Full Transcript for EP54 - Split Second (1992)

00:05:42.959 And it's not we're not going that crazy. 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:51.680 I want you to take the cyberpunk cinema season three, join the resistance sticker, alright? 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:58.560 And I want you to go in a bar, in a restaurant, wherever you're going, on the fucking street, in your city. 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:04.639 I want you to put it on somewhere and take a picture of it and send it to me. 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:05.839 I want to see it. 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:10.879 I want to know that you're doing the work because there ain't gonna be no resistance unless you're doing the work, right? 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:22.480 So um shout out to my boy Rodolfo, who is who basically does you know all of my uh all my artwork. 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:23.279 He's the best. 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:25.199 He's he's the coolest guy in the world. 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:26.480 Shout out Rodolfo. 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:30.639 Uh, he also has the deepest fucking knowledge of movies of any person I've ever met in my life. 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:32.560 And I know a lot, a shit ton of movies. 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:35.439 And he just is like, no, you gotta watch this, this, and that. 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:36.560 I'm like, fuck. 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:38.639 Like, he knows everything. 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:40.879 I mean, he used to be a programmer. 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:43.120 So shout out Rodolfo, okay? 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:48.879 Again, Cyberpunk Cinema Season Three, join the resistance stickers, will be available. 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:55.120 It's gonna be a limited first edition run fucking free in the United States. 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:58.639 I'm sorry for my international brothers and sisters out there, okay? 00:06:58.879 --> 00:06:59.920 But maybe I'll do that. 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:00.319 We'll see. 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:00.720 You know what? 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:02.720 We're gonna see how the first run goes. 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:06.319 If the first run goes, hey, maybe we'll go international. 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:08.879 I mean, we're already out in all these countries around the world. 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:13.120 I mean, I'm bit where cyberpunk cinema is listened to in like almost a hundred countries. 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:14.079 It's fucking incredible. 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:14.720 I can't believe it. 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:25.920 I have people all over the place that I never would have thought would be listening to my fucking voice telling you guys about a niche sci-fi subgenre called Cyberpunk Cinema. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:27.279 But hey, we're here. 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:29.439 We're staying, we're getting better. 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:31.439 We're only gonna fucking grow. 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:35.920 So if you want the stickers, DM me. 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:37.759 You can DM me two ways. 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.160 DM me, and I'll send it to you. 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:40.879 All right. 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:42.639 That's I'm doing it for you guys. 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:44.879 And the stickers are fucking cool as shit too. 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:46.000 So you're gonna love it. 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:48.160 So last week I debuted something. 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:49.759 At the time I didn't have a title for it. 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:52.319 I think I was calling it like headliners, but that sucks. 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:55.519 So we're gonna be calling it Scream Sheets. 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:56.000 All right. 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:57.680 And I know what you're gonna say, Scream Sheets. 00:07:57.839 --> 00:07:58.800 Oh, come on, man. 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:04.079 You know, that's uh, you know, Cyberpunk uh the board game started that. 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:05.839 Well, actually, that's not true. 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:17.360 Um they adopted that from uh John Walter Williams uh for hardwired or Walter John Williams for hardwired, and I think he wrote that in 1986. 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:19.839 So he mentioned scream sheets in that first. 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:27.120 Anyway, scream sheets, I'm calling it where cyber fiction has become cyber fact. 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:29.199 All right, so we're gonna pull some stuff here. 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:34.879 Um, first off, we're gonna do the fridge hacking spree is an Internet of Things wake-up call. 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:35.759 This was in Wired. 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:47.200 Um, and they said escalating hacks affecting blood labs and grocery stores show the very real risks to critical infrastructure that come from basic security lapses involving internet connected devices. 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:51.279 Uh, are we about to go like Battlestar Galactica and just go off network? 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:52.720 I mean, is that what's gonna happen? 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:54.080 I really think that's gonna happen. 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:54.639 Okay. 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:59.440 Uh like everything's just we're just connected to everything. 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:04.080 If we're gonna be so connected to everything, eventually something's just gonna cripple the system. 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:05.679 And then guess what? 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:06.960 We're all fucked. 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:09.600 How are you guys gonna deal with a digital dark age? 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:11.120 You guys gonna be able to deal with it? 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:16.960 You guys can't even look at your fucking, can't not look at your cell phone more than like 7,000 times a day. 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:18.480 What are you gonna do when you don't have it? 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:20.240 All right, something to think about. 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:25.519 Maybe we're gonna have to go like Battlestar Galactica kind of you know, off network, right? 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:26.080 Fuck them. 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:27.279 Fuck the machines. 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:30.000 All right, okay, this is my favorite thing in the world. 00:09:30.159 -->

00:09:32.399 Rest in peace, Cybertruck. 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:35.039 You were unloved, unwanted, and utterly absurd. 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:36.720 Okay, this is from Wire 2. 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:41.840 I'm gonna give a big fuck you sandwich to Elon Musk and Cybertruck. 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:47.279 And any honestly, any of you douchebags who drive that fucking piece of shit car, it sucks. 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:52.000 Again, I work in the automotive industry during as my day job. 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:54.320 That car is a joke. 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:55.120 A joke. 00:09:55.279 --> 00:10:07.039 First of all, it looks like one of the like a 1990s polygonal video game, like some fucking child like drew it like on fucking 3D paint or something. 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:08.320 I mean, it's terrible. 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:10.799 Not only that, it's a piece of shit car. 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:11.360 All right. 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:13.679 Things on that car, you could like peel it off. 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:14.480 It's embarrassing. 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:16.639 I'm happy it fucking it died. 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:25.440 And watch, one day they'll make it back to the future and it'll be, you know, uh, you made a a time machine out of a cyber truck, like one of those fucking things. 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:26.879 All right, let's keep moving. 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:29.360 AI's next trick. 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:30.799 Speaking dolphin. 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:32.480 This is what Wired says. 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:32.879 All right. 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:41.600 Denise Herzing, the founder and director of Wild Dolphin Project, is using AI to help understand audio and video footage of marine mammals. 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:44.240 Okay, now this is what I call good AI. 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:45.120 This is good. 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:47.759 This is like, why not? 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:48.480 Let's do that. 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:50.960 All right, it gives me a lot of Johnny mnemonic vibes. 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:55.440 You know, Jones, everyone knows Jones, but uh, yeah, why not? 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:57.759 Fucking hey, we gotta try it. 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:02.399 I think uh wasn't there a talking dolphin or a fucking intelligent dolphin in Sequest DSV. 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:06.639 I mean, that is a wow, that's a deep dive that I haven't thought of in a while. 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:13.840 Yeah, I was at Dork in uh junior high who who was like, I gotta watch Sequest, right? 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:15.919 I was such a Sequest fanatic, dude. 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:21.679 I I mean, uh can't believe I just admitted that to like all my millions of people out there, but it's true. 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:23.679 I love Sequest, all right? 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:25.679 So that's good AI. 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:27.120 All right, we're gonna move on to futurism. 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:28.320 They hit a little harder, okay? 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:33.840 Now, climate change has become so bad that rice krispies don't have actual rice in them anymore. 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:34.480 Okay. 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:37.039 All I'm gonna say is fuck you. 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:42.320 You can't look, you came after, you know, all these things I like in life. 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:45.759 And now you came after my rice crispy treats. 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:52.399 Rice Krispy treats are like my secret favorite like snack since I was like eight. 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:56.240 I mean, it tastes better when you make them yourself, but fuck. 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:58.159 Now there's no rice and rice krispies. 00:11:58.240 --> 00:11:59.200 What is the world coming to? 00:11:59.360 --> 00:11:59.679 What? 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:00.480 What's next? 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:01.679 I'll tell you what's next. 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:05.279 Richard Norton's death linked to black market peptides. 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:06.720 That's also from futurism. 00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:10.639 That is the most cycle people are gonna read that and be like, oh, whatever, blah, blah, blah. 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:15.600 Fucking this guy, you know, who has money, he takes that is so cyberpunk. 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:21.360 If you would have read that 20 years ago or 30 years ago, you would have been like, peptides, what? 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:28.399 You know, whatever he's doing, whatever this cocktail is, he's taking it to either, you know, prolong his life or whatever, and it kills him. 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:28.960 All right. 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:30.720 That's cyberpunk right there. 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:31.519 Cyber. 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:35.440 I'm sorry, that is cyber fiction becoming cyber fact, right? 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:36.720 Again, we're living it. 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:38.080 All right, check this out. 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:43.919 AI Godfather says to get ready for Chernobyl-style blackout caused by AI. 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:45.360 This is also in futurism. 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:52.320 Jeffrey Hinton says that, quote, humankind might might have been better off never developing it, end quote. 00:12:52.480 --> 00:13:02.240 The AI-powered attack on the energy generating system, quote, causes a massive brownout, end quote, that takes down the world financial system or power grids for an extended period of time. 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:06.240 AI CEOs have also been worried about a Chernobyl-style catastrophe. 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:07.200 They're worried. 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:08.559 Now listen to this. 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:19.840 They're worried, these fucking assholes, they're worried that it would permanently damage the tech's reputation, just as the infamous meltdown did with nuclear power. 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:21.600 So what are they worried about? 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:24.879 Their fucking wallets, right? 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:28.639 Their future gener, you know, generational wealth. 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:30.799 A

