Full Transcript for EP52 - Hardware (1990)

--> 00:06:32.959 Also, welcome to all the new listeners out there. 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:33.600 Okay. 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:36.879 Um, you're gonna be in for a fun ride, man. 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:37.680 This is good stuff. 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:45.360 Like, I go over, you know, all these movies that I think are part of the cyberpunk canon or catalog. 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:49.680 And uh, yeah, I'm the authority in terms of cyberpunk cinema. 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:53.439 I mean, this is why you come here to listen and new listeners, enjoy. 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:58.560 Go back and listen to some of the old episodes, start from episode one, just like comic books, start from episode one. 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:06.319 You'll see how um I get a little more loose, you know, as the episodes go on in the first couple episodes. 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:16.560 You know, I just want to get everything down, and I was very, very, you know, ready to go and get everything on paper, and I wanted to make sure all my points are are there, which I always do. 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:22.959 However, I'm a little more, I'm older now and uh a little more angry. 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:36.639 But look, I want you guys to be happy, and season three, the theme of season three is gonna be, you know, never lose the edge, right? 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:37.839 Don't lose your edge. 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:41.199 Don't let don't lose your edge of being human out there. 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:43.680 So, season three is gonna be a little different. 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:45.120 We're switching things up a little bit. 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:49.759 Sure, we're gonna go over movies like hardware and other movies in a cyberpunk canon. 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:53.600 However, we also will be expanding. 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:58.879 Yes, we will be expanding to TV, and you will be seeing it soon. 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:04.399 Obviously, there's two big things coming up: Blade Runner 2099 and Neuromancer. 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:05.759 Those are coming up. 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:07.040 I will be covering those. 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:11.360 Also, Cyberpunk Edge Runners season two, and I will be going over season one. 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:20.000 So, lots of fun stuff out there, and also there's so many amazing uh cyberpunk TV stuff that really hasn't been covered. 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:23.600 And then also, we're gonna do the movies, and I'm probably gonna stick for the 90s for a little bit. 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:27.839 I'm just in a 90s cyberpunk mode, and you'll see why in the near future. 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:32.320 And uh, yeah, I mean, all I gotta say is join the resistance. 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:32.799 Okay. 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:35.679 That's gonna be actually the theme of season three. 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:40.240 Season three is gonna be called Join the Resistance, and you'll see why. 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:40.799 All right. 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:43.360 So let's get into

the little background. 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:44.000 This is what we do. 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:44.879 We get into the background. 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:51.279 Rolling Stone, top 150 cyberpunk, uh mean sorry, science fiction movies of all time. 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:52.960 Hardware, not rated. 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:54.399 That's a mistake. 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:54.960 Okay. 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:59.200 Um, so anyway, so let's do some of the back the background stuff. 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:14.080 Uh, the nomad who unearths the Mark 13 robot is played by Carl McCoy, lead singer of the goth rock band Fields of the Nephilim, for whom Richard Stanley had previously directed two music videos and designed an album cover. 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:19.919 According to him, McCoy's character and hardware is basically the same as it was in a Nephilim work. 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:28.559 The character, then titled Preacher Man, had a prosthetic hand, yellow contact lenses, and wore an old black coat with a cowboy hat. 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:36.159 The band that Jill watches on TV while she makes the sculpture is Gwar, though the music is Ministry's stigmata. 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:37.440 Don't even get me into Ministry. 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:38.799 Ministry's the fucking best. 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:39.279 Okay? 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:50.720 In the original theatrical release, the 2000 AD magazine story, short story, Shock, was not given a based on credit as the story of the film was based on the short story. 00:09:50.879 --> 00:10:00.159 On the twel 2009 DVD release, Shock was credited after the end of the end credits acknowledged the original story that inspired the film. 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:06.480 For his appearance as the cabbie, Lemmy was equipped with a bottle of scotch and a genuine Magnum revolver. 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:07.759 Only Lemmy, man. 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:10.799 The guy was he was an original, broke the mold with him. 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:14.000 He emptied the bottle and drew the gun out from his shoulder holster. 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:17.440 It's it slipped his hand and sank to the river. 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:21.279 Divers were sent to recover it, but they were unsuccessful. 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:27.840 The film was originally given an X rating by the MPAA in America because of its graphic scenes of extreme violence. 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:33.279 Significant cuts had to be made in these scenes in order to secure an R rating. 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:36.960 I kind of wish that that there's a Stanley cut out there. 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:38.559 I would like to see that. 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:44.799 Speaking of Stanley, he originally wanted Bill Paxton as Mo and Jeffrey Combs as Shades. 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:46.799 That would have been a totally different vibe. 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:53.200 Paxton was enthusiastic about the script, but Miromax and Palace Pictures did not know anything about him. 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:54.320 Anything about him? 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:54.720 What? 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:57.120 They didn't see fucking aliens in 1986? 00:10:57.279 --> 00:10:59.360 They didn't see Near Dark in 87. 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:02.000 Like, what do you mean they didn't know anything about him? 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:06.559 So they didn't contact his agent, and Paxton signed on for Navy SEALs instead. 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:08.080 Uh let's see if you guys know. 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:09.679 What was his name in Navy SEALs? 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:12.080 His nickname was God. 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:17.679 Combs couldn't be cast because British Union rules allowed them to hire only two Americans. 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:20.320 Look, I mean, I I'm not a big Jeffrey Combs guy. 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:22.159 I've talked about this on a podcast before. 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:24.000 He's just never been my bag. 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:24.720 I appreciate him. 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:26.240 I think he's he's good. 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:27.679 Just never worked for me. 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:33.039 William Hoopkins improvised a lot of the foulest and most obscene lines of his character. 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:35.279 You guys know who William Hoopkins is. 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:39.039 You know, he was uh Porkins in Star Wars. 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:43.600 He was also in Indiana Jones in the Raiders of Lost Ark. 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:49.519 And he was in other movies that I can't remember off the top of my head, but those are the two, and he was in a bunch. 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:52.080 He was a really interesting character, and he's actually really good in this. 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:58.879 Richard Stanley wrote a sequel to the film called Hardware 2, Ground Zero, and tried to get the project off the ground for a few years. 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:05.919 The sequel would have been somewhat different than the original film, closer to a Western, with a much larger scale. 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:15.360 The project stalled because the rights to the original movie are split between several parties, among them Miramax and producer Paul Trivets. 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:23.120 That's also the reason why it's almost like unattainable to get this movie, to stream it and to find it. 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:24.240 Okay, we'll get to that. 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:30.559 Sinead O'Connor was originally supposed to play the Riverboat cab driver that was played by Lemmy. 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:31.759 That would have been different. 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:33.120 Um, but cool. 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:46.399 According to Richard Stanley, Shades wears sunglasses throughout the movie to shield his eyes from the sun because he had spent most of his time and space repairing satellites and has returned to Earth and is struggling to adjust. 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:47.200 Makes sense. 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:53.120 It's also in his short film, um, well, his long short film, uh, that there's a character named

Shades. 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:58.240 In the original script, Moses Baxter was unemployed and dying of cancer. 00:12:58.399 --> 00:12:59.200 That's true. 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:09.840 But once he uh hired Dill McDermott, Dil McDermott, people don't forget, I mean, he's a big dude and he was in good shape, and they're like, yeah, that guy's not going to be able to, you know, play that character. 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:10.960 So they changed it. 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:22.639 When Jill turns on a television after looking in the fridge, the first channel she is on shows a black and white video that is actual footage from World War II of German soldiers shooting Jewish prisoners inside a pit. 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:24.480 Well, that's a statement by Stanley. 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.679 The storm in the opening sequence in the desert was real. 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:28.399 It was. 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:32.080 That's why filming in a desert, always precarious, right? 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:35.919 Dylan McDermott came up with the idea to have Moses Baxter read the Bible. 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:39.519 McDermott was a or is, I do not know. 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:42.559 Uh he was a very devout, you know, Bible guy. 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:48.320 The text most supposedly reads from the Bible includes, No flesh shall be spared, is made up. 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:54.080 However, a phrase similar to that, quote, does appear in Mark 1320. 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:58.559 There should there should no flesh be saved. 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:01.039 The film takes place in the year 2000. 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:03.919 William Hookin's fourth science fiction film. 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:09.200 I just I can't remember the third one off top of my head, and I'm gonna kick myself this entire thing, but this is you know, this is what we do. 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:23.759 Shock, the short story from the British magazine 2000 AD, that the film is based on was about Mike, a strato back pilot who buys the head of a shock trooper robot as a gift for his artist girlfriend Lynn, who then uses it for her metal work. 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:28.240 The shock trooper robot reactivates and goes on a rampage in Lynn's apartment. 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:30.240 I mean, yeah, I mean, that's basically the whole movie. 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:33.919 So I I could totally understand why 2000 AD was like, yo, what the fuck? 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:35.840 Like, this we've already did this. 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:36.480 What's going on? 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:41.519 Angry Man's Angry Man, Angry Bobs announcing on the radio about the U.S. 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:49.519 government ordering the mass production of Mark 13 cyborgs uh at the end of the movie set the stage for the unproduced sequel, Hardware 2 Ground Zero. 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:50.799 The sequel was about the U.S. 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:53.360 government mass-producing Mark 13s to patrol the U.S. 00:14:53.440 --> 00:15:16.080 Mexican border and deal with illegal aliens and shades and his newfound companion, battle scarred vet, Lyle Maddox, sent to a hippie colony in Splendora, Texas, to find Jill, who has joined the destructuralists living at the colony and are unaware something lies beneath the colony that's big enough to attract the Mark 13 droids and the Mexican guerrilla leader. 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:18.000 Are you fucking kidding me? 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:20.639 I would pay to see that. 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:30.960 If I won the lottery, which I didn't win last night, but if I won the lottery and I won like$500 million, obviously, you know, one of the first things I would do would do other things. 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:39.279 But one of the things I would do with that money is I would call my boy Richard Stanley and be like, Hardware 2 Ground Zero, you still got that script, and make that. 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:42.799 I mean, just reread that part of it, okay? 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:50.720 Uh something unaware beneath the colony that's big enough to attract a Mark 13 droids and a Mexican guerrilla leader, destructuralists. 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:51.919 I mean, what the fuck? 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:52.799 That would be the best. 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:53.759 I would love to see that. 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:58.159 The abandoned sequel, Hardware 2, would have been about Jill suffering from PTSD. 00:15:58.320 --> 00:15:59.200 You'll see why. 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:03.360 Setting out to stop the government's approved mass production of Mark 13 cyborgs. 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:04.639 Fuck yeah. 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:05.200 Okay. 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:06.080 All right. 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:10.159 So the Umbrella Entertainment 4K Blu-ray. 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:10.639 Okay. 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:16.240 Now, what I was talking about earlier was that this movie is like, you can't find this movie. 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:16.960 You can't. 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:18.720 It's streaming nowhere. 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:20.799 You can't find any rips on YouTube. 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:21.600 Nothing. 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:23.440 No full rips, at least. 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:25.279 It's almost non-existent. 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:25.759 Okay. 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:30.799 The only thing you could get, and I'm happy I got it, and sometimes you gotta spend$50, right? 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:37.200 You gotta spend$50 to get a Blu-ray that you just can't find in America. 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:42.159 So I had to get from a UK thing, I think it was on eBay or Amazon, I don't remember. 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:50.240 Uh, but it's made by Umbrella Entertainment, and it's one of my favorite physical media discs that I own. 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:51.039 Why? 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:54.080 Well, there's a rush of it being unattainable, right? 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:55.440 Like, that's one of the things. 00:16:55.600 --> 00:17:04.640 You want that I as a physical media freak, you know, I love

