Home Theater Experience: Ninja Assassin

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Oh, that's nice.
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We are live.
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We in. We live. We are in. We're live.
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And it's live and it's
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Memorex.
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So
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Okay. Well, hello world. Hello. Hello. Here
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we are. Here we are. Nice chilled
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intro start to the show. I like that chilled. It's been a hot day here.
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It's been a hot I want day show off.
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Yeah, why,
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what are your temps there? Oh man, no, it's not that great. It's been chilly here
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and we've had some stormy weather.
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So yeah, it's not been terribly warm, we've but got some decent weather coming at the weekend.
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But yeah, you guys have had much better weather than we have for sure. I don't know about that. Yesterday, like I said, it was like almost 45 most of the day. Today it was almost 90,
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like 85 or something today. And that's why I like come home and I cut my hair, shave my face, cut myself shaving.
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Because it's like when I'm working outside, it's like my hair is too long, my face, it's like it just you sweat more. It's like, it's worse. Think again, rubbing it in, cut my hair, you know, I get
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it. It's it's like, you know, why? I was thinking of going the full full bald.
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Well Some of us are born to lead, Deitch, others to follow. That's all I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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God God only created a few perfect heads. The rest he covered with hair.
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Well,
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there you go. I didn't like to say. I did not like to say.
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But there we go. How's your week been?
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Good.
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Good. Yeah. Keep him busy. Keep him busy. Very busy. I don't have to keep busy.
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I got a I got a oh, John texted me. John texted me a screen grab. Thompson or
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Siconi? Our buddy? John. Yeah. Screen grab. Let me see. I didn't I I let me see. I don't I don't have it ready to go, but I'll pull it up. John texted me because this this
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made me think of you. And it's
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it's a it's a picture. It says, don't feel don't fear the eight week remodel. Those ten months will be the most fulfilling two years of your life.
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It keeps getting worse.
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Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. Well,
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John John saw
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a crazy horror movie this week Yes. That I got in four k that I still have not yet had chance to see. I
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did.
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Oh, you've seen it, have you? I did. Yes. I talked to him about it too.
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I
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won't even say anything to you about it. There's a No, I
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I could spoil it by saying something about another movie too.
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So I won't, and we won't even mention it. But when you see it, we'll we'll talk about it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I did say to him I'd see it for the show, but I ran out of time.
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I liked it better than he did.
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Like Okay. Yeah. I liked it better than he did. I thought it was pretty
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it. Yes. And was like, Steve, you need to see it. I'm not telling you anything about it, but you do need to see it. Yes. So I will be young I'll have to mention it to Todd. I didn't know Todd had seen it. I'll text him and tell him. Well, I I hadn't even heard of it until Todd mentioned it. You know, he said to me, know, that we were talking horror movies and he just said that's one you need to see. So yeah.
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I
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saw it when it came out on Collide Escape a while ago and I was interested in it. And
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it's one of I didn't expect what I got,
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but when
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I did as I was seeing it,
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I pretty much
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it I knew the end. I knew the movie, I figured it out, but it's still very entertaining.
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So
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I thought it was very entertaining. So I was like, you want to see how this thing's going to play out.
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Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to it. I bought it that night. I literally,
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we're at the table and he said, oh, yeah, It's really good. I ordered it from Amazon and in there. And it came the next day, so I do need to see it. Nice.
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But, yeah. Alright. Well, should should we start the show then, Dij, and then we can we can talk more about the week that was. Yeah. The week yeah.
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The
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week that was.
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Hey, home theater nerds. Welcome to the Bright Side Home Theater podcast.
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The multi award winning giving and receiving home theater podcast that's all about the experiences,
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the sights. The sounds,
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the scenes.
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Nice.
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Alright. That's getting longer. I swear that intro. Is it?
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No. It's not. I'm only kidding. Oh, by the way, somebody did
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first
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Freddie has been delivered.
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It has been delivered and received. Yeah.
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Keith. He just he he literally just texted me. It's on the I haven't I haven't even replied to his text that he replied. I
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I he replied he texted me earlier
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and he said, thank you for the donkey just before we were sitting down. And I texted him back and I was like, it's a Freddy.
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He's like No. Danny said, thank you for the donkey and not thank you from the donkey. Yeah. He's like, well, we're the donkeys.
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So, yes, it has been the the our first Freddie has been delivered and received.
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So I was kinda hoping you'd say it was Ryan Coogler who, you know, who was texting to say thanks for the sinners one, but, you know, that's right. Sinners. Which are key people do. Okay. Yeah. I mean, he's he's
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famous in his own right.
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It's yeah. Well, no. That that is true. That is true. So, Deege, I had four days away from my cinema room this week.
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Yeah, you said, yeah. I got that text. Yeah. Oh, the horror.
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Hey, you're at the beach. Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah.
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It should
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be illegal, it really should. It's very difficult even with the glasses.
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It still should be illegal having to be away from a cinema room for four whole days.
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So much show that we'll talk about this a bit later but I watched a movie again that I saw while I was away
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just to get the home theater side of it.
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TSG is right. Yeah, you had the glasses right. That must have been hard, you had the glasses. I did have the glasses. There you go. And I watched a couple of movies that are not in the show because I watched them on the glasses and when they're movies like, I couldn't really do it.
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Although, may I say to everyone just whilst we're talking that, I did happen to catch a Super Mario
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Brothers movie Oh, you did? One. How was it? I already say how, but I did.
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Again, a contact of mine, through a contact, very good of them
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in the journalistic world. So I was able to watch it and anyone that has seen it Touch us. Yeah, there he is. Anyone that has seen it will know instantly my favorite bit in that film without me even needing to say.
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Why? There's a hitch.
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Do they bash
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the Fifth Element?
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They don't bash the Fifth Element. Oh, it's just one line. Can say this. Luigi at one point is giving out radio calls
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and he says, and I swear to you now, legal beagle.
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Come on.
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Says legal beagle. He says it. I'm like, oh, get in. There you go. You go. Nice spread. Nice.
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So yeah, watch out for that peeps when you go see it. But yeah, so it was nice to get back to the cinema room and catch up. Nice. But luckily I had enough that I'd already seen so that I wasn't distracted around for content. Look, we didn't mention this last week but I do have the image here.
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Where is it? See, I'm losing images left and right here. How did I do this?
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It is something wrong with me. I mean, there's lot wrong with me. Well, didn't like to say again. What
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the hell?
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Where did it go?
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I had it from I'm an idiot. I know I'm an idiot. I'm just I'm I'm sorry. This is this is stupid.
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Oh, there it is. Did it did it just go past it here? There it is. Alright.
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I had this for last week and said and thank you
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Thrillcat in the chat.
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Here we go. Let me pull this up.
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There we go. Did you use I meant to mention it last week.
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I tweeted
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about it. This is the front row cinema that that Travis is doing with his throw on YouTube.
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And he talks about the music and stuff and how the music works in the movie and everything like that. It's like right up our alley. I tweeted about it.
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And this one here, for sinners, as we were saying, when music hits the big screen. So check those out. Front row cinema, the music becomes
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an additional character,
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and then he uses cinemas. I think he he's got another one or he had I think he had two at the time that I saw.
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But he's doing a whole like series, you know, talking about the sounds. It's like, you know, the experience, part of the experience. Right? It's like I think I've heard that before somewhere. Yeah. Exactly. So hey, that's I mean, awesome idea. I don't know where he got that idea. I'm just kidding.
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But check it out. I watched that one on cinema, it's awesome because he I mean, obviously, he's musician, gets into all that stuff and he he gives a breakdown like, obviously, like we can't give, but but yeah, it's really really cool. And that movie, the music literally is a part of the movie. That's what the movie's about. So it's really really cool. So check those out. Yeah. It's
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It's as characterized the cinematography and everything else. Yeah. Yeah. The movie. But oh, yeah, no, that sounds very cool. Very, very cool. So yeah, so it's been a good week and it's good to be back in the theater as I say. But
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yeah, no, and again, glasses just again for those, I know we keep saying this, but if you do travel a lot, and as I said because of this, I did travel and I was in the back of a car,
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these
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AR glasses were very very Could you get kidnapped?
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No, when I was in the front. I traveling and I got, you know, I was in the back of the car.
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Luckily, have my No. No. By choice. By choice. Yeah. Swiss army knife so I could undo the back one.
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Tail light and see where I was.
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Well
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But it's but it yeah. No. They are so cool for this as well for traveling. Very very good. You alright? No. Okay. Yeah. Am now. You're I'm all messed up. I'm all messed up. You're
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You're good. But yeah, the glasses again, these glasses
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are awesome. It's so cool for traveling. And again, when you're stuck away from home and you want to see something properly,
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big screen.
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It was.
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Got to admit, it was weird not getting those like daily
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updates of like you adding movies.
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I was like, is he okay? If we weren't texting, I would have worried about you. Was like
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Well, that's fair enough. But I got and I caught up with Du Bois, the new season and up to date with Daredevil and all that stuff. So it was very cool. And I did see one other film I did see which I'm going to wait to review it properly again through this contact of mine, very fortunate. I saw send help as well, the Sam Raimi movie
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with Rachel McAdams in that, which is great. Oh. So anyone who hasn't seen it. Oh. Yeah. Another plug. I haven't
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seen it yet. I'm pretty sure
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that's the one that
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Todd has. He's got a new base hunters. Yes. Yes. He has.
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Right? And
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he's like, check this out. I saw that on Twitter. Was like, oh, here we go. Now that kind of made me wanna see it where it's like he thinks it's got a good base, so he did a base hunters on it. That's pretty cool. Yeah. There's some plane crashes in it and stuff, and there are some storm sequences and that kind of thing. But it's a We rainy
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got some storm sequences coming up. We have. We have the hurricane heist.
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All this was given. I know. It was like practically the same thing.
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It was. It was. But it's but yeah. No. The the send help is just Sam Raby through and through. It is bananas
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and so good. I can't wait to see that on disc. We get it in early May here.
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But as I say, this content, was able to watch a digital copy of it and it was very, very fun.
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I do recommend that you have a great time with that. And a lot to discuss in that movie about
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gender politics and gender
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roles and stereotypes and who you have sympathy with and who you don't. And there are different times in the movie that you will feel differently about who's doing what to whom. Isn't that cool? Yeah, like when they do that. Where you get to
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see both sides and you're like Yeah. Yeah. It's great. Exactly.
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So That's cool. Send help. That one, that's well worth seeing. It's I think it's probably on Kaleidoscope DJ. Would imagine that it is. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It is. Let me see. I'll pull it up right here.
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Let me see.
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Send.
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Yep. There it is. Yep.
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Oh, yeah. All the Dolby's, everything is $30 right now. It's because it's fairly new. I almost bought it a while ago. I was interested in it. It's like, you know, thriller horror. And I saw the trailer for it and
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it didn't feel like a horror with the trailer. It felt like it was more of a like, okay, they apparently they crash landed and it's like, she's she's crash landed and with her boss or something and now all of a sudden she's like, yeah, you were my boss back there. I think I saw this in the trailer. Right? And she goes, you're not my boss here.
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No. No. Kinda like that. I kinda like Let's
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just say that the
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who is dominant and who is submissive changes a number of times through the movie. Nice. And it's just a Raimi movie through and through. I mean, the guy that came up with the evil dead
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just goes to town in this. It's honestly, it's great. Rachel McCallum is fab. And of course, we know she's lovely because Carl Ellsworth told us she's lovely. So we know she's lovely in real life because of course she was in red eye.
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And she yeah. She's very, good in this. Oh, and Dennis Hingsberg's in it too. Just looking at the name. Yes. Is. But only very only at the beginning, very briefly. Okay. He's he's almost blink and you'll miss him and then he's gone.
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It's mainly a two header between these two.
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Honestly, it's great. There's a lot to talk about from that film in the best So
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yeah. Just remind me because he's
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one of the voices in Darth Maul.
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That's right. Yeah, he's
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a Jedi and that's really cool.
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Alright, so shall I say hi to everyone in the chat then? Let's do it. Let's
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do it. And then we'll
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bat on.
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So yeah, so we've got, so Steve At was first in the chat.
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Gotta love the man that says puttering around the model train layout.
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So go Sheldon, go.
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Fair play, very cool. And
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then we've got Marcus Biebs in saying,
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If we're dropping Spanish in. Oh, jeez. Here we go. Don't encourage me. Don't encourage anyone.
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Paul Hurt is saying, hey, Paul.
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And then we've got old school kung fu film says, everyone. Looking forward to this one. We've got some kung fu well, some some
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movies, martial arts movies for you, buddy. Jordan's in. Hey, Jordan. Paul left in. Hey, Paul.
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Yeah. Saying that he saw
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What is he? Mercy. Got Mercy on our recommendation. Said he enjoyed it. Oh. Gone. Lost Deege.
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Hey, Deege. I will drop back. Come back to when you're ready, buddy. Hopefully, you're still there.
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So, yeah, Paul Hurt saying he got Mercy on our recommendation. Said he really enjoyed it. So fair play. Glad you enjoyed it, Paul f. Hey, Deege. Hello.
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I'm back. So
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captain's in as well. Captain my captain. Hey, buddy. Jan Hoekstra's in saying good evening. Hey, Jan.
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Holger's in. Good to see
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Nice. And TSG is in as well, local boy.
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So just back in time for this. A good man. Oh, Van Cool's in as well. Hey, Jay.
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What's up? Good to see you. Hey, Jay. And
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then we've got
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Numbers. Yeah. And, obviously, we know that that Travis is in. Hey, Travis.
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Yep. And
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I thought I saw
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Did you say Oh, yeah. Dom's in as well. Postwar Dom. He's in. Yeah. And Oh. Centauro. New
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Jersey? But it says from Costa Rica. Nice.
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77. Costa Rica. Costa we've had Costa Rica for a while. It's a beautiful part of the world. Lovely. Oh, yeah. I got a buddy of mine. 78. We're up to 78 countries.
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The world tour.
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Alright. We're 78 countries in five days.
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or something. 95 or somewhere in the nineties to get half of the world, half the countries of the world. And that would just be bizarre and but in the coolest Yeah.
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Think it's bizarre we're at 78.
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It is kind of weird when the because the spread is literally around the globe, isn't it? So it is it is Yeah. Looking at the globe. It's
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What was that on Twitter that the the the is it the Twitter bio for the Flat Earth Society and it says we've got members all around the globe?
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That's wicked funny. It's so funny. It's like but it's funny because we're talking like you say this and it's like it's literally all around the globe. Right? But then you got like Danny Speakers is like fifteen minutes away from me. Right? I have other listeners in the in the area that are like, you know, Fall River and stuff like, like not far away. And you're like, they're right here. And you're like, but then it's like,
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literally the other side of the world, you know. And you're like, it's it's crazy. It's crazy.
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So much fun. Yeah. Very cool.
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Yes. It is. Yes. It is. And again, I didn't say so I should say,
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yeah,
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anyone that is tuning in, you know, for the for the first time or many times, and if you haven't said hello,
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and do feel free drop into the chat, say hi. Always nice to see you. Yep. So, yeah, please please say hi if you are if you are in.
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Actually, Dom There's just Soy, Tico, Perovivo in New Jersey? What does that mean? Yeah. I that means he so he's he is called Tico. Well, my he he is Tico but lives in New Jersey.
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Oh, okay. Yeah. I live in New Jersey.
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Yeah. But I live in New Jersey. So there we go. Look at that. I'm just trying to convince TSG, you talk about that. TSG is a local boy to here.
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He and I go to the same theaters.
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That's how local he is.
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is a small world. A small Yes. It is small. And again, smaller by the second. Yep. Let me see. Hit refresh. Yep. Still 70.
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That's okay. Know. Dang, haven't. Yeah. So Dom says having just jumped in, he said, yeah, he went to see Super Mario Galaxy with the wife and kids and all enjoyed it. Packed theater, nice to see for a change. There we go. Dom, just tell me then if Luigi says legal beagle, which he does in the English version, what's the French for legal beagle? That's what I really want to know.
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I don't know. Who could say? You sound like me trying to speak Spanish or something.
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Italian. I think you did alright? Yeah. Italiano.
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I just end it. I I I put a a at the end of everything. Like, yeah.
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I can't even do it. I can't even I don't know. It's awful.
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We've survived the blind guy thing.
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Start doing accents and changing things. Oh, if I start doing accents, it's like I don't know. Can they take countries away?
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What's their list? Like Yeah. Exactly.
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We've been banned in 78 countries. Look at us go.
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How many more can I offend?
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It's gotta be done. Gotta be done. Gotta be done. Alrighty.
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Right. We have got quite a lot to get through, Dij, unless you've got some other stuff you need
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discuss. No. I don't think so. I probably do and I'll remember after the show like like last week I wanted to talk about you know Travis's front row cinema. I went to and then the show went to you like that. Oh, remember last week we were gonna do a poll? That didn't take place.
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I was getting him back to the show for audio quality. I'm like, listen, I'm like, oh, yeah. We never asked everybody. But we ended up going late.
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We ended up talking late, you know. It just yeah.
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We fly by the seat of our pants here. Well, yeah. Well, this is what makes it so fun. Although one thing to say, actually, did ease is it the head of Sony today? Their guy
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and the pre show stuff that they show. So say So they have been listening to our show?
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Well, yes. The Sony guys have, but then they would because we keep telling them how good they are. Yeah. How good Sony is. You know? But he
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No. Well or or what's who are the guys? Who are the
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who are the projector guys? Not JBC.
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Who was the one that would said that they would have the brightest screens, the brightest projector?
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So cinema comes on at the moment and he and he in his part of his keynote speech, he mentioned that he said to these exhibitors, look, you know, stop the the adverts,
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agree with that. It always is Tom Rothman. All right, Jordan says it is Tom Rothman. Oh, there we go. Okay. For some reason I had it, I thought that was wrong. I knew it was Rothman,
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it it that's part of marketing and stuff like that. It's like if people are starting out from a negative and you have to overcome that,
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doesn't make it makes sense to me as as it was explained to me a long time ago, but most people don't get it. It's but if you're in a bad mood,
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right, and it's a scale of like, your mood is zero, right, that's just nothing. You don't care either way, right? Nobody likes that, right? Nobody likes that. It's the old Howard Stern thing. It's like, you know, you're either really angry at me or really happy with me, it doesn't matter as long as you're talking about me, right? But zero is,
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That's not good for stamp collecting. You want people to talk about it. I'm not one of those people. I don't care either way. So but
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any positive stuff gets you back to zero.
