330 WE'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER!

330 WE'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER!
Kelly rants about new contact lenses and the gang talks films with numbers in the title.
Also discussed: Marshmallow, Together, K-Pop Demon Hunters.

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Is there a website, does the dog die.com? Or something you can, like, find out ahead. Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration? Somewhere between science and superstition, such sites to show you, strange eons. Welcome to strange eons. Radio that is Eric over there, hello, that is Venice over there. Hello, and I am Kelly gang. I got my eyes checked, and I've got new contacts. Oh, this was a this was a fucking mess. Why? Well, you may recall that I went and got new contacts couple years ago. Then it was too much. I couldn't see without holding something way out here. So I went back to one of my old contacts and one eye so that I could read and and you had told me about those progressive lenses, yeah. So I decided I'm just going to do it. I'm biting the bullet and I'm going in for the test and telling the doctor that's what I want. I went to America's best glasses in Alderwood Mall. Oh, okay. I just want everyone to know never to go to America's best glasses in Alderwood Mall. The doctors are fine. The people who are there to help you are the biggest concert on the planet. Do not want to be there. But so I went and told the doctor, this is what I want. And he said, Oh, okay, because your prescription hasn't changed. And I said, Yeah, I know. I just want these. I said, no to them. I want them. And he said, gotta warn you, it's about 5050, on people who they work for or not. So you might not be able to do that, but we have this work around where you have one contact for distance and one contact for reading. He goes, that's sometimes kind of hard. I didn't want to talk. Didn't want to tell him, that's what I've been doing for the last four years. And I was like, oh, that sounds interesting also. So I so they make a big deal of saying, Do not come in and ask about your contacts. You will get an email saying they're in, right? I never got an email. So, like, two weeks later, I call and I say, I don't want to be a bother, but I ordered these, and I haven't gotten an email, but it does seem like it's been a while, and the lady on the phone, I'm assuming, is Jennifer, oh yeah, they're in. And I was like, Okay, well, can I come pick him up? Yeah, I'll do this. So I get them, and I pop them in, and I wear them for a couple of days, and they do not work for me. I've got double vision while I'm using them, and a lot of my work is driving so my depth perception is way off, and I'm like, I can't do this. Give me a headache, and I had set up an appointment then this last Saturday, to go in and tell them how they were working for me. So I go in wearing my glasses, and Jennifer says to me, do you have your contacts with you? First of all, she's like, I'm there. First thing in the morning, there's nobody else there. She is angry at me. Wow. Right off the bat, holy smokes. She's like, do you have your contacts with you? And I said, No, they didn't work for me. And she goes, Well, how are we supposed to do an evaluation without you wearing the contacts? Wow? And I said, Well, I don't want those contacts. They didn't work for me. And she just kind of looks at me and I can be an asshole, believe it or not. What I wanted to say was, look, I drove up parked right in front in a BMW that might have set you off. Perhaps I look like your stepdad, who touched you inappropriately when you were five. I don't know. I didn't say that. I said, Have I done something to piss you off? And she goes, oh, oh, no. And I said, then what's going on here? And she takes a breath. She says, How is the doctor supposed to make a determination if you're not wearing the contacts? And I said, I made the determination. Yeah, they don't work for me. Yeah. And he told me that there was this other option, so I've come in for that other option. And she goes, Well, you have to understand that this is not how it's really done. And I said, How about we pretend that when he gave me that option, I chose this other one and said, I don't want progressive lenses. Let's just go to this other option. Oh my gosh. And she says, Give me a moment. Oh, talk to the doctor. She comes back with new lenses. She's this is for your left eye. This is for your right. I if these work for you, give me a call, and we will have you come in for your final appointment. If these don't work for you, give me a call. We will figure something out. And I wanted to say, if these work for me, you'll never see me again. I'm going to order these off online somewhere, and fuck you guys. Yeah. And then she says, Have a great day, Kelly, oh my god, I just said, you too. And I was like, I'm gonna burn this fucking place down to the ground. So I am glad Fuck you guys. Holy crap. I mean, I've had pretty good experiences with optometrists, but I I usually like Google and find, like, really good ones near me that are little mom and pop shops. The doctors there are great. In fact, when I first went there, and I've got this guy with a British accent and crazy hair, he's got me doing the thing with my contacts, and, you know, and finally he says, Wait, are you wearing your contacts. He goes, Okay, so you have to take the test again. And then he's like, Okay, this is much better. And by much better, I mean, much much worse, okay? And I'm like, I love this guy. So the doctor is fantastic, but Jennifer did not want to be there. Did not want to be working there. So I'm sorry progressives didn't work for you. They didn't end up working for me either, just because I my eyes just didn't take to them. Yeah. So, yeah. So weird. So now I've got one contact in that I kind of focus on my reading, and the other contact that I focus on driving. Does your brain do it? Or do you have to close your eye depending on what you're doing? Well, probably because I've