big fuck you sandwich to you guys. 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:31.519 All right. 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:37.840 Meanwhile, people here on the ground are hurting so bad, and you guys are worried about generational wealth. 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:39.360 You know, I don't even know. 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:41.279 I don't even want to say what I want to say. 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:43.679 I'm just gonna say fuck you sandwich for them. 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:44.480 All right. 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:48.559 Now, this is the last one that we're gonna that we're gonna go move on. 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:50.799 Uh this one's this one's great though. 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:56.480 Kids hooked on AI chatbots are showing dramatically worse mental health from futurism. 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:04.639 Quote, now it seems like roughly the same number of kids using it for homework are using it to get emotional support or help with coping, end quote. 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:14.240 AI chatbots, in a sense, may be acting like emotional training wheels, only they're so addictive that the people who depend on them never want to take them off. 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:21.600 As a result, they never develop the skills to handle the daily stresses of life, leaving them vulnerable and unprepared. 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:27.039 I mean, if that's not a fucking red alert right there, people, then I don't know what to tell you. 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:33.440 It's such how many things are you gonna be told where you're gonna be like, eh, whatever, eh, that's the future. 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:35.039 Eh, I'm gonna go with the flow. 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:40.320 But then it it then it's attacking your kids, my kids, and we're gonna sit back and take it? 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:42.320 No, I don't fucking think so. 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:43.679 That's ridiculous. 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:50.000 And I mean, what think about all these like neuroses that are just gonna sprout up from this shit. 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:53.840 I mean, we already know about AI psychosis, we already know about all this other stuff. 00:14:53.919 --> 00:15:00.399 I mean, this is leading to fucking, you know, child uh suicides by talking to AI chatbots. 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:01.919 I mean, you see it all over the place. 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:07.039 You I mean, a lot of times you got you guys, you get you do a blind eye to it and you're like, ah, it doesn't affect me. 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:13.200 It's like, oh, if it doesn't affect it's affecting all of us, you guys just closing your eyes to it, right? 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:14.720 Anyway, check this out. 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:16.480 We're gonna go into a little bit of background. 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:19.840 Uh, yeah, we're talking about split second, 1992, right? 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:24.559 Uh Rolling Stone top 150, not rated, not a surprise, not a surprise, right? 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:26.720 So we're gonna do a little background information. 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:37.120 In the scene in Stone's apartment where they are discussing their names, Alastair Duncan is actually laughing because Rucker Hower held it together so well, it was decided to keep it in the movie. 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:43.039 The film spawned the term the Rucker Howard diet, namely anxiety, coffee, and chocolate. 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:43.440 Okay. 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:49.919 I mean, I've had when I used to drink coffee, that was that was basically I was on a Rucker Howard diet for probably 10 years. 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:50.399 Okay. 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:51.919 No more coffee anymore. 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:59.600 Has I haven't had a drop of coffee in 15 years, and I still am at this level of enthusiasm and energy. 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:00.399 All right. 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:02.159 What's the secret? 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:03.200 I don't know. 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:04.240 Genetics? 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:05.279 I don't know. 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:10.399 Working out, drinking a lot of water, being positive, being a good person. 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:11.840 I mean, uh that all comes with it. 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:12.240 All right. 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:17.039 Gary Scott Thompson's original 1988 speculative script was titled Pentagram. 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:27.440 Set in Los Angeles, California, it involved a ritualistic serial killer who murders five people every five years during the last quarter century, leaving a pentagram symbol after each kill. 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:30.960 It was an action buddy cop horror movie with occult overtones. 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:41.120 The script got Thompson more jobs before it was finally picked up by the head of challenge films, Laura Gregory, and production manager Susan Nicoletti, who got director Tony Malam involved. 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:45.519 All three told Thompson that the story was too similar to the First Power 1990. 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:49.120 Thompson rewrote the script and retitled it Black Tide. 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:54.879 This version was set in London, England, which was half underwater due to global warming. 00:16:55.039 --> 00:17:02.559 Rucker Howard told Thompson to rewrite it to make it more physical, with more focus on psychic connection between Stone and the creature. 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:12.160 There was a discussion throughout production about the look of the monster and what exactly it would have been, which left Stephen Norrington only three weeks to design the creature. 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:18.799 This is like, if you think about it, this is like a Stephen Norrington fucking trilogy of involvement. 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:20.000 All right, right? 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:21.039 Hardware. 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:25.039 Then he directs Death Machine, and then he was involved in the creature design. 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:28.880 I mean, this guy was all over the place with 90s cyberpunk cinema, right? 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:35.359 Gary Scott Thompson

wrote the script with Harrison Ford in mind for the lead role, but was happy when Rucker Howard was cast. 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:39.440 Howard loved the script, which is why he wanted to do the movie. 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:45.440 Despite recent word of mouth and an exciting advertising campaign, the movie underperformed at the U.S. 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:50.640 box office due to the fact that it opened during the weekend of the Los Angeles, California riots. 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:51.359 I don't know. 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:55.119 I mean, they like to say that, but I don't think this movie was going to be a hit anyway. 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:56.720 And we'll we'll get to why. 00:17:56.880 --> 00:17:58.480 And there's a lot of reasons why. 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:03.279 Uh film production in the UK was in a depression at the time of the film was in production. 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:06.799 For about two weeks, it was the only feature film shooting in the UK. 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:10.319 So they probably just had like they were given like the keys to the fucking city. 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:11.680 They were like, oh, you want to make a movie? 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:13.839 And they, you know, they gave him everything. 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:22.160 All right, now Tony Malam, for a low budget, Tony Malam couldn't finish the movie due to all the stress he went through during production, so Ian Sharp and others took over and completed it. 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:29.279 Sharp filmed the final action scene in a subway and some other additional scenes, which is why he is credited as co-director in the end credits. 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:34.799 Future film director Steven Norrington was a creature effects designer and visual effects supervisor. 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:43.039 Wendy Carlos was originally hired to compose the score, but her work was rejected, and a new score was composed by Francis Haynes and Stephen W. 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:43.759 Parsons. 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:52.000 A few tracks from Rejected Score, which were going to be used in the morgue scene, were included on her album Rediscovering Lost Scores Volume 2. 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:54.559 Ian Sharp directed several minor C's with Michael J. 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:59.519 Pollard, as well as the sequences in a final showdown in the Metro after the original director quit. 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:08.160 Rucker Hauer's super powerful handgun is a modified Crossman Airguns model 3357 CO2 powered paintball revolver. 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:12.799 It fires 50 caliber paintballs from a six-shot cylinder. 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:21.039 It was used in paintball games and as a way for foresters to mark trees for harvesting or culling using different colors of paint. 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:23.200 That's actually really fascinating. 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:23.759 All right. 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:31.599 Belgian death metal band Aborted used an image from this movie for the cover of their first album, The Purity of Perversion, 1993. 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:35.839 I do not know Belgian death metal band aborted, but I'm going to check them out. 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:36.720 Excuse me. 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:41.039 Uh shot in eight weeks, pre-production for this movie lasted only three weeks. 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:42.160 That's that's tough. 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:53.680 The action scene figure that Dick shows Harley that his girlfriend made for him was a repainted Lex Luger figure released by Gloob as part of the World Championship Wrestling series in 1991. 00:19:53.839 --> 00:20:09.519 In August 1992, interview for Cinema Fest Fan Cinema Fantastique magazine, Gary Scott Thompson mentioned how due to several pre-sales of the first film, he already developed a story for the sequel, Split Second Two. 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:14.400 He described the basic story idea as quote, it's in a new setting. 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:15.119 It's different. 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:20.079 And whereas the first one is more straightforward, action thriller, the sequel is more psychological. 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:24.960 The killer would come back in many, many different ways, not necessarily what we've seen before. 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:25.599 End quote. 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:27.680 The sequel, however, was never made. 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:31.920 The film takes place 16 years in the future, 2008. 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:38.720 And lastly, the story is a loose, modern adaptation of the Jack the Ripper case. 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:40.720 So that's a little bit of the background. 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:44.480 We're going to go into letterboxing, but before that, I need a drink of water. 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:46.160 So give me one second. 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:47.119 I'm back. 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:48.319 Letterboxing. 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:49.680 Alright, letterboxing. 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:50.160 Here we go. 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:51.279 Very weird movie. 00:20:51.359 --> 00:21:13.680 I'm not sure totally works, but has some decent FX work and ambitious camera moves as Rucker Hauer in a 2008 London decimated by global warming chases around a giant serial killing xenomorph devil that fires shotguns, yeets people out of buildings, and Temple of Doom them so he can take a bite out of their heart and harvest their soul or something like that. 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:15.039 Again, weird movie. 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:17.359 Thank you, Rucker, for ending global warming. 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:18.640 Josh Lewis, three stars. 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:22.079 Dorky British Cyberpunk is 100% my fucking jam. 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:28.400 Especially when Rucker Hauer is in full hard-boiled crazy mode and ripping the hearts out of satanic demons. 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:30.000 Comrade Yue, four stars. 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:34.880 Now, Comrade Yue has been in another letterboxing. 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:36.880 He's gonna be in two of these letterboxing. 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:37.440

All right. 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:47.839 Now, black coffee, black shades, black coat, black t shirt, black pants, black socks, and black boots in a big black 455, 450 Magnum. 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:49.440 Cool, I'm cool, I'm cool. 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:50.960 Only big guns and bigger guns. 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:52.720 Rucker Hauer plays as Mr. 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:53.599 Harley, Mr. 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:54.559 Stone Cold, Mr. 00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:55.279 Detective, Mr. 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:56.559 I Work Alone, Mr. 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:57.759 Takes No Shit, Mr. 00:21:57.839 --> 00:21:59.519 Crazy with a fucking hand cannon. 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:00.640 It's not funny. 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:01.519 Do you think that's funny? 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:02.240 Well, it's not. 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:02.960 It's not funny. 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:03.599 It's dirty. 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:04.240 It's bloody. 00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:04.799 It's metal. 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:05.920 It's claustrophobic. 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:10.319 And ultimately, the main selling point is that it's a buddy cop movie with a twist. 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:12.799 Both cops get to lose their shit together. 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:15.519 Yi Jan, five stars. 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:19.519 More buddy cop, more buddy comedy than Demon Blade Runner. 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:22.240 But if you get on with that wavelength, it's a fun time. 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:23.839 Rucker Hauer hands it up. 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:28.799 London is underwater, and a giant Hannibal Lecter Monster Man is ripping people's hearts out. 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:37.519 The total whiplash made a lot more sense after I learned that director Tony Malam, the birding, got it got the boot, and someone else stepped in to wrap things up. 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:39.599 Josh DeClo, 3.5 stars. 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:51.440 If you're going to make me sit through a creature feature with lead in pacing, dreary set design, and tonal inconsistency, at least have the decency to allocate enough of your budget to competent creature design and effects. 00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:56.960 A man in a rubber suit that looks like a cross between Venom and a xenomorph just isn't good enough. 00:22:57.119 --> 00:23:03.680 That said, peak Kim Catrol is on hand sporting her Valeris haircut, so that detail made it worth it. 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:07.519 Dan Edwards 2.5 Dave Edwards 2.5 stars. 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:08.960 I kind of love this. 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:13.200 The flooded London Dystopia was just a really interesting backdrop for sci-fi. 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:18.720 Kind of in the realm of Dark Angel or even Johnny Mnemonic, but a bit grungier. 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:20.640 I would call it Grimdark. 00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:26.720 That the type of future you don't want to live in with some interesting fantasy elements. 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:30.480 Also, the creature is like a cross between Venom, Xenomorph, and a rat. 00:23:30.799 --> 00:23:33.039 And it's silly, but obviously awesome. 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:34.000 It's very watchable. 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:36.160 90s cheese, Helen, four stars. 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:41.279 It's kind of it's kind of like a post-apocalyptic version of I come in peace here. 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:46.559 Rucker Hower plays a loose cannon cop and makes Dirty Harry look like a crossing guard. 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:57.599 London's underwater because of global warming, as he's on the hunt for some monster that he has a psychic link with, you know, for reasons it's bonkers as fuck, and I'm all for it. 00:23:57.759 --> 00:23:59.359 AR Lopez, four stars. 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:04.000 I love the attention to world building this lower budget movie does to establish our doomed planet. 00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:07.920 In the far, far future of 2008, global warming has melted the polar ice caps. 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:10.000 How do we show this without very much money? 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:12.799 You close off a street and you flood it all the time. 00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:17.839 Every street in this apocalyptic London, bathed in seawater at all hours. 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:20.319 Simple, effective, and bloody brilliant. 00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:40.880 Split second makes do with moderate resources and crafts, a thrilling and inventive techno-horror thriller where Ruther Howard chases down a 10-foot-tall mutant rat monster in the sewer with a neurotic British guy as his partner and Kim Catrol as a spunky love interest who must have stepped right off the set of Star Trek VI. 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:42.640 Same hairdo and everything. 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:49.519 If you accept its limitations where they pop up, it has an unbridled indie film energy that I can't help but admire. 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:52.000 Mushy Minion, four stars. 00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:56.160 You get laid every night and run five miles every morning. 00:24:56.319 --> 00:25:05.039 You know Rucker Howard is a badass in this because he stirs his cup of sugar and caffeine with a gold pen and lights his giant cigarettes with a blowtorch. 00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:07.279 He also has a gun the size of his leg. 00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:26.720 As far as 1992 weirdo sci-fi sunglasses and big coats go, this doesn't quite touch nemesis, but it's suitably gory and idiosyncratic genre oddity from the burning director Tony Malam, Justin La Liberty 3.5 stars, London 2008, pollution choked and mostly underwater due to decades of global warming. 00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:30.799 That UN climate change panel would have screened this movie. 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:32.240 Truly criminal amounts of fun. 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:46.000 Rucker Hauer is just devouring every disgusting gallon of waterlogg scenery, and his mismatch buddy cop dynamic with Ian Sharp is better and more affecting than many much more well-known ones. 00:25:46.160 --> 00:25:50.720 That the villain is a soul-devouring demon from hell, who

