Independence Day

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Hurry, hurry, hurry down to Paramnesia Theater.
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Gather round as four friends share, rewatch,
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and possibly ruin favorite films from their childhoods.
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Be sure to come early and get a good parking
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spot because there's always a good show at the
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driveway. Now that'll be $5 a ticket, penis.
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Welcome back to Paramnesia Theater. I'm your
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host, Riley Groves. I'm super excited because
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it's my birthday. Yay! Happy birthday. Thank
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you. Happy birthday. Oh, man. Those are all my
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friends. Anna. Hey. Tim. I'm Tim. And my wife,
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Rebecca. Hello. And guys, I have a perfect movie
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for not only the 4th of July, but also the nation's
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birthday. It's semi -quincentennial this year,
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the 250th anniversary of America. I told you
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guys last time, but I am bringing Independence
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Day. Has anybody seen it? I have. All right.
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Cool. Only memes. Okay. Yeah. Those memes will
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make a lot more sense. I don't know if they will
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or not. When's the last time you watched it,
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Anna? It's definitely been a while. I think I
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was in high school. Yeah. I don't remember either,
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but it's been a while. So I'm super duper excited.
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This movie is two hours and 25 minutes long.
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It's also 30 years old this year. Wow. It is
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30 years old. Yes, it came out in 1996 on July
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4th, 1996. Perfect timing. I'll actually get
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into a few more notes on that in a minute. It
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is a PG -13 movie. Kind of surprising, actually,
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that it's a PG -13 movie. I mean, not really.
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There's a fair amount of violence. Yeah. I guess
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violence against aliens isn't a... isn't you
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don't think that counts as part of the rating
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i i don't know i just feel like it could tip
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into uh rated r really pretty easy but i don't
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remember it that well so um there's like a couple
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swears too yeah that counts towards the rating
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well a 96 pg -13 is different than a today pg
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could be um 7 .0 on IMDb and a Rotten Tomatoes
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score of 69%. Nice. Some great accolades for
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this movie. Directed by Roland Emmerich, who's
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also a writer. He did stuff that we have watched
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on the podcast as A Day After Tomorrow. Oh. Yeah.
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As well as Godzilla, the 1998 one that I know
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Anna and I love. And The Patriot. Yeah. As well
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as Midway, which is a World War II movie that
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came out. And 2012, which was an apocalyptic
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film. And 10 ,000 BC, which was a caveman film.
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Lots of kind of like. In the same sort of genre
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of intense action for this guy. He's written
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a whole bunch of stuff. Stars. Will Smith, obviously.
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Jeff Goldblum. Bill Pullman. You guys might know
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him from The Grudge. Twister. Lake Placid. A
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League of Their Own. Wasn't he in Twister? I
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don't know. He's been in 109 movies, though,
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so there's a good chance. Mary MacDonald, who
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I didn't really know, but she was in Dances with
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Wolves, as well as Judd Hirsch. I haven't seen
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that. dances with wolves yeah that's a long movie
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but very good it is very good tim hasn't seen
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it either oh maybe one day um and also has judd
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hirsch who you'll recognize if you don't recognize
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the name and randy quaid who plays a very fun
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and interesting character of course in this um
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this movie really helped launch will smith's
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acting career this is the only other movie he's
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he did at the time uh besides bad boys which
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oh um is probably more famous now than when it
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actually came out and that's an awesome movie
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with martin lawrence but uh didn't really blow
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up until bad boys 2 came out um no way yeah uh
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this movie was released in 96 which is when the
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fresh prince of bel -air went off air so that
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ran from 90 to 96 and so this was his first movie
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after the ending of fresh prince bel -air budget
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75 million dollars which wow actually it seems
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kind of high but like once you start watching
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this movie if it was made today it'd probably
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be a couple hundred million pretty easily wouldn't
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it be a couple hundred million in 30 year ago
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money oh if for inflation inflation yeah i could
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never do that yes probably pretty close right
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yeah that's what i'm trying to say like if you
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were to convert into days today's dollars it
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would probably take like 3 400 million damn it
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grossed 817 .4 million dollars worldwide what
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yes uh did you look up the actual like can you
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do the math on the percentage increase of that
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because like that's astounding growth yes it
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is just shy of 11 percent holy or 11 time turn
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so 1100 percent wow yeah that's incredible um
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talking more about the money aspect um One of
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the big things that they did, they spent $103
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million on a Super Bowl ad to launch this movie.
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So that was in February. The success of this
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movie is the reason why movies start doing that.
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to this day uh it wasn't something that happened
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before then so movies that now are announced
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at the super bowl are because of independence
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day's success um it beat out twister and mission
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impossible 2 in terms of gross sales for the
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same year that makes sense we just watched mission
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impossible 2 and it was it wasn't good compared
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to the first one so boring i haven't seen any
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of those impossible we hadn't either and we were
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like we're gonna watch all of them and we didn't
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get through the second one and then we gave up
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the first one was really good the second one
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blue um so we'll try again maybe some other day
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um it grossed 11 .1 million dollars the day before
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it released so they had a wednesday early wednesday
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release that only released to like 2 000 theaters
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across the country and it made 11 .1 million
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um then it officially opened on july 3rd on the
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thursday and and into the friday and it was the
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highest thursday grossing release film until
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star wars episode 2 which You know, that's pretty
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good accolades. And it is the first non -sequel
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Thursday, or it held the title as the highest
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non -sequel Thursday grossing film until Star
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Wars Episode I came out, which is also not surprising.
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It earned $150 million in the first 12 days,
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which was the fastest to ever do it. And then
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it became the fastest to approach $200 million
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until Star Wars Episode I came out. It is the
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second highest grossing film after Jurassic Park
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for a number of years. And it is the most successful
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or highest grossing Will Smith film since the
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live action Aladdin film came out. Please don't
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talk about that movie. I know, which sucked.
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I couldn't believe that there's a... i don't
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know 25 year gap between like when he was the
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most successful again then it came to the shittiest
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ass fucking live action aladdin movie i can't
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believe it doesn't go to i am legend yeah he
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gets dumped on for the aladdin movie a lot yeah
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he does it wasn't his fault you can't live up
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to robin williams i am legend is not an appropriate
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book adaptation in my opinion i was very disappointed
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when i watched that movie because i'd read the
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book i was a huge fan of the book and i watched
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the movie and i was like That is most of this
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is not what happened. But back to the Aladdin
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thing. Yeah. I just went from being wildly impressed
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that this is easily the most accolades that any
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movie we've watched on this show has. And then
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you said the Aladdin fact. And I was like, I
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don't know what's real anymore. How does that
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work? I don't. So converted to today's dollars.
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Also, I don't know. Disney still got a lot of.
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you know poll in the industry a lot of people
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probably went and saw that aladdin movie sans
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will smith being the genie just because i don't
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fucking know man yeah anyways uh i'm gonna keep
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going because there's more accolades this was
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nominated for 35 or it had 35 award wins and
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an additional 35 nominations across the board.
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It won the Oscar and Academy Award for Best Effects
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and Visual Effects, nominated for Best Sound.
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It won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composed
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for a Motion Picture. It won a Kids' Choice Award.
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It won a People's Choice Award and a bunch of
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others that I didn't list. MTV Movie Awards,
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all sorts of stuff. So across the board, it was
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really, really well received. And its tagline
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back in the day for its advertisements were,
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we always believed we were alone on July 4th.
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We'll wish we were. Ooh. Yeah. Pretty ballin'
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stats. So that's probably the most information
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I've ever had on a movie that I've brought to
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the podcast. And yeah, that's everything about
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it. So I just Googled the 1996 Best Picture nominees,
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and they were Braveheart, Apollo 13. The Postman,
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Babe, and Sense and Sensibility. Babe. Babe.
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Yeah, I mean, that's a pretty big... Braveheart's
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a pretty big one for... It definitely is not
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better acting or a better movie than Braveheart.
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But action -wise, this is a big... I'm excited.
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Budget summer fucking blockbuster. This is one
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that we had on VHS at my house and my brother
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really liked it. Of course, when your older brother
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watches a movie, you're kind of forced to watch
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it as well. So I watched it a lot with him. Nice.
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Nice. I remember really liking it back in the
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day, but I honestly have forgotten so much. So
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I'm super excited. I'm excited. I always thought
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this was that other movie. So I'm excited to
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finally know them both and separately. Yeah.
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And this is one of the rare alien invasion movies,
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really, with like, it's not when you think of
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like signs and you kind of see some aliens here
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and there. This is not that, man. There are fucking
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aliens. And like, it isn't really sick. It's
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not just like a little alien here or there. Like,
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no, it's it's fucking intense. I think the aerial
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fights as well are really impressive. Yeah. With
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the alien ships and like the fighter jets. It's
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just it's really good It is so they actually
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had endorsement and backing and we're going to
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work with the US military To get action scenes
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right like everything right about the military
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aspect, which is a huge part Will Smith is in
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the military That's not a spoiler in it and then
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the u .s military saw how much of this movie
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is dedicated to aliens and vis -a -vis area 51
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and they're like no no we can't fucking deal
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with you people uh so they actually pulled out
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of uh you know helping with the movie that's
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crazy that would have been the best way to mitigate
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any misinformation it's just like you know what
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we'll just kind of guide mold this in our own
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way yeah you guys go crazy yeah it's all real
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i mean yeah i guess you'll probably see why they
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may not want to okay i've endorsed it um because
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like If they're like, yeah, the military is working
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with us and people saw this, especially in 1996.
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People would probably jump to some pretty wild
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conclusions. Are we not jumping to those conclusions
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these days? Yes, but we are. In 96, it was much
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different. It would have blown their minds too
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much. We're desensitized these days. Think about
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how they portray Randy Quaid's character in this
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movie. You know him. Yeah, he's a vet. Today,
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he's kind of normal because he's a vet and a
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conspiracy theorist. Today, you'd be like, oh,
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yeah, that's just Randy. Randy's not far off
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from the truth, but in this movie, what a quack.
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And they really try to drive home that he's.
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But then he's not far off. And then he's not.
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Yeah. So. So. Well, 2026 is different. If the
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movie was made today, probably I would assume.
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I feel like this would be a great discussion
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afterwards. But, like, I assume it would be backed.
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but back then there weren't like they hadn't
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fully finished their uh civilian distraction
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campaign and now that we have all the social
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media where you're just so overwhelmed with information
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just randomly seeing on some scroll by the aliens
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are real and we have all you're like cool what's
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this guy doing on this This motorcycle. What's
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a skateboard guy doing? I've never thought to
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cook pasta like that. That's weird. Yeah, if
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this movie was released today, it'd be called
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Disclosure Day by Steven Spielberg. That's coming
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out soon, isn't it? Exactly. Yeah, which is very
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auspiciously timed. So, what does anybody want
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to know? Did you bring a snack? Of course I did.
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It is not only my birthday, but America's birthday.
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And as such, we have a... Chocolate Devil's Food
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Cake covered in chocolate frosting. And Sprinkles
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Birthday Cake. Sounds delightful. And it's all
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sugar -free. Ooh. America is America's birthday,
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and we have a devil -themed dessert. That's appropriate.
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Yeah, I didn't think about that. I thought you
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were going to be like, rocket pops. And I was
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like, yeah. Oh, man. So much easier. Yeah, if
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I couldn't find. Because guess who had to make
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the cake? Me. You knew the snack, and you still
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asked? It's part of the formula. have some assistance
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i did buy the cake uh my the cake mix myself
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and the uh frosting pretty daunting experience
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there was a lady there that was really grilling
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me for my zero sugar choice um i don't know i
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don't know what she was looking for but uh extra
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sugar yeah she wanted the sugar bombs so uh speaking
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of sugar you guys know that company crumble cookies
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you ever hear of them no okay so they make these
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like outrageously delicious looking cookies but
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like um They contain like an absurd amount of
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sugar in each one, like more than your daily
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limit of sugar per cookie. They're also like
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three cookies combined. Yeah. And they're like
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800 and something calories per cookie. Whoa.
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Yeah. They just came out with a new drink that
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apparently has 186 grams of sugar in it. Jeez.
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Which is like hundreds of times more sugar than
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you need. Is there a surplus of sugar in the
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country? Like, what is going on? I don't know.
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Crumble owns it all. It's their main component
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in anything that they make, I guess. Conspiracy
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theory. It has to do with the health insurance
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and the government. They're making more money,
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so they pump us full of sugar, so we're really
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unhealthy. I mean, 60 % of America is either
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diabetic or pre -diabetic, and I'm sure you get
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there after drinking just one of these Crumble
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drinks. Yes, looking at it. Join me. I will share
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my insulin and testing strips and shit like that.
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If Walter Rembrandt was still around, he would
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be pissed. Yeah. Who? Walter Brimley. Walter
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Brimley. Oh, I don't know names. Close enough.
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We got there. There's also probably a ton of
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other people in this movie that you'll recognize
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and say, oh, that's cool. I just didn't feel
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like writing them all down. I already wrote a
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page and a half. My notebook's very small compared
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to Anna's. It's the most notes you've ever taken.
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It is the most notes I've ever taken for an introductory
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of a film, yes. But, like, I didn't even touch
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on all the financial, like, accolades that it
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had. It beat Toy Story, which was pretty fantastic.
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Like, it made a lot of money. Like, $819 million
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back in the day is, like... Pretty amazing. We
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get amazed when a movie surpasses a billion these
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days and you know ticket prices are four times
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what they used to Oh, that's fair, too. Yeah,
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that's never used to cost five bucks to go to
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the movie theater Does it the crandall nice?