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Now you're gonna be now how positive are you gonna be? Whereas if you came in and the trailers and you know, like really
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got you going and you're really excited, now the movie starts and you're you're only building
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Frozen, buddy. You know. And that's what comedians do too. They have a warm up act and stuff like that, you know. Mhmm. So Yeah. It's Yeah. Froze for a minute. Froze for a second. Yeah.
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I'm hard It's a seventy eighth country, clearly.
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That's that's the problem. Let me see if I can fix something here. Maybe it's
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could be a million things.
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All right, let try it. But we certainly won't complain about if
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the number of adverts and all the rest of it, life will be definitely better. For us theater goers that are there for the movie,
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not for all the crap that goes with it.
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early everywhere I go, I'm never late.
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assure you that's not hyperbole either.
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And so I can't get there half an hour after it begins because that just doesn't sit right with me. So I've got to be there before the program begins even though I know there's half an hour of rubbish to come. So
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Because one, I've got to be there early so then I've just got to see it. And then yeah, I am classically the person by the time the movie starts,
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that's it. I'm annoyed now, I'm
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you know, and the film absolutely has to work that much harder to then gain my enthusiasm
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again as you say. Yeah.
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much prefer to see them
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at home. And by the time and the the number of times I've seen a movie in theaters and and really disliked it, got it at home, watched it in a much better environment and then enjoyed it, it happens all the time. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. And what's funny is it's
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remember the days when you were dying to get to the theater for the trailers?
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Like you couldn't wait like you wanted to see the trailers because that's the only place you could see them? And now, it's you just don't have that anymore. It's like because we and it's I mean, it's really not the movie theater's fault. That's, you know, the world we live in. You can see everything online.
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You know, you've seen everything. You've got it on Twitter. You've got it on social media. You've got it on your Apple TV there. You know, it's they you can the access to these things
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takes this it being special away.
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And we said that. I mean, we've talked about it on the show, like a good thing they could do was like say, only these trailers will only be played in theaters. And then that would, you don't have to reduce the trailers,
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just reduce the access.
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Yeah. And it you wouldn't if it was a half hour of awesome trailers, you wouldn't care.
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It's just I I've seen this at home. I've seen this. I've I know this one. It's not exciting to me anymore. It's like,
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you know.
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Now tell me this, I don't know if we have asked this, we might have done it and if we have in the chat and forgive me and same with you, tell me this. Okay, so
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you're looking on your listings, alright, for your movies, okay? And you're looking at and there's a movie that you want to see enough to go to the theaters to see it. Yeah.
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movie has got two identical start times in two different screens, let's assume though that the quality of the screen is the same, so we've got a control experiment here. Okay? So
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tell me this, if one of them is say $15
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a ticket, alright, and that's got your normal trailers and everything else.
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If the other one is $25 a ticket but there are no adverts, no trailers go straight into the movie,
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which are you going for?
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And in the chat, feel free to join in with that because I'll be curious to know what people would do. Would you pay $10 more?
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Because that's the argument trailers. Right. That's Yes.
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Yeah. So would you pay the extra $10?
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Right now? Yeah. I would. Yeah. Not right now. You're on the show, Tige. No. But I mean, I
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gotta go. I'm about to see a movie with no trailers.
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yes, I would in this environment right now, I would do that. But they would be and here's what's funny is they would be smart to do that right now.
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Right? And then
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because it one, that's a way to generate more money and it's a it's it's a inherent poll too. How many people are willing to do that? Right?
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And you want to save a few bucks, you got to watch these trailers.
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And then what would end up happening?
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They would add in commercials,
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what more can we get away with and how how much do we have to
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piss them off before everybody's paying the $10? Right? So you get that and but
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what if all of a sudden then they add their restrictions.
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Meaning,
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they they restrict movies to only be have the trailers played at the movies.
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Now, might alright. Haven't
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seen that yet because I paid the $10. They could actually make make us they could actually make us like,
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you know, seesaw back and forth on that, but they're not doing anything about it. Yeah. You know, and and then Sony's taking and I appreciate Sony doing it,
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but that's like the easy way out of just being like, I just play less.
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I was like, let's get creative with it and let's make it so that,
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you know, it's an engagement between the the consumer
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and the studios and the theaters. Right? Instead of just being like, we're gonna cut it all out for you and now you can't No. You want a fun experience at the theater,
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you know. So but yeah. Yeah. Mean, I'm yeah.
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Well, me too. I I would too. I would happily pay for that to just get straight in and and still be there half an hour early.
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But I pay the extra foot foot not that. But I think we're in the minority here, Ditch. Oh, really? So we've got yeah. Yeah. Man, I'm surprised. So we've got so TSG
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wouldn't pay the extra, so fair play.
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Paul says he likes the commercials and trailers.
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Paul, now come on. I just don't want too many. Yeah. Yeah. Which is fair enough. Fair enough. But it's the warm up. It's part of the cinema ritual. And I agree. It used to be. I wanted them to play here. Right? You I wanted that experience. I wanted the Dolby Digital train.
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I wanted all that at home.
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Now I'm like, no. They've done they've overdone it and they've worn out their welcome.
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They have said, Steve Atten said, I'm just coming late to the trailer loaded movie. Reserve seat ticket in hand. Fair play, Steve.
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Jordan, he's with us. Rather pay $10 less given how many films I watch. Actually Jordan before I read the rest of that, that's what I was thinking because I know you see a lot of movies in a week. So would have been quite good. I'll just say no extra $10 fair play.
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So Jay says,
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Jay Van Gaulle, you pay for no commercials or trailers, would you have better seats? Now the screens are the same, this is a controlled experiment here. Screens are the same, it's literally paying for no trailers, no adverts, would you pay for that?
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And obviously Travis says, doesn't mind them.
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I used to go early to get a good seat, now you don't have to. Yeah, but I can't help myself. Travis, I I've got to be
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honestly can't stop it.
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TSG,
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Taylor's oldest time. Worst thing is those people who come in five minutes after the movie I'm has
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with the Alfred Hitchcock version of that. Once the movie starts, no one will be admitted. That's how it should be.
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And also Kung Fu films says I'd pay extra and I'd know when the film starts.
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Or then again, they can let us know how long the trade is, you can come at the right time. Yeah, I mean they do, some theaters do that in fairness. But
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you know That's exactly.
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That's if you're paying the $10,
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you're actually I mean, you don't have to pay the $10, just show up twenty minutes late and save yourself the and you're doing the same thing. Right? Yeah. But to that point right there, it's like you don't know. So what if they only showed two trailers and you showed up twenty minutes late and you're like, oh crap, I missed part of the movie. So Yeah. There are times when I'm running late and I'm like, oh, alright, I'm gonna miss a few trailers and you don't mind. But
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what they're doing is it's just a bad image. It's just a I mean, lit
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the one thing I can say is 100%
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in the chat, it's not
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a good experience.
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No. We're not willing to pay $10 or we're finding shortcuts, we're doing this and that. Nobody's saying, even even Paul's like it's part of the experience, I just want less. Nobody's saying like, don't touch a thing, this is awesome.
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I don't think nobody's saying that. It's like, it's gotta change.
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Yeah. Well, Paul, I think he said he said he actually edits trailers and commercials onto the front of my movies when doing a movie night with friends at home. Yes. Absolutely.
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I I've done the same thing. It's like you wanna have that I used to go to like great lengths to make it seem like a home theater. Make it seem like a real theater experience.
378
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And this is back when it was in my living room on a 32 inch TV.
379
00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:22.279
Right? And then when I got a dedicated theater, I had like double,
380
00:33:22.360 --> 00:33:33.000
you know, DVD players so that I could you ordered your DVD for your custom theater and you play this and you do that and do all the yeah. I went to great lengths for that. And now,
381
00:33:33.240 --> 00:33:44.575
it's like, alright, if I can get rid of the FBI warning and I can get rid of the trailers and that and just play the movie, great. That's what I want. Now you go to the theater and you're looking at twenty to thirty minutes of trailers.
382
00:33:44.815 --> 00:33:45.294
No.
383
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On stuff you've already seen?
384
00:33:48.380 --> 00:33:49.179
Well, yeah.
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Absolutely. So
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Holger says to Paul, I did that, a forced girlfriend,
387
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and she fell asleep during the trailers.
388
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Then TSG says That's not good. No.
389
00:34:04.034 --> 00:34:15.250
TSG says, do you remember when they tried to add trailers to DVDs? Yeah. They did on Blu rays as well, TSG. They did that as a way of they they said at the time it was to keep the costs down of the Blu rays and all that stuff. The commercials
390
00:34:15.810 --> 00:34:21.810
in the yeah. They had commercials at the beginning. They even sponsored them. Like, over here for a period of time, like like
391
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Pepsi
392
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or Yeah. You know, Cadbury's or whatever would sponsor
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00:34:27.035 --> 00:34:46.170
these releases, and then you'd have the adverts at the beginning, which I again, if you bought this thing, you should not sit through that. You know? That's the thing. Should be wrong. Like, what Jordan's mentioning here is, like, they included trailers for upcoming films or DVDs. Right? It wasn't just upcoming films, but it was also this DVD is out as well from this guy, you know, from Universal or whatever.
394
00:34:46.570 --> 00:34:51.290
But it was before the main menu and none of your d your DVD remote
395
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buttons worked.
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You were stuck.
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And that's what they're doing now. If you don't get like if you have like the
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on some of the streamers,
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once the commercials come in, you can't fast forward. You and it's the same. They're doing it to irritate you to get you to buy
400
00:35:08.770 --> 00:35:13.890
something by the by the upper tier without it because it's like
401
00:35:13.890 --> 00:35:29.225
literally the same commercial over and over. You watch a forty minute show and it's like it ends up being an hour long because they put in twenty minutes of commercials and every so many minutes you get that same commercial again. And it's like, do you have hairy armpits?
402
00:35:29.385 --> 00:35:32.425
Yes. Here, put this on them. Okay.
403
00:35:33.465 --> 00:35:37.490
Seven minutes later, do you have hairy armpits? About to shoot yourself.
404
00:35:37.810 --> 00:35:40.050
It'd be like I did, but nothing more.
405
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But
406
00:35:41.730 --> 00:35:45.970
I tell you what I tell you what actually that reminds me of something that I had I had forgotten.
407
00:35:46.450 --> 00:35:49.090
What what there was a brief period of time
408
00:35:49.935 --> 00:36:11.400
when BD live was still a thing. So when Blu ray Disc Live where where we put a disc in and it was connecting to the Internet as soon as you as you started. And they did do a cool thing for a while. The TV on American disc was awesome. They gave you all the updates of everything and don't remember that one? Yeah. Well, what they never did, they never did it here, but they did over in The US. So if you bought an American disc, you got it. And what they will do is
409
00:36:11.720 --> 00:36:17.320
at the start of the before the movie began, they would download the new trailers, latest trailers of something coming.
410
00:36:17.805 --> 00:36:23.645
So every time you watched it, if you went a couple of weeks without seeing it and then watched it again, you've got different trailers
411
00:36:23.885 --> 00:36:26.445
at the start. That was quite cool
412
00:36:26.845 --> 00:36:32.410
from what I can remember. But that never took off, they shouldn't stop doing that. But
413
00:36:32.410 --> 00:36:41.370
it was quite a cool thing at one point, and I used to quite like the fact that latest trailers would be there when you went to turn it on. But yeah, that soon stopped.
414
00:36:41.610 --> 00:36:42.890
Yeah. Oh yeah.
415
00:36:43.610 --> 00:36:46.570
That also they had the ability to edit the movie too.
416
00:36:47.495 --> 00:36:54.775
They can change the movie even on the Blu ray. They add in they could, you know, because once they access your your player,
417
00:36:54.935 --> 00:37:02.535
they can upload different scenes to play be you know, flagged at certain times and you heard about all that stuff. So even physical media was being altered.
418
00:37:03.160 --> 00:37:06.120
Yeah. Yeah. Just slightly insidious.
419
00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:17.815
A little bit. Oh, there we go. Yeah. So Jordan says, So that happened with the older UK Universal. I didn't realize it happened in The UK. Certainly all of the only times it happened were on my American discs. But oh, well, there we go. I
420
00:37:18.135 --> 00:37:25.895
could just about get behind but as long as I can forward them, then it's fine, you stick what you like on them as long as I can skip past them. Yeah.
421
00:37:26.855 --> 00:37:30.055
Yep. Alright. But there we go. Alright. Look at that. We put the world to rights.
422
00:37:30.640 --> 00:37:31.440
As
423
00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:37.120
best we could. As best we could. Alright. No existing with us, Steve. No existing in in a position of power.
424
00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:46.445
No. No. Well, I don't know. We got enough people. People keep talking and passes around. You never know what is going to happen. True. True. True. True.
425
00:37:47.245 --> 00:37:47.645
True.
426
00:37:49.245 --> 00:37:50.765
Do we wanna get to anything?
427
00:37:51.805 --> 00:37:56.685
Come on. You know you want to. We have a culmination, Dij. We have the culmination.
428
00:37:56.685 --> 00:38:00.605
Yeah. We're gonna we'll wrap we're gonna wrap up with our ninja month.
429
00:38:00.980 --> 00:38:04.900
Right? We'll wrap the show up with that. What you want what do you want month?
430
00:38:05.059 --> 00:38:11.700
Is it been months? Yeah. Months? February we started. We're in April. Was it? Yeah. I know we're in April.
431
00:38:11.940 --> 00:38:13.700
Thought we started in March, but okay.
432
00:38:14.819 --> 00:38:26.475
What would you like to start with then? Should we start with the big with a big one? Chris Hemsworth? Should we start with that? Because we we were gonna talk about it last week and then didn't. So and I think we've got differing opinions of this.
433
00:38:27.115 --> 00:38:40.510
I don't know. I I'm not really sure what we do. I I I really am not. I'm not sure. Well, there we go. There's only one way to find out. Yeah. I don't know. How is that? How how would we do that? I don't know. Oh, wow. Who can say? Who can say? Okay.
434
00:38:42.510 --> 00:38:45.070
We go. Seize it all. Alright.
435
00:38:45.070 --> 00:38:48.375
Oh, I think I prefer your picks to mine. That's not mine, is it? That's yours.
436
00:38:48.695 --> 00:38:58.135
Oh, actually, no. Is that mine? No. That's yours. No. You know what? I think that's mine. Okay. That's mine. It's got the speakers in it. See? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, in that case, prefer mine to yours. Just saying. Anyway
437
00:38:58.535 --> 00:39:07.820
That that was slick how you did that. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, wow. That one's so much better than mine. I like that one better. No. That is yours. Oh, well, looky there. Oh, wow. You know?
438
00:39:08.460 --> 00:39:11.100
That's so slick. Your head is slick.
439
00:39:11.580 --> 00:39:13.020
Oh, wow.
440
00:39:13.020 --> 00:39:13.740
Ow.
441
00:39:13.820 --> 00:39:14.620
Being
442
00:39:14.620 --> 00:39:15.340
besmirched.
443
00:39:15.635 --> 00:39:16.275
Right.
444
00:39:17.635 --> 00:39:18.275
Yep.
445
00:39:18.435 --> 00:39:20.435
You got a duck when you punch, Steve.
446
00:39:20.595 --> 00:39:21.235
Yes.
447
00:39:22.194 --> 00:39:23.475
Quack. Quack.
448
00:39:23.875 --> 00:39:24.755
There
449
00:39:24.755 --> 00:39:28.275
you go. All right. So crime one zero one for those listening.
450
00:39:30.470 --> 00:39:31.270
Is crime.
451
00:39:32.070 --> 00:39:33.430
This is a crime. On
452
00:39:33.670 --> 00:39:35.270
Amazon Prime.
453
00:39:35.270 --> 00:39:38.790
It's a crappy country. And it's kind of weird because, of course, it hit theaters.
454
00:39:39.430 --> 00:39:40.630
And it was out there Yeah. For a
455
00:39:41.349 --> 00:39:49.805
did. It did. It did. And then it and I went to see it in theaters and it went and of course it's now dropped on prime because it's an Amazon movie, isn't it? So it's
456
00:39:50.045 --> 00:39:51.725
one of these MGM, Amazon
457
00:39:51.725 --> 00:39:52.685
co productions.
458
00:39:53.005 --> 00:39:55.165
And of course Amazon owned MGM now.
459
00:39:55.645 --> 00:39:58.365
So yeah, Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, Mark Ruffalo,
460
00:39:58.845 --> 00:39:59.965
all the Marvel characters
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find themselves in this.
462
00:40:04.210 --> 00:40:12.610
Okay, so let's deal, and it's in four ks UHD Dolby Atmos which is not always a given on prime. Even with the added tier, you never
463
00:40:12.930 --> 00:40:13.410
quite tell.
464
00:40:14.505 --> 00:40:19.625
But it's got all that stuff. And I think Dolby Vision as well, think, isn't it? I think so. Yeah.
465
00:40:20.424 --> 00:40:25.385
Let's just see. Do I have it here? Yeah. It's got all the Dolby's. Yeah. Yeah. There we go. Yeah. There it is. Yeah. Great. Okay. So
466
00:40:27.150 --> 00:40:30.590
so I have been really looking forward to this because
467
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Hemsworth's great, Ruffalo's great, Halle Berry's great. And generally,
468
00:40:36.190 --> 00:40:42.785
Hemsworth in particular is generally a magnetic screen presence. He's got screen presence, he's got charisma, camera loves it.
469
00:40:43.025 --> 00:40:43.505
And
470
00:40:43.825 --> 00:40:47.025
generally, he's very, very good. And I had been really looking forward to this.
471
00:40:48.065 --> 00:40:51.425
And I put the movie on and I watched it in one sitting and
472
00:40:51.744 --> 00:41:02.350
immediately it's like, okay, this is heat, right, fine, this is what it wants to be. It wants to be heat for the modern day and it's shot the same way and it's all been done in a very particular way.
473
00:41:03.470 --> 00:41:06.750
And I watched it and for the first, I think how
474
00:41:07.070 --> 00:41:08.510
long, two hours, twenty two minutes.