happens to look a lot like Venom actually, is a bonus. 00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:52.720 Kim Catral, of course, kills as well. 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:53.599 Joe Four Stars. 00:25:53.839 --> 00:25:57.839 I think Joe misspoke when he said Ian Sharp instead of Alistair Duncan, but we'll forgive him for that. 00:25:58.240 --> 00:25:59.200 Okay, we're wrapping it up. 00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:01.200 The movie is cool as shit. 00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:04.799 I don't want to spoil anything since I knew literally nothing going in. 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:12.640 And it was more than a little surprise to see that it's actually ends up being the setting of this post-apocalyptic London is some Robocop Detroit bullshit. 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:14.400 And that's all I need to say, really. 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:17.839 Cab Callaway for end credits is Cherry on top. 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:20.000 Tao A, 3.5 stars. 00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:22.640 The best and only cut of Alien 3 you need to see. 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:27.119 David Fincher refuses to acknowledge it because director Tony Malin came in and created it. 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:31.440 Rucker Hower calls a dog a dickhead and gets away with it. 00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:35.759 90s supremacy, B movie greatness, cult film perfection. 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:36.799 Eat your heart out. 00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:38.319 It's LV five stars. 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:39.359 Last one. 00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:56.319 Gloriously eclectic cyber trash, a super paranoic Rucker Hauer in a badass trench coat, strutting around with enormous cyber guns and a flooded future London, lighting a cigar with a blowtorch, shooting giant rats, sleeping with a pigeon on his head, ripping out the heart of a demon. 00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:57.039 Good stuff. 00:26:57.200 --> 00:26:59.279 Comrade Yue, four stars. 00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:00.799 So that is letterboxing. 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:02.240 That is letterboxing. 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:06.640 But I want you to listen to this before we get into the movie. 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:08.880 So listen up, boys and girls. 00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:09.920 Here it comes. 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:15.680 In the soul of madness, a cop is out of control, and a killer's on the loose. 00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:18.319 Terrifying. 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:20.400 Devastating. 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:26.240 The only thing they know is that it isn't human. 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:28.240 They've seen the future. 00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:29.920 Now they have to kill it. 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:32.319 Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrell. 00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:34.000 Split second. 00:27:35.119 --> 00:27:36.160 Sweet dreams. 00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:37.359 Rated R. 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:39.440 Begins Friday at a theater near you. 00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:42.400 Man, that trailer was working hard to sell that movie. 00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:44.160 In the soul of madness. 00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:45.440 Harley. 00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:47.440 I mean, Jesus Christ. 00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:48.480 All right, raise your hands. 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:50.480 Who saw this in a movie theater in 1992? 00:27:50.559 --> 00:28:00.000 I mean, I didn't see it in 1992 in the movie theater, but I did probably saw it on either like HBO or rented it from you know Hollywood Video, whatever video store was in town those days. 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:01.359 But you know what? 00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:03.200 I remember liking it when I was a kid. 00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:04.559 I mean, it's not bad. 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:05.680 It's not great. 00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:07.359 I mean, it's total cyber trash. 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:09.599 And I say that lovingly. 00:28:09.759 --> 00:28:12.799 Like, cyber trash to me is the coolest. 00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:15.200 Like fucking Nemesis, Cyborg. 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:21.759 Like, if I do a in the near future, of course it's in the near has to be near future if it's cyberpunk, right? 00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:35.279 In the near future, when I, you know, partner up with a movie theater and do like my own little cyberpunk cinema, you know, set of movies, you know what I mean? 00:28:35.359 --> 00:28:37.519 Like cyberpunk cinema retrospective. 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:39.359 I may just do like a cyber trash. 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:41.359 People are gonna be like, oh fuck, he's gonna show Robocop. 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:50.480 I'm like, nah, maybe I'll just show Nemesis and Cyborg and Split Second and Death Machine and some of those other movies from the 90s that were just pure cyber trash. 00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:51.519 But I love them. 00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:52.160 All right. 00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:53.680 So check this out. 00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:57.519 So the opening credits start over black. 00:28:57.680 --> 00:28:59.680 We hear a helicopter in the background distance. 00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:01.519 Whatever. 00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:04.799 Cut to actual helicopter shot of London 2008. 00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:06.640 We get a chiron of that, obviously. 00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:09.759 The sun rises over a dark future city. 00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:14.240 Haunting music begins to swell as we get an exposition crawl. 00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:23.039 After forty days and nights of torrential rain, the city is largely submerged below water, a result of the devastating effects of continued global warming. 00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:31.440 The warnings ignored for decades have now resulted in undreamed of levels of pollution where day has become almost endless night. 00:29:31.680 --> 00:29:32.079 All right. 00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:34.960 Pretty cool opening exposition crawl. 00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:36.319 Kind of kinda dig it. 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:40.000 Um that that may happen in near future to some of these cities anyway. 00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:44.319 I mean, again, you know, cyber fiction, cyber fact. 00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:46.079 This is why we have this podcast, right? 00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:47.759 We're fucking

trying to warn you guys, man. 00:29:47.839 --> 00:29:50.640 I'm trying to warn you, but you don't want to listen. 00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:52.319 I mean, some of you want to listen. 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:54.640 You know, some of you listen to Jimmy, but you don't hear Jimmy. 00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:55.440 You know what I mean? 00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:56.079 All right. 00:29:56.400 --> 00:30:03.440 So a police hoverboat skims across the Thames River as the rest of the opening credits sequence continues. 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:05.839 Harley Stone, Rucker Howard, walks down the street. 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:08.480 We get a close-up of his futuristic black boots. 00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:14.480 He adjusts his balls, he puts on sunglasses, we then get a full shot of Stone walking down a hallway. 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:16.720 He looks like an absolute badass. 00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:21.599 Black trench coat, a rifle held held over his shoulder, a cigar in his mouth. 00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:25.119 You're just like, all right, you know, as soon as you see him, you're like, all right, I'm sold. 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:25.920 I'm watching this. 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:31.440 He gets to his police jeep, tosses his rifle in the car, and backs up through a flooded London street. 00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:35.119 Another police hoverboat skims through the same flooded streets. 00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:37.279 We hear a dispatch radio transmission. 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:39.279 Be on the lookout for Detective Stone. 00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:40.559 He's armed and dangerous. 00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:46.559 Cut to Detective Dick Durkin, played by Alistair Duncan, driving his police jeep. 00:30:46.640 --> 00:30:49.440 He's located Stone, and he's tailing him. 00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:56.799 We get a TV broadcast updating us on London's catastrophic water levels and how they are asking for the UN's assistance. 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:01.119 The tide continues to rise, and the rat infestation worsens. 00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:05.519 Stone drives while looking at a London map. 00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:09.440 His car comes to a stop outside of a nightclub called JJ's. 00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:13.200 We get shots of the inside of the club, people drinking, dancing, etc. 00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:14.799 Meanwhile, Stone hears something. 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:19.920 He looks down in watery alleyway and continues his investigation into the club. 00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:25.599 Stone walks through the hallway of corrugated steel and seaweed toward a club entrance. 00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:27.200 By the way, that's fucking cool. 00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:30.880 I mean, a club that has like corrugated steel hallway. 00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:33.200 That I mean, yes. 00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:34.240 Please. 00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:36.960 A chained dog runs up to Stone. 00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:41.039 Stone shows the dog his badge and says, police dickhead. 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:43.359 That's that actually happens in this

