
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  So Yep, I am. I'm dealing with shit.
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  Yeah, not me in the ER without a voice.
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  Yeah, this time. But it's OK.
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  I'm, I'm, I'm here, I'm here talking so that that's enough
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  for us to be able to keep trucking.
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  I think so. Yeah, I think so too.
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  I hope so at least. Without further ado, do we want
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  to get into it? Yeah, OK, let's get into it.
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  The Happening released June 13th, 2008.
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  We watched it on our DVD and if you want to stream it anywhere,
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  you have one option and that option is YouTube TV.
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  If you don't have YouTube TV then you best be written on
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  Amazon or on YouTube. Yeah, there you go.
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  Yeah, you're paying YouTube something either way.
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  Or you can do what we did. We went to Half Price Books and
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  found a DVD for like 3 bucks. Yeah, it was really cheap and.
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  It was meant to be. The only thing, the only
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  difference is you have to enter the judgement of the person at
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  the checkout counter, which we had to do when we bought the
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  DVD. Yeah, he was like, oh God, not
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  this movie. And then we started talking
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  about how much we love M Night Shyamalan, and I think we
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  accidentally made him feel bad, which isn't what we were trying
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  to do. We were just.
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  He like he worked himself into his own M Night rant actually,
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  because we are not even really giving him enough to go on.
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  And he's like, you know what? But it's also bullshit that he
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  feels like he has to do a twist. I'm like, man, this has been
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  like, I didn't realize the purchase of the Happening was
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  gonna bring this out of a man, but it did.
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  Apparently I just have to assume that he tries to talk about it
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  with his coworkers and everybody's like, we're not
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  talking about this with you yet. Yeah, nobody knows who M Night
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  Shyamalan is, man. Everybody knows who M Night
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  Shyamalan is. They should.
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  They should. So, Speaking of the man himself
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  in my shaman wrote and directed this movie.
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  And produced And produced. It was in big letters during the
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  opening crisis. Yeah, he likes to make it known
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  that he makes shit himself. Yeah, he didn't 100% bankroll
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  this movie himself, by the way. I think half of it was a
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  bankrolled by an Indian producer.
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  I don't know, it's like some kind of Indian like India based
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  production company stepped in and like footed half the bill
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  for him. Music is by James Newton Howard
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  and special effects makeup by Steve Crimmin.
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  Both of those people are repeat collaborators.
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  OK, cool. Yeah, starring Marky Mark as
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  Elliott. And the Funky Bunch as everyone
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  else. That's right.
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  Yep, that that's to the rest of the cast.
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  I honestly would not have been mad if that's how like the
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  credits roll and it's like and the Funky Bunch, it's just like
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  everybody's name. That's all that plays cuz it's
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  the plants vibrations. That and the money song that you
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  were telling me about. Yeah.
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  Zooey Deschanel. Zooey Deschanel is Alma John
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  Leguizamo. Come on man.
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  See, I always have trouble with this, so in my notes, before I
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  knew his character's name, I just wrote him as John Luigi.
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  Because he also plays Luigi. Yeah, most notably.
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  That is, yes, that is his most well known.
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  Role. I know for a lot of people that
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  he is a big actor and a lot of people have like roles that they
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  would attribute him to, but he's just always Luigi to me.
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  I will say shout out to Chad that when I said John Leguizamo
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  couldn't have a bad performance if he had a gun to his head, he
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  was like, man, I still need to see Mario World that was like
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  his. Oh.
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  His first reaction? I said Mario, Well, listen,
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  Mario Brothers. Yeah, I got we.
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  Know, yeah. Boy, that's a.
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  That's a So yeah, I guess for you and Chad it John Leguizamo,
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  Luigi. Ashlyn Sanchez as Jess, Betty
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  Buckley as Misses Jones, Spencer Breslin as Josh and Robert
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  Bailey Junior as Jared. OK, Jesse, time for our favorite
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  game on the show. Budget.
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  All budgeted. Listen, Shamwan works with big
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  bankrolls. How does stacks on stacks on
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  stacks? Yeah, go ahead.
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  Yeah, that's a budget. Yeah, yeah, you're right.
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  It is budget. It's a, it's a pretty big
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  budget. It's $48 million.
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  All right. Where does this man have this
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  money? Did he just like have that one
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  successful movie and just kept like putting it into each movie?
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  I think there's that and I also think just like watching the
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  behind the scenes and reading interviews and stuff with him, I
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  think he's just got like, he just endears himself to people.
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  You know, he's nice. I was watching the special
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  features on the Happening and the weird thing about that is
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  they only. It seems as though they only
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  decided to do like the special features footage for one day of
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  shooting every. Everything was at that house.
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  Every feature was at the house where the kids get shot.
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  And it's like, why did you guys only do it on this one day?
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  Like this movie went so many other places and like it's just
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  I want to know the making of the whole movie, not this one scene,
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  but like it all kept coming back to that one scene for some weird
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  reason. It was also really funny when he
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  was introducing the extended scenes and deleted scenes and
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  he'd be like, so we just, there was a lot more to this line
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  attack or to this shooting than what we actually showed on
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  screen. It's like 2 extra seconds for
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  each one. And I like that he was like,
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  that's the line that I I couldn't cross for general
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  audiences. He's a.
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  He's sensitive. I've got theories about this
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  that I'll go into later, but we. Have explanations?
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  Yeah, I have explanations. Yeah, we'll get into it.
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  OK. Opening box office for the movie
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  was $30 million, Worldwide gross $163 million.
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  That's the that's the pool of Shyamalan, man.
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  That's why he keeps getting money.
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  And here's the other aspect of Shyamalan when it comes to the
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  rating, it's a 5 even on IMDb. So this movie is it's people are
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  5050. Love him or you hate him.
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  I mean, it's true. He's probably one of the more
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  polarizing directors I've seen out there.
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  Like people either just really strongly hate his work or they
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  just, like, really love it. So I have three other movies
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  from 2008 to draw comparisons to, and I do.
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  We do have a theme that fits all together here. 2008. 2008 in
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  2008, yes it is. Nature fights bet.
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  Wow, OK, we were all worried about.
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  That then, yeah, surprisingly, 4 movies had that kind of theme
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  going on here. So movie number one, the first
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  two we have covered and obviously this is The Ruins.
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  Yeah. Yeah, that's a fun movie.
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  You know, a bunch of flowers and vines and shit like that
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  attacking. It's a good time.
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  That movie released April 4th, 2008 with an $8 million budget
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  and a $22 million gross. Go listen to us talk about it.
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  Yeah, it was one of the more recent episodes.
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  It was a good one too. I like that one.
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  It's a 5.9 out of 10 on IMDb rating there.
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  A little rude. I think that is a rude.
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  Yeah, like it's, it's a really good movie if you ask me.
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  All right, movie #2 liberties here, but it's a short, but I
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  still think it counts. Is it revenge?
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  It's revenge, yeah. Christmas tree goes and attacks
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  people because they're just being killed and murdered just
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  for one like season, like just one day of celebration and they
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  just get casted out. Yeah, it is macabre if you think
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  about it from the tree's perspective.
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  They had a reason to fight back, just like the plants in The
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  Happening. They're like, this is a warning,
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  motherfuckers, don't do this shit.
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  If you do want to hear our coverage of that, that is one of
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  our Patreon episodes. So and that released July 7th.
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  It's 2008. Do not have any financial
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  information, but it is the strongest rating out of all of
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  them here. It's a 7.3.
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  I like it. Yeah, I like that guy's style.
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  And obviously, I'm a sucker for the Trailer Park Boys.
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  Connections. Here you get J Rock.
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  J Rock, baby. He's in it.
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  A final movie Splinter. It's not one that I've seen
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  before, but I did read the synopsis because I read the
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  title. I was like, that sounds like
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  nature could be involved, and I was right.
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  My brain just immediately went to splinter cells, so OK.
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  Yeah, it's not a spy or like a whatever thriller.
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  It's. Yeah, I assume not.
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  No, it's it involves fungi. Gross.
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  Yeah, it doesn't sound like a fun time.
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  It released October 31st, 2008. No budget worldwide Gross
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  522,006.1 IMDb score. OK, now I've got tag lines.
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  Tag lines. This first one is probably one
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  of the best tag lines. So yeah, it's just, I love what
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  they did with it. So we've sensed it, we've seen
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  the signs. Now it's happening.
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  We couldn't have come up with anything I.
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  Know that feels like one that was made from our show right
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  there. Yeah.
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  And that's so fucking good. Oh my God.
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  I love that I get left out of his flat movie too.
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  I OK, sorry, I'm going to write down my pitch to go along with
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  that for the end. OK, I won't look.
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  I want that to be a surprise. I love that though, that it's
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  just so good throwing in all of his his big movies.
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  It's really well done. We got one other tagline, the
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  event we could not foresee on a scale we cannot imagine.
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  It gets the story across a little bit better, but go with
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  the first one. The first one.
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  I like that. So that's it for taglines.
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  Let's go on into our fun facts. OK.
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  All right. So, OK.
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  So one of the things that I always see people talk about
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  whenever they discuss this movie is the intention behind it
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  whenever it was being made. So I know that generally when
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  you have a conversation about it, people say he was trying to
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  make AB movie on purpose, which to be true.
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  He does say that. He said that in the special
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  features too, he wanted to do a throwback B movie.
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  So he was looking at something kind of similar to like the
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  Birds, you know, like natural disasters, paranoia type movies
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  from like the 60s and the 70s. So that's where it all
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  originated. However, he said as he was
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  writing it, it ended up slipping into something deeper.
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  So he, I think, abandoned the B movie aspect of it and ended up
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  trying to make something a little bit more Shamalan ask
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  where it was like more deep meaning and you know.
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  But it still had a very corny dialogue.
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  It did, but I think there's a reason, OK, like he had to
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  completely rewrite the script. OK, so one of the things is he
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  had the original screenplay, it was called or the treatment was
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  called the green effect. Thing is, he had a really tough
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  time getting this thing bought by studios because the movie
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  that he had just made, The Woman in Black, bombed and nobody was
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  really interested in getting his shit after that.
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  So he ended up just taking that script, rewriting it, and then
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  that's what ended up becoming the Happening in the original
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  version of this, by the way, we never find out what is
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  happening. OK, but he was just wanting to
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  still get like the impression of like it's nature being pissed
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  off at you. Like the message is still there,
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  it's just we never get an explanation.
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  This is his very first R rated movie.
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  OK. And that I think is part of what
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  we were getting with the special features there where he's like,
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  it's just like, it was too hard for me to do because like, I
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  feel like this man, it's not in his nature to do R rated.
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  Yeah. And he was saying some of the
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  stuff that we were seeing in the special features was unrated
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  tier stuff, which I really like, or like NC 17 rated tier stuff.
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  I don't really think it was that bad.
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  We had some deleted scenes, yeah.
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  Or some extended scenes even have extra carnage.
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  A lot more of the back of Jared's head.
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  We seem like we see Jared actually get shot so that part
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  isn't taken away. We see extended footage of the
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  lion attack scene like Jesse was talking about.
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  And when they're in the diner, there's another scene where they
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  had like a recital going on where a bunch of people ended up
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  just killing themselves during a piano or violin recital.
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  That one I'm glad got cut because I would have had so many
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  more questions if it was in the final cut of the film cuz it.
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  Introduced some things that was. Weird, yes?
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  We saw people just passing out, following over and.
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  And then the the one guy killed himself by swallowing his cello
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  bow. And I don't know it like I don't
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  know how that works. Yeah, I, I had like, I saw that
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  happening. I was like, that's not the
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  direction that I thought he was going to take it and just slide
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  it across his neck, you know, like his neck was the instrument
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  instead. Yeah, we're like, I don't know,
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  make a garage out of one of his cello strings, something.
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  I don't know. I'm just, I'm glad that one was
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  cut. Just more for me.
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  I'm glad it was cut because it asked it.
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  Made me ask me questions. Yeah, I agree.
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  And he said it was his favorite part of the script and he was
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  really sad to see that one go. But he said it was too gruesome,
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  which it really wasn't. But I.
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  Also, like, I really love stuff like this.
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  Whenever writers are asked how they came up with an idea and I
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  was just like, I don't know, man, just living life like,
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  here's this completely normal thing I was doing because that's
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  he's like, was that a friend's piano recital like.
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  That was his daughter's. His daughter's piano recital.
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  Which I think is kind of funny because like that's kind of
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  building up to the whole thing with Trap, with her being like a
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  performer and stuff too. Not that brutal, but he wanted
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  it to be pretty brutal movie I think.
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  It's dark because it's like a kids recital.
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  Yeah, well, see, The thing is, the guy that got up, he was more
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  of an adult too, which I thought was strange, but then again, an
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  adult's wasn't. He I assume so.
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  I was gonna say he had facial hair, but teens couldn't have
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  facial hair. Yeah.
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  It just it's like like a Fry situation with his holophoner
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  lessons, like he's just the adult that wanted to learn.
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  That well, that's what I'm saying too and you know there's
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  something wrong with that Adults seem to have help sometimes
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  learning stuff too. You know the movie was shot in
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  continuity. So like I guess like
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  chronological continuity. He did that to try and keep the
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  actors immersed in everything that was happening.