475
00:41:08.750 --> 00:41:10.030
For the first about hour,
476
00:41:10.704 --> 00:41:11.665
I was
477
00:41:11.984 --> 00:41:12.705
struck
478
00:41:13.184 --> 00:41:14.465
at how
479
00:41:14.704 --> 00:41:16.225
inert it was,
480
00:41:16.785 --> 00:41:17.425
how
481
00:41:17.585 --> 00:41:18.865
charisma free
482
00:41:19.184 --> 00:41:20.545
Hemsworth was,
483
00:41:20.785 --> 00:41:23.265
how absolute just unengaged
484
00:41:23.265 --> 00:41:24.224
and flat
485
00:41:25.150 --> 00:41:30.670
I felt the performances were, the story was and I just was consistently
486
00:41:30.670 --> 00:41:33.630
thinking, I'm just not getting this.
487
00:41:34.350 --> 00:41:45.785
And it wasn't until probably about the last half an hour that far that I genuinely started to think, oh okay, well now at least I'm entertained, I'm watching this. But before that it was a slog
488
00:41:46.105 --> 00:41:47.945
and it was not easy
489
00:41:48.424 --> 00:41:50.025
to watch. Even
490
00:41:50.904 --> 00:41:52.984
with the last half an hour being entertained,
491
00:41:53.240 --> 00:41:58.200
I thought to myself at the end of that, I'm never going to see that movie again. That is one and done for me.
492
00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:04.760
It ain't heat no matter what it wants to be. And one character does say to another, let's go get a cup of coffee.
493
00:42:05.285 --> 00:42:08.085
Yes. Oh, God, geez, like really?
494
00:42:08.245 --> 00:42:08.805
So
495
00:42:10.005 --> 00:42:15.285
I was very unengaged with this movie. And I don't think that's what everyone thinks.
496
00:42:17.125 --> 00:42:18.485
What do you reckon, Deej?
497
00:42:19.045 --> 00:42:19.765
I agree.
498
00:42:20.550 --> 00:42:25.990
Oh, felt the same way. I felt the same way. I felt like but here's the thing.
499
00:42:27.030 --> 00:42:32.870
It it's not heat. It is heat. Right? Like, it's the same story at all.
500
00:42:33.190 --> 00:42:35.110
I was entertained
501
00:42:35.670 --> 00:42:35.910
but
502
00:42:36.605 --> 00:42:45.405
you don't have De Niro, Pacino. You don't have all of these. You don't have, you know, Val Kilmer. You don't have these actors. You don't have the
503
00:42:45.645 --> 00:42:51.244
you know, it doesn't I mean, don't get me wrong. Halle Berry, you know, Chris Helmsworth,
504
00:42:51.244 --> 00:42:51.645
know, these
505
00:42:53.050 --> 00:42:53.930
Mark Ruffalo,
506
00:42:54.650 --> 00:43:01.290
the I think what actually hurts this movie is they're trying to make heat with Marvel characters.
507
00:43:01.530 --> 00:43:02.970
So our expectations
508
00:43:02.970 --> 00:43:08.695
coming in are like, you you know, Chris Helmsworth, everything you're describing is a 100% true,
509
00:43:09.095 --> 00:43:15.415
but I think it's and again, it's like we were talking earlier about the trailers. It's like you're coming in there thinking Thor,
510
00:43:15.575 --> 00:43:28.349
you know, Storm, Hulk, and you're like, yeah. And then when they try to act act, you're like, the hell is this crap? You know what I mean? And it's like and it's not their fault. I think they do a good job. I think Chris Hemsworth,
511
00:43:28.349 --> 00:43:42.695
actually, everything you're describing is true, but I think that's the character. The idea is he's business. It's this is it's cold. It's this. It's that. But because you're you're looking at Thor, and this is the problem actors have of being typecast,
512
00:43:42.695 --> 00:43:46.055
it's hard for the audience to separate that that's not Thor.
513
00:43:46.215 --> 00:43:47.815
It doesn't have the dynamics.
514
00:43:48.080 --> 00:43:51.120
Right? This movie isn't supposed to have those dynamics.
515
00:43:51.520 --> 00:43:57.920
Yeah. But he's been good in other movies. He's not just Thor. You know, he has done I put it I mean, extraction.
516
00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:00.320
I mean, I love Exactly. But that's an action movie.
517
00:44:00.765 --> 00:44:06.685
And that's you know what I mean? So you could separate that. It's like, this is more of this is a drama.
518
00:44:06.845 --> 00:44:11.165
And you're coming in, oh, crime one zero one. Heat even heat itself.
519
00:44:11.325 --> 00:44:19.600
Heat is slow, but it's it's a slow burn that when it pays off at the shootout at the end, you're like, alright, this is what it is.
520
00:44:20.240 --> 00:44:27.839
But if it like today, if you saw heat based off our recommendation of what an amazing shootout that is, you're gonna be disappointed.
521
00:44:28.665 --> 00:44:32.985
Right? Because you're going into it thinking action, you're thinking this.
522
00:44:33.225 --> 00:44:40.985
Even that shootout, like when Todd and I talked about ambulance, you're like, that movie has a shootout in it that you're like, makes Heat seem silly.
523
00:44:41.510 --> 00:44:50.550
Because it has the dynamic sound, way more dynamic sound than heat. Way more action, the way it's shot. Why who's it? Who shot that? Was it Bruckheimer shot?
524
00:44:50.710 --> 00:44:51.270
Ambulance?
525
00:44:51.589 --> 00:45:00.535
Bay. Michael Bay. Bay. Michael Bay. Yeah. And you've got those, you know, he I mean his camera has little wheels on it because he gets so low. And it's like all of those shots.
526
00:45:00.775 --> 00:45:02.855
It the dynamics are amazing,
527
00:45:03.175 --> 00:45:09.655
but it's an action movie where heat is more of a drama. Crime one zero one is a drama. And I just think we came into it going,
528
00:45:10.830 --> 00:45:14.670
and it's like you'd have to change your mindset to I think appreciate it.
529
00:45:15.150 --> 00:45:15.790
Yeah,
530
00:45:16.910 --> 00:45:17.790
I mean,
531
00:45:17.870 --> 00:45:21.950
and it may be of course because Hemsworth character is supposed to be,
532
00:45:22.670 --> 00:45:23.950
it's almost like
533
00:45:24.665 --> 00:45:28.665
Ben Affleck in the accountant. I think he's supposed to have some personality
534
00:45:28.665 --> 00:45:30.745
defects. I think he's supposed to have
535
00:45:31.545 --> 00:45:31.945
some
536
00:45:32.345 --> 00:45:33.145
emotional
537
00:45:33.145 --> 00:45:33.865
issues.
538
00:45:35.065 --> 00:45:39.145
But if that's right, then I think you need to play it in an interesting way.
539
00:45:40.140 --> 00:45:42.300
Whereas in this he was just flat
540
00:45:42.460 --> 00:45:43.500
and dull.
541
00:45:43.900 --> 00:45:44.859
Ruffalo
542
00:45:44.859 --> 00:46:01.925
is a really good actor, he was great in Zodiac, he's great in he's been in some brilliant movies. I mean, he's an actor, I mean, Spotlight, he's great in that as well. I mean, he's an actor and Halle Berry is too. They can do drama, but for some reason this just felt very inert, very flat to me.
543
00:46:04.645 --> 00:46:06.725
Again halfway through I'm thinking, is this me?
544
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:12.160
And I thought it was because a lot of people seem to really like it, the IMDb numbers are good.
545
00:46:12.720 --> 00:46:22.480
So I was really disappointed with the movie and I must admit, I'm not, as I said, I won't see this again, don't think. Now the home theater side of it,
546
00:46:23.244 --> 00:46:23.965
I mean,
547
00:46:24.285 --> 00:46:25.405
it's no heat.
548
00:46:26.365 --> 00:46:27.005
No.
549
00:46:27.405 --> 00:46:28.605
So
550
00:46:28.605 --> 00:46:35.005
yeah, go on, sorry, DJ, go on. No, I think, I mean for Amazon, I thought it was decent for what they put out.
551
00:46:36.870 --> 00:46:40.630
I thought the audio when they they did have shootouts,
552
00:46:40.630 --> 00:46:45.830
when they did, you know, you did have some gunfire, you did have some action in there with
553
00:46:46.630 --> 00:46:49.590
that I thought was had good dynamics.
554
00:46:50.925 --> 00:46:53.565
I thought the picture had decent dynamics.
555
00:46:54.445 --> 00:46:55.965
The the cityscapes,
556
00:46:56.045 --> 00:46:58.605
I thought were good. Yes. You know? Mhmm.
557
00:46:59.965 --> 00:47:16.210
But again, this movie, I felt is it's it's way more of a drama. So I felt like the home theater side of it, it was more part and that's part of the movie. I think I don't think it was meant to have such a dynamic dynamically shot scene, you know, movie or dynamic sound.
558
00:47:17.090 --> 00:47:18.290
Because then that would have,
559
00:47:19.015 --> 00:47:21.975
if it did, if it got closer to ambulance,
560
00:47:22.215 --> 00:47:27.735
you know, it would have been felt weird with the acting that was going on, with the drama that was going on. And
561
00:47:28.375 --> 00:47:33.255
and even the character of Mark Ruffalo's character and how that how his arc went.
562
00:47:34.760 --> 00:47:41.160
It it felt yeah, it did. The entire thing felt weird, but I was entertained. You wanted to see how it turned out.
563
00:47:42.440 --> 00:47:42.920
But
564
00:47:43.240 --> 00:47:44.440
yeah. It just it
565
00:47:45.560 --> 00:47:47.640
if I remember right, I didn't even like
566
00:47:48.995 --> 00:47:57.795
I didn't think they they fleshed out the characters enough either for a movie that was two hours and twenty five minutes. Like, you didn't really like, between the Halle Berry
567
00:47:58.355 --> 00:48:14.200
and Chris Hemsworth relationship, you're like, how did that happen? Like, why? And then how Yeah. Yeah. And and and how it actually changed? You're like, how did that? And like, it just immediate it was weird. It was it felt for a two hour and twenty five minute movie, I felt like there was a part of it in the middle that was a little rushed.
568
00:48:15.435 --> 00:48:18.715
Yeah. Well, spent a lot of time on Hemsworth and this
569
00:48:19.115 --> 00:48:37.330
girl. And again, that was a weird meet cute as well. And it felt a bit weird as well. It's like, well, hang up. So I thought maybe he's casing this, you know, she's gonna become a you know, it's all a it's all a setup type thing, the town sort of thing, you know, like, you know, I'm gonna Yeah. Felt like that it's a it's a kind of flat romance
570
00:48:37.330 --> 00:48:37.970
that
571
00:48:38.130 --> 00:48:40.290
that is all a bit odd and you and and, yeah,
572
00:48:41.285 --> 00:48:46.645
they spent a lot of time building that up. And again, Hemsworth just stone.
573
00:48:47.045 --> 00:48:48.325
Her trying everything,
574
00:48:48.885 --> 00:48:53.525
why would she not just tell him to go forth and multiply with Anglo Saxon verbiage?
575
00:48:53.925 --> 00:49:15.815
Then put up with all of that, you know? So I just yeah, it was weird. It's an odd film, and not one for me that I like I said, I don't think I'd see this again. I don't think I'd buy the disc, put it that way. I don't think I would. There's not enough there to change, like even if it is a better four k experience, you know, with Atmos and all that, there's not enough there to to warrant it. Like, alright, I gotta see that scene over. No.
576
00:49:16.455 --> 00:49:26.610
Jordan's saying in the chat, he's like, I'm not joking when I say this, Pedro Pascal was originally supposed to costar with Chris Helmsworth in Crime 101, but he had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts.
577
00:49:27.010 --> 00:49:29.330
Yeah. I saw that on IMDb too.
578
00:49:29.570 --> 00:49:32.530
So was Pascal playing the Ruffalo character? Yes.
579
00:49:32.770 --> 00:49:34.050
He was supposed to play
580
00:49:34.770 --> 00:49:35.730
Ruffalo.
581
00:49:36.130 --> 00:49:40.105
Mhmm. And I I don't think that would have made the movie better or worse.
582
00:49:40.585 --> 00:49:50.425
You know, I thought I think Pascal would have been just as good as Ruffalo. Ruffalo's not I honestly, the way I I get what you're saying, but I honestly, I don't feel that the actors were the problem.
583
00:49:51.110 --> 00:50:02.950
I think it was our you know what I mean? I think they did exactly what they were supposed to do. I think the movie did exactly. It's just that typecast thing where it's just like, it sets an expectation coming into this
584
00:50:03.270 --> 00:50:04.070
and then like,
585
00:50:04.715 --> 00:50:10.235
it's just not it's just not the same. Not that I was expecting Ruffalo to run around going, me angry.
586
00:50:10.315 --> 00:50:13.515
But but you know, because I love Ruffalo
587
00:50:13.595 --> 00:50:14.235
in
588
00:50:16.155 --> 00:50:16.875
the
589
00:50:17.275 --> 00:50:18.475
Now You See Me movies.
590
00:50:19.290 --> 00:50:25.930
It's great in those, you know? And it's like, you know, and I think in this one here, another cop
591
00:50:26.170 --> 00:50:31.370
tried, you know, that literally has everything figured out, you know, and kinda was like,
592
00:50:32.135 --> 00:50:40.295
yeah, I just yeah. So so if if Pascal had to drop out and Ruffalo stepped in, do we think it was all around they're working on Doomsday?
593
00:50:40.775 --> 00:50:49.300
Do you think they were like, look, I've got two weeks free, you know, you're filming your scenes now, I'll go do this and then we'll come back. Could have been. Swapping around. Yeah.
594
00:50:49.540 --> 00:50:54.980
Yeah. It's yeah. By the way, it's apparently screened to certain people on on
595
00:50:55.460 --> 00:51:01.595
the in Disney. Some people have seen it, and they are very pleased with it apparently. Day? Yes.
596
00:51:01.595 --> 00:51:03.275
It's had its first screening.
597
00:51:03.434 --> 00:51:04.635
Yeah. I've heard Yeah.
598
00:51:05.194 --> 00:51:06.075
I've
599
00:51:06.075 --> 00:51:10.795
heard great things. And I've heard great things and they aren't done yet.
600
00:51:11.194 --> 00:51:19.910
Yeah. There's some reshoots to do but only tinkering apparently because they're so happy. Yeah. But the way I heard it was the tinkering in situations like this only improve.
601
00:51:20.070 --> 00:51:23.430
Right? Like when the movie is testing and screening so well,
602
00:51:23.830 --> 00:51:30.070
then they go back and they can they I won't say what what it is and what I heard, but it was like, they'll go back and add
603
00:51:30.310 --> 00:51:30.950
more
604
00:51:31.685 --> 00:51:39.845
to that. Right? It's not like, oh, it came back bad and now we got to fix stuff. This isn't fixing stuff. This is adding more like frosting
605
00:51:39.845 --> 00:51:43.045
on the cake, if you will. You know? And it's like
606
00:51:43.845 --> 00:51:46.645
yeah. Yeah. Word is it's testing like Infinity War.
607
00:51:47.820 --> 00:51:55.660
Yes. So it's just like Exactly. I heard the same thing, Infinity War and they're like, uh-huh. It's already testing like that.
608
00:51:56.300 --> 00:52:08.405
And Infinity War and this is, you know, the one I heard is like, when in when they did this with Infinity War, they added more frosting and that's why Infinity War did so well. Right? Yeah. Yeah. So this is already testing like that,
609
00:52:08.805 --> 00:52:09.365
which,
610
00:52:09.605 --> 00:52:22.430
know, as you and I are talking about it and hearing about this and now we're getting out and people now our expectations are raised, Right? Which kind of can hurt things. Yeah. Because then you go like, hey, where's all that frosting DJ was talking about?
611
00:52:23.309 --> 00:52:24.430
That was horrible.
612
00:52:25.630 --> 00:52:27.790
Was expecting a really good chocolate cake.
613
00:52:28.509 --> 00:52:30.990
I got a cookie. Ruined it. Ruined it with a bunch of crunch.
614
00:52:31.605 --> 00:52:32.325
Yeah.
615
00:52:33.205 --> 00:52:36.325
Yeah. I didn't even get a cookie though. Which by the way crisp.
616
00:52:36.645 --> 00:52:37.605
After
617
00:52:37.605 --> 00:52:42.805
all that last week about bunch of crunch by the way, Rach sent me via Twitter a
618
00:52:43.205 --> 00:52:50.250
link to a company over here that does import them. So that's now sorted. So from now on I should become half bunch of crunch.
619
00:52:50.730 --> 00:52:51.530
Oh,
620
00:52:51.690 --> 00:52:52.330
half.
621
00:52:53.290 --> 00:52:57.690
Have to find some. I'll have to buy some more, get them get them served up here.
622
00:52:58.089 --> 00:53:00.329
Because it's us, we're to say, hey, Fred.
623
00:53:01.055 --> 00:53:03.935
Hey, Fred. Here we go. Hey, Fred.
624
00:53:04.175 --> 00:53:07.455
Yep. That's Alright. Good. We get the name for the Freddy.
625
00:53:07.695 --> 00:53:14.255
Alright. Yeah. So I'm glad to hear. Okay. That's good. We we're off to a similar start then. I thought It's you weird when we agree.
626
00:53:15.490 --> 00:53:33.535
Yeah. No. I know. I did not love it. No. No. Wasn't even the thing I thought maybe I was worried you were gonna love it, I would have to go into my, like, I really I get what they did. Like, everything I said. I that's what I was gonna say. But if you had loved it, I would have been like, this is why I didn't like it, this is what my expectations were. So There we go. See? Oh, wow.
627
00:53:34.655 --> 00:53:35.375
Alright.
628
00:53:35.775 --> 00:53:37.455
Alright. So we had that.
629
00:53:37.935 --> 00:53:41.135
Alright. Now, what would you like to do? I've got
630
00:53:41.535 --> 00:53:49.260
how many do I have oh, yeah. I've got two there. I got some other stuff that I could still do. Let me ask you this. Did I ever do this one?
631
00:53:50.300 --> 00:53:57.900
No, you didn't. You were gonna sell this. Okay. So we'll do that later. I'll do that. So why don't you do one? Why don't you pick one then I'll do Well, let me do then
632
00:53:59.895 --> 00:54:02.775
alright. Well, let me do a quick twofer because it's the same director.
633
00:54:02.935 --> 00:54:12.695
Okay. Let's start with the start with the the one that's the the subway car down at the bottom there, third in from the right fourth in from the right. There you that's it. Keep going left.
634
00:54:13.119 --> 00:54:40.395
That's it. Yeah. Okay. What's the other one so I could put them next to each other? What's red writing. The red writing, red screen on the right hand side there. Gotcha. That one there. Yeah. Just double check. I can do that. I could put them next to each other. There we go. Two for two horror movies in one. Oh, two they're alright. Yeah. I have a question. What's a horror comedy? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Here we go. Alright. This is in date order as well. Okay. So, yeah. We're gonna do a quick two for then because these are movies I've watched recently.
