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Welcome to Cyberpunk Cinema, the definitive dive into the dark future of science fiction.
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I am your host, Anthony Lapura, and I will be taking you on a cinematic journey through the sprawling cityscapes, the crippling data storms, and the cybernetic implants that encompass all things cyberpunk.
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In this week's episode, I'll be breaking down the 1992 B-Movie Cyber Trash Monster Horror Serial Killer Thriller Split Second, directed by Tony Malam, written by Gary Scott Thompson, starring Rucker Hauer, Kim Catral, Alistair Duncan, Michael J.
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Pollard, Alan Armstrong, and Pete Postelwaite.
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In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since.
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He soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.
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Split Second is a waterlogged dystopian cyberpunk set in the near future of 2008 in a flooded London.
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We follow a cigar-smoking, coffee-addicted, hard-boiled detective named Harley Stone as he attempts to hunt down the serial killer that murdered his partner, all while having an unexplained psychic link to the monster, while romancing early 90s Kim Catrol and wielding a fucking hand cannon gun.
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The production design of this film is awfully impressive for its low budget, and overall, it's a whole lot of 90s cheesy sci-fi fun.
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So do me a favor, it's time to access your cranial jacks, boot up your Ono Sendai Cyberspace 7, and slap on your damn mirror shades.
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You know what time it is.
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Cyberpunk Cinema starts now.
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Don't I just think you're putting cut things?
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Don't kiss you with that.
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Wait a minute.
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Cyberpunkers, Skin Jobs, Brain Butchers, Me Proxies, and Artificial People, all welcome here at Cyberpunk Cinema.
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I am the fugitive from the dark future, and I am back for episode 54, season three.
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Just want to say welcome to all the new listeners.
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You guys are my meat proxies.
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And like I told you on episode 53, you will have to go up the ranks.
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You know, you gotta earn that cyberpunker badge.
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You know what I mean?
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You gotta earn that skin job monocle.
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You gotta earn it.
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You're not gonna just give it.
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No one's gonna give you anything in life.
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You gotta earn it.
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Here, even on a fucking podcast, you gotta earn what I tell you to earn, right?
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So, yo, I'm back.
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Join the resistance season three.
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Season three is here.
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I wanna say a couple friggin' things here, man.
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First off, hardware and death machine, most downloads for F7.
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I remember I told you about that a couple weeks ago.
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F7 is the first seven days, and I'm happy to announce that Cyberpunk Cinema is in the top 25% of all podcasts because of the first seven days.
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You guys have doing it.
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You're kicking ass.
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I would like to see, you know, I'd like to see more reviews uh on Apple Podcasts.
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Hint hint.
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I would like to see, you know, more five stars on Spotify.
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It's great.
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On Spotify, we have 5.0, 5.0 on Spotify, 5.0 on Apple Podcasts.
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Keep rating, keep reviewing.
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More people will be able to get it with the fucking stupid ass algorithm that we're all enslaved to, right?
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But hey, you gotta play the game, right?
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And the game we got to play is more reviews, more five stars, so we get bang higher.
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I want I don't want top 25%.
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I'm looking at top 15, top 10.
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That's what we're going for.
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And you guys are gonna be here for the ride.
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I hope you guys are fucking happy with that.
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I want to announce something straight up the bat right here.
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You ready?
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Cyberpunk Cinema Season 3, join the revolution stickers.
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Yes.
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So if you are in the United States, DM me at Stormgiant Productions or at Cyberpunk uh Cinema or Cyberpunk Dash Cinema.
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I forgot what it is off the top of my head right now.
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DM me your mailing address, and I will send you stickers in the mail for free.
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All my loyal listeners, stickers in the mail for free.
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But there's a catch.
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What's the catch?
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I'm gonna send you multiple stickers, not just one, fuck that.
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I'm gonna send you multiple stickers, right?
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Keep some stickers for yourself, but you got to do like a project mayhem type of fucking thing.
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Alright?
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Load full transcript
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And it's not we're not going that crazy.
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I want you to take the cyberpunk cinema season three, join the resistance sticker, alright?
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And I want you to go in a bar, in a restaurant, wherever you're going, on the fucking street, in your city.
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I want you to put it on somewhere and take a picture of it and send it to me.
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I want to see it.
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I want to know that you're doing the work because there ain't gonna be no resistance unless you're doing the work, right?
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So um shout out to my boy Rodolfo, who is who basically does you know all of my uh all my artwork.
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He's the best.
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He's he's the coolest guy in the world.
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Shout out Rodolfo.
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Uh, he also has the deepest fucking knowledge of movies of any person I've ever met in my life.
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And I know a lot, a shit ton of movies.
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And he just is like, no, you gotta watch this, this, and that.
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I'm like, fuck.
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Like, he knows everything.
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I mean, he used to be a programmer.
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So shout out Rodolfo, okay?
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Again, Cyberpunk Cinema Season Three, join the resistance stickers, will be available.
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It's gonna be a limited first edition run fucking free in the United States.
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I'm sorry for my international brothers and sisters out there, okay?
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But maybe I'll do that.
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We'll see.
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You know what?
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We're gonna see how the first run goes.
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If the first run goes, hey, maybe we'll go international.
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I mean, we're already out in all these countries around the world.
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I mean, I'm bit where cyberpunk cinema is listened to in like almost a hundred countries.
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It's fucking incredible.
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I can't believe it.
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I have people all over the place that I never would have thought would be listening to my fucking voice telling you guys about a niche sci-fi subgenre called Cyberpunk Cinema.
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But hey, we're here.
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We're staying, we're getting better.
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We're only gonna fucking grow.
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So if you want the stickers, DM me.
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You can DM me two ways.
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DM me, and I'll send it to you.
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All right.
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That's I'm doing it for you guys.
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And the stickers are fucking cool as shit too.
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So you're gonna love it.
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So last week I debuted something.
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At the time I didn't have a title for it.
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I think I was calling it like headliners, but that sucks.
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So we're gonna be calling it Scream Sheets.
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All right.
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And I know what you're gonna say, Scream Sheets.
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Oh, come on, man.
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You know, that's uh, you know, Cyberpunk uh the board game started that.
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Well, actually, that's not true.
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Um they adopted that from uh John Walter Williams uh for hardwired or Walter John Williams for hardwired, and I think he wrote that in 1986.
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So he mentioned scream sheets in that first.
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Anyway, scream sheets, I'm calling it where cyber fiction has become cyber fact.
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All right, so we're gonna pull some stuff here.
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Um, first off, we're gonna do the fridge hacking spree is an Internet of Things wake-up call.
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This was in Wired.
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Um, and they said escalating hacks affecting blood labs and grocery stores show the very real risks to critical infrastructure that come from basic security lapses involving internet connected devices.
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Uh, are we about to go like Battlestar Galactica and just go off network?
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I mean, is that what's gonna happen?
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I really think that's gonna happen.
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Okay.
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Uh like everything's just we're just connected to everything.
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If we're gonna be so connected to everything, eventually something's just gonna cripple the system.
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And then guess what?
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We're all fucked.
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How are you guys gonna deal with a digital dark age?
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You guys gonna be able to deal with it?
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You guys can't even look at your fucking, can't not look at your cell phone more than like 7,000 times a day.
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What are you gonna do when you don't have it?
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All right, something to think about.
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Maybe we're gonna have to go like Battlestar Galactica kind of you know, off network, right?
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Fuck them.
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Fuck the machines.
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All right, okay, this is my favorite thing in the world.
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Rest in peace, Cybertruck.
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You were unloved, unwanted, and utterly absurd.
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Okay, this is from Wire 2.
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I'm gonna give a big fuck you sandwich to Elon Musk and Cybertruck.
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And any honestly, any of you douchebags who drive that fucking piece of shit car, it sucks.
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Again, I work in the automotive industry during as my day job.
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That car is a joke.
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A joke.
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First of all, it looks like one of the like a 1990s polygonal video game, like some fucking child like drew it like on fucking 3D paint or something.
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I mean, it's terrible.
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Not only that, it's a piece of shit car.
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All right.
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Things on that car, you could like peel it off.
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It's embarrassing.
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I'm happy it fucking it died.
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And watch, one day they'll make it back to the future and it'll be, you know, uh, you made a a time machine out of a cyber truck, like one of those fucking things.
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All right, let's keep moving.
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AI's next trick.
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Speaking dolphin.
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This is what Wired says.
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All right.
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Denise Herzing, the founder and director of Wild Dolphin Project, is using AI to help understand audio and video footage of marine mammals.
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Okay, now this is what I call good AI.
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This is good.
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This is like, why not?
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Let's do that.
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All right, it gives me a lot of Johnny mnemonic vibes.
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You know, Jones, everyone knows Jones, but uh, yeah, why not?
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Fucking hey, we gotta try it.
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I think uh wasn't there a talking dolphin or a fucking intelligent dolphin in Sequest DSV.
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I mean, that is a wow, that's a deep dive that I haven't thought of in a while.
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Yeah, I was at Dork in uh junior high who who was like, I gotta watch Sequest, right?
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I was such a Sequest fanatic, dude.
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I I mean, uh can't believe I just admitted that to like all my millions of people out there, but it's true.
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I love Sequest, all right?
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So that's good AI.
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All right, we're gonna move on to futurism.
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They hit a little harder, okay?
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Now, climate change has become so bad that rice krispies don't have actual rice in them anymore.
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Okay.
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All I'm gonna say is fuck you.
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You can't look, you came after, you know, all these things I like in life.