movie. 00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:44.480 Yes, you heard me right. 00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:48.960 Rucker Howard flashes his badge at a guard and utters those exact words. 00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:58.400 Imagine Rutger Hauer be like, um, one of the first lines of dialogue you do is you tell a dog, police stickhead, and show your badge. 00:31:58.559 --> 00:32:00.000 And he was like, I love it. 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:01.119 I love the script. 00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:06.640 Rucker enters a club proper, he goes to a payphone, scans his card, and makes a call. 00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:12.720 Meanwhile, from an observant point of view, and we get multiple of these, we hear a loud breathing noise. 00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:17.359 Stone presumably calls his precinct. 00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:23.359 We are told that he's suspended, but his hunch is that the perp they are looking for will show up. 00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:28.319 Suddenly, we see a dance in a bathroom look at something off camera. 00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:29.519 A dance in a bathroom. 00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:31.359 I obviously wrote that down wrong. 00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:33.920 We see I don't know what the fuck that is. 00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:36.079 A dancer, I guess, in a bathroom. 00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:37.680 I mean, I mean, in a bathroom. 00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:38.559 What are you doing? 00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:41.920 And she lets out a blood-curdling scream. 00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:43.119 It was a dancer. 00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:46.880 Um, Stone races toward the bathroom with gun drawn, but he's too late. 00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:54.160 The person he's been looking forward uh created another serial killer right under Stone's nose. 00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:56.720 Now Stone covers her mutilated body. 00:32:56.880 --> 00:33:02.240 Blood is fucking everywhere, and he finally sees written on the mirror, I'm back. 00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:03.680 Dun dun dun. 00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:11.200 Now he goes back into the nightclub, flashes his future gun around, telling the clubbers that someone must have seen something. 00:33:11.359 --> 00:33:11.839 Someone. 00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:14.799 He points the gun until he lands on a short, fat bald dude. 00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:16.000 I believe this is JJ. 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:21.599 He then bends down and calls a dude's dog a dickhead and asks the dog if he saw him. 00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:23.920 Stone is out of his fucking gourd. 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:26.240 He sees a blood trail and he follows him. 00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:27.599 All right. 00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:35.039 Stone runs out back, gets momentarily stopped by Detective Dick Durkin, Alistair Duncan, uh, who he shoves back inside the club. 00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:36.720 This is their first introduction. 00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:41.200 He finds fresh blood outside and he says, I can hear your heartbeat. 00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:42.400 I will find you. 00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:44.400 I'll find you, you fuck. 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:46.720 And it's a great shot to end the sequence. 00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:47.920 It's a super long shot. 00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:52.960 We see Stone on a fire escape, top right frame, holding his gun by an exit sign. 00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:58.799 Meanwhile, the bottom of the frame is all building with flooded water and detritus everywhere. 00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:00.799 It's actually one of the coolest shots in the movie. 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:02.720 We're on the River Times on a boat. 00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:03.519 I don't know how to say it. 00:34:03.599 --> 00:34:05.200 I'm not from fucking, I'm not English. 00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:07.119 I think River, is it River Tim's? 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:09.199 I know it's not River Thames. 00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:10.639 I know it's not River Thames. 00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:12.559 I'm just gonna call it River Timbs. 00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:13.119 All right. 00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:20.719 All my UK brethren, or not brethren, all my UK listeners out there who make up the second highest um listenership. 00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:22.159 I apologize in advance. 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:22.639 Okay. 00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:25.760 I'm from New Jersey in America. 00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:27.440 I don't know all these things. 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:28.159 All right. 00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:32.400 We are with Dick Durkin and Chief Thrasher, Alan Armstrong. 00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:32.800 Okay. 00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:35.920 Chief Thrasher, one of the coolest names ever. 00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:36.480 All right. 00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:39.360 And we're doing some exposition dumping. 00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:43.280 He started raving a lunatic totally out of control. 00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:45.119 It took four officers to subdue him. 00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:50.239 We learned from Thrasher that a serial killer murdered his partner named Foster three years ago. 00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:52.800 And the worst part, he was there when it happened. 00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:56.480 He was having an affair with Foster's wife, hit the booze, went over the edge. 00:34:56.639 --> 00:34:58.800 Now he lives on anxiety, coffee, and chocolate. 00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:02.400 He's worked in every hellhole in the world, and he has been fired by all of them. 00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:03.840 Durkin says he's crazy. 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:07.199 Thrasher tells him, Oh, well, he's your new partner. 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:10.639 So, um, great exposition dump. 00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:15.199 I mean, best time to do exposition dump is kind of within action. 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:32.320 I mean, they're not there's n they're in a moving boat, so I guess there's that's an action sequence, but the best, and you know, I always talk about this, James Cameron is the GOAT in terms of action set piece expositional dialogue. 00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:44.480 All the shit that Kyle Reese is telling Sarah Connor or what telling us also at the same time, it's always under tension or

action or something of that variety. 00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:49.760 Because otherwise it would have been like, let me tell you about the Terminators, and people are like, what the fuck? 00:35:49.840 --> 00:36:08.800 But when because it's under tension or action or sequences when they're in peril, then you're immediately more you know interested in learning about what they have to say, as opposed to you know two people in a room exposition dumping that sucks, right? 00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:11.280 Now, um, where are we? 00:36:11.440 --> 00:36:14.159 Yes, no, cut to stone in a holding cell. 00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:18.079 He's pulling on the bars and he's having a fit and then staring directly into the camera. 00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:21.360 I I love this like crazy Rucker Hauer. 00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:23.519 I mean, Rucker Hauer, I loved him, man. 00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:24.880 He was one of my favorites. 00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:31.599 Um, obviously, you know, Blade Runner, he's one of the best performances, but he's the fucking man in the hitcher. 00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:34.320 All right, then that movie is highly underrated. 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:36.079 That movie is amazing. 00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:40.719 It's lit and shot perfectly, and it's like keeps you on your toes. 00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:42.719 Highly recommend The Hitcher. 00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:48.480 Um, so yeah, he's given his gun and items and is told that the chief wants to see him, says it's urgent. 00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:57.920 Now it is a great sequence where Stone walks down a hallway, we steady cam with him, we only see his back, but everyone that walks the other way avoids contact with him. 00:36:58.159 --> 00:36:59.840 No one wants to fuck with him. 00:36:59.920 --> 00:37:03.039 Again, that's good filmmaking right there, right? 00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:08.639 You're following him as he's walking to his destination, all right? 00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:10.719 The chief, the chief's office. 00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:20.800 But he's walking past like fellow officers, fellow people, fellow people who work at the precinct, and people are like, Yeah, I'm not gonna even I don't even want to brush shoulders with this guy because he's just gonna flip out. 00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:23.119 He's crazy, he's a fucking nutbag, right? 00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:33.280 So he enters the precinct uh and and uh and Pete Postelweight, I love, and he's like, What the fuck are you doing here, Stone? 00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:39.440 I thought you were suspended, and his name is Paulson, and the only person with balls big enough to talk to him. 00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:49.360 Stone, cool and calmly, walks over to Paulson, grabs his pen, uses it to stir his tea, and returns it to Paulson's shirt pocket. 00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:50.800 Badass move. 00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:54.159 All right, but again, good writing, good setup. 00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:55.440 I'm giving them props for this. 00:37:55.760 --> 00:37:59.119 You see this guy,

he's a loose cannon, he's fucking walking through a precinct. 00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:00.639 No one wants to rub shoulders with him. 00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:03.599 He comes into like the precinct proper, right? 00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:06.480 And uh there's one dude who just like doesn't give a fuck. 00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:08.000 And he's just gonna say shit to him. 00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:12.239 That's important to show that at least one guy, and then and then he kind of like upstages him anyway. 00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:16.320 He goes into Chief Thrasher's office, Stone tells him the killer has returned. 00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:19.039 Stone is formally introduced to Detective Durkin. 00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:21.199 Stone gives him like zero time. 00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:23.199 He's like, fuck this guy, this dork. 00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:29.599 He tells the chief that he ripped the girl's heart out, his trademark move, um, meaning the serial killer. 00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:33.039 Now, Chief Thrasher goes over Stone's sizable medical report. 00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:34.880 I love scenes like this. 00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:39.039 You know I love scenes like this when they give us like a debriefing of the person. 00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:42.400 Like when the best of all time is obviously Escape from New York. 00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:49.199 I fucking love that sequence when he's going over like his, you know, his rap sheet. 00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:50.559 And this is something similar. 00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:54.159 He's like, it says you have anxiety, neurosis, and you're paranoid. 00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:56.880 Stone's response is doctors don't know shit. 00:38:57.039 --> 00:39:00.719 Chief Thrasher tells Stone that Durkin is an expert in serial killers. 00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:03.119 Chief Thrasher gives Stone back his badge. 00:39:03.280 --> 00:39:09.199 You're officially off suspension, but if you fuck up again, I'll have you shipped off to the worst shithole on this planet. 00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:10.800 Only one condition. 00:39:11.039 --> 00:39:13.920 He points at Durkin, goes with you. 00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:20.800 Now, of course, our boy uh Rucker Hauer steals a handful of Chief cigars and tells him I work alone. 00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:24.480 Chief Pissed off says, Get the fuck out of my office. 00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:26.480 End of the first act, right? 00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:29.760 The first act is very well written. 00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:30.719 It is. 00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:32.960 Second act is actually good too. 00:39:33.039 --> 00:39:37.519 It's the third act where it completely, completely falls apart. 00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:39.119 Or doesn't really fall apart. 00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:45.599 It just It doesn't pay off or doesn't deliver what you're expecting. 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:53.280 If this movie had a good third act, it would have been remembered as like, oh man, you ever see Split Second? 00:39:53.360 --> 00:40:09.119 And you're like, yeah, that fucking movie from early 90s with Rucker Hauer and you know Kim Catrol with her Undiscovered Country haircut, and you're like, Yeah, remember that awesome scene at the end with the fucking with the monster killer, and you're like, Oh yeah, that sequence was badass. 00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:10.079 We didn't get that. 00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:11.199 We didn't get it. 00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:18.639 So like it's a deflating ending, and that is so important when you're writing something, man, you better think about that ending. 00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:24.960 Because if you don't have the ending, and once you get to that point, you're like, shit, how am I gonna end this? 00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:28.880 And then you make something that's just not as satisfying, right? 00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:30.400 It's gotta be satisfying. 00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:49.440 Now, Paulson, he possibly jokes with Stone, asks him if he's got his if he gets his booze delivered to the precinct because there's a steel briefcase, and they open it, and instead of booze, of course, it's a human heart on ice, and it's been bitten by probably not human, you know, teeth. 00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:51.360 So of course they get like a bite sample of that. 00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:53.440 Now Stone and Durkin are outside a nightclub. 00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:56.800 Stone orders Durkin to stay there while he checks out the club. 00:40:56.960 --> 00:40:58.320 This is the same club as before. 00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:08.960 Stone goes into the bathroom, he lies down next to where the girl was murdered, and imagines how the killer uh, you know, did it, how this whole thing went down. 00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:16.159 And it's kind of like Manhunter, um, you know, William Freakin' vibes. 00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:21.920 Like he kind of is the the character that William Peterson plays in in a certain way, right? 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:27.280 Like they kind of borrow from that, and it's interesting, but I don't know. 00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:28.719 I don't know if it works 100%. 00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:30.639 But in this movie, it's fine. 00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:33.599 I'll give it, you know, I'll give it a uh a pass. 00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:39.440 Um all right, so the nightclub owner is like, get out of here, you know, you're not supposed to be in here. 00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:43.199 Now Stone gets a dispatch call and peels out in his police jeep. 00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:44.880 Durkin follows in his own car. 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:46.800 They meet at a building with other cops. 00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:50.239 They go into a room and they see a dead man with his heart torn out. 00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:52.079 A coroner is examining it. 00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:55.280 Stone pulls his hand cannon and blows away a rat. 00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:58.079 There's a gun on the ground, and Stone recognizes it. 00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:00.800 It's his ex-partner's gun, a message for him. 00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:03.199 They notice blood blood markings