collecting things that you normally can't get. 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:15.839 It's almost like getting a t-shirt that you walk around with, which I'm known to do, um, that people around you are like, yo, where the fuck did you get that? 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:17.440 Or that's a cool t-shirt. 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:18.559 I love that stuff. 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:25.680 And if I ever, if I'm wearing a t-shirt and I see someone else wearing it, it goes into uh into the closet. 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:26.240 Yeah. 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:34.640 And uh it doesn't come out again until I feel like I I don't want to be seen like wearing it with a twin of mine out there. 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:35.279 Fuck that. 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:36.400 That's my t-shirt. 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:41.839 So, in a way, that's kind of how I feel about the hardware 4K Blu-ray. 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:43.359 I mean, it's fucking great. 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:51.599 It's got so many extras on it, it's got documentary stuff, it's got just it's a fantastic cut. 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:53.119 Uh, and I love it. 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:57.279 Now, this is what they say on the back of the box. 00:17:57.359 --> 00:18:02.880 And whenever I have the physical media, I always read the back of the box for you new listeners out there. 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:08.799 And if you're new listeners out there who are still listening, you uh have just graduated to being a cyberpunker. 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:12.079 You're not at skim job status yet, definitely not brain butcher. 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:14.319 Uh, you may be a me proxy, I don't know. 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:17.039 Um, and artificial people, that's that's special. 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:19.519 You gotta you gotta work your way up the levels, okay? 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:23.359 So um this is what it says from Richard Stanley. 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:31.839 Hardware is a fever dream of gore, sex, sweat, grease, and sand, delivered as a warning from a nihilistic future. 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:44.640 Set in a nuclear scarred landscape where mankind struggles to survive, a zone tripper, Dylan McDermott, brings home a battered cyborg skull for his metal sculptor girlfriend, Stacy Travis. 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:53.680 But this steel scrap contains the brain of the Mark 13, the military's most ferocious biomechanical combat droid. 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:57.200 It is cunning, cruel, and can reassemble itself. 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:02.880 Tonight it is reborn, and no flesh shall be spared. 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:18.160 Stylishly melding hard rock, industrial horror, and cyberpunk dystopia, Stanley's cult classic is a pulse-pounding journey into the dangers of unchecked technology and the resilience of the human spirit against mechanical terror. 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:25.279 That is an amazing back cover uh synopsis of the movie. 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:26.960 I mean, really, really good. 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:36.079 I love the part when he says stylishly, or whoever wrote it, stylishly melding hard rock, industrial harbor, horror, horror, and cyberpunk dystopia. 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:39.759 That is nails it on the fucking head, folks. 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:40.319 Okay. 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:46.079 So uh we're gonna go into another little segment here, but before that, listen to this fucking track. 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:46.880 Listen to it. 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:50.319 This is what you get, this is what you want, this is what you get. 00:19:50.799 --> 00:20:03.599 This is what you want, this is what you get, this is this is what you want, this is this is what you get, and we're gonna do that. 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:25.519 This is what you want, this is what you get. 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:27.359 This is what you want, this is what you get. 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:28.400 Yeah, we want it. 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:31.440 And we want Simon Boswell's original music for hardware. 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:32.640 It fucking rules. 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:33.119 Okay. 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:35.359 Uh, you can't find it on Spotify. 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:36.480 You would have to go to YouTube. 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:44.799 Um, there is a YouTube guy called Star Baby, I believe is his name, and he has all of the tracks individually. 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:50.079 And it's great because you listen to them and hardly any commercials come up if you don't have YouTube Premium. 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:52.079 So check it out. 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:52.559 Okay. 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:56.880 Now, this is part of the episode where I call letterboxing. 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:00.240 Not the most original um title, but fuck you. 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:00.799 I don't care. 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:01.920 That's what we're calling it. 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:08.720 So um I read out some of the uh for the new listeners out there, read out some of the fans letterbox. 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:14.720 I like to I usually like to read the people who give it high high marks because I I I like the enthusiasm. 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:16.079 So we're gonna be reading it. 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:16.640 All right. 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:37.359 Um start with with this guy over here, Josh Lewis, four stars, occupies the exact intersection of the Terminator, Mad Max, and Tetsuo, the Iron Man, stylishly morphing from wester inflected cyberpunk dystopia to industrial rock splatter film to some sort of psychedelic operatic exorcism of technological extensions of power. 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:39.839 In other words, very much my shit. 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:40.480 I like that. 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:41.519 Josh Lewis. 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:46.079 Uh, next is Matt Exclamation Point, 3.5 stars. 00:21:46.319 --> 00:21:59.599 Dystopian sci fi neo Western metal fetishized gore fest with sex, sweat, grease, futuristic urban filth, stylistic melodrama, a creepy synth score, a red hued cyberpunk aesthetic, a kick. 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:11.839

Military cyborg and the post-apocalyptic downward spiral of humanity, a claustrophobic microcosm of a cynical, beaten, and battered world reeling from societal collapse. 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:15.279 A fever dream warning from a nihilistic future. 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:18.640 Yeah, this shit is totally my vibe. 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:19.519 Alright. 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:20.799 I like that. 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:23.279 Comrade Yui, four stars. 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:36.960 Hyper industrial, heavy metal, gory, analog, British, somewhat religious, near apocalypse, where everyone is sweaty, covered in dirt, and listening to ministry music videos while reconstructing wasteland working class scab mechs as art projects. 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:38.319 My kind of shit. 00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:43.119 So it seems like it's everyone's kind of shit so far, right? 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:47.680 Now, um, Lex with two X's, 4.5 stars. 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:50.160 I can't believe it took me so long to watch this. 00:22:50.319 --> 00:23:05.920 It had Radio DJ Iggy Pop, Gore playing on CRT, Lemmy Ministry, Metal Sculpting, Infrared Camera Voyeurism, a robot rebuilding itself, Gore, cinematography lighting that tickled my brain, and the score was incredible. 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:07.920 Need the soundtrack, ASAP. 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:11.359 Jill's apartment filled with computer terminals was very me. 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:14.640 Mark 13 is my new favorite homicidal robot. 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:15.599 In love with this. 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:16.160 P.S. 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:20.160 Angry Bob reminded me a lot of the DJ and Fallout 3. 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:21.920 Lex, 100%. 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:26.160 Totally agree with you on that last point about the Fallout 3 DJ. 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:27.759 That's not an accident. 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:35.359 They probably were like huge hardware fans, and I'm pretty sure that was a uh major influence. 00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:40.400 Noah Di Vincenzo, my fellow Italian out there, brilliant, sensational. 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:44.400 Never thought I'd see anything like Tetsuo in its own twisted way. 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:47.279 Sleeper right here, 4.5 stars. 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:48.240 All right. 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:52.000 Grooveman, the first five-star review. 00:23:52.160 --> 00:24:17.839 An interesting blend of subgenres and concept, a cyberpunk dystopic slasher question mark with satirical overtones, overwhelming at times, but the kick-ass score cameos from Lemmy and Iggy Pop and highly accomplished setting of a desolated society on the peak of deterioration, filled with industrial scraps and obtrusive crimson grime, makes it a worthy watch and an exciting, off-beat experience. 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:20.480 Actually, I'm sorry, that was Ben 3.5 stars. 00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:25.920 Grooveman 5.0 stars says, the goat of cyberpunk vibes question mark? 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:26.880 Probably. 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:28.480 Um, who do we have next? 00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:30.000 Thomas 3.5 stars. 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:38.559 This post-apocalyptic cyberpunk slasher B movie about a rampaging cyborg is all about style and vibes, and they're a metal as fuck. 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:42.240 It's gritty, gory, psychedelic, and immersive. 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:47.759 Narratively, there is nothing you haven't seen before, but I really enjoy the tactile world building. 00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:59.519 Well, and the badass red-haired heroine, good-looking special effects, vicious climax, and cameos by Lemmy, Carl McCoy, and Iggy Pop also contribute to the movie's cult film flair. 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:07.920 It's certainly not the Terminator, but as far as low-budget killer robot films go, hardware is one of the better ones. 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:09.119 I like that review. 00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:10.079 That's a good one. 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:27.599 Julian 4.0 star says a grimmy industrial, textured, technological, anxiety-fueled dystopian slasher home invasion banger exists on a plane that fuels both material, including the killer practical effects and robot design, and quite abstract in its grim vision of the future. 00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:30.720 Such a gnarly singular piece of genre work. 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:31.839 Absolutely loved it. 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:41.839 Essential viewing for anyone who digs Panos Casmatos and his brand of stylish, idiosyncratic genre movies, he owes a bit to Stanley, I think. 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:44.319 And I totally agree with that. 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:47.440 I don't know if Panos is a fan of hardware. 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:49.440 I would love to talk to him about that. 00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:56.559 Um, if you look at the two movies he's made, Mandy, and especially um, you know, uh Beneath a Black Rainbow, I can't I think that's what it's called. 00:25:56.640 --> 00:25:57.680 I came over off the top of my head. 00:25:57.839 --> 00:25:59.839 Beyond a black rainbow, I'm sorry. 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:02.000 Um, all over it. 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:07.359 I mean, black rainbow, a little bit more than Mandy, because of the subject matter, but it's very, very close. 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:13.039 So hardware is influencing my boy Panos, right? 00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:16.319 Um, MP Burden, five stars. 00:26:16.480 --> 00:26:21.920 Imagine watching the Terminator while smoking Salvia, and you basically have hardware. 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:24.640 If that doesn't sound appealing, then I can't help you. 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:26.559 And look, I agree. 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:30.960 And watching this under the influence, it's even better. 00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:32.400 The colors pop. 00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:33.519 It's great. 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:35.119 Highly recommend it. 00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:37.039 Um S. 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:45.519 Mill four stars, a scorching steel punk death wave broadcast that melts my wave into purpley glue.

