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Wolf Man with Greg Rucinski
Join us as we reflect on the films of January and their recent releases while diving deep into monster movies that excite us. Our conversation includes insightful reviews of "The Wolfman" and "Dog Soldiers," celebrating the evolution of horror combined with humor, and leaving listeners with thoughts on what’s next in film.
• Observing January's movie trends and releases
• Discussing Kiki Palmer’s “Days” and Mark Wahlberg’s “Flight Risk”
• Exploring the themes in “The Wolfman”
• Contrasting the comedic elements of “Dog Soldiers”
• Engaging in celebrity gossip and upcoming film trends
• Anticipating 2024 film releases and recommendations
excuse me, is anybody sitting here? Sorry, this is taken. Sorry, greg, it's been. It's been a long time since we we sat down and talked about movies yeah, it's been a while.
Speaker 2:When was our last episode? Um it was a good question it was before december, I believe. I think the last one was heretic and um heretic and the one really dumb oh, heretic, yeah, yeah, yeah well, it's a sydney sweeney movie immaculate immaculate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was like november, I think. Yeah, um, your movie glow. We, we talked your movie going has slowed down tremendously yeah, a little bit like I've gone through life changes yeah, I mean, you have good excuse for it, yeah.
Speaker 2:I have a good excuse. Like I've been busy with work and everything Work, the girlfriend and I moved into a new little townhouse. It's actually really nice, A little two-story one. It's been like we're in the process of moving still. You know, like that shit takes a while to do so far, still liking each other. Yeah, we haven't killed each other yet. We talk about ways we would kill each other, though. It's actually kind of cute. It's actually sweet, I guess. So we looked at the crawl space that we have For the first time a couple of days ago and she's short enough that she can't reach it If I were to toss her down there.
Speaker 1:I don't think I could reach it either. You're going to be the substance where you make a secret room, where you keep the body.
Speaker 2:That's actually pretty funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my movie going experience has slowed down just a little bit too, not because I don't want to. There's not that many good movies in January.
Speaker 2:Right, not really. January is the dump month, right.
Speaker 1:I would say February, maybe March.
Speaker 2:I've always heard that, like all these studios hold on to their shitty movies because nobody really goes to the theater that's interesting.
Speaker 1:You said that because I've seen four movies, four movies in the month of january and um two of them. I'm kind of surprised we're in the month of january because I think they were good enough to be pushed back to may or april. Um so the four movies I've seen, one of them days the new kiki pal, palmer and Silsom movie. Okay, flight Risk with Mark Wahlberg and Topher, grace Wolfman and Companion.
Speaker 2:I wanted to see Companion. That might be the next one I try and go to.
Speaker 1:Also notable movies that came out that I didn't see yet is Dogman and Den of Thieves 2. Den of Thieves 2. Dogman.
Speaker 2:It looks ridiculous, it looks too silly. I'm not gonna lie, that trailer made me laugh real hard when I saw it the first time what's that?
Speaker 1:one comedian who plays a chief in that movie. He has a distinguishable voice, you know I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:I would watch it just for him alone he's uh, but the it genuinely kind of like. I'm ashamed at how hard I laughed at the theater um, I look cute though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the other day I had a date and then I went to go use the restroom in the middle and I ran into my cousin grown-ass man going to see it you used the restroom during movies well, it was only a movie that I've seen for the second time, so that's why I felt okay to do it, so like when you have to go during a movie, like I hold it, yeah, I hold it I plan ahead you'll sit.
Speaker 1:See me there crossing my legs like about to cry before I go to use the restroom.
Speaker 2:It takes a lot for me to go to Like I have to have like a turtle head poking out or like you know. Even if I go to a movie that I'm not really feeling and it kind of sucks, I'll still hold it, yeah, because, like, at the end of the day, you pay money for it and it's just like you know.
Speaker 1:I'm always paranoid, even if I look away at my phone like where there was a text on the screen or something. You know that I totally miss.
Speaker 2:Or like you walk out and all of a sudden like you realize that you went and took a shit during. You know that scene that everybody's talking about online, that everybody loves.
Speaker 1:I can't remember the website, but there is a website out there where you can.
Speaker 2:Google. Yeah, when to go pee, it's the the best time to use the restroom Take a little break.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've never done that before and I probably never will. You should try and time it. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean that'd be a cool job.
Speaker 1:Hey, just to watch a movie.