on the wall. 00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:10.000 They Durkin and and uh Stone look up and they see it's a sign of the Scorpio. 00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:11.519 The Scorpio. 00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:12.639 It's pretty cool. 00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:22.639 The um, I will give him credit, the kind of gory, gruesome like murder scenes are pretty cool. 00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:24.400 Uh I'll give them mad credit for that. 00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:25.519 I really, really enjoy that. 00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:27.199 For 1992 with a low budget. 00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:29.280 Now I love the signs on the wall. 00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:31.920 You know, I always like to look at production design. 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:34.320 Now there's a sign on the wall that says plague pits. 00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:37.760 There's another one that says smog kills, which would be a great t-shirt. 00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:39.599 And beware rats. 00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:40.239 All right. 00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:44.000 So those are kind of like, you know, the things they put on the wall in this future setting. 00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:48.400 Now, paranoid and angry, Stone fires his gun into the air in a building alleyway. 00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:49.519 Of course, like, why not? 00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:50.239 I mean, he's crazy. 00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:53.039 Stone tells Durkin that the killer is watching them. 00:42:53.199 --> 00:42:59.440 Then we get a quick killer point of view from behind a wall as we hear his breathing and his heartbeat. 00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:01.199 So he's getting closer. 00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:02.719 Of course, again, I love this. 00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:09.920 Stone blows off steam, shooting his hand cannon in the gun range while Durkin tells Stone his serial killer credentials. 00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:19.360 Of course, his hand cannon just fucking demolishes, you know, in a Robocop type way, these puny, you know, targets. 00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:22.320 Now, uh, Stone is back in his police Jeep. 00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:24.400 Now I'm just calling police jeep just to make it easier. 00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:26.239 He asks Durkin for his keys. 00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:28.000 Uh, there's a wrestler keychain. 00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:31.440 Again, this is one of these we like this movie has such a strange tone. 00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:42.880 It it's like a cyber trash creature feature, a buddy cop, the dark comedy movie. 00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:46.480 It's like for me, it doesn't work 100%. 00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:48.159 Like, like, I love dark comedy. 00:43:48.239 --> 00:43:51.519 You could give me Evil Dead 2, I could watch it every day for the rest of my life. 00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:56.800 But like, this one just like it tries too hard and it doesn't really pull it off. 00:43:57.119 --> 00:43:59.280 Mostly because I'm just not an Alistair Duncan fan. 00:43:59.360 --> 00:43:59.840 Like, he's okay. 00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:04.880 But like man, there was no one else he could have got to do that role. 00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:08.800 You know, like young Hugh Grant, I just popped into my mind right now. 00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:10.800 I don't even know what the fuck he was doing in 1992. 00:44:11.039 --> 00:44:14.559 But he mean, I mean, he did make Lair of the White Worm in 1988, so he was active. 00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:22.559 So young Hugh Grant in that role, um, with his like neuroses and he's all the shit he does. 00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:24.079 Much better movie. 00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:25.039 Had to say it. 00:44:25.119 --> 00:44:25.599 Sorry. 00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:28.159 Uh, Stone throws the keychain into street water. 00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:29.280 He's so mean. 00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:42.159 Now, finally, we get an intro of Michelle McLean by Kim Catrall, who we I mentioned before, has her Valeris haircut, like right off the set of Undiscovered Country onto Split Second. 00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:43.440 I don't even think she had a day off. 00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:44.719 Maybe she had one day off. 00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:46.639 They're like, oh, wait, you're in London? 00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:47.920 Do you want to be in this movie? 00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:48.320 Sure. 00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:49.840 Do I have to do anything with my hair? 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:50.159 No. 00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:52.880 Okay, just in case I have reshoots of Undiscovered Country. 00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:53.360 Fine. 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:56.079 And like, it's it's kind of amazing. 00:44:56.320 --> 00:45:01.199 Um now she's in a mausoleum visiting her, you know, her dead husband, Stone's old partner. 00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:07.360 Now Stone stops by the London necropolis, and uh it's the same mausoleum that Michelle is at. 00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:09.039 Coincidence, alert. 00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:14.239 Now they know each other, obviously, as we learn from uh, you know, Chief Thresher. 00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:16.800 We learn that they uh, you know, they were fucking. 00:45:16.960 --> 00:45:17.599 Let's be honest. 00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:19.199 They were having an affair, they were fucking. 00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:19.760 Okay. 00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:24.480 Uh, she comes here every time she she comes to London. 00:45:24.800 --> 00:45:25.760 I can't believe I wrote that. 00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:27.199 Uh now she's American. 00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:30.559 Uh, there definitely are some sparks left over in this relationship. 00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:31.440 You know what I mean? 00:45:31.599 --> 00:45:37.280 You know how it is when you kind of see, you know, an ex-girlfriend uh or something like that, or what ex you're like, eh. 00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:40.000 Um, maybe there's something there, maybe there's not. 00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:42.239 But for them, there's definitely something there. 00:45:42.400 --> 00:45:43.599 Uh, okay, you could tell. 00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:46.480 Or maybe more so uh for Stone. 00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:47.920 I don't know about her. 00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:49.360 Uh,

we'll find out. 00:45:49.599 --> 00:45:52.719 So they go, they go back uh to his place. 00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:56.159 Obviously, it's like a complete fucking shithole. 00:45:56.320 --> 00:46:00.079 Like, he probably hasn't had a woman in there ever, ever. 00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:02.000 He probably has no company. 00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:04.880 He just has his shit everywhere. 00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:06.880 Uh, there's literally crap everywhere. 00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:08.000 There's fucking birds. 00:46:08.079 --> 00:46:10.239 You know how bad bird shit smells? 00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:11.440 It probably reeks. 00:46:11.679 --> 00:46:13.920 Michelle uh wants to open a window. 00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:16.000 Stone tells her the windows are broken. 00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:19.840 This apartment I wrote must smell like absolute ass. 00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:22.880 Now, meanwhile, Stone apologizes for walking out on her. 00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:25.679 She tells him he needs to clean this place up. 00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:27.280 No kidding. 00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:30.079 Uh, I can't believe he even brought her back there. 00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:31.920 I'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no. 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:33.760 I'm uh she'd be like, I want to see your place. 00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:35.440 Like, you don't want to see my place. 00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:36.400 It's a shithole. 00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:37.039 All right. 00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:43.599 Now, he finally falls asleep, having not slept in days, probably because she's the only person he feels safe around. 00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:43.920 Right? 00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:45.920 That's that's a good, that's a nice little thing there. 00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:48.079 I I I I I appreciate that. 00:46:48.239 --> 00:46:49.519 She looks at his wallet. 00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:52.960 Man, that's that's kind of uh you don't do that. 00:46:53.039 --> 00:46:54.639 You don't look at a man's wallet, right? 00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:57.920 And she sees that he has a picture of her in it. 00:46:58.000 --> 00:46:59.679 Oh, so he still loves her. 00:46:59.920 --> 00:47:02.400 Now flashback, flashback alert. 00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:06.239 Stone and Foster, his ex-partner, played by Stephen Hartley. 00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:12.480 It's shot in like a I guess a sepia tone uh to distinguish it from the present. 00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:15.360 They're in some uh subway system and the tide is rising. 00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:17.519 Foster tells him there is nothing down here. 00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:19.440 Stone turns around and foster is gone. 00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:23.840 Stone wakes up in present day with a pigeon on his head. 00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:26.719 Yes, he walk wakes up with a pigeon on his head. 00:47:26.800 --> 00:47:28.400 I bet Rucker Hauer loved that. 00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:32.400 Maybe he read that part in a script and he's like, I wake up with a pigeon on my head. 00:47:32.559 --> 00:47:33.360 I love pigeons. 00:47:33.440 -->