635
00:54:41.140 --> 00:54:42.420
Holger, you'll love
636
00:54:42.740 --> 00:54:44.900
the fact that that is written in German.
637
00:54:45.460 --> 00:54:47.540
So we're going to do Creep,
638
00:54:47.780 --> 00:54:51.940
which is this one, which is on Blu ray. The reason there are German
639
00:54:52.420 --> 00:55:01.255
titles along the bottom there is because I have to import the German Blu ray. This is not available as far as I can tell, easily at least in The UK.
640
00:55:01.495 --> 00:55:03.495
German for audio is audio?
641
00:55:03.895 --> 00:55:04.535
Yeah,
642
00:55:04.775 --> 00:55:06.535
we'll look at And bonus.
643
00:55:07.255 --> 00:55:07.815
Yes.
644
00:55:08.135 --> 00:55:09.335
Also film tips.
645
00:55:10.750 --> 00:55:11.630
Yeah.
646
00:55:12.589 --> 00:55:13.950
I'm sure that's yeah.
647
00:55:14.190 --> 00:55:16.589
I I yeah. I don't I yeah. I don't know.
648
00:55:17.150 --> 00:55:17.869
So
649
00:55:18.509 --> 00:55:20.190
At least it doesn't say show me.
650
00:55:20.509 --> 00:55:22.349
Show me. Me. Show
651
00:55:22.589 --> 00:55:23.630
So film.
652
00:55:23.789 --> 00:55:25.150
Yeah. Film movie.
653
00:55:25.665 --> 00:55:28.065
This is three so this is 2004
654
00:55:28.225 --> 00:55:37.665
directed by Christopher Smith, who also directed the next movie we're going to talk about. And and this is a movie that I love. I've seen this lots of times, but not recently.
655
00:55:37.850 --> 00:55:42.890
And And it just came to mind because I watched the second one we're going to talk about in a minute, I watched on four ks disc.
656
00:55:43.130 --> 00:55:50.650
And that's why I want to do, I went on IMDb and then sure enough it said, directed creep. And then I thought, oh, right, well, that's it. Let
657
00:55:50.650 --> 00:55:53.450
me see if I could find it. And sure enough, there's a German version.
658
00:55:54.225 --> 00:56:00.545
However, oh, okay, and Dom saying it released on Blu ray in France. Okay, so this is a German version, but it plays in,
659
00:56:00.865 --> 00:56:07.745
well obviously 1080p but in DTS HD 5.1 in English and then obviously up next to NeuralX, you just turn off the German subtitles
660
00:56:09.420 --> 00:56:16.540
Because that can be an issue sometimes. So this movie I've seen as I said multiple times, including in the theaters. So the story goes, we have a
661
00:56:17.980 --> 00:56:19.420
marketing executive
662
00:56:19.820 --> 00:56:21.500
who is and she is
663
00:56:22.425 --> 00:56:26.345
going out on the town in London. She's on this hunt for George Clooney.
664
00:56:26.585 --> 00:56:40.660
She's heard he's in town in London and so she thinks right, well I'm going to find where he is and she stumbles having had a bit to drink into a tube station, so an underground station. She sits down for a rest whilst waiting for the train and she falls asleep.
665
00:56:40.900 --> 00:56:42.980
And when she wakes up, it's cleared,
666
00:56:43.859 --> 00:56:45.380
the station is closed
667
00:56:46.020 --> 00:56:46.740
and
668
00:56:47.220 --> 00:56:52.180
very quickly begins to realize she's not alone in these tunnels.
669
00:56:53.154 --> 00:56:54.435
And much,
670
00:56:54.674 --> 00:56:55.954
much gore
671
00:56:55.954 --> 00:56:57.875
and violence ensues.
672
00:56:58.595 --> 00:56:59.635
And that
673
00:56:59.635 --> 00:57:01.955
hand on the window there ain't Titanic.
674
00:57:02.835 --> 00:57:04.515
It's a very different hand on the window.
675
00:57:05.970 --> 00:57:10.370
So things go badly wrong and it's got Sean Harris is in it, he's playing
676
00:57:10.609 --> 00:57:11.970
one of these creatures.
677
00:57:12.770 --> 00:57:14.450
And it's a really
678
00:57:15.570 --> 00:57:16.530
evocative,
679
00:57:16.530 --> 00:57:20.369
really dark messed up movie and
680
00:57:19.955 --> 00:57:22.195
there is a sort of prototype You love that.
681
00:57:22.595 --> 00:57:25.155
Well, there's a surgery sequence in it,
682
00:57:25.475 --> 00:57:26.195
is a
683
00:57:26.515 --> 00:57:28.835
woman on a gurney and then you've got this thing
684
00:57:29.235 --> 00:57:31.475
about to operate and she's wide awake.
685
00:57:32.369 --> 00:57:38.369
Now pre Terrifier, I would have told you that was horrendous, but once you've seen Terrifier, suddenly this ain't so bad. But anyway,
686
00:57:39.329 --> 00:57:48.155
so it's still a great film, it really is a very, it's a lean and mean, nasty little movie, but it's great for all those reasons.
687
00:57:49.115 --> 00:57:53.915
And I highly recommend this Blu ray. So if you want to get the French one, get that or the German one, that.
688
00:57:54.395 --> 00:58:00.800
Yes, Franke Potente, yeah, thank you Dom. And Paul F, yes, she was in Run Lola Run, that's right. And she's really good in this.
689
00:58:01.760 --> 00:58:06.480
It's a great identity. What else was she in recently? She was in something else I just saw.
690
00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:14.000
Oh, yeah. No. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. You could look her up at IMDb while I'm doing my thing. Yeah. Yeah. Can't remember. She's really good. She's really good in this.
691
00:58:14.480 --> 00:58:16.555
And this is a set of 2,004.
692
00:58:16.635 --> 00:58:21.755
So having bought the disc and it was only cheap, was like £11 on Amazon and that was imported.
693
00:58:22.635 --> 00:58:27.275
I'm really pleased to report the disc is a really good one. So decent black levels,
694
00:58:27.800 --> 00:58:32.040
decent detail for a 1080p disc, the shadow detail is good.
695
00:58:32.680 --> 00:58:40.680
It's not perfect but it is good and bear in mind 2004 of course it would have been shot on film and you can tell that through some of the grain, but it's not distracting.
696
00:58:41.505 --> 00:58:55.345
The audio up mixed to Neural X is actually really decent as well. There's quite a sequence right at the beginning with two people walking through sewer tunnels and again you've got water dripping from right overhead, you can hear distant
697
00:58:55.650 --> 00:58:58.849
tube trains going, can, you know, all that kind of stuff.
698
00:58:59.410 --> 00:59:03.170
It's really well done. It's gruesome, it's gory,
699
00:59:03.410 --> 00:59:04.770
it's really enjoyable
700
00:59:04.770 --> 00:59:06.690
and if you're
701
00:59:06.690 --> 00:59:14.805
watching this or listening and that sounds like your kind of movie, give this a go, I think you'll really enjoy it. So that's creep, okay? So that's 2004.
702
00:59:14.805 --> 00:59:15.925
So two years later,
703
00:59:16.325 --> 00:59:17.685
Christopher Smith
704
00:59:17.845 --> 00:59:18.724
gives us
705
00:59:19.924 --> 00:59:23.445
right, here we this one which is then severance,
706
00:59:24.244 --> 00:59:27.070
which is '2 thousand and 6. Those that are good with maths.
707
00:59:27.790 --> 00:59:38.670
Yeah. '2 thousand and 4 plus two, two thousand and six, there you go. So this is Severance and this was his follow-up movie and this time now this is four ks. Alright, so four k UHD disc
708
00:59:39.115 --> 00:59:42.795
and with DTS HD master audio again up next to NeuralX.
709
00:59:42.875 --> 00:59:50.395
Now I bought this on that trip to London. I bought this in a multi buy deal with a number of movies in HMV in London
710
00:59:51.035 --> 00:59:53.195
and this was before I met Todd and picked up all the others.
711
00:59:54.720 --> 01:00:01.760
I had not seen this movie and I didn't know much about it. But because it was part of these three for £50
712
01:00:02.160 --> 01:00:04.560
thing, I thought well, is my time to see it.
713
01:00:05.119 --> 01:00:06.480
And it's another horror movie,
714
01:00:07.525 --> 01:00:09.925
albeit a horror comedy this time.
715
01:00:10.245 --> 01:00:17.445
And we've got starring Danny Dyer, who's someone that no one outside of The United Kingdom would have ever heard of, that's the guy on the left in that picture.
716
01:00:17.925 --> 01:00:20.005
Who is someone though may I say, I have met him.
717
01:00:20.720 --> 01:00:22.000
He's
718
01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:24.080
a deep nice enough chap, he's actually quite fun.
719
01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:30.960
But he's the sort of the eponymous hero of this. And what we have is a group of inept office workers
720
01:00:31.359 --> 01:00:32.560
are going to
721
01:00:32.799 --> 01:00:34.960
a sort of an away retreat
722
01:00:34.960 --> 01:00:38.435
in Hungary, I think it's Hungary if I remember rightly.
723
01:00:39.555 --> 01:00:42.195
They fly over, they get on this bus,
724
01:00:42.675 --> 01:00:50.195
the bus then encounters an issue and they suddenly find themselves in the middle of the woods being pursued by nasty peeps.
725
01:00:51.390 --> 01:00:54.990
And much violence and hot comedy ensues,
726
01:00:55.150 --> 01:01:01.869
but it's very bloody, it's very gory and there are some fun story conventions that they mess with here. Like in most horror movies,
727
01:01:02.585 --> 01:01:04.425
or many horror movies anyway,
728
01:01:04.585 --> 01:01:05.785
they start with a
729
01:01:06.424 --> 01:01:18.369
little mini story, don't they, of like the end of someone else's movie, where you'll get a little bit where someone is running through the woods and then they get killed and then it's kind of three days later or three
730
01:01:18.369 --> 01:01:21.010
days before or anything like that. But this film,
731
01:01:21.410 --> 01:01:26.130
you catch up to that earlier bit as the movie goes on, which I thought was quite interesting.
732
01:01:26.930 --> 01:01:29.250
But it's fun, it's disposable,
733
01:01:29.490 --> 01:01:32.930
it's a bit silly, but it's a good film and it is
734
01:01:33.465 --> 01:01:34.025
And
735
01:01:34.585 --> 01:01:38.585
I do recommend the four ks disc because this by now of course 2006,
736
01:01:38.585 --> 01:01:39.705
we're shooting digitally,
737
01:01:39.865 --> 01:01:44.025
it looks really nice, they shot it in the woods, they've done it properly.
738
01:01:44.505 --> 01:01:48.905
It's really, really detailed, it's a lot of fun and the sound is great as well because it's but
739
01:01:49.680 --> 01:01:55.440
there aren't many gunshots in here, can see she's got a gun there, but there's not a lot of shooting. But there are lots of bones snapping.
740
01:01:56.079 --> 01:01:58.640
And so if you want to hear that in Neuralx,
741
01:01:58.640 --> 01:01:59.920
this is the place for you.
742
01:02:00.960 --> 01:02:07.895
But it's good. It's a lot of fun and I enjoyed it and I've never seen it. So at the end of it, I was thinking this is actually really really good.
743
01:02:08.454 --> 01:02:19.630
So two there, highly recommended and both directed by Christopher Smith. So So that Yeah. Well, we're picking up. Different. There's the Apple show too. Right? Severance? Is that do I have that right? Yeah. Is this is Completely
744
01:02:20.270 --> 01:02:23.150
different. Completely different. Yeah. Oh. Oh, yeah. Okay.
745
01:02:23.310 --> 01:02:28.750
Yeah. Because I saw you put that in a while ago. Was like, that not the show. And I'm like, yeah, I hadn't heard of it. But
746
01:02:29.715 --> 01:02:32.275
Yeah. Very different. And actually you've seen people saying,
747
01:02:32.915 --> 01:02:42.275
yeah, so Dom says even better than Creep. Oh, I wouldn't go that far Dom. I do like it. Oh, really? Creep is more my thing because yeah, I do like but it is very good.
748
01:02:42.675 --> 01:02:49.530
And Jordan saying one of my all time favorite horror comedy, Don't regret getting the really cool four k release. Yep. So that fair enough.
749
01:02:49.849 --> 01:02:52.250
And Paul says, it's this movie.
750
01:02:52.730 --> 01:02:54.490
I remember the reviews.
751
01:02:55.130 --> 01:02:56.490
I'm not sure what you mean by that, Paul.
752
01:02:58.655 --> 01:03:07.615
And then Dom saying it's super fun. So, yeah, I agree. It it is fun. It is worth seeing. I don't know if it's available on that side of the pond. It's a very British movie.
753
01:03:07.855 --> 01:03:13.510
I just looked it up on it's not on Collade Escape. So Yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's an
754
01:03:13.910 --> 01:03:24.310
ultra British film with British actors. There's one American actress in it. That's the girl on right. Although she's doing an American accent, I'm not sure if she's American, at least she is. But everybody else is ultra British.
755
01:03:24.795 --> 01:03:27.595
So I think this is a Ultra British. Well,
756
01:03:28.075 --> 01:03:29.115
are just British.
757
01:03:29.515 --> 01:03:37.915
You got extra British in here. You've got Tim McHenry in it from Blackadder and you've got the guy that was the villain in Tomorrow Never Dies and it's all
758
01:03:38.555 --> 01:03:39.355
very very British.
759
01:03:40.930 --> 01:03:41.570
Right.
760
01:03:42.210 --> 01:03:42.930
So Donald Worth is in
761
01:03:43.810 --> 01:03:47.330
it. Yeah, well no indeed, indeed, not quite. But it's just worth knowing if
762
01:03:47.810 --> 01:03:57.785
an American movie fan and you're looking for American movies, this ain't it, this is very British. But it's got that British sense of humor. So it is very, very funny as well as ultra gory.
763
01:03:58.984 --> 01:03:59.865
Okay,
764
01:04:00.905 --> 01:04:01.945
so TSG So says
765
01:04:02.505 --> 01:04:11.070
sorry, just TSG says I've not seen creep in ages, we'll need to find it. As I said, it's importable on Amazon TSG and severance is available 3 for £50 from HMB.
766
01:04:11.230 --> 01:04:16.030
So you know, it's a steal at that. You absolutely do it. You know, you owe it to yourself.
767
01:04:18.510 --> 01:04:19.150
Alright.
768
01:04:19.790 --> 01:04:20.030
Alright.
769
01:04:21.485 --> 01:04:24.925
Little I don't I do you even remember why I watched this?
770
01:04:25.245 --> 01:04:26.125
I forget.
771
01:04:26.205 --> 01:04:28.365
Just came up. One I was talking Well,
772
01:04:29.085 --> 01:04:34.925
I did review yeah. I did review it. You reviewed it a while ago, but why did I just all of a sudden just like War movies?
773
01:04:35.820 --> 01:04:44.300
Yeah. It might have been. Because you know what? I can do a two for two as well. I don't know. Okay. Gonna I'm do a two for that I think is pretty
774
01:04:44.860 --> 01:04:45.500
funny.
775
01:04:47.420 --> 01:04:51.915
So alright. Let's go with this one. So I will start with the
776
01:04:52.635 --> 01:04:53.915
I mean, it's this
777
01:04:54.474 --> 01:05:00.395
isn't new to the podcast. I think I've reviewed it before myself when I did it alone. I think and you've done it. I mean,
778
01:05:01.089 --> 01:05:03.090
if I remember correctly,
779
01:05:04.369 --> 01:05:06.850
they won the Academy Award for Best Sound.
780
01:05:08.130 --> 01:05:15.569
And it's one of those movies that's it is. It's a juggernaut of sound all the way through. I mean, I don't know how much more I can say.
781
01:05:16.755 --> 01:05:21.714
But other than I did watch it, take it in again, we're talking about Black Hawk Down
782
01:05:22.595 --> 01:05:25.315
from Theatrical director's cut, teach?
783
01:05:26.194 --> 01:05:28.515
I believe it was theatrical.
784
01:05:28.595 --> 01:05:30.835
I'd have to look it up and which one it is.
785
01:05:32.250 --> 01:05:34.170
What it was on Kaleidoscope.
786
01:05:34.490 --> 01:05:35.130
So
787
01:05:35.530 --> 01:05:37.690
let's see. Black Hawk.
788
01:05:38.490 --> 01:05:41.690
There we go. Yep. Kaleidoscope, Dolby Atmos.
789
01:05:41.850 --> 01:05:42.490
And
790
01:05:43.130 --> 01:05:48.595
yeah, it is yeah, it's just the standard, it looks like. It's just the standard version.
791
01:05:49.395 --> 01:05:49.955
So
792
01:05:50.915 --> 01:05:53.795
but yeah. This is one of those you forget
793
01:05:55.155 --> 01:06:01.955
how good it is. And it's what was that from? '90 not '90. It's from 02/2023,
794
01:06:02.400 --> 01:06:05.760
something like that, early on. Yeah. Was. 2001,
795
01:06:05.839 --> 01:06:12.080
2000 Yeah. Was. Because I think the first version we had was on blue on DVD. That's 2001.
796
01:06:12.160 --> 01:06:17.520
Then you get in the Blu ray because this and it it is. It's it's, you know, Jerry Bruckheimer
797
01:06:18.815 --> 01:06:19.455
production,
798
01:06:19.615 --> 01:06:21.375
Ridley Scott. I mean, it's amazing.
799
01:06:21.535 --> 01:06:24.015
It's I mean, action film. But it's
800
01:06:25.135 --> 01:06:27.295
when you hear, you know, Ridley Scott,
801
01:06:27.615 --> 01:06:28.895
Jerry Bruckheimer,
802
01:06:28.895 --> 01:06:29.694
but this happened,
803
01:06:30.260 --> 01:06:37.540
you know, and then they take it, it is, you know, kinda like you're talking about, I know Saving Private Ryan didn't happen exactly,
804
01:06:37.540 --> 01:06:51.724
you know, that didn't happen. They took a story and put it into World War two like that, but this happened. And this is what these guys go through and or went through and you have I mean, I think even when I saw I remember the first time I saw it, Eric Banyas character
805
01:06:52.605 --> 01:06:58.820
in that movie, it's like the arc of that character all the way through the movie, you know, just like, yeah, that's what these guy
806
01:06:59.460 --> 01:07:00.420
at the beginning,
807
01:07:00.980 --> 01:07:04.980
I I I've always found him to be not the most interesting because
808
01:07:05.780 --> 01:07:09.540
what's his name too? Tom Sizemore. His character is pretty fun too.