been doing it for four years, just like, Yeah, this is what we like, whatever works, none of the eye strain. I mean, wearing the progressive I was like, getting a headache. I couldn't wait to get the contacts out and all that stuff. So, yeah, my brain just wouldn't do it. There was something weird where, like, the edges, it just wasn't working. I don't know I and I kept thinking, Am I I don't know how they work. Am I wearing these wrong? Because if I looked out of the corner of my eye, no double vision, and I was like, Okay, I feel like this is how I'm supposed to be seeing things. No, it's, yeah, I had the same thing. It's like, your brain just won't do it. That was what my doctor told me, she's like, some people, it's just that their brain just can't make that leap. But other people, it's fine, but, yeah, it's, it's just it's weighted the way it works, so it should naturally fall where it needs to be that's why? Yeah, well, I went to glasses because I have the stigma, stigmata. My eyes bleed, but so I didn't realize how low resolution my contacts were until I put on glass and got Holy shit, yeah, glasses now, yeah, I constantly feel like I'm going blind, but that's because my daughter grabs my glasses and either licks them or just puts her little fingerprints all over them. So it's always like a film across them, Vaseline lens and everything. Everybody looks so soft and beautiful and very hard to make out the edges juicy. Okay, guys, let's talk about movies. Oh sure, I saw together. I'm so curious. This is the James Franco Allison Brie film, where they are under a bit of a problem, because this film is being sued as a rip off of a low budget film that and the lawsuit is a little weird, because apparently these guys who wrote the original Script for their film, which is called better half, they approached Franco and Alison Brie as the leads, and then couple years later, Franco and Allison Brie are in a film that apparently is very similar to theirs, but the writer, director of this film is like I wrote this script years ago and filed it with the WGA and all this. So, you know, things happen, yeah? So this is this. This review is based on not knowing if this movie was ripped off or not. Okay, fair enough. Hey, let's hope it was not ripped off, because it's fucking awesome. It's great. Yeah, it is a body horror film where these two people start connecting, they start kissing, and their lips won't pull apart, you know. So there's a pretty horrific scene where they have sex and then they can't, kind of pull apart. And it looks very painful. And. I thought that it was just really, really good, not the best horror film I've seen this year or anything like that, but really solid indie filmmaking. And I'm going to guess by the time you hear this, it is at least a rental on streaming, but don't sleep on this is a really good movie. It's called together. Wow, excellent. Well, I'm a little little bummed I didn't end up seeing it, but it's no Naked Gun, so choices were made. I had heard an interview on a podcast I listen to with the guy, I'm forgetting his name, who played the Grump. He's grumpy, and he played one of the doctor, who's, do you know I'm talking about? I think I know you're talking about, but I don't, I cannot remember his name for the life of me, which is so stupid. But he was talking about the show that he was in, and it's this British podcast team, and they were like, Oh yeah, that show is incredible. And everyone in Britain loves this show. And I was like, Oh, what the hell is this show? Sounds interesting. So I watched a couple year old show called The Devil's hour, which is about a serial killer who is caught, and while being interviewed, reveals that there's essentially multiple realities, right? Okay, yes, I remember, yeah, and he he feels like he is killing people to better the world, essentially. Oh, wow. This show is so freaking good. And my first thought watching it was, Kelly would love this. Yes, I forgot all about this. I've seen this and I did like it. Oh, yeah, the third season is coming out in this October, I believe. Oh, I didn't know that. Wow, okay, that's so cool. It's still going, still going strong. So I've seen seasons ones and one and two. It's pretty easy to get through. I think there may be like, six episodes each. It's not, it's not a heavy lift, but it goes some really interesting places. Things are not quite what you think they are. And I just, I had such a good time with it. So was very, yeah, really stoked. So Peter Capaldi. Peter Capaldi is his name. Thank you, Eric. That's the devil's hour. Is that on Netflix? It was on, yeah, prime, I think, okay, yeah, I'm not sure that I saw that the second season. Oh, yeah, I would, I would keep, keep watching British, British television procedurals are really pretty damn good. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so I saw one that Kelly talked about a while ago that I forgotten you talked about I watched it going, oh Marshmallow, which, yeah, I actually really enjoyed. It's weird. It's very bizarre by the end, yeah. But that's what I liked about it. And I've seen a lot of people really hating on the film, I think because it starts off and you think it's going to be a kind of a camp slasher film, and then it changes significantly. But I thought it was really interesting. The kids performances are Jesus next level. Good, good, yeah, and it's just well constructed and interesting. And the cliches, like some of the characters the beginning, like Jesus, this is about as painfully cliche as you can be, but it's all for a reason. And I was like, Okay, this is really interesting and really needs to be, I think, celebrated a lot more than it is. This is definitely one that I think more people should be checking out. If you like strange, weird horror films that may not go where you hope or want them to go, but nonetheless go someplace interesting. Where did you check this out. It, I think it's just like Amazon, or it's on, yeah, was it a rental? I believe. So I remember thinking, okay, you know, a