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And now you came after my rice crispy treats.
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Rice Krispy treats are like my secret favorite like snack since I was like eight.
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I mean, it tastes better when you make them yourself, but fuck.
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Now there's no rice and rice krispies.
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What is the world coming to?
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What?
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What's next?
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I'll tell you what's next.
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Richard Norton's death linked to black market peptides.
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That's also from futurism.
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That is the most cycle people are gonna read that and be like, oh, whatever, blah, blah, blah.
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Fucking this guy, you know, who has money, he takes that is so cyberpunk.
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If you would have read that 20 years ago or 30 years ago, you would have been like, peptides, what?
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You know, whatever he's doing, whatever this cocktail is, he's taking it to either, you know, prolong his life or whatever, and it kills him.
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All right.
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That's cyberpunk right there.
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Cyber.
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I'm sorry, that is cyber fiction becoming cyber fact, right?
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Again, we're living it.
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All right, check this out.
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AI Godfather says to get ready for Chernobyl-style blackout caused by AI.
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This is also in futurism.
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Jeffrey Hinton says that, quote, humankind might might have been better off never developing it, end quote.
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The AI-powered attack on the energy generating system, quote, causes a massive brownout, end quote, that takes down the world financial system or power grids for an extended period of time.
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AI CEOs have also been worried about a Chernobyl-style catastrophe.
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They're worried.
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Now listen to this.
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They're worried, these fucking assholes, they're worried that it would permanently damage the tech's reputation, just as the infamous meltdown did with nuclear power.
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So what are they worried about?
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Their fucking wallets, right?
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Their future gener, you know, generational wealth.
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A
big fuck you sandwich to you guys.
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All right.
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Meanwhile, people here on the ground are hurting so bad, and you guys are worried about generational wealth.
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You know, I don't even know.
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I don't even want to say what I want to say.
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I'm just gonna say fuck you sandwich for them.
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All right.
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Now, this is the last one that we're gonna that we're gonna go move on.
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Uh this one's this one's great though.
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Kids hooked on AI chatbots are showing dramatically worse mental health from futurism.
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Quote, now it seems like roughly the same number of kids using it for homework are using it to get emotional support or help with coping, end quote.
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AI chatbots, in a sense, may be acting like emotional training wheels, only they're so addictive that the people who depend on them never want to take them off.
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As a result, they never develop the skills to handle the daily stresses of life, leaving them vulnerable and unprepared.
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I mean, if that's not a fucking red alert right there, people, then I don't know what to tell you.
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It's such how many things are you gonna be told where you're gonna be like, eh, whatever, eh, that's the future.
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Eh, I'm gonna go with the flow.
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But then it it then it's attacking your kids, my kids, and we're gonna sit back and take it?
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No, I don't fucking think so.
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That's ridiculous.
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And I mean, what think about all these like neuroses that are just gonna sprout up from this shit.
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I mean, we already know about AI psychosis, we already know about all this other stuff.
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I mean, this is leading to fucking, you know, child uh suicides by talking to AI chatbots.
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I mean, you see it all over the place.
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You I mean, a lot of times you got you guys, you get you do a blind eye to it and you're like, ah, it doesn't affect me.
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It's like, oh, if it doesn't affect it's affecting all of us, you guys just closing your eyes to it, right?
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Anyway, check this out.
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We're gonna go into a little bit of background.
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Uh, yeah, we're talking about split second, 1992, right?
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Uh Rolling Stone top 150, not rated, not a surprise, not a surprise, right?
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So we're gonna do a little background information.
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In the scene in Stone's apartment where they are discussing their names, Alastair Duncan is actually laughing because Rucker Hower held it together so well, it was decided to keep it in the movie.
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The film spawned the term the Rucker Howard diet, namely anxiety, coffee, and chocolate.
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Okay.
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I mean, I've had when I used to drink coffee, that was that was basically I was on a Rucker Howard diet for probably 10 years.
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Okay.
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No more coffee anymore.
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Has I haven't had a drop of coffee in 15 years, and I still am at this level of enthusiasm and energy.
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All right.
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What's the secret?
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I don't know.
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Genetics?
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I don't know.
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Working out, drinking a lot of water, being positive, being a good person.
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I mean, uh that all comes with it.
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All right.
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Gary Scott Thompson's original 1988 speculative script was titled Pentagram.
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Set in Los Angeles, California, it involved a ritualistic serial killer who murders five people every five years during the last quarter century, leaving a pentagram symbol after each kill.
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It was an action buddy cop horror movie with occult overtones.
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The script got Thompson more jobs before it was finally picked up by the head of challenge films, Laura Gregory, and production manager Susan Nicoletti, who got director Tony Malam involved.
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All three told Thompson that the story was too similar to the First Power 1990.
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Thompson rewrote the script and retitled it Black Tide.
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This version was set in London, England, which was half underwater due to global warming.
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Rucker Howard told Thompson to rewrite it to make it more physical, with more focus on psychic connection between Stone and the creature.
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There was a discussion throughout production about the look of the monster and what exactly it would have been, which left Stephen Norrington only three weeks to design the creature.
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This is like, if you think about it, this is like a Stephen Norrington fucking trilogy of involvement.
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All right, right?
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Hardware.
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Then he directs Death Machine, and then he was involved in the creature design.
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I mean, this guy was all over the place with 90s cyberpunk cinema, right?
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Gary Scott Thompson
wrote the script with Harrison Ford in mind for the lead role, but was happy when Rucker Howard was cast.
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Howard loved the script, which is why he wanted to do the movie.
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Despite recent word of mouth and an exciting advertising campaign, the movie underperformed at the U.S.
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box office due to the fact that it opened during the weekend of the Los Angeles, California riots.
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I don't know.
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I mean, they like to say that, but I don't think this movie was going to be a hit anyway.
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And we'll we'll get to why.
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And there's a lot of reasons why.
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Uh film production in the UK was in a depression at the time of the film was in production.
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For about two weeks, it was the only feature film shooting in the UK.
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So they probably just had like they were given like the keys to the fucking city.
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They were like, oh, you want to make a movie?
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And they, you know, they gave him everything.
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All right, now Tony Malam, for a low budget, Tony Malam couldn't finish the movie due to all the stress he went through during production, so Ian Sharp and others took over and completed it.
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Sharp filmed the final action scene in a subway and some other additional scenes, which is why he is credited as co-director in the end credits.
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Future film director Steven Norrington was a creature effects designer and visual effects supervisor.
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Wendy Carlos was originally hired to compose the score, but her work was rejected, and a new score was composed by Francis Haynes and Stephen W.
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Parsons.
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A few tracks from Rejected Score, which were going to be used in the morgue scene, were included on her album Rediscovering Lost Scores Volume 2.
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Ian Sharp directed several minor C's with Michael J.
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Pollard, as well as the sequences in a final showdown in the Metro after the original director quit.
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Rucker Hauer's super powerful handgun is a modified Crossman Airguns model 3357 CO2 powered paintball revolver.
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It fires 50 caliber paintballs from a six-shot cylinder.
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It was used in paintball games and as a way for foresters to mark trees for harvesting or culling using different colors of paint.
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That's actually really fascinating.
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All right.
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Belgian death metal band Aborted used an image from this movie for the cover of their first album, The Purity of Perversion, 1993.
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I do not know Belgian death metal band aborted, but I'm going to check them out.
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Excuse me.
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Uh shot in eight weeks, pre-production for this movie lasted only three weeks.
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That's that's tough.
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The action scene figure that Dick shows Harley that his girlfriend made for him was a repainted Lex Luger figure released by Gloob as part of the World Championship Wrestling series in 1991.
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In August 1992, interview for Cinema Fest Fan Cinema Fantastique magazine, Gary Scott Thompson mentioned how due to several pre-sales of the first film, he already developed a story for the sequel, Split Second Two.
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He described the basic story idea as quote, it's in a new setting.
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It's different.
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And whereas the first one is more straightforward, action thriller, the sequel is more psychological.
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The killer would come back in many, many different ways, not necessarily what we've seen before.
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End quote.
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The sequel, however, was never made.
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The film takes place 16 years in the future, 2008.
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And lastly, the story is a loose, modern adaptation of the Jack the Ripper case.
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So that's a little bit of the background.
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We're going to go into letterboxing, but before that, I need a drink of water.
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So give me one second.
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I'm back.
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Letterboxing.
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Alright, letterboxing.
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Here we go.
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Very weird movie.
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I'm not sure totally works, but has some decent FX work and ambitious camera moves as Rucker Hauer in a 2008 London decimated by global warming chases around a giant serial killing xenomorph devil that fires shotguns, yeets people out of buildings, and Temple of Doom them so he can take a bite out of their heart and harvest their soul or something like that.
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Again, weird movie.
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Thank you, Rucker, for ending global warming.
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Josh Lewis, three stars.
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Dorky British Cyberpunk is 100% my fucking jam.
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Especially when Rucker Hauer is in full hard-boiled crazy mode and ripping the hearts out of satanic demons.
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Comrade Yue, four stars.
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Now, Comrade Yue has been in another letterboxing.
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He's gonna be in two of these letterboxing.
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All right.
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Now, black coffee, black shades, black coat, black t shirt, black pants, black socks, and black boots in a big black 455, 450 Magnum.
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Cool, I'm cool, I'm cool.
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Only big guns and bigger guns.
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Rucker Hauer plays as Mr.
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Harley, Mr.
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Stone Cold, Mr.
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Detective, Mr.
