Laughter and Chills in the World of Horror Movies and Creature Feature Reactions

Hey, listener! Ready to uncover why Jordan, the Scream Queen, delivers scathing movie reviews without needing to see the flicks? It's comedy Johnny here, and together we're peeling back the curtain on the enigma of film expectations and generational viewing habits. Picture this: 'The Crow' through a Gen X lens, 'Constantine 2' shrouded in mystery, and the potential resurrection of Captain Jack Sparrow. Our musings don't stop there, as we tackle the implications of AI's grip on our creative processes and society at large, drawing unnerving parallels to "Terminator 3."

Ever laughed at the thought of Kevin Bacon being synonymous with river-themed films? Our staff picks section tosses you into the river with 'Mystic River' and 'The River Wild,' before catapulting you into the cosmos with Adam Sandler's 'Spaceman.' And for a spine-tingling treat, we dissect the quirky creature feature 'Splinter,' where we're both terrorized and entertained by its spiky antagonist. Oh, and let's not bypass our lively chat with Dollface about dragons and the Wishmaster series – because who doesn't want to spice up their day with a bit of dragon lore?

But it's not all monsters and mayhem; we're also unboxing the emotional treasure chest that cinema provides. Films can be a cathartic release or a welcome distraction, and we're pondering over this personal impact on our listeners. And because we're all about the intrigue, we're tossing you the challenge of watching "the movie with the hand." So, come join the conversation, unravel the mysteries, and share more than a few belly laughs with us in an episode that's as much a jolt to the funny bone as it is an exploration of pop culture's wild world.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Oh man, you've stumbled into some kind of show. It's got me the comedy Johnny's spoiler, because I'd like to spoil the movies that I love, sometimes on the show, sometimes afterwards, sometimes in a blog. You know, we have a blog. It's like a secret blog. It's like we hit the podcast and then it's also backed up by a blog. Not that I really want to talk about blogs. Isn't it funny how I have a pre? We have a clear destination in a roadmap to get to folks, but sometimes I veer off very early, which means I haven't had enough caffeine. Jordan's here.

Speaker 1: 0:37

We'd like to call her the scream queen, that's because, she's so savage she can review a movie without having seen it. And it's not just me. Journal is already called her the scream queen, so you know, what am I gonna do?

Speaker 1: 0:52

It's like sounds pretty official to me. Um, um, what was I gonna talk about? Oh, I don't even. I don't like to work podcast, but there's in 10 years how long the podcast has been here? Maybe 15 years, definitely not much more than a decade. I feel like it's really kind of blown up. Um, but we're no longer the new kids on the block. I mean, jordan was flesh flesh, flesh, fresh. We. We brought her in like that movie fresh where the guy's ogling the girl at the grocery store and then, you know, decides to try to sell her on the black market for parts.

Speaker 3: 1:24

I was gonna say there's a lot of unfresh flesh in the movie we're talking about tonight. But yes, I'm still fresh on the scene. You know two and a half years yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:32

So we injected some fresh blood. We got some those vital core blood cells injected into this thing a couple years ago and uh, and I guess all the world on the street is, according to tiktok, she's a baddie. So that's also out there.

Speaker 1: 1:46

That's also what the hell like? I've lost all my charm in a decade. I'm just like a creepy guy in a basement recording podcast. No, I just don't like the word podcast, specifically because, um, it's kind of a tired word and it doesn't fit all podcasts like. Some people do just video shows, some people do only short content, some people do long form content, some people only like the short form content out of the long form content which is getting to be its own like rabbit hole and uh, the reason I don't like podcasting is like I don't feel welcome amongst podcasters and I don't like the way that they go about podcasting this stuff they podcast about. You know what I mean? It's like If you went to the library and you saw like a bookshelf, people are like what's a library? If you went to a library that's how they say it on the streets kids library.

Speaker 1: 2:34

You went to your local library and they're like what's books? It's the thing that used to. You know how you scroll and you see the words in the apps it used to be. You couldn't scroll, you'd have to turn things page and I call the page in a book and it was filled with words anyway. If you're staring at a bookshelf and there was like 20 books and 19 of them are Just black, plain covers, no writing, and then you see our book and it's like ultraviolet and it's glowing on the shelf, you go, oh, wow, it doesn't belong among the other books, monotone books just sitting there.