new little Friday the 13th trip off and and it was different enough that I was like, I think that I would not have liked this if it was just a Friday the 13th. Yep, I've seen plenty of those. Yeah, and this would have been maybe one of the better executed ones, except for the kills aren't necessarily Friday the 13th, right, if it makes any sense, but I don't know, yeah, definitely check it out. It is very interesting. Yeah, good one. All right, guys, strange new worlds, new season. Yes, I completely missed that that it started up. I'm thinking the wrong thing. I've seen one episode. Well, I'll give you a hot take. This show is garbage. I have this is every. Thing I hate about Star Trek, and they're doing it all in this season. I'm like, I cannot even, they can't even get Pike's hair correct, which was the whole draw for me. I did notice that it's like, what is going on with the somebody messed up, they ran out of the gray or something. The first episode was the conclusion of the cliffhanger from last season, and it was okay, except that I thought I was like, okay, they're gonna build up the Gorn to be this really cool villain, and instead is just kind of an alien, rip off aliens, and then right after that, we go into a you know, comedy episode where everybody is brainwashed to thinking something is different in reality. And then we go into just a holodeck episode, which is a mystery thing set in the 60s. I think I should have loved that sounds great. It's garbage. The writing is garbage. The acting is garbage, unfortunately. And the budget looks like it's been cut in half. I'm like, Why are you cutting this in half? This show is popular, isn't it gives them more money. So I just like, Well, okay, you had me and you've lost me. It's, it's been a weird season. It definitely has done some big swings and strange directions. I think I enjoyed it much more than you have. There's a speech during the holodeck episode that, like I was pretty much tearing up during because I was, it was I turned that episode off halfway through. That was when I decided I'm not watching the show. Oh yeah, there's about kind of the power of science fiction television and how it can affect the viewers. And I just was like, oh my god, this is such a good speech. But yeah, some of the Gorn stuff gets a little weird. The Spock romance stuff gets very strange. That's, that's the bit I'm not very happy about. But I don't know. I'm still, I'm still willing to watch him. I'm still having a good time. It's nowhere near as irritating to me as discovery. Discovery was just like pulling nails. I mean, every season is a different captain. I'm like, I What is the show? Literally, what is the show? I like the first one, and I'm watching going, I bet Kelly's hating this, because they're doing a few little things. I've gone. I'll bet he's not gonna like this, that first one. I did like, I like, Okay, well, let's, let's keep going here. But, but afterwards, you know, I feel like when those weird episodes happened in next generation, stuff like that, I was like, Yeah, you kind of earned this. You've been on the air for four years, or whatever. You're gonna do some wacky shit. It's kind of fun. This, this show has not earned that stuff. First of all, their seasons are less than half the length of the old season, so you don't really get a feel for all these characters. So that when you throw them into these, these wacky episodes, it's like, all right, I'm I'm not having a good time with this. On top of that, half of these characters we know very well from the original series, and so then you start making them act completely different. I'm like, okay, like, I'm fine with this, if you'll continue on with now the original series and just completely rewrite it, but they're still trying to tie it into the original series. I'm like, Well, this, this now, is not making this character work for me anymore. So that's just, I'm just bummed with it, but like I've always said, I want every show I like to either get canceled or get bad, so I don't have to watch it exactly. Yes, make room for something. Enjoy. I'm moving on from strange new worlds. That's, I think that's sort of what happened with although I feel I need to go back on a couple of them. That's kind of what happened with me. With the Star Wars shows, I'm just like, the the Luke Skywalker one, just, no, you don't want me to go back. Killed Me. They did very bad as it's, like, you know what? I think I'm done, yeah, the kid, I mean, there was a couple decent ones, and they were like the kid droid one, well, the last one, the one that everybody bitch didn't get Emmy Awards and all that stuff. Oh AND, OR, AND, OR sounded AND, OR, pretty good. Yeah, and, or is like its own, its own, in its own class I didn't see. Is it a soccer not very good. Well, I do get amused by people online complaining about horror and sci fi not getting awards like they don't. They never have, they never will. So who cares? Enjoy the show. Yeah, get the effects awards. Oh, it's me again, huh? So I. Yeah, Austin kept bugging me to watch my husband kept bugging me to watch this show. And I was like, Oh, okay. And he's like, people really love this thing. I think we gotta watch K Pop demon hunter. And I was like, man, it just sounds like such a like, heavy ass manga shit that I'm just, I'm not quite like, I like anime, but I like solid, interesting, standalone anime. I haven't really gone down a lot of the series tunnels, especially like the more Kitty stuff. And I was like, I just don't know. So we put it on it is so good, really? Oh my God, it is anime. But it's like, it's well, so it's on Netflix, and it's a Korean piece, but it is English. So it's, like, tied in. It's, it's loving on the Korean universe of like, k pop, but it is an American production. Oh, so yeah. So it's, yeah, it's not like you're reading subtitles or anything like that, that have lots of bouncy music that you love. It has the best music. I'm not even kidding. It is like it's been going in the charts. Like a lot of the songs from it are