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I Work Alone, Mr.
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Takes No Shit, Mr.
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Crazy with a fucking hand cannon.
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It's not funny.
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Do you think that's funny?
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Well, it's not.
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It's not funny.
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It's dirty.
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It's bloody.
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It's metal.
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It's claustrophobic.
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And ultimately, the main selling point is that it's a buddy cop movie with a twist.
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Both cops get to lose their shit together.
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Yi Jan, five stars.
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More buddy cop, more buddy comedy than Demon Blade Runner.
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But if you get on with that wavelength, it's a fun time.
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Rucker Hauer hands it up.
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London is underwater, and a giant Hannibal Lecter Monster Man is ripping people's hearts out.
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The total whiplash made a lot more sense after I learned that director Tony Malam, the birding, got it got the boot, and someone else stepped in to wrap things up.
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Josh DeClo, 3.5 stars.
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If you're going to make me sit through a creature feature with lead in pacing, dreary set design, and tonal inconsistency, at least have the decency to allocate enough of your budget to competent creature design and effects.
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A man in a rubber suit that looks like a cross between Venom and a xenomorph just isn't good enough.
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That said, peak Kim Catrol is on hand sporting her Valeris haircut, so that detail made it worth it.
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Dan Edwards 2.5 Dave Edwards 2.5 stars.
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I kind of love this.
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The flooded London Dystopia was just a really interesting backdrop for sci-fi.
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Kind of in the realm of Dark Angel or even Johnny Mnemonic, but a bit grungier.
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I would call it Grimdark.
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That the type of future you don't want to live in with some interesting fantasy elements.
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Also, the creature is like a cross between Venom, Xenomorph, and a rat.
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And it's silly, but obviously awesome.
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It's very watchable.
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90s cheese, Helen, four stars.
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It's kind of it's kind of like a post-apocalyptic version of I come in peace here.
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Rucker Hower plays a loose cannon cop and makes Dirty Harry look like a crossing guard.
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London's underwater because of global warming, as he's on the hunt for some monster that he has a psychic link with, you know, for reasons it's bonkers as fuck, and I'm all for it.
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AR Lopez, four stars.
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I love the attention to world building this lower budget movie does to establish our doomed planet.
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In the far, far future of 2008, global warming has melted the polar ice caps.
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How do we show this without very much money?
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You close off a street and you flood it all the time.
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Every street in this apocalyptic London, bathed in seawater at all hours.
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Simple, effective, and bloody brilliant.
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Split second makes do with moderate resources and crafts, a thrilling and inventive techno-horror thriller where Ruther Howard chases down a 10-foot-tall mutant rat monster in the sewer with a neurotic British guy as his partner and Kim Catrol as a spunky love interest who must have stepped right off the set of Star Trek VI.
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Same hairdo and everything.
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If you accept its limitations where they pop up, it has an unbridled indie film energy that I can't help but admire.
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Mushy Minion, four stars.
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You get laid every night and run five miles every morning.
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You know Rucker Howard is a badass in this because he stirs his cup of sugar and caffeine with a gold pen and lights his giant cigarettes with a blowtorch.
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He also has a gun the size of his leg.
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As far as 1992 weirdo sci-fi sunglasses and big coats go, this doesn't quite touch nemesis, but it's suitably gory and idiosyncratic genre oddity from the burning director Tony Malam, Justin La Liberty 3.5 stars, London 2008, pollution choked and mostly underwater due to decades of global warming.
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That UN climate change panel would have screened this movie.
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Truly criminal amounts of fun.
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Rucker Hauer is just devouring every disgusting gallon of waterlogg scenery, and his mismatch buddy cop dynamic with Ian Sharp is better and more affecting than many much more well-known ones.
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That the villain is a soul-devouring demon from hell, who
happens to look a lot like Venom actually, is a bonus.
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Kim Catral, of course, kills as well.
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Joe Four Stars.
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I think Joe misspoke when he said Ian Sharp instead of Alistair Duncan, but we'll forgive him for that.
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Okay, we're wrapping it up.
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The movie is cool as shit.
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I don't want to spoil anything since I knew literally nothing going in.
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And it was more than a little surprise to see that it's actually ends up being the setting of this post-apocalyptic London is some Robocop Detroit bullshit.
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And that's all I need to say, really.
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Cab Callaway for end credits is Cherry on top.
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Tao A, 3.5 stars.
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The best and only cut of Alien 3 you need to see.
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David Fincher refuses to acknowledge it because director Tony Malin came in and created it.
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Rucker Hower calls a dog a dickhead and gets away with it.
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90s supremacy, B movie greatness, cult film perfection.
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Eat your heart out.
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It's LV five stars.
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Last one.
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Gloriously eclectic cyber trash, a super paranoic Rucker Hauer in a badass trench coat, strutting around with enormous cyber guns and a flooded future London, lighting a cigar with a blowtorch, shooting giant rats, sleeping with a pigeon on his head, ripping out the heart of a demon.
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Good stuff.
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Comrade Yue, four stars.
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So that is letterboxing.
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That is letterboxing.
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But I want you to listen to this before we get into the movie.
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So listen up, boys and girls.
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Here it comes.
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In the soul of madness, a cop is out of control, and a killer's on the loose.
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Terrifying.
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Devastating.
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The only thing they know is that it isn't human.
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They've seen the future.
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Now they have to kill it.
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Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrell.
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Split second.
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Sweet dreams.
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Rated R.
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Begins Friday at a theater near you.
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Man, that trailer was working hard to sell that movie.
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In the soul of madness.
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Harley.
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I mean, Jesus Christ.
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All right, raise your hands.
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Who saw this in a movie theater in 1992?
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I mean, I didn't see it in 1992 in the movie theater, but I did probably saw it on either like HBO or rented it from you know Hollywood Video, whatever video store was in town those days.
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But you know what?
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I remember liking it when I was a kid.
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I mean, it's not bad.
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It's not great.
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I mean, it's total cyber trash.
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And I say that lovingly.
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Like, cyber trash to me is the coolest.
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Like fucking Nemesis, Cyborg.
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Like, if I do a in the near future, of course it's in the near has to be near future if it's cyberpunk, right?
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In the near future, when I, you know, partner up with a movie theater and do like my own little cyberpunk cinema, you know, set of movies, you know what I mean?
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Like cyberpunk cinema retrospective.
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I may just do like a cyber trash.
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People are gonna be like, oh fuck, he's gonna show Robocop.
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I'm like, nah, maybe I'll just show Nemesis and Cyborg and Split Second and Death Machine and some of those other movies from the 90s that were just pure cyber trash.
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But I love them.
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All right.
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So check this out.
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So the opening credits start over black.
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We hear a helicopter in the background distance.
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Whatever.
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Cut to actual helicopter shot of London 2008.
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We get a chiron of that, obviously.
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The sun rises over a dark future city.
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Haunting music begins to swell as we get an exposition crawl.
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After forty days and nights of torrential rain, the city is largely submerged below water, a result of the devastating effects of continued global warming.
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The warnings ignored for decades have now resulted in undreamed of levels of pollution where day has become almost endless night.
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All right.
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Pretty cool opening exposition crawl.
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Kind of kinda dig it.
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Um that that may happen in near future to some of these cities anyway.
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I mean, again, you know, cyber fiction, cyber fact.
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This is why we have this podcast, right?
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We're fucking
trying to warn you guys, man.
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I'm trying to warn you, but you don't want to listen.
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I mean, some of you want to listen.
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You know, some of you listen to Jimmy, but you don't hear Jimmy.
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You know what I mean?
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All right.
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So a police hoverboat skims across the Thames River as the rest of the opening credits sequence continues.
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Harley Stone, Rucker Howard, walks down the street.
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We get a close-up of his futuristic black boots.
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He adjusts his balls, he puts on sunglasses, we then get a full shot of Stone walking down a hallway.
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He looks like an absolute badass.
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Black trench coat, a rifle held held over his shoulder, a cigar in his mouth.
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You're just like, all right, you know, as soon as you see him, you're like, all right, I'm sold.
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I'm watching this.
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He gets to his police jeep, tosses his rifle in the car, and backs up through a flooded London street.
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Another police hoverboat skims through the same flooded streets.
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We hear a dispatch radio transmission.
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Be on the lookout for Detective Stone.
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He's armed and dangerous.
00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:46.559
Cut to Detective Dick Durkin, played by Alistair Duncan, driving his police jeep.
00:30:46.640 --> 00:30:49.440
He's located Stone, and he's tailing him.
00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:56.799
We get a TV broadcast updating us on London's catastrophic water levels and how they are asking for the UN's assistance.
00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:01.119
The tide continues to rise, and the rat infestation worsens.
00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:05.519
Stone drives while looking at a London map.
00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:09.440
His car comes to a stop outside of a nightclub called JJ's.
00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:13.200
We get shots of the inside of the club, people drinking, dancing, etc.
00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:14.799
Meanwhile, Stone hears something.
00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:19.920
He looks down in watery alleyway and continues his investigation into the club.
00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:25.599
Stone walks through the hallway of corrugated steel and seaweed toward a club entrance.
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:27.200
By the way, that's fucking cool.
00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:30.880
I mean, a club that has like corrugated steel hallway.
00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:33.200
That I mean, yes.
00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:34.240
Please.
00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:36.960
A chained dog runs up to Stone.
00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:41.039
Stone shows the dog his badge and says, police dickhead.
00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:43.359
That's that actually happens in this
movie.
00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:44.480
Yes, you heard me right.