00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:48.400 Also, a underrated Christmas movie. 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:49.839 Yes, it is a Christmas movie. 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:50.559 I like that. 00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:52.319 Uh, S Mill, good. 00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:55.519 Uh Steel Punk Death Wave. 00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:56.480 I like that. 00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:57.759 I never heard that before. 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:00.079 I mean, Death Wave, Steel Punk, interesting. 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:03.359 Okay, uh Opa Strike, four stars. 00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:05.359 Well, that was straight up amazing. 00:27:05.599 --> 00:27:14.480 Top-notch cyberpunk, shenanigans from Stanley, dystopian sound, visuals, metal, and madness combined to create quite the cinematic gut punch. 00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:21.200 Travis and McDermott are strong, Lynch and Hopkins, weird, and that killer robot is the stuff of nightmares. 00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:26.400 The production design is great, despite the low budget and the intense and trippy vibe, won't let up. 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:27.680 Mad as a hatter. 00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:29.839 Thanks for the 4K release umbrella. 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:31.200 Looks that kill. 00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:32.559 Love that review. 00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:34.079 Um, let's see what else we got. 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:37.039 Five star by sensitive jock. 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:41.279 This is such a cool, futuristic movie. 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:43.039 They have weed cigarettes. 00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:46.160 We all know what sensitive jock was thinking and doing at the time. 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:47.759 We highly endorse it. 00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:48.160 Okay. 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:52.319 Guns and doozes, 3.5 stars. 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:54.799 All cyberpunk movies should be used in music of ministry. 00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:57.920 I mean, is anyone gonna argue against that? 00:27:58.480 --> 00:28:00.240 Uh I could go off on Ministry. 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:01.039 I love Ministry. 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:03.759 Those first three albums, get the fuck out of here. 00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:06.000 I mean, they are incredible. 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:10.000 The rest of their work is good too, but those first three albums got me. 00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:16.400 Okay, and I just I've still I've been I after watching this movie, I just listened to those three albums constantly. 00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:18.079 Vito, four stars. 00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:30.079 Cult psychedelic cyberpunk computerized slasher cinema, austere apocalyptic art project, android attack in an apartment that aesthetically feels like ministries, the mind is a terrible thing to taste. 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:32.240 Evolve from LP to feature film. 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:34.240 That's I love that by the way. 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:44.319 Uh, and that I I mean I'll go off on a tangent, but I know you know, land of rape and honey, everyone loves, but terrible thing to taste to me is my favorite ministry album. 00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:45.440 Their third album. 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:46.319 Third LP. 00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:50.720 Let me an Iggy pop add to the overall bombed out badassery. 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:55.920 I wonder if zoomers can appreciate how likely we all saw a destroyed dystopian year 2000. 00:28:56.160 --> 00:29:05.359 The Dan Flash's shirt pattern projected on Jill's face at the end only adds to the nihilist complexity of the piece. 00:29:05.680 --> 00:29:07.039 Tom, five stars. 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:12.720 From from the Paris, Texas style opening of a barren wasteland complete with guitar twangs. 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:14.880 I knew I was gonna love this film. 00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:25.599 An absolutely balls to the wall, punkadelic apocalyptic nightmare with a psychotic robot that keeps coming until more than any human slasher villain. 00:29:25.839 --> 00:29:36.799 I love the way the score moves from guitar twangs to riffs to all-out operatic singing, and I especially love the badass and gorgeous Stacy Travis, who should have been a huge star after this. 00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:38.880 Just pure awesomeness from start to finish. 00:29:39.039 --> 00:29:40.079 Okay, great review. 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:41.039 I like what he said. 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:43.759 Punkadelic apocalyptic nightmare. 00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:48.400 That should be quoted and put on, you know, on like the Blu-ray. 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.240 Uh Stacy Travis, gorgeous, and she's very good in this. 00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:53.839 Okay, what do we got here? 00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:54.880 Um, not many more. 00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:57.759 Josh Charles, 4.5 stars. 00:29:58.079 --> 00:30:03.039 Unfairly dismissed upon release as derivative MTV influence junk. 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:11.680 Hardware may not be entirely original, but it's one of the most remarkably confident directorial debuts found in this genre. 00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:22.799 An incredible hybrid of layered visuals, perfectly chosen music, and sound effects, and detailed production design, all assembled and edited with considerable skill on a tiny budget. 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:30.480 In an ideal world, writer-director Richard Stanley would have gotten his choice of projects, and lead actress Stacey Travis would have become a genre ficture. 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:31.599 I totally agree with that. 00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:35.200 And in some other world, Stanley was bigger, okay? 00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:36.799 And Stacy Travis. 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:38.559 Uh Robert Edwards, five stars. 00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:40.960 My kind of cinema, pure cyberpunk trash. 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:43.440 I've heard people call it cyberpunk trash before. 00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:45.119 I'm not gonna go against that. 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:45.920 I understand why. 00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:48.960 It's more of just like B movie cyberpunk masterpiece. 00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:50.640 That's what I what I like to call it. 00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:54.240 Uh Zed

Cutsinger, 3.5 stars. 00:30:54.319 --> 00:30:55.359 It's like Alec Cox. 00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:59.039 It's like Alex Cox railed a line of microchips. 00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:01.599 Again, take that, put it on the Blu-ray. 00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:04.400 That's a great, great, great review. 00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:07.440 It's like Alex Cox railed a line of microchips. 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:08.400 Fucking love it. 00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:10.640 Gulffire 2, five stars. 00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:13.839 When I watch this, I feel like I'm in heaven. 00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:18.160 Orange industrial sludge washing over me like a warm bath. 00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:21.759 Slimy metallic coils wrapping around me like a blanket. 00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:24.480 Neon like a halo around my head. 00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:30.079 Who knew Anglophone Shinyu Sukumato can be so good? 00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:31.279 That's a great one. 00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:31.920 I like that. 00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:35.039 Sukumato's influence all over this movie. 00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:35.599 Okay. 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:39.839 Uh, last one, Neanderthal nuke. 00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:41.359 That's a good one. 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:47.599 Uh, post-apocalyptic scrap metal nightmare fuel with the sexual politics of a rusted chainsaw. 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:50.000 I mean, dude, this is what I'm telling you, man. 00:31:50.079 --> 00:32:03.759 Like, if I had my own Blu-ray company, which I've talked about before, I would pull these five-star like nuggets off of uh Letterbox and put them on the Blu-ray DVD, whatever you want. 00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:09.920 I mean the Blu-ray 4K, whatever you want to do it, and have the letterbox people quoted for that. 00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:13.440 Because some of that stuff is better than any critic can ever write. 00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:15.119 I mean, just that line is great. 00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:21.839 Post-apocalyptic scrap metal nightmare fuel with a sexual politics of a rusted chainsaw. 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:30.240 Neanderthal nuke, I'm gonna give you the uh letterboxing award for for this for this uh episode. 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:31.119 I love it. 00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:36.559 I mean, there was you had a lot to people go up against, but that one was amazing. 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:37.039 All right. 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:42.160 So we're gonna take a break and you're gonna listen to this trailer, and then we're gonna get into the movie. 00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:43.200 Listen up. 00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:14.319 What is your primary function? 00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:15.599 I'm gonna start using that one again. 00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:21.279 The next argument I get in with someone, which, you know, that doesn't happen quite often, but you know, we're all human, aren't we? 00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:22.400 Meet proxies. 00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:24.880 Uh yeah, I'm gonna be like, what's your primary function? 00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:28.160 Okay, and uh, you can't stop progress, right? 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:30.079 So that's kind of what we're up to. 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:32.240 We're gonna dive into the movie. 00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:40.160 Uh, it's gonna be a spoilerific review, but I will tell you when like the real spoilers start to kick in. 00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:50.000 Most of it's kind of a breakdown of what the movie's about and why it has the uh cyberpunk thematic elements, right? 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:51.599 So hardware. 00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:55.920 Uh in case you guys have forgotten which movie we're going over, hardware. 00:33:56.079 --> 00:34:01.599 Uh over the opening title credits, we hear a nuclear wind and a mechanical whine. 00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:09.519 Suddenly we see flashes of blue electrical light flare out toward our field of vision with harsh machine gun intensity. 00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:12.719 We see the closed eyes of Jill, Stacy Travis. 00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:15.840 We flash back to the electrical blue harsh pulse. 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:20.559 We cut back to her face, her eyeballs move under her closed eyelids. 00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:22.000 Is she dreaming? 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:24.000 Is this a premonition? 00:34:24.159 --> 00:34:29.039 Cut to quote, no flesh shall be spared, end quote, Mark 13. 00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:40.800 Title card, hardware over a close-up of a welder cutting into metal cross dissolve to a sprawling desert under an ominous crimson wasteland sky. 00:34:41.039 --> 00:34:45.280 A close-up of the sand reveals the fingers of a buried cyborg hand. 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:54.800 Nomad, a zone tripper, is in the distance walking the desert, dwarfed by the endless sand dunes, and a shot reminiscent of Tarkovsky's Stalker. 00:34:55.119 --> 00:35:00.239 Simon Boswell's score warps from horror vibes to a cowboy twang. 00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:01.679 Very interesting score. 00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:02.880 I really, really like it. 00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:07.199 And the whole stalker thing, totally Tarkovsky with the way he shot that. 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:11.440 I mean, I don't know if he's ever said that, but I mean, it's there, right? 00:35:11.599 --> 00:35:14.639 Uh Nomad is far away toward the horizon. 00:35:14.719 --> 00:35:20.480 He's walking slowly toward the low-angle camera as storm clouds congregate above. 00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:30.159 We continue to cross-dissolve to the cyborg hand as it sl shows more of its mechanical visage down to its knuckles and it starts to flex its fingers. 00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:31.920 Right. 00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:34.559 Uh Nomad walks into a full shot. 00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:40.960 He's wearing a gas mask, a long jacket, gloves, a hat, and a large backpack of wasteland scavenger shit. 00:35:41.119 --> 00:35:43.519 He checks his compass and moves on. 00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:46.480 He kneels next to a barbed wire battlefield. 00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:56.559 He gets uh we get a close-up of his compass as it spins, unable to find true north, overlaid by