Speaker 2:Sit down and drink a bunch of pop and just time it, based on the story, beats.
Speaker 1:I bet that's kind of complicated to do. It sounds complicated too. I would feel like I would have to watch the movie two or three times before I could decide yeah because most movies, like a good movie, every second counts.
Speaker 2:So like every scene is supposed to move everything forward, as opposed to like a shitty movie where they could have just shit happen. That you know doesn't?
Speaker 1:I'm going to tell you the movie that I'm going to talk about first. One of them Days. It's a comedy. It's it's a comedy. It's a cheesy comedy, like where the plot line is kiki palm and says our best friends, their roommates, uh says his boyfriend spends their rent money. The whole movie they're trying to figure out how they're gonna pay their rent by the end of the day before they're evicted. I mean, there's a bunch of shenanigans, a bunch of skids that go on in the whole movie, but if you miss one of them it's literally not a big deal.
Speaker 2:It sounds in the vein of like those early 90s kind of Friday.
Speaker 1:Well, I've heard it described like it's like the new modern day Friday movie, but I hate that they describe that because no one could touch Friday.
Speaker 2:I like that genre specifically. It's similar to that though Like a little bit smaller stakes, but it's throughout the course of a day and these people just have one either a couple of really bad days, or like really weird days, or just one bad day, or a bunch of random ass shit happens yeah, those are good genres and kiki, palmer and sizzle have such great chemistry in this movie I do like kiki palmer I I honestly, I'll be the first to admit, I'm not the biggest fan of kiki palmer.
Speaker 1:I like her in the straighter roles, like the like the less funny roles. But she did. She was a responsible one in this movie and she played both the funny character and the straight man very well in this movie. Scissor I was kind of concerned about because I don't know really her acting experience. This role was good for her. Yeah, if, if she was gonna be like, say, like the revenant or something like that, you know, I wouldn't buy any of their shit you know, but she did good especially.
Speaker 1:I think it made it easier. You said they're good friends in real life and that bled off the screen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that makes the difference. You know, when the actors do, you have that same sense of camaraderie you know I made a surprise.
Speaker 1:Cameo net was kat williams really. Yeah, he showed up on a little now and then are you following any of this?
Speaker 2:um, uh, blake, lively justin, I love the tea on this shit yeah, blake lively thought she was gonna have his ass right, I think it just came today like he released more evidence not today this past weekend.
Speaker 1:I can't remember exactly what it was, but it's. There's a conspiracy going around that she's blaming him for sexual harassment to deflect the fact that ryan reynolds thinks she's cheating on him. Have you heard that one? No, so apparently ryan reynolds would come in almost daily to check out all the footage just to watch him.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And she finally felt under pressure. So people are saying she made up the lie Like he sexually harassed me, Just to deflect that blame off of her.
Speaker 2:How would you cheat on Ryan Reynolds? She seemed like a bitch, so she was great in the Shallows though. The Shallows is one of my favorite shark movies have you ever seen it?
Speaker 1:I don't think so.
Speaker 2:She's great in it. It's fun. But yeah, that tea is pretty fun. What other movies do you know where the actors have hated each other?
Speaker 1:What's that one with Liam Liam, liam?
Speaker 2:Neeson's no, the pop star Hemsworth.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Liam McIntyre.
Speaker 1:No From One.
Speaker 2:Direction neeson's no. The pop star hemsworth no. Liam mcintyre no.
Speaker 1:From one direction, that's mcintyre right no, I'm sorry, I don't know what is that movie with him and um bands like you, chris, not pratt oh, oh, harry styles harry styles and um chris um uh pine yeah, when that movie was yeah, don't worry, darling, yeah, there was some drama with that movie. What was that movie?
Speaker 2:called Don't Worry Darling. Yeah, there was some drama with that movie too, because there's that bit where it looked like Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine. Have you seen it? It looks a lot like it, it does, it does. It's kind of hard to defend. They played that off pretty well, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah and then you had that Johnny Depp with his ex-wife yeah, um. So I mean I do enjoy the tea. I mean this I cannot wait for this court case to go down and the diddy one to go down that diddy one's never gonna go down. You know that one's never did you hear that conspiracy theory that he started the wildfires?