00:47:34.400 You know what I mean? 00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:37.360 He leaves her sleeping on the couch, not the pigeon. 00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:38.400 Come on, guys. 00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:40.239 He leaves Michelle sleeping on the couch. 00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:42.159 He sees Durkin outside waiting for him. 00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:43.280 Like, what does this guy do? 00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:45.199 He tells Durkin he's driving. 00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:49.920 The killer heartbeat always gets louder within Stone as if he can sense it. 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:50.400 All right. 00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:54.480 And again, we see a killer point of view behind Stone's parked police cheap. 00:47:54.639 --> 00:48:01.119 Suddenly, a black claw rips open the back panel of his police cheap that he left behind. 00:48:01.199 --> 00:48:03.280 It's like, oh, what is that about? 00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:07.840 Now Stone looks through Durkin's books, he discards them and throws them in the back seat. 00:48:08.079 --> 00:48:13.599 Durkin said he read them all last night, books on the occult psychology, parapsychology, super dork shit. 00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:13.920 Okay. 00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:20.000 Now Michelle wakes up, she sees Stone's Harley Davidson, and she eats some chocolate. 00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:23.920 Now, I wouldn't eat anything in that fucking apartment. 00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:26.639 That apartment is rat city, baby. 00:48:26.800 --> 00:48:28.639 Uh Stone and Durkin go to a bar. 00:48:28.719 --> 00:48:30.239 He orders breakfast and coffee. 00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:32.960 Durkin thinks Stone has supernatural powers. 00:48:33.199 --> 00:48:36.719 For some reason, Knights in White Satin plays in the background. 00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:40.159 In fact, it's a second time it's been played in a 10-minute span. 00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:44.800 I did find out that the people who made this movie had the rights to the original Knights in Black Satin. 00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:48.159 It's like it's just overplayed and whatever. 00:48:48.239 --> 00:48:51.760 I mean, if you have the rights to it and you have Knights in White Satin, you're gonna you're gonna sprinkle in there. 00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:54.719 Now, killer point of view, he enters Stone's apartment. 00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:57.199 The point of view is kind of like a slasher movie. 00:48:57.360 --> 00:48:58.079 I'm digging it. 00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:06.000 We cut back and forth between the breakfast bar where Durkin is convinced Stone is psychic and the apartment where Michelle is taking a shower slash bath. 00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:06.880 Of course she is. 00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:12.079 To the killer point of view, entering the apartment complex, back to Stone eating breakfast. 00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:14.960 We learn that uh that is a sign. 00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:16.400 The sign is a Scorpio. 00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:18.559 The killer is now in the actual apartment. 00:49:18.639 --> 00:49:26.400 It's almost to the shower, back to the breakfast bar where we see Durkin believes the killer attacks during high tide and how it could be astrologically linked. 00:49:26.559 --> 00:49:30.159 And they get a dispatch call about an intruder at Stone's place. 00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:35.440 Now he storms into his apartment, but Michelle is still in a shower and safe and naked. 00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:37.840 Um, and he tells her, Lock the door. 00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:40.880 Now Stone and Durkin hear a woman scream from the floor below. 00:49:41.039 --> 00:49:41.920 They break into the room. 00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:45.280 Durkin gets blown through the window with a shotgun blast. 00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:48.239 So apparently, this killer has a shotgun. 00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:50.960 Now there's a gunfight between Stone and the killer. 00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:54.159 We see his hands and they look like black claws. 00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:55.599 The killer flees. 00:49:55.760 --> 00:50:01.360 Stone looks in the bathroom and it's completely filled with blood and a dead blonde in a bathtub with her heart ripped out. 00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:04.880 Michelle runs downstairs, tells Stone she's been bit. 00:50:05.199 --> 00:50:07.360 Now Stone is outside with the medics. 00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:09.039 He starts to hyperventilate. 00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:12.639 They give him oxygen and some sort of shot, and bang, flashback. 00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:15.360 Foster gets ripp below the water line in the subway. 00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:25.440 We see a huge monster behind him, behind um not Foster, behind our boy Stone, and all of a sudden it's gone. 00:50:25.599 --> 00:50:28.400 Now, cut two, Stone waking up in a hospital. 00:50:28.559 --> 00:50:31.039 He's got a long claw mark scar on his left arm. 00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:35.119 Durkin appears, tells him he was wearing a bulletproof vest. 00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:41.360 Now, the long scar on his arm, presumably from a claw mark, right after that flashback. 00:50:41.519 --> 00:50:43.119 Um, they go to the precinct. 00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:45.599 Now Stone gets into an altercation with Paulson. 00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:48.480 He then summon he's then summoned to the chief thrasher's office. 00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:52.000 He tells Thrasher that whatever they're hunting is not human. 00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:53.840 Durkin brings in the lab results. 00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:57.760 It has a DNA of all of its victims, including Stones. 00:50:57.920 --> 00:51:01.519 Now Stone and Durkin go into the morgue and look at the recently deceased. 00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:04.159 They see blood dripping from the drop-down ceiling. 00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:06.880 The monster jumps down and runs out of the room. 00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:14.079 Durkin freaks out, telling Stone it was huge and they're gonna need bigger fucking guns, right? 00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:19.599 They go, they go to the morgue assuming that the monster's gonna go back for the heart, which does happen. 00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:22.480

Now, they go to the police armory and grab an arsenal. 00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:25.920 They grab make these two mini guns, and you're like, all right, all right. 00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:30.079 This is this is gearing up for a fucking crazy ass ending. 00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:36.960 Now, Durkin figures out that the monster eats the victims' hearts in order to gain more power, gain their DNA and more. 00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:38.719 Now, we're at Stone's place. 00:51:38.880 --> 00:51:40.719 They're trying to figure out what's going on. 00:51:40.880 --> 00:51:44.000 We're not chasing it, it's chasing us, says Stone. 00:51:44.079 --> 00:51:47.840 And he opens the fridge door and he finds a human heart. 00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:51.519 Now, Stone finds Michelle in the bathroom in the bath, scrubbing her hands. 00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:54.559 She tells him randomly that Foster's mom just killed herself. 00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:56.400 And that was a big what the fuck. 00:51:56.559 --> 00:51:58.559 Like, where did that come from? 00:51:58.719 --> 00:51:59.119 Where? 00:51:59.280 --> 00:52:00.320 That comes out of nowhere. 00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:02.320 We never even never even hear of Foster's mom. 00:52:02.559 --> 00:52:04.239 All of a sudden, she killed herself. 00:52:04.320 --> 00:52:04.880 It's crazy. 00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:09.599 Now, Knights in White Satin instrumental plays, again, that's that's three nights. 00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:12.719 Three nights and three nights in white satins, right? 00:52:12.880 --> 00:52:14.239 Uh, for anyone scoring at home. 00:52:14.320 --> 00:52:18.480 Now, Stone walks through streets, sees plenty of rats, people living in squalor. 00:52:18.559 --> 00:52:20.079 He finds Durkin's eyeglasses. 00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:22.400 Durkin is tied up in his police chief. 00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:23.760 He's bleeding from his chest. 00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:24.559 Uh-oh. 00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:28.559 So the killer has gotten to Durkin, but Durkin is still alive. 00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:30.239 Now, Michelle is in the apartment. 00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:32.719 She fires her handgun at something off-screen. 00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:36.000 Stone and Durkin enter with their minigun rifles drawn. 00:52:36.239 --> 00:52:38.719 Now, Durkin passes out. 00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:42.000 Uh, he sees that the monster symbol has been carved onto his chest. 00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:46.320 They somehow figure out that the symbol is a map where he is going doing his killing. 00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:47.360 What the actual fuck. 00:52:47.519 --> 00:52:50.000 Like, how do they f again? 00:52:50.239 --> 00:52:52.320 This is major third act problems. 00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:55.519 This is when the movie just goes off the fucking rails. 00:52:55.679 --> 00:53:07.360 I know the director walked offset at the at this point, and it seems like the ending sequence is probably the replacement director, Ian Sharp scenes, because it's it's uh it's just not the same narrative sense. 00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:08.960 It just doesn't make the same narrative sense. 00:53:09.119 --> 00:53:15.599 The tone also becomes like so fractured from kick-ass action to like this strange slapstick. 00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:17.039 Like, why make that decision? 00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:17.679 I don't understand. 00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:22.000 Now Stone leads them to the rat catcher's lair, played by Michael J. 00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:25.519 Pollard, who collected a nice, you know, fat paycheck. 00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:27.920 They want passage to the sewers below Canal Street. 00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:31.679 The rat catcher guides them, they thank him and enter the subway platform. 00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:32.960 Rats are everywhere. 00:53:33.119 --> 00:53:37.519 They hunt for the monster, they open a door, and the rat catcher and his assistant are dead. 00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:39.119 Geez, raw deal from Michael J. 00:53:39.199 --> 00:53:39.599 Pollard. 00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:40.400 Spoiler alert. 00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:42.400 This is a spoiler alert for the rest of the movie. 00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:44.800 Not like you really care, but I you know what? 00:53:44.880 --> 00:53:46.320 I just want to throw it in there. 00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:47.840 They hear Michelle screaming. 00:53:48.079 --> 00:53:50.480 She's hanging by her hands on a rope. 00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:52.880 We finally see the freaking monster. 00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:56.880 And the only way I can describe it, it's Venom meets xenomorph. 00:53:56.960 --> 00:53:59.920 Now Stone follows a monster into an abandoned subway car. 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:03.760 He turns around and boom, the monster is right behind him, behind him. 00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:08.880 He's his long talon fingernails and claws are all over Stone. 00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:10.559 Stone breaks away, sees the monster. 00:54:10.639 --> 00:54:12.719 Durkin throws a grenade in the subway car. 00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:20.800 Stone jumps through the window, grabs Michelle, goes into the other room for cover, and inexplicably kisses her as the abandoned subway car explodes. 00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:22.559 I I don't know. 00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:23.119 I don't know. 00:54:23.199 --> 00:54:24.000 I don't know what to say. 00:54:24.159 --> 00:54:27.280 Now Stone then grabs an open wire cable. 00:54:27.599 --> 00:54:29.360 This is insanity. 00:54:29.519 --> 00:54:32.000 They're an open wire cable. 00:54:32.079 --> 00:54:36.800 They're in a flooded subway station. 00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:37.679 Flooded. 00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:40.960 Open wire cable electricity, right? 00:54:41.679 --> 00:54:51.280 So he brings it to the subway car, he throws it in, he jumps on a steel girder, he tells Durkin, turn it on, and the he turns on the current and electrocutes the monster. 00:54:51.440 --> 00:54:53.519 This ending is just really fucking bad, I wrote. 00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:57.920 Even getting electrocuted, he ain't dead. 00:54:58.000 --> 00:55:05.440 He jumps,