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  Speaking of like a the rewrite, by the way, he he wrote Elliott
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  for Mark Wahlberg specifically. And yeah, like apparently him
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  and Mark Wahlberg are friends. And this is some of the funniest
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  shit that I had heard because he was talking, there were two
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  separate talking heads of this in the behind the scenes thing.
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  And he originally had Elliot being like this type of
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  character. But the more he started writing
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  the character, the more he was writing it as he saw Mark
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  Wahlberg in Night Shyamalan sees Mark Wahlberg as this innocent
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  go lucky kid. Basically, Elliot is how Mark
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  Wahlberg is perceived by M Knight Shaman.
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  He says so himself in there and then it cut immediately to Mark
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  Wahlberg. He's like, yeah, I don't know
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  why, but M Knight thinks I'm some kind of like innocent guy
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  or something. He admitted himself that he is a
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  piece of shit and he is not innocent.
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  He's like, yeah, I really don't understand why he he got this
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  impression of me, which I think is why whenever we see in the
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  behind the scenes thing, we get so many like bits of Mark
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  Wahlberg questioning his characters moments.
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  The best, the best for us when he was like, why are we going to
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  this abandoned house if we're looking for food?
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  M Night laughs for 45 seconds and then he goes 2 words.
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  Canned goods. Yeah, And, like, I mean, that's
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  a good answer. But there was also a thing, too,
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  where that scene where that kid gets shot with a shotgun and he
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  goes over there and tries to grab the shotgun.
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  He was doing it for a bit and he's like, so do I keep
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  jiggling? Because I feel like it's kind of
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  silly if I'm doing this for a little while, you know what I
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  mean? He's like, he kept questioning
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  everything. And I think it was because he
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  was like, does he really think I'm like this?
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  Is this who he perceives me to be?
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  Like the guy that goes over there and Jingle stuff.
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  Is Mark Wahlberg M Night's best friend?
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  But M Night isn't Mark's best friend.
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  It seems to be the case. No, I feel like M Night deserves
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  better than that. I think M Night has a
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  surprisingly optimistic look on the world for all of the horror
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  movies he makes. I also have my own theory that
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  could be the case, is that he secretly hates Mark Wahlberg and
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  he wanted the world perceived. Yeah, he wanted to.
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  Like, he wanted to give him the like weirdest fucking character,
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  give him the weirdest fucking lines and like creative
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  decisions and like make him look bad publicly.
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  I will explain my theory in a little bit.
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  I've got additional thoughts behind it though.
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  And then the final thing is we did get a deleted scene.
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  It was the very first one that we saw and we got a big lengthy
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  explanation about it from M Night and it was before the
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  movie. The original opening scene was
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  going to be Elliot and Alma having their big fight that is
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  referenced throughout the movie and ended up it.
• 19:27
  It was about them just like kind of going over the problems that
• 19:30
  gets brought up eventually. Like him not being grown up
• 19:33
  enough for her and she's wanting to feel protected and she didn't
• 19:36
  feel like he was the right person on their wedding day.
• 19:40
  It's a pretty heavy opening, but he cut it because he realized
• 19:46
  that they cover all of this eventually.
• 19:48
  It gets like brought up organically throughout the
• 19:50
  movie. It doesn't it doesn't it
• 19:52
  doesn't. Like some of these things do
• 19:53
  come up. And like after watching the
• 19:55
  scene, I was like, oh, that explains this because like, yes,
• 19:58
  when we're in the like at the end of the movie, the bunker and
• 20:02
  he's like, I got to do this if I want to protect you.
• 20:04
  I'm like, that was a weird thing to say.
• 20:06
  And then like we brought back to the opening and she's like, if
• 20:09
  something big ever happened in our lives, I don't know if you.
• 20:12
  I would be the kind of guy that would be able to step up and
• 20:14
  protect me. It also we didn't have context
• 20:18
  for their marital problems, we just knew they had marital
• 20:19
  problems which that's fine like. Yeah, you know, it's.
• 20:22
  Human thing, yeah, but also his obsession with this goddamn mood
• 20:25
  ring and how sentimental and important it was to him.
• 20:29
  And up until we watched this deleted scene I assumed it was
• 20:32
  the fucking mood ring that he gifted her on their first date
• 20:34
  and at some point stole back I guess.
• 20:38
  But it wasn't. He got it from his Honey Bunches
• 20:40
  of votes that morning in the cereal.
• 20:43
  The best part about that too, is throughout the entire scene,
• 20:46
  even after she leaves, she's just holding the cereal, but
• 20:48
  he's like watching it to his chest.
• 20:50
  I feel like that would be you if we had a fight like this.
• 20:52
  I thought about it too. I was like damn that guy loves
• 20:55
  the cereal almost as much as I did.
• 20:58
  I thought it was like a it was cool and he ended up saying he
• 21:01
  caught it because he felt like it was too much and also it
• 21:04
  would have ended up being better as like ended up being more like
• 21:08
  back story for the characters more than anything.
• 21:10
  And at least since it was the first thing they shot, it gave
• 21:13
  them what they were working off of for the rest of the movie.
• 21:17
  Yeah. So, yeah, it's pretty
• 21:19
  interesting. And that's all the stuff that I
• 21:22
  have for the fun facts. OK, so let's get on into our
• 21:25
  discussion here. Good, bad, ugly and upstairs,
• 21:27
  Jesse. Well, good.
• 21:28
  I think that this is, it's an interesting story.
• 21:34
  You know, there were a lot of like natural disaster movies
• 21:36
  around this time. How many science classes did we
• 21:38
  sit in where we had to watch The Day After Tomorrow?
• 21:40
  We watched a couple like that. Yeah, I watched Dante's Inferno.
• 21:44
  Dante's Inferno. Like there there are.
• 21:47
  This is an interesting version. Dante's Peak.
• 21:51
  Dante's Peak, I was going. To say Dante's Inferno is
• 21:53
  something else. Yeah, actually that would have
• 21:55
  made sense though, because my science teacher was like a
• 21:57
  pastor, so he also did involve the teachings of God and his
• 22:00
  science teacher I. Didn't question it.
• 22:02
  It was just Dante's great, yeah. Sorry, go ahead.
• 22:07
  Well it makes sense because Dante's Peak is a volcano.
• 22:10
  So you say inferno lava it? Makes sense, I know.
• 22:13
  Yeah. Yeah, so I think that this is an
• 22:15
  interesting entry into like the natural disaster, you know, in
• 22:18
  terms of like a horror movie version of that.
• 22:20
  So I think that's pretty good. I'm always going to give points
• 22:23
  for John Leguizamo, literally always.
• 22:26
  I can't think of good. I can only think of the Mario
• 22:29
  movie and the menu and then this movie.
• 22:32
  Where else is? Oh my God, he isn't that, isn't
• 22:35
  he? Yeah, he's in a ton of shit.
• 22:37
  He's just, he's just one of those guys that kind of sneaks
• 22:39
  up on me, I guess. He's everywhere.
• 22:41
  Yeah, he's everywhere. But he is always ready to sneak
• 22:44
  up on you. But yeah, I think like this is
• 22:47
  an interesting group of characters in terms of like
• 22:50
  actors to bring together. I think that there was a lot of
• 22:56
  interesting ways to do deaths in this movie.
• 22:58
  And like those opening, like, montages of people just dying,
• 23:04
  Yeah, like, those are pretty intense, especially like that
• 23:06
  the construction scene. Yeah, that one really like
• 23:10
  because like that's something that you mean it's plausible on
• 23:13
  a normal day of work. But then the fact that it starts
• 23:16
  happening in waves is even more. It just becomes unsettling at
• 23:19
  that point. And also I like the plant
• 23:22
  people, plant couple. The plant couple, I am surprised
• 23:26
  that they died. I wanted more of them.
• 23:28
  They didn't even get names. They didn't.
• 23:30
  I even checked the IMDb like I just the plants were pissed off
• 23:34
  at people, including the people that understood them.
• 23:37
  That were being so kind to them. Yeah, like, maybe, like I think
• 23:40
  it would have been cool to have a scene of like the entire wave
• 23:43
  of people that they were with died, but they are the only two
• 23:45
  standing in the crowd. Maybe it was just like the guilt
• 23:48
  by association. Yeah, maybe.
• 23:51
  I don't know. So yeah.
• 23:53
  Yeah, and I understand that he had to have Marky Mark
• 23:59
  protecting multiple children for his, like, arc of growth that we
• 24:05
  didn't know was the whole thing. Yeah.
• 24:07
  Yeah. So I get why we split them up,
• 24:10
  but I just was still sad. OK.
• 24:13
  What? What's your goods?
• 24:15
  OK, yeah, I agree. Like the the whole idea of the
• 24:19
  movie itself is pretty scary. Just having people just have
• 24:23
  like, mass suicide and waves and yeah, like that opening scene,
• 24:28
  it really is effective. I'll give him credit for that.
• 24:31
  Like those moments where everybody's just watching the
• 24:34
  new, like, it honestly, like reminded me a lot of after 911,
• 24:41
  like just the news on all the time, school getting getting
• 24:44
  cancelled. Yeah.
• 24:45
  Like things are just and everybody's just terrified and
• 24:47
  everything was making everybody paranoid that something else was
• 24:49
  happening. Yeah, yeah, you're right.
• 24:51
  Because I mean, I guess it was kind of because they keep
• 24:53
  calling it a terrorist attack. So I mean, yeah, that's pretty
• 24:56
  fresh for 2008. Yeah.
• 25:00
  And so basically from this point on, all of the things that are
• 25:04
  good for me are also in the bad category because this movie
• 25:08
  lands firmly in the so bad, it's good genre for me.
• 25:12
  I agree. So I will add one more thing for
• 25:16
  the the good in my good comment or good area here.
• 25:22
  But whenever we get to the bad, I'm still probably going to be,
• 25:24
  like, speaking about it positively, but it's comedic.
• 25:28
  Again, Shyamalan proves that he has like, you know, comedy
• 25:31
  skills with his writing. Absolutely.
• 25:33
  The part that really gets me the most is that scene with Elliot
• 25:37
  talking to the classic plant, which I love that I saw online.
• 25:42
  Some people were shitting on that.
• 25:43
  It's like a terrible, like, dumb moment.
• 25:45
  I'm like, that was funny. Like that was a good moment.
• 25:48
  Yes, and that's the thing. I think we we had this
• 25:52
  breakthrough earlier this year where we're like, Oh my God,
• 25:55
  Shyamalan is actually a really funny guy and watching this with
• 25:59
  that new understanding of him, I appreciated so many more things
• 26:04
  about this movie. I did too.
• 26:05
  Yeah. Like you can actually see the
• 26:07
  comedy, like, not everything. Just because he writes like
• 26:09
  these scary, you know, spooky movies doesn't mean that he
• 26:12
  can't inject a little bit of comedy in here every now and.
• 26:15
  Then work too. He is Oh my God, work humor.
• 26:18
  That was the thing in the behind the scenes scenes, the way he
• 26:20
  was like talking to his crew and everything.
• 26:23
  He is a fucking dork. And it's.
• 26:25
  It's endearing though. Endearing honestly.
• 26:27
  Like he would be a fun guy to work for I think.
• 26:30
  Like just from everything I saw. Absolutely.
• 26:33
  He's a nice guy, absolutely. OK, so let's go.
• 26:37
  Let's go over to the bad stuff then.
• 26:39
  I mean, kind of a little bit what I was talking about before,
• 26:42
  like there, the editing is confusing to me seeing these
• 26:48
  like extra scenes, like, so I'm like, OK, well, this actually
• 26:52
  added a lot more context for what they were going through.
• 26:56
  So it would have been nice to see that.
• 26:57
  And it would have been nice to see the origin of that
• 26:59
  particular mood ring because as it was, I was all fucked up
• 27:02
  watching. I I was overly fixated on this
• 27:05
  mood ring for most of the movie. You were and I.
• 27:07
  It was one of those things I kept forgetting about, but you
• 27:09
  were. You could come bored about the
• 27:11
  mood ring. Because it kept coming up and I
• 27:13
  was like, why is this so important?
• 27:15
  And yeah, so that. But then, you know, we had the
• 27:19
  recital which would have introduced more questions.
• 27:23
  So some of the editing, I'm like, I feel like we could have
• 27:25
  done a little bit here, a little less there.
• 27:28
  I. Wonder if it's like a mishmash
• 27:29
  of his like previous script and his like rewrite it.
• 27:33
  Maybe. You know, like maybe he just
• 27:34
  didn't like clean it up enough and you know, I think that would
• 27:38
  explain some of the things cuz we do get some inconsistencies
• 27:41
  with some stuff. And I also with this he's too
• 27:45
  Mark Wahlberg is too marky Mark for me cuz he's doing he's very
• 27:48
  much the hello, tell your mother I said hi.
• 27:51
  Yeah, he is like he is doing that, which if you guys haven't
• 27:55
  watched. SNL.
• 27:56
  SNL it's Andy Samberg. Andy Samberg.
• 27:59
  Andy Samberg being doing. Mark Wahlberg saying hello to
• 28:02
  farm animals. You need to look at a.
• 28:04
  I'm gonna note to self editing chess you put in put that clip
• 28:08
  in the show notes, Yeah. He's so dead on.
• 28:10
  Like honestly, that's one of those things where like I've
• 28:13
  seen him in movies, but I never got that Marky mark until I
• 28:16
  watched this movie. It's like I get it.