00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:48.960
Rucker Howard flashes his badge at a guard and utters those exact words.
00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:58.400
Imagine Rutger Hauer be like, um, one of the first lines of dialogue you do is you tell a dog, police stickhead, and show your badge.
00:31:58.559 --> 00:32:00.000
And he was like, I love it.
00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:01.119
I love the script.
00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:06.640
Rucker enters a club proper, he goes to a payphone, scans his card, and makes a call.
00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:12.720
Meanwhile, from an observant point of view, and we get multiple of these, we hear a loud breathing noise.
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:17.359
Stone presumably calls his precinct.
00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:23.359
We are told that he's suspended, but his hunch is that the perp they are looking for will show up.
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:28.319
Suddenly, we see a dance in a bathroom look at something off camera.
00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:29.519
A dance in a bathroom.
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:31.359
I obviously wrote that down wrong.
00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:33.920
We see I don't know what the fuck that is.
00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:36.079
A dancer, I guess, in a bathroom.
00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:37.680
I mean, I mean, in a bathroom.
00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:38.559
What are you doing?
00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:41.920
And she lets out a blood-curdling scream.
00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:43.119
It was a dancer.
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:46.880
Um, Stone races toward the bathroom with gun drawn, but he's too late.
00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:54.160
The person he's been looking forward uh created another serial killer right under Stone's nose.
00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:56.720
Now Stone covers her mutilated body.
00:32:56.880 --> 00:33:02.240
Blood is fucking everywhere, and he finally sees written on the mirror, I'm back.
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:03.680
Dun dun dun.
00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:11.200
Now he goes back into the nightclub, flashes his future gun around, telling the clubbers that someone must have seen something.
00:33:11.359 --> 00:33:11.839
Someone.
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:14.799
He points the gun until he lands on a short, fat bald dude.
00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:16.000
I believe this is JJ.
00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:21.599
He then bends down and calls a dude's dog a dickhead and asks the dog if he saw him.
00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:23.920
Stone is out of his fucking gourd.
00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:26.240
He sees a blood trail and he follows him.
00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:27.599
All right.
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:35.039
Stone runs out back, gets momentarily stopped by Detective Dick Durkin, Alistair Duncan, uh, who he shoves back inside the club.
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:36.720
This is their first introduction.
00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:41.200
He finds fresh blood outside and he says, I can hear your heartbeat.
00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:42.400
I will find you.
00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:44.400
I'll find you, you fuck.
00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:46.720
And it's a great shot to end the sequence.
00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:47.920
It's a super long shot.
00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:52.960
We see Stone on a fire escape, top right frame, holding his gun by an exit sign.
00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:58.799
Meanwhile, the bottom of the frame is all building with flooded water and detritus everywhere.
00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:00.799
It's actually one of the coolest shots in the movie.
00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:02.720
We're on the River Times on a boat.
00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:03.519
I don't know how to say it.
00:34:03.599 --> 00:34:05.200
I'm not from fucking, I'm not English.
00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:07.119
I think River, is it River Tim's?
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:09.199
I know it's not River Thames.
00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:10.639
I know it's not River Thames.
00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:12.559
I'm just gonna call it River Timbs.
00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:13.119
All right.
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:20.719
All my UK brethren, or not brethren, all my UK listeners out there who make up the second highest um listenership.
00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:22.159
I apologize in advance.
00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:22.639
Okay.
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:25.760
I'm from New Jersey in America.
00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:27.440
I don't know all these things.
00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:28.159
All right.
00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:32.400
We are with Dick Durkin and Chief Thrasher, Alan Armstrong.
00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:32.800
Okay.
00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:35.920
Chief Thrasher, one of the coolest names ever.
00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:36.480
All right.
00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:39.360
And we're doing some exposition dumping.
00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:43.280
He started raving a lunatic totally out of control.
00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:45.119
It took four officers to subdue him.
00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:50.239
We learned from Thrasher that a serial killer murdered his partner named Foster three years ago.
00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:52.800
And the worst part, he was there when it happened.
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:56.480
He was having an affair with Foster's wife, hit the booze, went over the edge.
00:34:56.639 --> 00:34:58.800
Now he lives on anxiety, coffee, and chocolate.
00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:02.400
He's worked in every hellhole in the world, and he has been fired by all of them.
00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:03.840
Durkin says he's crazy.
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:07.199
Thrasher tells him, Oh, well, he's your new partner.
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:10.639
So, um, great exposition dump.
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:15.199
I mean, best time to do exposition dump is kind of within action.
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:32.320
I mean, they're not there's n they're in a moving boat, so I guess there's that's an action sequence, but the best, and you know, I always talk about this, James Cameron is the GOAT in terms of action set piece expositional dialogue.
00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:44.480
All the shit that Kyle Reese is telling Sarah Connor or what telling us also at the same time, it's always under tension or
action or something of that variety.
00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:49.760
Because otherwise it would have been like, let me tell you about the Terminators, and people are like, what the fuck?
00:35:49.840 --> 00:36:08.800
But when because it's under tension or action or sequences when they're in peril, then you're immediately more you know interested in learning about what they have to say, as opposed to you know two people in a room exposition dumping that sucks, right?
00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:11.280
Now, um, where are we?
00:36:11.440 --> 00:36:14.159
Yes, no, cut to stone in a holding cell.
00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:18.079
He's pulling on the bars and he's having a fit and then staring directly into the camera.
00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:21.360
I I love this like crazy Rucker Hauer.
00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:23.519
I mean, Rucker Hauer, I loved him, man.
00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:24.880
He was one of my favorites.
00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:31.599
Um, obviously, you know, Blade Runner, he's one of the best performances, but he's the fucking man in the hitcher.
00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:34.320
All right, then that movie is highly underrated.
00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:36.079
That movie is amazing.
00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:40.719
It's lit and shot perfectly, and it's like keeps you on your toes.
00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:42.719
Highly recommend The Hitcher.
00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:48.480
Um, so yeah, he's given his gun and items and is told that the chief wants to see him, says it's urgent.
00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:57.920
Now it is a great sequence where Stone walks down a hallway, we steady cam with him, we only see his back, but everyone that walks the other way avoids contact with him.
00:36:58.159 --> 00:36:59.840
No one wants to fuck with him.
00:36:59.920 --> 00:37:03.039
Again, that's good filmmaking right there, right?
00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:08.639
You're following him as he's walking to his destination, all right?
00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:10.719
The chief, the chief's office.
00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:20.800
But he's walking past like fellow officers, fellow people, fellow people who work at the precinct, and people are like, Yeah, I'm not gonna even I don't even want to brush shoulders with this guy because he's just gonna flip out.
00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:23.119
He's crazy, he's a fucking nutbag, right?
00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:33.280
So he enters the precinct uh and and uh and Pete Postelweight, I love, and he's like, What the fuck are you doing here, Stone?
00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:39.440
I thought you were suspended, and his name is Paulson, and the only person with balls big enough to talk to him.
00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:49.360
Stone, cool and calmly, walks over to Paulson, grabs his pen, uses it to stir his tea, and returns it to Paulson's shirt pocket.
00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:50.800
Badass move.
00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:54.159
All right, but again, good writing, good setup.
00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:55.440
I'm giving them props for this.
00:37:55.760 --> 00:37:59.119
You see this guy,
he's a loose cannon, he's fucking walking through a precinct.
00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:00.639
No one wants to rub shoulders with him.
00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:03.599
He comes into like the precinct proper, right?
00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:06.480
And uh there's one dude who just like doesn't give a fuck.
00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:08.000
And he's just gonna say shit to him.
00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:12.239
That's important to show that at least one guy, and then and then he kind of like upstages him anyway.
00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:16.320
He goes into Chief Thrasher's office, Stone tells him the killer has returned.
00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:19.039
Stone is formally introduced to Detective Durkin.
00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:21.199
Stone gives him like zero time.
00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:23.199
He's like, fuck this guy, this dork.
00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:29.599
He tells the chief that he ripped the girl's heart out, his trademark move, um, meaning the serial killer.
00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:33.039
Now, Chief Thrasher goes over Stone's sizable medical report.
00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:34.880
I love scenes like this.
00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:39.039
You know I love scenes like this when they give us like a debriefing of the person.
00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:42.400
Like when the best of all time is obviously Escape from New York.
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:49.199
I fucking love that sequence when he's going over like his, you know, his rap sheet.
00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:50.559
And this is something similar.
00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:54.159
He's like, it says you have anxiety, neurosis, and you're paranoid.
00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:56.880
Stone's response is doctors don't know shit.
00:38:57.039 --> 00:39:00.719
Chief Thrasher tells Stone that Durkin is an expert in serial killers.
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:03.119
Chief Thrasher gives Stone back his badge.
00:39:03.280 --> 00:39:09.199
You're officially off suspension, but if you fuck up again, I'll have you shipped off to the worst shithole on this planet.
00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:10.800
Only one condition.
00:39:11.039 --> 00:39:13.920
He points at Durkin, goes with you.
00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:20.800
Now, of course, our boy uh Rucker Hauer steals a handful of Chief cigars and tells him I work alone.
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:24.480
Chief Pissed off says, Get the fuck out of my office.
00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:26.480
End of the first act, right?
00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:29.760
The first act is very well written.
00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:30.719
It is.
00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:32.960
Second act is actually good too.
00:39:33.039 --> 00:39:37.519
It's the third act where it completely, completely falls apart.
00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:39.119
Or doesn't really fall apart.