in, like, the top 10s of Spotify, and had been for weeks. They are made up bands. They just brought in people to put together songs for this show. That's kind of what k pop bands are, or any of those together. And, you know, tour these people, and they collab and whatever. No, they literally only just showed up for this movie, and then they're not together. And so they're like, uh, so they're making these soundtracks now, because they're like, well, people love this music. It is so good. The music is so so so good. Yeah, man, I can't wait to hear the comments we're gonna get on on you loving on this show. Oh, my God, if You better watch it before you tell me that it's, uh, no good Nobody. Nobody can complain about this and me watching it, unless you watch it and you decide that you don't, which is possible. I think it's probably not for me, but I know it's on like, Netflix's top 10 for like, four weeks now. So I would you may be surprised. You may be surprised. It's got a lot of hurt. It's got a lot of hurt. You found his secret NSYNC albums he has got hidden in the back. You don't have to mean it just for the music. There's good stuff. And it's not really like pop music, like it has. I mean, it's literally, genuinely very good, well written songs with a lot of cool like drops and ups and downs and stuff. Cool. Yeah. Anyway, all right. Well, I watched all the K Pop Demon Hunter, yeah. And now I say that I'm like, is it in English? I think it was a pretty sure was in English. But now my brain is like, Wait, did I just magically take Korean and some videos and make it they do both, usually, like, Netflix will have all English or all subtitled versions. Don't know, yeah, well, yeah, but I really, genuinely don't know if it's because, like, Ultraman rising was just in English. It's not, oh my god. Okay. Anyways, regardless, it's great. Yeah. So I the 100 Days thing, you know, with the horror before Halloween, I start every year with a franchise that I've seen none of. I've done puppet master, well, I guess I saw one of Children of the Corn, but that's out of what, like eight movies or something. So that seemed all right. And now I've done underworld, oh, the under verse. There are things to like about this series. There are not a lot of them. The biggest problem underworld has, for me, is the by the time you watch all of them in quick fashion, the theme of the thing keeps it's the same damn thing. Oh, this new, never before seen version of Wolf and vampire combined. Will what powers will it have? What will it do? We're never really, actually going to find out, because they sort of start to have, like a final scene where you kind of see the powers of whatever this new being is. Then the movie ends, and the next franchise starts out with a new person who's going to have the except for the one where they went back in time and did the kind of the origin story of the war beginning, which that was a decent one. The werewolf effects are universally bad garbage, just bad. Every once in a while they'd be transformed, and almost looks like they use a practical and it looks good for like, 30 seconds or something, but wow, man, for a movie that has so many werewolf transformations, you think by movie three or four, they'd have refined it enough to where it looks good, but it no they like, deleted the files after every movie or something and just started anew with the lower button. Budgets, and it's I had another really stupid thing that annoyed the shit out of me, with that switches in early 2000 things with a lot of guns, where have these little like, 40 fives that are like, burp guns, like, shoot like, like, like, Okay, your clips empty, unless the clips like this long, which generally doesn't bother me in movies. But if a movie doesn't have like it, I don't give a shit about John Wu movies never having to reload because it's so much fun to watch. Who cares? Yeah, if you're not going to be that good, maybe up it, or figure out, like in one episode or one of the movies, they kind of the real world finds out about what's going on, and that's like the first 20 minutes of movie, and seems to have been completely forgotten about after that. It goes back to, we're over the vampires like, well, that seemed like an important thing to have continued. And they invent like an aerosol thing that sprays silver. So it's like pepper spray that wipes out werewolves. I'm like, why are you not using this all the time? It was really cool. They used it for like three scenes, and never seemed to appear again. Going, it seemed like you've won the war with this one weapon, right? Just aerosol. Every room filled with werewolves. We're good, but it's I know there's people that really love this series, but, and if I'd watched it intermittently as it came out over the years, it might been a little more, but as you watch each one, and they're kind of so oddly similar. It really kind of gets boring. Yeah, you're watching them back to back, yeah, like, then you can really notice that stuff. I assumed that people got into it because they just thought Kate Beckinsale was hot. Well, as I say, there is a reason. As a you know guy, I can see why. Well, there's also a lot of hot guys, although the lead guy in the beginning, what's the guy who sing the high the band from the 80s of the guy who's really religious that got kicked out of his band for being such an asshole, they like this hair that sort of hung down. Creed. Yeah, Creed. Their lead singer, the guy who's the hybrid magical, who knows what he's going to be, has his hair, and it's so oddly distracting, which kind of shows how deep the movie is, that that was a major distraction for me. So I'm glad I watched him, just because it's such a lexicon movie for a lot of people. And yeah, Caitlin Beck and sell is she's fun to watch. There's some neat action scenes that they either did needed to do more of and tell less story, or do less of and figure out how to tell better stories. It sat in this weird world of it's not as actiony and fun as RAID or giant or any of the kill of