• 28:18
  It's. Like we obviously had to follow
• 28:21
  this up with the other guys and it's a complete, it's completely
• 28:25
  different. I mean, he's a cop, he's a cop
• 28:28
  and he's, you know, a a rough character, but he's not doing
• 28:32
  that like same almost upspeak thing.
• 28:35
  Yeah, it's yeah, that was kind of distracting to me.
• 28:41
  I think everything else that I have that could be bad follows
• 28:44
  more in the absurd category because of the so bad it's good
• 28:48
  nature of this would be that's fair.
• 28:49
  So. All right, Well, I'll just
• 28:52
  expand on what you were talking about before.
• 28:53
  But the first thing I wrote is Marky Mark stinks.
• 28:56
  Like, he is just not a good actor in this movie.
• 29:00
  And it blew my mind because I've seen him act well in movies
• 29:05
  before, You know, like, I just don't understand what it is.
• 29:08
  But every single line that he has, he ends with, like, a
• 29:13
  question mark, You know, like, he always talks like this.
• 29:17
  Yeah. And it's just like, I don't
• 29:19
  understand that choice. But then I watched the behind
• 29:23
  the scenes thing and I'm like, this is the guy that like, am I
• 29:26
  envisioned? This is what he wanted?
• 29:28
  This is who he sees Mark Wahlberg to be and it's so weird
• 29:34
  how he got that impression of this.
• 29:35
  Man, I'm picturing at night Shawn on having his own separate
• 29:40
  talking head and it's like Michael Scott when he gets Oscar
• 29:43
  the little Cornballs he. Thinks so little of me he
• 29:47
  actually believed it, honestly. I mean, it could be, it could
• 29:52
  be, but like, I also can't see M Night Shyamalan being that much
• 29:56
  of a Dick to somebody to like, yeah, completely try and take
• 29:59
  their career and his own career at the same time by like,
• 30:02
  putting out an intentionally bad movie.
• 30:03
  Yeah. And that was like, that was a
• 30:07
  funny thing. You were reading the quote
• 30:09
  opening like before we even started recording.
• 30:11
  But he's like, he, he regretted doing this movie.
• 30:13
  But he's like, at least I got to play a teacher instead of a cop
• 30:17
  or a bad guy. You know, like, which did most
• 30:20
  of those other movies that you were talking about and the ones
• 30:22
  that I've seen, he's been the cop or a bad guy.
• 30:25
  His actual real life problematic yeah X so just giving a blanket
• 30:31
  bullshit acknowledged as far as that goes.
• 30:34
  Exactly. So to go on with this, the
• 30:37
  dialogue is super fucking corny. Like all of it.
• 30:40
  It's. Soapy though.
• 30:42
  I'm. OK with it because it's.
• 30:44
  And it's also really like soapy delivery with everything, too.
• 30:48
  Even Zoe Deschanel. Yeah, like she she's not.
• 30:51
  She's not absolved from any of this either.
• 30:53
  With her performance. She is just as bad as he is.
• 30:56
  God damn. Also watching this after New
• 31:00
  Girl has been a thing and wanting to write Jess for Zooey
• 31:05
  Deschanel's character because that's her character and New
• 31:07
  Girl. So I'm very scared writing
• 31:11
  reading through these later that I'm going to have Alma and Jess
• 31:13
  mixed up just because Zooey Deschanel is so iconically Jess.
• 31:18
  You know, there's a weird thing that I noticed with this movie.
• 31:21
  All of like, the side characters, especially the kids,
• 31:24
  all have names, starting with Jay.
• 31:26
  Yeah. Jess.
• 31:28
  Jared. Fuck.
• 31:30
  What was the other kid saying? Josh.
• 31:32
  Josh. Yeah.
• 31:34
  And Julian. John Leguizamo misses Jones.
• 31:40
  You know, it's just like he he's like, fuck the rest of the
• 31:43
  alphabet. Today.
• 31:43
  I'm doing J's with this script. Yeah, it's like a maybe he
• 31:48
  really liked 18 Kids and Counting, 19 kids, whatever.
• 31:52
  The Duggars, they were all J's. Were they?
• 31:55
  Yeah. That's so Oh yeah it oh, it gets
• 31:57
  fucking bizarre. Just go look up the Duggar
• 31:59
  names. And we kind of already touched
• 32:02
  based on a lot of this with your last part, but like there's just
• 32:05
  some inconsistencies with me. I think a lot of it like we
• 32:09
  never really figured out what exactly is happening.
• 32:11
  We kind of do, but we don't but like.
• 32:14
  The trees. It keeps changes like OK, it's
• 32:16
  only killing large groups. OK, small groups is totally
• 32:19
  fine. Oh, now it's doing small groups
• 32:20
  and it's just it doesn't it keeps changing, which I guess
• 32:24
  that, you know, could be the case for like what was actually
• 32:27
  happening here. Like it was like, you know, real
• 32:29
  life reactions from the plants, I guess, but.
• 32:32
  Also, I kind of, I hate to have to keep referencing real life
• 32:35
  here, but we saw that happen with COVID where like we had
• 32:37
  changing like guidelines because we're like, oh, we should be
• 32:40
  safe in these circumstances. Oops, new science says we're not
• 32:44
  safe in these circumstances. Yeah, but we were also just
• 32:47
  seeing him being demonstrated differently too, like it was
• 32:50
  sparing small groups. Yeah, 2nd and then this like all
• 32:54
  of a sudden it's like, but I'm going to sing about one person
• 32:56
  now, you know, it was, I don't know, they just.
• 33:01
  Said that's how science is though, man.
• 33:03
  It's easier to disprove a theory than it is to prove it.
• 33:06
  I guess that's true. I suppose that's true.
• 33:08
  OK, let's go. Too ugly then.
• 33:11
  OK, we're the bees are still fucking dying this 2025.
• 33:16
  This came out in 2008. Marky Mark is talking about the
• 33:19
  dead bees, and we're still having this issue.
• 33:22
  We learned nothing from any of these natural disaster movies
• 33:25
  that have we've seen over and over again.
• 33:27
  Plus Dante's Inferno. I just feel like that has to be
• 33:30
  included. Yes.
• 33:31
  Where? Where do we go?
• 33:32
  That's where we're going. Having Earth.
• 33:33
  Yeah. It's all heading to Dante's
• 33:35
  Inferno. That's the end game right there
• 33:37
  if we keep this trajectory. OK, yeah.
• 33:40
  So I'm gonna say that's like, this is the well, also the
• 33:45
  people that seemingly weren't affected by the plants that just
• 33:48
  shot children. That's pretty rough.
• 33:51
  Wait, what? Jared and Josh got shot by those
• 33:55
  people in that house. Oh, yeah, that's right.
• 33:58
  Yeah. I thought you're talking about
• 33:59
  like, they were just out in the open and they were picking up
• 34:01
  guns and like, you know, murdering people and stuff.
• 34:04
  No. OK.
• 34:05
  Yeah, well, I guess another thing is like, going back to the
• 34:09
  inconsistencies. I'm sorry, but like, you know
• 34:11
  how this movie starts out and then also ends like in the park?
• 34:15
  Like a whole wave of people get affected, but there's one person
• 34:18
  that is still normal and it's just witnessing everything
• 34:21
  happened. Why?
• 34:23
  I wish. I wish in each of those cases
• 34:25
  they had been like sneezing or something and like so they
• 34:28
  weren't breathing in the air's vest.
• 34:30
  Oh, that could've. You were wearing a face mask,
• 34:32
  you know, like. I mean, I wish we had something
• 34:34
  like that because I kept saying when they were walking through
• 34:37
  the field, I'm like, cover your faces like something.
• 34:40
  Yeah, it has to enter your system somehow.
• 34:43
  I assume it's not just the breeze touching your arm.
• 34:45
  And that's another inconsistent thing too about this house,
• 34:47
  because it was boarded up, but it was like there were slacks in
• 34:50
  the windows. Yeah.
• 34:52
  And like air is getting in there.
• 34:53
  Yeah. And we saw the whole like
• 34:54
  Terran, like the. The Jeep?
• 34:56
  Yeah, be. Like a big issue.
• 34:59
  OK, well, my uglies. First of all, obviously the
• 35:03
  suicides. Yeah, I mean, that's like a big
• 35:06
  thing here in this movie you see in droves, unfortunately.
• 35:10
  But the one that really upset me was the dogs in the movie.
• 35:17
  Every time we saw the dogs they just like were freaking out
• 35:20
  because they're human was just. Acting weird, yeah.
• 35:24
  Acting weird. And then they just had to like,
• 35:26
  observe all these people just standing still, being weird and,
• 35:30
  you know, hurting themselves. And I didn't like that.
• 35:33
  I didn't like that the dogs had to witness that.
• 35:36
  It happened multiple times, too. Yeah, you didn't have to keep
• 35:38
  bringing in dogs for this shit M Night.
• 35:40
  Like, come on, man. I think M Night felt bad for the
• 35:43
  dogs too. I think he did.
• 35:46
  He's. Like that's the twist.
• 35:47
  Like the docs filled too, Ben, you didn't expect that, did you?
• 35:53
  OK, all right, let's go into our absurd.
• 35:56
  Now you can finally break down all your your stuff with the
• 35:59
  bad. And here's why I think M Knight
• 36:05
  is just a gentle person in general.
• 36:07
  Because he doesn't know how to write a couple having an affair.
• 36:14
  Because we have this whole, like, deathbed confession from
• 36:19
  Alma to Elliot and Elliot to Alma where she ate tiramisu with
• 36:26
  another man. Joey, Another Jay.
• 36:29
  He voiced Joey, too. I know, yeah.
• 36:32
  And Elliot but superfluous $6 cough syrup from a hot
• 36:39
  pharmacist these. Not didn't even have a cough.
• 36:44
  The biggest betrayals he could think of.
• 36:47
  And then I started thinking about his other movies because
• 36:50
  the reason relationships fall apart in those are people dying
• 36:58
  like in 6th Sense or Signs people potentially dying like an
• 37:04
  old or somebody being a murderer like in Trap.
• 37:09
  He cannot fathom what an actual affair is.
• 37:14
  You know what you're making me like?
• 37:16
  Like, oh, I just came on in my head here.
• 37:18
  It's like he really like this man has not had any romantic
• 37:21
  hardships in his life. This.
• 37:22
  Is the biggest betrayal he can think of is tiramisu in cough
• 37:26
  syrup? I like that, though.
• 37:28
  I like that moment with like Elliot being like, and he was
• 37:33
  lying about that too. Like it was like not like an
• 37:35
  actual thing, but like in his mind like that was like, I'm
• 37:38
  going to hurt her. Like, I went and I bought cough
• 37:42
  syrup from a hot woman and I didn't have a cough.
• 37:46
  I just like, she's like, are you joking?
• 37:48
  And he just, like, looks at her all sad.
• 37:50
  He just shakes his head slowly. Yeah, come on.
• 37:55
  It's so funny. It's.
• 37:56
  So stupid. Do you have any other absurds?
• 38:00
  Well. We, there are several, you know,
• 38:05
  we have the whole, the whole model home.
• 38:08
  Why is the model home set decorated like it's a disaster?
• 38:12
  For a minute I thought it was like one of those model homes,
• 38:14
  like a nuclear bomb testing site, but it clearly was just
• 38:17
  meant to be like the HOA model home.
• 38:20
  There's no fucking way. Like why is everything in there
• 38:23
  fake? Everything is fake in there.
• 38:26
  Like they have fake glasses of wine.
• 38:28
  You don't. That's not how how you stage a
• 38:29
  home. No, you put like furniture in
• 38:32
  there, you know, like you don't put fake shit like a plastic
• 38:35
  bed. Fuck no.
• 38:36
  You put you put an air bed on a barely put together frame that
• 38:41
  some asshole is going to jump on not thinking clearly about it.
• 38:44
  We've seen it happen on House. And we have and he did puncture
• 38:47
  his. Also, they have to stop the
• 38:54
  train because they're not getting any communication.
• 38:57
  Everybody's there at the train station and seemingly everybody
• 39:00
  moves over to the diner. Except apparently not, because
• 39:04
  when the diner patrons leave, they all have fucking cars
• 39:07
  except for Elliot, Alma, Julian, and Jess.
• 39:10
  Oh. My God, you're right.
• 39:12
  Where did all of these cars come from?
• 39:14
  I have to assume they are residents of the town.
• 39:17
  Where were all the other train people?
• 39:19
  Was that just actually their stop?
• 39:21
  They weren't upset about the train not running anymore
• 39:23
  because they were back home? I don't know.
• 39:26
  Wow, you have made me realize that that was weird.
• 39:29
  You're right, man. And it's only because we watch
• 39:32
  planes, trains and automobiles so much throughout the holidays
• 39:35
  that I was like, Nope, they should be having a much harder
• 39:38
  time finding a way back to Boston or Chicago or whichever
• 39:41
  city. Well, and also when you think
• 39:43
  about it like the issues are only contained to the Northeast
• 39:47
  and like it stops in Pennsylvania.
• 39:49
  So like that train that railroad's going to other
• 39:52
  states, they would have communication with somewhere in
• 39:56
  the more Midwest area that they're.
• 39:59
  Heading towards they lost their end.
• 40:00
  They can't communicate out either.