it jumps out of the subway car and grabs Stone, and somehow Stone repels the Venom monster from ripping out his heart. 00:55:05.519 --> 00:55:11.199 And instead, Stone reaches into the Venom monster's chest and rips out his heart. 00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:13.519 Take that fucking Venom monster. 00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:15.440 I swear I'm not making this shit up. 00:55:15.519 --> 00:55:21.039 Now, Michelle and Durkin blow the Venom monster to pieces, so she gets like, you know, her Ripley scene. 00:55:21.199 --> 00:55:23.440 Stone holds a Venom monster's black heart. 00:55:23.599 --> 00:55:26.559 He then pulls out his pistol and destroys the heart. 00:55:26.719 --> 00:55:27.920 The three walk out. 00:55:28.079 --> 00:55:29.840 Michelle asks if he's dead. 00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:35.679 We go to the water level and we see bubbles rising as if it's still living. 00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:38.559 It finally ends with the three of them in a speedboat. 00:55:38.719 --> 00:55:43.679 There is a gumshoe-like voiceover from Durkin, and it ends with Stone telling him to shut up. 00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:47.280 The end credit sequence runs over the exterior shot of the River Thames. 00:55:48.159 --> 00:55:48.639 The end. 00:55:49.199 --> 00:55:50.320 That's how it ends. 00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:53.360 The glorious split second 1992. 00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:54.480 It's so much fun. 00:55:54.880 --> 00:55:58.719 It's pure, pure, unadulterated cyber trash. 00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:00.639 I think you'll love it if you watch it. 00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:06.320 If you give it if you give it the right, you know, frame of mind, pretty good. 00:56:06.639 --> 00:56:08.159 Like you put it up there. 00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:09.920 Like to me, it's better than Death Machine. 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:12.639 Like to me, I just Death Machine ain't my jam. 00:56:12.719 --> 00:56:17.920 I mean, hardware to me is in my top ten of all time, so I don't even count that as cyber trash. 00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:21.039 I think that's like one of the best cyberpunk films ever made. 00:56:21.599 --> 00:56:22.079 All right. 00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:27.039 Uh this this belongs up with, you know, nemesis, cyborg um movies like that. 00:56:27.199 --> 00:56:27.920 You know what I mean? 00:56:28.079 --> 00:56:33.920 Uh, and we're gonna do more Cybertrash coming up very soon, probably next episode. 00:56:34.320 --> 00:56:38.719 And uh yeah, so take a listen to this and then we're gonna get into the aftermath. 00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:39.920 Listen to it. 00:56:53.519 --> 00:56:56.800 And yes, that was Split Second 1992. 00:56:56.880 --> 00:56:58.079 Yeah, man, that movie's fun. 00:56:58.239 --> 00:56:59.360 I hope you guys check it out. 00:56:59.519 --> 00:57:00.239 Check it out. 00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:03.199 It's on Prime, it's on YouTube, you can find it. 00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:05.760 You can find it for free out there or whatever subscriptions you have. 00:57:05.840 --> 00:57:06.639 It's totally worth it. 00:57:06.719 --> 00:57:07.760 It's an hour and a half. 00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:08.639 That's it. 00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:11.679 It's not that bad, except you know, for the ending sequence. 00:57:11.840 --> 00:57:13.760 But that is either here nor there. 00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:16.000 Oh shit, I forgot to talk to you about Halloween. 00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:18.000 First of all, happy, belated Halloween. 00:57:18.079 --> 00:57:23.599 Um my apologies for not telling you guys that um before the last episode, but I got to tell you about my weekend. 00:57:23.679 --> 00:57:24.480 It was awesome. 00:57:24.639 --> 00:57:25.039 All right. 00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:27.039 Shout out to my girlfriend Melissa. 00:57:27.519 --> 00:57:29.360 I love her beyond anything. 00:57:29.519 --> 00:57:32.639 She is the best like person I ever met in my life. 00:57:32.880 --> 00:57:36.159 Uh, not just, you know, the best girlfriend I ever had. 00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:39.039 She's the best person I ever met, hands down in my life. 00:57:39.199 --> 00:57:42.639 She is just perfect for me, perfect for each other. 00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:43.199 It's great. 00:57:43.360 --> 00:57:46.239 But the thing that's awesome about it is that we got to dress up. 00:57:46.320 --> 00:57:47.840 We it's almost like a cosplay in a way. 00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:50.239 I dress up as a warlock, she dressed up as a witch. 00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:51.519 We really got into it. 00:57:51.599 --> 00:57:53.599 We fucking we were like, let's do it this year. 00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:55.039 First Halloween together. 00:57:55.199 --> 00:57:56.000 Let's do it this year. 00:57:56.079 --> 00:58:06.800 And not only that, she lives on one of those like blocks where they kind of like they they block it off so the kids actually could walk down like a couple of blocks in a specific town. 00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:10.400 So she had um, she's like, Oh, it's huge every year. 00:58:10.480 --> 00:58:14.719 I'm like, I've always wanted to do that because I've never really been on a like a block like that. 00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:17.039 So she's like, Yeah, it's like three, four hours. 00:58:17.119 --> 00:58:17.440 It's crazy. 00:58:17.519 --> 00:58:19.119 I have to buy so much like candy and chocolate. 00:58:19.199 --> 00:58:20.480 I'm like, all right, this is what we're gonna do. 00:58:20.559 --> 00:58:24.639 So we sat down and we collabed and we made a Spotify playlist. 00:58:24.719 --> 00:58:26.480 Uh it's called Halloween Rocks. 00:58:26.639 --> 00:58:27.199 All right. 00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:30.079 Uh, and it was a fucking smash hit. 00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:31.039 And let me tell you about it. 00:58:31.119 --> 00:58:39.519 First of all, uh, we collabed on it and we came to this great idea that we're gonna do, you know, rock songs that have horror vibes, you know what I mean? 00:58:39.679 --> 00:58:46.639 Like, for instance, the first song was Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath, and then you go right into um, what do you call it?

00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:55.599 You go right into horror movie theme songs, and then you alternate, and then you go into like Dracula, horror movie theme songs, then you go into something else, horror movie theme songs. 00:58:55.920 --> 00:58:59.119 And I'm when I'm talking smash hit, smash hit. 00:58:59.440 --> 00:59:01.760 People are like, what are you gonna do next year? 00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:03.280 Are you gonna are you gonna have a karaoke? 00:59:03.440 --> 00:59:06.639 You're gonna have a single long, are you gonna and we're like, oh my god, this is gonna blow up. 00:59:06.719 --> 00:59:08.559 So we're gonna have something bigger next year. 00:59:08.719 --> 00:59:12.239 But the coolest thing about it, um, was that people were like camping out. 00:59:12.320 --> 00:59:17.679 People are just like hanging out, just hanging around her house and being like, what's gonna come come on next? 00:59:17.760 --> 00:59:22.239 And people will come up and be like, Man, you played fucking the Suspiria theme song. 00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:23.840 I'm like, Hells yeah. 00:59:24.079 --> 00:59:30.719 Uh, so if any of you are interested in that playlist, um, it's on my Spotify. 00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:36.400 I believe my Spotify is like Storm Giant, I can't remember, but it's it's uh Halloween Rocks and it's so fucking good. 00:59:36.480 --> 00:59:39.760 And I shared it with a lot of my friends and people who played it at their own places. 00:59:39.920 --> 00:59:43.119 So it's a fun thing that I that I'm gonna be doing pretty much every year. 00:59:43.199 --> 00:59:51.840 But the coolest thing about it was was that um uh at one point Cry Little Sister from the Lost Boy soundtrack, and yeah, don't get me started on Lost by Soundtrack. 00:59:51.920 --> 00:59:54.719 I fucking love that soundtrack and love that movie. 00:59:54.880 --> 00:59:55.360 All right. 00:59:55.519 --> 01:00:17.119 But the coolest thing was is that like a guy around my age, you know, mid 40s, late 40s, he came over with his uh with his teenage daughter, and he's like, Oh my god, we we we just saw the Lost Boys musical, and my daughter heard that you were playing this, and she had to run over and listen to it. 01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:20.239 I was like, Hells yeah, that was so cool. 01:00:20.400 --> 01:00:27.119 That just made me so goddamn happy that I was able to make other people, you know, inspired and happy just by playing music, right? 01:00:27.199 --> 01:00:32.000 And being in character of like the warlock and scaring kids, and it's it was so much fucking fun. 01:00:32.159 --> 01:00:33.119 Uh, it was great. 01:00:33.280 --> 01:00:35.440 Had a couple drinks, it was great, it was so much fun. 01:00:35.599 --> 01:00:45.760 Um, and then not only that, and then with Melissa and I were just like, hey, let's uh here in New Jersey, there's a chiller theater kind of like horror convention type thing. 01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:46.960 It's like, let's check it out. 01:00:47.119 --> 01:00:48.880 And we went,

it was so cool. 01:00:49.119 --> 01:00:49.920 It was so cool. 01:00:50.000 --> 01:00:54.719 I got to take a picture with Joey Pants, I got to talk to Joey Pants, I love him. 01:00:54.960 --> 01:00:57.280 Uh, hung out with Stephen Baldwin. 01:00:57.360 --> 01:00:58.239 I was on his Twitch. 01:00:58.400 --> 01:00:59.440 We were both on his Twitch. 01:00:59.519 --> 01:01:00.719 He's fucking a wild man. 01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:02.800 I love he's this fun dude overall. 01:01:03.039 --> 01:01:12.320 Met so many people uh in the horror convention, and we wear and we wore the same outfit, and people were like stopping and taking pictures from us and were like, Are you guys like professional cosplayers? 01:01:12.400 --> 01:01:14.960 And I'm like, I bought this on Amazon for like$50. 01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:20.079 Um, so suffice it to say, it looks like we're gonna have to do more of that stuff. 01:01:20.320 --> 01:01:26.480 So uh you may see a dark future fugitive uh, you know, cosplay in the in the in the near future, right? 01:01:26.639 --> 01:01:31.519 So that may be coming to uh, you know, I don't know, conventions near you. 01:01:31.599 --> 01:01:32.480 Maybe we're gonna do more of it. 01:01:32.559 --> 01:01:41.360 We had so much goddamn fun doing it, and and uh yeah, so happy Halloween, Halloween and October and the whole spooky season is my favorite thing in the world. 01:01:41.440 --> 01:01:42.960 I uh to me, I just continue it. 01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:47.199 I'm less like the day after Halloween, I'm like, uh no, we're gonna keep going. 01:01:47.280 --> 01:01:50.320 We're gonna keep watching horror movies and we're gonna keep having fun doing this shit. 01:01:50.480 --> 01:01:52.000 So, so that is that. 01:01:52.159 --> 01:01:53.519 I just wanted to mention that again. 01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:55.280 Shout out to Melissa, love you, baby. 01:01:55.519 --> 01:01:57.760 Um, a couple things here. 01:01:58.000 --> 01:02:07.519 I stumbled upon a cyberpunk game that I knew nothing about, and it's perfect because it stars Ruther Hauer, and you're gonna be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's this? 01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:13.440 It's a game called Observer System Redux, and it's really interesting. 01:02:13.599 --> 01:02:17.599 And I played maybe like two hours of it on Saturday because I just heard about it. 01:02:17.679 --> 01:02:22.480 It's like 599 on PlayStation 5, and uh it's wild, man. 01:02:22.559 --> 01:02:27.920 And Rucker Hauer, you know, he's like the main character, and it's his voice, and it was like right before he died. 01:02:28.159 --> 01:02:50.159 So it's an interesting coda to his career that he did this cyberpunk like horror detective um game, and it's very smart that he's like I forgot what it's called in the game, but he's he's a detective who has like powers to like go to a scene and be able to like recreate it. 01:02:50.320 --> 01:02:56.239 Um, it's almost like a psychic cyber hacking, you know, combination. 01:02:56.400 --> 01:03:06.159 Very