00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:45.599
It just It doesn't pay off or doesn't deliver what you're expecting.
00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:53.280
If this movie had a good third act, it would have been remembered as like, oh man, you ever see Split Second?
00:39:53.360 --> 00:40:09.119
And you're like, yeah, that fucking movie from early 90s with Rucker Hauer and you know Kim Catrol with her Undiscovered Country haircut, and you're like, Yeah, remember that awesome scene at the end with the fucking with the monster killer, and you're like, Oh yeah, that sequence was badass.
00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:10.079
We didn't get that.
00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:11.199
We didn't get it.
00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:18.639
So like it's a deflating ending, and that is so important when you're writing something, man, you better think about that ending.
00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:24.960
Because if you don't have the ending, and once you get to that point, you're like, shit, how am I gonna end this?
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:28.880
And then you make something that's just not as satisfying, right?
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:30.400
It's gotta be satisfying.
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:49.440
Now, Paulson, he possibly jokes with Stone, asks him if he's got his if he gets his booze delivered to the precinct because there's a steel briefcase, and they open it, and instead of booze, of course, it's a human heart on ice, and it's been bitten by probably not human, you know, teeth.
00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:51.360
So of course they get like a bite sample of that.
00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:53.440
Now Stone and Durkin are outside a nightclub.
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:56.800
Stone orders Durkin to stay there while he checks out the club.
00:40:56.960 --> 00:40:58.320
This is the same club as before.
00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:08.960
Stone goes into the bathroom, he lies down next to where the girl was murdered, and imagines how the killer uh, you know, did it, how this whole thing went down.
00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:16.159
And it's kind of like Manhunter, um, you know, William Freakin' vibes.
00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:21.920
Like he kind of is the the character that William Peterson plays in in a certain way, right?
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:27.280
Like they kind of borrow from that, and it's interesting, but I don't know.
00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:28.719
I don't know if it works 100%.
00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:30.639
But in this movie, it's fine.
00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:33.599
I'll give it, you know, I'll give it a uh a pass.
00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:39.440
Um all right, so the nightclub owner is like, get out of here, you know, you're not supposed to be in here.
00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:43.199
Now Stone gets a dispatch call and peels out in his police jeep.
00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:44.880
Durkin follows in his own car.
00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:46.800
They meet at a building with other cops.
00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:50.239
They go into a room and they see a dead man with his heart torn out.
00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:52.079
A coroner is examining it.
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:55.280
Stone pulls his hand cannon and blows away a rat.
00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:58.079
There's a gun on the ground, and Stone recognizes it.
00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:00.800
It's his ex-partner's gun, a message for him.
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:03.199
They notice blood blood markings
on the wall.
00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:10.000
They Durkin and and uh Stone look up and they see it's a sign of the Scorpio.
00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:11.519
The Scorpio.
00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:12.639
It's pretty cool.
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:22.639
The um, I will give him credit, the kind of gory, gruesome like murder scenes are pretty cool.
00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:24.400
Uh I'll give them mad credit for that.
00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:25.519
I really, really enjoy that.
00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:27.199
For 1992 with a low budget.
00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:29.280
Now I love the signs on the wall.
00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:31.920
You know, I always like to look at production design.
00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:34.320
Now there's a sign on the wall that says plague pits.
00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:37.760
There's another one that says smog kills, which would be a great t-shirt.
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:39.599
And beware rats.
00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:40.239
All right.
00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:44.000
So those are kind of like, you know, the things they put on the wall in this future setting.
00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:48.400
Now, paranoid and angry, Stone fires his gun into the air in a building alleyway.
00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:49.519
Of course, like, why not?
00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:50.239
I mean, he's crazy.
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:53.039
Stone tells Durkin that the killer is watching them.
00:42:53.199 --> 00:42:59.440
Then we get a quick killer point of view from behind a wall as we hear his breathing and his heartbeat.
00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:01.199
So he's getting closer.
00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:02.719
Of course, again, I love this.
00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:09.920
Stone blows off steam, shooting his hand cannon in the gun range while Durkin tells Stone his serial killer credentials.
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:19.360
Of course, his hand cannon just fucking demolishes, you know, in a Robocop type way, these puny, you know, targets.
00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:22.320
Now, uh, Stone is back in his police Jeep.
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:24.400
Now I'm just calling police jeep just to make it easier.
00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:26.239
He asks Durkin for his keys.
00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:28.000
Uh, there's a wrestler keychain.
00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:31.440
Again, this is one of these we like this movie has such a strange tone.
00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:42.880
It it's like a cyber trash creature feature, a buddy cop, the dark comedy movie.
00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:46.480
It's like for me, it doesn't work 100%.
00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:48.159
Like, like, I love dark comedy.
00:43:48.239 --> 00:43:51.519
You could give me Evil Dead 2, I could watch it every day for the rest of my life.
00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:56.800
But like, this one just like it tries too hard and it doesn't really pull it off.
00:43:57.119 --> 00:43:59.280
Mostly because I'm just not an Alistair Duncan fan.
00:43:59.360 --> 00:43:59.840
Like, he's okay.
00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:04.880
But like man, there was no one else he could have got to do that role.
00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:08.800
You know, like young Hugh Grant, I just popped into my mind right now.
00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:10.800
I don't even know what the fuck he was doing in 1992.
00:44:11.039 --> 00:44:14.559
But he mean, I mean, he did make Lair of the White Worm in 1988, so he was active.
00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:22.559
So young Hugh Grant in that role, um, with his like neuroses and he's all the shit he does.
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:24.079
Much better movie.
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:25.039
Had to say it.
00:44:25.119 --> 00:44:25.599
Sorry.
00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:28.159
Uh, Stone throws the keychain into street water.
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:29.280
He's so mean.
00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:42.159
Now, finally, we get an intro of Michelle McLean by Kim Catrall, who we I mentioned before, has her Valeris haircut, like right off the set of Undiscovered Country onto Split Second.
00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:43.440
I don't even think she had a day off.
00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:44.719
Maybe she had one day off.
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:46.639
They're like, oh, wait, you're in London?
00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:47.920
Do you want to be in this movie?
00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:48.320
Sure.
00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:49.840
Do I have to do anything with my hair?
00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:50.159
No.
00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:52.880
Okay, just in case I have reshoots of Undiscovered Country.
00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:53.360
Fine.
00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:56.079
And like, it's it's kind of amazing.
00:44:56.320 --> 00:45:01.199
Um now she's in a mausoleum visiting her, you know, her dead husband, Stone's old partner.
00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:07.360
Now Stone stops by the London necropolis, and uh it's the same mausoleum that Michelle is at.
00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:09.039
Coincidence, alert.
00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:14.239
Now they know each other, obviously, as we learn from uh, you know, Chief Thresher.
00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:16.800
We learn that they uh, you know, they were fucking.
00:45:16.960 --> 00:45:17.599
Let's be honest.
00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:19.199
They were having an affair, they were fucking.
00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:19.760
Okay.
00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:24.480
Uh, she comes here every time she she comes to London.
00:45:24.800 --> 00:45:25.760
I can't believe I wrote that.
00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:27.199
Uh now she's American.
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:30.559
Uh, there definitely are some sparks left over in this relationship.
00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:31.440
You know what I mean?
00:45:31.599 --> 00:45:37.280
You know how it is when you kind of see, you know, an ex-girlfriend uh or something like that, or what ex you're like, eh.
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:40.000
Um, maybe there's something there, maybe there's not.
00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:42.239
But for them, there's definitely something there.
00:45:42.400 --> 00:45:43.599
Uh, okay, you could tell.
00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:46.480
Or maybe more so uh for Stone.
00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:47.920
I don't know about her.
00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:49.360
Uh,
we'll find out.
00:45:49.599 --> 00:45:52.719
So they go, they go back uh to his place.
00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:56.159
Obviously, it's like a complete fucking shithole.
00:45:56.320 --> 00:46:00.079
Like, he probably hasn't had a woman in there ever, ever.
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:02.000
He probably has no company.
00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:04.880
He just has his shit everywhere.
00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:06.880
Uh, there's literally crap everywhere.
00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:08.000
There's fucking birds.
00:46:08.079 --> 00:46:10.239
You know how bad bird shit smells?
00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:11.440
It probably reeks.
00:46:11.679 --> 00:46:13.920
Michelle uh wants to open a window.
00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:16.000
Stone tells her the windows are broken.
00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:19.840
This apartment I wrote must smell like absolute ass.
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:22.880
Now, meanwhile, Stone apologizes for walking out on her.
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:25.679
She tells him he needs to clean this place up.
00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:27.280
No kidding.
00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:30.079
Uh, I can't believe he even brought her back there.
00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:31.920
I'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no.
00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:33.760
I'm uh she'd be like, I want to see your place.
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:35.440
Like, you don't want to see my place.
00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:36.400
It's a shithole.
00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:37.039
All right.
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:43.599
Now, he finally falls asleep, having not slept in days, probably because she's the only person he feels safe around.
00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:43.920
Right?
00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:45.920
That's that's a good, that's a nice little thing there.
00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:48.079
I I I I I appreciate that.
00:46:48.239 --> 00:46:49.519
She looks at his wallet.
00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:52.960
Man, that's that's kind of uh you don't do that.
00:46:53.039 --> 00:46:54.639
You don't look at a man's wallet, right?
00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:57.920
And she sees that he has a picture of her in it.
00:46:58.000 --> 00:46:59.679
Oh, so he still loves her.
00:46:59.920 --> 00:47:02.400
Now flashback, flashback alert.