Speaker 1: 3:10

So to try to express the energy of this show, so in visuals like people people are so afraid about, like Artificial intelligence First of all, it has the word intelligence in the for the phraseology, so you should be worried about emergent Intelligence or alternative intelligence. You know, like something that like goes hey man, I also like bloodlight and it's like a giant octopus. You know what I mean. And you're like don't be worried about other humans and their little games are playing with AI. But the point I make it is I've started to make all these visuals with AI obviously like to enhance our graphic design. We have like AI all over the place and it doesn't bother me. It kind of has like the visual style of the freaking show. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 3:57

I'm trying to make a convincing argument that we're not like podcasters, and here I am rambling on like a podcast about how.

Speaker 3: 4:02

Yeah, your podcast is different.

Speaker 1: 4:04

I'm like, yeah, exactly, that was a good one, john it was a good one. You know what a podcaster would say that.

Speaker 1: 4:11

They were doing simulations on this AI like Georgia Tech and Stanford. And then like they're like, oh, yeah, according to our reports, like AI gets, you know, geused up and jazzed up and is ready to launch nuclear weapons. Every time we do the simulation it's all points to nuclear destruction and animosity. And then, depending on at the same time, like I'm flipping through Instagram and it's like, oh, georgia Tech and Stanford do a report on AI simulations and it all gets to the nuclear Attack alert or whatever, every time, um, and then, and then at the same time, it's like, oh, the, the, the pentagon just released an AI powered fighter jet, or they're designing an AI powered fire jet.

Speaker 1: 4:49

I'm like, oh, if you're buying those two posts, you're describing the plot of the terminator three In that movie. Let's see what. Does it fall into the terminator timeline? So there's this thing called uh, skynet, which is like a self-realized artificial intelligence thing. That's like you know what? To clean up the planet, I gotta take out all the people, or whatever.

Speaker 1: 5:09

Now I'm thinking here like that the algorithms are gonna go nuts on this episode. So first of all, he said nuclear holocaust, nuclear launch weapons and eliminate all the people in the first 20 minutes. Uh, yeah, suppress this episode. That's absolutely about all that crap. No, uh, to me there's a movie, guys and um, it falls in line when the machines like wake up and then, yeah, the first thing it does is orders a nuclear strike and tries to eliminate all humans. But I just thought when I read those posts that that's what made me think of. So I have, let's see how long do I go? Seven minutes. I haven't rattled on for more than more than 10 minutes. That's fine. Um, just to lay in the inevitable. I want to go to home video headlines, but first I'll play a really catchy Little song we like to play around here.

Speaker 3: 6:02

Crack open a cold box of wine or pour something cold on ice, because it's the binge watches podcast. I.

Speaker 1: 6:23

Swear. I write these things down before I start so I know where I'm going. And then when I second guess myself Jordan, that's when the record falls off the record player or get scratched like that's when things go awry Is when I second guess myself and third guess, my second guess thought about the second guessing. Then we run into problems. If I would just stick to the second point, if I would stick to the ball, Second guessing, inception.

Speaker 1: 6:50

Yeah, like, what's the power to the second, power of the second guessing Home video headlines. Let's see what's going on in the world of TV and movies. You know, sometimes the headlines are not much of a headline, like I feel like some weeks there's just too many things that I could talk about. Other weeks I'm like it's like pulling teeth to try to come over with any kind of details. You know, like a root canal of like it's things people should care about and also really frustrating. It's like I Mean, if there's like some people like to go to the museum, so people read those books we were talking about in the beginning. So people look at the Instagram, like we were talking about. Like everybody has hobby or everybody has like an art that they're really into.

Speaker 1: 7:28

My thing used to be TV and movies, but lately I don't care, I don't, I don't care about movies or TV like at all, because they're not, they're not captivating anymore. So it's like, and half the time the movies that we cover on this show are like nostalgic for the listeners and the watchers. If you ever happen to see our videos, because, um, because it is different now, you know what I mean. Like, like it's just, oh man, it. So, anyway, what's going on? Well, I saw the leaked images from the new crow. It looks awful. Um yeah, I wish I had good things to say about it, but so far the four, three or four things that have come out he doesn't look like the crow. If you could read somebody's personality through a series of still images, it suggests to me that I'm already gonna dislike his depiction of Eric Draven.

Speaker 3: 8:20

Okay, I have a question. Do you feel like it would have been easier if he did look like the former character? Like, would it be easier for you to like the Roman hairstyle.

Speaker 1: 8:29

If you had like a punk rock, like 80s Rock, god glam hairstyle, like super long hair or like complete, like full makeup, like well, and that's just because what I was reading.

Speaker 3: 8:41

You know, to prepare for home video headlines. It's like you know he's already gonna have his word cut out, since it is a remake. Listen, because it's already has such a.