• 40:03
  I don't understand how. OK, well if I lost signal and
• 40:07
  you tried to call me, it wouldn't matter that you have
• 40:09
  signal. I don't have signal.
• 40:11
  I just, well, I don't know, I just, I find it hard to believe
• 40:14
  that they lost it on their own train, even like backups, you
• 40:17
  know what I mean? Like you have a radio, some of
• 40:20
  them. Travis, it was an event, OK?
• 40:23
  An event was happening. OK, fine.
• 40:26
  Whatever. Well, yeah, sure.
• 40:28
  OK. Is that if you're absurd?
• 40:31
  I mean. You got more 4. 4 right here.
• 40:34
  We'll probably stumble upon some other things in my notes this
• 40:37
  weekend. OK, I got plenty.
• 40:40
  All right, So right off the bat, yeah, Marky Mark is playing a
• 40:43
  teacher. He's going to do something a
• 40:44
  little bit differently, but he's winning his students over by
• 40:47
  insulting their appearances. He's like, listen, buddy, you
• 40:50
  look hot right now. And I know I'm telling the
• 40:52
  fucking minor that you're hot, but you're not going to be hot
• 40:55
  forever, chump, So you better learn how to do science.
• 40:58
  I yeah, I pulled he, I wrote. He bullies white kid about his
• 41:02
  future ugliness. Tells him his nose is going to
• 41:05
  get bigger. Yeah, he nags this child into
• 41:07
  wanting to learn about science. It's just it's so fucking weird.
• 41:12
  Next John Luigi like was Amo and his his math comfort that he
• 41:18
  does for everybody. So anytime he's trying to
• 41:20
  comfort people, all he does is like throw a math problem at
• 41:23
  them and try and get them to like do math in their head to
• 41:26
  try and calm them down. Doesn't work.
• 41:29
  I yeah, I part of me went into like Fact Check some of that as
• 41:33
  it was going, but then I was like, I don't know enough math
• 41:35
  to do that. Next, they try to outrun Lynn.
• 41:39
  You can't do that. They do for a little bit though.
• 41:43
  I know how. How do you outrun the wind?
• 41:45
  You can't see like, the wind coming, and you're going to beat
• 41:47
  that Like the wind is faster than you, OK?
• 41:50
  It just is. I don't care who you are.
• 41:52
  And finally, misses Jones. Everything about that character
• 41:57
  is so fucking weird. Like right off the bat she is
• 42:01
  reluctantly hospitable. Like she, like she's like, I
• 42:05
  guess since you're here, I got to let you in and cook you
• 42:07
  dinner and let you stay in my house even though I'm against
• 42:09
  it. Yeah, she she has some paranoia
• 42:12
  that's going on and I wonder about her.
• 42:16
  We could have gotten, yeah, like a deeper dive because like, I
• 42:19
  guess something clearly is going on there.
• 42:20
  She doesn't have any power. And she's like, living in this
• 42:23
  house, very old schooly. But like, she slaps chess for
• 42:28
  reaching for something on the table.
• 42:31
  And then she just keeps accusing them of wanting the still.
• 42:35
  And like, why did you allow these people?
• 42:37
  She feels like she has to do this for some weird reason.
• 42:39
  Let these people stay in her house.
• 42:41
  But she is so aggressive to them.
• 42:43
  Yeah. And her performance is just I
• 42:47
  guess, and I may have told her to ham it up, like really go big
• 42:50
  with it because she goes a little bit too big.
• 42:53
  That was another one of those things where she just says like
• 42:56
  where the dialogue is just saying something.
• 42:58
  So that way it will be relevant later.
• 42:59
  Because she was like, you know, there's an old house Outback
• 43:03
  where we used to hide folks when they were like running away from
• 43:07
  where the owners would hide folks when they were running
• 43:08
  away from plantations. And there's a pipe that you can
• 43:11
  talk straight to and it sounds like you're in the same room as
• 43:14
  them. And that's the only reason we
• 43:15
  know about that. And she?
• 43:16
  She weeds off with that. She's like, hey, welcome to my
• 43:18
  house. I have a house in the back over
• 43:20
  there that you know. You can talk to through a pipe.
• 43:22
  Yeah. And anyway, we're going to
• 43:23
  change the subject. Yeah.
• 43:25
  You guys look like you're not in love.
• 43:27
  What's up with that? Yeah, you.
• 43:28
  You're gonna kill me? And then like, and the whole
• 43:30
  point is so that way later Elliot can talk to Alma through
• 43:34
  the pipe. Also, can I throw out there,
• 43:37
  this is another ugly how much Jess gets put in the middle of
• 43:40
  adult things? Yeah, she is constantly in the
• 43:43
  middle of adult fucking shit and she's got enough going on.
• 43:45
  She is 8. Yeah, like her parents just
• 43:48
  died. Yeah.
• 43:49
  You know, like, and now she had, like, these two people are your
• 43:51
  family now. Oh my God, I feel so bad for
• 43:54
  you. She makes a point.
• 43:55
  She's like, thanks, Aunt Alma. Yeah, like you're, you're still
• 43:58
  not Mom, just so you know. Just so we're clear.
• 44:01
  Yeah, I whenever they have that baby, they're abandoning that
• 44:04
  kid. I.
• 44:04
  Know I feel she's she needs counseling.
• 44:07
  I hope she gets counseling. Marky, Mark's like say hi to
• 44:10
  your mother. Oh, I'm sorry, don't have.
• 44:14
  One I'm. Sorry.
• 44:17
  OK, that's it for my absurd stuff.
• 44:19
  So let's get into our ratings. What do you rated?
• 44:23
  Man, it is objectively not like a like the best movie M night's
• 44:29
  done, but it's got a lot of quirkiness to it.
• 44:32
  That's fun. I'm going to give it a 6.5.
• 44:35
  OK, yeah, I have two separate ratings.
• 44:37
  I have like an objective rating. Is it a good movie?
• 44:39
  No, like movie movie wise is probably 4, but on the enjoyment
• 44:44
  scale, I have a lot of fun with this one.
• 44:46
  So I'd give it a 7. 6.75 yeah. OK, cool.
• 44:52
  Well then let's let's finally get into that happening.
• 44:55
  Let's see what's happening. 8:33 AM Central Park.
• 44:58
  No, I need to talk about the captions or the the credits to
• 45:02
  be with because they're it's white letters coming over top of
• 45:06
  clouds and it's making it hard to read the names.
• 45:08
  And the first thing you see is K Wahlberg.
• 45:10
  K Wahlberg. K Wahlberg.
• 45:13
  Being like a little bit aggressive or passive aggressive
• 45:15
  too right off the bat here. OK, now we're at Central Park.
• 45:18
  8:33 AM. There are two girls on the bench
• 45:21
  reading. 1 keeps losing her spot and the other hears screaming
• 45:27
  and barking and suddenly everybody freezes.
• 45:29
  And her friend Claire, the one who kept losing her spot, takes
• 45:33
  her hair stick out. Which was really eerie because I
• 45:36
  had my hair done in a French twist with a hair stick as we
• 45:39
  were watching this. And Jesse's actually is a sword,
• 45:42
  Yeah, which I feel like would have been even better for the
• 45:45
  character in this movie here. Like, yeah, it would have been
• 45:48
  cool. It really actually demonstrated
• 45:49
  a lot better seeing it in person.
• 45:51
  Whenever you pulled it, it's like you had, like, your own
• 45:54
  sheath on the back there. It's like Sheen, just like,
• 45:56
  pulled it out. Yeah, but she's dabs herself
• 45:59
  with it. Yeah.
• 46:01
  Then we see some construction workers all sitting around chit
• 46:04
  chatting, and suddenly Mackenzie falls and he lands really badly.
• 46:09
  And then Davis. And then we see several more,
• 46:12
  and they're all following the lead of Travis's guy in
• 46:17
  Midsummer who decides he's gonna jump off with a flourish feet
• 46:21
  first. Poor guy.
• 46:23
  Thankfully no Atta stupan mallet for that.
• 46:25
  I. Was gonna say no mallet.
• 46:26
  Yeah, that would probably save them.
• 46:29
  I think it would be, yeah. I think it would be kinder.
• 46:32
  All right, so now we are in Philly, Philadelphia.
• 46:36
  We're at public school. It's about 9:30 and Marky Mark
• 46:39
  is talking about bees dying and he asks these young teenagers
• 46:45
  why. Why?
• 46:47
  Why? I'm thinking of like the the
• 46:51
  ring or not the ring. Fuck the Lord of the Rings
• 46:53
  interview with Elijah Wood and he's like why?
• 46:59
  Yeah, and then this is where he nags a teenager into engaging in
• 47:03
  class and then refers to the vice principal as Lord
• 47:05
  Voldemort. Yeah, like the vice principal
• 47:08
  comes in and he turns off the lights and ducks down.
• 47:12
  He says the Dark Lord is here. We're playing nightcrawlers.
• 47:16
  Everybody get on the floor. It's so weird.
• 47:20
  And like, the vice principal was like, all right, enough of the
• 47:23
  bullshit, you got to come with me.
• 47:24
  All teachers were pulled to the auditorium.
• 47:27
  And Elliot's like, is it OK to leave all of these kids alone?
• 47:31
  Like, what's going to happen? But it's because they're all
• 47:35
  meeting with the principal who is telling them about what is a
• 47:38
  suspected terrorism attack in New York City.
• 47:42
  They need to pay attention for the signs cuz I think it's like
• 47:47
  some sort of neurotoxin or something is being released.
• 47:50
  The first stage is confused speech.
• 47:52
  The second stage is physical disorientation.
• 47:55
  And I know what you guys are thinking.
• 47:57
  Oh no. Travis has exhibited those
• 48:00
  signs. It's OK.
• 48:03
  We have not reached stage 3, which is just referred to as
• 48:07
  fatal. Yeah, it doesn't.
• 48:10
  A principle is not even keeping the same same.
• 48:17
  Oh God, I can't think of the word for the list it's got.
• 48:19
  It's have the same continuity. It's got a match tenses and
• 48:23
  style between list items. I.
• 48:25
  Don't know what you're talking. About either, anyway, says
• 48:28
  dismiss the students, bring your work home, and just be ready to
• 48:31
  come back to teaching whenever they say that, it's all clear.
• 48:34
  So as Marky Mark is escorting his students out of the class,
• 48:38
  he makes them recite the scientific method.
• 48:42
  Does he? Yeah, yeah, they're they're
• 48:44
  talking about the different stages of the scientific method.
• 48:46
  I don't know how many there were in 2008, because I remember in
• 48:49
  elementary school we had seven steps to the scientific method.
• 48:52
  No, but at one point it got lower to five.
• 48:54
  Did it really? Yes.
• 48:56
  Come on man, is this like the Pluto?
• 48:57
  Situation all over again. Like Pluto and the colors.
• 49:00
  The rainbow. Oh man, they got rid of Indigo.
• 49:02
  That's some bullshit, OK, And yeah, they're, they're leaving
• 49:06
  now. Everybody's leaving but Julian
• 49:11
  John Orgazzano. Yeah, yeah.
• 49:12
  He's a math teacher. And he is talking about all of
• 49:16
  these different statistics, the likeliness of them to be hit.
• 49:19
  And then he says his mom has invited him and Yvette and Jess
• 49:23
  out, and also Elliot and Alma. And Elliot being like the
• 49:28
  calmest, coolest, casualest person in the world says hey, if
• 49:32
  Alma is being weird, just ignore it.
• 49:34
  And Angela is like, are you guys on the brink of divorce again?
• 49:37
  And he's like, what? No, I'm just saying if she is
• 49:40
  being weird, she isn't. He's one of those guys that's
• 49:43
  excited to hear that his best friend is about to break up with
• 49:46
  his girlfriend. Like, is it about to happen?
• 49:48
  Really, man, it's a shame. Because see, here's the thing,
• 49:52
  immediately what Julian does is says this is something you never
• 49:56
  say to your best friend. But on the day of your wedding,
• 49:58
  right before you all were going to walk down the aisle, I went
• 50:01
  to check on Alma and she was crying.
• 50:03
  And I knew she wasn't in love with you and wanted to marry
• 50:06
  you. And I never told you that until
• 50:07
  now as we're on the brink of terrorism attack.
• 50:09
  All right, have fun. It's I mean.
• 50:11
  It's one of those things like crying at a wedding is normal,
• 50:14
  but like, I guess it was like the type of tears like, oh God,
• 50:17
  this isn't the life I really saw for myself.
• 50:21
  Yeah, there's just, I don't know, there was this whole
• 50:26
  conversation. It's a fucking.
• 50:28
  Bomb. So bizarre, so out of a field.
• 50:33
  Marky Mark, he's got a lot of growing up to do in this movie
• 50:36
  because he's he's got a terrorist attack to deal with
• 50:38
  and now marital problems. Also, I just want to shout out
• 50:41
  because there is one extra in the background who is on
• 50:43
  crutches, and I feel like that is the universal truth of middle
• 50:46
  schools and high schools is that at any given time there will
• 50:49
  always be at least one student on crutches.
• 50:51
  So I appreciate that that was included.
• 50:53
  You know that's true. That's the kind of attention to
• 50:55
  detail I've come to appreciate about M Night Shyamalan movies.
• 50:58
  Yeah, I'm he. He knows everything except for
• 51:01
  how to do bad relationships. He he is too happily married.
• 51:05
  Yeah, he's got three beautiful children.