00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:06.239
Stone and Foster, his ex-partner, played by Stephen Hartley.
00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:12.480
It's shot in like a I guess a sepia tone uh to distinguish it from the present.
00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:15.360
They're in some uh subway system and the tide is rising.
00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:17.519
Foster tells him there is nothing down here.
00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:19.440
Stone turns around and foster is gone.
00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:23.840
Stone wakes up in present day with a pigeon on his head.
00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:26.719
Yes, he walk wakes up with a pigeon on his head.
00:47:26.800 --> 00:47:28.400
I bet Rucker Hauer loved that.
00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:32.400
Maybe he read that part in a script and he's like, I wake up with a pigeon on my head.
00:47:32.559 --> 00:47:33.360
I love pigeons.
00:47:33.440 -->
00:47:34.400
You know what I mean?
00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:37.360
He leaves her sleeping on the couch, not the pigeon.
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:38.400
Come on, guys.
00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:40.239
He leaves Michelle sleeping on the couch.
00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:42.159
He sees Durkin outside waiting for him.
00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:43.280
Like, what does this guy do?
00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:45.199
He tells Durkin he's driving.
00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:49.920
The killer heartbeat always gets louder within Stone as if he can sense it.
00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:50.400
All right.
00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:54.480
And again, we see a killer point of view behind Stone's parked police cheap.
00:47:54.639 --> 00:48:01.119
Suddenly, a black claw rips open the back panel of his police cheap that he left behind.
00:48:01.199 --> 00:48:03.280
It's like, oh, what is that about?
00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:07.840
Now Stone looks through Durkin's books, he discards them and throws them in the back seat.
00:48:08.079 --> 00:48:13.599
Durkin said he read them all last night, books on the occult psychology, parapsychology, super dork shit.
00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:13.920
Okay.
00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:20.000
Now Michelle wakes up, she sees Stone's Harley Davidson, and she eats some chocolate.
00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:23.920
Now, I wouldn't eat anything in that fucking apartment.
00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:26.639
That apartment is rat city, baby.
00:48:26.800 --> 00:48:28.639
Uh Stone and Durkin go to a bar.
00:48:28.719 --> 00:48:30.239
He orders breakfast and coffee.
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:32.960
Durkin thinks Stone has supernatural powers.
00:48:33.199 --> 00:48:36.719
For some reason, Knights in White Satin plays in the background.
00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:40.159
In fact, it's a second time it's been played in a 10-minute span.
00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:44.800
I did find out that the people who made this movie had the rights to the original Knights in Black Satin.
00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:48.159
It's like it's just overplayed and whatever.
00:48:48.239 --> 00:48:51.760
I mean, if you have the rights to it and you have Knights in White Satin, you're gonna you're gonna sprinkle in there.
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:54.719
Now, killer point of view, he enters Stone's apartment.
00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:57.199
The point of view is kind of like a slasher movie.
00:48:57.360 --> 00:48:58.079
I'm digging it.
00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:06.000
We cut back and forth between the breakfast bar where Durkin is convinced Stone is psychic and the apartment where Michelle is taking a shower slash bath.
00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:06.880
Of course she is.
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:12.079
To the killer point of view, entering the apartment complex, back to Stone eating breakfast.
00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:14.960
We learn that uh that is a sign.
00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:16.400
The sign is a Scorpio.
00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:18.559
The killer is now in the actual apartment.
00:49:18.639 --> 00:49:26.400
It's almost to the shower, back to the breakfast bar where we see Durkin believes the killer attacks during high tide and how it could be astrologically linked.
00:49:26.559 --> 00:49:30.159
And they get a dispatch call about an intruder at Stone's place.
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:35.440
Now he storms into his apartment, but Michelle is still in a shower and safe and naked.
00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:37.840
Um, and he tells her, Lock the door.
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:40.880
Now Stone and Durkin hear a woman scream from the floor below.
00:49:41.039 --> 00:49:41.920
They break into the room.
00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:45.280
Durkin gets blown through the window with a shotgun blast.
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:48.239
So apparently, this killer has a shotgun.
00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:50.960
Now there's a gunfight between Stone and the killer.
00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:54.159
We see his hands and they look like black claws.
00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:55.599
The killer flees.
00:49:55.760 --> 00:50:01.360
Stone looks in the bathroom and it's completely filled with blood and a dead blonde in a bathtub with her heart ripped out.
00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:04.880
Michelle runs downstairs, tells Stone she's been bit.
00:50:05.199 --> 00:50:07.360
Now Stone is outside with the medics.
00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:09.039
He starts to hyperventilate.
00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:12.639
They give him oxygen and some sort of shot, and bang, flashback.
00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:15.360
Foster gets ripp below the water line in the subway.
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:25.440
We see a huge monster behind him, behind um not Foster, behind our boy Stone, and all of a sudden it's gone.
00:50:25.599 --> 00:50:28.400
Now, cut two, Stone waking up in a hospital.
00:50:28.559 --> 00:50:31.039
He's got a long claw mark scar on his left arm.
00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:35.119
Durkin appears, tells him he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:41.360
Now, the long scar on his arm, presumably from a claw mark, right after that flashback.
00:50:41.519 --> 00:50:43.119
Um, they go to the precinct.
00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:45.599
Now Stone gets into an altercation with Paulson.
00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:48.480
He then summon he's then summoned to the chief thrasher's office.
00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:52.000
He tells Thrasher that whatever they're hunting is not human.
00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:53.840
Durkin brings in the lab results.
00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:57.760
It has a DNA of all of its victims, including Stones.
00:50:57.920 --> 00:51:01.519
Now Stone and Durkin go into the morgue and look at the recently deceased.
00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:04.159
They see blood dripping from the drop-down ceiling.
00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:06.880
The monster jumps down and runs out of the room.
00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:14.079
Durkin freaks out, telling Stone it was huge and they're gonna need bigger fucking guns, right?
00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:19.599
They go, they go to the morgue assuming that the monster's gonna go back for the heart, which does happen.
00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:22.480
Now, they go to the police armory and grab an arsenal.
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:25.920
They grab make these two mini guns, and you're like, all right, all right.
00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:30.079
This is this is gearing up for a fucking crazy ass ending.
00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:36.960
Now, Durkin figures out that the monster eats the victims' hearts in order to gain more power, gain their DNA and more.
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:38.719
Now, we're at Stone's place.
00:51:38.880 --> 00:51:40.719
They're trying to figure out what's going on.
00:51:40.880 --> 00:51:44.000
We're not chasing it, it's chasing us, says Stone.
00:51:44.079 --> 00:51:47.840
And he opens the fridge door and he finds a human heart.
00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:51.519
Now, Stone finds Michelle in the bathroom in the bath, scrubbing her hands.
00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:54.559
She tells him randomly that Foster's mom just killed herself.
00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:56.400
And that was a big what the fuck.
00:51:56.559 --> 00:51:58.559
Like, where did that come from?
00:51:58.719 --> 00:51:59.119
Where?
00:51:59.280 --> 00:52:00.320
That comes out of nowhere.
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:02.320
We never even never even hear of Foster's mom.
00:52:02.559 --> 00:52:04.239
All of a sudden, she killed herself.
00:52:04.320 --> 00:52:04.880
It's crazy.
00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:09.599
Now, Knights in White Satin instrumental plays, again, that's that's three nights.
00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:12.719
Three nights and three nights in white satins, right?
00:52:12.880 --> 00:52:14.239
Uh, for anyone scoring at home.
00:52:14.320 --> 00:52:18.480
Now, Stone walks through streets, sees plenty of rats, people living in squalor.
00:52:18.559 --> 00:52:20.079
He finds Durkin's eyeglasses.
00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:22.400
Durkin is tied up in his police chief.
00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:23.760
He's bleeding from his chest.
00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:24.559
Uh-oh.
00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:28.559
So the killer has gotten to Durkin, but Durkin is still alive.
00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:30.239
Now, Michelle is in the apartment.
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:32.719
She fires her handgun at something off-screen.
00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:36.000
Stone and Durkin enter with their minigun rifles drawn.
00:52:36.239 --> 00:52:38.719
Now, Durkin passes out.
00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:42.000
Uh, he sees that the monster symbol has been carved onto his chest.
00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:46.320
They somehow figure out that the symbol is a map where he is going doing his killing.
00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:47.360
What the actual fuck.
00:52:47.519 --> 00:52:50.000
Like, how do they f again?
00:52:50.239 --> 00:52:52.320
This is major third act problems.
00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:55.519
This is when the movie just goes off the fucking rails.
00:52:55.679 --> 00:53:07.360
I know the director walked offset at the at this point, and it seems like the ending sequence is probably the replacement director, Ian Sharp scenes, because it's it's uh it's just not the same narrative sense.
00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:08.960
It just doesn't make the same narrative sense.
00:53:09.119 --> 00:53:15.599
The tone also becomes like so fractured from kick-ass action to like this strange slapstick.
00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:17.039
Like, why make that decision?
00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:17.679
I don't understand.
00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:22.000
Now Stone leads them to the rat catcher's lair, played by Michael J.
00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:25.519
Pollard, who collected a nice, you know, fat paycheck.
00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:27.920
They want passage to the sewers below Canal Street.
00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:31.679
The rat catcher guides them, they thank him and enter the subway platform.
00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:32.960
Rats are everywhere.
00:53:33.119 --> 00:53:37.519
They hunt for the monster, they open a door, and the rat catcher and his assistant are dead.