809
01:07:10.125 --> 01:07:10.845
Fun,
810
01:07:11.005 --> 01:07:21.805
but it's like but I thought Eric Banya because at the beginning, you're just like, oh, this cocky guy, this you know, your perspective or perception of him is is different. And then by the end of the movie,
811
01:07:22.205 --> 01:07:24.125
you're like the same with you and MacGregor.
812
01:07:24.819 --> 01:07:47.185
Right? Like, at the beginning of the movie, his story arc or her yeah. His character's arc is that you would think being a desk jockey and he's like, oh, he's almost like he's playing it up. Right? Like he doesn't want to go into battle and he's like, oh, I can't. I've got this issue. And then all of a sudden this happens like, nope, you're up. We don't care about your issue. Well, you gotta go.
813
01:07:47.425 --> 01:07:56.430
And he embraced it. Right? And then, you know, it by the end of the movie, his his arc it's I think, you know, now that I think of it, it's like everybody's
814
01:07:57.150 --> 01:07:58.110
arc is
815
01:07:58.190 --> 01:08:00.670
if they made it to the end of the movie,
816
01:08:00.830 --> 01:08:03.965
you know, it's but the home theater experience
817
01:08:03.965 --> 01:08:04.605
is,
818
01:08:04.925 --> 01:08:13.565
you know, like, I'd say like no other, but we were lucky enough that we have so many of these and, you know, it's like Pacific Rim
819
01:08:13.565 --> 01:08:15.660
meets Gravity meets,
820
01:08:15.740 --> 01:08:19.179
you know, you know, name you know, Apocalypse Now.
821
01:08:19.500 --> 01:08:24.380
And that's what this movie is. It's like, I mean, it has base galore,
822
01:08:24.700 --> 01:08:32.195
you know, between and I know it's Black Hawk, so you've got helicopter rotors, you got the different helicopters, but that's it's it's barely,
823
01:08:32.355 --> 01:08:37.315
you know, Blackhawk down is because it's, you know, that's the creative title of what happened.
824
01:08:37.635 --> 01:08:55.870
But then you have the humvees going through the city, you have that, you know, the different parts of the city too. Right? The sound the way the sound changes when you go into the that militarized zone, if you wanna call it, is like where it's it's hell in there. And then when they come out, if you're at the stadium where they're staging all of this stuff,
825
01:08:56.955 --> 01:09:02.554
the different sounds, the different atmospherics that you're getting out of this movie, the Atmos really, you know,
826
01:09:02.875 --> 01:09:03.755
plays that
827
01:09:04.074 --> 01:09:04.954
really well.
828
01:09:05.435 --> 01:09:08.955
And it had been a while since I'd seen it, probably
829
01:09:09.700 --> 01:09:22.500
a couple of years. And if you haven't seen it in a while, take it in again and you'll get it you know, every time you see this movie, you'll get a new appreciation for different things and that you'll have forgotten stuff. And but then the home theater side of it is
830
01:09:22.900 --> 01:09:26.505
what is it? Two and a half hours? Something like that? Yeah. Yeah.
831
01:09:26.665 --> 01:09:28.425
So it's like but
832
01:09:29.385 --> 01:09:36.025
you're entertained the whole time. In a good way, bad way, everything. And it's but but yeah,
833
01:09:36.425 --> 01:09:37.305
so much
834
01:09:38.160 --> 01:09:40.560
It's an amazing movie, I agree. And
835
01:09:41.040 --> 01:09:45.120
certainly from my memory, I'm just looking up the runtime now. From my
836
01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:47.920
I can get it here quick, 02:20 Yes,
837
01:09:48.640 --> 01:09:53.445
so 02:24 but the director's cut adds about another twenty odd minutes to it. It does And quite a bit to
838
01:09:54.485 --> 01:09:55.045
again,
839
01:09:55.525 --> 01:10:00.164
it doesn't add entirely new sequences but it does add additions and extensions
840
01:10:00.485 --> 01:10:06.405
and some of that does actually add to the characters, it helps to kind of differentiate them a bit more, it is character stuff.
841
01:10:07.230 --> 01:10:11.229
So I do recommend the director's cut. And the the four k disc has both,
842
01:10:11.550 --> 01:10:21.389
so you can choose between them. You know, it's Sony disc. In four k, you can do? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You've got the director's cut. It's why I see this branching. So you've got the director's cut and then the theatrical version.
843
01:10:22.875 --> 01:10:25.034
So, yeah, it's really good. We Crazy
844
01:10:25.835 --> 01:10:42.830
huge cast, as Jordan say. It's like crazy how big of a cast Black Hawk Down when you look up who appears in it. Numerous actors went on to have pretty big careers afterwards. Well, there's a very baby faced Tom Hardy in it, course. He's in it for quite a long time as well. So he he's in there and and as well as Orlando Bloom and all these sorts of people.
845
01:10:43.630 --> 01:10:50.135
But but yeah. No. It's great. It's his Same shepherd. Yeah. It's like Yeah. Mean, it's It's awesome. And obviously,
846
01:10:50.695 --> 01:10:52.614
what's his face as well? Josh Hartnett. Yeah,
847
01:10:53.335 --> 01:10:55.094
Josh Hartnett, the guy from
848
01:10:55.655 --> 01:10:59.415
William Fitchner, Bill Fitchner of course is in it as well, who's really good in this.
849
01:11:00.055 --> 01:11:05.680
But yeah, no, it's good. The detail levels are fantastic as well. I mean, you look at the sequence with when
850
01:11:05.680 --> 01:11:18.160
MacGregor gets grinds, isn't it grimsy when he gets blown up with the RPG. And if you look at then the grit on his eye as he opens his eye and look at the reflections in the eye and then those little bits of grit in the close-up, it looks awesome.
851
01:11:18.804 --> 01:11:19.684
But
852
01:11:19.684 --> 01:11:24.885
the audio is great. And at the beginning when you first get that kind of percussive kind of bass,
853
01:11:25.125 --> 01:11:31.204
a beat to the music at the beginning, it goes like doom doom doom doom doom doom, and the whole wall of the screen
854
01:11:32.980 --> 01:11:39.380
you know, feels like you're just in this giant auditorium again. It just opens out and it's so wide. Yeah. It's How
855
01:11:40.179 --> 01:11:43.940
about the the two that get left behind? They told the whole dog
856
01:11:44.900 --> 01:11:48.605
Yeah. Mhmm. Tom Hardy is one of them. Right? Yeah. And then
857
01:11:48.925 --> 01:11:56.925
and the other guy that's with him is like, don't do that again because he keeps shooting the gun and he can't hear. That gunfire
858
01:11:57.245 --> 01:12:02.820
is like, I mean, you are in your room and you're like, yeah, don't do that again. It's like
859
01:12:03.380 --> 01:12:08.100
yeah. It's and that was I thought of not a fun, but an interesting piece
860
01:12:08.500 --> 01:12:26.244
that doesn't happen in action movies. Like, they're firing these guns and it's like, none of them lose their hearing, none of them have issues and you're just like, you know, your action movie doesn't matter. But here, they actually said, like, the guy's like, I can't hear. He and then then they're supposed to be sneaking down the street. He's like, where do you want me to go?
861
01:12:26.804 --> 01:12:27.604
It's like,
862
01:12:28.645 --> 01:12:29.525
quiet.
863
01:12:29.605 --> 01:12:30.725
We're trying to sneak.
864
01:12:31.520 --> 01:12:43.760
The other advantage, by the way, the four k, I found is it's also easier to differentiate between the soldiers because of the other detail levels. I think the first couple of times I saw this, it was like, yeah, it could be anyone.
865
01:12:43.760 --> 01:12:50.844
I kind of long since forgotten who was who. But when you're watching it in four ks and again the director's cut because there's these extra character beats,
866
01:12:51.245 --> 01:12:53.005
you then find it easier
867
01:12:53.005 --> 01:13:00.525
to differentiate, oh, okay, he's him, that's why he was doing, that's where he was. And that needs something that I know they really,
868
01:13:00.605 --> 01:13:06.340
really agonized over in terms of look, we don't want these all to look the same. We do want you to But know who is
869
01:13:07.700 --> 01:13:11.620
I think four ks helps do that because you can see them more clearly.
870
01:13:11.860 --> 01:13:12.340
Yeah,
871
01:13:12.740 --> 01:13:14.980
disc, great film. So my twofer?
872
01:13:15.425 --> 01:13:18.785
Yeah, what's your other one? My other war
873
01:13:18.785 --> 01:13:20.065
type movie,
874
01:13:21.665 --> 01:13:24.625
you can call it a guilty pleasure, you can call it what you want,
875
01:13:25.025 --> 01:13:30.385
but I do think this should get an upgrade someday because it is it's a fun movie
876
01:13:30.930 --> 01:13:31.570
that
877
01:13:32.930 --> 01:13:38.850
let's just say that that people have talked about it and said, it's actually closer than you think.
878
01:13:39.330 --> 01:13:41.090
And so here we go. Oh,
879
01:13:42.690 --> 01:13:43.410
dear.
880
01:13:46.425 --> 01:13:48.824
Here we go. Good night everybody.
881
01:13:49.065 --> 01:13:51.465
That's the response I wanted.
882
01:13:51.864 --> 01:13:53.224
Navy SEALs.
883
01:13:53.625 --> 01:13:54.504
Oh,
884
01:13:54.585 --> 01:13:58.264
God. Yes. So yeah, Navy SEALs.
885
01:13:58.985 --> 01:14:01.545
Missed the Bricks.
886
01:14:00.710 --> 01:14:03.510
Missed the Bricks from 1990.
887
01:14:04.310 --> 01:14:06.790
Mhmm. This is from 1990.
888
01:14:06.790 --> 01:14:11.830
I have it on Kaleidoscope. I have it. I've owned this in almost pretty much every iteration.
889
01:14:12.285 --> 01:14:14.525
It's on HD on Kaleidoscope,
890
01:14:14.605 --> 01:14:16.685
DTS Master Audio 5.1,
891
01:14:16.685 --> 01:14:18.125
nicely up mixed.
892
01:14:19.485 --> 01:14:25.565
It is not a home theater juggernaut. It is grainy as hell. It is it's not I mean,
893
01:14:26.410 --> 01:14:32.409
I I wish it would get a four k upgrade. We've had worse movies get four k upgrades.
894
01:14:32.410 --> 01:14:33.929
Right? I
895
01:14:33.930 --> 01:14:37.290
mean, that is not a ringing endorsement of this. But
896
01:14:38.490 --> 01:14:41.210
but it's funny because I was listening to
897
01:14:42.155 --> 01:14:45.275
I was listening to Charlie Sheen on Rogan
898
01:14:45.515 --> 01:14:47.434
and then I heard he was on
899
01:14:47.755 --> 01:14:54.315
over there on Rogan and I heard them say something about like he was on a podcast like a seals podcast
900
01:14:54.440 --> 01:14:58.599
that had been on Rogue and I forget which one it was. So I went and listened to that one as well.
901
01:14:59.080 --> 01:15:02.280
And I had heard this before but it was interesting to hear, it's like,
902
01:15:03.320 --> 01:15:06.679
there are seals that became seals because of this movie.
903
01:15:08.705 --> 01:15:24.300
Yeah. And the and the seals actually, like these are legit seals. Right? It's not like, this is like the seals version of like what Top Gun did for, you know, naval aviation and this is what and they and they say like, this is a ridiculous movie.
904
01:15:25.100 --> 01:15:32.460
But what they're saying about it is like, these guy that's these guys, they are that ridiculous. These are the smartest of the smart.
905
01:15:32.955 --> 01:15:55.300
They're that you know, seals are very very smart people. These aren't like dumb jock type people. They you have to be super intelligent to be a seal. Never mind the physical condition stuff. Right? But the other part was and the seals will tell you is like, that's what the seals are. They're not the big Arnold Schwarzenegger looking guys. And they have Dennis Haysbert's in this as well. So they
906
01:15:55.780 --> 01:16:00.099
aren't these big mammoth guys. They're normal looking
907
01:16:00.180 --> 01:16:04.005
guys that can do these extraordinary things.
908
01:16:04.405 --> 01:16:10.165
And that's what makes it and the the scene where he Charlie Sheen jumps out of the Jeep and off the bridge,
909
01:16:10.405 --> 01:16:17.605
that was based on a guy that did that. That they said and like Charlie Sheen said, somebody came up to him or something like that or whatever it was, you know, Seals.
910
01:16:18.940 --> 01:16:32.619
What was oh, he was telling a story of being at a baseball game, a a Major League Baseball game in a box with his dad for his birthday and next to him were some Seals or in a different box and they ended up hanging out and it was because of like a movie like this
911
01:16:33.075 --> 01:16:37.075
or this movie. And they're like, oh my god, we you know? So but anyways,
912
01:16:37.475 --> 01:16:43.955
I have a blast with this. John and I I think John and I saw this together in the theaters back in 1990.
913
01:16:45.155 --> 01:16:46.995
But yeah, it's it
914
01:16:48.199 --> 01:16:51.159
what do you call what's his name? Michael Bane.
915
01:16:51.400 --> 01:16:55.639
Mhmm. Mhmm. And, you know, he was, you know, hot off of his
916
01:16:56.040 --> 01:16:59.239
Terminator, and he was gonna be in t two supposedly
917
01:16:59.320 --> 01:17:02.600
and barely was. But but
918
01:17:01.845 --> 01:17:02.725
spoilers,
919
01:17:02.725 --> 01:17:03.925
he died in the first one.
920
01:17:04.325 --> 01:17:19.260
Bill Paxton's in this, like I said, Dennis Haysbert, who we didn't know at the time, didn't really know him back then. But but, yeah, I have a blast with this. But I wish it would get because there are so many dark scenes, there's so many great scenes that could use four k.
921
01:17:19.820 --> 01:17:22.780
A nice up even if they did a different,
922
01:17:22.780 --> 01:17:26.780
you know, maybe cleaned up the audio a little bit, give a little more separation.
923
01:17:27.659 --> 01:17:29.900
But yeah, was a lot of fun. But you hate it?
924
01:17:30.855 --> 01:17:34.534
I mean I think I've seen it once. I have to admit,
925
01:17:35.094 --> 01:17:39.655
I've been put off it by, again Dom saying, by Kevin Smith and Clerks.
926
01:17:40.614 --> 01:17:41.014
And baby
927
01:17:42.934 --> 01:17:50.270
I've seen it, I think I've seen it a couple of times if not once. Yeah. And I remember thinking it was just absolute nonsense.
928
01:17:50.510 --> 01:17:59.630
But in but in an era when these movies could be nonsense. I mean, you know, this was not really a different wasn't Tom's saying it's in four
929
01:18:00.735 --> 01:18:04.255
Oh, with that. Well, there you go, Deesh. Well, look forward to that.
930
01:18:06.175 --> 01:18:06.894
Yay.
931
01:18:07.215 --> 01:18:23.489
Dom, I think you just ruined Steve's day. Yeah. Because Steve's like, great. I'm gonna have to listen to this crap again. Oh, no, man. It was in an era like with Missing in Action, you know, had been and gone, you know, where where even first part two It is. That I don't think is Limited. Because these,
932
01:18:24.130 --> 01:18:27.650
you know, they Limited edition, six only 6,000 copies,
933
01:18:28.485 --> 01:18:34.405
Navy Seals, four k Blu ray. So 6,000 and they've got 5,999
934
01:18:34.405 --> 01:18:35.045
left.
935
01:18:38.085 --> 01:18:40.965
Oh, god. That's so great. Man.
936
01:18:41.125 --> 01:18:48.519
But yeah. I'm in the You're right. There it is. Yeah. Well, you should you should pick it up, Dadez. You should. I am.
937
01:18:48.920 --> 01:18:53.559
There's only three left. So see, 5997
938
01:18:53.559 --> 01:18:54.599
have been sold.
939
01:18:55.159 --> 01:19:04.175
I'm just kidding. There's only three left. Free delivery April 17 to the twentieth, so it's not it's not shipping till the next day. But not I'm not gonna have it.
940
01:19:04.495 --> 01:19:05.054
Well
941
01:19:05.455 --> 01:19:09.855
Oh, no. That's pretty soon. So in a couple days, I may have it for next week. Oh my god.
942
01:19:10.739 --> 01:19:13.219
Well, come on, CollideScape, get on the ball.
943
01:19:15.460 --> 01:19:18.099
Yeah, they're Clerks fans as well, obviously.
944
01:19:20.900 --> 01:19:21.459
But
945
01:19:21.780 --> 01:19:23.059
yeah, no, it's
946
01:19:23.300 --> 01:19:26.019
not one that I need to own, it's not one I need to watch again.
947
01:19:26.875 --> 01:19:30.314
I'd I'd yeah. It it I'm happy for it to remain in the past.
948
01:19:31.034 --> 01:19:34.954
Thanks, Tom. Yeah. Appreciate it, buddy. Here we go.
949
01:19:35.355 --> 01:19:36.314
Here we go.
950
01:19:36.875 --> 01:19:48.230
It's like and note well, he said it's only available in The States, you don't have to worry about it. Don't think you're important in that one. No. No. No. No. Like I said, I I wouldn't buy it if it was out in four k here, let alone in The US.
951
01:19:49.110 --> 01:19:58.925
And even and, honestly, what if if I if if someone bought it for me, I still don't think I'd watch it. It's just not I don't I don't feel the pull of that film unlike movies.
952
01:19:58.925 --> 01:20:13.500
That was a subtle hit. DJ, do not buy that and have it shipped to me. No one buy that. I yeah. Don't anybody get buy that for me. I will not yeah. I I gotta yeah. Well, that's still better than The Fifth Element at the record show. So
953
01:20:14.780 --> 01:20:15.500
alright.
954
01:20:15.660 --> 01:20:16.300
See you.
955
01:20:16.780 --> 01:20:24.225
Oh, nice. Alright. Sorry to ruin your day. No. No. Hey. Two for two for we both did two for us. That's alright. Yep. Okay.
956
01:20:24.465 --> 01:20:29.585
Alright. You wanna get to we'll get to this one before we wrap up our
957
01:20:29.905 --> 01:20:31.425
our ninja months.