Richard Stanley's written-directed screen credit. 00:35:56.880 --> 00:35:57.199 Okay. 00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:05.280 So he takes out the bolt cutters and opens a path through the barbed wire, approaches the flexing cyborg hand. 00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:10.400 He digs next to the hand and finds a cyborg skull buried in the sand. 00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:18.000 An extreme close-up of the cyborg skull reveals high powered cameras for eyes as it dissolves into the rising sun. 00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:18.800 Okay. 00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:24.639 That's like the opening sequence uh of the movie. 00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:26.079 And that's not that's not it. 00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:35.360 We're gonna continue, but that like that's you know you're in for a like arthouse cyberpunk movie when you get that type of opening. 00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:36.079 Love it. 00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:37.519 I really, really, really love it. 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:48.239 Um, so we get to hear Iggy pop, uh, his voiceover, and it comes alive with you know, this is Angry Bob, the man with the industrial dick. 00:36:48.400 --> 00:37:00.320 Um, we see industrial factories with smokestacks, we see all these things during like the more of the opening sequence so that you can get a uh you know, a world build setting of what this is. 00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:06.079 Again, toxic wasteland, you know, factories just polluting the air even further. 00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:07.119 And uh, you know what? 00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:09.360 I'm gonna play our boy Iggy Pop. 00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:10.079 Let's play it now. 00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:54.079 Now you guys see why that um that person said Fallout 3. 00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:55.840 Totally, totally. 00:37:56.320 --> 00:38:01.679 Fallout 3 uh borrowed that from our boy Iggy Pop playing Angry Bob. 00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:04.480 Yeah, so it sets the tone, right? 00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:10.400 It's think about it, it's uh, you know, the heat wave, it's 110 downtown by nightfall. 00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:12.239 By nightfall, okay? 00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:17.840 Uh radiation count is up, uh, and there is no good fuck, there's no fucking good news. 00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:19.840 So that's setting it up. 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:23.679 This is all before we meet any of our main characters, right? 00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:30.880 And speaking of which, speaking of which, out of the smoking scrap heap appears Moses Baxter and his sidekick Shades. 00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:41.360 Shades tells Moses about how New York City City still has a lot of aluminum, copper wires, and other rare metals, a scavenged New York has got it all as opposed to this dump. 00:38:41.519 --> 00:38:43.360 I I don't know exactly where they are. 00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:46.079 I assume they're in like the West Coast somewhere. 00:38:46.239 --> 00:38:52.320 Uh, they walk down the long hallway and Shades calls Moses Max, which Moses doesn't like being called. 00:38:52.480 --> 00:39:01.039 I think that was like a little uh inside joke, right, that Stanley put in there because it's a post-apocalyptic setting, Mad Max, whatever it is. 00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:12.239 So they meet up with Alvy, a uh little person, you know, uh fence, I call it, uh sitting on a table surrounded by computer monitors and other random mechanical junk. 00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:19.280 Now, Alvy is played by the same actor who played Burgle Cut and Willow, one of my favorite movies. 00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:25.599 So he was the um uh the bad Newland uh out there. 00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:28.960 So everything is dirty and grimy and sweaty. 00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:34.400 Moses is also a wasteland, you know, scav zone tripper. 00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:37.920 So he throws Alvy a scav bag of stuff he found. 00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:42.079 Uh suddenly, Nomad appears walking down the same hallway toward them. 00:39:42.159 --> 00:39:45.679 He is bass in silhouette, his eyes pinpricks of illuminated light. 00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:47.199 It's one of my favorite shots in the movie. 00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:52.800 He drops his scavenger bag on the ground and it sounds heavier, and he's like, Where is the little man? 00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:56.639 Because Alvy went to the back to get something, right? 00:39:56.880 --> 00:40:01.440 Um shades open up, uh opens up Nomad's bag. 00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:05.599 He finds a cyborg hand, and more importantly, the cyborg skull. 00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:13.679 Moses takes a closer look at a cyborg skull, and we see that Moses has a prosthetic cybernetic hand himself on his right hand. 00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:19.840 Uh Moses buys the cyborg skull directly off Nomad for 50, whatever the denominations are. 00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:21.760 He takes his bounty and leaves. 00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:23.440 No, so Nomad is gone. 00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:25.840 Alvy returns and examines the skull. 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:27.840 He thinks it's a maintenance drone. 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:28.719 He's not sure. 00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:32.960 He puts on his goggles and he's able to like, you know, read whatever it is. 00:40:33.119 --> 00:40:33.920 He looks closer. 00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:35.760 He offers Moses 30. 00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:37.760 So Moses is going to keep it after all. 00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:38.800 It's Christmas Eve. 00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:41.760 Alvy keeps a cyborg hand and the other junk. 00:40:41.920 --> 00:40:45.119 Moses takes the skull and leaves with shades. 00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:48.159 Now we get our first glimpse of the radiated city. 00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:55.280 The skyline is dusty, dank, and covered in a rolling thick smog, right? 00:40:56.079 --> 00:41:01.760 So uh we track into a makeshift computer display which shows a digital clock on the monitor. 00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:04.960 The alarm beckons, and angry Bob returns in voiceover. 00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:06.559 I'm gonna have to say this because I can't find it. 00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:08.239 Hey folks, rise and shine.

00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:12.400 Ah, I got an update on the conflict that we all know and love. 00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:17.119 The death toll from the violation of the Christmas ceasefire is rising. 00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:21.440 It currently stands at 578 with a counterattack well underway. 00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:24.239 Uh, Jill wakes up from her meditation. 00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:28.400 She is surrounded by tools as she sits in Lotus on the floor. 00:41:28.559 --> 00:41:30.800 Her computer beckons an entry request. 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:36.719 She punches a key and a black-white CRT surveillance image shows a stairwell, but no one is there. 00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:41.840 She inserts an input cable into her motherboard and she gets another camera angle. 00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:45.199 This time it's Vernon, a neighborhood watch security guy. 00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:51.519 Jill tells Vernon that she thinks that creep is back, but he doesn't see anybody. 00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:53.840 So Jill looks at her blinds. 00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:56.880 We hear a female voiceover uh on the radio now. 00:41:56.960 --> 00:42:06.079 It's announcing that the emergency population control bill will take effect at midnight of the new year, what the president terms a clean break with procreation. 00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:09.199 She smokes a good vibes packaged weed cigarette. 00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:10.880 Uh, like to get my hands on those. 00:42:11.039 --> 00:42:20.480 And the female voice drones out, but we do hear that the two creators of the EPCB were found dead last night. 00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:22.800 So, again, world building, right? 00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:25.199 We understand how bad the world is from angry. 00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:26.639 I actually like stuff like this. 00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:30.800 Uh that Angry Bob, this is like world building exposition. 00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:38.559 Uh, we learn that, you know, 578 people were killed on some Christmas Eve uh breaking of a seas fire. 00:42:38.719 --> 00:42:44.800 We learn that the emergency population control bill has been enacted, so people that can't have fucking kids, I mean, why would you want to? 00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:47.840 I mean, you know, every everything is radioactive. 00:42:48.079 --> 00:42:51.119 So she boils a crude tea of cockroaches. 00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:51.920 So, you know what? 00:42:52.000 --> 00:43:01.679 When you're in a future, when it's a uh the dark future of cyberpunk dystopia and it's toxic wasteland, I mean, if you want your tea, you might as well throw cockroaches in it, right? 00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:05.599 Uh look, don't uh I don't know. 00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:10.559 I don't know if I would have that, but if I was fucking really hungry, I guess you have no choice. 00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:16.400 So, I mean, ultimately, if we get hit by an atomic bomb, I I mean, I'm living right next to New York City. 00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:18.239 I'm gone anyway, you know, folks. 00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:20.320 So I'm I'm not gonna be one of the survivors. 00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:24.000 But if I am, Cockroach tea is on the menu, boys. 00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:29.039 All right, so we first see her unfinished art installation. 00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:30.559 It's hanging on the far wall. 00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:35.360 It's an amalgam of appropriated metal, wicker, wire, and wood. 00:43:35.599 --> 00:43:37.440 It's missing a centerpiece, though. 00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:41.679 She puts on her welding gloves and welding helmet and gets to work. 00:43:41.840 --> 00:43:47.519 Meanwhile, Moses and Shades walk through the city ruins, pass a flea market, and stop at a cab stand. 00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:49.440 They want a ride downtown. 00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:56.159 The taxi driver, played by Lemmy from Motorhead, takes them down the polluted river on his taxi boat. 00:43:56.400 --> 00:43:59.519 Again, this is supposed to be originally played by Sinead O'Connor. 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:00.880 Said, let me. 00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:02.079 So there you go. 00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:06.079 He asks them if they like music, and of course, he turns up Ace of Spades. 00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:07.440 Fucking love stuff like that. 00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:08.639 Now, this is what he says. 00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:10.159 I couldn't find the audio. 00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:13.760 So he says, quote, used to be okay down here, you know that? 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.559 Used to be you could walk down here any time. 00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:19.760 Go out on a Saturday night with just brass knuckles, nothing else. 00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:21.360 Maybe a piece of wood or something. 00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:22.400 A piece of pipe. 00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:23.440 You know what I mean? 00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:26.320 Nowadays, you need a gun all the time. 00:44:26.559 --> 00:44:28.159 Fucking bunch of shit. 00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:30.960 What these people are doing to our fucking world. 00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:36.000 So Lemmy is kind of pissed off how the world is. 00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:36.800 I don't blame him. 00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:37.519 I would too. 00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:39.599 But you know, he's got a job, he's a water taxi. 00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:44.159 Now Shades complains to Moses he'd rather be in space than back on Earth. 00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:46.079 We see the denizens of the ruined city. 00:44:46.159 --> 00:44:49.920 It's all very medieval, a dark age of peddlers, street performers, and thieves. 00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:51.199 It only gets worse. 00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:54.639 Inside the lobby of Jill's building is more dereliction. 00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:57.840 A butcher chops up the mutated carcass of a cow. 00:44:58.079 --> 00:45:00.000 Premium meat in this world, I guess. 00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:02.880 People are starving and dirty and depressed. 00:45:03.199 --> 00:45:05.920 It sucks to live in this dark future. 00:45:06.079 --> 00:45:08.880 Moses says, This place is going to hell.