00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:39.119
Geez, raw deal from Michael J.
00:53:39.199 --> 00:53:39.599
Pollard.
00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:40.400
Spoiler alert.
00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:42.400
This is a spoiler alert for the rest of the movie.
00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:44.800
Not like you really care, but I you know what?
00:53:44.880 --> 00:53:46.320
I just want to throw it in there.
00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:47.840
They hear Michelle screaming.
00:53:48.079 --> 00:53:50.480
She's hanging by her hands on a rope.
00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:52.880
We finally see the freaking monster.
00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:56.880
And the only way I can describe it, it's Venom meets xenomorph.
00:53:56.960 --> 00:53:59.920
Now Stone follows a monster into an abandoned subway car.
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:03.760
He turns around and boom, the monster is right behind him, behind him.
00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:08.880
He's his long talon fingernails and claws are all over Stone.
00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:10.559
Stone breaks away, sees the monster.
00:54:10.639 --> 00:54:12.719
Durkin throws a grenade in the subway car.
00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:20.800
Stone jumps through the window, grabs Michelle, goes into the other room for cover, and inexplicably kisses her as the abandoned subway car explodes.
00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:22.559
I I don't know.
00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:23.119
I don't know.
00:54:23.199 --> 00:54:24.000
I don't know what to say.
00:54:24.159 --> 00:54:27.280
Now Stone then grabs an open wire cable.
00:54:27.599 --> 00:54:29.360
This is insanity.
00:54:29.519 --> 00:54:32.000
They're an open wire cable.
00:54:32.079 --> 00:54:36.800
They're in a flooded subway station.
00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:37.679
Flooded.
00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:40.960
Open wire cable electricity, right?
00:54:41.679 --> 00:54:51.280
So he brings it to the subway car, he throws it in, he jumps on a steel girder, he tells Durkin, turn it on, and the he turns on the current and electrocutes the monster.
00:54:51.440 --> 00:54:53.519
This ending is just really fucking bad, I wrote.
00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:57.920
Even getting electrocuted, he ain't dead.
00:54:58.000 --> 00:55:05.440
He jumps,
it jumps out of the subway car and grabs Stone, and somehow Stone repels the Venom monster from ripping out his heart.
00:55:05.519 --> 00:55:11.199
And instead, Stone reaches into the Venom monster's chest and rips out his heart.
00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:13.519
Take that fucking Venom monster.
00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:15.440
I swear I'm not making this shit up.
00:55:15.519 --> 00:55:21.039
Now, Michelle and Durkin blow the Venom monster to pieces, so she gets like, you know, her Ripley scene.
00:55:21.199 --> 00:55:23.440
Stone holds a Venom monster's black heart.
00:55:23.599 --> 00:55:26.559
He then pulls out his pistol and destroys the heart.
00:55:26.719 --> 00:55:27.920
The three walk out.
00:55:28.079 --> 00:55:29.840
Michelle asks if he's dead.
00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:35.679
We go to the water level and we see bubbles rising as if it's still living.
00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:38.559
It finally ends with the three of them in a speedboat.
00:55:38.719 --> 00:55:43.679
There is a gumshoe-like voiceover from Durkin, and it ends with Stone telling him to shut up.
00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:47.280
The end credit sequence runs over the exterior shot of the River Thames.
00:55:48.159 --> 00:55:48.639
The end.
00:55:49.199 --> 00:55:50.320
That's how it ends.
00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:53.360
The glorious split second 1992.
00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:54.480
It's so much fun.
00:55:54.880 --> 00:55:58.719
It's pure, pure, unadulterated cyber trash.
00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:00.639
I think you'll love it if you watch it.
00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:06.320
If you give it if you give it the right, you know, frame of mind, pretty good.
00:56:06.639 --> 00:56:08.159
Like you put it up there.
00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:09.920
Like to me, it's better than Death Machine.
00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:12.639
Like to me, I just Death Machine ain't my jam.
00:56:12.719 --> 00:56:17.920
I mean, hardware to me is in my top ten of all time, so I don't even count that as cyber trash.
00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:21.039
I think that's like one of the best cyberpunk films ever made.
00:56:21.599 --> 00:56:22.079
All right.
00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:27.039
Uh this this belongs up with, you know, nemesis, cyborg um movies like that.
00:56:27.199 --> 00:56:27.920
You know what I mean?
00:56:28.079 --> 00:56:33.920
Uh, and we're gonna do more Cybertrash coming up very soon, probably next episode.
00:56:34.320 --> 00:56:38.719
And uh yeah, so take a listen to this and then we're gonna get into the aftermath.
00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:39.920
Listen to it.
00:56:53.519 --> 00:56:56.800
And yes, that was Split Second 1992.
00:56:56.880 --> 00:56:58.079
Yeah, man, that movie's fun.
00:56:58.239 --> 00:56:59.360
I hope you guys check it out.
00:56:59.519 --> 00:57:00.239
Check it out.
00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:03.199
It's on Prime, it's on YouTube, you can find it.
00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:05.760
You can find it for free out there or whatever subscriptions you have.
00:57:05.840 --> 00:57:06.639
It's totally worth it.
00:57:06.719 --> 00:57:07.760
It's an hour and a half.
00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:08.639
That's it.
00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:11.679
It's not that bad, except you know, for the ending sequence.
00:57:11.840 --> 00:57:13.760
But that is either here nor there.
00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:16.000
Oh shit, I forgot to talk to you about Halloween.
00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:18.000
First of all, happy, belated Halloween.
00:57:18.079 --> 00:57:23.599
Um my apologies for not telling you guys that um before the last episode, but I got to tell you about my weekend.
00:57:23.679 --> 00:57:24.480
It was awesome.
00:57:24.639 --> 00:57:25.039
All right.
00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:27.039
Shout out to my girlfriend Melissa.
00:57:27.519 --> 00:57:29.360
I love her beyond anything.
00:57:29.519 --> 00:57:32.639
She is the best like person I ever met in my life.
00:57:32.880 --> 00:57:36.159
Uh, not just, you know, the best girlfriend I ever had.
00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:39.039
She's the best person I ever met, hands down in my life.
00:57:39.199 --> 00:57:42.639
She is just perfect for me, perfect for each other.
00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:43.199
It's great.
00:57:43.360 --> 00:57:46.239
But the thing that's awesome about it is that we got to dress up.
00:57:46.320 --> 00:57:47.840
We it's almost like a cosplay in a way.
00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:50.239
I dress up as a warlock, she dressed up as a witch.
00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:51.519
We really got into it.
00:57:51.599 --> 00:57:53.599
We fucking we were like, let's do it this year.
00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:55.039
First Halloween together.
00:57:55.199 --> 00:57:56.000
Let's do it this year.
00:57:56.079 --> 00:58:06.800
And not only that, she lives on one of those like blocks where they kind of like they they block it off so the kids actually could walk down like a couple of blocks in a specific town.
00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:10.400
So she had um, she's like, Oh, it's huge every year.
00:58:10.480 --> 00:58:14.719
I'm like, I've always wanted to do that because I've never really been on a like a block like that.
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So she's like, Yeah, it's like three, four hours.
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It's crazy.
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I have to buy so much like candy and chocolate.
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I'm like, all right, this is what we're gonna do.
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So we sat down and we collabed and we made a Spotify playlist.
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Uh it's called Halloween Rocks.
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All right.
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Uh, and it was a fucking smash hit.
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And let me tell you about it.
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First of all, uh, we collabed on it and we came to this great idea that we're gonna do, you know, rock songs that have horror vibes, you know what I mean?
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Like, for instance, the first song was Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath, and then you go right into um, what do you call it?
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You go right into horror movie theme songs, and then you alternate, and then you go into like Dracula, horror movie theme songs, then you go into something else, horror movie theme songs.
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And I'm when I'm talking smash hit, smash hit.
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People are like, what are you gonna do next year?
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Are you gonna are you gonna have a karaoke?
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You're gonna have a single long, are you gonna and we're like, oh my god, this is gonna blow up.
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So we're gonna have something bigger next year.
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But the coolest thing about it, um, was that people were like camping out.
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People are just like hanging out, just hanging around her house and being like, what's gonna come come on next?
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And people will come up and be like, Man, you played fucking the Suspiria theme song.
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I'm like, Hells yeah.
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Uh, so if any of you are interested in that playlist, um, it's on my Spotify.
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I believe my Spotify is like Storm Giant, I can't remember, but it's it's uh Halloween Rocks and it's so fucking good.
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And I shared it with a lot of my friends and people who played it at their own places.
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So it's a fun thing that I that I'm gonna be doing pretty much every year.
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But the coolest thing about it was was that um uh at one point Cry Little Sister from the Lost Boy soundtrack, and yeah, don't get me started on Lost by Soundtrack.
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I fucking love that soundtrack and love that movie.
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All right.
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But the coolest thing was is that like a guy around my age, you know, mid 40s, late 40s, he came over with his uh with his teenage daughter, and he's like, Oh my god, we we we just saw the Lost Boys musical, and my daughter heard that you were playing this, and she had to run over and listen to it.
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I was like, Hells yeah, that was so cool.
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That just made me so goddamn happy that I was able to make other people, you know, inspired and happy just by playing music, right?
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And being in character of like the warlock and scaring kids, and it's it was so much fucking fun.
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Uh, it was great.
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Had a couple drinks, it was great, it was so much fun.
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Um, and then not only that, and then with Melissa and I were just like, hey, let's uh here in New Jersey, there's a chiller theater kind of like horror convention type thing.