Speaker 1: 8:52

I just want to. Let's just point it out there early. Don't get distracted by his 16 pack abs. You're talking to me specifically. Let's all make this about the gym body. Listen, let's stick to our guns here and talk about the depressed rock star character of the of the hero of the crow, anyway, um, I don't know, man.

Speaker 3: 9:15

You think he's gonna make it up for it before the movie comes out or you think it's gonna Not be what you're looking for.

Speaker 1: 9:25

Boy, maybe it's one of those things. You just have too many expectations, right? Oh my god, it's all state, it's, it's all state, it's all state, it's all state Of mind right. If you watch a movie with no expectations, it could elevate your expectations by the end of it and you could have a good time. If you go fully loaded and you're like I've already made a decision about this movie, it's really hard to get away from your. But you're sure, yeah, yeah, they say don't judge but we all judge it, we're all.

Speaker 1: 9:49

I think we're all like preach, we're all like, well, I was gonna say I can't really use the metaphor of like we're all bags of shit because, even though, even though, like, when you talk about life and death and like you, y'all come down to like, oh yeah, we just the bags of the food we're we've eaten, just walking around but like, um, yeah, we are, we are all pre-programmed with our own little prejudice, right. So we're all like walking around with like expectations of like how things should go, and obviously this crow's not this. Maybe this the crow is this one's only made for the people that would maybe go buy movie tickets now, and it's not the same people that would buy movie tickets maybe 20 years ago. Um, yeah, I mean, it's not Gen X. I think Brandon Lee was gen X and he looks like gen X and he has a gen X attitude. Yeah, so maybe this is, I don't know, I don't, I don't know. I guess I shouldn't be a jerk, but I don't know. Um, you know what is a box office dad? Though Adam Webb I had again talking about expectations.

Speaker 1: 11:00

I like the character she's in the cartoon from the 90s and, uh, the movie has what should be a good cast. But, however, people are like Uh, I saw a video on social media. People are like, literally going to watch the movie to make fun of it. Oh, that's, that's where that movie's at. Unfortunately, it's the reality, for that movie Um, probably sucks. For what's her name? Because her, you know, she's like the line, is like the lead. You know what I mean. If you are mad at me, I'm having a good time right now. Yeah, you know, that's gotta suck if you're on like a giant superhero movie poster.

Speaker 1: 11:32

Um, rumors, rumors swirling around about Tilda Swinton not being in the new Constantine. But here's the thing. It's really funny that stories like that would even be online on like movie websites, because they haven't even talked about what the plot of Constantine 2 is even gonna be. Um, and I don't and I don't like. So it's like, yeah, counter eaves and talk to the director and the directors talk to counter eaves, but I don't know, I had water brothers talk to anybody about making it a movie. You know what I mean. So there's all these stories about the alleged part too, but they're, like you know, already asking the cast members from the first one hey, are you gonna be in this movie? I'm like, there's like, is there even a script. You know, it's Sarah movie.

Speaker 1: 12:16

Yeah, but she played a great character. She plays a syndrages um, like angel Gabriel or whatever. And oh, spoil alert for anybody that hasn't seen Constantine. Have you seen Constantine?

Speaker 3: 12:28

Oh man, but I like her a lot. Your ears are already covered.

Speaker 1: 12:31

I can't say cover your ears you already have. Yeah, um.

Speaker 1: 12:36

She's the baddie, she's one of the baddies. There's actually there's actually a little uh cabal that's trying to undo Constantine. So I she's like one of three, all right. Um, let's see Other rumors. Oh, that jack sparrow might return to pirate six you know, pirates of the carabin for disney With like a johnny dep cameo or bit part or like supporting role. I would rather see like a Like a jack sparrow mini series or like a show, like if johnny dep just had like six episodes on disney plus. Oh, I would like you know like side stories, like jack sparrow does this or jack sparrow.

Speaker 1: 13:14

Yeah, like, like his legends, you know what I mean. Like these other little side quests.

Speaker 3: 13:18

You don't even like other adventures that he has right you could talk about like the first time he was abandoned. You know what do you like? Actually just got all the rum, you know both and got out of there and which led to the legend of him.

Speaker 1: 13:31

Yeah, because then the Turtles and stuff, maybe like two and a half flashbacks in the movies, like maybe Expand on like his little adventures with his crew or whatever. Because, yeah, I mean just like in constant, like it's funny, like so in constant team. Like two of the main allies are dead, like they die in the first movie. So it's like wait a minute. So like he doesn't even have a team around him. So who's gonna be in part two?