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Phoenix Beacons still only 11 I think for an
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evening movie so not too bad better than Regal
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which is like 25. Yeah, come on man And then
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it's, like, barely taken care of. There's still,
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like, popcorn and shit on the floor. Yeah. A
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couple of those are sticky. And also, like, the
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picking the seats ahead of time. I hate that.
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I just want to go in and vibe it out and be like,
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I'll pick this spot over here. Do you? I absolutely
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hate it. I'm like, can I work it so I don't have
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to sit next to anybody at all? You can do that
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by walking into the theater and looking where
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people are sitting and then find a spot. But
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it's also hard when you go as a group. Mm -hmm.
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To not be able to pick it ahead of time. No,
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I paid for tickets, like specific seats one time.
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And I went in there. And there were only about
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eight people there. But there were two ladies
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sitting exactly in the seats that I paid for.
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And I said, these are my tickets. This is for
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this. She goes, no, no, no, you can sit anywhere.
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And I was like, no, but I paid for these. And
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she's like, no, no, you can sit wherever you
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want. So I sat somewhere else. And then the theater
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filled in. And these stupid people. had the best
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fucking seats. And I was like, fuck. You should
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have just kept standing there and staring at
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them, not saying anything. I was with someone
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who was very not controversial. So I could not,
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because then they would get the crossfire of
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it. So I had to just let the whole thing go.
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Oh shit, what's that? An alien. They're out in
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your bushes. What are they doing? We should go
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check that out. Don't probe the bushes. We're
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happy to have you with us this evening and want
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back. What did everybody think about this amazing
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Independence Day movie? I'm glad we won. All
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right. It was a fast sprint the whole time. Yes.
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Yeah, it really kept moving for how long it was.
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It was a lot going on. It was so fun to watch.
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Awesome. I had a great time, too. I forgot how
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much fun this movie was. And I haven't watched
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it as an adult. And when I watched it a long
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time ago, I was just, oh, this is a movie. That's
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cool. I read one little piece of interesting
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information before when I was doing some research.
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And this guy who wrote and directed this movie,
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what is his name? Robert. Ronald. Ronald. Roland.
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Roland Emmerich. He said he decided to start
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making movies or he knew he wanted to make movies
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after he saw Star Wars 1977. The original Star
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Wars movie, which like in watching this feels
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like it. There is so much stuff that is just
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like a it is a Star Wars movie. Just they even
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had a couple of trench runs, which was fun. There
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was a lot of things that really were straight
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out of a Star Wars movie. I can see how he was
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inspired by that and like the epicness of it.
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Like we saw. all over the world things happening
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and the size of the spaceships. Absolutely terrifying.
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That was super impressive. I forgot that they
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were all that big. I thought only the mothership
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was, but them all being just giant was awesome.
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I liked on the map that they called them destroyers
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also to relate to Star Wars. I wrote that this
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would be a great way to bring Earth into Star
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Wars. Yeah, pretty much. yeah there was a lot
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one of the earliest uh things that i noticed
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um that was star wars adjacent was a piece of
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delicious dialogue where when they're originally
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in the first fight uh dog fight there somebody
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yells there's too many of them and then wilhelm
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screams and like that is it happens right in
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the original one i thought the soundtrack was
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very star wars -esque it was just the the complexity
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of it they didn't they really didn't leave any
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moment of pause it seemed they took like it was
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part of the story as much as dialogue or the
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actual film itself it paired so well yeah they
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did a great job just like making a giant orchestral
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uh orchestral soundtrack for it which is why
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it won an award for for that which it makes a
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lot of sense so easy to see yeah uh i loved the
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mr president's speech at the end that was super
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inspiring i had to stop myself from bursting
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out with enthusiasm oh yeah it was really good
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um i liked the message you know to you dinosaur
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i was trying to figure out how to work that into
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my final um thing but all i could come up with
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was like oh it's a message that resonates today
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more than ever missiles solve everything and
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like that that wasn't the message i don't think
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he had one line in that speech where he's like
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we'll not go quiet into this night and that's
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like almost uh dylan thomas poem quote do not
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go gentle into that dark night I thought that
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was really interesting. I thought so too. I recognized
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it, but I couldn't place what it was from. I
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wasn't sure if it was a different movie. Or I
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thought it was actually like an actual historical
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speech, not a poem. Yeah, that was interesting
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to me because it felt very written. I was like,
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he's supposed to be doing it by the cuff, but
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it almost feels like a prepared speech. And it
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weirdly feels like one of the few prepared written
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things in the movie. There's a lot of dialogue.
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i don't think the dialogue was like the strongest
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point but i don't think it was like that it was
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bad it was just very of its time a lot of little
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cliches and the way things were worded yes yeah
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the the dialogue was the one part where i like
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i took a little bit of point off points off not
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like points but i took some some marks off um
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just because some of it was like like randy quaid's
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last few lines before he blows himself up were
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He had a lot of exit lines. He just kept having
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them. Yeah, and his plane was going just so slow
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there at the end. Other than that, I could get
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past that just because of the breadth of the
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epicness of the whole rest of the movie. I think
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Will Smith did a really good job, and Jeff Goldblum
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knocked it out of the park. He was probably the
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best actor overall, I think. Definitely. His
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dad was the only thing that kept points. for
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dialogue in the movie his dad was fantastic i
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really loved the father -son relationship being
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a part of it and not just oh there's love interests
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because that's usually what you see and like
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that dude was it was a great addition yeah i
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could not replace the actor for my replacements
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i decided that i can't even do that anymore and
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i'm just gonna talk about what i know about the
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actors instead i replaced everybody i have twice
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yeah We're not there yet. No, we're very far
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away, but I did replace everybody. Will Smith
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was in this a lot less than I expected him to
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be. It took a long time for him to get in. I
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forgot, honestly, when we started watching that
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he was in it. Because he's not in it for the
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first 40 minutes, 45 minutes. It's not until
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the aliens arrive on Earth. Because he has no
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part in the intellectual, clever... figuring
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out the puzzle thing like he's just gonna fly
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the ship yeah it kind of feels like because like
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with a two and a half hour runtime it did go
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quick like it doesn't feel it didn't drag out
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or anything and it wasn't really slow but it
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does feel like three very like separate act of
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the movie which like works into the whole star
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wars feel even better because like you're like
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oh it's transitions from a new hope and uh hero
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awakening and them finding out to the end of
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the empire uh in the aliens and so it was very
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cool just to like see how it was sequenced out
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and it felt like you were watching something
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new every few minutes yeah i tried to keep track
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of because i knew the run time was long i tried
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to keep track of like what could we cut out of
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this and like not really at some of the one -liners,
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I guess save like two minutes, but the one thing
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they could have taken out because it didn't do
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anything. So it would make me happy at the time
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was Boomer. The dog was there. He brought the
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shoe and then he run through the tunnel. But
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like, other than that, I didn't see him in the
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car. I didn't see him in the truck afterwards.
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He played no part. Like why wasn't Boomer in
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it more? To the point where I wanted more Boomer,
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and you gave me so little, you could have just
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left the dog out and not tugged at my heartstrings
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in the tunnel a little bit. I mean, that was
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the most epic scene ever, though. Like a huge
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explosion, and then this just beautiful dog jumping
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away from it. Just like parkouring. Yeah. Fantastically.
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By the way, how much of the budget do you think
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was spent on just sending cars flying through
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the air? So much. So much. It happens so often.
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There were a lot of practical effects that you
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could see, too, where they like had a car in
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the camera shot and then they like flipped it
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to get that like real quick spot in between all
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the rest of the destruction. And it was really
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cool. Yeah, there was only one part where I was
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like, oh, I could tell that was a fake person,
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probably because of the quality of TV is here
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30 years later when like a dummy lands on a windshield
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right quick in one of those destruction scenes.
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And it looks like somebody just like took it
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and just threw it down on on it. But other than
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that, it really held up. pretty well uh especially
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like the visual i don't know if michael it seemed
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like michael bay probably made this movie how
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many explosions are in it but like they didn't
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make them look wonky at all so i also really
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liked how when the not the mothership but the
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big ones were coming down and they were being
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obscured by like coming into the atmosphere so
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they had smoke and like fire around them and
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it just like kind of held the tension for a little
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bit of being like What is this going to look
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like? How is this going to go down? Yeah, I also
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felt like they had really good tension with...
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Not tension, sorry. It was actually really scary
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when the alien came back to life and was attacking
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everybody. I was surprised at the horror aspect
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of that scene. Yeah, that part felt a lot like
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an alien movie. The actual alien movies. yeah
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that's actually like my favorite scene in this
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movie is when they're in that smoke -filled laboratory
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and he's being puppeted the scientist is being
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puppeted by him it's like whoa yeah so gross
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freaky it is and i kind of wanted more of that
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as much as i love the aerial combat and how fucking
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cool that was i like a little bit more hand -to
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-hand stuff too just It's a little more exciting.
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They couldn't do any more hand to hand because
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Will Smith knocks out an alien in an exosuit
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with one punch. That's true. Imagine what he
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just go through throwing bombs, knocking out
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these motherfuckers left and right. And he says,
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welcome to Earth. Honestly, his and his entire
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monologue, I didn't write it down. It's not like
00:26:42.890 --> 00:26:45.109
a long monologue. It's not anything great. But
00:26:45.109 --> 00:26:48.650
the entire part of him dragging that. alien through
00:26:48.650 --> 00:26:52.230
the desert is such an iconic scene for that movie
00:26:52.230 --> 00:26:55.369
and it's so much fun listening to how deranged
00:26:55.369 --> 00:26:57.950
and angry he is yeah he's like kicking it and
00:26:57.950 --> 00:26:59.950
shouting at it and then he's like not even mad
00:26:59.950 --> 00:27:02.029
not even mad starts dragging it again it's just
00:27:02.029 --> 00:27:05.970
like so funny i really gotta get my frustration
00:27:05.970 --> 00:27:08.150
out on this but i'm gonna bring you back for
00:27:08.150 --> 00:27:13.309
humanity's sake i really enjoyed the whole rv
00:27:13.309 --> 00:27:17.670
city going on the mad max vibe to that That was
00:27:17.670 --> 00:27:21.210
pretty wild. Very fun. And then they just used
00:27:21.210 --> 00:27:22.950
all those people as volunteers. They were like,
00:27:23.029 --> 00:27:25.130
all right, everybody, who's pilots? They were
00:27:25.130 --> 00:27:26.809
like, they're here. Like, what the fuck else?
00:27:26.869 --> 00:27:29.490
We got plenty of planes, so. I mean, they could
00:27:29.490 --> 00:27:31.670
have been in the middle of like a suburb or even
00:27:31.670 --> 00:27:33.910
the city. They were in the right spot to get
00:27:33.910 --> 00:27:36.250
the most people. It was all those people in RVs.
00:27:37.570 --> 00:27:42.150
Area 51, not nearly as obscure as they make it
00:27:42.150 --> 00:27:43.589
out to be. It seemed like everybody and their
00:27:43.589 --> 00:27:45.809
brother knew how to get there really pretty easily.
00:27:45.869 --> 00:27:48.009
It's not far out of town. It's right there. You
00:27:48.009 --> 00:27:49.450
know, they put it in the middle of this giant
00:27:49.450 --> 00:27:51.509
white salt flat. And then so it's just like,
00:27:51.549 --> 00:27:53.549
you know, kind of shining and like anything you
00:27:53.549 --> 00:27:55.650
put there is going to stand out. It's a beacon.
00:27:57.170 --> 00:28:01.069
They had everything in that base, though. They
00:28:01.069 --> 00:28:04.640
had a hospital there. They had a mess hall. They
00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:07.380
had the control room, presumably. But then also
00:28:07.380 --> 00:28:11.240
it was where the alien stuff was kept. It just
00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:13.440
seemed like it had a lot going on. And they were
00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:16.259
like, we need one central place. Doesn't make
00:28:16.259 --> 00:28:19.160
sense for an Area 51 to have a hospital and all
00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:22.519
this shit. But we need it because we need to
00:28:22.519 --> 00:28:26.019
progress these story points. Yeah, that's weird.
00:28:28.900 --> 00:28:33.559
The RV people built it quickly. Yes. Yeah. they
00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:35.480
held that see -through glass and then drew maps
00:28:35.480 --> 00:28:40.200
on it that also felt very star wars of like all
00:28:40.200 --> 00:28:42.700
the little maps and stuff yeah yeah they had
00:28:42.700 --> 00:28:44.920
lit yeah because like the star wars maps are
00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:47.279
funny because like nothing really moves on them
00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:49.160
and they just have like shit kind of painted
00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:50.920
on them and they had those same kind of things
00:28:50.920 --> 00:28:54.819
in this movie and so yeah it's like looks like
00:28:54.819 --> 00:28:56.579
the command room from star wars and they're trying
00:28:56.579 --> 00:28:58.809
to uh figure out how to blow up the death star
00:28:58.809 --> 00:29:01.650
i was hoping harrison ford was gonna have some
00:29:01.650 --> 00:29:05.710
kind of cameo here he could have been the president
00:29:05.710 --> 00:29:07.970
he could have been the president that was one
00:29:07.970 --> 00:29:09.589
of my thoughts i didn't write him down for the
00:29:09.589 --> 00:29:12.230
president but the guy that was the president
00:29:12.230 --> 00:29:16.069
is also in space balls as the han solo character
00:29:16.069 --> 00:29:21.589
i have not seen that movie probably since i was
00:29:21.589 --> 00:29:25.109
like nine oh it's so good with you whenever you
00:29:25.109 --> 00:29:28.880
got it That was when my dad was always like,
00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:31.400
you have to watch this. This is classic. And
00:29:31.400 --> 00:29:35.079
I also mix it up with Galaxy Quest. I can see
00:29:35.079 --> 00:29:37.880
why, I guess. I can't. I don't get that one.