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It's like, let's check it out.
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And we went,
it was so cool.
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It was so cool.
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I got to take a picture with Joey Pants, I got to talk to Joey Pants, I love him.
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Uh, hung out with Stephen Baldwin.
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I was on his Twitch.
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We were both on his Twitch.
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He's fucking a wild man.
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I love he's this fun dude overall.
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Met so many people uh in the horror convention, and we wear and we wore the same outfit, and people were like stopping and taking pictures from us and were like, Are you guys like professional cosplayers?
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And I'm like, I bought this on Amazon for like$50.
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Um, so suffice it to say, it looks like we're gonna have to do more of that stuff.
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So uh you may see a dark future fugitive uh, you know, cosplay in the in the in the near future, right?
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So that may be coming to uh, you know, I don't know, conventions near you.
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Maybe we're gonna do more of it.
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We had so much goddamn fun doing it, and and uh yeah, so happy Halloween, Halloween and October and the whole spooky season is my favorite thing in the world.
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I uh to me, I just continue it.
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I'm less like the day after Halloween, I'm like, uh no, we're gonna keep going.
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We're gonna keep watching horror movies and we're gonna keep having fun doing this shit.
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So, so that is that.
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I just wanted to mention that again.
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Shout out to Melissa, love you, baby.
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Um, a couple things here.
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I stumbled upon a cyberpunk game that I knew nothing about, and it's perfect because it stars Ruther Hauer, and you're gonna be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's this?
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It's a game called Observer System Redux, and it's really interesting.
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And I played maybe like two hours of it on Saturday because I just heard about it.
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It's like 599 on PlayStation 5, and uh it's wild, man.
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And Rucker Hauer, you know, he's like the main character, and it's his voice, and it was like right before he died.
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So it's an interesting coda to his career that he did this cyberpunk like horror detective um game, and it's very smart that he's like I forgot what it's called in the game, but he's he's a detective who has like powers to like go to a scene and be able to like recreate it.
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Um, it's almost like a psychic cyber hacking, you know, combination.
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Very
interesting, and it was a little hard for me because I'm not, I don't play, I mean, I play Cyberpunk 2077 to play other games, but I was like, man, this is like gotta think a lot in this game.
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So it's it's fun.
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I would recommend it.
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Observer system redux, it's what it's called.
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Get it$5.99 on PS5 if you have PS5.
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Um, yeah, so that was like, I mean, that was the fucking great spooky season, but I want to tell you about some other things, right?
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Uh let's look at letterbox, shall we?
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You notice uh my letterbox portion of the program.
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I only I only talk to you guys every two weeks, and uh so fuck it.
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You know, um, first of all, rest in peace, Patrick Stewart.
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Um that one hit me hard.
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Hit me real hard, real hard.
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If you saw my socials, uh, I mean, I it was I like fucking, I was like, I gotta watch the inner light as soon as I found out watching inner light, fucking crying like a baby watching that, just thinking about thinking about Patrick Stewart, man.
01:03:52.079 --> 01:03:53.440
He was such a cool dude, man.
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I loved him and pretty much everything.
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Uh so let's look at the letterbox because I do want to talk about another part of the Halloween weekend on on uh the day before Halloween, Hollow's Eve, or what in New Jersey we call cabbage night or mischief night or hell night, or as everyone else knows it, devil's night.
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And devil's night because of the crow.
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Okay.
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And I try to watch the crow as if I remember, right?
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Um on Hollow Hollows Eve, right?
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I it's something I I like to watch.
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And I watched it again this year, and man, that movie's so great.
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I love that goddamn movie.
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Uh I mean, top dollar Michael Wincott fucking rules.
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It's one of my all-time favorite villains.
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And I just wrote, I rewatched The Crow Tonight, and it hit like a rush of 1994 vibes coursing through my fucking veins.
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Goth culture, industrial rock shows, cops smoking cigarettes and having a hot dog, and a soundtrack of our time.
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Nine inch nails, STP, cure, rage, Pantera.
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That antebellum period of practicals and early CGI and an undead guitarist and his revenge quest to fight the violent wrongs, to right the violent wrongs of his tragic romance past.
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Damn, it's so good.
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Brandon Lee was going to be a Keanu level film star.
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At least we got this, which will make him immortal.
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Loved it.
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Nine out of ten.
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I mean, I love The Crow, man.
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That was such a big for 15-year-old Anthony being watching The Crow, I was like, that's my movie.
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Um, what other movies did I watch?
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I guess the only one really, two, the other one, two of note, uh Eddie and the Cruzers, which I had always known about and it was on HBO all the time, and I finally watched it.
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And what a movie.
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What an interesting, interesting movie.
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I gave it eight out of a four, you know, eight out of ten stars or four stars on Letterboxd.
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It's like a rock and roll murder mystery set on the Jersey Shore represent about a fictional rock band told in a nonlinear narrative style that makes it like endlessly rewatchable.
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The songs are killer and has that Asbury Park vibe of the 1960s and 80s, and such a such a rare, cool movement.
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Movie.
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I highly recommend it.
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It's such a good movie.
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Um, and of course, my boy Rodolfo, it's like, he's like, Have you ever seen Full Contact 92 Chow Young Fat?
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I'm like, uh, no.
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Like, is that a Ringo Lamb movie?
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He's like, Yeah, watch it right now.
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Dude, that movie is amazing.
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I I I will admit Hong Kong cinema, uh, it's such a major blind spot for me.
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Like, I just my friends and I never watched it during that time period.
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I mean, I've watched some of it, I have, but I haven't watched like I haven't dug deep, and I'm gonna start digging deep into Hong Kong cinema.
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Uh, I mean, dude, the ice factory seeing the nightclub, the ending, uh, my jaw was on the freaking floor with this movie.
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It's just so goddamn cool.
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Uh, Full Contact 1992.
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So that is some of the stuff I've been watching on uh on Letterboxd, and I highly recommend that you check out Full Contact.
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Highly recommend you you give you give Eddie and Cruisers uh give it a good whirl.
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It's a good movie.
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I was so surprised by how good it was.
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And uh, of course, The Crow, right?
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I tr look, I don't know how many
of you people out there have uh watched the sequels.
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Like I never I couldn't I couldn't even drag myself to watch any of the sequels because you know Brandon Lee and and the Crow were so meant so much to like 15-year-old Anthony.
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I was like, I can't watch it, I can't watch it.
01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:27.280
I tried watching the crow city of angels.
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Um man, I couldn't even get past the first half hour.
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And I was like, I'm gonna give it a chance, I'm gonna give it a chance, I'm gonna give it a chance.
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I just I just couldn't do it.
01:07:35.679 --> 01:07:36.400
I couldn't do it.
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I couldn't do it.
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All right, because it makes me think of Brandon Lee and and man, like that guy, and I mentioned this before in a podcast, had he not died tragically on that set, yo, you could write a whole book about what if for his career.
01:07:51.519 --> 01:07:54.480
He's one of the most ultimate what ifs, like ever.
01:07:54.719 --> 01:08:00.400
Or like also like what if what if Heath Ledger, you know, after the dark night, what if what would he have done?
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You know what I mean?
01:08:01.360 --> 01:08:03.119
Or like what if River Phoenix?
01:08:03.360 --> 01:08:06.559
But what if Brandon Lee to me was was huge?
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Because like man, like I watched him in Showdown A Little Tokyo, I watched him in Rapid Fire, like Thursday Night Prime Days, you know, back in HBO.
01:08:18.159 --> 01:08:19.680
Like I loved all that shit.
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And then the Crow came out, and I was like, and then you know, we hear about his death, and then the movie comes out after his death, and they had to piece it together, and it was just such an event movie for me and for my generation, and for my fellow, you know, like indie rockers, like goth kids I knew, like it just meant everything.
01:08:39.520 --> 01:08:46.960
And yo, Keanu Reeves, I gotta say, he would have been market corrected a lot by Brandon Lee.
01:08:47.760 --> 01:08:55.119
Brandon Lee might have been Neo in the Matrix, he might have been John Wick, you know, he could have been he could have done he could have done anything.
01:08:55.680 --> 01:08:56.960
And uh it's just sad.
01:08:57.439 --> 01:08:59.119
Still, like, I mean, how many years later?
01:08:59.279 --> 01:09:01.760
33 fucking years later, still sad about it.
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Anyway, um you know, rest in peace, rest in power, Brandon Lee.
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We love you forever.
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And I just want to say, uh, yeah, tune in in two weeks.
01:09:10.560 --> 01:09:15.439
I have another uh 90s cyber, we're doing cyber 90s.
01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:20.319
Um and then you know what's coming around the corner, uh Blade Runner 2099.
01:09:20.479 --> 01:09:22.560
And I will be uh going over that.
01:09:22.720 --> 01:09:24.079
I'm really psyched for it.
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I hope it's fucking good.
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And uh we'll go from there.
01:09:26.800 --> 01:09:28.079
Anyway, I got a jam.
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It's uh it was a Manic Monday, and I just want to say love you guys, keep listening, keep rating, keep doing everything you gotta do.
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There's things in the future that are coming that are gonna blow your mind for season three.
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Okay?
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Don't forget, if you want those stickers, DM me.
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All right, limited edition first run stickers, and you gotta post those stickers somewhere, bar, on a fucking anywhere in a city wherever you live, in the bathroom of like a fucking restaurant.
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We want more people to know about join the resistance.
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I love you guys.
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Adios Machachos.