interesting, and it was a little hard for me because I'm not, I don't play, I mean, I play Cyberpunk 2077 to play other games, but I was like, man, this is like gotta think a lot in this game. 01:03:06.239 --> 01:03:07.119 So it's it's fun. 01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:08.400 I would recommend it. 01:03:08.719 --> 01:03:11.599 Observer system redux, it's what it's called. 01:03:11.679 --> 01:03:14.400 Get it$5.99 on PS5 if you have PS5. 01:03:14.800 --> 01:03:21.920 Um, yeah, so that was like, I mean, that was the fucking great spooky season, but I want to tell you about some other things, right? 01:03:22.320 --> 01:03:24.480 Uh let's look at letterbox, shall we? 01:03:24.559 --> 01:03:27.039 You notice uh my letterbox portion of the program. 01:03:27.119 --> 01:03:31.280 I only I only talk to you guys every two weeks, and uh so fuck it. 01:03:31.440 --> 01:03:34.159 You know, um, first of all, rest in peace, Patrick Stewart. 01:03:34.480 --> 01:03:36.400 Um that one hit me hard. 01:03:36.639 --> 01:03:38.400 Hit me real hard, real hard. 01:03:38.559 --> 01:03:52.000 If you saw my socials, uh, I mean, I it was I like fucking, I was like, I gotta watch the inner light as soon as I found out watching inner light, fucking crying like a baby watching that, just thinking about thinking about Patrick Stewart, man. 01:03:52.079 --> 01:03:53.440 He was such a cool dude, man. 01:03:53.519 --> 01:03:55.760 I loved him and pretty much everything. 01:03:55.840 --> 01:04:15.360 Uh so let's look at the letterbox because I do want to talk about another part of the Halloween weekend on on uh the day before Halloween, Hollow's Eve, or what in New Jersey we call cabbage night or mischief night or hell night, or as everyone else knows it, devil's night. 01:04:15.519 --> 01:04:18.079 And devil's night because of the crow. 01:04:18.239 --> 01:04:18.559 Okay. 01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:22.239 And I try to watch the crow as if I remember, right? 01:04:22.400 --> 01:04:25.039 Um on Hollow Hollows Eve, right? 01:04:25.119 --> 01:04:27.039 I it's something I I like to watch. 01:04:27.119 --> 01:04:32.400 And I watched it again this year, and man, that movie's so great. 01:04:32.639 --> 01:04:34.320 I love that goddamn movie. 01:04:34.480 --> 01:04:38.159 Uh I mean, top dollar Michael Wincott fucking rules. 01:04:38.239 --> 01:04:39.840 It's one of my all-time favorite villains. 01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:46.400 And I just wrote, I rewatched The Crow Tonight, and it hit like a rush of 1994 vibes coursing through my fucking veins. 01:04:46.559 --> 01:04:52.159 Goth culture, industrial rock shows, cops smoking cigarettes and having a hot dog, and a soundtrack of our time. 01:04:52.320 --> 01:04:54.960 Nine inch nails, STP, cure, rage, Pantera. 01:04:55.039 --> 01:05:05.280 That antebellum period of practicals and early CGI and an undead guitarist and his revenge quest to fight the violent wrongs, to right the violent wrongs of his tragic romance past. 01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:06.320 Damn, it's so good. 01:05:06.559 --> 01:05:09.119 Brandon Lee was going to be a Keanu level film star. 01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:11.360 At least we got this, which will make him immortal. 01:05:11.519 --> 01:05:11.920 Loved it. 01:05:12.079 --> 01:05:12.719 Nine out of ten. 01:05:13.039 --> 01:05:14.800 I mean, I love The Crow, man. 01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:22.000 That was such a big for 15-year-old Anthony being watching The Crow, I was like, that's my movie. 01:05:22.159 --> 01:05:24.320 Um, what other movies did I watch? 01:05:24.480 --> 01:05:34.400 I guess the only one really, two, the other one, two of note, uh Eddie and the Cruzers, which I had always known about and it was on HBO all the time, and I finally watched it. 01:05:34.639 --> 01:05:36.000 And what a movie. 01:05:36.159 --> 01:05:38.000 What an interesting, interesting movie. 01:05:38.079 --> 01:05:42.000 I gave it eight out of a four, you know, eight out of ten stars or four stars on Letterboxd. 01:05:42.159 --> 01:05:51.039 It's like a rock and roll murder mystery set on the Jersey Shore represent about a fictional rock band told in a nonlinear narrative style that makes it like endlessly rewatchable. 01:05:51.119 --> 01:05:59.840 The songs are killer and has that Asbury Park vibe of the 1960s and 80s, and such a such a rare, cool movement. 01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:00.559 Movie. 01:06:00.639 --> 01:06:01.840 I highly recommend it. 01:06:01.920 --> 01:06:03.280 It's such a good movie. 01:06:03.519 --> 01:06:09.199 Um, and of course, my boy Rodolfo, it's like, he's like, Have you ever seen Full Contact 92 Chow Young Fat? 01:06:09.360 --> 01:06:10.400 I'm like, uh, no. 01:06:10.639 --> 01:06:12.159 Like, is that a Ringo Lamb movie? 01:06:12.239 --> 01:06:14.400 He's like, Yeah, watch it right now. 01:06:14.559 --> 01:06:17.119 Dude, that movie is amazing. 01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:23.039 I I I will admit Hong Kong cinema, uh, it's such a major blind spot for me. 01:06:23.199 --> 01:06:26.639 Like, I just my friends and I never watched it during that time period. 01:06:26.800 --> 01:06:34.639 I mean, I've watched some of it, I have, but I haven't watched like I haven't dug deep, and I'm gonna start digging deep into Hong Kong cinema. 01:06:35.039 --> 01:06:40.480 Uh, I mean, dude, the ice factory seeing the nightclub, the ending, uh, my jaw was on the freaking floor with this movie. 01:06:40.639 --> 01:06:43.039 It's just so goddamn cool. 01:06:43.360 --> 01:06:45.599 Uh, Full Contact 1992. 01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:54.480 So that is some of the stuff I've been watching on uh on Letterboxd, and I highly recommend that you check out Full Contact. 01:06:54.880 --> 01:07:00.639 Highly recommend you you give you give Eddie and Cruisers uh give it a good whirl. 01:07:00.719 --> 01:07:01.519 It's a good movie. 01:07:01.679 --> 01:07:03.920 I was so surprised by how good it was. 01:07:04.159 --> 01:07:06.480 And uh, of course, The Crow, right? 01:07:06.639 --> 01:07:12.480 I tr look, I don't know how many

of you people out there have uh watched the sequels. 01:07:12.719 --> 01:07:22.320 Like I never I couldn't I couldn't even drag myself to watch any of the sequels because you know Brandon Lee and and the Crow were so meant so much to like 15-year-old Anthony. 01:07:22.400 --> 01:07:23.760 I was like, I can't watch it, I can't watch it. 01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:27.280 I tried watching the crow city of angels. 01:07:27.440 --> 01:07:30.880 Um man, I couldn't even get past the first half hour. 01:07:30.960 --> 01:07:34.559 And I was like, I'm gonna give it a chance, I'm gonna give it a chance, I'm gonna give it a chance. 01:07:34.639 --> 01:07:35.599 I just I just couldn't do it. 01:07:35.679 --> 01:07:36.400 I couldn't do it. 01:07:36.559 --> 01:07:37.519 I couldn't do it. 01:07:37.840 --> 01:07:51.360 All right, because it makes me think of Brandon Lee and and man, like that guy, and I mentioned this before in a podcast, had he not died tragically on that set, yo, you could write a whole book about what if for his career. 01:07:51.519 --> 01:07:54.480 He's one of the most ultimate what ifs, like ever. 01:07:54.719 --> 01:08:00.400 Or like also like what if what if Heath Ledger, you know, after the dark night, what if what would he have done? 01:08:00.639 --> 01:08:01.280 You know what I mean? 01:08:01.360 --> 01:08:03.119 Or like what if River Phoenix? 01:08:03.360 --> 01:08:06.559 But what if Brandon Lee to me was was huge? 01:08:07.039 --> 01:08:18.000 Because like man, like I watched him in Showdown A Little Tokyo, I watched him in Rapid Fire, like Thursday Night Prime Days, you know, back in HBO. 01:08:18.159 --> 01:08:19.680 Like I loved all that shit. 01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:39.279 And then the Crow came out, and I was like, and then you know, we hear about his death, and then the movie comes out after his death, and they had to piece it together, and it was just such an event movie for me and for my generation, and for my fellow, you know, like indie rockers, like goth kids I knew, like it just meant everything. 01:08:39.520 --> 01:08:46.960 And yo, Keanu Reeves, I gotta say, he would have been market corrected a lot by Brandon Lee. 01:08:47.760 --> 01:08:55.119 Brandon Lee might have been Neo in the Matrix, he might have been John Wick, you know, he could have been he could have done he could have done anything. 01:08:55.680 --> 01:08:56.960 And uh it's just sad. 01:08:57.439 --> 01:08:59.119 Still, like, I mean, how many years later? 01:08:59.279 --> 01:09:01.760 33 fucking years later, still sad about it. 01:09:02.079 --> 01:09:06.319 Anyway, um you know, rest in peace, rest in power, Brandon Lee. 01:09:06.399 --> 01:09:07.119 We love you forever. 01:09:07.279 --> 01:09:10.319 And I just want to say, uh, yeah, tune in in two weeks. 01:09:10.560 --> 01:09:15.439 I have another uh 90s cyber, we're doing cyber 90s. 01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:20.319 Um and then you know what's coming around the corner, uh Blade Runner 2099. 01:09:20.479 --> 01:09:22.560 And I will be uh going over that. 01:09:22.720 --> 01:09:24.079 I'm really psyched for it. 01:09:24.239 --> 01:09:25.439 I hope it's fucking good. 01:09:25.600 --> 01:09:26.720 And uh we'll go from there. 01:09:26.800 --> 01:09:28.079 Anyway, I got a jam. 01:09:28.159 --> 01:09:34.800 It's uh it was a Manic Monday, and I just want to say love you guys, keep listening, keep rating, keep doing everything you gotta do. 01:09:34.960 --> 01:09:39.520 There's things in the future that are coming that are gonna blow your mind for season three. 01:09:39.680 --> 01:09:40.000 Okay? 01:09:40.159 --> 01:09:43.359 Don't forget, if you want those stickers, DM me. 01:09:43.520 --> 01:09:57.119 All right, limited edition first run stickers, and you gotta post those stickers somewhere, bar, on a fucking anywhere in a city wherever you live, in the bathroom of like a fucking restaurant. 01:09:57.359 --> 01:10:00.239 We want more people to know about join the resistance. 01:10:00.399 --> 01:10:01.039 I love you guys. 01:10:01.279 --> 01:10:02.960 Adios Machachos.