00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:12.800 Um, quote, and I don't think he only means the building. 00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:16.559 It doesn't seem like life in a city is getting any better, only worse. 00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:20.559 He calls the elevator, but it's out of order, and so they have to take the stairs. 00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:23.599 Shades tells Moses that Jill never leaves her apartment. 00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:24.880 Shades keeps an eye on her. 00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:28.559 Moses thanks him, quote, when I'm not around, see nothing happens to her. 00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:29.360 End quote. 00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:32.239 Now Moses clicks the entry request on a door display. 00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:36.239 She's welding, but she stops and to see who's at her door. 00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:37.679 It's Moses and Shades. 00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:41.519 She doesn't want to let them in at first, but Moses uses his charm and she admits them. 00:45:41.599 --> 00:45:44.400 But I love how this is shot by Stanley. 00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:44.880 Okay. 00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:50.400 It has like that standard definition, you know, vid phone display. 00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:52.719 I love that vibe and aesthetic. 00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:53.760 It's so cool. 00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:55.679 It really, really, really works. 00:45:55.920 --> 00:46:05.280 Um obviously didn't have they didn't have HD back then, but like the way it looks, and it's like black and white, and it's gritty, and it's grimy, and it's dirty. 00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:06.639 We need more of that shit. 00:46:06.719 --> 00:46:08.719 Things just look too goddamn good. 00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:10.800 Like things need to be dirty. 00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:13.280 Things need to be gritty and grimy. 00:46:13.360 --> 00:46:14.400 We need to go back to that. 00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:16.719 I will go back to that when I make my movie. 00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:20.079 So um what happens here? 00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:20.719 Let's see. 00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:24.719 The hydraulic power door opens, which is a foreshadow. 00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:29.679 And Jill is ready with a Geiger counter to measure ionized radiation on both of them. 00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:31.599 She doesn't exactly trust them. 00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:34.960 She tells them that she got a job customizing computer consoles. 00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:40.960 Jill says, quote, it's like I'm fighting with the metal, and so far the metal is winning, end quote. 00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:45.679 Which is a little bit of another foreshadow right there. 00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:46.559 I really like that quote. 00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:51.119 Now Moses unloads his scavenger bag and she picks up the cyborg skull. 00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:52.239 Quote, it's horrible. 00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:54.079 I love it, end quote. 00:46:54.239 --> 00:46:58.079 They embrace and shades knows, uh, yeah, I think it's my time to leave. 00:46:58.159 --> 00:46:59.440 They're about to get it on. 00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:07.840 So he uh slowly leaves the building, and while he's doing that, we track into the camera eyes of the cyborg skull. 00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:09.760 A red eye comes to life. 00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:12.400 So, uh-oh, our boy's coming to life here. 00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:15.039 Now the shower scene, okay. 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:16.800 Moses and Jill take a shower. 00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:24.079 Moses caresses her with his cybernetic hand, but we get to see that the cybernetic hand is ported with wires into his forearm. 00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:24.559 Okay. 00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:28.400 Um, then we get the sex scene. 00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:28.880 All right. 00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:32.079 Now, this sex scene's pretty cool, the way it's shot. 00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:35.519 And this is when we hear this is what you want, this is what you get. 00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:39.760 This is what you want, this is what you get, which you heard earlier uh in the podcast. 00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:43.280 Now, basked in blue light, Jill rides Moses. 00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:45.519 She's riding him until cows get home. 00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:46.159 Uh okay. 00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:52.559 As the camera circles around, we cut back and forth from her moaning to the upside-down image of the cyborg skull. 00:47:52.639 --> 00:47:53.599 I really like this. 00:47:53.760 --> 00:47:56.079 Uh, now both red eyes come to life. 00:47:56.159 --> 00:48:02.159 So peeping tom cyborg skull, and we first see the cyber point of view. 00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:05.760 Um, it sees in some like version of infrared, right? 00:48:05.840 --> 00:48:10.880 Then suddenly, this is when there's a strange turn. 00:48:11.039 --> 00:48:17.119 Like you when I first saw this, I mean, I watched this years ago, but I haven't seen it in probably like 15 years. 00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:19.920 So seeing it again, I was like, Well, I don't even fucking remember this. 00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:25.360 But then suddenly, out of nowhere, we hear an unseen character watching perversely and talking dirty. 00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:27.679 I mean, he's talking dirty. 00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:28.800 All right. 00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:31.760 He's like, you know, take that big whatever. 00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:33.199 I don't even want to say it. 00:48:33.360 --> 00:48:34.880 Uh, take that, take this. 00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:36.480 Oh, yeah, you want you want it so bad. 00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:37.440 I mean, just listen to it. 00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:38.159 It's great. 00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:47.679 And William Hookins supposedly kind of ad-libbed that part, which uh, I mean, we kind of know what William Hookins might have been up to in his spare time. 00:48:47.840 --> 00:48:52.400 Uh, the long camera lens is shown, and we see Lincoln Weinberg Jr. 00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:57.760 played by the aforementioned William Hookins, watching them from across the street in another building. 00:48:57.920 --> 00:48:59.840 He's a super creep sicko.

00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.400 He's got like his right side of his lower lip has like a boil. 00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:11.119 He's got like a weird fucking face, he's got like a ponytail with like receding hairline, he's fat as fuck. 00:49:11.199 --> 00:49:13.920 He's just a creep, like five thousand. 00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:14.800 That's what he is. 00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:16.719 He snaps shots of them fucking. 00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:28.559 So not only is he a creep, but he's taking shots, and he's wearing like while he's pressing the camera thing, he's wearing um he's wearing like clear rubber gloves. 00:49:28.639 --> 00:49:30.000 He's such a fucking freak. 00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:31.920 Kind of love him in this movie. 00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:41.679 Uh, like when you think of William Hookins and all the you know sci-fi masterpieces he's been in, and he's like, I'm just gonna go full freak mode, full creep mode, and he does. 00:49:41.920 --> 00:49:45.599 Uh, we see his wall of Polaroids of random people he peeps on. 00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:48.079 I mean, just this fucking guy needs help, okay? 00:49:48.239 --> 00:49:51.440 Uh, we also see a wall of kids' shoes and sneakers. 00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:54.159 It's like, all right, how bad can we make this guy? 00:49:54.320 --> 00:49:59.679 Let's make him like a fucking freak weirdo, potential pedophile, like psycho. 00:49:59.920 --> 00:50:00.159 Okay. 00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:04.239 He's such a dirtbag that he probably has an orgasm watching them fuck. 00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:07.360 It's basically his version of like live porno, right? 00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:09.360 Of the future or like whatever. 00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:14.239 Um, Moses and Jill are lying in bed, post-coidal with some clothes on. 00:50:14.400 --> 00:50:20.639 The upside down cyborg skill, cyborg skill, Jesus, cyborg skull is still watching them. 00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:21.840 They both fall asleep. 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:24.000 She turns around and spoons him. 00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:24.880 How kind. 00:50:25.039 --> 00:50:27.920 Now, we are transported inside Shade's apartment. 00:50:28.079 --> 00:50:32.000 He has like this weird demon multi-arm god painted on the wall. 00:50:32.159 --> 00:50:39.119 He is dropping acid, sitting lotus style, looking at a shrine with candles, and yes, he still has his shades on. 00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:41.840 I mean, he's like literally dropping tabs of acid. 00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:43.920 That's why I fucking love this movie. 00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:49.519 Because Stanley's like, no, one of our characters is going to be tripping balls during like a trippy movie, right? 00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:51.199 Always the best combination. 00:50:51.440 --> 00:50:52.559 We're back at Alvies. 00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:53.199 Remember him? 00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:56.159 He found a model number on the cyborg hand. 00:50:56.239 --> 00:50:59.039 He punches the info into his computer console. 00:50:59.199 --> 00:51:02.480 He finds out that it's from a Mark 13 combat droid. 00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:03.519 Dun dun dun. 00:51:03.679 --> 00:51:07.119 Now Jill wakes up and boils more cockroach tea. 00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:09.599 Uh, she smokes one of her weed sigs. 00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:14.559 I mean, girl, you you you get uh you get what you need to get, girl. 00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:16.800 And turns on the news and flips through the channels. 00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:18.159 None of it is good, obviously. 00:51:18.400 --> 00:51:26.960 She sees images of deplorable, gross-out animal cruelty, then sees lore, but with the ministry uh song playing in the background instead. 00:51:27.119 --> 00:51:33.760 Now she keeps a music video on and gets to work on her art installation, powered by ministry, right? 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:39.599 She gets up, uh she picks up the cyborg skull, looks at the missing centerpiece, and she's like, huh, gets inspired. 00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:41.840 We see the channel flip to torture videos. 00:51:41.920 --> 00:51:44.960 I mean, what the fuck is going on in this dark future? 00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:49.840 She puts a cyborg skull in a vice, tightens it, and tapes over its eyes. 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:55.840 She spray paints the cyborg skull and now looks like the American flag, stars and stripes, baby, all the way. 00:51:56.000 --> 00:52:07.119 She dumps out like these Barbie dolls, or I mean not bar, or like I don't know, they're fucking dolls, and sparks her welder and you know, burns off their faces, you know, what regular people would do. 00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:10.320 And meanwhile, Moses sleeps like a baby through all the commotion. 00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:13.280 Like this guy is a fucking deep sleeper. 00:52:13.519 --> 00:52:13.840 Okay. 00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:22.400 Um, she places the painted cyborg skull in the centerpiece of her art installation, surrounded by burned charred Barbie dolls, naturally, right? 00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:25.760 Modern art, postmodern art masterpiece. 00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:28.079 She then grinds down the metal of the installation. 00:52:28.239 --> 00:52:32.159 Moses wakes up, uh, thought it was raining outside. 00:52:32.239 --> 00:52:33.440 And she's like, I wish. 00:52:33.679 --> 00:52:46.800 Then the most random fucking image ever from extreme low angle showing an Asian old lady standing on a desk and smashing uh her broom handle on the ceiling and subtitles, and it says, Be quiet up there. 00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:49.039 When I first saw that, I just couldn't stop laughing. 00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:55.360 It just comes out of nowhere, but it's it it adds to the like comedic atmosphere, right? 00:52:55.440 --> 00:53:01.519 I mean, you gotta, you gotta be able to uh have some levity in a movie this this fucking bleak. 00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:10.480 Now, Moses and Jill talk about the emergency population control bill and how she doesn't want radioactive kids, and he stopped thinking about having kids a long time ago. 00:53:10.800 -->