958
01:20:31.585 --> 01:20:32.305
Okay.
959
01:20:33.105 --> 01:20:34.465
Alright. Now this one here,
960
01:20:35.080 --> 01:20:39.719
this I'm closer to what you felt about the last one that we just talked about.
961
01:20:40.040 --> 01:20:44.999
Which I get. Which I get. But that's fine. That's all good. I think you are too, to be fair. It's like
962
01:20:45.640 --> 01:20:45.960
Yeah.
963
01:20:47.475 --> 01:20:55.715
You cannot I mean, we talked about this before. There's no way you could tell me this is like, you know, where's the Academy Award in this? Oh, it's all kinds of fun.
964
01:20:56.355 --> 01:20:58.515
Yeah. Yeah. Alright.
965
01:21:00.035 --> 01:21:03.170
Let's keep in everybody in suspense. Here we go.
966
01:21:04.290 --> 01:21:05.330
Alrighty.
967
01:21:05.330 --> 01:21:06.450
So this
968
01:21:07.010 --> 01:21:08.530
Alright. Who has the better picture?
969
01:21:09.410 --> 01:21:19.864
Yours will be yours I think Same one. Mine's been yeah. But mine's been cropped. Look. See, I had to crop my Yeah. I got my speakers in there. Yeah. There's donkeys on each side. This yeah.
970
01:21:21.705 --> 01:21:24.825
Donkeys to the left of them. Donkeys to the right. Donkeys to the right.
971
01:21:26.665 --> 01:21:30.389
Okay. So Passes, donkeys, whatever. So
972
01:21:30.790 --> 01:21:32.630
this is thrash, people listening.
973
01:21:32.870 --> 01:21:35.989
In the four k, all the Dolby's
974
01:21:36.230 --> 01:21:38.070
release from Netflix
975
01:21:38.150 --> 01:21:40.469
hit here last Friday, I think it was.
976
01:21:41.190 --> 01:21:42.150
And I
977
01:21:42.585 --> 01:21:51.065
saw this movie twice in twenty four hours. I watched it on a 50 inch TV. Twice. And you've all taken Navy SEALs? Yeah.
978
01:21:51.385 --> 01:21:52.745
Once was enough of that.
979
01:21:53.305 --> 01:21:56.425
So I saw this on a 50 inch TV in stereo,
980
01:21:57.710 --> 01:22:16.185
watched the movie Oh, that's why you saw it twice. Okay. Yeah. Quite. So I watched it That makes sense. Then having got home the next day, I went straight into the cinema room and then watched it properly in four k and Dolby Atmos and Alright. And then the full kit. So That makes sense. It's a I mean, movie is this is basically crawl,
981
01:22:16.425 --> 01:22:17.785
but with sharks.
982
01:22:18.025 --> 01:22:22.105
Crawl was a movie from a few years ago, the Alexandra Arjo film with alligators
983
01:22:22.105 --> 01:22:23.865
in Florida when the
984
01:22:23.865 --> 01:22:31.610
weather comes in and there's flooding and there are alligators. Well, is this is sharks, same thing basically, almost eerily. Bull sharks.
985
01:22:31.930 --> 01:22:36.329
Bulls are wild and there's a great white? And one great white. And one great white. Nelly. One great
986
01:22:36.970 --> 01:22:39.050
She's pregnant, right? I think. Is?
987
01:22:39.610 --> 01:22:41.610
Yeah. She's pregnant. Which has a story element.
988
01:22:42.605 --> 01:22:46.765
Yep. So okay. So yeah. So yeah. We're in we're in yeah.
989
01:22:47.725 --> 01:22:50.525
No. Never. Never. So we're in South Carolina,
990
01:22:50.925 --> 01:22:54.685
apparently, although this was all filmed in Australia. But anyway, South Carolina,
991
01:22:55.245 --> 01:22:58.179
big hurricane comes in, Hurricane Henry,
992
01:22:59.060 --> 01:23:03.780
which then takes out the levees, levees break, small town floods
993
01:23:03.780 --> 01:23:13.235
and wouldn't you know it, just waiting it seemingly just outside the walls of the levees are a ton of sharks that are just ready to let rip. Oh my God.
994
01:23:14.355 --> 01:23:20.114
Know what, there was one part of this that they did, I won't give it away but you'll know what I'm They talking didn't even have to do it.
995
01:23:21.290 --> 01:23:25.770
They didn't have to add that piece in and it I it was it was awful.
996
01:23:26.090 --> 01:23:32.730
And I was like, why did you do that? That was so bad. The sharks were it's water. They would have done it anyways.
997
01:23:32.970 --> 01:23:34.890
And because the thing it to me is
998
01:23:36.545 --> 01:24:01.560
alright. I'm sorry. I I don't want to ruin it. Go ahead. Alright. Well, it's okay. So so anyway, so that's the story. I'll tell you. I'll talk to you afterwards about it. Yeah. No worries. That's the dumbest thing. It doesn't even exist, I don't think. No. Quite. So we have then sharks are there, and they're attacking everybody like they're piranhas. Not not like sharks. Yeah. And so Well, they did they did try to give it some backstory though. Right? Yeah. Well With that coined off. But they're not like that. How do you say his name? The
999
01:24:02.185 --> 01:24:02.665
the
1000
01:24:03.145 --> 01:24:04.664
German Hansu.
1001
01:24:05.065 --> 01:24:06.264
Yeah. Yeah.
1002
01:24:06.985 --> 01:24:10.985
He tries to explain why the sharks are acting the way. Like, they're not natural.
1003
01:24:11.625 --> 01:24:27.059
None none of this is realistic. I mean, these you know, that that's not how sharks behave. They're actually very timid creatures, and they they're so sensitive, they won't go near like loud noises, it's just not what And they they don't eat kids, they don't like the taste of them. That's it, yeah. Quite. That's it. Yeah,
1004
01:24:27.300 --> 01:24:29.300
sweet ones, all good. Yeah, yeah.
1005
01:24:30.095 --> 01:24:36.335
Yeah. So what we get is this thing, and I must admit for a b movie with a capital b
1006
01:24:36.575 --> 01:24:43.055
as opposed to again c movie, c. I would give it a little Keith B. Yeah. So it's a big b. It's a great big b.
1007
01:24:45.170 --> 01:24:50.770
I enjoyed it the first time I saw it in as much as, with all the guilty pleasure caveats
1008
01:24:50.770 --> 01:24:54.050
and warning signs, I did enjoy it but I like this kind of movie and
1009
01:24:55.810 --> 01:25:00.449
I thought it was actually very well done when I first saw it. And watching it for the second time,
1010
01:25:01.265 --> 01:25:02.625
I still enjoyed it
1011
01:25:03.105 --> 01:25:05.745
for all its faults and all its silliness and it is silly,
1012
01:25:06.065 --> 01:25:10.784
it's a lot of fun and I like Crawl and I enjoyed this and for similar reasons.
1013
01:25:11.905 --> 01:25:12.945
And I thought
1014
01:25:13.505 --> 01:25:19.730
it was fun, it's dopey, it's silly, it is all of its type, but if you like this kind of movies and a lot of people do,
1015
01:25:20.370 --> 01:25:43.995
I thought it was great. I mean, you think of things like Sharknado, which I thought was awful. I'm gonna listen to other movie. Somebody mentioned that earlier. So you like Sharknado? No, it's better than Sharknado. Yeah. It's way better than that. Yeah. And and so it's really good. And, you know, bad guys get their cupboards in this and all this stuff. Yeah. And I think that the the great white is used deliberately, and I think it's, you know, the well, I'm not going to spoil it, but the great white is used in in in a very deliberate way.
1016
01:25:44.710 --> 01:25:45.429
So
1017
01:25:45.670 --> 01:25:47.030
I enjoyed it. Now,
1018
01:25:47.429 --> 01:25:59.354
but I had to see the home theater experience, I had to see this again, I could not just put this on the glasses and watch it in spatial audio, I needed to see this properly. So got home, fired it up, on it went.
1019
01:25:59.915 --> 01:26:03.434
And I think this is a really,
1020
01:26:03.755 --> 01:26:04.715
really good
1021
01:26:04.875 --> 01:26:06.715
home theater experience.
1022
01:26:06.875 --> 01:26:11.994
This is Netflix, because this was a Sony movie by the way. Sony intended for this to be theatrical
1023
01:26:12.140 --> 01:26:13.900
but then sold it to Netflix,
1024
01:26:14.380 --> 01:26:26.540
which I think is a shame but I get why, but I think it's a shame. But it's a solid home theater experience. The video is pretty good. I mean, there's a lot of murky scenes and dark scenes and that but they do look good.
1025
01:26:27.525 --> 01:26:38.885
And I think it's fine, well resolved, you never kind of worried about what it looks like. There are a court, a couple of artifacts here and there, but only very, very sort of few and far between when there's smoke
1026
01:26:39.045 --> 01:26:44.969
and water and rain and all that kind of stuff going on. And in a stream, it's always going to struggle with that.
1027
01:26:45.610 --> 01:26:48.330
You'll say it's not a stream, the levee's broke. Anyway,
1028
01:26:48.970 --> 01:26:49.530
so
1029
01:26:50.410 --> 01:26:53.370
before yeah. So anyway, it looks pretty good.
1030
01:26:54.810 --> 01:26:57.244
Theater is flooded with entertainment.
1031
01:26:57.244 --> 01:26:57.965
Oh,
1032
01:26:58.125 --> 01:27:00.124
what a good thing to say.
1033
01:27:01.804 --> 01:27:05.244
You you will watch it going h two o.
1034
01:27:05.405 --> 01:27:06.925
Oh. Yeah.
1035
01:27:07.085 --> 01:27:10.980
There you go. We'll be here all night. So apparently, you know, Shane
1036
01:27:11.220 --> 01:27:13.700
didn't show up for a production
1037
01:27:13.700 --> 01:27:18.659
meeting earlier and like we were that we were we were building to this, Shane.
1038
01:27:18.900 --> 01:27:27.625
He said this a few minutes ago in the chat. He's like he's like, it's a must watch. As a home theater fan Yeah. Absolutely,
1039
01:27:27.705 --> 01:27:30.105
this is a must watch. If you have Netflix
1040
01:27:30.505 --> 01:27:35.864
and there are a home theater, it doesn't cost you anything more. You're already in you already have Netflix,
1041
01:27:35.865 --> 01:27:37.304
you have a home theater,
1042
01:27:37.705 --> 01:27:42.640
you need to see this movie. Leave your brain at the door. It is but it's entertaining
1043
01:27:42.640 --> 01:27:47.680
as hell. It's like, I thought the characters, they do a good job of like,
1044
01:27:47.760 --> 01:27:54.245
they do a good job of doing the over the top thing where you go, wow, that person is despicable. Oh, yeah, they're gonna die.
1045
01:27:55.285 --> 01:27:55.845
Yeah.
1046
01:27:56.965 --> 01:28:01.045
And you know from you know in the first ten minutes who's gonna survive,
1047
01:28:01.365 --> 01:28:05.845
who's gonna die, and it's like it goes that way. There are no surprises.
1048
01:28:06.405 --> 01:28:16.859
And you're like, and it it's just that's the way it is. But you're there for the home theater experience of like, they they reenact a few episodes a few deaths from Jaws.
1049
01:28:17.260 --> 01:28:30.065
They do, you know, they like right from jump. I was like, really? They they didn't even wait. It's like, well, I saw that one. I remember which Jaws I saw that one. I remember how horrified I want I was when I saw it. And now it's kind of comical.
1050
01:28:30.945 --> 01:28:47.190
But home theater wise, yeah, they didn't do any of this in Jaws. There were no big storms in Jaws. You didn't have the lightning. You didn't have the they had the cityscapes. They had like looking out over the ocean watching the storm come storm come in. The lightning for it. It absolutely
1051
01:28:47.190 --> 01:28:56.735
is a must watch. It's Well, I'll be I'll be curious Josh, it's been it will quite well, Shane, with the with the Trinolve and everything else going, I mean, the the overheads in this felt like they never stopped.
1052
01:28:57.295 --> 01:29:03.135
Yeah. The overheads of the strap just constant rain creaking of the house as it is that there's a floods coming in the,
1053
01:29:03.860 --> 01:29:10.179
the basement, you can hear everything above that all the way around the room. It's a really nice discrete effects.
1054
01:29:10.579 --> 01:29:15.780
Yeah. I think it's demo worthy sound wise, I would say for a Netflix movie.
1055
01:29:16.195 --> 01:29:27.955
You want something that's going to keep going and work your speakers, this is the movie for that. Carl Ellsworth, Carl if you're listening, you're going to love this. I was talking to Carl the whole time like there we go
1056
01:29:28.680 --> 01:29:35.480
overhead. It's like Steve at in the chat, he's like, I'd accept the demo clip, that's about it. Give me Hurricane No.
1057
01:29:36.520 --> 01:29:37.400
No.
1058
01:29:37.480 --> 01:29:43.800
I got to agree with him. Hurricane Heist is a better home theater experience than this, but it's also physical media.
1059
01:29:44.545 --> 01:29:49.184
It's like Hurricane Heist is a is that's yeah, that is an amazing
1060
01:29:49.664 --> 01:29:50.385
demo
1061
01:29:50.545 --> 01:29:53.664
worthy, like beginning to end Hurricane Heist.
1062
01:29:53.905 --> 01:30:12.210
This is not it's not that, but it's pretty clip for a stream. I was thinking, this is a kind of hurricane ice. It's, you know, kind of same thing. Silly story. Silly this. Silly that hurricane. But that so I do see the differences. And Steve said it also is it does cost something. Costs an hour and twenty six minutes.
1063
01:30:12.765 --> 01:30:15.485
So yeah, yeah, it costs you your time.
1064
01:30:16.125 --> 01:30:24.525
But as far as a home theater experience, it's like, I mean, it's got it all. It's Yeah. It has. Yeah. But as a movie, it does not have it all.
1065
01:30:26.365 --> 01:30:31.599
I think that, yeah. I I mean, I'll talk to you afterwards about I have a better ending as well,
1066
01:30:32.239 --> 01:30:41.040
which when I saw it the first time, I was pitching to the other people I saw it with. They really just like, really, Steve? Yeah. Okay, Steve. Yeah. Great, Steve. But I think I've got a better ending.
1067
01:30:41.625 --> 01:30:43.784
I didn't reach out to Tom yet.
1068
01:30:44.744 --> 01:30:46.905
There was a line at the end of this,
1069
01:30:47.465 --> 01:31:01.650
and then they do something at the end of this that I was like, alright, maybe too soon for people like Tom. So there's a line at the end of this because it's a hurricane that goes through Myrtle Beach. Okay? So it's basically going what's that? South Carolina, I believe. So
1070
01:31:01.650 --> 01:31:16.724
it's, you know, it hits South Carolina and it's which is a little further up the coast from Florida. Right? But at the end, it's like some survivors are like, where are we gonna go? We gotta be, you know, where are we gonna go to be safe? And one of them goes, I don't know, Florida?
1071
01:31:17.045 --> 01:31:33.090
Which I'm like, yeah, after everything Florida's been through, I know they're trying to be funny, but I'm like, a little too soon. A little too soon because there are people that like, you know, and Tom being one of them has, you know, lost his home in something like this and it was like, yeah. There there were some indiscrepancies
1072
01:31:33.090 --> 01:31:48.054
in this like they show in one like where the levee broke and they'll show a car and it's got like water up to the windshield of the car, but then there's houses like 2nd Floor flooded, like Yeah. How that happened? Yeah. There are definitely some It's like good I'm pretty
1073
01:31:48.614 --> 01:31:54.100
sure in Myrtle Beach, it's not like, that could happen what when it did happen in
1074
01:31:54.500 --> 01:31:55.540
New Orleans.
1075
01:31:55.780 --> 01:31:57.940
New Orleans is under sea level.
1076
01:31:58.500 --> 01:32:15.724
Right? So they had a wall so that got flooded. I don't believe Myrtle Beach is like that. I don't believe Myrtle Beach is actually below sea level and that the wall was there just for the way, you know, controlling. But I don't think it was like the way this flooded, I don't believe that's true. But that's not what this is about. It's not a documentary.
1077
01:32:16.240 --> 01:32:20.560
Jay says, so thrash top five home theater experiences of the year. Not top five.
1078
01:32:21.760 --> 01:32:56.690
No. I don't think it'll make the 10. I don't think it'll make 10. But it's it is really good. And it's like like, alright, here's a good question or at least it is to me. If you had to buy this, would you would we be raving as much? Really? Yeah. I I would buy this tomorrow if it comes out in four k disc. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I enjoyed it enough to buy mean, you know what my sensibilities are like. That's true. Sensibilities are because I like, whole theater wise, I'd buy it because of that, and you'd be like, okay. I'll try it. But and I would give it that, but the movie itself, I'd be like, I'd have a hard time telling somebody to buy this just because of the movie.
1079
01:32:57.090 --> 01:33:02.324
It's the movie part of it. Yeah. Depending on what movies they like. If you like Crawl,
1080
01:33:02.725 --> 01:33:11.364
this is that movie with sharks. Mean I never saw Crawl, so that'll let you know how. Yeah. It's good. It's worth seeing. Again, it's bit silly. It's Thrash with alligators.
1081
01:33:11.365 --> 01:33:13.045
That's that's funny you should say that.
1082
01:33:13.925 --> 01:33:15.830
Yeah. Crawlers were seeing, but again,
1083
01:33:16.230 --> 01:33:20.550
alligators don't behave like alligators. Mean, it's just not what they do, but it's fun.
1084
01:33:21.030 --> 01:33:24.310
But here's my question for you then, Dijk, based on what Jay just said there.
1085
01:33:24.630 --> 01:33:27.510
Okay, so if you've got war machine
1086
01:33:28.310 --> 01:33:29.270
and thrash,
1087
01:33:29.985 --> 01:33:32.145
and we'll forget the movie for the moment.
1088
01:33:33.265 --> 01:33:36.545
In terms of home theater experience, which one are you tipping
1089
01:33:36.625 --> 01:33:39.025
is is the better home theater experience?
1090
01:33:39.265 --> 01:33:45.665
Which one was that again? Sorry. War machine. So Alan Richon special or thrash? Which one are you going with Netflix?