• 51:08
  His life is awesome. He is rich as hell.
• 51:11
  It's true. It's true.
• 51:13
  His life is too good. Yeah.
• 51:15
  So New York City is fully evacuating, though.
• 51:17
  Yeah. The toxin is a.
• 51:20
  It's like a. It's preservation, self
• 51:22
  preservation instincts. Yeah, and all in the We see her
• 51:28
  now back at their house. She gets a call from Joey.
• 51:31
  On her razor. Yeah, and she just lets it ring.
• 51:34
  Yeah. And then as that finishes, we
• 51:36
  see. Elliot is packing and he makes
• 51:39
  sure to put on his mood ring. It's super important.
• 51:43
  And at first I was joking around.
• 51:44
  I was like, is that a fucking mood ring?
• 51:45
  And we found out later it is a fucking mood ring.
• 51:48
  So we get to the train station and more news saying that the
• 51:51
  neurotoxin is natural. Julian and Jess are there.
• 51:55
  They already got all the tickets.
• 51:56
  They're going ahead of a vet, Julian's wife, because she was
• 52:00
  across town. So she's going to catch a later
• 52:02
  train. Alma immediately knows that
• 52:07
  Julian knows that they fought this morning because he was
• 52:09
  like, You sure you're ready for this, Alma?
• 52:12
  He is weirdly aggressive to her, so he's like, he really is like
• 52:16
  I want, I don't want you dating my friend anymore.
• 52:19
  They're married, I know, but. He, I think he refuses to accept
• 52:22
  that. It's like I saw you cry.
• 52:23
  So legally it didn't count. Yeah.
• 52:25
  And so Alma takes Elliott aside and she goes, I am upset.
• 52:29
  I will sit separately and try to not be upset.
• 52:32
  And that's almost verbatim the words she says.
• 52:35
  I appreciate her. Take her.
• 52:36
  There's like, I like don't tell people of like my personal shit,
• 52:40
  you know, like that was between you and me.
• 52:42
  He didn't need to know about that, but then he's like, he
• 52:45
  guessed it. I'm a kid.
• 52:46
  I just this is this movie is all tell no show because like later
• 52:50
  Jess is really nervous and she whispers when she's nervous and
• 52:54
  almost like I also don't like to show how I feel.
• 52:57
  Yeah, you're right. Yeah.
• 52:58
  We will bond over this, but nobody will know because we
• 53:00
  won't be showing how we feel about that.
• 53:04
  All right, so she goes on the train ahead of them.
• 53:07
  We now see Rittenhouse Park, Philadelphia.
• 53:10
  It's 11:33 AM and we get a gust of wind blowing and everybody
• 53:14
  freezes. We got.
• 53:15
  This It freezes. It's traffic jam that's
• 53:18
  happening. A cop is walking through.
• 53:20
  He talks to Sal, a cab driver. Apparently he talks to Sal all
• 53:23
  the time. I was gonna say to each other by
• 53:24
  name. Yeah, it was a very, it was a
• 53:26
  weird exchange here. Yeah, and the wind blows.
• 53:31
  Sal is the one that is like alert for a minute because the
• 53:35
  cop takes a gun, shoots himself, then Sal gets out of the car,
• 53:39
  takes a gun and shoots himself. And then a woman on the sidewalk
• 53:42
  takes a gun, shoots herself. And I need to point out that all
• 53:43
  of them have a bullet hole in the very middle of their
• 53:45
  forehead, which, Who shoots himself at this angle?
• 53:48
  Can you even do it? It hurts my wrist.
• 53:50
  If the plant's talking. Like it hurts to do that.
• 53:54
  It really does. I don't know.
• 53:55
  Maybe they have like the weird joints, I don't know.
• 53:57
  And it's like a pistol. So I don't feel like you could
• 53:59
  do I don't. The question that came in my
• 54:01
  mind, though, is like, what happens when, like, the gun's
• 54:04
  out of ammo? Like the person goes over there
• 54:06
  and does that like. Pistol whip themselves to death.
• 54:08
  They got it. Yeah, I've already got the gun I
• 54:11
  got to do. Something.
• 54:11
  Yeah, like that's a man. It would be too lame to turn
• 54:14
  back now. Yeah, that would be.
• 54:15
  Embarrassing. Alma answers Joey's phone call
• 54:18
  this time, and she says that he's being very fatal
• 54:21
  attraction. And all they did was go on a
• 54:23
  tiramisu. And now I'm worried that you're
• 54:25
  just going to be like, standing behind the shower curtain while
• 54:27
  I'm in the shower. That's Psycho, not Fatal
• 54:29
  Attraction. You're worried he's gonna boil
• 54:31
  your Bunny? Yep, also I guess that's
• 54:34
  probably the only context that I asked for.
• 54:36
  Bad relationships. Fatal Attraction, the one bad
• 54:39
  relationship in existence. That's why it's a scary movie,
• 54:42
  cuz they go wrong. That was a twist.
• 54:47
  Weird to reveal the twist so early in the movie, but you know
• 54:50
  what? I'm very invested in the
• 54:52
  outcome. Yeah.
• 54:53
  Train. Everybody on the train hears
• 54:54
  about the attack in Philadelphia.
• 54:57
  Julian is trying to call a vet. She is on a bus to New Jersey.
• 55:02
  Which I thought was funny because like we see, I mean,
• 55:05
  they know it's the plants at this point, right?
• 55:07
  Or they have an idea. No, they just know that the
• 55:09
  neurotoxin is something natural, not chemically, not like man
• 55:12
  made. She's going to Jersey, the
• 55:14
  Garden State, which I don't think that bodes well for her.
• 55:19
  It's only called the Garden State because the petrochemical
• 55:24
  refinery state was too big to fit on a license plate.
• 55:29
  OK, I don't even that that word was too big for me.
• 55:32
  I don't understand what that means it.
• 55:33
  Is a Miss Congeniality reference.
• 55:36
  Oh, it is. Oh, I'm sorry.
• 55:40
  You should be. This is embarrassing.
• 55:41
  This is very embarrassing for you.
• 55:44
  The train stops and filbert. Yeah, and Mark, Mikey, Matt goes
• 55:48
  where are we read. The fucking sign.
• 55:51
  He says. That he does in that same
• 55:54
  delivery, Yeah. And the the train's being
• 55:57
  stopped. There are 50 conductors on the
• 55:59
  stream. They're all gathered around
• 56:01
  talking. And he goes, where are we?
• 56:03
  And they're like some town called Filbert.
• 56:05
  Why are we here? The train stopped.
• 56:07
  Why did the train stop? It did.
• 56:10
  You got to tell me the truth, guys.
• 56:11
  I got people here. I got to take care of them and.
• 56:14
  Then he took the whole thing to hearts.
• 56:16
  Like, I got to grow up. I got to be a big boy.
• 56:19
  So they do tell him that they just lost communication with
• 56:21
  everybody. And then seemingly, we've
• 56:24
  already talked about this, seemingly everybody from the
• 56:26
  train goes to the diner. We know that that's not actually
• 56:28
  true. I I mean, I get the impression
• 56:30
  that this is the only place in town because it's called Filbert
• 56:33
  Restaurant. Yeah, It's just like one.
• 56:35
  It's the restaurant. Elliott shows Jess his mood
• 56:40
  ring, let's her wear it. At first I thought he gives her
• 56:42
  the ring, but no, it's just that way he can see what her mood is.
• 56:45
  Well, he's, you know, it's his ring, Yeah.
• 56:47
  Give it back. If you give it back to me and I
• 56:51
  put it on, it's gonna be angry because you held it too long.
• 56:53
  And then a woman has a video from her sister who is at the
• 56:57
  zoo, and it's the zookeeper feeding himself to the lions.
• 57:02
  Were we able to send such large videos in 2008?
• 57:07
  The the the whole this whole scene made me think back like
• 57:09
  was this shit actually like I always attribute like this
• 57:12
  technology until like going into the 20 tens because like.
• 57:15
  Sometimes you send me a video and it's got 5 pixels, you know?
• 57:21
  Yeah, I think that changed with iPhones to Android because I the
• 57:24
  messaging system changed, but I didn't remember iPhones existing
• 57:29
  in 2008, but they do. And I think this is actually
• 57:33
  shot in 2007. I was still rocking the Razor or
• 57:37
  like the little like kick like phone, whatever.
• 57:40
  Like it has a keyboard. Sidekick.
• 57:42
  Yeah, Sidekick, like, but yeah, iphone's I guess sort of thing.
• 57:46
  I don't know. The news said that they're now
• 57:49
  now not sure that it's terrorists and they're showing,
• 57:52
  they're seeing signs that smaller and smaller towns in the
• 57:55
  northeast are being affected. Then the power goes out and
• 58:00
  somebody, since we need to get out of here, whatever this is,
• 58:04
  it looks like it's not occurring about 90 miles from here.
• 58:07
  What like how? It's an actual line of dialogue.
• 58:11
  I wrote that down word for word. That's what I'm saying then,
• 58:14
  like the the right like the dialogue in this movie is, it's
• 58:17
  just kind of weird it. Is so soap opera Y and I'm it's
• 58:21
  funny. It is funny, Yeah, I I enjoy it.
• 58:24
  Yeah, somehow everybody in there has cars except for Elliott and
• 58:30
  his group. Elliott and Alma get a ride from
• 58:33
  a couple who own a plant nursery, and they're like, we
• 58:36
  have two more and they said, cool, great, get on in.
• 58:39
  Julian has not been able to get a hold of a vet, so he's got a
• 58:44
  seat in a car that's going to Princeton.
• 58:47
  So he's going to go try and find a vet and then he's going to
• 58:49
  catch up with them. Like the scene because like the
• 58:53
  car keeps beeping at him and he's having this long
• 58:55
  conversation. He's telling them to keep Jess
• 58:57
  but like keep beeping and they just eventually start to smoke.
• 59:00
  Yeah, they, it seems like they're gonna drive away without
• 59:02
  him. But he, you know, he says
• 59:05
  goodbye. He tells don't take my
• 59:07
  daughter's hand unless you mean it.
• 59:08
  Again, that was like a weirdly aggressive thing.
• 59:10
  He was like, I like, he hates her like.
• 59:12
  Yeah, it's like. You ruined my friend.
• 59:14
  We used to be cool. I used to hang out with him all
• 59:15
  the time and then you came along.
• 59:18
  And so he runs, he manages to get into the car as it's moving,
• 59:22
  and then he waves goodbye in slow motion.
• 59:24
  So you know, he's not long for this one.
• 59:26
  He's. Dead.
• 59:26
  That's a dead man. Right man, the drivers are
• 59:29
  talking about their nursery. They they talk about that they
• 59:33
  think it's the plants. They are the ones that posit
• 59:36
  this theory because they're like, you know, plants have
• 59:38
  feelings, they respond to stimuli around them.
• 59:40
  They can communicate to each other.
• 59:41
  They can communicate to other species.
• 59:43
  I think it's the plants. Also, while we're here, going to
• 59:46
  pack some hot dogs for the road. Hot dogs are great fun shape,
• 59:49
  lots of protein. Not even joking.
• 59:51
  These are his. It was positives for hot dogs.
• 59:53
  Yeah, they're like hot dogs. Get a bag of wrap, by the way,
• 59:56
  They have a cool shape. A cool shape.
• 59:57
  I've never heard anybody talk about a hot dog and say that's a
• 1:00:00
  cool shape. It's.
• 1:00:02
  It's very ergonomical for a lunch on the go.
• 1:00:05
  Yeah, I mean it is they they have points, but.
• 1:00:07
  And they correctly identify mustard as the top condiment to
• 1:00:11
  put on it. Gross.
• 1:00:13
  That's nasty. Mustard, onions or sauerkraut.
• 1:00:15
  It's also like cold hot dogs. It's just, it's just a gross
• 1:00:18
  thing all. I used to love some cold hot
• 1:00:21
  dogs. Well, you'd fit right in with
• 1:00:22
  these. People I would these.
• 1:00:24
  These green weenies. Absolutely.
• 1:00:27
  So Julian's car, they're driving through like a shit ton of
• 1:00:30
  death, like just people hanging from trees.
• 1:00:32
  It's real dark. One of the persons from the
• 1:00:35
  trees there is one of the producers, which is funny
• 1:00:38
  because like there was, it was a behind the scenes scene John
• 1:00:40
  like was on was like, look in this movie, new trend, new
• 1:00:43
  trend. Producers hang.
• 1:00:45
  She's like pointing out there like I was like, damn, that's
• 1:00:49
  dark. Yeah, it's a bit dark.
• 1:00:50
  I was thinking you were gonna talk about the behind the scenes
• 1:00:53
  where the producer was like, do you think we can return all of
• 1:00:55
  these garden hoses after the movie?
• 1:00:57
  Is that what they said? Yeah, I didn't catch that.
• 1:01:01
  Yeah, so he's one of the people in the car is freaking out.
• 1:01:04
  So he decides to make things worse by having her do a math
• 1:01:08
  problem. Yeah, I don't.
• 1:01:11
  I don't feel like you would get $1,000,000.
• 1:01:13
  I know that things start multiplying exponentially.
• 1:01:15
  He said like $10 million. Yeah.
• 1:01:18
  But then a month I don't even remember that question.
• 1:01:20
  It's like double, you start with one cent one day and then it
• 1:01:23
  double S to two cents the next day, four cents the next day.