all things that are going on right now, and it's not as interesting as a really well told story. That's such a bummer. Yeah, that was one of those ones. I was like, I should check these out for like, I think I saw the first two or three. You're good. It's definitely diminishing return. When I get to my 30 days of hallway, 31 I will, uh, avoid this. Then there you go, underworld, yeah, I remember, like in the first movie, fine, yeah, yeah. I think they got in trouble from White Wolf. Yes. I do believe they got which is funny, because White Wolf was sued by Nancy Collins because she felt like they had stolen the idea. I think she won too. So if you like those movies, Nancy Collins sunglasses after dark series, much, much better. Cool. Okay, gang, how about we take a little break, and then when we come back, we are going to be talking about movies with numbers in the title. So A, one, a, two, A, 345, a, six, six. Surprise. It's six finger. It looks like your finger, but watch them flip. It's a secret weapon at your fingertip. Just point and fire six finger sends and as it went, missile to your friends. Fires kept loaded bombs and they explode. Has a ballpoint pen and signals in code looks like a finger so no one can see who has six finger. Shoots rockets that burst and bums that explode, and writes with a pen and signals in cold, shoots message missiles and watch them go and it looks like your finger. And how will they know? Here's how to get it on the card, right there, less than $2 everywhere. Six fingers. Six fingers. A man alive. How did I ever get along with five? And we're back. This was my sub genre pick, and the idea was the film could have a number, or the film must have a number in the title, but that number can't be the sequel number or something like that. So you could do a Friday the 13th movie, because 13 is in the title, but you couldn't do Nightmare on Elm Street too. So yeah, yeah, could have done Jaws three damn No. Okay, so I will start this off you guys, and I'm talking about a little slice of comedy from the 80s called Miz 45 every day on every street in every city, women are insulted. What's the matter? What's the matter with you? You are you planning on going with someone? Would you like to go with me? Much too beautiful to be a mother. What's her secret? What is she hiding? Where is she going? I You 1981 directed by Abel Ferrara, who has done movies like King of New York, Bad Lieutenant, Body Snatchers, the addiction and the projectionist, and written by Nicholas St John, who has been a go to writer for Ferrara. His writing credits on all those other films I mentioned, plus fair city China Girl and the funeral, and starring Zoe Lund, who has 12 credits special effects, exquisite corpses and Bad Lieutenant. And then there are a number of people in this movie, which this is their only film, including Albert sinkus, Darlene, stutto, Helen mcgarrah, and, of course, Abel Ferrara as the first rapist. Yes, this is a rape movie, fun. I know you've seen this, Eric, have you seen this? No, I have not. I wasn't sure how he's gonna feel about this film, but it surprised me. Starts off pretty horrifically, though, yes, it does. We meet our protagonist than who is a young, mute girl walking home from work in New York City. It's not nighttime or anything, but as she passes an alley, a mask attacker grabs her, drags her into the alley and then brutally rapes her at gunpoint. We are about one minute and 30 seconds into this movie. The rape scene isn't graphic, but the look on her face as all of this is happening is pretty fucking hard to watch. The rapist finishes, tosses her aside and runs out of the alley. She somehow kind of collects herself together and stumbles home to her apartment. Vanessa, there is a second assailant in the apartment waiting for her with a gun. She has raced a sec raped a second time. Oh, my god, yeah. What the hell New York as the rapist is finishing, she smacks him with a solid glass apple that she had on the nightstand. Then she bludgeons him to death with an iron like you would iron your not an iron from the fireplace and iron you would iron. She starts smacking him in the head with this corners. Yeah. She drags his body to the bathtub. It's very important to know that this man has left behind his gun, which she now has the next day at work, she kind of goes into a PTSD spiral when she sees her boss rip the shirt off of a mannequin. She works as a seamstress, by the way, and he starts screaming into all of her co workers, all of them females, of course, which kind of sends her to the floor. Weeping. So they're like, why don't you go home early? When she gets home, she decides to start dismembering the burglars body in the bathtub. The rapist. Why'd I call him a burglar? She places the pieces of the body into plastic garbage bags and stores them in her refrigerator. There's some pretty good gruesome stuff here, and she's not taking any of this lightly, she is very, very disturbed by everything that's happened to her and what she is doing to the body, even. So her plan is to just kind of start dropping these body pieces off in various garbage cans around the city, so that no one will be able to track it to her. And it seems like this will work, except for one day, she drops a bag in a garbage can, and there's a man there who thinks that she has accidentally dropped the bag, so he picks it up and starts following her. And he's like, hey, hey, she can't hear him, or she can hear him, but she can't say anything to him, and it appears that he is coming after her and chasing her. Oh no, so she gets kind of caught in an alley with him, and she blows him away with a gun. Oh, well, she starts getting pretty comfortable with the idea of killing men who can't take no for an answer, and that is the gist of this movie. She goes on a quest for vengeance by targeting and killing a fashion photographer who keeps hitting on her, a pimp who assaults a prostitute in front of her, several gang members who actually are trying to sexually assault her, a Saudi Arabian