Speaker 1: 13:51

And so like jack sparrow, if you think about it, like half his pirates are gone, right and like, and the main and barbarossa yeah, barbarossa, who was the villain or tragic hero or like anti hero, like over the course of the movies, um, jeffrey rush is jeffrey rush is the name of the actor maybe plays. Um, you know the first villain, captain and that. But over the course of the movies you find out that like they were partners, they had a friendship and like, and that character like gets redeemed in the in one of the last movies. So it's like you have all the other characters kind of gone too. So what are you gonna do? You know, I mean there's a bunch of dead pirates. However, we know with a little bit of disney magic those pirates could come back to life in the in the moonlight.

Speaker 1: 14:32

You know they're never really gone. Anyway, um, oh, tonight's movie. I can't really say that's magical, but okay, tonight's movie is called splinter. There's this couple. They get hijacked by another couple on the run and then they all get attacked by like a spiky parasite outside of the gas station as far as the cast goes. There's shea wigam, who you might know from, uh, vice principals where he plays the stepdad or.

Speaker 1: 14:59

Um, there's this religious TV show, also made by the same comedians they named McRide, made by the vice principal show, and he's in it and then he also made oh Rides, his Gemstones. Yeah, so in the gemstones it's like a family of like televangelists. Shay Wiggum plays like one of their. He actually plays like a evil, conical type stuntman dude in that, in that show. Anyway, this is a guy that like will pop up in things you know, like a TV mini series about the FBI. He'll just be like one of the dudes. I feel like. Like, he's not like, I mean he's in some A-list movies, but he's like one of those other guys. You know what I mean. If there's five guys, he's one of the guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's like he's the sixth guy or the seventh guy or whatever. Yeah, um, but he's a good actor, though he should be in more things, whatever. Yeah, um, it'd be really funny to see what Jordan dug up as savage. That's for this movie.

Speaker 1: 16:00

Because, secondly, an independent movie, and usually with independent movies there's not a lot of write-ups about it.

Speaker 3: 16:07

You know there's it was. This was a little lackluster, and I spent a lot of time on trying to find out a little bit more on how they did some of these effects, because that's like one of the most fascinating, I would say, parts of this movie is the effects and they were. It was all done practically, so I find that super cool.

Speaker 1: 16:28

Yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 3: 16:29

But I wanted to see, like you know, how they actually went about that and some more details, because, even like the blood in the gore, like it's all done practically, which is really, really awesome Um, and Shay Wiggum he ad-libbed a fair of his dialogue, which is pretty cool, one of the first peoples to sign on for the actual movie, but it was filmed in the course of over 20, of just 20 days, which I find I feel like you could do that, though, with the like, the actual, you know, landscape of the movie. Right, because it takes mainly place in a gas station which they actually had to build on to in order to create this film. I'm pretty cute. The, the like local businesses had donated various items that you see that are actually on sale inside the gas station. So, just some small things like that. Um, director Toby Wilkins did shoot this film in widescreen, Um, in order to give it kind of like a bigger feel to the movie.

Speaker 3: 17:30

And yeah, that's like really it, I would say like I said lackluster Charles Baker, the hat that he wore in the film. He's the first gas station attendant who actually gets attacked. Um, but the hat that he's wearing in the film is what he wore to his audition for the film. So yeah.

Speaker 1: 17:51

Man. So they have a stunt in the movie where he blows up the gas station with a shotgun and apparently somebody either added this to the trivia on IMDB or like just commented. It was like, uh, that you can't shoot a diesel, a diesel fuel gauge, with a shotgun and make it explode because of the nature of the diesel films or something like that, or like how diesel sits inside the fuel pump. I don't know if that's true or not. Obviously it's a movie stunt.

Speaker 3: 18:19

Right. Maybe thinking way too hard about it Um like you want to get the science behind, like how they actually did the stunt. That's like kind of the aspect that I was taking of like doing the uh, doing the statistic finding. I found a really incredible video, though that was about nine minutes long, that like talks about more of like the backstory and the practicality of like what an actual like zombie fungus would be like in references movie. So yeah, some interesting stuff, but there you go, that's it. Savage stats.

Speaker 1: 18:55

Um, hmm, I thought we were going to be talking about a cat litter company, but I don't even know if Jordan has a cat folks. We won't talk about my opinion on cat owners and them owning cats, my opinion about pet people and them owning pets, or if I have a preference between dogs and cats, or if I think when you're dating somebody, you should find out which kind of pet that they own. That sounds like a lot of bias, a lot of prejudice against cats.

Speaker 3: 19:23

This is all I know that you're a cat person, oh man.

Speaker 1: 19:28

But the cat litter company are the people who are in charge of giving the ad copies to do like podcasts. It hasn't given us any information, so I don't know. Hmm, um, any cat litter show up for your cat, frank? No, I filled out our form yeah.