• 1:01:26
  And I understand when you start multiplying things by them.
• 1:01:29
  So like, yeah, it. Has.
• 1:01:31
  Yeah, I understand that it gets big, but 10 million just feels
• 1:01:33
  so unbelievable. Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:01:36
  But we don't even have time to worry about it because the car
• 1:01:40
  just has a hole in the roof. It's, I'm not going to lie, it's
• 1:01:44
  a little funny scene, like the hole.
• 1:01:46
  And like they like slow zoom and it just keeps cutting back and
• 1:01:48
  forth. It's just so dramatic.
• 1:01:50
  Yeah. And then, like the car, the Jeep
• 1:01:52
  stops in the middle of the road. No, it crashes into.
• 1:01:55
  No, it stops at first, which is how you know it's having effect.
• 1:01:59
  And. Then the guy just pours it into
• 1:02:01
  the tree. Everybody else was unbuckled
• 1:02:03
  except for John Leguizamo, but he gets out and he takes some of
• 1:02:07
  the shattered glass and cuts himself.
• 1:02:09
  There's a radio report saying that they have another theory
• 1:02:13
  that maybe the water was contaminated.
• 1:02:18
  Elliott and his car, they're all driving out now.
• 1:02:21
  They see something in the road. They don't want to get too close
• 1:02:24
  in case it is dead bodies. And then the wife nursery owner
• 1:02:28
  says, hey, your binoculars are in the back from when you were
• 1:02:31
  spying on the neighbors. I love these.
• 1:02:33
  People give. Me a whole movie about these.
• 1:02:36
  Two, I thought it was. I thought that was almost saying
• 1:02:41
  that to Elliot. No, no, no, no.
• 1:02:42
  It was the IT was the plant nursery owners.
• 1:02:45
  OK, See. Again, more comedy there,
• 1:02:47
  though. That was like a funny line.
• 1:02:49
  And that is a relatable thing. You know what I mean?
• 1:02:51
  Like, we don't do that. Just to be clear, we don't have
• 1:02:54
  a set of binoculars about the neighbors, but we do make
• 1:02:56
  comments on our neighbors. Yes.
• 1:02:59
  Is it all people? Yeah, everybody does, I assume.
• 1:03:02
  They definitely talk about us, so I'm not, but it's just, it
• 1:03:06
  was really funny. They take the binoculars, they
• 1:03:08
  see that it's bodies, so they kind of reroute themselves and
• 1:03:11
  they get to a fork in the road. There is an Army Humvee there.
• 1:03:15
  We've got Private Oster. He said that there were he came
• 1:03:20
  from. His army.
• 1:03:22
  Base. You have an Army base, and there
• 1:03:24
  were a bunch of soldiers, like caught up in the barbed wire on
• 1:03:26
  the fence around the perimeter. Other cars start coming along
• 1:03:30
  everywhere they're coming from, saying that they saw bodies some
• 1:03:33
  way back. So they're all trying to figure
• 1:03:35
  out a way that they can get through safely to somewhere
• 1:03:39
  outside of this perimeter where The thing is having the effect.
• 1:03:43
  One woman has gotten a phone call from her daughter in
• 1:03:46
  Princeton who confirms that, like, everything's being
• 1:03:49
  affected there. And then she starts talking
• 1:03:51
  funny. And then we hear some glass
• 1:03:54
  shatter and some wind, and the woman's crying because it's.
• 1:03:58
  It's a death. Yeah.
• 1:03:59
  And then Jess and Elliot cry together because they know that
• 1:04:03
  that means that Julian's probably gone as well as a vet.
• 1:04:09
  So we get further breakdown on how plants work by plant guy.
• 1:04:13
  He starts talking to all of them.
• 1:04:14
  He's like, yeah, they evolve faster, Yeah, than most things.
• 1:04:18
  Like they evolve rapidly to target specific threats and they
• 1:04:22
  can communicate interspecily. I guess that does kind of
• 1:04:25
  explain how things change in this movie, like where it goes
• 1:04:27
  from large batches so X single people.
• 1:04:30
  Yeah, they're trying to go to a less populated area and luckily
• 1:04:35
  one of these people that came up here, he was a realtor, Realtor
• 1:04:38
  to save the day. He knows where the low
• 1:04:39
  population zones are around here, so that's where they're
• 1:04:43
  going to all try and go. They're going to go in two
• 1:04:45
  groups, people that are ready to go and people that aren't ready
• 1:04:47
  to go. And then Marky Mark says fuck
• 1:04:49
  that. My group's going to go even
• 1:04:50
  farther ahead of everyone. Also, they're staying off roads
• 1:04:53
  because yeah, they're like somehow attacking roads.
• 1:04:57
  Yeah, as they're walking, Alma confesses about her dessert date
• 1:05:01
  to Elliot. So he has his marriage crumble
• 1:05:05
  in front of a bunch of strangers and Jess.
• 1:05:08
  Yeah, it's it's pretty bad. And then they start hearing
• 1:05:11
  Auster shout and they hear gunshots, and everybody in
• 1:05:18
  Elliot's group has decided he's the one that needs to go handle
• 1:05:20
  this. And he's like, well, it's too
• 1:05:22
  late. He's already shooting.
• 1:05:23
  And they're like, no, you got to stop.
• 1:05:24
  There's other people in the group and you just keep hearing
• 1:05:26
  shots. And he goes, just give me a
• 1:05:27
  goddamn second. Yeah, I like this.
• 1:05:29
  Give me a second. Give me a second.
• 1:05:31
  Just give me a goddamn 2nd and. He's like, all right, we're
• 1:05:34
  going to outrun the wind. Yeah, he uses the scientific
• 1:05:36
  method. He's going through those steps
• 1:05:37
  again, and he's like, OK, OK, more people, like a lot of
• 1:05:42
  people set it off. So we need to be in smaller
• 1:05:44
  groups and we need to run faster than the wind.
• 1:05:47
  And we can do all of these things.
• 1:05:48
  We can absolutely do this. So they break into smaller
• 1:05:51
  groups. Elliot is with Alma, Jess, Jared
• 1:05:53
  and Josh. They stay ahead of the wind for
• 1:05:57
  the most part, until they don't because it's wind, but they're
• 1:06:01
  OK because they're in a small group.
• 1:06:04
  They find an abandoned truck, and the radio inside says that
• 1:06:10
  there are more nuclear power plants in the Northeast and the
• 1:06:12
  rest of the country. So, you know, maybe it has
• 1:06:16
  something to do with this. Maybe.
• 1:06:18
  Who knows? Have you ever seen one of those
• 1:06:20
  maps? No.
• 1:06:21
  It's scary. They do find a house, so they go
• 1:06:27
  to the house, there's a map inside of it, and they're
• 1:06:29
  planning to go to a low population area.
• 1:06:31
  Still, that's still a plan. Elliott has a very positive and
• 1:06:35
  affirming conversation with a plant.
• 1:06:37
  And then he goes, oh, it's plastic.
• 1:06:40
  He continues to talk to. You perfect.
• 1:06:42
  It's this is a beautiful scene. I love this so much it's so
• 1:06:45
  funny. Everything in this house is
• 1:06:47
  fake. And again, if you're going to
• 1:06:49
  stage a model home, why is it going to be messy like this?
• 1:06:53
  It is weird I. Don't understand?
• 1:06:55
  I, I, yeah, the whole setup of the house here is very strange.
• 1:06:59
  Also, I was like, I was surprised by the kids here
• 1:07:02
  because we didn't see them before, right?
• 1:07:03
  But suddenly he knows these kids and he's like talking to them,
• 1:07:06
  like on a first name basis. Yeah, and the kids are like
• 1:07:08
  giving him relationship counselling.
• 1:07:10
  Yeah, like did like, are they students?
• 1:07:12
  I don't think so. Like, I don't know like but we
• 1:07:15
  somehow they have formed a bond, I guess I.
• 1:07:18
  Don't know. Yeah, One of them wants to try
• 1:07:20
  and take the ring from Elliott, who's like, it's sentimental,
• 1:07:23
  which again got. It from cereal box that.
• 1:07:26
  Morning. Yes, Yeah.
• 1:07:27
  It's so confusing. Yeah.
• 1:07:29
  So they start to leave the house and they see two more groups are
• 1:07:33
  coming together towards that house.
• 1:07:35
  And they're trying to, like, shout to them from a distance
• 1:07:38
  saying, like, don't get a big group together.
• 1:07:40
  It's safer in small groups. But by that point, a man has
• 1:07:43
  started a lawn mower and laid down in front of it.
• 1:07:46
  That's a scary one right there, yeah.
• 1:07:48
  Yeah, it's pretty rough. So we see.
• 1:07:53
  There's a radio, they find a radio on a fence and it is
• 1:07:58
  telling everybody in the Northeast to report to police
• 1:08:02
  borders. And obviously they're groups
• 1:08:03
  like idiots. That's going to be big groups.
• 1:08:05
  When you say in small groups. Alma wants to have a rest stop
• 1:08:09
  for Jess. She's only 8.
• 1:08:11
  She needs food and rest. Fuck the 13 year olds that are
• 1:08:14
  there. And then Elliot is like I have a
• 1:08:19
  spot $6 bottle of cough syrup from a hot pharmacist and God as
• 1:08:24
  somebody who continuously needs cough syrup, I missed the days
• 1:08:28
  when it was like $6. I know right?
• 1:08:30
  For good cough syrup. Yeah, it's a funny scene, but
• 1:08:34
  like, I still like, I don't understand.
• 1:08:37
  This. Give him an award for that
• 1:08:38
  monologue. I don't care which one, just
• 1:08:42
  give him a word. They talk about breaking into
• 1:08:45
  the house. It's like all boarded up, so it
• 1:08:48
  looks fairly deserted. And this is where behind the
• 1:08:50
  scenes Mark Wahlberg is. Like if it's a deserted, boarded
• 1:08:53
  up house, why do we think we'll find food?
• 1:08:55
  Good questions, Mark. I mean like he did occasionally
• 1:08:58
  have some good questions. Yeah.
• 1:09:00
  I mean, canned food, canned goods, I can see that being
• 1:09:03
  that's an, that's a reasonable answer, yeah.
• 1:09:08
  So they they're not getting an answer and the kids are starting
• 1:09:13
  to peer through the window. Yeah, cuz they're 13 year old
• 1:09:15
  boys like Josh is like, I'm gonna break down the door.
• 1:09:18
  I can't. I can do it.
• 1:09:19
  This is also Abigail Breslin's little brother.
• 1:09:22
  Yeah. Fun fact.
• 1:09:23
  And he, yeah, he's acting big boyish right here because he
• 1:09:28
  feels safe with his his posse. And then we do hear somebody
• 1:09:32
  from inside the house. It appears that they're doomsday
• 1:09:34
  preppers. So they aren't going to let
• 1:09:38
  these folks in because on top, because obviously they are
• 1:09:42
  prepped for the doomsday and it's happening.
• 1:09:44
  So why would we let anyone in? And then they're like, all
• 1:09:46
  right, well, I'm going to shoot these children.
• 1:09:48
  And that's what happens. Elliot does try to stop it by
• 1:09:51
  holding the the shotgun the shotgun which I feel like would
• 1:09:55
  hurt but. It should, yeah, but no, I'm the
• 1:09:59
  old kid here. Gets blasted in the chest and
• 1:10:02
  then a little handgun pops out from the other window and shoots
• 1:10:06
  the other kid in the head and they give them 3 seconds to get
• 1:10:09
  off the porch. So.
• 1:10:11
  They slow MO run away. They can get out of there.
• 1:10:13
  We see the news talking about the events cresting.
• 1:10:18
  People are watching the coverage of this like all across the
• 1:10:23
  country. The trio finds a house with no
• 1:10:25
  power, overgrown driveway. They assume it's abandoned, but
• 1:10:30
  again, they are wrong because Missus Jones on the porch.
• 1:10:33
  She goes, well I suppose y'all can come in for supper and then
• 1:10:37
  she pros into their relationship saying somebody's always chasing
• 1:10:40
  somebody, you're going to figure out what that's about.
• 1:10:43
  She is isolated and self-sustaining.
• 1:10:45
  Nowadays we would refer to that as homesteading.
• 1:10:48
  She she was just giving off weird vibes the entire time.
• 1:10:51
  She does not want to hear about what's going on in the world.
• 1:10:54
  If she doesn't know it can't hurt her.
• 1:10:55
  That is her general thoughts, which is not true as we will see
• 1:10:59
  shortly. She's like, well, I suppose I
• 1:11:01
  got to let you all stay in the guest room.
• 1:11:03
  She exactly, she's just so like, I guess I got to like, you don't
• 1:11:07
  got to do anything, man. This is your house if you're
• 1:11:09
  really this uneasy. We got chased away from another
• 1:11:12
  house with a gun. You could do that here.
• 1:11:14
  Like just saw two children get shot in front of us.
• 1:11:17
  You know what I mean? Like this like.
• 1:11:18
  You don't have to do anything you don't want to.
• 1:11:20
  We've learned that the hard way. Alma correctly doesn't trust
• 1:11:25
  Missus Jones, and Missus Jones hears whispering and is like,
• 1:11:29
  are you guys going to steal from me?
• 1:11:31
  Are you going to murder me? And Elliott says what?