00:53:16.400 You do feel like maybe in another world that wasn't you know toxic and radioactive. 00:53:16.559 --> 00:53:20.559 Wasteland, they probably would have had kids, but they're probably making the wise choice. 00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:21.760 Like, I don't know, man. 00:53:21.840 --> 00:53:24.000 I don't want a kid with three heads, you know. 00:53:24.239 --> 00:53:27.440 Um the VidCom vid phone rings. 00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:28.400 Moses answers it. 00:53:28.480 --> 00:53:29.119 It's Alvy. 00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:30.400 He needs to see him. 00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:31.280 It's important. 00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:34.719 Meet him, meet me, meet me in one hour at the shop. 00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:35.920 He needs to talk to him. 00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:36.639 ASAP. 00:53:36.880 --> 00:53:38.239 So Alvy is on his computer. 00:53:38.320 --> 00:53:40.880 He's finding more info in the Mark 13 program. 00:53:40.960 --> 00:53:41.760 He's printing shit out. 00:53:41.840 --> 00:53:45.199 He's like, what the fuck have we unearthed in the desert? 00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:50.159 We learn that the program was scrapped because the Mark 13 was susceptible to moisture. 00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:50.719 Interesting. 00:53:50.880 --> 00:53:56.960 It's an arid, uh, you know, desert combat droid, but I guess they didn't think about rain. 00:53:57.119 --> 00:54:02.559 I guess it doesn't rain that much in this future, as we heard what Jill said about rain. 00:54:02.719 --> 00:54:04.880 Uh, probably, you know, acid rain. 00:54:05.039 --> 00:54:10.719 Uh, we learn that the Mark 13 can self-repair and is a combat killing machine. 00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:22.000 Meanwhile, the cyborg hand kind of comes to life, and uh all of a sudden we see it has like a needle in one of its fingers, and you're like, oh fuck, Alvy's screwed. 00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:23.679 Now, Moses is with Jill. 00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:30.559 He's reading a Bible, he finds the Mark 13 passage where he reads, No flesh shall be spared. 00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:32.400 Now, Moses leaves her apartment. 00:54:32.480 --> 00:54:33.039 She's sleeping. 00:54:33.119 --> 00:54:38.000 The cyborg skull, the cyborg skull comes to life. 00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:40.320 Again, we cut back to Weinberg. 00:54:40.400 --> 00:54:44.079 He's watching her again with his long lens camera and his creep face. 00:54:44.239 --> 00:54:48.079 She notices a light from across the way and puts clothes on wisely. 00:54:48.239 --> 00:54:49.920 Uh, she gets a phone call on the vid phone. 00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:56.000 It's Weinberg, but he only shows his one eye and he's got like some sort of cardboard cut out and not his face. 00:54:56.159 --> 00:54:58.639 And she tells him rightfully to fuck off. 00:54:58.800 --> 00:55:02.559 Now, Jill Lee uh lights another weed cigarette. 00:55:02.719 --> 00:55:05.119 This girl likes to be stoned, baby. 00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:11.679 Now, she turns the TV on and we see some sort of like dictator or something, a commercial for

radiation-free reindeer stakes. 00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:13.119 And she's like, Okay, I'm done. 00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:14.000 I'm gonna pass out. 00:55:14.159 --> 00:55:21.119 Now, Alvy chases after the cyborg hand, and uh, like I told you, we got the needle and everything. 00:55:21.280 --> 00:55:28.239 Now, suddenly the cyborg skull back in Jill's apartment summons all the metal, wires, and mechanical items toward him. 00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:30.320 He gets power and life from the grid outlet. 00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:32.480 The cyborg skull has reassembled. 00:55:32.719 --> 00:55:35.199 It is now the Mark 13 again. 00:55:35.280 --> 00:55:37.440 Now, Moses returns to Alvy's place. 00:55:37.679 --> 00:55:40.800 He's dead, injected with that poison needle that we saw. 00:55:40.880 --> 00:55:43.199 Moses finds the printouts from the Mark 13. 00:55:43.280 --> 00:55:49.119 He immediately grabs Alvy's vid phone and dials Jill, and the Mark 13 appears on screen instead. 00:55:49.199 --> 00:55:50.159 And he's like, fuck. 00:55:50.320 --> 00:55:52.159 Now Moses is pissed, but he's like, What can I do? 00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:52.639 What can I do? 00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:53.840 He's like, Shades, shades, shades. 00:55:54.000 --> 00:55:58.719 So he calls Shades, and Shades, as you know, is tripping balls. 00:55:58.880 --> 00:55:59.599 He's gone. 00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:02.159 He's in some sort of other fucking planet. 00:56:02.239 --> 00:56:03.039 He's in space. 00:56:03.199 --> 00:56:03.519 Okay. 00:56:03.679 --> 00:56:04.719 Mentally, he's in space. 00:56:04.880 --> 00:56:11.360 Now he tells, he being Moses, tells, dude, Jill is in trouble, man, and I need you to go get her out of there. 00:56:11.519 --> 00:56:14.000 And like, shades is moving very, very slowly. 00:56:14.079 --> 00:56:17.679 Now, Mark 13 point of view, it approaches Jill. 00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:21.519 She wakes up, it attacks her with a saw and tears up the bed. 00:56:21.599 --> 00:56:31.840 Now, Weinberg sees what's going on from across the way and he puts eye drops in his eye, looks through the camera, and sees the Mark 13 looking directly at him, and it shocks him to his core. 00:56:32.079 --> 00:56:39.360 Now, Jill arms himself arms herself with like this mini blowtorch type thing, and uh her front door won't open. 00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:41.360 The Mark 13 overrides the system. 00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:49.039 She's locked in her own apartment, she's locked in her own agoraphobia with the killing machine. 00:56:49.280 --> 00:56:53.360 Now, Weinberg enters, she had she has no idea who he is. 00:56:53.519 --> 00:56:54.400 She's never seen this guy. 00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:56.559 Now the door locks behind him and she can't get out. 00:56:56.639 --> 00:56:58.880 She's she's probably thinking, like, fucking idiot. 00:56:59.039 --> 00:57:00.719 I would have loved to have gotten out. 00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:04.960 So she's stuck in her apartment with the killer machine and this sicko creep. 00:57:05.039

--> 00:57:05.360 Okay. 00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:07.119 Uh, I don't know which one is worse. 00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:11.280 Now he installed, he tells her, I installed all the surveillance in the building. 00:57:11.519 --> 00:57:15.199 It I just need to find the main terminal to manually override uh the door. 00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:16.719 And she's like, okay, let's do it. 00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:18.239 And he's like, well, give me that blowtorch. 00:57:18.320 --> 00:57:23.920 So he takes a blowtorch, enters a main room, he tries to hack into the system, she smokes another weed cigarette. 00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:31.760 Uh before he overrides the system, he goes to the he goes to the closed blinds, opens them, and the Mark 13 grabs him. 00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:34.480 Spoiler alert from here on out. 00:57:35.039 --> 00:57:35.360 Okay. 00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:38.159 Spoiler alert from here on out. 00:57:38.880 --> 00:57:39.679 You heard it. 00:57:39.920 --> 00:57:41.440 Ring a ding-ding-ding-dong. 00:57:41.519 --> 00:57:42.559 You heard the spoiler alert. 00:57:42.639 --> 00:57:50.719 Okay, now uh our creepazoid uh Weinberg dies in the most gruesome, gory, violent death. 00:57:50.880 --> 00:57:55.039 His eyes are gouged, he's drilled through his abdomen with like a drilled dick. 00:57:55.119 --> 00:57:59.119 Uh, she freaks out, runs to the door, and screams and bangs on it. 00:57:59.199 --> 00:58:08.480 Now, Vernon and the chief security guy are in a control room playing chess and not paying attention to the surveillance footage, which they probably wouldn't have been able to see much. 00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:09.599 It's just a closed door. 00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:14.639 Now, Jill goes into the kitchen, all of the appliances are on and overheating. 00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:18.880 So, like, a Mark 13 is wired in, baby. 00:58:18.960 --> 00:58:20.400 Now she grabs an electric knife. 00:58:20.480 --> 00:58:28.159 The Mark 13 enters the kitchen, she opens the fridge, throws everything out, and enters, shielding herself from the infrared vision. 00:58:28.239 --> 00:58:32.320 How she knew that, I do not know, but very smart survival skills. 00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:34.000 Now, Shades appears at the door. 00:58:34.079 --> 00:58:41.519 He's calling at the entry request as the Mark 13 hand is trying to grab Jill's face. 00:58:41.760 --> 00:58:49.199 Jill grabs a handsaw and attacks the Mark 13, damaging it, but she gets struck by the Mark 13 and cuts her arm. 00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:50.480 Moses arrives. 00:58:50.559 --> 00:58:51.679 He's running up the stairs. 00:58:51.840 --> 00:58:54.960 Gas pours into the apartment because the appliances are on. 00:58:55.119 --> 00:58:58.960 She lights her weed sigs, throws it at Mark 13. 00:58:59.119 --> 00:59:02.320 He catches it, and there is an explosion. 00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:04.079 Jill's arm burns. 00:59:04.159 --> 00:59:07.519 One of the coolest shots in a movie is when she gets up from this arm burning. 00:59:07.679 --> 00:59:09.760 I mean, it is shot so well. 00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:11.199 I love how this is shot. 00:59:11.280 --> 00:59:13.599 This is one of my favorite cyberpunk movies of all time. 00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:15.199 It's probably in my top five. 00:59:15.440 --> 00:59:15.760 Okay. 00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:17.519 Um, it is. 00:59:17.679 --> 00:59:18.239 It's that good. 00:59:18.320 --> 00:59:18.880 I just love it. 00:59:18.960 --> 00:59:19.760 It's so fucking good. 00:59:19.840 --> 00:59:21.280 Now, uh, her arm burns. 00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:22.239 She thinks she's won. 00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:26.480 Uh, she goes to the console and admits Moses, Shades, Vernon, and Chief all in. 00:59:26.719 --> 00:59:33.599 And she has to duck because the Mark 13 is on fire behind her, and they blow it out the fucking window, right? 00:59:33.760 --> 00:59:35.199 Almost like blowing it out to airlock. 00:59:35.280 --> 00:59:36.800 And they're like, Yeah, motherfucker. 00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:38.880 Uh, she bandages her arm. 00:59:39.039 --> 00:59:40.159 They all think it's over. 00:59:40.400 --> 00:59:42.880 Shades looks out the window, the blown-out window. 00:59:43.039 --> 00:59:43.920 Jill looks too. 00:59:44.079 --> 00:59:46.000 She's mad at Moses for leaving her. 00:59:46.159 --> 00:59:48.239 He tells her he won't leave again. 00:59:48.400 --> 00:59:49.760 Shades leaves the apartment. 00:59:49.840 --> 00:59:50.639 He's like, I'm done. 00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:54.639 I gotta go trip and keep tripping. 00:59:54.800 --> 01:00:01.679 Now, she figures out that the Mark 13 is the population control, humankind's final solution. 01:00:01.760 --> 01:00:02.400 That's terrifying. 01:00:02.480 --> 01:00:06.800 Now, the Mark 13, uh, you didn't think he was gonna die so easily. 01:00:06.880 --> 01:00:10.559 No, man, he grabbed onto something because he pulls Jill through the window. 01:00:10.719 --> 01:00:12.320 She hangs on a power line. 01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:19.599 The Mark 13 cuts the line and she swings and crashes through the Chinese family's window, and we get to see the Chinese family. 01:00:19.760 --> 01:00:21.840 Uh, again, more spoilers going forward. 01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:23.840 Now, Moses and the Mark 13 wrestle. 01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:32.000 The Mark 13 injects him, potentially with the same thing he got injected, uh, with Alvy got injected with, and he shoots it in the head. 01:00:32.159 --> 01:00:34.320 And this is my favorite sequence of the movie. 01:00:34.480 --> 01:00:36.239 It's really incredible. 01:00:36.559 --> 01:00:48.960 Moses trips out on a on like some sort of poison acid trip, all under red filters, slow motion sparks, fish eye close-ups of the Mark 13 while opera music plays. 01:00:49.440 --> 01:00:50.559 I'm not kidding. 01:00:50.719 --> 01:00:58.480 While this like operatic balls out bad acid trip happens, he takes out a knife and starts cutting where he got injected. 01:00:58.559 --> 01:01:04.159 He's trying to suck out the poison, he's doing