00:29:38.539 --> 00:29:42.619
Well, I was a small child. I want to watch Galaxy
00:29:42.619 --> 00:29:45.940
Quest again. It's been so long. That's a fantastic
00:29:45.940 --> 00:29:49.319
movie. I don't know what the character's name
00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:53.430
was, but Jeff Goldblum's boss guy. the voice.
00:29:53.589 --> 00:29:56.630
Oh, yes, I love him. I felt so bad for that guy.
00:29:56.809 --> 00:29:58.990
Like, if that's how his normal voice is, it just
00:29:58.990 --> 00:30:02.690
sounds like it's so painful to, like, do. He's
00:30:02.690 --> 00:30:06.329
Robin Williams' brother in Mrs. Doubtfire. But
00:30:06.329 --> 00:30:08.750
also, I feel like he's a voice in a Disney movie.
00:30:09.690 --> 00:30:14.849
Like, not a villain, but a bad guy. Well, he
00:30:14.849 --> 00:30:20.450
ain't Iago. No, definitely not. Are you looking
00:30:20.450 --> 00:30:28.150
him up, Tim? I am. Yep. I was going to wait until
00:30:28.150 --> 00:30:30.170
I said this, but you guys just put me right in
00:30:30.170 --> 00:30:32.289
there. Putting you on the spot. I was most known
00:30:32.289 --> 00:30:36.710
for Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day, Bullets
00:30:36.710 --> 00:30:43.650
Over Broadway, and Mulan. Mulan? Mulan? Yeah.
00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:48.539
Who is he in Mulan? Oh, my God. He's the short
00:30:48.539 --> 00:30:52.900
guy that's always really angry. Oh, yes. I watch
00:30:52.900 --> 00:30:56.720
Mulan a lot. Okay. Sounded like a confession.
00:30:57.059 --> 00:30:59.819
It's my favorite Disney princess movie, and I
00:30:59.819 --> 00:31:04.039
watch it maybe three to four times a year. He
00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:06.660
has some voices in some more popular TV shows
00:31:06.660 --> 00:31:10.319
lately, Big Mouth and BoJack Horseman being two
00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:14.579
of them. Oh. Family guy. He definitely stayed
00:31:14.579 --> 00:31:20.940
busy. Good for him. One of my favorite scenes
00:31:20.940 --> 00:31:25.220
was the juxtaposition between the orderly White
00:31:25.220 --> 00:31:27.140
House and the president giving his first speech.
00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:29.799
And he's like, if you do decide to evacuate the
00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:32.500
city, please do so in an orderly fashion. And
00:31:32.500 --> 00:31:34.880
then it shoots to New York and everybody's rioting.
00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:36.779
Everything's like getting blown up and shit already.
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:39.779
The cops are just running away. There's like
00:31:39.779 --> 00:31:43.920
a cop on a cop horse. like doing all sorts of
00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:46.460
crazy stuff. Galloping away. Yeah. It was absolute
00:31:46.460 --> 00:31:50.880
chaos. That was awesome. I love the chaotic scenes
00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:52.460
in these kind of movies. I always think they're
00:31:52.460 --> 00:31:57.480
so much fun. Yeah. I was so impressed by the
00:31:57.480 --> 00:31:59.720
first time they shoot that laser down. And like
00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:01.660
aside from like, oh, there's all the cars slipping
00:32:01.660 --> 00:32:04.339
and explosions. At one point they really pull
00:32:04.339 --> 00:32:07.670
the camera out and you just see the swath. like
00:32:07.670 --> 00:32:09.970
the slow ring of devastation that was happening.
00:32:10.150 --> 00:32:12.329
And I was like, oh, they're doing such a good
00:32:12.329 --> 00:32:16.410
job. All of the size stuff was amazing. You felt
00:32:16.410 --> 00:32:20.890
how big the spaceship was. I mean, it was, it
00:32:20.890 --> 00:32:23.009
made me feel nervous. I was like, I think it's
00:32:23.009 --> 00:32:25.849
huge. Like I was uncomfortable. They scaled it
00:32:25.849 --> 00:32:27.970
so well over all those popular cities and they
00:32:27.970 --> 00:32:30.289
dropped that giant laser out. And you realize,
00:32:30.430 --> 00:32:33.730
oh, one of these is literally just one shot destroying
00:32:33.730 --> 00:32:37.250
like entire cities. Yeah, they did a great job
00:32:37.250 --> 00:32:41.269
at producing scale. They made it feel big. Yeah,
00:32:41.309 --> 00:32:44.589
they told us it was 15 miles across before we
00:32:44.589 --> 00:32:47.410
saw the ships, and then it doesn't compute when
00:32:47.410 --> 00:32:49.549
you hear the number and then see the actual object.
00:32:49.809 --> 00:32:53.650
Those ships were really fucking impressive. What
00:32:53.650 --> 00:32:57.390
a great design choice, too. Very simple. Yes,
00:32:57.390 --> 00:32:59.750
I like that, that they didn't go crazy. They
00:32:59.750 --> 00:33:01.369
were like, well, it's always flying saucers,
00:33:01.369 --> 00:33:03.809
so we'll kind of shape like that and start there.
00:33:04.049 --> 00:33:06.789
I like how it was like one big chunk kind of
00:33:06.789 --> 00:33:09.130
was going through the majority of space, and
00:33:09.130 --> 00:33:10.670
then it kind of seemed like to split like a pack
00:33:10.670 --> 00:33:13.869
of Oreos. And then that was where all the saucers
00:33:13.869 --> 00:33:15.869
came. So I was like, well, that's smart. Because
00:33:15.869 --> 00:33:18.250
then you're really just moving one structure
00:33:18.250 --> 00:33:21.670
through space. Just the design thought behind
00:33:21.670 --> 00:33:24.599
that concept, that was really cool to see. I
00:33:24.599 --> 00:33:26.579
thought the aliens too were really interestingly
00:33:26.579 --> 00:33:29.160
designed. Like they had some aspects of like
00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:32.039
a typical gray, but they changed other parts
00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:36.700
to be exaggerated or just like more sculpted.
00:33:36.700 --> 00:33:39.619
And it gave it like a real feel of like an organic
00:33:39.619 --> 00:33:43.099
thing. Yeah, they did look really cool. The big
00:33:43.099 --> 00:33:45.339
tentacles that it had at first was scary. It
00:33:45.339 --> 00:33:47.700
was a little hard to tell the difference between
00:33:47.700 --> 00:33:50.869
the suit and the alien. The aliens were very
00:33:50.869 --> 00:33:53.569
small and the suit was like massive. But yeah.
00:33:53.589 --> 00:33:57.069
And also kind of bio mech -y. Right. Exactly.
00:33:57.069 --> 00:33:59.170
So it's like they're cutting away tissue to like
00:33:59.170 --> 00:34:02.690
get to the actual alien inside. Yeah. Which is
00:34:02.690 --> 00:34:06.990
weird. But yeah, the exoskeleton suit was like
00:34:06.990 --> 00:34:09.230
ripped open at most points when we were like
00:34:09.230 --> 00:34:11.369
looking at it because they were trying to dissect
00:34:11.369 --> 00:34:14.570
it. So I feel like that part of it. I don't know.
00:34:14.590 --> 00:34:16.610
It's scarier that it's like this creature coming
00:34:16.610 --> 00:34:19.530
out of it. Yeah. Have you seen Attack on Titan?
00:34:20.030 --> 00:34:23.030
No. Oh, it's a really good animated show. Anyway,
00:34:23.130 --> 00:34:25.590
real similar vibe. Like it starts out, you think
00:34:25.590 --> 00:34:28.389
there's just these like crazy giant humanoid
00:34:28.389 --> 00:34:31.070
creatures attacking and then you find out, spoilers,
00:34:31.250 --> 00:34:34.150
it's actually like humans that are going in to
00:34:34.150 --> 00:34:38.710
operate them. Oh, weird. And it's wicked weird.
00:34:38.789 --> 00:34:41.469
It's a wild concept. It goes like a couple seasons
00:34:41.469 --> 00:34:43.409
before the twist and then you're like, what the
00:34:43.409 --> 00:34:46.710
fuck has been happening? That's cool. But yeah,
00:34:46.789 --> 00:34:49.630
I think it's always fun, the idea of kind of
00:34:49.630 --> 00:34:52.349
an organism inside of an organism. It's kind
00:34:52.349 --> 00:34:55.889
of weird. Kind of a Russian stacking doll. Yeah,
00:34:55.889 --> 00:34:57.269
I was going to say like parasitic. Babushka babies?
00:34:57.610 --> 00:35:00.269
Yeah. Babushka. Yeah, I was going to say like
00:35:00.269 --> 00:35:03.469
parasitic, but not because it's its own biological
00:35:03.469 --> 00:35:09.679
armor. Yeah, fun design either way. I actually
00:35:09.679 --> 00:35:12.059
liked that you could see the design difference
00:35:12.059 --> 00:35:14.519
in the ship that crashed here in the 50s versus
00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:17.539
what the aliens are using now. They're very similar,
00:35:17.619 --> 00:35:20.420
but they're just slightly... You can tell the
00:35:20.420 --> 00:35:23.219
old one is retro, even to the aliens. I thought
00:35:23.219 --> 00:35:25.619
that was a really cool touch. Because it's not
00:35:25.619 --> 00:35:27.960
that blue anymore. They're all gray, I think.
00:35:28.579 --> 00:35:31.980
They changed the color schemes. Okay. I didn't
00:35:31.980 --> 00:35:34.239
notice that. Yeah, I thought it was really cool.
00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:38.820
It's an older code, sir, but it checks out. That's
00:35:38.820 --> 00:35:40.739
all I thought when they were flying into the
00:35:40.739 --> 00:35:44.800
fucking giant ship. That giant ship was weirdly
00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:47.179
unprotected. I guess you could use the Stranger
00:35:47.179 --> 00:35:49.260
Things excuse that the bad guys weren't expecting
00:35:49.260 --> 00:35:52.719
them to get there. But, man, they just let that
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:55.079
ship fly right in. Well, it was one of theirs.
00:35:55.639 --> 00:35:57.900
Yeah, they brought it in. At no point did they
00:35:57.900 --> 00:36:00.630
go... Isn't it weird that we still have one of
00:36:00.630 --> 00:36:02.789
these kicking around? I haven't seen one of these
00:36:02.789 --> 00:36:04.989
in like two decades. This one's been missing
00:36:04.989 --> 00:36:08.429
for so long. There's got to be millions of those
00:36:08.429 --> 00:36:11.909
things on there. So, I mean, you see one more
00:36:11.909 --> 00:36:13.590
tick on the number scale and you're like, eh?
00:36:13.750 --> 00:36:17.030
Yeah. Why didn't the black box relay the data
00:36:17.030 --> 00:36:21.829
to the mainframe? True. These are good questions.
00:36:21.889 --> 00:36:24.130
I don't have the answers. Maybe in Independence
00:36:24.130 --> 00:36:27.159
Day 2. Wouldn't that be fucking fire if they
00:36:27.159 --> 00:36:29.360
released a secret Independence Day 2 this year
00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:31.320
for the anniversary? Then it would be Independence
00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:34.579
Day 3. There is a sequel to this movie. Oh, God,
00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:36.579
why? It came out several years ago. Who's in
00:36:36.579 --> 00:36:40.800
it? Don't know. Never saw it. Did anyone? Kind
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:42.699
of seems like we should maybe ignore it and then
00:36:42.699 --> 00:36:45.000
make a better one. It's called Independence Day
00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:48.579
Requiem. That sounds stupid. God, it sounds painful.
00:36:49.500 --> 00:36:52.400
It sounds like a reboot that shouldn't happen.
00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:55.360
It does. It sounds like... You could find a lot
00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:58.800
of time you could cut out of that movie. Independence
00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:02.519
Day Resurgence? No, maybe that's it. You were
00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:04.380
close. I was close. I might be thinking about
00:37:04.380 --> 00:37:07.199
Alien vs. Predator. There's a million of them.
00:37:07.300 --> 00:37:09.460
Nope, this is something else. This is a game.
00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:13.460
I was also hoping David Duchovny would cameo
00:37:13.460 --> 00:37:15.519
in here. They referenced the X -Files at one
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:17.880
point in the beginning, and I was really hoping.
00:37:18.039 --> 00:37:19.300
Oh, that would be really cool. Oh, that would
00:37:19.300 --> 00:37:21.599
have been great. Yeah, if he was like one of
00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:23.360
the agents. Even if he's just in the background
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:24.800
or something, and you're like, holy shit, it's
00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:27.300
Mulder. Riley, weren't you talking about how
00:37:27.300 --> 00:37:29.800
this movie compared to Jurassic Park earlier?
00:37:30.980 --> 00:37:34.119
Only financially. So it was Jurassic Park was
00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:37.159
the only movie that had scored more at the box
00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:39.420
office than this for a significant amount of
00:37:39.420 --> 00:37:42.360
time. I think I know why. Why? Jeff Goldblum's
00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:45.659
chest hair. Yeah, probably. Yeah. Because Jurassic
00:37:45.659 --> 00:37:48.360
Park, he's all slutty in his little black outfit
00:37:48.360 --> 00:37:51.840
there, chest exposed. And then in this one, it's
00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:53.400
like the majority of the movie, which I'm not
00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:55.659
complaining. Yeah. But he could have showed a
00:37:55.659 --> 00:38:00.010
little, little skin. Yeah, true. I just thought
00:38:00.010 --> 00:38:04.090
we should all know. Yeah. I really, really liked
00:38:04.090 --> 00:38:07.309
his character. I got a piece of delicious dialogue.
00:38:07.489 --> 00:38:09.150
Last time you saw him, you punched him in the
00:38:09.150 --> 00:38:11.969
head. The girl's delivery on it is just funny.