Speaker 1: 19:43

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Speaker 1: 20:15

X earlier they are. They're supposed to be the killer music fans. Well, them and the boomers. But uh, you can also get like a box of vinyl records sent to you If you so choose. We're not here to talk about vinyl records. We're here to talk about Splinter not the rat from Ninja Turtles, but an actual horror movie that came out in like 2008. Favorite bits from Splinter they started off.

Speaker 3: 20:40

Yeah, favorite bits. They started off strong with Charles Baker being in it, because I was like, okay, it's skinny Pete from Breaking Bad, who's a fantastic character. Um, I probably say Lacey is one of the main character. She is the bad guys, girlfriend, if you will. Um, I liked her kind of breakdown when they come across what they think is a wounded animal. However, it is the creature that they had hit by a car and Lacey the character is like obviously on drugs and she's thinking she's having these flashbacks of her dog. That's kind of got. She sold it for me.

Speaker 1: 21:30

Yeah, she's kind of annoying. She's D Teen, she's like detoxing off of I don't know speedballs or something, something, uh, and the boyfriends annoyed with her. They're kind of like a Bonnie and Clyde or, like you know, a couple that ran pages to Southwest, I don't know Um. And then there's a vacation couple, the actual. The other boyfriend is what I call the beta male boyfriend or like the beta star, because he's like the other guy carrying the movie is freaking, super annoying. And I'm like here's big sacrifice, let me lay on a block of ice to lower my body temperature, to go see if I can get the police radio to work. Uh, come on man. Those are dramatic.

Speaker 1: 22:13

It was like watching the end of the Titanic movie where there's not enough room on this door. They were more freezing to death yeah.

Speaker 3: 22:21

Tell your story. They were more emotional about getting set body temperature down like past a really low point.

Speaker 1: 22:28

Yeah, that's the climax of the movie. It's very serious.

Speaker 3: 22:32

I'm like I don't know having a gun to their own head or anything like that. They're like super common, collected through this whole thing. They've just seen this Frickin officer get ripped into half and they're more dramatic getting those eyes down. But uh, yeah, honestly, I thought at least he was getting the camera. I do feel bad for one of the I do feel bad for um.

Speaker 1: 22:55

I think his first name is Dennis. I can't remember his last name, but the guy that she was gonna play because he plays the bandit right. So obviously when you're looking at the script, probably the one that jumps off the page is like oh, I gotta play the. You know, I gotta play the bad, the bad boyfriend. You know the bad guy yeah.

Speaker 1: 23:11

You know the gunslinger or whatever, and I'm going to fight these little spiky monster things. Um, however, yeah, I was really heavy-handed like if I say, like I like this actor and I'm like, oh yeah, what's he in? And I go, oh, go watch splinter. And then you see, like him pretending that he, that his loved one, has died, outside of the gas station window and he's like screaming for before there whether or not, like there's some confusion, folks, at first, whether she's dead or not, or if you filled with the spiky monster, if their body moving around a Bruno quarter she's still alive, we don't know. And and he's like, what do you say? Her name was Lily or Lacey, he's like.

Speaker 1: 23:52

Lacey, lacey, lacey banging on the window. I'm glad they cut away. It went on too long. Like maybe she yell her name once and then like cuz, a couple more times. It's like it just kind of hanging in the air. You know they mean and then you go. What do the actor have for lunch that day? Was it a tuna sandwich? Was a turkey club, like you know you basically, I'm just basically saying like the weakest part of his performance, as when he's, like you know, pretending that he's in love with the dead girl, that's being turned into a spike monster right yeah, she sold that dog, I'm like telling you my, tell you about my worst bits.

Speaker 1: 24:33

I didn't understand.

Speaker 3: 24:34

I'm like, okay, if they figure out this temperature thing right. We're like the fungus can't recognize, or like it goes for the hottest thing. So that's typically a person, right. It goes for the warm.

Speaker 1: 24:52

Only have like a, somehow it's like heat, a heat tracker.

Speaker 3: 24:53

You know kind of like, yeah, the predator from the predator movies it's like basically attracted to heat, well, and they were like okay, so it's attracted to the car, because the car was hot and that's why it didn't go for Seth in the beginning of the movie, but they had already like turned away from making a massive fire, like why didn't they just Burn the whole forest down, and then the thing would go towards that Hold on.

Speaker 1: 25:19

Okay, just because we're irresponsible with our drugs and we're irresponsible with highway robberies and lighter flu, I would like to think that they're environmentalists, okay. I would like to think that they're not gonna risk a whole while a wildfire to break out just to kill a little damn monster Like you're like, like just.