businessman and his limousine driver. And in a very strange scene, she drives a recently dumped salesman to suicide after her gun jams. Her gun jams when she's about to kill him. He's so shocked, he grabs the gun, and then he's so depressed with everything, he blows his head off. Oh my god, whoa. Holy hell. Yeah. Film culminates in a Halloween party where she is dressed up as a nun and is going to just start blowing away all of the men at the party. She has gone completely insane. And I'll be honest, I am there for it. This movie was so much better than I thought it was going to be. It is definitely sleazy exploitation New York trash, but it's pretty well acted, and I was riveted the entire time. My favorite part is at the Halloween party, there is a live band playing, and they focus on a guy playing the trumpet, but is very clearly the sound of a saxophone. Really good at the trumpet. Eric than it never appears to run out of bullets. Nope, that's fine, and she frequently uses a full clip to kill each person. Sure. Yep. This was made on a tight budget of $62,000 and was absolutely reviled by critics when it came out, when it came out, since then, it has been re evaluated and holds an 86% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 6.8 on IMDb, which is pretty high. Little bit of trivia. Our protagonist is named Thana, and that seems to be a play on the name Thanatos, which is the Greek god of death. The film was first shown at the Cannes Film Festival and then the Milano Film Festival before its official release in August of 1981 than has only one word of dialog in the film, but it is in the last scene, and I'm not going to tell you what it is. And finally, although the film is called ms 45 the handgun that she uses is a nine millimeter star Mala BM, which looks a lot like a Colt 4519 11, but is very much not. Oh, this is Ms 45 Yeah, I did that Walter Hill thing where I watched all his films. I kind of almost wanted to do this with a fro then I looked up how many goddamn movies this guy's directed. Yeah, so I spot watched, and this was one of them. It's a powerful film. It's the the the beginning and the end scenes are the one that stick in my head. Yes, is it just out? You're right. It's not. It's not like I Spit on Your Grave graphic, but her performance is so unsettling. The camera focuses on her face in both rape scenes, and so she's just taking it. And you know, you can see the trauma that is happening right there on her face. And I was like, this is far more disturbing than if we had actually seen, you know, yeah. So I was, I was really, really impressed with this film. The problem with able Ferraris films is that there are a ton of them that are just bad, yeah, yeah. When he hits, he hits really well, but wow, when he doesn't. You want to take us on a next Yeah, film, I will say this has been one of my favorite challenges. So many cool options showed up, but I went with 2000 ones. The one the people have found you guilty of 123 counts of first degree murder and 123 counts of unauthorized travel to parallel universes. There's never been anything like what I have become for these crimes. You have been sentenced to life without the possibility of return. Are you ready? Are you freeze? You. He's escaping. There's only one place he could be going, not a problem. What if there was a killer traveling through parallel universes and he looked just like you? The good news is you're not crazy. The bad news before I saw him, I failed him. It was me. What if he would stop at nothing to take over your world each time he kills one of you, the energy divides among the survivors he's close to you. Lost strength. Maybe it's part of what's been going on with you. People get older, Gabe, they don't get stronger, they don't get faster, all of a sudden, kill him. This whole universe could go with him, but just need to do it one more time. This is the only way to stop him. My own design, you that'll work too. Miss me, the one. The in which I had not seen before. This had a budget of 49 million. Box office of 79.6 directed by James Wong, who has nine directing credits, 20 producing. He did the final destination film and Final Destination three, Dragon Ball evolution and four episodes in 911, he produced the American Horror Story series X Files and several other TV series written and directed by Wong and Glenn Morgan, who did X Files together then went on together to do several more films, including Final Destination, Willard Black Christmas and eventually parted ways. This is starring Jet Li 51 credits, including kiss of the dragon, The Expendables. Mulan The Mummy, two month Dragon, Emperor hero, Lethal Weapon, four big star in China, obviously he did, Once Upon a Time in China, the master and many more. Delroy Lindo, 73 credits, including Get Shorty the core and most recently, sinners. Jason Statham, 62 credits with hair. 62 credits without snatch, transporter, crank Fast and the Furious The Meg beekeeper and Carla juking, go Gino bugingo. We know her from Mike Flanagan stuff, she was awesome. And Fall of the House of Usher as the whatever she was. She was great. And recently I talked about her being in Michael as like a weird, random role. The story is we live in a multiverse where it is possible to travel between realities using wormholes, but it is also heavily regulated by the LASD police. Say, for one man who's a serial killer, he has managed to circumvent the system, and his target is every version of himself. He's killed 123 versions and only has one left. There is a kind of fear out there that if he kills the last one, either the universe will end or maybe he'll just become a god. And they're not completely wrong, because with each version of himself he kills, he gets additional strength and power. He can defy gravity, strength, speed and time. But he is caught and convicted for his crimes, and is about to be sent to a penal colony. When he is he escapes in a very exciting fashion that involves a mouse and his girlfriend anyway, so he is off to find and kill the last version of