Speaker 2:I there's. There's weird shit there, though, for real. Though like you have like ellen degeneres fleeing the country and shit like that. You know, yeah, she's over in uk now. Like If you look at some of those old tweets that she has where she talks about, P. Denny, some of that stuff is super sus, yeah, so I don't think he probably did it, but I do think that there might be an issue where it's like evidence is needing to get gone.
Speaker 1:For those of you who don't know, we had our podcast together and we kind of ended it, but you're still thinking about bringing it back to do conspiracy theories.
Speaker 2:Yes, I do. I think about the conspiracy theory thing a bit. I do think about the possibility of turning the awkward bartender's guide into a book.
Speaker 1:You could do both honestly, but if you do the conspiracy have me on for celebrity conspiracy?
Speaker 2:theories. That'd be fun. That'd be so much fun.
Speaker 1:And then there was another conspiracy theory that I not conspiracy, but I wanted to take as a conspiracy theorist, with all these plane crashes going on. Okay, there's like three or four of them. Have you heard of them recently? Yeah, it's wild. There's something going on with that.
Speaker 2:There is. Well, trump and his people have come out and said the drones in New Jersey that were flying around are just pretty much the playbook of Roswell, new Mexico, back in the day, like this is all legitimate, like nothing to see here, move along. Like these drones are here for, like, research purposes and nothing like that, you know, like, but these things are still flying in the sky.
Speaker 1:Yeah, probably they're going to go anywhere anytime soon.
Speaker 2:I don't think so either. Part of me thinks that it is a social engineering kind of test to see how people are going to react to unknown shit in the sky on a grand scale.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is the shit I want to hear on your podcast.
Speaker 2:I'm excited for that um, we're on a movie one right. We're on a movie one right now. Yeah, but I'm sorry, I just completely derailed it oh, that's totally cool.
Speaker 1:Uh, because our theme this episode, we're gonna be doing monster movies yes, um there's a lot of conspiracy monsters movies too. I mean like this the stuff is loosely based off of history.
Speaker 2:Yeah, kind of yeah like myths and stuff like that that can be intertwined with especially like the, the myth of the wolfman and the lycanthrope, and everything you know, like I like, I like the differing kind of takes when you look and compare the two movies we have on, like a more kind of I want to say modern virus, take on what werewolfism would be like versus the more traditional kind of like how let the moon?
Speaker 1:kind of monster okay, I'm, I I'm glad we're talking to bring that up, but before we get into those, I still want to talk about two more movies. Uh, flight, you risk the the mark walberg stupid it okay. So there's really only a cast of three people that you see on the screen.
Speaker 2:The entire movie there are other people, there's smaller walberg.
Speaker 1:No, mark walberg did nothing for this role. If not, he brought it down. I got character down, not a fan. Uh, you know, I was surprised. You told for grace in there, I don't know, honestly I'm just more happy that eric form is still acting.
Speaker 2:You know, you know, he's, he's he is the one, like the girlfriend and I were talking about this, like the stuff with ashton kutcher and mila kunis standing up for danny masterson and everything now too right yeah yeah, so like we want to talk celebrity conspiracy is like that stuff there is fucking weird too because, like ashton kutcher makes a big fucking deal about being all like, hey, we're gonna stop just sex trafficking, we're gonna stop doing that, but there's a.
Speaker 1:There's enough there that I can see him. Maybe, like I'm talking about eric foreman, um chris, uh, tofer grace. He probably didn't know something.
Speaker 2:That's why he's always been so distant from the cast, I think I yeah, I think toor grace knew and uh knew when to leave the party in a lot of ways. Yeah, yeah, it's a very important skill to know have in your life when to leave the party he seems like just like a gentleman in real life. You know he's like a good people he's so busy like probably re-editing the fucking lord of the rings I saw that clip and shit now yeah, yeah, I've always wondered what those cuts are like I was thinking about this the other day.
Speaker 2:I was talking to somebody about movies and like I've never seen those movies, honestly but but um, the uh, the, the, what he does the star wars, one in like what it's? Chronological order, right, how did he has done the re-edit of star wars in some ways to make it like that was sick, to split in the prequel with the events that happen with?
Speaker 1:you know I'm explaining it poorly no, no, I totally get what you're getting, but I feel like you would have to update that, like every other year, because the new Star Wars come out and new details get added.
Speaker 2:It's like a big project that he has done. Like it just in his spare time he keeps to himself. He doesn't really like cause drama. You don't see him in the news anywhere, no Matter of fact I think he even says for a whole year.