Speaker 3: 25:39

I don't know that. I thought that was gonna work.

Speaker 1: 25:40

Maybe it didn't or I'm just like, oh, I'd like to think they're concerned about this, even though they're waving guns in people's faces.

Speaker 3: 25:47

See, that's typically where I'm like, okay, I could suspend my belief for this, but I can't for that like no, whatever, but um, yeah, what did you like about?

Speaker 1: 25:55

the movie what was your favorite bit.

Speaker 3: 25:58

I actually I like the idea of the movie the creature For sure itself.

Speaker 1: 26:03

It's like these hairy, spiky things that just grow and grow and grow and grow and if and it's the same thing like if you were to run outside and get like a crazy thorn Bramble things stuck into your hand or something. But the only difference is like yeah, we know plants are alive, but they're not aggressively alive. So it's like this thing Is animalistic and just keeps transforming whilst inside of your skin.

Speaker 3: 26:26

So I don't remember exactly when the bad dude gets uh, it's right in the beginning, when he's finger yeah, he gets it he gets it into his finger and then it's like examining it later and eventually Hicks over his whole arm or whatever right, try to take his arm off.

Speaker 1: 26:45

But so the number one, the creature, is my favorite bit. Um, yeah, I mean, I like this is one of those movies like so, so okay, so Ah, being a homerun fan is also like liking pizza, or eating a lot of pizza, like we know all the basic ingredients. It's just like Maybe the dough changes, right, or the quality of the ingredients changes, but it's still pizza. I've used this metaphor before. Obviously, people, you might have heard me comparing pizza to sex.

Speaker 1: 27:14

And uh, but this time I'm comparing it to horror movies only because, like it kind of works here too, it's like if you see a bunch of horror movies and that's it, you're just watching a bunch of horror movies. Eventually you're like, well, I just want to see some like interesting concepts, like things that are a little bit Not ordinary and like a little spike creature. However, where it's One could argue that's like a lesser man's the thing or like you know the Probably the golden standard for movies, where things infect your body and take over and manipulate your body or whatever, and you're not in there anymore, but it's your body would be the you know the thing or whatever. Right, john Carpenter's the thing.

Speaker 1: 27:53

So yeah, but I think, like for Body horror movies or just like interesting creatures, I like this little spiky parasite type deal. It's cool on the poster, it's cool in the movie. As you said, they're using like reverse photography where they're just like Rewinding frames to make it look like it's growing. You know we're not growing or disappearing or whatever, but um, and then, and then the spiky crawling fingers like they try to the hands are creepy for the infected girlfriend's body, they try to keep her out of the gas station and one of the girls they're like accidentally knocking off the limb and the limb continues to grow and try to attack them.

Speaker 1: 28:27

So Kind of you know, I'm like it's a my pushover in this one because I I'm only I like the idea the monster and that's for me a big thing with like these monster movies, is like how intriguing or interesting is the concept of the the monster. You know, yeah, that's it. Um, usually we say, binge now Got a little bit of a problem. Do we say, binge now got to watch it, binge later, get to it eventually, and binge never, which, like the last six episodes, I keep pushing how jordan advocated that there is no binge never, but then she, she, like a couple episodes ago, said, oh wait, I did find one. I never want to see it again.

Speaker 3: 29:12

Oh, yeah, yeah, and this one was a little on the fence for me. Yeah, I would say Binge later. You know what for me, if I saved this for like a seasonality like I love to watch. Halloween season up closer to Halloween. Yeah this would have been perfect.

Speaker 1: 29:28

You know and I think I would have really loved this stack of movies, or in the mix, so like on your, your lineup.

Speaker 3: 29:34

Yep, put it in the lineup and I think it would have really served its purpose. And Sometimes the best part about some of these movies is talking about them with you, right, and so it's like the idea of the creature, I think, is definitely one of the best parts about it, and the fact that it is so creepy and that they did yeah, so that's good, you know. So that's how I'll feel binge later for me.

Speaker 1: 29:58

Um, hmm, if you'd asked me like 15 years ago, it probably would have got a binge now. But that's, that's even before the show started. Folks, it's not that old, you know. I've been making ageism jokes since the show started. Yeah, it's a binge later, like, get around to it again. It's an interesting concept and if you want to see some of Shay Wiggum's early work the other boyfriends played by another guy I recognize him. He was in this Comedy called road trip. He's also annoying in that movie. Hello, or you typecast as the annoying guy maybe.

Speaker 3: 30:31

Paulo Costanzo.