himself. Meanwhile, the final one, Gabe law, is an LAPD officer in a world not unlike our own. It's a little bit different, but because then this one, George Bush Jr, is pro healthcare. So for the last two years, he's been experiencing increasing strength, speed and mental ability, but him and his wife, TK, don't really understand it and what's going on when transporting a prisoner, he has a sense of something weird that is off and you law appears attempting to take him out. Gabe chases him down and is shocked to see a version of himself. EU law escapes when two time cops appear to try and arrest him, Gabe doesn't. Want to tell his friend cops who are not time cops what he saw, and really doesn't even want to tell his wife, because it seems too crazy. The rest of the film, we see you law, chasing after Gabe and being foiled time and again. Gabe then discovers that he has equal power to you law, because the energy is equally distributed between the two leftover versions. He becomes better at honing his skills and discovers that he must use his training instead of his anger, to tap in and potentially defeat his rival. The final showdown is in a factory somewhere. Shocking. This film was awesome. It was so much fun. I love the opening scene where we think this hardened prisoner is the guy that we're gonna be following, but it turns out that he's not, and he gets murdered, and then some other dude just starts laughing over the top of him, and you're like, What the hell is happening right now? The effects age horrifically, but are used so well. There's a weird spark scene where you're like, Man, these sparks look stupid as hell, but then all of a sudden they're like, going through them, and they bounce off people, and it's like, over way over the top, but it just like, works and looks awesome, but stupid at the same time. You would never guess about the face replacement that's clearly being used because you see the same guy multiple, multiple, multiple times. They obviously spent a lot of time on this. The characters are super fun. Jet Li plays both versions of himself, really, really well. The music is intense. Choices. If anyone ever asked me to what movie they could watch to really get a feeling of the late 90s, early aughts, I would say watch this film. It is so stylistic, it's unreal between the shooting, the sound effects, the special effects, and the music, it kind of has a perfect ending. It's very weird, but it works, kind of, I guess. I don't know. It's very strange, but I really dig it. A little bit of trivia before I wrap up. Originally, the film was to have starred Dwayne The Rock Johnson before Lee assumed the lead role. Scenes involving Jet Li fighting himself were shot using Lee and a stuntman with a build similar to his. The stunt man's face was painted green so that it could be digitally replaced with Lee's face. Later, Jet Li uses two distinct kung fu styles when portraying Gabe and you law, the evil you law uses jingzhi Quan, or mind form fist, loosely translated as can be seen when he's training. It is a very linear, offensive style. Gabe, on the other hand, practices bago Zhang or eight trigrams palm. It is characterized by open palm fighting with circular footwork. Both styles are two of the three main internal styles of Chinese Kung Fu, the third being Taijiquan and the University Medical Center where Gabe goes for an MRI is in North Hollywood Medical Center where the popular sitcom scrubs was filmed. So that was my movie. I seemed I remember liking this one. I think I've never seen it, but I really want to, oh, it's so fun. It's so fun. It's so ridiculous. It kind of reminds me of, is it demo Demolition Man, the the one where he goes in time in the seashells, yeah, yeah. It has sort of similar feel to that in my I really, yeah. I really dug it. What happened to Jet Li? He was poised to become a big American action star. He was, and I think he was huge for a while, but I wonder if it was like the Chinese politics thing, because during the shooting of Mulan, I think he was very pro China and all the press stuff. And I think he got some backlash for that. But you can't be Chinese and not live in China and not be pro sure China and yeah, yeah. Like work real well. That will not work well when for your family or yourself. So the one I'm gonna watch that, Eric, yeah, yeah. Kind of weird this time, because I've seen both of the films you've seen, but I hadn't seen the one I picked. So the the Star Wars fans among you will think less of me, but I never saw Thx. 1138, what's wrong? What's wrong? What's wrong Are you now? What's wrong? 1138, prefix, Thx. Buy more. Buy more. Now. Buy the oh boy and be happy. My mate has been acting very strange. What's wrong? No. No one knows. No one can see us. This is City probe scanner. We've run across some illegal sexual activity. Three you i Crazy from 1971 directed by George Lucas. So as for movies, you know, he also edited this one. He also is a writer on it with Walter Murch, who also did sound and sound editing. He did sound editing for over 28 productions, including Godfather apocalypse, now the Black Stallion and Return to Oz. So he's far more known for that. He's not really much her writer, the cast. I'm like, I was going through this going, how the fuck did George Lucas in 1967 when this was shot, put this cast together. Then I noticed he somehow got Francis Ford Coppola involved as producer. Yeah, they were very close. So the lead is Robert Duvall. Might know from tender mercies or Jack Reacher, or the Godfather or Apocalypse Now, or any of his 146 films. Donald Pleasance, probably best known in this crowd by Halloween, but he's got 244 credits. Don Pedro Cawley, who's in Sugar Hill dead end, and lots of television. Sid Haig from bone home, Tomahawk and well, you know, whole lot of things. And Maggie mccomy, who really didn't do much else, She's the lead woman, but she didn't do a lot of other acting. So the movie opens with a little clip from an old buck rogers serial, which is kind of interesting. This is an uncomfortable