Speaker 1:A few celebrities do this. He wore the same outfit, so paparazzi can't get good pictures.
Speaker 2:Daniel Radcliffe did that. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 1:I think Channing Tatum did that too yeah.
Speaker 2:It's a common trick. I would do that. I always think I would be a good paparazzo paparazzi I hate paparazzi. I have enough of that like social disconnect where I could just be shoving a camera in somebody's face if I knew I was getting money for it. What a dick I 100 could be. I could 100 be one of those people just to like chase and harry styles down the street with the camera would be the like.
Speaker 1:Two celebrities he would follow the most, that's tough, that's tough.
Speaker 2:It would have to be probably people you Well, no it would have to be somebody that's problematic enough to get tabloid attention.
Speaker 1:It used to be like Miley Cyrus and all that, so I would think it probably would be some sort of young pop star.
Speaker 2:That makes me sound creepy.
Speaker 1:I mean Sidney Sweeney maybe.
Speaker 2:We're talking about paparazzi, not like-.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Come on now.
Speaker 1:She's young enough.
Speaker 2:Timothy shamley maybe okay, do something like that fun, um, so I mean, he's a little trash person. Now, though, did you notice like him dating the jenner's and everything? Yeah, yeah he's falling into a bad crowd we'll see where he turns up.
Speaker 1:He's still young enough, though he might, he's hot right now, like I feel like we've seen this before. He'll have a downfall, but then he'll make a comeback.
Speaker 2:I think that Kardashian thing is going to get him bad. I think a lot of people got turned off by the fact that he's buddy-buddy with a lot of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Pete Davidson saw that shit and got out of there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly Pete Davidson, of all people, is like uh-uh, I'm out, this ain't good enough for me um, so flight request is okay.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't recommend seeing the theaters maybe turn it on at the house like there's some cliche plot points but overall it's pretty decent.
Speaker 2:Uh, fucking bald cap.
Speaker 1:He's got that that was so stupid. It had nothing to do with a plot. It was ridiculous honestly. Like in his whole threat he was gonna kill them, but he was very open about he wanted to grape christopher grace's character. Yeah, he brought it up like 30 times in the movie was like okay, this is getting weird now yeah what the fuck are we doing here?
Speaker 2:that fucking guy like he is not necessarily a good actor and I think like he's racist too yeah, like there's a lot of like ugly stuff to walbert, but I could still watch ted and laugh my ass off. Are you sorry?
Speaker 1:they just finished wrapping season ted too.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, I kind of want to go back and start re-watching I'm going to do that before it's a fun show um.
Speaker 1:I also seen companion. This movie came out just like last week that's jack quaid, so fucking good yeah but I mean, it's hard to see him and anything else besides his character and the boys, yeah, and this is one I think it could have done very well in April or May too. I'm kind of surprised it was released in January. The soundtrack alone was great, the editing was cool. It was a pretty unique storyline, do they not?
Speaker 2:have a horror movie set up for February.
Speaker 1:They have a lot in.
Speaker 2:February. They have Hard Eyes. Yeah, I was going to say there's one that's like a slasher flick that's going to be heart eyes right Heart eyes yeah, but I would think that something like Companion would have been perfect for that kind of thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, especially with Valentine's Day right there too. But there's probably so much lined up there, what's that Asian actor's name, seaman Liu?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, that one looks scary though I know it's, when you're talking about the, the, uh, the heartbreak or heartache yeah, it's like looks kind of cool though it looks well.
Speaker 1:I like him as an actor he's cool, but yeah, it does look very cool to see.
Speaker 2:So I'm excited to watch that uh what do you see in valentine's day? What is it? There's a right answer we. What am I seeing? Yeah, on valentine's day or for valentine's day. Yeah, I well, we got plans for valentine's day, me and her going to the city you come back.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, I don't know. I don't know what am I saying there's, there's, captain america, you gotta watch I am not seeing that oh no, I cannot. I'm actually excited. You've seen the popcorn bucket for it.
Speaker 2:Oh man, it looks like I gotta show you afterwards is it just like like it's like a shield, like that harrison ford's head. It's probably funny, I mean there is.
Speaker 1:There is a popcorn bucket with him. Like his bust, like his chest up, like hugging the popcorn bar some shit like that.