Speaker 1: 30:33

Yeah yeah. In road trip. He's the guy that's, like you know, warning the friends about the other things that are gonna get him into trouble. He's that guy, you know.

Speaker 3: 30:42

I thought he was gonna be the first to die in this movie. He ended up being the hero, so good for him, yeah.

Speaker 1: 30:48

I mean, that would have made it more interesting if each couple lost a member and so, like the girl who was with this annoying guy in the beginning, had to then work together with the convict, and they were working together and the you know, the gas stations survived and then they're bonded at the end of the movie.

Speaker 1: 31:06

We just, yeah, exactly, we just saw some stuff nobody's ever gonna believe and we got to get away from here because they're gonna, you know, blame us for the hundred thousand dollar damage to the gas station and the dead bodies, you know anyway. Anyway, and a lifestyle change because, like again, I mean, it's just yeah, it's kind of gross, a couple that has no problems goes off into the woods and nothing happens. I guess we wouldn't have a movie, you know, you know, like, just so we can in the countryside. Anyway, yeah, binge later all the way around Fan service what are they doing?

Speaker 1: 31:40

Oh, so a user whose name is Dollface to someone said she would wish for dragons. She, what is she wishing for dragons for? Because a few episodes ago we covered a movie called the wishmaster and we wanted to Google what are people wishing for? What would people wish for? A lot of people came up with boring answers I hope for this doll face user came up with and I'm gonna expand on it. It's a much longer story, but I'm just writing down right now that you would wish for dragons, because we are actually gonna watch the next lineup in the Wishmaster show or series. So when we get to wishmaster 2, I'll read what doll face to someone had to say about everything because she goes on and on and on about her wish, but for right now I'll just say wants a pet dragon.

Speaker 3: 32:23

I love that.

Speaker 1: 32:25

Yeah, I mean, although I was about to say like she is concerned that people would use the dragons for the wrong things, which is again like she wrote like two paragraphs. I'm just. I'm just generally outlining what she said and I'll get to it later. We'll dive deeper. Yeah, we'll dive deeper. When we get to the wish movie, we'll be back into it.

Speaker 3: 32:45

Thank you, doll face to someone.

Speaker 1: 32:47

Yeah, keep the comments coming and we'll keep bringing it up. That's how it works. Uh, staff picks. If you watch something that wasn't the movie of the week that you can recommend the moviegoers out there, what is it? What is it I?

Speaker 3: 33:03

watched a crime drama and the reason why I watched this movie was because we were talking about Kevin Bacon movies with rivers and I realized, looking at his IMTV, there's like three movies where you've got Kevin Bacon and a river. Right, yeah, we had watched one for the podcast. What was that called Whitewater summer. There we go, whitewater summer.

Speaker 1: 33:28

I was like the last spring break, the last, the last time it all comes back around.

Speaker 3: 33:34

Apparently so does Kevin Bacon with anything having to do with the river. But we watched Mystic River, which was Very, very good. Was it great? That's not the answer I expected you to say that almost got in our lineup earlier this year, or really, like, I think, for bad relationships.

Speaker 1: 33:50

Right, it got, almost got in there. Well, it makes sense. There's so many in that movie, there's him and his wife.

Speaker 3: 33:54

There's him and the cousin. There's the wife and the cousin.

Speaker 1: 33:57

There's the three, the three friends that grow up together and they think one is guilty of murder. Then there's the boyfriend friend, who the real? Murderers. Like a cousin, I know the cousin and her husband right she frickin turns her back on him.

Speaker 3: 34:08

I could not believe it. You see, I got carried away there was a spoiler in there.

Speaker 1: 34:14

If anybody caught me ran over they would have heard. I know I heard you say it, but it was. It was so good, but that's not the one that I thought you were gonna say so I'm gonna look up you tell me your thoughts on that movie and then I'm gonna look up the other movie that I thought you were gonna talk. Yeah, it was just fantastic. I mean, I think they set it up really really good Right.

Speaker 3: 34:35

You see this super traumatic event happen between three boys. Essentially, one of them gets in this car with a stranger. He was kidnapped. I thought the whole movie was gonna be about that. But of course he comes back four days later and then fast forward like 25 years after this event. You kind of see a whole another event pan out between the three, who are still some, you know, they're still connected in a way.

Speaker 1: 35:00

Um, Check this out. So he's in a movie called the River Wild with Meryl Streep. He's also a bet he. I think he's the bad guy in that one, but anyway. So Jordan had a few minutes ago was mentioning the river titles related to Kevin Bacon Mystic River, whitewater, summer and the River Wild. That is kind of crazy. You could actually just do a Kevin Bacon weekend.