anything to survive, and he starts seeing some crazy shit. 01:01:04.239 --> 01:01:08.719 Now, Jill wakes up in the Chinese family's apartment with Shades, Vernon, and Chief. 01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:09.599 They're like, Are you okay? 01:01:09.760 --> 01:01:10.159 Are you okay? 01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:10.960 We cut back to Moses. 01:01:11.360 --> 01:01:17.840 His arm is now a body horror nightmare of deep cups, cockroaches, and Tetsuo level hell. 01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:28.639 Moses continues to hallucinate violently, and then in one of the best shots in the movie, we start in an extreme close-up of Moses' eyes and track back to see him dead. 01:01:28.800 --> 01:01:31.840 It's so well done. 01:01:32.079 --> 01:01:32.400 Okay. 01:01:32.960 --> 01:01:35.360 It continues to get more and more nightmarish. 01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:38.400 Uh, Jill enters the apartment with a wooden bat. 01:01:38.480 --> 01:01:42.880 Uh, the doors close on Chief and it slices him in half. 01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:45.280 I'm not making that up. 01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:48.719 It's one of the most gruesome best deaths I've seen in a long time. 01:01:48.960 --> 01:01:53.119 Slices a poor guy in half, his gun goes off and shoots Vernon in the head. 01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:55.760 Bang, bang, bigelow, both dead. 01:01:55.840 --> 01:02:00.639 The doors continuously close and open, like kind of like a video game, and Shades is stuck outside in the hallways. 01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:02.079 Like, what the fuck am I gonna do? 01:02:02.159 --> 01:02:03.920 Now Jill finds Moses and he's dead. 01:02:04.079 --> 01:02:08.239 She's super sad, but even more important, she's super pissed off. 01:02:08.400 --> 01:02:16.400 Uh, she goes to her console, uh, like loads or locks into the interface and hacks the Mark 13 mine. 01:02:16.480 --> 01:02:28.000 Now, in a fucking weird thing, um, she puts on her, I mean, she hacks onto the mine and she kind of like also somehow hacks into Moses. 01:02:28.480 --> 01:02:30.480 I don't know what happened there, but it's whatever. 01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:31.760 It's fucking cyberpunk. 01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:37.280 Now, she puts on her welding mask, of course we're gonna see that happen, and starts hitting the Mark 13 with her bat. 01:02:37.440 --> 01:02:40.239 She lures the Mark XIII into the bathroom. 01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:42.880 She punches her, she punches her. 01:02:43.199 --> 01:02:46.960 No, Mark 13 punches her through the glass shower doors. 01:02:47.119 --> 01:02:48.159 She is bleeding everywhere. 01:02:48.239 --> 01:02:51.679 The Mark 13 attacks her with her metal drill dick. 01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:53.760 Go back to Tetsuo, baby. 01:02:53.920 --> 01:02:57.440 Um, Richard Stanley definitely, definitely was a Tetsuo fan. 01:02:57.679 --> 01:03:00.559 Okay, so Shades summons the courage. 01:03:00.639 --> 01:03:06.639 He's like, I gotta do this, man, and jumps through the rapidly closing opening doors and grabs Chief's gun. 01:03:06.800 --> 01:03:17.760 Jill struggles with a Mark 13, Shades enters, shoots him in the fucking head, she turns on the water and it sprays all over the Mark 13 in an amazing slow motion sequence with Michael. 01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:20.559 I mean, with Simon Boswell's incredible score. 01:03:20.719 --> 01:03:22.400 I love this sequence too. 01:03:22.559 --> 01:03:23.519 So well done. 01:03:23.679 --> 01:03:41.280 The Mark 13 freaks out, it starts a smoke and simmer, it starts a spark, it goes on fire in certain spots, and then in a cathartic slow motion sequence, Jill crushes the Mark 13 with her a baseball bat, with her wooden baseball bat, breaking the skull and the bat in the process. 01:03:41.599 --> 01:03:44.960 And actually broke the bat in real life, too. 01:03:45.199 --> 01:03:47.679 Now she goes under the shower and cries. 01:03:47.920 --> 01:03:49.599 Shade tells her it's over. 01:03:49.840 --> 01:03:51.679 This is what you want, this is what you get. 01:03:51.840 --> 01:03:53.679 This is what you want, this is what you get. 01:03:53.840 --> 01:03:56.960 Blood mixes with tears and water on her face. 01:03:57.039 --> 01:04:06.000 Now, Angry Rebob's Angry Bob returns as we track through the carnage of the apartment, the destruction of the Mar 13, glass and blood everywhere. 01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:08.320 Jill got like her ass kicked. 01:04:08.480 --> 01:04:09.840 Final girl got her ass kicked. 01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:13.280 Angry Bob tells us that the Mark 13 will be mass-produced. 01:04:13.440 --> 01:04:15.199 800 new jobs will be created. 01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:18.800 So get down to Feral Electronics and get to work. 01:04:19.039 --> 01:04:30.559 The final image we see is of the nomad walking into frame into the vast dune sea of the zone, into the nothing, far away from society, far away from civilization, into the great unknown. 01:04:30.719 --> 01:04:35.039 We see one final flash of the electrical blue arc light and the end. 01:04:35.920 --> 01:04:37.519 The endo, friendo. 01:04:38.079 --> 01:04:41.360 So that is the end of hardware. 01:04:41.599 --> 01:04:45.119 That's my little breakdown of the movie, and we're gonna take a quick break. 01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:47.599 So listen to this and we'll get right back to ya. 01:04:49.519 --> 01:04:53.599 Get right on down to Renos where you're radiation free, right there, things. 01:04:53.840 --> 01:04:55.440 Hurry, while stocks last. 01:04:55.679 --> 01:05:00.320 Hardware is one of my top five favorite cyberpunk films of all time. 01:05:00.559 --> 01:05:08.079 Uh, in no particular order, Blade Runner, Hardware, The Terminator, Robocop, Tetsuo. 01:05:08.639 --> 01:05:18.800 That's kind of off the top of my head, what I would say as my top five favorite cyberpunks, and hardware is kind of like that wild card that I like to throw in there. 01:05:19.039 --> 01:05:24.079 So it's uh it's way up there on the official list, and one day I'm gonna actually post that list. 01:05:24.239 --> 01:05:43.519 Now, it gives us everything we

need: a radioactive wasteland, zone trippers, cybernetic arms, cyborg skulls, blood red neons, psycho cyber org action, and uh gnarly kills, vid phones, standard deaf display screens, and one of the best acid trip sequences in the entire catalog. 01:05:43.760 --> 01:05:51.599 Stanley is a visionary filmmaker, and his contribution to cyberpunk cinema is massive, with only one cyberpunk movie under his belt. 01:05:51.760 --> 01:05:57.679 Sure, the film is hard to find, and you have to cough up some dough to get the UK 4K, but fuck it. 01:05:57.760 --> 01:05:58.639 It's worth it. 01:05:58.800 --> 01:05:59.519 Eventually, they will. 01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:08.400 Probably have a new 4K coming out in the uh mainstream audience in the US to purchase for physical media freaks like myself and yourself, but do not wait. 01:06:08.639 --> 01:06:09.840 Purchase it now. 01:06:10.079 --> 01:06:13.119 It's got uh my highest stamp of approval. 01:06:13.280 --> 01:06:16.559 I really, really like and love this movie. 01:06:16.639 --> 01:06:21.519 I watched it probably three times in the last week, and uh I was into it every time. 01:06:21.679 --> 01:06:26.000 It just it it rips, as the uh young kids say, right? 01:06:26.079 --> 01:06:28.239 It rips, it's fucking good, man. 01:06:28.320 --> 01:06:32.639 I really want you guys to watch it and uh yeah, go check it out. 01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:43.119 Go go purchase it, go get it from Umbrella Entertainment fifty dollars on eBay or Amazon wherever I got it, and uh it's worth it if you really want to make that plunge. 01:06:43.440 --> 01:06:51.440 If you, you know, trust me, as uh the definitive voice of Cyberpunk as the authority, then uh you should buy it. 01:06:51.599 --> 01:06:54.159 Uh, don't worry, I'm not getting any royalties or anything from it. 01:06:54.239 --> 01:06:58.000 I just want it to be seen because it's impossible to see. 01:06:58.639 --> 01:06:58.960 Okay. 01:06:59.440 --> 01:07:03.440 So uh give me one quick moment and we're gonna go to aftermath. 01:07:15.679 --> 01:07:24.079 And so that was episode 52, the first episode of uh the new and revamped season three. 01:07:24.639 --> 01:07:24.880 Okay. 01:07:25.280 --> 01:07:26.880 So welcome back, everybody. 01:07:27.039 --> 01:07:28.239 Welcome to all the new listeners. 01:07:28.400 --> 01:07:35.440 Welcome back, my cyberpunker skin jobs, uh artificial people and brain butchers and me proxies. 01:07:35.760 --> 01:07:38.320 I'm sorry, you guys are also me proxies out there. 01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:40.159 Maybe not you guys, but a lot of people are. 01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:40.559 Okay. 01:07:40.880 --> 01:07:43.199 So don't be a meat proxy, okay? 01:07:43.360 --> 01:07:44.880 Join the resistance. 01:07:45.119 --> 01:07:47.280 Season three, join the resistance. 01:07:47.440 --> 01:07:50.800 Hopefully, I'll get some stickers for you guys and get all that shit out there. 01:07:50.960 --> 01:07:54.400 My boy Rodolfo is working on some stuff, so merch behind the