00:38:12.110 --> 00:38:15.369
I just pictured him punching him in the head.
00:38:15.510 --> 00:38:18.530
And then we wrestled. It was just a fight. You
00:38:18.530 --> 00:38:21.090
fought with the president. He wasn't the president
00:38:21.090 --> 00:38:23.710
then. I know, which makes it somehow even funnier.
00:38:23.949 --> 00:38:26.469
Yeah, it does. I just fought a normal guy and
00:38:26.469 --> 00:38:30.579
he became president. Oh, no, it is an independent
00:38:30.579 --> 00:38:34.380
day resurgence. Apparently I just somehow got
00:38:34.380 --> 00:38:36.559
on the game version. I have no, I have no idea.
00:38:36.840 --> 00:38:39.099
Anyway, it is people. Maybe there was just some
00:38:39.099 --> 00:38:40.940
too much CGI. I thought it was a video game,
00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:46.380
but it also has Jeff Goldblum and it has Bill
00:38:46.380 --> 00:38:51.079
Pullman. The president guy is the same. How's
00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:56.000
its ratings? What's the story? Yeah. Well, they
00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:57.800
come back, obviously. We go and get them this
00:38:57.800 --> 00:39:02.679
time. We go and make them unindependent. Two
00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:05.360
decades after the first Independence Day invasion,
00:39:05.780 --> 00:39:08.599
Earth is faced with a new extrasolar threat.
00:39:08.739 --> 00:39:12.360
But will mankind's new space defenses be enough?
00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:16.800
Probably not. That's terrible, honestly. I don't
00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:19.559
know. It's got really strong ratings. 5 .2 out
00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:26.489
of 10 on IMDb. And it's down. 116 points down
00:39:26.489 --> 00:39:31.170
to 2 ,386, which we all know means something.
00:39:32.849 --> 00:39:35.230
Good data, Tim. I like it. I still haven't figured
00:39:35.230 --> 00:39:38.449
that one out. Oh, and the little clip here, it
00:39:38.449 --> 00:39:44.110
showed a picture of Will Smith. He's dead. Maybe.
00:39:44.190 --> 00:39:47.090
Like a memorial. This is super futuristic. For
00:39:47.090 --> 00:39:50.449
2016, this is way too futuristic. Oh, it's 20
00:39:50.449 --> 00:39:56.050
years later. Oh. So maybe it's next. that they
00:39:56.050 --> 00:40:01.630
make the third one. 40 year anniversary. But
00:40:01.630 --> 00:40:06.750
they should really be lining it up with the America's
00:40:06.750 --> 00:40:08.929
birthdays. Yeah, but it's every two decades on
00:40:08.929 --> 00:40:12.690
America's birthday. Yeah, but the 250th is way
00:40:12.690 --> 00:40:17.070
more interesting than the 260th. I guess. We
00:40:17.070 --> 00:40:20.929
don't know that yet. Let's hope. Let's hope.
00:40:22.289 --> 00:40:26.320
Bill Pullman's daughter? The little girl? Yeah.
00:40:26.619 --> 00:40:30.880
Hit me. I don't remember her name. As a real
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:33.679
person or as the character? Sarah? I don't remember
00:40:33.679 --> 00:40:35.880
either of their names. Sarah's the character's
00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:37.679
name? I didn't get anybody's character name.
00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:39.960
I wrote like Will Smith and Will Smith's girlfriend.
00:40:40.380 --> 00:40:43.960
It says Patricia Whitmore was her character's
00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:47.079
name. The daughter. The daughter? Patricia Whitmore.
00:40:47.179 --> 00:40:51.119
Nope, her name is Mae Whitman. Okay. What do
00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:54.750
you guys know her from? I... Can't remember.
00:40:55.510 --> 00:40:58.849
Arrested Development. She plays Anne. No, she's
00:40:58.849 --> 00:41:03.150
a lamb. She's egg. Yeah. 100%, dude. That's so
00:41:03.150 --> 00:41:06.530
funny. It was so hard to connect those two. She's
00:41:06.530 --> 00:41:08.230
in the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
00:41:09.090 --> 00:41:16.969
The Duff. One Fine Day. Hope Floats. Oh, Anne
00:41:16.969 --> 00:41:19.730
Hogg. I know. That's awesome. That's a little
00:41:19.730 --> 00:41:24.679
Anne Hogg. There was also a character that is
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:28.119
from Star Trek Next Generation. Oh. He was the
00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:31.000
weird scientist. He's Data in Star Trek. Oh,
00:41:31.019 --> 00:41:35.860
no shit. Oh. The long -haired guy? Mm -hmm. So
00:41:35.860 --> 00:41:40.760
one of the opening lines with Will Smith, he
00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:42.460
wakes up and goes, is that an earthquake? And
00:41:42.460 --> 00:41:44.300
she's like, it's not even a four -pointer. Go
00:41:44.300 --> 00:41:48.349
back to sleep. Just like showing how often. These
00:41:48.349 --> 00:41:50.650
earthquakes happen. And then when he wakes up
00:41:50.650 --> 00:41:52.110
and he's bleary -eyed, he's like, oh, look at
00:41:52.110 --> 00:41:54.449
that. The neighbor's finally moving out. Sick
00:41:54.449 --> 00:41:58.250
of the earthquakes. Yeah, it takes a long time
00:41:58.250 --> 00:42:00.110
for them to see the panic going on around them.
00:42:00.610 --> 00:42:03.949
I really like that, though. Yeah. Except when
00:42:03.949 --> 00:42:06.550
his girlfriend had to go do her stripper job.
00:42:07.349 --> 00:42:09.750
That part made not a whole lot of sense. There's
00:42:09.750 --> 00:42:11.949
a scene they could have cut. We didn't need to
00:42:11.949 --> 00:42:14.250
know she was a stripper at all. Or see her friend
00:42:14.250 --> 00:42:17.929
get all obliterated. Hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. Stupid
00:42:17.929 --> 00:42:20.949
idiots. Just a dumb, dumb idiot girl. They got
00:42:20.949 --> 00:42:23.010
as close as they could to that gun. Mm -hmm.
00:42:23.070 --> 00:42:26.869
Mm -hmm. They didn't feel a thing. No, probably
00:42:26.869 --> 00:42:29.929
not. So originally you guys had asked before
00:42:29.929 --> 00:42:32.650
we started recording if we were continuing dead
00:42:32.650 --> 00:42:35.369
mom summer, and I can confirm there were many
00:42:35.369 --> 00:42:37.329
dead moms throughout this. Specific dead moms.
00:42:37.469 --> 00:42:39.429
I was just thinking random people would probably
00:42:39.429 --> 00:42:45.329
be moms. The president's wife dying was so undramatic,
00:42:45.489 --> 00:42:47.980
honestly. They were like... For like a moment,
00:42:48.079 --> 00:42:49.539
he was like, oh, you're going to live. And then
00:42:49.539 --> 00:42:51.300
he just walks away. She's not dead when he walks
00:42:51.300 --> 00:42:54.320
away. She's like, hasta la vista. He's busy.
00:42:54.659 --> 00:42:58.000
I'm very busy. I got to go fly planes. Well,
00:42:58.079 --> 00:43:01.079
the movie's not about the girl dying. It's about
00:43:01.079 --> 00:43:04.599
aliens. Obviously. We got to get past the dead
00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:07.239
mom part and get into the aliens part. It was
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:09.639
crazy. I mean, I guess they kept her alive just
00:43:09.639 --> 00:43:12.039
to get Will Smith's girlfriend to the bunker,
00:43:12.139 --> 00:43:15.269
too. You wouldn't have brought her back? You
00:43:15.269 --> 00:43:16.389
know, like Will Smith would have picked her up
00:43:16.389 --> 00:43:17.469
and just been like, I don't know where to go.
00:43:17.610 --> 00:43:19.849
He did go pick her up. Yeah, he did. He went
00:43:19.849 --> 00:43:24.289
to his base. Yeah, he found them. Oh, she didn't
00:43:24.289 --> 00:43:25.829
need to live at all. She could have just died
00:43:25.829 --> 00:43:27.630
in that first helicopter crash. She didn't have
00:43:27.630 --> 00:43:30.170
to be in the movie. Yeah. Frankly, I think that's
00:43:30.170 --> 00:43:32.349
the part we could have saved at least eight minutes.
00:43:33.030 --> 00:43:35.289
The president could have been a single dad. Yeah.
00:43:35.469 --> 00:43:38.349
Yeah. That seems more likely. She was gone the
00:43:38.349 --> 00:43:41.789
entire time. Yeah. I actually at first wrote
00:43:41.789 --> 00:43:44.530
down First Lady as the other lady when I did
00:43:44.530 --> 00:43:47.130
my recast. I think she was the Secretary of State.
00:43:47.409 --> 00:43:50.210
The ex -girlfriend. They were crazy close during
00:43:50.210 --> 00:43:53.409
the president. They had dated. And that's why
00:43:53.409 --> 00:43:56.150
Jeff Goldblum punched him in the head. There
00:43:56.150 --> 00:43:58.230
was a lot of information in this movie. It was
00:43:58.230 --> 00:44:00.329
hard to remember all the interpersonal connections
00:44:00.329 --> 00:44:02.789
going on, too. You punched the president in the
00:44:02.789 --> 00:44:06.889
head? I loved his dad. His dad was great. His
00:44:06.889 --> 00:44:08.849
dad had that great line when the president was
00:44:08.849 --> 00:44:11.909
like, Where do you get the budget for this? And
00:44:11.909 --> 00:44:13.730
he goes, do you really think they spent 20 grand
00:44:13.730 --> 00:44:18.510
on a hammer and 30 grand on a toilet seat? Best
00:44:18.510 --> 00:44:19.989
character in the movie. Yeah, he was fantastic.
00:44:20.349 --> 00:44:22.630
Absolutely. Yeah, I liked when he started spouting
00:44:22.630 --> 00:44:24.570
about how like, you guys got one of those back
00:44:24.570 --> 00:44:28.489
in the 50s. I know you do. And then the president's
00:44:28.489 --> 00:44:31.710
like, come on, there's no secret base. And then
00:44:31.710 --> 00:44:34.869
the one CAI defense. guy i don't know he was
00:44:34.869 --> 00:44:37.730
a cia but i think he was a former former director
00:44:37.730 --> 00:44:40.250
of the cia is the current yeah and he's like
00:44:40.250 --> 00:44:44.130
well actually it's like oh my god i know and
00:44:44.130 --> 00:44:47.090
if that guy doesn't play that exact role in every
00:44:47.090 --> 00:44:49.369
movie he's fucking in he's always the guy that's
00:44:49.369 --> 00:44:51.929
like too high up in the in the company and keeps
00:44:51.929 --> 00:44:54.110
some really important shit from everybody that
00:44:54.110 --> 00:44:56.829
needs to know he's always that fucking guy you're
00:44:56.829 --> 00:45:00.050
like damn it dude every time the 90s was a big
00:45:00.050 --> 00:45:05.030
fan of typecasting Yeah, the dad added some great
00:45:05.030 --> 00:45:07.889
comedic relief without like being outwardly funny.
00:45:08.010 --> 00:45:10.769
Just like the things he said and the way he said
00:45:10.769 --> 00:45:14.010
them were all really good. I really liked the
00:45:14.010 --> 00:45:16.449
scene where they were playing chess in the Central
00:45:16.449 --> 00:45:19.230
Park, I guess it was. And that just felt really
00:45:19.230 --> 00:45:20.929
nostalgic to me because I feel like that was
00:45:20.929 --> 00:45:23.369
very much a thing. And I don't hear about me.
00:45:23.449 --> 00:45:24.909
I mean, I don't live in New York City, so maybe
00:45:24.909 --> 00:45:27.010
there are still people playing chess in the park.
00:45:27.070 --> 00:45:28.590
But that doesn't seem like an activity that gets
00:45:28.590 --> 00:45:32.159
done anymore. a little snapshot in the past i
00:45:32.159 --> 00:45:34.820
was thinking that too because like uh same i
00:45:34.820 --> 00:45:36.380
was like it used to be something that was in
00:45:36.380 --> 00:45:38.880
movies a lot like you go to a park and there's
00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:42.380
people playing chess and now i don't recall seeing
00:45:42.380 --> 00:45:45.719
like anything like that very often i see videos
00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:48.860
on youtube all the time of people playing chess
00:45:48.860 --> 00:45:52.320
in the park specifically uh chess masters that
00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:53.920
will hide that they're really good and they'll
00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:55.480
just go into a public park where there's like
00:45:55.480 --> 00:45:56.980
a bunch of old men playing chess and they'll
00:45:56.980 --> 00:45:58.179
just start talking to them they'll be like do
00:45:58.179 --> 00:46:01.400
you play chess and they'll be like yeah i mean
00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:03.559
once and then they get us to a certain point
00:46:03.559 --> 00:46:05.730
and the guys on the bench are like what the fuck's
00:46:05.730 --> 00:46:08.610
going on? All right, so I guess it still does
00:46:08.610 --> 00:46:11.070
happen. Tim is on chess talk, so. Yeah, I've
00:46:11.070 --> 00:46:14.489
seen some savant children take on adult people
00:46:14.489 --> 00:46:16.510
who are very high up in the chess rankings, and
00:46:16.510 --> 00:46:18.929
they're seven, and they're just bored. You're
00:46:18.929 --> 00:46:20.369
like, what level are you? And they'll be like,
00:46:20.489 --> 00:46:23.909
I'm like 900. And you're like, what? And he's
00:46:23.909 --> 00:46:25.329
just like, bing, bang, boom. He's like, all right,
00:46:25.329 --> 00:46:27.969
nice to see you. Eat a lollipop or something.