1091
01:33:46.360 --> 01:33:52.280
Yeah? Thrash. I would say Thrash. I just think it's more more consistent. Yeah. It's more like set of grim. Right? Where
1092
01:33:53.720 --> 01:33:56.760
I think War War Machine is is good,
1093
01:33:57.320 --> 01:34:03.715
but it and I mean, it is a good home theater experience, but I don't think it's it doesn't it just doesn't lend itself to the same
1094
01:34:04.115 --> 01:34:08.355
situation. I mean, this has not just the underwater stuff which happens,
1095
01:34:09.075 --> 01:34:10.114
which was weird.
1096
01:34:10.755 --> 01:34:13.795
There were a couple yeah. There were yeah. Never mind. But
1097
01:34:14.930 --> 01:34:36.385
it's the continuity is horrible. People are standing on water up to their chest and then they go underneath and these sharks are swimming by and you're like, if you were in water that's only four feet deep, you wouldn't see all the stuff that you're seeing under there. Like it was like the shot underwater and you see the person's legs, they're looking away on a street and you're like, alright, that's about 10 feet deep. But
1098
01:34:37.665 --> 01:34:42.624
anyways, there's underwater stuff. There's hurricane stuff. There's thunder. There's lightning.
1099
01:34:42.945 --> 01:34:49.139
There's action. There's you know, all sorts of stuff. It's like, I did think as far and it wasn't a gunshot,
1100
01:34:49.380 --> 01:34:57.539
but later in the movie when they when one character shot a shark to save somebody, I thought that was a great sound
1101
01:34:57.860 --> 01:35:15.510
for that weapon. I thought it was a great and it it was I don't wanna say it was a jump scare, but it was a great like, you know, like, alright, like, how is this gonna happen? And it was yeah. And it's and it's set up ahead of time in the movie as well. Right? Like steadier weapon and stuff that I thought was cool. Yeah.
1102
01:35:15.830 --> 01:35:20.789
I I I really did enjoy it. As I said, I'll have this if it comes out physically,
1103
01:35:21.030 --> 01:35:21.749
it's fine.
1104
01:35:22.230 --> 01:35:31.385
You know? But I don't think we will because Netflix have bought it. I don't think they're they're not about to It's rare they show up. So Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, But there we go. Very cool. Alright. Alrighty
1105
01:35:32.665 --> 01:35:36.344
then. Let's see where are we going. Alright. We will start.
1106
01:35:36.665 --> 01:35:42.499
I have you want me to lead in with my couple Yeah, go for it. Yeah. That I had. Alright.
1107
01:35:43.059 --> 01:35:43.859
I have
1108
01:35:44.820 --> 01:35:47.619
let me let me pull them down here. So
1109
01:35:47.940 --> 01:35:49.139
where's the other one?
1110
01:35:50.020 --> 01:35:52.260
Well, there it is. I'll put that there.
1111
01:35:53.295 --> 01:35:59.775
Alright. So I have a couple to lead in to our final and I'll just talk quickly. This one here,
1112
01:36:00.895 --> 01:36:01.614
this one
1113
01:36:03.135 --> 01:36:03.775
Here we go.
1114
01:36:07.550 --> 01:36:11.550
Black Eagle from 1988.
1115
01:36:12.030 --> 01:36:20.394
The it it here it headlines Jean Claude Van Damme, but it wasn't. He was second billing to show Kasugi And
1116
01:36:20.955 --> 01:36:25.034
this movie here is like, I I I just came across it because
1117
01:36:25.435 --> 01:36:29.594
I was looking through more of like, you know, Sho Kosugi's
1118
01:36:29.675 --> 01:36:35.510
I keep I can't say the name right. All his stuff. And I'm like, oh, Black Black Eagle. I remember this one.
1119
01:36:36.230 --> 01:36:44.070
I don't think I saw it in the theater. I'm honestly, I don't even know if it was played in the theater here, but I do remember renting it. I remember seeing and being like, oh.
1120
01:36:45.190 --> 01:36:46.389
It's not very good.
1121
01:36:47.105 --> 01:36:51.025
But it's like the movie is you want to talk about a slog,
1122
01:36:51.105 --> 01:36:55.905
okay? This one was a slog. This is more of a it's more of a
1123
01:36:57.505 --> 01:36:58.385
so he
1124
01:36:59.930 --> 01:37:35.260
Kasugi plays a super spy in this, right, for hire by like the CIA and he's supposed to be like he's just like the best in the world and they they like, literally, one of the opening scenes is like they had a guy to take care of what's going on here. So, a plane goes down, they need to get the information out of the plane so that the Russians don't get it and blah blah blah blah. So, they hired this one guy and they're like, alright, he's gonna go out, he's a special ops guy that's gonna go take care of it and they're like, is he the best? You know, his superior is going, is that guy the best? And he goes, he's the best we got right now. He goes, well, who's the best? And they say,
1125
01:37:35.659 --> 01:37:45.995
Kasugi's character, the name, whatever it was. And he goes, we'll get him. Well, we can't get him. You gotta get him. I need him. Now, I want the best. I have no excuses.
1126
01:37:46.075 --> 01:38:01.699
I need the best on this, so they bring him in and, you know, so the movie takes it. But there's not a lot of action in it. And it's more of like the spy situation and the back and forth between the Russians trying to beat the Americans and vice versa.
1127
01:38:01.860 --> 01:38:08.340
And Van Damme is the Russians like heavy, you know, he's the he's like, you know, alright, call him in. He's
1128
01:38:09.745 --> 01:38:19.264
he actually he kills the main guy, the guy that was supposed to, you know, do the job and he failed, so they bring in Kasueh in great. Alright. Good.
1129
01:38:20.145 --> 01:38:23.905
But this has after all the ninja movies we've watched,
1130
01:38:24.870 --> 01:38:29.350
this definitely has the best, I told you this before the show, the best choreography
1131
01:38:29.590 --> 01:38:37.430
in the in the fights that happened and the battles between him and Van Damme are so good. Van Damme does a bunch of the, you know, his
1132
01:38:37.935 --> 01:38:40.094
splits where he Like he showed you.
1133
01:38:40.815 --> 01:38:45.695
His signature move of split go into the full split when you go to kick his head.
1134
01:38:46.175 --> 01:38:59.070
But what I what I thought was great about it is like the choreography was so good that they're actually hitting each other that you do see that and they're so close when they do block and miss, they're they're like,
1135
01:38:59.550 --> 01:39:13.804
it's almost like Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee. Like, they are going at it and they, you know, it's all choreographed of course, But there's no go slow so the guy doesn't or too far away and they're like, no wasted like backflips
1136
01:39:13.804 --> 01:39:18.685
away for some for show. This is all like the some pretty good stuff.
1137
01:39:19.980 --> 01:39:34.940
There is at the one of the final fights, it's like Van Damme's got a gun on him and he puts it down so he can fight him hand to hand. And then in the middle of the fight, right next to the gun is a two by four and he picks up the two by four and swings at him. Okay. So not the gun, but I'll swing at you with this.
1138
01:39:36.995 --> 01:39:40.035
This was streaming on Amazon
1139
01:39:40.035 --> 01:39:42.114
and it looked really good.
1140
01:39:42.755 --> 01:39:53.880
Really good on streaming for for what we're dealing with. With all of the movies we've done on Blu ray and four k with the grain, this had no I mean, was very it had
1141
01:39:54.440 --> 01:39:55.239
consistent
1142
01:39:55.240 --> 01:40:02.385
nice grain to it. Not like that extra chunky that you get with the old little movies and the dark scenes. This looked really good.
1143
01:40:02.784 --> 01:40:04.064
The sound was
1144
01:40:05.105 --> 01:40:06.064
stereo
1145
01:40:06.465 --> 01:40:10.385
and up mixed. And the sound was decent. There's nothing to write home about.
1146
01:40:12.625 --> 01:40:18.820
And then the other movie I saw, which was an another one that was not very good, I'm doing a double take here.
1147
01:40:19.940 --> 01:40:23.780
Oh, yeah. I forgot to mention this. Franklin enjoyed
1148
01:40:24.020 --> 01:40:32.735
Black Eagle with me. He really enjoyed it. This is him watching the scene. You could see he's sitting there. He did. He was sitting close enough. He's watching, looking back and forth. That was a lot of fun.
1149
01:40:33.455 --> 01:40:36.335
Here you go. This is the one I didn't tell you about.
1150
01:40:38.655 --> 01:40:39.855
Rutgehauer,
1151
01:40:41.054 --> 01:40:42.815
Blind Fury.
1152
01:40:44.094 --> 01:40:44.735
It's been a while.
1153
01:40:45.750 --> 01:40:49.190
Yeah. And this is another one that is like
1154
01:40:50.150 --> 01:40:51.830
this is from '89.
1155
01:40:51.910 --> 01:40:55.670
And this is this also is not very good.
1156
01:40:56.310 --> 01:40:59.990
It's I mean, it's entertaining. It's supposed to be funny, but it is bad.
1157
01:41:00.545 --> 01:41:01.905
It is bad. It's like
1158
01:41:03.905 --> 01:41:04.465
but
1159
01:41:05.265 --> 01:41:06.545
he plays
1160
01:41:07.105 --> 01:41:18.320
Kasui plays the he's just the mentor at the beginning. He teaches him how to do everything that supposedly Rukahauer learns in this one. And this is I have on Collide Escape in HD
1161
01:41:19.360 --> 01:41:20.000
with
1162
01:41:20.640 --> 01:41:25.040
what was the audio on it? Oh, same thing. Master audio stereo.
1163
01:41:25.120 --> 01:41:25.760
And
1164
01:41:26.000 --> 01:41:34.585
even this on Collide Escape, it wasn't very good. Like the grain in it was super inconsistent. It was not good. Like,
1165
01:41:34.985 --> 01:41:48.050
Black Eagle looked better streaming on Amazon than this movie did on it wasn't very good. But I do remember watching this. I liked it when I was I like Rukahauer, especially after Hitcher, the Hitcher. And, I mean,
1166
01:41:48.370 --> 01:41:53.010
it's kind of funny at times, but it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. So
1167
01:41:54.850 --> 01:42:05.185
Well, how soon you saw this? Oh, in the eighties. Forever. Yeah. Yeah. It would have been when it came out. But I remember quite enjoying it, but I've never owned it. I mean, that would have been one from the video store.
1168
01:42:05.425 --> 01:42:18.330
You know? Yeah. Absolutely. Parents had it, and it was like, oh, okay. And again, at that time, what do you mean? He said, he he fights people and he's blind. Oh my god. That's so cool. And then, you know, but but yeah. I I remember it relatively fondly.
1169
01:42:18.570 --> 01:42:22.570
But I like I said, but not it's not in Yeah. You know, the ninja, the umbra.
1170
01:42:22.810 --> 01:42:29.264
One part, like, they've they've gotten away from the bad guys. Right? They get they're they're running now it's it's
1171
01:42:29.905 --> 01:42:37.744
Ruchehauer and a kid. Right? And it's like he so he's taking the kid to his father who the father Ruchehauer served with in Vietnam
1172
01:42:37.905 --> 01:42:43.780
and that's where he lost his sight and blah blah, whatever. But anyways, at the beginning of the movie, the kid
1173
01:42:44.340 --> 01:42:56.420
they he has to rescue the kid from the bad guys. They get on a bus, they're traveling across country. You haven't seen the bad guys in a while. The kid run is trying to run away I think from Rutka Howe or something because he's like he doesn't understand what's going on. He runs into a cornfield.
1174
01:42:57.645 --> 01:43:04.044
After being away from the bad guys are in the cornfield. How the hell did they know to be in that cornfield?
1175
01:43:04.045 --> 01:43:04.604
I
1176
01:43:04.925 --> 01:43:08.045
was like, what the hell? Like, that guy
1177
01:43:08.764 --> 01:43:15.979
I hadn't seen them. They hadn't been hot on their tail or anything. It was just like, oh, look at this. They're in the cornfield too.
1178
01:43:16.219 --> 01:43:18.059
It was a different time.
1179
01:43:18.619 --> 01:43:20.859
Oh, yeah. I know. And
1180
01:43:21.739 --> 01:43:22.300
yeah.
1181
01:43:22.860 --> 01:43:28.695
No red ninjas in the cornfield though, but. Hey, man. We're gonna see them again in Spider Man brand new day.
1182
01:43:29.975 --> 01:43:37.095
You post to come out today, it's got them on as well. So they and they are ninjas. Yeah. Yeah. Saw that. We've we've we've shown them the
1183
01:43:37.895 --> 01:43:41.080
way. Yes, we have. We have. Alright.
1184
01:43:41.240 --> 01:43:45.159
So those were how I wrapped up my ninja
1185
01:43:45.400 --> 01:43:46.360
experience
1186
01:43:47.400 --> 01:43:51.000
for the month, but this was taken in last week
1187
01:43:51.800 --> 01:43:56.075
and it Oh, yeah. I do have Hang on a second. I do have an image I for this
1188
01:43:57.035 --> 01:44:01.915
have my own image for this. I don't know where it is, but I will find it. And
1189
01:44:02.795 --> 01:44:07.115
actually, I have to find it and drop it in here. Did I take it? Where did I put it?
1190
01:44:08.469 --> 01:44:15.590
Oh, there it is. Oh, You got it? Yeah. There it is. Yep. Yeah. There it is. Okay. So it all comes down to this. This.
1191
01:44:16.310 --> 01:44:17.429
Exactly.
1192
01:44:17.429 --> 01:44:25.244
So here we go. You take it away. You started the month. Open up the end and finish with this. Okay.
1193
01:44:25.965 --> 01:44:34.844
It all comes down to this thing. And there is unquestionably part of me that when I started this ninja thing with that Canon
1194
01:44:35.565 --> 01:44:37.565
trilogy that was on four ks
1195
01:44:37.804 --> 01:44:39.245
knew I would end up here
1196
01:44:39.890 --> 01:44:46.850
at the, in my opinion, and I think I might be the only person because it's been pretty much disowned even by its director,
1197
01:44:48.850 --> 01:44:51.010
is the instant
1198
01:44:51.425 --> 01:44:52.705
inarguable
1199
01:44:52.705 --> 01:44:53.585
classic
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01:44:54.705 --> 01:44:56.465
that is Ringer
1201
01:44:56.545 --> 01:44:57.505
Assassin.
1202
01:44:57.665 --> 01:44:59.265
2009,
1203
01:44:59.265 --> 01:45:02.785
I think. Think it was. Let me see. Yeah, is 2009.
1204
01:45:02.785 --> 01:45:03.105
Okay.
1205
01:45:04.830 --> 01:45:05.790
Produced
1206
01:45:05.790 --> 01:45:07.309
by the Bukowski's,
1207
01:45:07.710 --> 01:45:11.389
James McTeague directed it. He's a guy that did V for Vendetta.
1208
01:45:12.350 --> 01:45:12.829
And
1209
01:45:13.790 --> 01:45:15.630
it hit in 2009
1210
01:45:15.630 --> 01:45:16.190
when
1211
01:45:16.475 --> 01:45:19.994
the idea of the ninja was long since sort of fallen
1212
01:45:20.235 --> 01:45:21.355
out of fashion.
1213
01:45:21.835 --> 01:45:23.355
When I heard this was coming
1214
01:45:23.675 --> 01:45:26.474
was I was instantly incredibly excited.
1215
01:45:26.795 --> 01:45:28.795
Of course it's got, oh, we've lost each other.
1216
01:45:29.469 --> 01:45:36.269
And it's got Sho Kisuke in this as well, albeit playing the older kind of mental role and bad guy.
1217
01:45:37.230 --> 01:45:39.869
And he's in this and then we have rain,
1218
01:45:40.110 --> 01:45:42.030
one word is
1219
01:45:42.349 --> 01:45:43.149
the
1220
01:45:43.150 --> 01:45:45.975
actor that plays this, who is absolutely
1221
01:45:45.975 --> 01:45:47.015
fantastic
1222
01:45:47.015 --> 01:45:47.815
in this.
1223
01:45:48.535 --> 01:45:55.255
And I utterly, utterly love this movie. And again, I said before, in a way that is most unnatural.
1224
01:45:55.495 --> 01:45:57.415
I have seen this film
1225
01:45:57.780 --> 01:46:02.820
countless times. I dread to think how many times I've seen it, probably more times than James McTeague
1226
01:46:03.060 --> 01:46:03.699
because
1227
01:46:04.100 --> 01:46:15.415
I love this movie. This did what I had the little boy in me back in the 80s when the ninjas thing first happened. This is the movie I dreamed about without realizing I was dreaming about this movie.
1228
01:46:16.535 --> 01:46:24.375
Well, I would say this is how we remembered the old movies. Yep. Right? We saw this. Violent, though. You never kind of realize what they could do with this.
1229
01:46:25.260 --> 01:46:29.659
Well, that's the thing. That's what made this movie so good. It was you
1230
01:46:30.460 --> 01:46:38.060
like, I mean, your your image here I mean, actually, both images. The one here on Kaleidze, it's the same thing, but you have that weapon.
1231
01:46:38.700 --> 01:46:54.500
And but then, like here, could see the chain, it's a little bit closer on this image here. But they they they demonstrate that weapon in great detail in the open in one in the opening battle and everything. But the other thing was is like, not just the violence
1232
01:46:54.820 --> 01:46:57.300
and level of violence and everything,
1233
01:46:57.540 --> 01:46:59.300
but it's also the
1234
01:47:00.260 --> 01:47:01.219
stealthness
1235
01:47:01.780 --> 01:47:02.500
was
1236
01:47:02.740 --> 01:47:07.860
this is what ninjas are meant. This is how ninjas are supposed to be portrayed,
1237
01:47:08.195 --> 01:47:13.235
you know? And it was like, we we just spent the month talking about all these old ninja movies that we loved.
1238
01:47:13.555 --> 01:47:14.675
And it was funny because the
1239
01:47:15.875 --> 01:47:33.980
when we these movies made us do stuff and like research stuff and learn more about ninja and all that stuff, and it's like the mystique of it and everything. And these movies had nothing to do with the mystique and the, you know, how stealth they were, and they were they were assassins in, out, you never saw them, never knew what happened. This is the idea.
1240
01:47:34.940 --> 01:47:40.985
This movie kind of really does that. And it's it, you know, it on a great scale.
1241
01:47:41.145 --> 01:47:44.985
Right? Like they I mean, the the opening scene in this
1242
01:47:45.385 --> 01:47:46.665
is fantastic.