Speaker 3: 35:25

We could do a whole weekend or something. Yep, so, but that was it was. Actually I was at a family dinner and someone was trying to bring up one of the movies and I was just like going through it and I was like, oh wow, there's all these movies of just Kevin Bacon and rivers. So that's it. What about you? Did you watch anything?

Speaker 1: 35:48

Yeah, I sat down and I watched Spaceman actually watching on my phone. Tv was occupied. I'm becoming like a. I think I'm watching like 70 or 80% of my stuff on my phone on your phone.

Speaker 1: 36:03

Yeah, kind of nuts, but anyway. So I'm watching spaceman with Adam Sandler. He's a Czechoslovakian astronaut or cosmonaut, I think in that part of the world you say cosmonaut, I. One thing I will appreciate is the production design. I love that.

Speaker 1: 36:18

It was like 1990s technology, though like every all the space technology Seemed like old-school, retrograde, you know, like analytic or like analog, not digital, like the technology and the spaceships and all this stuff and Maybe they're compensating for like a second world engineering. But I think it was just like maybe the movie takes place. It's kind of weird like the ship on the outside seems advanced because it could fly to this thing. That's light years away. But then the way our thing is designed it's kind of like it has an old-school sci-fi Look to it right, like it's like decades ago or something. Anyway, if you watch the previews there's a space spider and I'm like okay, he's interacting with an alien. The movie he doesn't really answer whether it's in his imagination or if this other entity Again goes back to the beginning of the episode. We were talking about artificial intelligence or alternate intelligence or something else to live. So we don't know if the aliens actually present or if the guy's loneliness, if he's like hallucinating. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1: 37:24

Like and just made it up, you know, like an imaginary friend, and then like, and it never answers, because everything towards the end of the movie is like turning to stardust or whatever. Blah, blah, blah. Because he's going out and he's going out in space to like, look at a phenomenon of, like some gas and star forming or something or something like that. However, he's like estranged from his wife, so he's trying to reconnect with the wife and that's the whole movie. Like you're, you feel lonely, you want to reconnect with your loved one and like, and you know, so they roll through, roll through, like the alien can show you. You like your flashbacks and more of like a real-time, you know, alien warped out Time-space deal where you feel like you're really experiencing the flashback. But I thought like wouldn't have been better if there was really an alien spider and he was cocooned the whole time, and so we've seen the flashbacks while the spiders drinking them to death. You know, you know what I mean, what like. And then he wakes up at some point, goes oh shit, damn, I'm being eaten by a space spider. You know what I mean. That would have been like a hell of a twist and what I made the movie super interesting. They didn't do that. You know, I gotta talk to somebody.

Speaker 1: 38:38

That's something too is like could you imagine if you get through to filmmakers? Or like you could pick up a phone and call Like a hotline at Warner Brothers like I'd like to complain about this movie, anyway, yeah, so I tried to and it's, it's one of those thinking man Movies and you know, sometimes, actually, you that's an interesting like, if you're soul searching, you watch certain movies. You want to feel better, you watch certain movies. But I just literally almost said no one ever wants to think while they're watching a movie. Exactly more true to like old-school TV, where you're just like Trying to process your day and get over your emotions for the day and dump them. That's what I think is a really interesting facet that nobody ever talks about. Like You're trying to just like disregard your emotions for the day so you don't have to deal with them again. Like Elise, I don't know if that's true. Do you think that's true for everybody? Am I saying a universal thing or am I saying a very specific?

Speaker 1: 39:32

to you yeah like is this a universal concept where, like you go to watch something, so then you can just take the? I think you want to keep for the day and then dump the rest.

Speaker 3: 39:44

I don't know. Yeah, I think for me it depends, like, if I need to cry, like I will put on something that will, like, open up the floodgates. You know, feel them and get over it. So if that's what you're talking about right now, then yeah, but, like girl, I think you're talking about in a sense of, like decompression and not having to think about them, right?

Speaker 1: 40:03

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 40:04

Yeah, but then I have that too. You know it's like time to decompress and turn my brain off, you know, for certain movies. But I guess sometimes you got to feel the feels you know.

Speaker 1: 40:20

You got to feel the feels. I guess, Okay, speaking of talking, talk to me Was trending on Google. Anybody doesn't know what that is. You'll be terrified. A dare you to look that up? Go, I, you know what. They should rent that movie without even. They should just like blind rent it and then then watch it.

Speaker 3: 40:53

The movie with the hand the movie with the hand.

Speaker 1: 40:55

Exactly the movie with the hand. You.