Speaker 2:I can't. I can't with those movies anymore that had like three or four reshoots yeah that's true, I forgot about that. That is going to be about like five or six different movies, two-hour movie I don't know I'm interested in it's gonna be a fucking train wreck. No, it's not. Oh, bullshit, like we talk about this every time I'm on the show but like I think that universe is, going downhill real fucking fast how about this?
Speaker 2:the super bowl is coming up and people are predicting that we're gonna see a fantastic four trailer I'd be excited for that, like I'm gonna be in the seats for that, as long as they could tell a Fantastic Four story without being like trying to like fucking shove Marvel Universe the extra shit down my throat. Fantastic Four are great characters. You could do specific Fantastic Four stories without having the connection to that kind of grand Marvel Universe. But I think they're just too afraid to not like be like oh hey, here's a fantastic four. Like let's throw in like a couple new fucking kid adventures that we're gonna try to force onto a disney plus program in 10 years down the road, or even like introduce like characters, like a brand new not like brand new from the comics but like original characters, I mean, like clearly, galactus will be involved.
Speaker 2:I know, that, like there's an actor that will be playing galactus. I know that there's going to be the silver surfer too, but it's going to be.
Speaker 1:This is also going to be taking place like in an alternate universe yeah, which is probably the best way of doing it. Yeah, you know, like I've heard, I've kind of read like spoilers and plot scripts or like you know, excuse me um synopses of what might be kind of the direction, not because I don't want to, but because those are always cooler than the actual movie I think so too, but, like from what I read, it looks pretty cool, like I'll be in there, probably opening night for that one.
Speaker 2:But as opposed to I, I can't care to give a shit about this. Like thunderbolts is coming up, that one might get me though, too shut up really over captain america, though, because I know that, um, one of the characters is, uh, bob, have you ever heard of the century?
Speaker 1:yeah okay, the century is going to be play a role I think it's gonna be like a big role in that movie yeah, and like those comic books, like that whole arc, I don't know who created the century.
Speaker 2:I want to say it was probably uh, my nerd card's gonna get revoked if I do this wrong but I want to say it was brian michael bendis that did the century and it was one of the most genuinely cool like early 2000s, mid 2000s, like comic book arcs, where they have this guy who was essentially like, I guess in a lot of ways like the marvel universe, is superman but, he was. All memories of him got erased.
Speaker 1:His own memories of his own persona got erased that's what it kind of looks like in the trailer yeah, yeah, so like he's essentially a walking time bomb that could be turned evil any second. But also, adam Warlock was way cooler in the comics than what he was in the movie too.
Speaker 2:I never saw Guardians 3 yet. Oh, shut up. Yeah, because that one lost me too. Oh come on.
Speaker 1:That was a good one. I can't spend another two hours watching Chris Pratt. I don't think it's Guardians 3. I think for you it's more Chris Pratt.
Speaker 2:It is. It's more chris pratt it is. It is because I can't spend another two hours watching chris pratt again, like really no, um, yeah, we'll go back to camp companion real quick.
Speaker 1:I'm fucking amazing movie. I probably would see that again in one time. The trailers do make it seem really gruesome but, I believe all the gruesome parts are in the trailer, so like if you can get past that stuff, I think it'd be golden. It is funny. It's a very original movie, I feel yeah um. It's set in the ultimate universes where like sex robots, like, are indistinguishable from people yeah and they put they try framing this robot for murder and she's like fuck that.
Speaker 2:It's kind of great, yeah, she gets control of her own self and stuff.
Speaker 1:I'm kind of on board with that idea that was another one with a very small cast and I loved it. I loved it with the small cast. Um, before, one more thing, before going to the movies uh, well, you mentioned you're going to florida. Uh, and, with their universal. I just saw a commercial for universal.
Speaker 2:They're coming out with a monster land yeah, that looks very exciting. By the time you go there, it should be up and running we have talked about the possibility of making that part of the trip you.
Speaker 1:I think you have to yeah, I would love to be able to go do that, yeah, and then I'll have you back on and let me know how it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah because like that's a brand new park.
Speaker 2:I think there's doing that one and harry potter new third, so that park is essentially think of like islands of adventure, where it is um kind of like the hub world and then it has like all these different offshoots left, yeah right, um, that's the one where they're going to have, uh, the kind of like British themed Harry Potter spot, where it's going to be more kind of in line with the ministry of magic Um and the um, uh, fantastic beasts and where to find them, kind of style, um, that kind of time period of that kind of world, a brand new how to train your dragon land.