• 1:11:35
  No. In the morning he tries to go
• 1:11:39
  talk to her a little bit more, just to give a little bit of
• 1:11:42
  context and why they would like to stay there longer.
• 1:11:44
  And instead of finding her in her bedroom, he finds a creepy
• 1:11:48
  doll, kind of like one of the ones from Long Legs.
• 1:11:51
  Yeah. And she comes in, she goes.
• 1:11:53
  I knew it. Y'all going to leave?
• 1:11:55
  I wanted to know more about what was happening here.
• 1:11:58
  Clearly, there's a lot to this woman's story.
• 1:12:01
  I think it's an older woman and I, I think she's maybe a little
• 1:12:03
  ill and just hasn't been around people in a while.
• 1:12:05
  So it's just a bad combination. I guess so, yeah.
• 1:12:08
  And she goes out into the garden and she's still yelling, and the
• 1:12:12
  wind hits her and uh oh, she's being affected by the wind.
• 1:12:17
  And he's real alarmed by that because she's by herself out
• 1:12:20
  there. Yeah, that's that's as small a
• 1:12:22
  group as you can get. So he runs through the house as
• 1:12:25
  she's slamming her head through windows.
• 1:12:27
  So he's got to get to a room with that doesn't have a broken
• 1:12:31
  window. And he hears Alma and Jess's
• 1:12:33
  voice, and it turns out it's the other end of the pipe.
• 1:12:36
  They're in that house in the backyard.
• 1:12:38
  And so he talks to them through the pipe, talks about buying
• 1:12:42
  that mood ring on their first date.
• 1:12:43
  And still, at this point still, we don't know.
• 1:12:46
  He got this mood ring from a cereal box.
• 1:12:48
  So I'm like, cool, he bought her this ring on their first date.
• 1:12:51
  She kept it as a memento maybe, or he took it back.
• 1:12:55
  Either way, he's the one that put it on before they left this
• 1:12:57
  morning. I don't understand.
• 1:12:58
  The dialogue between them here is really weird too.
• 1:13:01
  She's like, yeah, I remember when you first bought that for
• 1:13:03
  me. Like it turned orange and or
• 1:13:05
  purple, and I meant that I was horny.
• 1:13:06
  He's like what the fuck? Jess is like, I want my real
• 1:13:09
  mom. And Dad, you're right there.
• 1:13:11
  Like they it's so weird. Like they completely forget that
• 1:13:14
  there's this child with them in this like world ending.
• 1:13:17
  Event you are guardian ad litems now act like it.
• 1:13:21
  Yeah, this kid just has to like, sit there quietly dealing with
• 1:13:24
  these two weird adults. Bullshit.
• 1:13:27
  I feel so bad for Jess. And he's like, you know what?
• 1:13:31
  If I'm going to die, I want to die with you.
• 1:13:33
  So he walks out into the wind and I'm like, my guy, at least
• 1:13:36
  get a bandana and cover your face.
• 1:13:38
  Yeah, there are precautions. We saw, like, in one event
• 1:13:41
  earlier, like, people around the country, people are wearing gas
• 1:13:43
  masks. Yeah, I know you probably can't
• 1:13:45
  find a gas mask right off the bat, but like, yeah, cover your
• 1:13:47
  face. But instead, Almond Jess also
• 1:13:49
  decide they're gonna raw dog the fresh air.
• 1:13:51
  And they all meet and we see that this is Arundale County.
• 1:13:54
  9:58 AM They go back inside, realize that they're not
• 1:14:00
  murdering themselves, and figure the event must have ended I.
• 1:14:04
  I still feel like that was weirdly selfish for all my to
• 1:14:07
  just bring Jess out there too. Like, queerly.
• 1:14:09
  You want to die too, right? You want to die?
• 1:14:10
  Yeah. You want to die.
• 1:14:11
  OK, let's go. She she's like, she took
• 1:14:14
  advantage of the fact that she can't speak without whispering.
• 1:14:17
  She's like, what's what's that? I can't.
• 1:14:18
  Hear you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:14:20
  OK. Yeah.
• 1:14:20
  OK let's go. Honestly that's what like oh man
• 1:14:25
  this kids going to have trauma and she needs.
• 1:14:27
  So much therapy. It's just it's going to be a
• 1:14:30
  rough ride for this child. We see them getting just ready
• 1:14:35
  for school, they're going back to class.
• 1:14:37
  She has to have her special hair clip.
• 1:14:39
  Are they living in Almond Elliot's apartment or as they
• 1:14:42
  move into Julian and Yvette? I think.
• 1:14:44
  They moved into their. Because it's got like a kids
• 1:14:47
  room all set up. It does and it's not very long
• 1:14:50
  after and the news is saying that they figure it was just an
• 1:14:55
  act of nature. One of those is going to be
• 1:14:57
  unexplainable. It ended at 957 AMA full minute
• 1:15:01
  before the three of them walked out there.
• 1:15:05
  They figure it's a warning. And you know what?
• 1:15:08
  Now that they've got this all figured out, Almond Elliot, they
• 1:15:12
  fucked to completion. She's got a pregnancy test.
• 1:15:16
  Sorry, that's probably the like grossest way I could have put
• 1:15:18
  that. That was no, that's correct.
• 1:15:21
  They did. She she's like, he proved that
• 1:15:24
  he can protect her and she's a big boy.
• 1:15:26
  Yeah. And yeah, she, she felt
• 1:15:29
  comfortable with kids now that she had, you know, a child.
• 1:15:32
  That they practiced back, yeah. Yeah, they had a practice child.
• 1:15:36
  Yeah, it did that. Kids gonna get abandoned once
• 1:15:38
  this next like the actual kid comes out.
• 1:15:41
  Yes, you're almost nine years old.
• 1:15:43
  You can, you can take care of yourself, right?
• 1:15:46
  We've got our real child now. She says the same thing.
• 1:15:49
  She's like, I have a feeling that if anything happens to us,
• 1:15:52
  you won't be able to step up to take care of us.
• 1:15:54
  So we need you to just go, go get it out.
• 1:15:59
  Jess, you you act like too much of A child.
• 1:16:02
  I'm in fifth grade, you see. That's what I'm talking.
• 1:16:04
  About this is the problem. Yeah, this is exactly what we've
• 1:16:06
  been talking about. And then we cut to Francais.
• 1:16:12
  Yeah, we don't get a time stamp or like a location either.
• 1:16:15
  We just have to assume because they speak French.
• 1:16:17
  Well, I. Canada, you know, like.
• 1:16:19
  Yes, but Travis, there were also baguettes, so we know it was
• 1:16:23
  France. And nights, it's like, I don't
• 1:16:28
  know the concept of other nations either.
• 1:16:29
  It's just baguettes. Yeah, I only knew that they were
• 1:16:33
  in France because I was looking through the credits just to see
• 1:16:37
  what names I recognize popping up.
• 1:16:39
  And one of them said French bicyclist and the other one said
• 1:16:42
  other French bicyclist. And these guys are talking about
• 1:16:45
  their bicycles being at the shop.
• 1:16:46
  I feel like it had to be like it would have the only way it has
• 1:16:51
  that punch is it's a completely different continent because like
• 1:16:54
  if it's like in Canada, like it could like organically spread of
• 1:16:57
  OK. For a minute I thought you were
• 1:16:59
  saying France wasn't in a different continent and I was
• 1:17:02
  trying to figure out how to explain to.
• 1:17:03
  You. No, no, that's what I'm saying.
• 1:17:04
  Like it's. Separated by land.
• 1:17:06
  Yeah. So like the plants weren't
• 1:17:07
  talking to each other in America over there in France.
• 1:17:10
  Like, hey, hey, you know what I mean?
• 1:17:11
  Like, OK, there's a big sea there.
• 1:17:13
  Separating them. Gotcha.
• 1:17:15
  All right, That's it. OK, that's it.
• 1:17:18
  That's it. Do you bump it?
• 1:17:20
  Do you bump your score up? Annie, I'll.
• 1:17:22
  Bump it 26.75. Yeah, yeah, OK cuz.
• 1:17:24
  It's just a fun fucking time. It's messy as hell.
• 1:17:27
  I wanna correct some of the continuity issues, but it's fun.
• 1:17:32
  Yeah, I'll keep mine at A7 because it's a good time, man.
• 1:17:36
  It is bad, but it's bad in the ways that I enjoy.
• 1:17:40
  Yeah, I love bad movies. And like on like the when we're
• 1:17:44
  talking about bad movies here, it's actually one of the better
• 1:17:47
  bad movies. Yeah.
• 1:17:49
  I mean he he is skilled in directing for.
• 1:17:52
  Sure he is. It's just a lot of weird
• 1:17:54
  decisions, a lot of weird acting choices and writing choices.
• 1:17:58
  Yeah. You know, I think he was in a
• 1:18:00
  rut because he was just coming off of a flop.
• 1:18:02
  And then he did this. And like, I'm glad that he dug
• 1:18:05
  himself out of this because we know what he's capable of.
• 1:18:07
  We've, you know, he's had a lot of movies that have done really
• 1:18:10
  well. Absolutely.
• 1:18:13
  Talia went from sleepy to restless throughout this movie.
• 1:18:16
  She has had her own battles with the wind before.
• 1:18:19
  She has had her own battles with nature.
• 1:18:21
  She's allergic to a lot of nature.
• 1:18:22
  The grass, actually, the grass kills her.
• 1:18:25
  Well, it doesn't actually kill her, but it.
• 1:18:27
  Tries to. Terribly.
• 1:18:29
  It makes her really itchy. Yeah, we we supply medications
• 1:18:33
  to stop it. So I think that this is this
• 1:18:35
  movie was an actual threat to her.
• 1:18:37
  And she also thinks that the worst thing that could possibly
• 1:18:39
  happen to a relationship would be somebody going on a tiramisu
• 1:18:44
  date or somebody buying classroom if they didn't need
• 1:18:45
  to. So this I think this is a nine
• 1:18:49
  for Talia. I think this is almost as scary
• 1:18:51
  a scenario as she could come up with.
• 1:18:53
  She also like had the moments of the dogs.
• 1:18:55
  Having their panic. Yeah, she didn't like hearing
• 1:18:57
  the dogs panicking. Yeah, it was sad.
• 1:18:59
  Obviously Zoe relates to Alma, and she has to because Zoe's
• 1:19:03
  full name is Zoe Desche Meow. Unless she's in trouble, and
• 1:19:05
  then she's also Kittyani. But she's got a she's got the
• 1:19:10
  same eyes as Zooey Deschanel. She does.
• 1:19:12
  She was named after Zooey Deschanel.
• 1:19:14
  We didn't name her unfortunately, because we got
• 1:19:16
  her as in the same circumstances as a.
• 1:19:20
  As our other pets where your son is like, hey, here's this the
• 1:19:23
  same circumstances that Elliot and all my got Jess basically
• 1:19:25
  that's where I was. I was going there, but I didn't
• 1:19:28
  like, nobody died in our case. It's just like, yeah.
• 1:19:31
  You know, well, I mean, I don't know what happened to her mom.
• 1:19:35
  OK. I guess that's true.
• 1:19:36
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:19:37
  I mean, in terms of humans, yeah.
• 1:19:38
  Nobody died, Yeah. Who would you relate to?
• 1:19:40
  Who'd you relate? To obviously related to the hot
• 1:19:43
  dog couple. The hot dog couple you.
• 1:19:45
  Did. Yeah, I did so hard.
• 1:19:47
  Yeah, you were a green weenie, just like.
• 1:19:48
  Them yeah. And I would absolutely like call
• 1:19:52
  you out for using binoculars to spy on neighbors.
• 1:19:55
  That's true. I would call you out too.
• 1:19:56
  Yeah, man, this is a tough one because I relate to both Elliot
• 1:20:01
  and Allman different aspects here.
• 1:20:03
  I relate to Elliot with like, the serial thing and like the,
• 1:20:06
  you know, the whole kid thing. Yeah, I get it.
• 1:20:09
  But I also relate to Alma with the whole thing of like, not
• 1:20:11
  wanting the personal drama shared with other people.
• 1:20:14
  Yeah, because like that was the thing was like, I get it because
• 1:20:16
  I'm like that too. I like to keep my shit private.
• 1:20:18
  If something happens to me, I don't really like to share that
• 1:20:22
  with other people. Yeah, that's that is very true.
• 1:20:25
  So yeah, you know, I, I think I'm going to scale more towards
• 1:20:28
  Alma here, OK? I relate to her.
• 1:20:32
  All right. All right.
• 1:20:36
  I guess it was tagline. No, not.
• 1:20:37
  Tagline Dream sequel. OK, so dream sequel.
• 1:20:41
  Do we want to find out what happens in France?
• 1:20:43
  Yeah, let's see what. Happens or do we want to, do we
• 1:20:45
  want to like come back to it in modern times, like now that
• 1:20:47
  we've been through like a pandemic and everything?
• 1:20:49
  Because I think we know a lot more about human nature.
• 1:20:52
  That's true, Unfortunately, yeah.
• 1:20:55
  We wouldn't have people exiting New York.
• 1:20:58
  City No, they feel like that's illegal.
• 1:21:01
  You can't tell me just inside my house.
• 1:21:04
  You can't tell me to leave my house either.