film, creepy and uncomfortable star, with a peek into the world where people complaining about purchases and likes of consumption being standardized. Everybody takes pills to feel better. As the movie goes on, you figure out they are forced to take pills to stay together. Get prosecuted for not taking drugs. The world is very 1984 controlling, watching, making you work. They have little pod kind of things or booths you get in to do your psychotherapy with this big, giant face. And this is incredibly well done little movie. I gotta say, the you could almost say a giant portion of the way 70 sci fi movies looks can be traced right back to this. There's few others, but not a lot became before 1971 there's a lot of them followed, though the two people meet and kind of try to make a go at it of having an actual physical relationship that does not go over well. Donald Pleasance, for some reason, decides that the Robert Duvall character to make a good roommate for him, and he says he's got ways of manipulating the computer to make sure they'll work together. DuVall seems to have no interest whatsoever in that, but he does get busted for not using drugs and being a sexual deviant. Yeah, it goes pretty bad. From there, the trial is kind of obvious farce, but really interesting. It's fast and weird, but very well done. And the what makes one of the weird things to make this movie so dark and uncomfortable is the disembodied voices that are controlling everybody's fate. You see a lot of people, but you don't really see people talking very much, except for the few leads you know, Duval and pleas and the lady they speak. But most of the power behind the scenes, you're just hearing their voice. You're seeing them at control centers and stuff, but you. I highly recommend it. I gotta say, If you love sci fi, there are many versions of this, because it's a George Lucas thing. There's the original 1967 student film 15 minutes, and the studio version, which was additional footage, obviously shot, brought the 81 minute version, but has never been released in any home video version. There's a restored version after the success of Star Wars, it was re released with Lucas adding some new footage in because he could still didn't really do very well. Released on VHS at 88 minutes and laserdisc at 86 so then, of course, in 2004 they said, you want to do a new version? So he went in, and they actually shot some new footage, and they added special effects that I don't know George Lucas is re needing to do his films lens to so many things that I guess he felt were really important, but really don't add very much at all. Like there's shots of the over, over the THX, the computer that weren't in the original. Okay, it looks kind of cool. He at like a scene where they break out into this crowd of people. He added, like hundreds of people more to it, which kind of make it look like a mess. It looked it looked fake. It looked like there's now too many people. This doesn't make sense, almost, but, man, it looks good. The rematch, watched a Blu ray remastered version of it that the original stuff looks really good. It was really re rated from GP to R for the some of the original footage, there's more sex and nudity and stuff going on when they are sexual deviants. But, yeah, this is good, solid film. Yeah, it's a cool looking with some with some weird stuff. The the therapist booths are pretty wild. And then when he finds the source of the therapy booth, it's like, Oh, that makes it even more uncomfortable. And they do. It's pretty good, pretty disturbing to watch under, especially under our current world of Yeah, everything being like, Instagram, maps thing and all the shit gone out of that. And, like, Yeah, I've seen this once before, and I remember thinking it looked cool, but being kind of bored, I should it's deliberately paced, yes, for sure, yeah. It takes its time. Yeah. It's definitely got a flavor that, if you haven't watched a lot of sci fi, 70 sci fi, it's gonna be weird. But I thought it was fine. I did not feel it very draggy at all. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean talking about stuff that the first time watch, and you were a little surprised and everything, he and Coppola were really tight at this time. They started zoetrope together, and Lucas was supposed to direct Apocalypse Now, wow, so, but then he finally got funding for Star Wars and turned that down. So they were all over the place with, you know, working for each other and working with each other. Pretty impressive considering the amount of work he had done at that point. Francis definitely, well, Francis hadn't done a lot either at that point, right, but he done enough, right? I think Coppola just saw in him. He was like, this kid's got something, yeah? So he was right, yeah, for a while, for a period, stop redoing because you think about he follows this with American Graffiti, which is fucking amazing also, and then Star Wars. So, very cool. Okay, well, Eric, I think that means you've got the one. Yeah. So we're looking, I think we're looking at something with a movie with a school or a teacher and like that, maybe like little bit more of a formal teacher, not a not the story writing trick of the person who comes in to teach the Main Character thing, mentor, yeah, but somebody who's actually hired or brought on as a teacher, I like this idea. That should be really fun. Yeah, well, cool. That brings us to the point then where we say thanks to everybody who's out there liking sharing posts, who's commenting on the YouTube videos and who's sending. Us money, especially. We call it value for value, and it means you get a little value out of this. You give a little value back. Vanessa, what's another way they can contact another way that you can contact us is through our hotline, the strange eons radio hotline, which is 253-237-4266, you can leave us a voicemail or also send us a text. We would love to hear from you. So, yeah, get in touch. Yeah, we absolutely would. 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