00:46:28.690 --> 00:46:31.409
You'd really like that show about chess, The
00:46:31.409 --> 00:46:34.719
Queen's Gambit. Good show. Pretty good. Is it
00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:38.159
a scripted show? Yes, it's like a regular show.
00:46:38.219 --> 00:46:40.239
No, I like this is real people reactions. I don't
00:46:40.239 --> 00:46:43.360
like chess. I like the, I think it's the deception.
00:46:43.699 --> 00:46:45.699
I like the lies. I just thought you were super
00:46:45.699 --> 00:46:48.000
into chess. The lies and then seeing talented
00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:49.440
children. I just think that's really cool. Do
00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:51.679
you also like that guy, the weightlifter guy
00:46:51.679 --> 00:46:53.719
that goes around with the mop? Have you seen
00:46:53.719 --> 00:46:55.139
him? I watch him all the time. All the time.
00:46:55.300 --> 00:46:56.900
Is it Antoli or something? Yeah, some shit like
00:46:56.900 --> 00:46:59.840
that. The mop is just like hundreds of pounds
00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:01.940
somehow and he's just like outlifting these giant
00:47:01.940 --> 00:47:03.440
dudes that are laughing at him. He's dressed
00:47:03.440 --> 00:47:07.199
as Jander. I like those videos too. I don't get
00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:09.619
those videos. Yeah, I've never seen him. Well.
00:47:13.230 --> 00:47:15.170
I don't remember what we were talking about before.
00:47:15.469 --> 00:47:17.789
Well, I have a fun, delicious dialogue. Nice.
00:47:18.030 --> 00:47:20.690
It was from his dad. He goes, John Lennon, smart
00:47:20.690 --> 00:47:26.889
man, shot in the back. Very sad. Is that the
00:47:26.889 --> 00:47:31.250
last part? Very sad? Just the pacing on that.
00:47:31.369 --> 00:47:33.530
It was such a good delivery. I was like, man,
00:47:33.530 --> 00:47:36.170
I wonder how it was written. Like if it was just
00:47:36.170 --> 00:47:38.789
like one sentence and he just like kept like
00:47:38.789 --> 00:47:40.909
put the pauses in because it made it so much
00:47:40.909 --> 00:47:44.960
different. You're just like, oh, oh. Oh. Oh,
00:47:45.019 --> 00:47:47.320
I can't actually tell what your perspective is
00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:49.619
because you kind of sound callous and not so
00:47:49.619 --> 00:47:52.619
sincere when you're saying it like that. Or like
00:47:52.619 --> 00:47:54.599
when he greeted his son at the door with a shotgun.
00:47:55.980 --> 00:47:57.860
I didn't see that at all. You didn't see that?
00:47:57.940 --> 00:47:59.619
He almost shot him in the face because it was
00:47:59.619 --> 00:48:01.579
when people first started freaking out and he
00:48:01.579 --> 00:48:03.239
was like, what's going on? Oh, and he's like,
00:48:03.280 --> 00:48:04.599
you have to drive me there? Yeah, he's like,
00:48:04.619 --> 00:48:05.980
you have the cars. You don't have your license.
00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:08.239
You're driving. I was cutting the cake at that
00:48:08.239 --> 00:48:10.559
point. I missed that part. Yeah, he threatened
00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:16.030
him with a gun. Oh. I really liked the Jeff Goldblum's
00:48:16.030 --> 00:48:17.869
boss. He had a line. He was, like, talking about
00:48:17.869 --> 00:48:19.469
all the people he had to call. And he goes, ah,
00:48:19.550 --> 00:48:21.550
I got to call my lawyer. Ah, forget about my
00:48:21.550 --> 00:48:23.670
lawyer. But the guy, like, they portray him to
00:48:23.670 --> 00:48:25.889
be a very nice and good person. He's, like, talking
00:48:25.889 --> 00:48:27.909
to his mom on the phone. And later on when he's
00:48:27.909 --> 00:48:30.989
in his car, he's like, I don't care if he's in
00:48:30.989 --> 00:48:33.449
the Hamptons. For $300, you better answer my
00:48:33.449 --> 00:48:35.869
call. Meaning he did, in fact, still call his
00:48:35.869 --> 00:48:40.510
lawyer even after saying he didn't need to. have
00:48:40.510 --> 00:48:42.349
a line of dialogue and i can't quite remember
00:48:42.349 --> 00:48:45.510
what it was uh oh it was like the opening scene
00:48:45.510 --> 00:48:48.889
um all the research people were bored and they
00:48:48.889 --> 00:48:51.070
were playing golf in the walkway and then later
00:48:51.070 --> 00:48:52.869
shit happens the guy's like what's with the golf
00:48:52.869 --> 00:48:55.610
ball your kid tried to kill me here i really
00:48:55.610 --> 00:48:57.989
loved that part and i wondered if it was unscripted
00:48:57.989 --> 00:49:01.579
because someone left a golf ball in the way I
00:49:01.579 --> 00:49:03.159
also thought it might foreshadow, was he going
00:49:03.159 --> 00:49:05.000
to die because of that golf ball later in the
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:07.039
movie? He didn't. He didn't come back at all.
00:49:07.139 --> 00:49:09.219
Yeah, I know. That's why I mostly forgot where
00:49:09.219 --> 00:49:12.059
that was at first. He got blown up first, probably.
00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:14.880
Yeah. I mean, I think they do say that that base
00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:17.199
got blown up at some point. Is that the one Will
00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:19.539
Smith worked at? I don't remember. No, it was
00:49:19.539 --> 00:49:21.679
like, they had it at the bottom. It was like
00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:25.460
steady. Oh, I don't know. It got confusing a
00:49:25.460 --> 00:49:27.400
couple times with those little details of where
00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:30.019
they were. They weren't always good at location
00:49:30.019 --> 00:49:32.300
of where people were. Nah, you just had to figure
00:49:32.300 --> 00:49:34.539
it out. Keep following it. Watch the road signs
00:49:34.539 --> 00:49:38.039
that Will Smith's girlfriend blew through when
00:49:38.039 --> 00:49:42.219
she was driving a truck. But if that fucking
00:49:42.219 --> 00:49:45.579
scientist in the beginning alarm with a little
00:49:45.579 --> 00:49:48.519
flashing light going off isn't the most stereotypical
00:49:48.519 --> 00:49:52.730
90s scientist fucking trope ever. Like, I don't
00:49:52.730 --> 00:49:55.469
know what is. Yeah, if I go into a lab of scientists
00:49:55.469 --> 00:49:57.130
and their lab doesn't look like that, I'll be
00:49:57.130 --> 00:50:01.309
like, lies! You're not real scientists. Where's
00:50:01.309 --> 00:50:04.909
all your dials and knobs and little meters? I
00:50:04.909 --> 00:50:06.829
feel like all the dialogue for the first five
00:50:06.829 --> 00:50:10.230
minutes was just little cliches. There was something
00:50:10.230 --> 00:50:12.409
he said when he answered the phone that he was
00:50:12.409 --> 00:50:14.269
upset. Oh, you're calling me at this hour or
00:50:14.269 --> 00:50:16.369
some shit. There was like a ton of them right
00:50:16.369 --> 00:50:19.949
up at the front. I also liked when they were
00:50:19.949 --> 00:50:22.730
talking about the aliens. And the one guy said,
00:50:22.909 --> 00:50:25.349
no vocal cords. So we assume they communicate
00:50:25.349 --> 00:50:29.730
some other way. Yeah. Honestly, it didn't seem
00:50:29.730 --> 00:50:32.250
like they made significant progress in the 40
00:50:32.250 --> 00:50:34.710
years that they had. It's like we learned a lot
00:50:34.710 --> 00:50:37.030
and then couldn't fucking name one thing except
00:50:37.030 --> 00:50:40.889
for, hey, they ain't got mouths. Yeah. Well,
00:50:40.969 --> 00:50:42.690
I think we're supposed to infer that it was their.
00:50:43.389 --> 00:50:45.150
telepathic because of how big their heads were
00:50:45.150 --> 00:50:47.949
yeah and also like it was hurting people's heads
00:50:47.949 --> 00:50:49.710
when it like talked to them or whatever yeah
00:50:49.710 --> 00:50:51.610
but it was just kind of a funny way to leave
00:50:51.610 --> 00:50:55.650
it like we assume they do something well yeah
00:50:55.650 --> 00:50:58.139
of course they do yeah I did think it was cool
00:50:58.139 --> 00:51:00.739
that the president got to like see a vision of
00:51:00.739 --> 00:51:02.980
like what they're planning to do and like explain
00:51:02.980 --> 00:51:05.340
their motivations of like they're just coming
00:51:05.340 --> 00:51:07.320
to exterminate us, which we already kind of figured.
00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:09.179
But it was kind of nice to see that validation.
00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:11.380
And he got to be the one. Yeah. He's supposed
00:51:11.380 --> 00:51:13.659
to be like the emissary kind of for humanity
00:51:13.659 --> 00:51:15.920
in this movie. And he's been kind of doing not
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:18.199
super great up until this point. Oh, he got a
00:51:18.199 --> 00:51:21.380
lot of people. Yeah. Yeah. That part reminded
00:51:21.380 --> 00:51:24.139
me a lot of Lord of the Rings when Pippin sees
00:51:24.139 --> 00:51:27.920
Sauron's plan. He's too stupid to let Sauron
00:51:27.920 --> 00:51:35.199
know anything. I like that. I like the whole
00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:39.199
movie. Honestly, I really had a good time. I
00:51:39.199 --> 00:51:41.639
think the detail about the TV's signal being
00:51:41.639 --> 00:51:43.920
messed up and their communications being all
00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:46.719
fuzzy and stuff was really interesting. And a
00:51:46.719 --> 00:51:49.099
subtle way to show like things are not well,
00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:51.699
like even though we're seeing domestic life happen,
00:51:51.820 --> 00:51:53.719
like the TV is cutting in and out. It's like
00:51:53.719 --> 00:51:55.980
maybe it's a bad signal today, but like it's
00:51:55.980 --> 00:52:00.000
ominous. We know that it's aliens. The first
00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:02.079
step to an invasion in Star Wars is to jam their
00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:05.820
comms. And in Spaceballs, you throw jam at them.
00:52:09.940 --> 00:52:12.539
Oh, man, you might have to be bringing that one
00:52:12.539 --> 00:52:15.190
to the table. Oh, I would love to bring Spaceballs.
00:52:15.409 --> 00:52:18.389
I've never seen it. Whoa. That's your story.
00:52:18.570 --> 00:52:21.329
Count it. Spaceballs is going on the list. Yeah,
00:52:21.329 --> 00:52:23.309
it's going to have to. For the amount I've seen
00:52:23.309 --> 00:52:26.309
it, I've basically not seen it either, so. Yes.
00:52:26.469 --> 00:52:31.690
I think I have the DVD. Hmm. I kept looking for
00:52:31.690 --> 00:52:34.190
a lot of things that didn't age well, just in
00:52:34.190 --> 00:52:38.170
case, but I really couldn't find a single thing,
00:52:38.230 --> 00:52:41.079
really, that didn't, you know. hold up in terms
00:52:41.079 --> 00:52:45.219
of like culturally or you know um the difference
00:52:45.219 --> 00:52:47.719
in language or like slurs or anything it was
00:52:47.719 --> 00:52:51.320
really pretty well written to withstand slurs
00:52:51.320 --> 00:52:56.239
or slang slurs and slang like any i don't know
00:52:56.239 --> 00:52:59.340
there's a lot of that back then back then um
00:52:59.340 --> 00:53:03.719
but this was pretty devoid of all that yeah i
00:53:03.719 --> 00:53:08.639
didn't get a lot of um branding reebok i got
00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:12.630
reebok I wrote NASA. Does that one count? Kind
00:53:12.630 --> 00:53:16.090
of not really. It's part of the government. Yeah,
00:53:16.110 --> 00:53:17.550
that's what I thought too, but I wrote it down.
00:53:17.630 --> 00:53:22.389
Also Coca -Cola. A lot of Coke cans. That was
00:53:22.389 --> 00:53:25.309
the only thing they had in the base. Jeff Goldblum
00:53:25.309 --> 00:53:27.349
kept recycling them. That was like his little
00:53:27.349 --> 00:53:28.949
quirk of he's just trying to save the world.
00:53:30.010 --> 00:53:32.389
And then there was that cigar company, Romeo
00:53:32.389 --> 00:53:34.630
-ing. Yeah, I looked it up and there was no official
00:53:34.630 --> 00:53:37.309
cigar sponsor for this, but they did look like
00:53:37.309 --> 00:53:42.269
Romeo and Juliet. Cigars. Everyone smokes cigars
00:53:42.269 --> 00:53:44.429
in this movie. Yeah, there were a lot of cigars.
00:53:44.469 --> 00:53:48.070
The dad smoked of Jeff Goldblum there. I think
00:53:48.070 --> 00:53:50.869
the general had a cigar multiple times. Will
00:53:50.869 --> 00:53:55.789
Smith and his flight partner. He didn't get to
00:53:55.789 --> 00:53:58.369
smoke his, I guess. I mean, it probably caught
00:53:58.369 --> 00:54:07.010
on fire. They're jamming our signals. What flavor?
00:54:09.210 --> 00:54:13.530
Blue raspberry. Blue raspberry. Coca -Cola flavored.
00:54:13.889 --> 00:54:16.690
Oh, Coca -Cola. I haven't drank a Coca -Cola.