Speaker 2:That's what they're like, there's going to be a super Nintendo world World, which I am still fucking stoked about.
Speaker 1:I will lose my shit and act like a damn child in that you're going to go there at the end of the season, it's going to be like a brand new place if you go on the regular oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:What other ones are there?
Speaker 1:I don't think Disney's coming out with a Marvel Land.
Speaker 2:Disney's going downhill, from what I understand.
Speaker 1:I mean I'm going again in November, but like I, I, I think I can get to this job. I'll be Disney good for a long time.
Speaker 2:I really enjoyed Epcot. Still, Epcot was a lot of fun from being like my first real Disney experience but, uh, I've heard mixed reviews on a lot of like Disney experiences overall anymore.
Speaker 1:I don't think that Bing for that.
Speaker 2:The prices keep going up, yeah that Bing for that buck don't do us any good, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm excited to try that out. All right, so for those of us listening now, so we've still kept up with us we're going to be doing the new 2024 Wolfman movie and for a throwback, you picked a 2006 movie I believe 2002, I think 2002, geez Dog Soldiers. I never heard of this movie, never seen this movie, didn't know anything about it. I went in there blind, yeah, and it was interesting. Yeah, it was interesting, it was fun. I like that movie a lot. For Wolfman, you know the original came out in 1941. Have you ever seen the original?
Speaker 2:No, I have not. No, I might. College film course where they did a lot of old black and white horror movies, so that might have been one that was covered, but there was a lot of drugs.
Speaker 1:I've never seen it, but I've been reading that there's a couple of references to that. The moving truck that they drive, the moving company on the side of it, is a made up one but it says established 1941. That's a reference to the original Stuff, like that. We went actually both later after, after we didn't go opening day to see this movie. So when I went to go see it there's maybe like three or four people in my theater and I went to go. I'd mentioned I was gonna see nosferatu, but I went to go to imagine one of that and they had, like, um, a wolf man cocktail yeah let me share it down.
Speaker 1:It's called hair of the wolf. It's just vodka, orange liqueur, orange juice, simple syrup, simple syrup and grenadine $13.
Speaker 2:For vodka orange liqueur. That's an expensive cocktail. Yeah, what's in?
Speaker 1:there. First of all, my drink looked nothing like the picture.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:It never does. Yeah, I mean, it was okay. Nothing special, I feel like it almost reminded me of Tequila Sunrise almost.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what it essentially is, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I like movie-themed cocktails.
Speaker 2:Those are pretty cool.
Speaker 1:I know you don't get them, but that one just popped off the screen for me.
Speaker 2:I've got like the one that we go to is the Imagine 2, and we've never sat and had a drink beforehand.
Speaker 1:I like that one because you can take the drink out of the theater. I didn't know that, yeah, but I think the AMC's here too, you can do that.
Speaker 2:So when you get the drink, do they give it to you in a plastic?
Speaker 1:A plastic. They give you a lid too. You can put a straw on, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's kind of cool. I didn't know that. I thought you would have had to drink it inside the actual bar.
Speaker 1:I don't know. As soon as she gave me my drink, she gave me the bill. She said have a good night.
Speaker 2:She's like I don't care enough about this job Pretty much.
Speaker 1:It was a Thursday so he knew I was there. But, Wolfman, you know this movie came out. It's about a family at a remote farmhouse is attacked on an unscreened animal but as the night stretches on, the father begins to transform into something unrecognizable. This movie was directed by Leigh Whannell Wh. Recognizable. This movie was directed by Leigh Whannell. Leigh Whannell, Whose directed movie is like Invisible man, the remake of Invisible man, stuff like that. He's pretty familiar.
Speaker 2:Did he do Insidious? I'm pretty sure he did. Oh, he said James Wan.
Speaker 1:I think it's James Wan.
Speaker 2:oh, he did insidious, the one that came out just last 2023 so, like I don't know if you follow any like broadway news or like stage show news, there was an insidious stage show that was like touring across the country and it was like billed as this kind of like immersive horror experience where you know you meet and like you're sitting down in a theater with the two like goofy ghost hunter guys from those movies and like you're, they're talking to you and everything, and then shit goes wrong in the theater and there's monsters and demons that pop out. Apparently it is so bad yeah, it is so bad that it got canceled mid-tour.