1243
01:47:46.745 --> 01:47:48.185
Yes. Or the opening like Just the
1244
01:47:49.065 --> 01:48:10.145
But the sound, the whole theater part of it. It's like, because this weapon is like, what is it? Like, a 10 feet of chain and he uses it to like Yeah. It it but it swings and moves around the room and you're just like, this is what I'm talking about. Yeah. Oh, no. I may not have said, of course, this is on ten eighty p Blu ray, my my version, of course, and in DTS HD 5.1 Same thing on Kaleidoscope.
1245
01:48:10.145 --> 01:48:20.040
Exactly. So it's not in four k. They'll never I don't think they'll ever do a four k of this because it bombed in the theater. It just literally just bombed. They lost a ton of money. I honestly don't think it needs it. It's good.
1246
01:48:20.440 --> 01:48:21.880
I love it. Really good.
1247
01:48:22.200 --> 01:48:40.005
I know. I'd love it. But it's it's it's very good as is. It is a it's a great home theater experience as is. Right? And it's like, even the black levels and everything. I mean, because there are deep blacks in this beat with the, you know, the nature of the shadows and everything that he's the characters,
1248
01:48:40.085 --> 01:48:40.565
you know,
1249
01:48:40.965 --> 01:48:41.525
in.
1250
01:48:42.005 --> 01:48:45.445
And the stealthness and like they do
1251
01:48:46.080 --> 01:48:57.600
you know what would be interesting if they did do this in four k with HDR or Mhmm. You know, God forbid Dolby Vision and everything. There are some scenes where the characters move into the shadow
1252
01:48:57.760 --> 01:49:25.780
and like literally disappear in the cat and they're like, what? Where'd they go? It like a way a Ninja should go. Yeah. What would happen if we had the great, you know, HDR and you're like, do they really disappear? Did they, you know, they do a cut where they take them away or how do they do that? It's because the black Ninja does black it up out ninja does disappear into the shadows. It's pretty cool. I think it would be a very difficult movie to master in four ks and do it properly for exactly that reason.
1253
01:49:26.739 --> 01:49:31.140
And I think there's a lot of different elements in this. Think because of the weapons, a lot of them are CG, I mean
1254
01:49:32.395 --> 01:49:35.675
that chain thing when it comes at the camera, I mean it's clearly CG.
1255
01:49:35.995 --> 01:49:37.195
Oh yeah, Otherwise
1256
01:49:38.555 --> 01:49:39.355
they lost
1257
01:49:39.835 --> 01:49:40.955
some crew too.
1258
01:49:41.835 --> 01:49:45.849
Maybe that's why there's not been a sequel. Jafer down. We have a Jafer down.
1259
01:49:46.489 --> 01:49:49.929
Yeah. No one to make this two of them now. We got two guys.
1260
01:49:50.329 --> 01:49:51.289
Oh, three.
1261
01:49:51.690 --> 01:49:53.929
Yeah. Three. His legs are over there.
1262
01:49:54.250 --> 01:49:55.130
Yeah.
1263
01:49:55.130 --> 01:49:57.770
He's where is he? Oh, he's all over the place. Yeah. He is.
1264
01:49:59.535 --> 01:50:00.335
But no,
1265
01:50:01.375 --> 01:50:03.695
looks great, sounds great.
1266
01:50:04.655 --> 01:50:08.895
The shurikens is kind of a machine gun, that all
1267
01:50:08.895 --> 01:50:24.050
the way around the room. When you get the storm sequence, and again, that's just so well done when they're on the rooftop and you've got the storm and you can hear the lightning and the thunder and it's all around, and then the rain you feel right above you. And then of course, when he then sort of flicks the
1268
01:50:24.770 --> 01:50:25.489
chain and
1269
01:50:25.890 --> 01:50:28.695
it cuts obviously choke through his face. And
1270
01:50:29.415 --> 01:50:32.695
it's all so well done and it's just great.
1271
01:50:34.535 --> 01:50:46.909
Honestly, I love this movie. I wish there had been sequels to this. And in fact, this is the one when we always say, what are the movies you wish there had been sequels to and everyone always says Judge Dread or Dread and rightly so because it should have a sequel.
1272
01:50:47.550 --> 01:50:48.590
For me, if
1273
01:50:49.070 --> 01:50:50.989
I'm being selfish for a moment,
1274
01:50:51.389 --> 01:50:53.949
for me this is a movie that needed,
1275
01:50:54.525 --> 01:50:56.605
should have, could have, would have got
1276
01:50:56.925 --> 01:51:02.684
sequel after sequel after sequel. I could watch this all day. I love this movie.
1277
01:51:03.245 --> 01:51:10.449
And I like its humor, I like its tongue in cheekness, the violence is great. It's all so so good.
1278
01:51:12.690 --> 01:51:27.574
And this was always going to be the culmination of our ninja season for me, we're always building to this because I knew this is where I wanted to go. And another excuse to see this film, and then talk about it because we've never talked about it on the show before. It's never come up in conversation about anything else.
1279
01:51:28.215 --> 01:51:33.735
I think it's great. And if anyone out there has not seen Ninja Assassin and if you're like us and you love these movies,
1280
01:51:34.960 --> 01:51:49.520
yeah. If you don't like Ninja movies, you won't like this. No. Then you'd be a bit weird seeing Ninja Assassin if you don't like Ninja movies. But if you do and you haven't seen this, I I genuinely recommend you go out and see it and, you know, get it. Yeah. Rent it, buy it however you see it. Yeah.
1281
01:51:50.945 --> 01:51:54.705
There'll never be sequels to it, because as I said, did bomb. But
1282
01:51:55.105 --> 01:51:58.784
these are the kinds of films we should support if they're great entities.
1283
01:51:59.185 --> 01:52:02.785
And straight into it right from the beginning, I mean, it's just so well done.
1284
01:52:03.660 --> 01:52:10.700
I love it. And I would like to meet James McTeague one day to just ask him about this film, I could talk to him about this forever.
1285
01:52:10.940 --> 01:52:14.860
Just and I know he doesn't like it. And I know he's unhappy at the final result.
1286
01:52:15.705 --> 01:52:26.025
I think there was some tinkering and some pseudo interference and various other things. So I know he doesn't like this but I do. And I'd love to talk to him about this. I think it will be fascinating.
1287
01:52:26.744 --> 01:52:42.710
So there we go. But yeah, really cool. In fact, I need to ask John Thompson about it. He's bound to know James McTeeth. I need to need to find out because he's British. So he's gotta be here somewhere. Do you think it could have got better traction if it had nothing against the the actors that are in it. Right? Like,
1288
01:52:43.465 --> 01:52:47.704
but do you think it could have if it had a a bigger name to it?
1289
01:52:48.425 --> 01:52:54.744
As like, I like who who plays the main character? He's called Rain. He's a he's a he's a Korean
1290
01:52:54.985 --> 01:52:56.105
boy band member.
1291
01:52:56.820 --> 01:53:00.900
Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think he does a great job. Yeah. Does. I think he does
1292
01:53:01.220 --> 01:53:07.219
a great job. I think I mean, the choreography in this is really good. I mean, it's it's better
1293
01:53:07.460 --> 01:53:18.594
than Black Eagle. Oh, yeah. He's I mean, he's ripped. He's everything. It's like the lighting on everything. All of this stuff, it's so well done for a Ninja movie. For all I mean, Ninja Assassin is kind of redundant.
1294
01:53:20.195 --> 01:53:22.275
Ninja
1295
01:53:22.275 --> 01:53:22.995
Ninja. Assassin.
1296
01:53:27.130 --> 01:53:29.290
Sniper shooter. It's like, okay.
1297
01:53:30.170 --> 01:53:31.210
Police cop.
1298
01:53:31.610 --> 01:53:50.425
Yeah, exactly. But I think maybe like if they had a bigger name to this, maybe it would be, you know, you could do I think it Would it have taken off? Yeah. I I mean, I'm I'm sure all the studio bean counters will say, oh, that's what we should have done. And yet, I think because of the story that's being told
1299
01:53:50.745 --> 01:53:57.510
and this family thing and and why it is he and where he comes from, I actually think him being this unknown
1300
01:53:58.150 --> 01:54:12.954
person plays into the story. I think that's what's so good about it. You've got no preconceived ideas. You don't think, oh, well, he's going to win, isn't he? Because it's Bruce Lee, because it's Chuck Norris, because it's Schwarzenegger or Van Damme, that you all states that, Oh, we know he's going to win because it's him. This guy comes
1301
01:54:13.675 --> 01:54:30.910
with no baggage and I think that plays into it really well. I like that it's like, you just don't know this guy. We don't know where he's from and what's happened to him. I think they also wanted to have somebody reign of like Asian descent too, no? Yes. Yeah. Like, you don't want like Keanu Reeves or, you know, something like that. Yeah.
1302
01:54:31.790 --> 01:54:32.350
Exactly.
1303
01:54:32.910 --> 01:54:36.110
Well, he can play, you know, he can play John Wick,
1304
01:54:36.110 --> 01:54:46.965
but Yeah. He could I mean, you get him ripped up, he could play this part too, especially I mean the hair and everything. He does it in John Wick. That's what made me think of it. But you don't wanna have that. You wanted to have be
1305
01:54:47.525 --> 01:54:54.245
but it's like if you had somebody in it that made it I don't know. Because I'm not saying like the acting in it, don't think it's bad at all.
1306
01:55:08.595 --> 01:55:11.555
You don't have to forgive much in this one, it's just great.
1307
01:55:11.715 --> 01:55:12.995
Yeah. And a
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word for Kasugi in this as well, mean he's like he's been chiseled from rock, all the wrinkles on his face and he's evil as all hell in this. He's great. You can see he's chewing the scenery and I think he's relishing this part
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in every
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word he says is just dripping with horror and
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nastiness and he's so good in this. This is his best role for me. And by the way, this was the last time he was before a camera as I understand it as well. He's still around, he's still alive,
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but this was the last movie that he did where he essentially came out of retirement to do this. And you can see why because it's such a good role, he's great. And again, it's not realistic,
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but it's not meant to be. It's all about this idea of this deception and
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all this Oh, that guy. So good. Yeah.
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That's what was fun about the ninjas. It was all like magic, like slight of hand. Like that, you know, everything's to get you to do something so that they can disappear. And that like he does it in one scene in in Black Eagle. Like he walks away from the his
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CIA partner or whatever and he steps away and the guy's in the truck and he steps away and you know what he's doing. He walks away and the car is about to go past. He goes, no, I got this. I got this. And the truck goes past and when the truck is done out of shot, he's gone. Like this and that that's the ninja thing, you know. Yeah. Obviously, Black Eagle wasn't about ninjas, but but that's the idea, like they just disappear
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by slight of hand. And it's like they do a ton of that in this movie. Yeah. They do. Yeah. The weapons, the every
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it's so so good. Yeah. I love this film. Love it. Love it. Love it. So yes, long may people discover this film and rewatch it. And I can but pray
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one day we've got a sequel, but we won't. Or another good ninja movie would be nice. Works for me, works for me. Maybe Spider
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Man brings them back into the public consciousness. I have to bring up this comment though because it has come up this month. It has come up this month. And behind the scenes,
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we did talk about this.
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So
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Van Goel says in the chat, he's like, wait, no Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
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No. But I did bring it up to John and Steve. We were chatting about it. Not that we were going to talk about turtles in this,
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but this is part of like, this is how the turtles happened. I I think I said that earlier in the month. Right? Like, we start to see these movies and then it's like the the ninja
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theme,
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you know, stretched into
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expanded into the comic books. And when you have Eastman and Laird, they start writing about ninjas but in a different way and they did the turtle thing. And what's funny is the turtles, if if people don't know, like the turtles in the comics were like
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mean. They were like mean and nasty.
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And then they kind of when they did the cartoon and then they did, you know, the turtles got in the movies, they got a little bit more softened
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for for public consumption. But the early turtle books,
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which were in black and white, these guys weren't they were more all of them were more like Raphael.
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Right? And then even Raphael got softened for the for the com later on,
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but they were closer to what we know Raphael is. But the idea of the turtles was the idea was ninjas and how, like, big ninjas were became in the eighties. Yeah. Because I think they started Eastman and Leird started writing the comics in like '84 or something like that. Mhmm. Which would have been the heyday of these kinds of movies. Yeah. And the schlock.
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Yeah. And I start ironically,
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I started reading them because we would stop
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so I was going to RISD at the time, I was a freshman in high school taking classes at Rhode Island School of Design on Saturdays.
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Okay? They had Saturday classes for
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kids that were gonna, you know, wanted to go there eventually and stuff like that. So I was going we were driving down and I was going down with these three four seniors
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were taking me and we were driving down there on the weekends. Actually, they were juniors at the time, I did it for two years.
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Every now and then, we'd skip.
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Okay. So I'm going to a like one of the most prestigious art schools in the country for art
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and we're skipping art class and I'm going to Newbury comics
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and I was this is what I found was the Ninja Turtles.
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And it was like and it was early I was like, what are these? So that's how I found them by skipping art class to go to the and it was it was just funny because I'm like, I'm finding art by skipping art, but that's how I end up meeting, you know, meeting the turtles. And this was again, these are early editions like when they first and I don't have any of them or any of that, I didn't say them, didn't know.
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But but yeah. Yeah. It's like yeah. So here, you know, Van Gogh saying, yeah. I met Eastman in New Hampshire years ago. He was signing and stuff like that. So yeah.
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But yeah, it's yeah. Then that's that whole ninja thing and how how it expanded it even into comics and stuff like that. Pretty cool. Yeah. It's dual revival. We need them back. We want some more, please.
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So any any budding filmmakers out there Yeah. Not Beverly Hill ninjas and not turtle ninjas.
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Bring us some good old fashioned disappearing ninjas.
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Yeah. Stealthy ninjas. All the violence in in that that comes with it. Yep. Absolutely. I think we need to speak to Carl about this. I wonder if we can get him to write a suspect script.
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Yeah.
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Have I mean, he he he redid Red Dawn.
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It's a matter of time. We can get him to do it. We can get him to work on a script for us. And there's no reason you can't have a nice thunderstorm in a Ninja movie as was pointed out. So Absolutely. They can bring the thunder. Oh, speaking of which, did think, Carl, in in Thrash,
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they got the wipers going in there. There was one scene that had wipers similar to
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Unhinged.
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Unhinged.
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Mhmm. I was like, dum dum dum dum. I was like, oh my god.
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Russell Yeah. Crowe in
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Oh yeah, he'll love that movie. He'll absolutely
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love Thrash.
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He'll pick the writing apart.
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Well, it's written and directed by the same guy, Tommy
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I think it was,
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who's only got quite a limited following on Twitter. So I have reached out to him. I'd quite like to know a bit more about the sound design in that, I really would.
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Don't
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be too harsh on it in case he wants to, you know. Well, we talked to Carl, it's like they don't, like, remember, like, asking him, like, what do you think of the sound design? He's not really not, but he is interested in it as part of, like But the guy that wrote it and directed it
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may well have some ideas on that. So Oh, directed it too. Alright. So he will have something to do with the sound design then. Yeah. Yeah. So would be interesting to talk to So I've reached out to him, so we'll see what kinda comes from that.
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So, yeah, it could be interesting.
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Cool.
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Alrighty.
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Okay. Alright. So, yeah, I gotta be up in a bit. Yeah.
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We ran late. I mean, was worth it. Oh, god. Yeah.
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Always. Always. Alright.
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That will do it for this week.
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Wrapping up here. Yeah. So thank you to everybody in the chat. Numbers were crazy early. I lost a few here because I dropped out and came in.
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But, yeah, chat was going strong.
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Thank you everybody in the chat. Thanks to everybody that listens on Fridays too. We always thank the people in the chat, but I know that our our listenership
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through the audio only is great too.
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Thank you very much for all that. I haven't looked to see if anybody's
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done any more five star reviews on iTunes or wherever else you can do them. We appreciate those.
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But
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Oh, we're talking about Mutant Mayhem? Yes, I definitely did that. I did that when it came out. It's crazy good for home theater. Crazy good. Paul's asking about that.
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I talked about that a while ago. But yes, crazy good for home theater.
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So yeah. So thank you everybody for that.
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And people buy I we are getting stuff on TPUB. I'm getting notifications,
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you know, oh, people are buying stuff here and there. Thank you very much for that. You know, the we don't really make too much we don't make it really anything off of that, but it's great that because it gets the word out. If people don't know, like the shirt I'm wearing right now, I don't even know if you know this. These are called the coming and going shirts.
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So you got this here, and then it's also on the back as well. Oh, cool. So on the back. They have shorts now, I'm wearing them. They have shorts, so it's on the thigh and socks.
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So all of that fun stuff, Bright Side Home Theater socks. So, you know. Do do you think you can get them to do us a ninja star with it on stage? Can we can we get that, you know? Possibly.
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Done.
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You make a mean, look at what we can do with a donkey.
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So True.
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Yeah. You're in your theater, someone's talking. Shut up. Down
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in front.
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I kinda wanna get that chain thing, so it's flop ahead. Yeah. So I'm pretty sure it's called a man riggari chain, but I might be wrong. I'm I'm pretty sure that's what they're called. I think it's a more man ripped in half chain. Yeah. That one. Yeah. Yeah, man. Well, cool.
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Wouldn't wanna get anywhere near it, though. You wouldn't wanna get anywhere near those things. Imagine trying to learn to do that.
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Yeah. You yeah.
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The the How many fingers do have? I don't know. Yeah. None. Fingers.
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It's your head. You're gonna lose your head.
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Actually, maybe ask Fonzie how good she is at the
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Yeah. Maybe that's I mean, I did. I've I've I've worked with the the nunchucks.
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It's Greg the awesome ninja says. And it's like those are those aren't sharp, and they're hard enough.
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Butterfly knives, worked with that. It's learn
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on a single edge before you go to a double edge knife.
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Yeah. That that that weapon is crazy. But anyways, we could go on and on about that stuff. So and yes. Thank you. Thanks to thanks to all the patrons. I really appreciate it. Patreon support is great.
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And yeah. And if if if you aren't a patron and you you have an extra buck lying around every month, buck a month, that's all it is. And, you know, support the show and if everybody did it, Steve and I could do this full time. John could quit his job and do this full time.
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If that isn't enough to get people to do it, I don't know what is. So
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alright. That'll do it for this week.
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Till next week, you know what you gotta do. Oh, I gotta find the button. That's what I gotta do. There we go. Alright. You know what you gotta do. Go push play.
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What he said. Hey,
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Fred.
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This has been a Hey Fred production
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with theme music by Jeff Bernhardt and Throne Vault Productions.