00:54:18.269 --> 00:54:20.070
I don't know when the last time I drank a Coca
00:54:20.070 --> 00:54:21.530
-Cola was. That's because you probably usually
00:54:21.530 --> 00:54:24.750
grab a Pepsi because it's much better. No. Because
00:54:24.750 --> 00:54:26.610
you don't drink any soda in years. I don't drink
00:54:26.610 --> 00:54:28.610
any soda. I can't drink soda. You haven't had
00:54:28.610 --> 00:54:32.230
a soda, like a real branded soda? I remember
00:54:32.230 --> 00:54:37.449
the last time it was a Mountain Dew. I also got
00:54:37.449 --> 00:54:39.989
some hot fries and stayed up and played video
00:54:39.989 --> 00:54:42.289
games for several hours into the evening. Right.
00:54:42.369 --> 00:54:45.050
And that was a number of years ago. Like four.
00:54:45.789 --> 00:54:47.269
It's the only way you're supposed to drink Mountain
00:54:47.269 --> 00:54:49.349
Dew, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, absolutely. You get
00:54:49.349 --> 00:54:51.190
those like gamer points or some shit and then
00:54:51.190 --> 00:54:53.489
you don't do anything with them. It's like that
00:54:53.489 --> 00:54:56.170
Fortnite juice, right? Ew, I don't know what
00:54:56.170 --> 00:54:58.949
any of those words mean. I doubt it's juice.
00:54:59.110 --> 00:55:02.469
So did you know that Harry Connick Jr. Uh -huh.
00:55:03.019 --> 00:55:05.400
That was the other pilot who smoked cigars with...
00:55:05.400 --> 00:55:10.139
Was it really? The Big Daddy guy. Oh. I replaced
00:55:10.139 --> 00:55:14.000
him almost immediately. I wasn't a fan either.
00:55:14.039 --> 00:55:16.019
I did not realize it was... Oh, yeah. He's just
00:55:16.019 --> 00:55:22.119
not young anymore. Well, this movie's 30 years
00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:24.820
old. Didn't Harry Connick Jr. also did the music
00:55:24.820 --> 00:55:28.280
for When Harry Met Sally? Did he? I have no idea.
00:55:31.279 --> 00:55:36.880
I mean, he's done a lot of music, so. Yeah. Almost
00:55:36.880 --> 00:55:40.539
positive. Yeah, that was a surprise. Didn't see
00:55:40.539 --> 00:55:44.300
that. I'm sure this movie was much more star
00:55:44.300 --> 00:55:47.920
-studded than I thought. Yeah, there was a lot.
00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:49.880
I don't know a lot of 90s people like that. I
00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:52.800
mean, I guess I knew Bill Pullman, but only because
00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:56.079
you told me it was him. Otherwise, I'd be like,
00:55:56.199 --> 00:56:00.860
that guy from the 90s. Yeah, 90s guy. Yeah. officially
00:56:00.860 --> 00:56:03.019
i recognized all of these people from other movies
00:56:03.019 --> 00:56:06.139
but like couldn't place them if i had an hour
00:56:06.139 --> 00:56:09.639
yeah i just know you're familiar i got will smith
00:56:09.639 --> 00:56:12.780
randy crit randy quaid yeah like the general
00:56:12.780 --> 00:56:14.860
guy i know i've seen him in another movie but
00:56:14.860 --> 00:56:17.219
i cannot think yeah it is it's probably because
00:56:17.219 --> 00:56:19.820
he just plays you know nondescript general guy
00:56:19.820 --> 00:56:23.760
in most movies or you know police chief or something
00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:26.219
adjacent to i'm gonna yell at these people exactly
00:56:26.219 --> 00:56:33.210
and look cranky guy yeah yeah Cranky guy. Can
00:56:33.210 --> 00:56:37.150
we talk about our recasts? I don't have any objections
00:56:37.150 --> 00:56:42.289
to it. I will join you. Cool. Who you got? For
00:56:42.289 --> 00:56:44.829
who? I don't know. Start wherever you'd like.
00:56:44.909 --> 00:56:48.099
Will Smith's original pilot buddy. I'd have got
00:56:48.099 --> 00:56:52.340
nothing. I replaced him with Schmidt from A New
00:56:52.340 --> 00:56:56.079
Girl. Yeah, that's good. He was just all I could
00:56:56.079 --> 00:56:58.239
think about when I looked at him. Calling him
00:56:58.239 --> 00:57:00.239
Big Daddy and being fucking annoying like that.
00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:03.480
Yeah, that's so Schmitty. Tell him not to marry
00:57:03.480 --> 00:57:07.880
a stripper. Yeah, yes. Yeah, that's actually
00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:11.360
brilliant. That would be so funny when he died,
00:57:11.420 --> 00:57:13.019
too. They're not going to let you into NASA if
00:57:13.019 --> 00:57:15.519
you marry a stripper. What? Where the fuck is
00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:19.239
that logic? I don't think they'll know. It's
00:57:19.239 --> 00:57:23.300
a security risk somehow. Somehow. They hate strippers
00:57:23.300 --> 00:57:25.639
in space. They're always gossiping. They'll do
00:57:25.639 --> 00:57:27.360
anything for money. They'll give away our biggest
00:57:27.360 --> 00:57:32.699
secrets. How big's this dick? The moon is hollow.
00:57:35.340 --> 00:57:40.579
I replaced Miguel. That's Randy Quaid's son?
00:57:40.800 --> 00:57:46.199
The oldest one, yeah. Young Keanu Reeves. I also
00:57:46.199 --> 00:57:48.739
replaced Troy, who was the little brother, with
00:57:48.739 --> 00:57:50.960
a little Joseph Gordon -Levitt. Oh, that's a
00:57:50.960 --> 00:57:54.239
good one. Nice. Did it ever explain why he suddenly
00:57:54.239 --> 00:57:55.480
got sick? I thought it was going to be from,
00:57:55.500 --> 00:57:58.670
like... alien fumes but it just ended up being
00:57:58.670 --> 00:58:00.969
nothing just like look at where they live and
00:58:00.969 --> 00:58:03.889
be like he probably ate something bad oh bad
00:58:03.889 --> 00:58:06.789
water he's just like drunk i don't know his dad
00:58:06.789 --> 00:58:08.949
was a drunk so i told you not to eat stuff i
00:58:08.949 --> 00:58:11.530
think he was nervous about the whole situation
00:58:11.530 --> 00:58:13.590
i think it was giving him a panic attack okay
00:58:13.590 --> 00:58:16.829
the daughter the daughter had no lines at all
00:58:16.829 --> 00:58:18.849
they just like zoomed in on her face sometimes
00:58:18.849 --> 00:58:21.809
and she was like and that was it she almost had
00:58:21.809 --> 00:58:24.449
the weird seat yeah the weird sex scene she almost
00:58:24.449 --> 00:58:26.989
had sex with that dude before the world might
00:58:26.989 --> 00:58:29.130
end. We should totally do it. Where the fuck
00:58:29.130 --> 00:58:30.630
was I for all these moments? I don't know, but
00:58:30.630 --> 00:58:33.250
they didn't need that scene. Good. Because then
00:58:33.250 --> 00:58:35.570
Miguel comes by immediately and pulls her out
00:58:35.570 --> 00:58:37.090
of the truck and you're like, you knew she was
00:58:37.090 --> 00:58:39.269
here the whole time? You wouldn't want to die
00:58:39.269 --> 00:58:43.010
a virgin. Is that what he said? Yeah, man. Oh,
00:58:43.010 --> 00:58:46.050
shit. Oh, hey, didn't age well. Yeah. All right,
00:58:46.090 --> 00:58:48.329
I missed that one. Yeah, no, fuck that. Fun fact,
00:58:48.389 --> 00:58:50.989
that actor is very much didn't age well in these
00:58:50.989 --> 00:58:53.329
movies because I'm bringing a... Not to get ahead
00:58:53.329 --> 00:58:54.969
of us, but I'm going to bring 10 Things I Hate
00:58:54.969 --> 00:58:57.789
About You next time. And he's kind of a scumbag
00:58:57.789 --> 00:58:59.449
in that too. Oh, that's where he's from. Yes.
00:59:00.030 --> 00:59:03.409
He's older and more scummy in that one. Oh, okay.
00:59:03.909 --> 00:59:06.969
We'll get there. A couple episodes. What if he's
00:59:06.969 --> 00:59:08.690
just like a really good guy? He just accidentally
00:59:08.690 --> 00:59:11.889
typecast himself that way? He kind of looks like
00:59:11.889 --> 00:59:15.739
a dirtbag. Just forever. His first like 20 years
00:59:15.739 --> 00:59:18.179
of acting, he's just a fucking shitbag. He probably
00:59:18.179 --> 00:59:20.519
just stopped acting because he was always a douche.
00:59:20.840 --> 00:59:23.800
But he's always on, anytime you see on Instagram,
00:59:23.880 --> 00:59:25.260
those things that are like, look at these hot
00:59:25.260 --> 00:59:27.960
boys from the 90s. Like with Jonathan Taylor
00:59:27.960 --> 00:59:30.260
Thomas, he's always listed with those guys. Because
00:59:30.260 --> 00:59:32.599
he is a hot boy. Is he? I always think he looks
00:59:32.599 --> 00:59:35.960
like a rat. His face is like too long or something.
00:59:36.519 --> 00:59:39.659
I disagree, but that's fine. It's fair. A lot
00:59:39.659 --> 00:59:43.949
of people seem to. Moving on. Wasn't he also
00:59:43.949 --> 00:59:47.030
in I'm Going Home for Christmas or whatever with
00:59:47.030 --> 00:59:50.429
that one kid? Jonathan Taylor Thomas, I'll Be
00:59:50.429 --> 00:59:52.769
Home for Christmas. I don't think that was him.
00:59:52.809 --> 00:59:54.849
No, that wasn't the scummy guy. That was one
00:59:54.849 --> 00:59:58.150
of the dudes from Seventh Heaven. Oh. Yeah, you're
00:59:58.150 --> 01:00:00.130
right. Holy shit. Which was wild because it was,
01:00:00.170 --> 01:00:02.809
what's her name? Jessica Beale? Jessica Beale.
01:00:02.969 --> 01:00:06.349
Who was also in that movie. Yep. Hmm. I haven't
01:00:06.349 --> 01:00:08.110
thought about that show in quite a long time.
01:00:08.900 --> 01:00:12.920
You're welcome. Yeah. The Area 51 scientist that
01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:16.300
you said was in Star Trek? Yes. I know I've done
01:00:16.300 --> 01:00:18.179
this recast before, and I don't know the character's
01:00:18.179 --> 01:00:20.400
name, but he's one of the guys from X -Files.
01:00:20.960 --> 01:00:22.679
That's who I'd recast him with. You know, the
01:00:22.679 --> 01:00:24.920
crazy ones that are always like, Mulder, we have
01:00:24.920 --> 01:00:27.820
alien evidence. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The long -haired
01:00:27.820 --> 01:00:30.760
guy? Yeah. It's that guy. I replaced him as well.
01:00:31.579 --> 01:00:35.619
with Draco Malfoy's dad. Nice. I have no idea
01:00:35.619 --> 01:00:37.239
what that guy's name is, but he was excellent
01:00:37.239 --> 01:00:40.059
in White Lotus. Timothy. He wears the wig as
01:00:40.059 --> 01:00:45.420
well as Draco's dad. He does. Yeah. So these
01:00:45.420 --> 01:00:47.719
are all, I did recast a second time too, and
01:00:47.719 --> 01:00:50.539
I'll get to that afterwards. Okay. So you're
01:00:50.539 --> 01:00:52.219
just running through your first roster? Yes.
01:00:52.320 --> 01:00:55.340
Okay. Did anyone recast Major Mitchell? Who is
01:00:55.340 --> 01:00:59.909
that? He was played by Adam Baldwin. Yes. Who
01:00:59.909 --> 01:01:01.710
was that? I did. He was the guy that kind of
01:01:01.710 --> 01:01:05.469
ran Area 51. Oh, yeah. The one from Firefly?
01:01:05.550 --> 01:01:10.110
He shot the can. Oh, right. Okay. I did not recast
01:01:10.110 --> 01:01:16.090
him. I put Alan Richson. Yeah. Alan Richson?
01:01:16.250 --> 01:01:19.030
Me too, dude. Same guy. No way. For real, yeah.
01:01:19.449 --> 01:01:24.250
Who's that? He plays in Reacher, I think, is
01:01:24.250 --> 01:01:30.300
a TV show. He also plays in... Oh, Blue Mountain
01:01:30.300 --> 01:01:32.679
State. He plays in Blue Mountain State. He went
01:01:32.679 --> 01:01:38.039
to bed, you know. The guy. Yes, I love him. The
01:01:38.039 --> 01:01:40.860
League of Ungentlemanly Warfare. He was just
01:01:40.860 --> 01:01:44.760
in Playdate with... What's his face? John Cena.
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:50.599
No. It's the guy from that show with... He's
01:01:50.599 --> 01:01:52.619
in a lot of movies with Adam Sandler, Grown Ups.
01:01:52.780 --> 01:01:56.860
Yeah, he's Paul Blart, Mall Cop. Kevin... Kevin...
01:01:58.259 --> 01:02:00.739
James. Yes. Oh, I love Kevin James. Yes. All
01:02:00.739 --> 01:02:03.440
right. So this guy, this is the new guy on the
01:02:03.440 --> 01:02:05.480
scene who's like, he's really big, but he's like
01:02:05.480 --> 01:02:07.940
a really nice guy. And he like drives a Toyota
01:02:07.940 --> 01:02:09.619
still. And he gives a bunch of the money that
01:02:09.619 --> 01:02:11.940
he makes to charities, like just hundreds of
01:02:11.940 --> 01:02:13.599
millions of dollars and shit. He's like a really.