• 1:21:06
  You can't tell me anything. Yeah, well, OK, so would it be
• 1:21:11
  the plants? Still, I feel like something
• 1:21:13
  else is going to happen. Like clearly the message didn't
• 1:21:15
  get received when it was plants killing people.
• 1:21:18
  I think it's like all of nature working together, so it's like
• 1:21:20
  plants, like we've got maybe like acid rain or something like
• 1:21:23
  that. Combinations of different things
• 1:21:25
  happening and maybe this time I can get like a more global
• 1:21:28
  perspective throughout the whole movie.
• 1:21:31
  Yeah, like a different different parts of the world having
• 1:21:35
  different types of Yeah. So like the the plants in one
• 1:21:39
  area, acid rain in another. I don't know, you could have.
• 1:21:45
  I would love to see like extreme like temperature changes.
• 1:21:49
  Yeah, that hearing in. One area, yeah.
• 1:21:51
  Oh my God, yeah. Like areas like in September in
• 1:21:54
  Kentucky, you start off the day in a sweater and then shorts and
• 1:21:57
  AT shirt. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:21:59
  People would write it off. You're right.
• 1:22:00
  Yeah. OK.
• 1:22:02
  Yeah, I think that that could be interesting.
• 1:22:03
  And this time, Don Wahlberg. Donnie, Donnie.
• 1:22:09
  Donnie. Yeah.
• 1:22:11
  Cuz I mean come on. Like he would do better.
• 1:22:15
  I think he would do better. I could see I'm not being like,
• 1:22:19
  between you and me. Don't tell your brother the rest
• 1:22:21
  of this. Don't tell him.
• 1:22:21
  But you're a better writer. But like one of them that
• 1:22:24
  someone hates Donnie Wahlberg. He's like he writes him as this
• 1:22:27
  hateful person. He's like, well, clearly this is
• 1:22:29
  the man that Don. Ward is like.
• 1:22:31
  He's just a shit bag. Oh man.
• 1:22:35
  OK, there we go. We got it.
• 1:22:37
  All right now. Tagline, what?
• 1:22:39
  What did you write down? I, I put in a couple, I try to,
• 1:22:42
  I we might need to like reword them just a little bit.
• 1:22:44
  OK, let's hear them. This is not a trap.
• 1:22:49
  If we don't improve, we'll never grow old.
• 1:22:52
  Oh. Wait, wait, wait.
• 1:22:53
  And then I I reworded it a little bit to a tale as old as
• 1:22:56
  the Earth, where the Earth is a trap.
• 1:22:59
  Man that's pretty good. OK I feel like you can throw an
• 1:23:06
  avatar the last day I've been cuz the air is like part of.
• 1:23:13
  The earth is a trap and the air bends around you.
• 1:23:16
  The Earth is a trap. An Avatar.
• 1:23:19
  An Airbender. I like to imagine you just want
• 1:23:25
  it to be a tail as old as the earth.
• 1:23:26
  The earth is a trap. Avatar the.
• 1:23:29
  Last day, that's. That's the tagline right there.
• 1:23:49
  Oh my God, that's a perfect tagline right there.
• 1:23:51
  Avatar the Last. I want every critique on invite
• 1:23:56
  someone to just end with an Avatar the Last Airbender.
• 1:24:01
  That's. Amazing.
• 1:24:02
  Oh my God. OK.
• 1:24:03
  Good job. Thank you.
• 1:24:05
  No, that would have happened without your whole thing right
• 1:24:08
  there. OK, I guess we are now good to
• 1:24:14
  go with our reviews. Yeah.
• 1:24:15
  Yes. OK, so I I pulled a couple here
• 1:24:20
  because I didn't know where we were going to land.
• 1:24:22
  OK, so I guess we're more on the positive side.
• 1:24:25
  So I'll read the negative review.
• 1:24:27
  It's a 2 out of 10 titled More Like the Crap Inning.
• 1:24:34
  Is M Night Shaman the director of this flop?
• 1:24:36
  The same M Night Shaman who made the 6th Sense and Unbreakable?
• 1:24:39
  You'd be forgiven for thinking that the director of the earlier
• 1:24:42
  classic Fair had been replaced by a talentless clone after
• 1:24:45
  watching this hugely embarrassing environmental
• 1:24:47
  disaster thriller. It's a film which opens with a
• 1:24:50
  handful of breathtaking set pieces involving mass human
• 1:24:53
  madness before swiftly descending into the kind of
• 1:24:56
  silly shtick that even the sci-fi Channel producer would
• 1:24:59
  think twice before green lighting.
• 1:25:01
  The blame is clearly fixed on Shyamalan shoulders.
• 1:25:04
  He didn't only direct The Stripe, but wrote it to him.
• 1:25:07
  That indicates that the production was a labor of love,
• 1:25:10
  but with. But what a misguided 1.
• 1:25:13
  The script is appallingly bad, full of kind of unreal dialogue
• 1:25:18
  that would only exists in a bad bee movie, and the whole film
• 1:25:22
  has a tired, subdued seen it all before heir to it.
• 1:25:26
  As for the cast, well, words fell me.
• 1:25:28
  Mark Wahlberg is wooden and hopelessly, helplessly miscast
• 1:25:32
  as a science teacher, delivering his lines with a kind of
• 1:25:34
  disbelief that he's been caught up in this mess.
• 1:25:38
  So a Deschanel who I previously saw in Yes Man is apparently
• 1:25:42
  awful, her wide eyed style of acting more suited to a
• 1:25:45
  pantomime than a movie. The only one who gives a decent
• 1:25:50
  performance in this reliable. Or oh it's the reliable John
• 1:25:55
  Leguizamo, and he doesn't get a great deal of screen time at
• 1:25:58
  all. Tapping marches from 1 minor set
• 1:26:01
  piece to the next, always promising more than it delivers.
• 1:26:04
  The planning is basic and obvious, never less than
• 1:26:06
  contrived. Some moments, like when the two
• 1:26:09
  boys start going crazy, are so over the top and badly done that
• 1:26:12
  they become hilarious to watch. So in the end that's what this
• 1:26:16
  becomes, so bad it's funny experience.
• 1:26:18
  A modern day variant on the likes of Robot Monster and
• 1:26:21
  Planning Planet 9 from Outer Yeah, pointed in from outer
• 1:26:24
  space. Maybe audiences 50 years down
• 1:26:27
  the line will feel the same way. I'm just going to say as
• 1:26:32
  somebody who lives the Sci-fi Channel original movies, I they
• 1:26:35
  would absolutely green light something like.
• 1:26:37
  This. Yeah, I think they would.
• 1:26:39
  But I agree with a lot of what this person says.
• 1:26:42
  I mean, there was like, the bad acting, the bad writing.
• 1:26:44
  Like it became so bad. It's good.
• 1:26:47
  Yeah, it really did. It's one of those things that
• 1:26:49
  like, back when I first saw it, I definitely hated on it quite a
• 1:26:53
  bit too. I thought it was pretty lame and
• 1:26:56
  cheesy. But like I said, now that I
• 1:27:00
  understand his sense of humor a little bit better, I can
• 1:27:02
  appreciate it a lot more for what it is.
• 1:27:04
  I think knowing that there is a case that it was intentionally
• 1:27:09
  cheesy. Yeah.
• 1:27:10
  Because like, you mean he did go and try for a Bee Movie.
• 1:27:13
  Yeah. But I mean, he did say he was
• 1:27:15
  trying to go for something deeper eventually too, so.
• 1:27:18
  Yeah, but I think once you start writing something AB movie.
• 1:27:21
  It's got the bones of that. Yeah.
• 1:27:22
  Yeah. Like there's really nothing
• 1:27:24
  else. He, I mean, he could have just
• 1:27:26
  completely changed it. But yeah, it lies in this weird
• 1:27:29
  space of being like a schlocky. Like it's not really schlocky,
• 1:27:32
  but like just AB movie caught up in like a normal M night movie.
• 1:27:38
  Yeah. It has like an identity crisis
• 1:27:40
  whenever you think about it. Yeah, a little bit.
• 1:27:42
  Yeah, but I enjoy it too. You know I I do have a good time
• 1:27:47
  with this movie, so how about we check in on our listeners and
• 1:27:51
  see what they said I. Would like to hear from
• 1:27:53
  everybody else. Yeah, we got a decent amount, so
• 1:27:55
  thanks everybody for showing out on episode 300 here.
• 1:27:59
  Half Price Horror says one of those movies where you question
• 1:28:01
  literally every creative decision and yet you don't want
• 1:28:04
  the film makers to change any of them.
• 1:28:06
  Absolutely. It's a perfect way.
• 1:28:08
  To absolutely. Word Zombie says.
• 1:28:14
  As for the movie review, I don't care what anyone says.
• 1:28:17
  It was not that bad. Interesting idea and some crazy
• 1:28:20
  kills. Maybe the acting was lacking in
• 1:28:21
  some parts, but still worth the watch no matter the hey.
• 1:28:24
  Yeah, man. Like, I I like the premise and I
• 1:28:27
  think it is like a pretty creepy idea, like seeing all these
• 1:28:30
  people act this way. It's unsettling.
• 1:28:33
  Yeah, honestly. It's yeah, it it definitely has
• 1:28:36
  an interesting hook to it and and some questionable
• 1:28:39
  performances at times. I agree with both those points.
• 1:28:42
  Undead Symphony Pod says out of all his movies, I found this the
• 1:28:46
  most terrifying and haunting. Nature reclaiming balance and
• 1:28:49
  the nature of some of the suicides was great.
• 1:28:51
  Conceptually, I've seen this once and still remember the
• 1:28:54
  opening, the tear in the roof of the Jeep and the ending.
• 1:28:58
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, same thing right there.
• 1:29:01
  Yeah. Good, good premise and final
• 1:29:04
  review from Queen Bean Tricks. Who says?
• 1:29:07
  I'm embarrassed to say after I saw this in theaters I was so
• 1:29:10
  freaked out by the lawnmower thing that I didn't sleep that
• 1:29:12
  night and much, much later realized how much of a joke this
• 1:29:15
  movie is and feel really silly about that now.
• 1:29:18
  Also in the opening scene I said, oh the twist is the plants
• 1:29:22
  did it, Hey good for you, you did it.
• 1:29:25
  I think that's the thing, this movie doesn't even have A twist,
• 1:29:27
  does it? Yeah, I, I think people like to
• 1:29:31
  act like it's the twist is that the plants are doing it, but
• 1:29:33
  that comes across pretty early on.
• 1:29:35
  Yeah, they like bring it up with the plant people, which is like
• 1:29:38
  in the start of the second act. I think it's so much like
• 1:29:45
  Shyamalan has this thing where everybody expects everything to
• 1:29:48
  have a big twist that even when he doesn't have A twist, they're
• 1:29:50
  like, man, that twist was lame. Yeah, you're.
• 1:29:53
  Right. It's like, I don't, I don't
• 1:29:54
  think it was a twist. Well, you're deciding it's A
• 1:29:56
  twist, but it's not actually A twist.
• 1:29:58
  That was what the guy at the Half Price books was saying when
• 1:30:01
  we were checking. I was like, why does he feel
• 1:30:02
  like he had to have A twist? I'm like, I don't really
• 1:30:05
  remember there being A twist. Was the twist that the plants
• 1:30:07
  were doing it? I don't know.
• 1:30:09
  Yeah, we, we hit it pretty early on the plants as the hypothesis
• 1:30:14
  and they keep, you know, referring back to it throughout
• 1:30:17
  the movie, so. Yeah, I will give you credit,
• 1:30:19
  though, figuring that out from the very first scene is good.
• 1:30:22
  Yeah, 'cause I mean, it's not obvious at all right there.
• 1:30:24
  So, yeah, props on that. And the lawnmower kill.
• 1:30:27
  Yeah. I mean, that makes me think of
• 1:30:29
  Sinister, which we watched not that long ago.
• 1:30:32
  They also do it in Sleep Away Camp 3.
• 1:30:33
  Yeah, anytime you have a lawnmower kill, it's pretty
• 1:30:36
  upsetting. It's a pretty tragic way to go.
• 1:30:39
  Yeah. Yeah All right well that's it
• 1:30:41
  for the review. So thanks everybody for pitching
• 1:30:43
  in. We always appreciate that
• 1:30:46
  always. And that does it for episode
• 1:30:48
  300. Yay we're in another century of
• 1:30:51
  episodes here. So we got we got a lot coming
• 1:30:56
  century. I don't know what's the term for
• 1:31:00
  the hundreds if it's not talking about years I.
• 1:31:04
  Don't. We're we're in, we're in the new
• 1:31:07
  bracket, we're in the next tier. We're in the three hundreds now.
• 1:31:10
  We moved out of the two hundreds.
• 1:31:12
  There we go, you can just say that like a normal person.
• 1:31:15
  That's seem normal. I don't know.
• 1:31:17
  OK, whatever. We're in the three hundreds.
• 1:31:20
  That's the important thing. That's all I'm trying to say.
• 1:31:22
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• 1:31:24
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• 1:31:27
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• 1:31:31
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• 1:31:34
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  Stickers. Yep, which you should have your
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  At least yes. We also want to thank anybody
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  I think that's it. I think so.
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  I accidentally just punched the mics.
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  I'm sorry if that made a sound. OK, all right.
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  Cool. Well then we're signing off
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  then. Yep.
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  And we'll see you three O 1. All right, bye.