scenes. 01:07:54.480 --> 01:07:58.960 So we're we're getting it, we're building it, we're building it more, and uh, it's coming. 01:07:59.119 --> 01:08:02.880 So I hope you guys are ready for some more cyberpunk cinema. 01:08:02.960 --> 01:08:08.159 And this was a obviously a cyber horror movie, and it's fucking October. 01:08:08.239 --> 01:08:18.159 It's spooky season, so in two more weeks, we will have another cyber horror movie that some of you guys have been asking for, and I've have not seen, never seen it. 01:08:18.239 --> 01:08:20.479 Um, you'll find out in two weeks. 01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:22.239 So, yeah, fuck yeah. 01:08:22.319 --> 01:08:25.359 In the meantime, uh Cyberpunk Edge Runners is gonna be coming out. 01:08:25.520 --> 01:08:26.000 Can't wait. 01:08:26.159 --> 01:08:26.560 Season two. 01:08:26.800 --> 01:08:28.079 I love season one. 01:08:28.399 --> 01:08:31.359 And uh yeah, there's a lot of things out there. 01:08:31.439 --> 01:08:33.439 Uh, just to give you an update on my own stuff. 01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:42.239 I actually have been writing the screenplay for my cyberpunk feature film debut, which I am going to start putting together. 01:08:42.319 --> 01:08:47.039 Hopefully I can shoot it not next year, but the year after, which would be uh 2028. 01:08:47.600 --> 01:08:51.279 And my goal is to bring it to everyone in 2029. 01:08:51.600 --> 01:08:58.800 I just that year has uh you know special significance to me, and you guys will probably understand uh about 2029. 01:08:59.119 --> 01:09:05.920 So yeah, so that's the goal, and I will give you guys updates on that when I can, but that's what I'm doing. 01:09:06.079 --> 01:09:15.680 Okay, and I will be either um I'll be shooting something next year, something that you know goes with the uh promotional material and crowdfunding material. 01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:24.560 I will be shooting something next year in 2027 regarding the uh feature script that's gonna be uh a precursor to the movie. 01:09:24.720 --> 01:09:26.079 So yeah, it's gonna be great. 01:09:26.159 --> 01:09:27.920 I'm gonna be doing that, I'm gonna be doing more stuff. 01:09:28.079 --> 01:09:31.039 Maybe I'll do, maybe I'll come to YouTube. 01:09:31.119 --> 01:09:35.199 Maybe the fugitive from the dark future is gonna actually go to YouTube some point in season three. 01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:38.079 I'm getting a new camera soon, uh Fuji, so I'm gonna be using that. 01:09:38.159 --> 01:09:48.800 I'm gonna play around with it for a little bit, tinker a little bit, and then you will be getting uh potential video of uh your dark future fugitive that's gonna happen. 01:09:48.960 --> 01:09:55.920 So, anyway, um, yeah, there's a lot of things out there that I we could go over, and you know, I did see a lot of good movies lately. 01:09:56.079 --> 01:09:57.439 I did watch, what did I watch? 01:09:57.520 --> 01:10:01.199 Let's look back at Letterboxd, shall we? 01:10:01.520 --> 01:10:03.520 Okay, what do we got here? 01:10:03.760 --> 01:10:05.840 All right, so what did I watch? 01:10:06.079 --> 01:10:07.039 How about fuck you? 01:10:07.119 --> 01:10:08.560 How about what did I watch this weekend? 01:10:08.640 --> 01:10:19.600 Okay, I watched The Car from 1977, starring James uh Brolin, Josh Brolin's you know, father, and it is really cool, man. 01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:21.760 Uh highly recommended. 01:10:21.840 --> 01:10:31.680 It's kind of like Duel and Jaws had a uh like a B movie child, and that's kind of what the car is. 01:10:31.840 --> 01:10:37.760 It's you know, a demonic car movie, and it's really well made in a B movie, you know, way. 01:10:37.840 --> 01:10:41.039 It's very well made, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. 01:10:41.199 --> 01:10:48.000 Um last night I did a double header of movies I haven't seen, so I watched Session 9 from 2001 by Bran Anderson. 01:10:48.319 --> 01:10:49.439 Always wanted to see that. 01:10:49.760 --> 01:10:50.720 Very good movie. 01:10:50.800 --> 01:10:53.119 Uh, I gave it three and a half out of five stars. 01:10:53.439 --> 01:10:55.039 Thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it. 01:10:55.199 --> 01:10:56.880 And uh the other movie I was like, you know what? 01:10:56.960 --> 01:10:59.439 I'm gonna take a flyer on uh on Constantine. 01:10:59.600 --> 01:11:06.640 So I watched Constantine, and the reason why I have not seen Constantine is because I was a huge Hellblazer comic book fan. 01:11:06.880 --> 01:11:07.439 All right. 01:11:07.920 --> 01:11:10.319 I really, really, really liked Hellblazer. 01:11:10.479 --> 01:11:19.760 And I mean, to me, Hellblazer or John Constantine uh was a blonde working class British occultist from Liverpool, you know, like the comics. 01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:21.359 So when and I love Keanu. 01:11:21.520 --> 01:11:24.800 I mean, I'll put watch Keanu and everything, but for some reason I was like hung up. 01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:28.239 I was like, that's not my Constantine, like back then. 01:11:28.319 --> 01:11:30.079 I was like 25 years old then, who knows? 01:11:30.239 --> 01:11:34.079 But um I just wasn't into it and I just didn't want to see it. 01:11:34.159 --> 01:11:35.920 And I was like, fuck that, never gonna see it. 01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:39.119 And then it's kind of getting reclaimed a little bit lately. 01:11:39.520 --> 01:11:42.880 Um and for good reason, it's pretty damn good. 01:11:43.119 --> 01:11:49.520 I I don't think it's great, I think it's like a good three and a half star out of five star movie, like a good seven out of ten. 01:11:50.000 --> 01:12:00.239 Maybe a six point five out of ten if they were able to go to increments of point five, which I prefer instead of boring increments of one or or how they do it in other sites. 01:12:00.560 --> 01:12:04.960 Um yeah, I mean if I I don't know. 01:12:05.119 --> 01:12:08.720 I think who would have been a better John Constantine back then? 01:12:08.880 --> 01:12:19.359 Probably maybe Heath Ledger, you know, blonde Heath Ledger with the you know

Liverpool accent probably wouldn't have better been a better representation, like haunted. 01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:25.920 Uh I mean Keanu's good, but I don't know, like it was okay. 01:12:26.159 --> 01:12:30.239 I know they're gonna they're circling making a second one, like okay, that's fine. 01:12:30.479 --> 01:12:33.760 Uh, but the Hellblazer comic is so fucking incredible. 01:12:34.000 --> 01:12:37.279 Uh that you know, it is it is a little bit of a letdown. 01:12:37.600 --> 01:12:43.680 This was a directorial debut by Francis Lawrence, who made like music videos for 10 years prior. 01:12:43.760 --> 01:12:45.760 So that is very impressive. 01:12:46.000 --> 01:12:55.600 And uh, you know, the CGI of the mid-out CGI is you know, it's like a weird combination of mediocre charming and psychedelic, um, looking back at it now. 01:12:55.840 --> 01:12:59.279 So that were those were some of the movies I recently saw. 01:12:59.359 --> 01:13:07.439 I did re-watch The Terminator, the original one, and oh my god, I mean it's always in my top five favorite cyberpunk movies. 01:13:07.680 --> 01:13:14.800 And look, T2 is fucking great, and I went over both T1 and T2, and people are gonna give me shit for calling it T1, but fuck you. 01:13:14.960 --> 01:13:15.279 Okay. 01:13:15.760 --> 01:13:22.000 So T2 is one of the best sequels of all time, but in my opinion, you know, the original is a better overall movie. 01:13:22.159 --> 01:13:33.680 Uh, you know, it's shot like a neon war, it's a slasher horror on steroids, it's got an amazing synth score by Brad uh Fidel, and the vibes are pure cyberpunk and one of the very best of the subgenre, right? 01:13:33.920 --> 01:13:35.520 And I don't know, man. 01:13:35.680 --> 01:13:39.840 Everything about it is dark and dangerous and grimy and brutal. 01:13:39.920 --> 01:13:44.560 And you know, James Cameron's writing that we never talk about enough, his writing is so good. 01:13:45.279 --> 01:13:47.119 Uh I mean, damn. 01:13:47.279 --> 01:13:47.680 Yeah. 01:13:47.920 --> 01:13:56.319 So rewatch The Terminator, the original, especially with all the bullshit of God fucking AI crap out there. 01:13:56.479 --> 01:13:57.840 I'm so sick of this shit. 01:13:57.920 --> 01:14:00.399 But uh, we're gonna get more into it later on. 01:14:00.479 --> 01:14:03.920 I uh you know, uh think for yourself, people. 01:14:04.239 --> 01:14:04.479 Okay. 01:14:04.880 --> 01:14:09.520 Don't get don't become slaves of these AIs. 01:14:09.680 --> 01:14:12.640 Don't become meat proxies or meat puppets, okay? 01:14:12.880 --> 01:14:15.039 Because that's what you're gonna wind up turning into. 01:14:15.279 --> 01:14:16.479 I mean, do you really want that shit? 01:14:16.960 --> 01:14:29.840 Like, in ten years, are doctors and lawyers gonna know fucking anything because you know, kids are gonna be in college and and uh grad school and they're gonna be using you know chat GPT to get by. 01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:31.359 It's like fuck you. 01:14:32.079 --> 01:14:35.279 Think for yourself, you know, write for yourself. 01:14:35.520 --> 01:14:39.199 Like, why the you need you actually need someone's help to fucking write something? 01:14:39.359 --> 01:14:40.479 Like, get out of here. 01:14:40.640 --> 01:14:41.439 Like, write it. 01:14:42.079 --> 01:14:50.000 Sure, AI is is a good tool for certain aspects, but man, once you let it govern your life, bro, like you're just gone. 01:14:50.159 --> 01:14:57.039 You're man, you're just you're part of the singularity coming, and I don't know if you want to be part of that. 01:14:57.359 --> 01:14:59.359 But anyway, I've rambled on long enough. 01:14:59.439 --> 01:15:01.840 Uh, hardware, great, go see it. 01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:03.760 Cyberpunk season three. 01:15:04.000 --> 01:15:10.399 We're coming hard and heavy and angry and fucking ready to get things in order, and uh, I'm back. 01:15:10.479 --> 01:15:12.399 Uh I ain't going nowhere. 01:15:12.720 --> 01:15:15.039 And keep fill keep coming in. 01:15:15.199 --> 01:15:16.000 You know, review. 01:15:16.159 --> 01:15:18.479 I gotta tell you guys, review, review it. 01:15:18.720 --> 01:15:22.560 Five stars, write up reviews, Spotify, Apple Podcasts. 01:15:22.640 --> 01:15:31.760 It only increases our ability for other uh guys and gals and people out there to uh listen to this. 01:15:32.800 --> 01:15:36.479 You can't learn they more people can't listen to it unless you review it. 01:15:36.560 --> 01:15:36.960 So do it. 01:15:37.119 --> 01:15:38.079 Fucking do it. 01:15:38.319 --> 01:15:38.960 Do it. 01:15:39.279 --> 01:15:39.760 All right. 01:15:39.920 --> 01:15:41.359 I'll see you guys in two weeks. 01:15:41.439 --> 01:15:43.840 Uh, in the meantime, listen to Signal Fragment. 01:15:43.920 --> 01:15:44.640 Take us out. 01:15:44.720 --> 01:15:48.000 And by the way, my boy Signal Fragment has a new song. 01:15:48.159 --> 01:15:53.279 It will be premiering on one of these cyberpunk cinema podcast episodes in the near future. 01:15:53.520 --> 01:15:56.000 But until then, I love you guys. 01:15:56.159 --> 01:15:57.680 I'll see you in a couple weeks. 01:15:57.920 --> 01:15:59.439 Adios, muchachos.