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:19.780
That guy. Oh, kind of. You should get a new picture
01:02:19.780 --> 01:02:23.219
of him. I don't know. That's not new. I don't
01:02:23.219 --> 01:02:27.260
know. Looks like him to me. All right. So, Rebecca,
01:02:27.400 --> 01:02:30.679
who are you replacing? I don't know that guy.
01:02:31.460 --> 01:02:35.800
We're moving on. Yes. Mr. President, Jeff Daniels.
01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:41.800
Oh, OK. I went I tried to young down the cast
01:02:41.800 --> 01:02:45.079
when I think the president was so young already.
01:02:45.440 --> 01:02:49.760
I mean, yes, my recasts are all like today, giving
01:02:49.760 --> 01:02:52.559
them kind of the same age. So I put Robert Pattinson
01:02:52.559 --> 01:02:58.239
as a president. Yeah. The Vampire Kid? Yeah.
01:02:58.500 --> 01:03:01.860
Oh. He's much older now. He plays Batman. He's
01:03:01.860 --> 01:03:03.880
a good actor. He was good in Mickey 17. He was
01:03:03.880 --> 01:03:06.400
in Batman. I don't know if he played Batman,
01:03:06.519 --> 01:03:12.840
but he was in there. Okay. Bold choice. He was
01:03:12.840 --> 01:03:15.860
credited for Batman anyways. Yeah. They gave
01:03:15.860 --> 01:03:21.360
him the role or whatever. Alec Baldwin. Not my
01:03:21.360 --> 01:03:23.699
Batman. Alec Baldwin was who I put for president.
01:03:27.519 --> 01:03:30.039
Anybody else have the president? Did you do any,
01:03:30.079 --> 01:03:36.199
Anna? No. No, you said you didn't. Okay, I guess
01:03:36.199 --> 01:03:39.659
I'll keep going. I'm putting her as the press
01:03:39.659 --> 01:03:42.019
secretary. Is that what she was? Goldblum's wife.
01:03:42.360 --> 01:03:48.000
Yeah. Yeah. Ex -wife. Sigourney Weaver. At first
01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:52.400
I had Katherine Hahn. Sigourney Weaver was my
01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:56.590
first lady. Oh. I didn't recast the First Lady
01:03:56.590 --> 01:03:59.469
because she was inconsequential as fuck. I thought
01:03:59.469 --> 01:04:01.650
I was recasting the First Lady and then later
01:04:01.650 --> 01:04:05.650
found out I wasn't. I know of some crazy sci
01:04:05.650 --> 01:04:09.289
-fi TV show that I cannot remember the name of
01:04:09.289 --> 01:04:11.610
it for the life of me. But the whole thing was
01:04:11.610 --> 01:04:17.550
that there were these robot things that intercepted
01:04:17.550 --> 01:04:20.949
into human civilization we didn't know. Cylons?
01:04:21.440 --> 01:04:23.280
That was the name of it. Shit. Well, that'll
01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:26.039
give me their battle. Battle. The show is something.
01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:31.559
I chose Emma Stone. That was mine. Told you,
01:04:31.579 --> 01:04:33.739
keeping the cast young. All right. Wait, who
01:04:33.739 --> 01:04:37.639
is your Emma Stone? The press secretary. Oh,
01:04:37.900 --> 01:04:41.300
I could see that. I feel like she could, especially
01:04:41.300 --> 01:04:44.159
one of the last scenes with. Or one of the scenes
01:04:44.159 --> 01:04:45.920
with Jeff Goldblum where she was, like, telling
01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:47.780
him why she left and they were having that heartfelt
01:04:47.780 --> 01:04:50.400
moment. I could definitely see Emma Stone delivering
01:04:50.400 --> 01:04:53.219
those lines in a really, like, heartfelt way.
01:04:53.340 --> 01:04:57.239
Yeah. That's true. Battlestar Galactica. Oh.
01:04:57.340 --> 01:05:00.539
She plays, like, the president of the space colony.
01:05:00.619 --> 01:05:02.719
In the movie or the show? The TV show. I don't
01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:05.579
know how the movie is. You've never seen the
01:05:05.579 --> 01:05:09.340
movie? It's on my watch list. Nice. Oh. Is it
01:05:09.340 --> 01:05:12.460
based on the show? Yeah. They're one and the
01:05:12.460 --> 01:05:15.219
same. Pretty much. I just don't know if the actors
01:05:15.219 --> 01:05:17.719
are the same. I think the show came after the
01:05:17.719 --> 01:05:24.079
movie. Okay. Oh, that's fun. Did anyone have
01:05:24.079 --> 01:05:30.300
anybody for Stephen Hyler? Will Smith. Oh, yes.
01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:34.139
Oh, I was saving him because that's a wild card
01:05:34.139 --> 01:05:38.239
for me. Well, now I got to hear it. Okay. I put
01:05:38.239 --> 01:05:44.230
Brad Pitt. Oh, that's really good. The one -liners,
01:05:44.289 --> 01:05:47.610
all of them, I really wanted to hear delivered
01:05:47.610 --> 01:05:52.869
by Eddie Murphy. Oh, okay. Everything that came
01:05:52.869 --> 01:05:55.849
out of his mouth, Eddie Murphy would have done.
01:05:55.969 --> 01:05:57.929
It would have been weird because he's kind of
01:05:57.929 --> 01:06:00.289
goofy. I don't know, that parachute scene, dragging
01:06:00.289 --> 01:06:01.570
the alien through the desert. That would have
01:06:01.570 --> 01:06:03.690
been spot on. Yeah, he would have had the best.
01:06:03.690 --> 01:06:06.210
Yeah. Like just picturing Donkey from Shrek fucking
01:06:06.210 --> 01:06:09.389
delivering those. I wrote that Will Smith was
01:06:09.389 --> 01:06:12.010
very sassy in this movie, and I think Eddie Murphy
01:06:12.010 --> 01:06:15.650
could be equally, if not more. Yeah. Especially
01:06:15.650 --> 01:06:18.409
a young Eddie Murphy. Yeah, I couldn't stop picturing
01:06:18.409 --> 01:06:22.289
him. But the more wild card part of this was
01:06:22.289 --> 01:06:24.369
also that I feel like Will Smith's role also
01:06:24.369 --> 01:06:30.690
could have been my Danny DeVito. Whoa. Yeah,
01:06:30.889 --> 01:06:34.300
I don't know. I just, I liked it. I was for a
01:06:34.300 --> 01:06:37.639
second leaning toward Robert Downey Jr.'s Tropic
01:06:37.639 --> 01:06:41.559
Thunder character. That'd be a good, didn't age
01:06:41.559 --> 01:06:46.079
well. And then I was like, don't say that. He
01:06:46.079 --> 01:06:49.119
just said it. He had to say it. It wasn't his
01:06:49.119 --> 01:06:51.500
official pick, though, so it's okay. Rebecca's
01:06:51.500 --> 01:06:54.980
going to edit it out. I went with Michael B.
01:06:55.000 --> 01:06:59.840
Jordan. Oh, a serious choice. Like I said, I
01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:02.820
got a very specific picture in my mind for how
01:07:02.820 --> 01:07:09.019
this would be redone. My last one I have to The
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General. General William Gray. Couldn't help
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but think he looked a lot like Gene Hackman,
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so I wrote Gene Hackman down. But also Tommy
01:07:17.570 --> 01:07:20.969
Lee Jones. Oh. He could really go with any of
01:07:20.969 --> 01:07:23.150
those. I think the reason why I didn't recast
01:07:23.150 --> 01:07:25.030
him is because it wouldn't have mattered, actually,
01:07:25.090 --> 01:07:27.829
which one of those old fucks that he was, because
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it would be the same damn character. Because
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they all played the same thing really well, and
01:07:32.329 --> 01:07:34.380
so I was like, I'm not putting... mental space
01:07:34.380 --> 01:07:36.480
into recasting this guy because it's just going
01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:39.280
to do the same thing. Tommy Lee Jones, I think
01:07:39.280 --> 01:07:41.139
it was better that they saved him for Men in
01:07:41.139 --> 01:07:45.119
Black. I would have definitely been a fan. Tommy
01:07:45.119 --> 01:07:47.340
Lee Jones is a good choice. I put Clint Eastwood.
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It's just such an America movie. I think he would
01:07:51.079 --> 01:07:53.079
have been into this and it would have been pretty
01:07:53.079 --> 01:07:55.260
good. That scene where he stays with the president
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and is like, I'm going to stay with you, sir.
01:07:57.019 --> 01:07:59.159
And he's like, I know you will. I thought you
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would. Or Harrison Ford. Oh, he would have been
01:08:04.050 --> 01:08:07.929
the president. Right. Yeah. My next one was Russell
01:08:07.929 --> 01:08:10.969
Cass, which was Randy Quaid's character. Oh,
01:08:11.090 --> 01:08:13.570
I couldn't recast Randy Quaid. That's Danny DeVito
01:08:13.570 --> 01:08:17.189
then, right? No, I put Kevin Bacon. Oh, okay.
01:08:17.649 --> 01:08:21.050
Not what I expected. Yeah, I was picturing a
01:08:21.050 --> 01:08:24.770
very Tremors style Kevin Bacon. I was like, I
01:08:24.770 --> 01:08:27.090
think this could be fun. I was especially picturing
01:08:27.090 --> 01:08:28.750
him when he's like, I feel like he would have
01:08:28.750 --> 01:08:31.270
like a slightly different reaction, but they're
01:08:31.270 --> 01:08:33.539
like. when the missile gets stuck and him flying
01:08:33.539 --> 01:08:35.500
in. And I was like, I feel like he'd sell that
01:08:35.500 --> 01:08:38.619
scene so well. He could also pull off a little
01:08:38.619 --> 01:08:40.640
bit of like the silliness that Randy Quaid brings
01:08:40.640 --> 01:08:44.439
after seeing him in, um, uh, the Christmas special
01:08:44.439 --> 01:08:46.819
for guardians of the galaxy. Yeah. I think he
01:08:46.819 --> 01:08:49.779
could do a very good balance. I think he would
01:08:49.779 --> 01:08:51.300
probably lean more on the drama, but he would
01:08:51.300 --> 01:08:53.600
have that slight amount of silly kind of on the
01:08:53.600 --> 01:08:55.199
side, but you could see through it and like,
01:08:55.260 --> 01:08:57.039
Oh, it's kind of a facade. He's a serious guy.
01:08:57.100 --> 01:08:58.560
It's kind of like a front type of thing. Like
01:08:58.560 --> 01:08:59.600
if he did the character that way, I think it'd
01:08:59.600 --> 01:09:04.060
be really good. That's all my recasts. Besides
01:09:04.060 --> 01:09:07.359
my Danny DeVito, that's my first pass at everybody.
01:09:08.539 --> 01:09:11.460
My last one is my Danny DeVito character. And
01:09:11.460 --> 01:09:13.859
where would you put Danny DeVito? Marty Gilbert
01:09:13.859 --> 01:09:22.500
is... I gotta call my mom! um for a while that
01:09:22.500 --> 01:09:24.920
was going to be mine but i have since changed
01:09:24.920 --> 01:09:27.920
it to the alien inside the ship that's watching
01:09:27.920 --> 01:09:30.699
like the other ships pull in and just like danny
01:09:30.699 --> 01:09:33.899
devito eating fucking handfuls of of cured meats
01:09:33.899 --> 01:09:36.920
and shit and they're like oh fuck as the missile
01:09:36.920 --> 01:09:41.409
blows up behind them that'd be awesome And he's
01:09:41.409 --> 01:09:43.989
like naked. Yeah, 100%. Gotta be naked, yeah.
01:09:44.229 --> 01:09:45.350
That's what I thought you were going to say.
01:09:45.449 --> 01:09:49.210
He crawls out of the exoskeleton. He crawls out
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of the couch. That's Independence Day 2. I want
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to kill you. What do you want us to do? Die.
01:09:58.869 --> 01:10:02.109
Anna, where would you put Danny DeVito? Oh, probably
01:10:02.109 --> 01:10:05.270
as Jeff Goldblum's dad. Okay. Yeah, that was
01:10:05.270 --> 01:10:08.939
another thought. If he was much older. Seth Rogen
01:10:08.939 --> 01:10:13.119
could have been his dad, too. Yeah, it would
01:10:13.119 --> 01:10:17.140
be so funny if you cast someone older than Seth
01:10:17.140 --> 01:10:20.039
Rogen to play Jeff Goldblum and, like, never
01:10:20.039 --> 01:10:21.760
addressed it. Like, Jeff Goldblum's the son,
01:10:21.819 --> 01:10:25.340
but he's older than Seth Rogen. They can't replace
01:10:25.340 --> 01:10:27.619
him. He's the best part of this movie. I know.
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I originally had him recast with Eugene Levy,
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but then I ran into the same situation as I did
01:10:33.520 --> 01:10:35.140
with the generals. It's like, why am I replacing
01:10:35.140 --> 01:10:37.619
him with another person that... It's just going
01:10:37.619 --> 01:10:40.239
to do the same role, essentially, and this guy's
01:10:40.239 --> 01:10:45.899
got it. Eugene Levy is a good one, though. All
01:10:45.899 --> 01:10:47.779
right, what's that other list? All right, my
01:10:47.779 --> 01:10:53.079
second pass, the guy we recast as the giant dude,
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the Area 51 guy, Lando Calrissian, the general
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guy replaced with Admiral Ackbar, Jeff's wife
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replaced with Leia Organa, the president is Luke
01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:06.460
Skywalker, and Will and Jeff are Han and Chewie.
01:11:07.289 --> 01:11:12.510
Nice. That was my second pass. Love it. Just
01:11:12.510 --> 01:11:15.890
Star Wars. It's just Star Wars. It's just a Star
01:11:15.890 --> 01:11:20.350
Wars movie. That's awesome. Yeah, originally
01:11:20.350 --> 01:11:22.489
I was going to cast somebody as Randy Quaid,
01:11:22.609 --> 01:11:24.050
somebody important, but then he blows himself
01:11:24.050 --> 01:11:26.609
up. I'm like, well, that wouldn't happen in Star
01:11:26.609 --> 01:11:30.789
Wars. Yeah, they set him up to be like a disposable
01:11:30.789 --> 01:11:33.579
character because he doesn't. you know, do very
01:11:33.579 --> 01:11:35.939
well. He's a drunkard. Everyone laughs at him.
01:11:36.039 --> 01:11:37.899
Nothing like leaving those three kids without
01:11:37.899 --> 01:11:41.279
a mom or a dad. Yeah. The old one's old enough.
01:11:41.399 --> 01:11:43.340
Hey, kid, this is your trailer now. The old one's
01:11:43.340 --> 01:11:44.939
raised the little ones. Yeah. That's why you
01:11:44.939 --> 01:11:47.220
have so many. Yeah. Didn't the self -explosion
01:11:47.220 --> 01:11:51.000
happen in Rogue One? Well, sort of. They're stuck
01:11:51.000 --> 01:11:54.520
on the planet that's exploding. But they make
01:11:54.520 --> 01:11:58.979
it happen. Yeah. Yeah. Knowing that. Yeah. All
01:11:58.979 --> 01:12:03.850
right. So he's Cassian Andor, I guess. And, yeah,
01:12:04.090 --> 01:12:07.149
Randy Quaid is recast with Cassian. Hell yeah.
01:12:07.609 --> 01:12:10.609
Nice. Or the girl. Yeah. I don't remember her
01:12:10.609 --> 01:12:17.310
name. Jen Orso. Yes. Jen. Jen. Or Lady Orso.
01:12:17.310 --> 01:12:23.430
Mrs. Orso. Ms. Hey, Jen Erso. I don't fucking
01:12:23.430 --> 01:12:24.909
know. It's been a while. It's been a long time.
01:12:24.909 --> 01:12:26.350
We should watch that movie soon, maybe. We should.
01:12:26.430 --> 01:12:30.289
I thought it was Ren. That's from the other movie.
01:12:30.680 --> 01:12:32.239
Is that a movie or is that the book I'm reading
01:12:32.239 --> 01:12:34.119
right now? That's the book you're reading right
01:12:34.119 --> 01:12:35.119
now. It is the book I'm reading? Yeah, because
01:12:35.119 --> 01:12:41.039
the other movie is Rey. Rey? Yeah. Unless you're
01:12:41.039 --> 01:12:43.619
referring to Kylo Ren or the Knights of Ren.
01:12:43.720 --> 01:12:46.880
Those are the other movies. Yeah. I mean, I guess
01:12:46.880 --> 01:12:48.439
I don't know. If you're not talking about a Star
01:12:48.439 --> 01:12:49.960
Wars movie, then I don't know what movie you're
01:12:49.960 --> 01:12:52.539
referring to. So it might be Rey. I thought it
01:12:52.539 --> 01:12:58.140
was the dark -haired girl with the gas guy. She
01:12:58.140 --> 01:13:00.300
climbs a tower and falls and catches herself
01:13:00.300 --> 01:13:02.819
with her arm. It's Star Wars. I don't need to...
01:13:02.819 --> 01:13:05.159
Yeah, I don't think that's... I mean, that's
01:13:05.159 --> 01:13:07.539
the girl Jyn Orso that we were just talking about.
01:13:08.340 --> 01:13:11.920
It's not Ren, huh? I mean, like, unless I'm completely
01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:14.979
off. I've only watched it like a few times. It's
01:13:14.979 --> 01:13:18.359
been a while. It's Jyn. It's Jyn Orso. Like the
01:13:18.359 --> 01:13:23.720
genie. Mm -hmm. But if you watch The Rebels,
01:13:23.920 --> 01:13:28.090
Sabine Ren, her last name is Ren. What's the
01:13:28.090 --> 01:13:34.189
Rebels? Animated Star Wars. That happens not
01:13:34.189 --> 01:13:38.170
too far before A New Hope. It's like the original
01:13:38.170 --> 01:13:42.529
starting of the Rebellion. Very fun show. It
01:13:42.529 --> 01:13:46.770
is. Anybody got any more notes? I got nothing.
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Want to move on to final thoughts? I have one
01:13:50.010 --> 01:13:51.430
thing to add before we get into final thoughts.
01:13:51.430 --> 01:13:53.609
Please do. In the very beginning when they're
01:13:53.609 --> 01:13:56.810
in that laboratory, the song It's the End of
01:13:56.810 --> 01:13:59.649
the World as We Know It is playing on the speakers.
01:13:59.909 --> 01:14:02.649
Oh, my God. Awesome. That's right, it is. Complete
01:14:02.649 --> 01:14:05.649
foreshadowing. I really like that detail. Yeah,
01:14:05.649 --> 01:14:08.289
I didn't catch the words of the song, went along
01:14:08.289 --> 01:14:13.550
with it. Fantastic call -out. And with that,
01:14:13.569 --> 01:14:18.409
I wanted to point out the end credit font. I
01:14:18.409 --> 01:14:20.050
thought the end credits had a very unique font.
01:14:20.170 --> 01:14:24.020
I really enjoyed it. It was very sci -fi -esque.
01:14:24.460 --> 01:14:27.479
Yeah, but not overpowering, which was nice. It
01:14:27.479 --> 01:14:29.880
was unique enough to stand out. I thought that
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was fun. I feel like that doesn't happen very
01:14:31.560 --> 01:14:35.739
much anymore. Times New Roman. Across the board.
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Standard. That's it for me. Okay. Let's fucking
01:14:44.720 --> 01:14:48.579
roll. Who wants to go first? I will. Alright.
01:14:48.779 --> 01:14:53.140
Okay. I can't believe, with three brothers and
01:14:53.140 --> 01:14:55.680
all my 30 years of existence, I have not seen
01:14:55.680 --> 01:14:58.619
this movie. Action -packed from start to finish,
01:14:58.760 --> 01:15:02.020
with effects that still impress in 2026, and
01:15:02.020 --> 01:15:04.479
boasting a stellar cast, this movie really has
01:15:04.479 --> 01:15:08.020
it all. The runtime is a bit daunting, and a
01:15:08.020 --> 01:15:10.300
lot of the one -liners do kind of fall flat these
01:15:10.300 --> 01:15:12.760
days, but I'm thrilled that we got to watch it
01:15:12.760 --> 01:15:17.420
for the bi -quincentennial? Semi -Bison. Semi
01:15:17.420 --> 01:15:23.699
-Bison. How old are we? Yeah, some number. Anyway,
01:15:23.939 --> 01:15:27.899
I gave it a 9 .5 out of 10 white stars billowing
01:15:27.899 --> 01:15:32.979
against a blue background. Oh. I'll go next.
01:15:34.800 --> 01:15:38.720
Uh -oh. Uh -oh. I got to the end of this movie
01:15:38.720 --> 01:15:41.579
and realized the memes had already shown me every
01:15:41.579 --> 01:15:45.550
important plot point. it had to offer but i don't
01:15:45.550 --> 01:15:48.130
care it was such a fun watch the suspense pulls
01:15:48.130 --> 01:15:50.529
were stronger because it was built around the
01:15:50.529 --> 01:15:52.949
soundtrack and filming the soundtrack really
01:15:52.949 --> 01:15:55.270
stood out to me as a whole i'm the weirdo who
01:15:55.270 --> 01:15:57.630
would still listen to this soundtrack just for
01:15:57.630 --> 01:16:00.989
the auditory journey just like solo on a car
01:16:00.989 --> 01:16:03.569
ride or like doing dishes or mowing the lawn
01:16:03.569 --> 01:16:05.850
or something like i would definitely it's a fun
01:16:05.850 --> 01:16:09.300
well -built soundtrack A well -done soundtrack
01:16:09.300 --> 01:16:11.680
will keep you in the movie even when other parts
01:16:11.680 --> 01:16:15.119
like filming or dialogue are weak. I don't think
01:16:15.119 --> 01:16:17.439
the dialogue was particularly bad, but it felt
01:16:17.439 --> 01:16:20.119
very mid -90s in its delivery and how it was
01:16:20.119 --> 01:16:22.819
written. This movie had me hooked from the opening
01:16:22.819 --> 01:16:25.619
score with the giant spacecraft and the moonshot
01:16:25.619 --> 01:16:29.279
right at the immediate beginning. It was just
01:16:29.279 --> 01:16:32.699
about a perfect action movie. I will definitely
01:16:32.699 --> 01:16:39.039
watch it again. 9 .5 Fat Ladies. Oh, man. Excellent.
01:16:43.000 --> 01:16:46.199
This movie made me feel oddly patriotic. It was
01:16:46.199 --> 01:16:48.420
a straight -up sprint the whole time for two
01:16:48.420 --> 01:16:51.500
hours, but it had a great cast. Jeff Goldblum
01:16:51.500 --> 01:16:53.680
is the brightest star as the quirky hero who
01:16:53.680 --> 01:16:56.420
uses his brain, and Will Smith as the cocky,
01:16:56.420 --> 01:16:59.520
confident brawn to defeat the alien scum. There
01:16:59.520 --> 01:17:03.159
was immense destruction, so many dead moms, But
01:17:03.159 --> 01:17:04.899
it was also filled with humanity's resilience
01:17:04.899 --> 01:17:07.340
and left a feeling of having a rebellion with
01:17:07.340 --> 01:17:09.720
a righteous cause. I thought the special effects
01:17:09.720 --> 01:17:11.960
of a 30 -year -old movie really put to shame
01:17:11.960 --> 01:17:14.819
the modern, over -polished CGI that we see today.
01:17:15.260 --> 01:17:19.699
I really enjoyed this rewatch. It was kind of
01:17:19.699 --> 01:17:23.140
expiring. Gives me hope for the future. 9 .5
01:17:23.140 --> 01:17:25.800
out of 10 aliens being dragged across the desert
01:17:25.800 --> 01:17:29.340
in a parachute. Fuck yeah. Oh, man. All right.
01:17:29.619 --> 01:17:32.729
What a fun movie. While I thought it was a long
01:17:32.729 --> 01:17:35.609
movie, it was really good. You can see the inspirations
01:17:35.609 --> 01:17:38.010
from other movies, especially Star Wars, all
01:17:38.010 --> 01:17:41.109
over this one. This is a good reminder of what
01:17:41.109 --> 01:17:43.970
big summer blockbusters used to be, and a reminder
01:17:43.970 --> 01:17:46.310
of why I like going to see them at the movie
01:17:46.310 --> 01:17:48.409
theater. While some of the lines were goofy,
01:17:48.590 --> 01:17:51.090
the visuals, the music choices, the effects,
01:17:51.189 --> 01:17:53.329
and actors really did come together to make an
01:17:53.329 --> 01:17:56.789
excellent movie. 9 .5 out of 10. Aliens speaking
01:17:56.789 --> 01:18:01.750
through another person. Wow. Whoa. We're using
01:18:01.750 --> 01:18:04.329
our telekinesis to talk to each other. I don't
01:18:04.329 --> 01:18:07.210
know. We're the aliens. Yeah. What if it was
01:18:07.210 --> 01:18:11.430
just human ventriloquism? Whoa. They decided
01:18:11.430 --> 01:18:14.529
not to be like overly greedy and get the 10 for
01:18:14.529 --> 01:18:18.149
themselves. Guys, we always have room for improve.
01:18:18.390 --> 01:18:23.250
Exactly. awesome well i'm glad uh we got to watch
01:18:23.250 --> 01:18:26.750
this this is super fun i really really had a
01:18:26.750 --> 01:18:29.090
great time i'm glad everybody else did as well
01:18:29.090 --> 01:18:33.789
um i have one half of a page left in my notebook
01:18:33.789 --> 01:18:36.250
um so i'm gonna have to find something else for
01:18:36.250 --> 01:18:42.109
taking notes uh for anna's movie nope yeah anna's
01:18:42.109 --> 01:18:44.510
movie what are you bringing i'm gonna be bringing
01:18:45.229 --> 01:18:48.430
pride and prejudice oh i have a feeling that's
01:18:48.430 --> 01:18:51.770
the exact opposite of this movie yeah yes it
01:18:51.770 --> 01:18:55.449
is no explosions whatsoever it's mostly dialogue
01:18:55.449 --> 01:18:59.220
driven and it's all about like little pairings
01:18:59.220 --> 01:19:02.439
of people in society. It's a Jane Austen novel.
01:19:02.819 --> 01:19:06.159
So dead moms? Oh, there's a dead mom. There's
01:19:06.159 --> 01:19:10.619
always a dead mom. Moms are notoriously hard
01:19:10.619 --> 01:19:12.479
to write into film, so it's best if you just
01:19:12.479 --> 01:19:14.699
kill them off, really. Such a complicated character.
01:19:14.840 --> 01:19:16.880
I mean, they're so rare out there, nobody knows
01:19:16.880 --> 01:19:19.460
how to write them. Well, that's awesome. That'll
01:19:19.460 --> 01:19:22.439
be a good... you know, change compared to this
01:19:22.439 --> 01:19:24.619
movie. We'll get to, you know, see something
01:19:24.619 --> 01:19:27.039
different with good dialogue, I'm assuming, if
01:19:27.039 --> 01:19:28.779
it's dialogue driven. I hope so. If it's not
01:19:28.779 --> 01:19:31.920
good dialogue, then that's really wild. But that's
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it. That's the end of my pick for today's episode
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of Paramnesia Theater. So thank you for coming
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