Speaker 1:I feel like if it was so bad it would probably be popular, just like.
Speaker 2:Well, if you go online and you can watch people talk about it on YouTube, a little bit they share some reactions and everything.
Speaker 1:Would you still watch it?
Speaker 2:though no, it looks, it sounds bad To the point where it's like these theater companies are refunding people's tickets because they're like this is the worst thing we've ever seen. Like we are sorry, like this does not meet our standards for the kind of performance that we want to have at this theater.
Speaker 1:It's like hard to do though, like that's like, they took a conjuring conjuring to make that a play, you know it's the stupidest idea I've ever heard.
Speaker 2:Yeah um?
Speaker 1:what was your theater experience like? Was it busy there?
Speaker 2:not really. We went um thursday before opening night, so like it's one of those like showings that like unless you don't know what's going on, you just assume it's a friday showing. Um, not that many people. You know like it was.
Speaker 1:We go early though, like we don't like to do the fucking like 7 pm, 8 pm shows yeah, well, yeah too, I'm saying we got shit to do anyways, uh, but the only people I see talk about this movie are people like us, like there's a big movie fanatics, but like I don't see like the average movie goer to see this movie. And even the creators of this movie came out and said like yeah, this isn't going to be liked by everybody.
Speaker 2:You're either going to really really love it or just really, really hate it yeah, and I agree with that.
Speaker 1:yeah movie. The trailers looked amazing for this movie. It was so unique, Like the way they did the claw marks and everything for the spelling out Wolfman. I thought that was genius and it looks scary and stuff like that. But what you see in the trailers is pretty much the whole highlights of the whole fucking movie.
Speaker 2:There's a couple of like good uses of shot framing that I did appreciate in this movie. Oh, it was cinematically shot beautifully, and there's a couple of bits that were kind of intense. I thought Like toward the ones, the stuff in the beginning. You know where you know With the dad. Yeah, and for me, when horror happens in the daytime, that always is like super cool and super like even more frightening to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, and it's also harder too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is, it is, but they, there's the establishing bits where you know, you see, the, the hero, or the the father, well, the protag. Can we say he's a protagonist kind of. Yeah, like the protagonist, um, and he's with his father and you know his father's kind of I don't want to say a dick, he was an ass yeah, like it was a hard ass on his son.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was like Eric former 10, or I mean.
Speaker 2:Red.
Speaker 1:Red Foreman times 10.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he's taking him hunting and he's just kind of being like very, very stern, kind of authoritative dad. And you know the sons you know, got the sniper rifle or I wouldn't say sniper rifle, but like a rifle and he's trying to hunt and you know, in the you see the pov of the crosshairs and you see just like those brief silhouettes of the fucking.
Speaker 1:Well, that's called, like there's a specific word for that, but like it's most famously done in jaws, like the start of it, like you know, you, you, you know something's there, but it's just your imagination building it up to look even scary what it was. And they did that beautifully in this movie, oh yeah there's a, yeah, there's a, that one.
Speaker 2:It really got me. Uh, the bits where they have to run and hide in the little like deer, deer blind, deer blind. Yes, then, where they have to run and hide in the little deer blind, and you know, you see the breath of the thing.
Speaker 1:That was cool there are.
Speaker 2:There are some really good ideas in this movie but, just like you said, I don't think it's more of a love it or hate it. Like I like this movie, I could see stuff that could improve, but overall I'm not mad that I spent the money on it, so I mean to me like there's like no character development in this movie not really no, this is like kind of like one and done kind of thing there was like no reason for me to really be invested in these characters.
Speaker 2:I I felt like I don't give a fuck. You don't really get a sense of the.
Speaker 1:Who they are in a regular life. I mean, yeah, he's a dad who doesn't want to be the same as his dad and try to be a good father to his kid, and I don't even know this is confirmed. I might be making this up in my head, but was there marital problems between him and his wife?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Because I think she was working and he wasn't. Maybe it was probably just a. Very Well, you see how the daughter in the beginning of the movie they start to have a fight and the daughter is apparently comfortable enough to look at them both and be like when I have kids, I'm never fighting in front of them. Yeah, and that's a pretty ballsy kind of delivery. So this is something that poor girl has probably suffered with for a long time since she was a kid yeah so that marriage is probably on the ropes.
Speaker 1:I didn't like that scene, though, when he was like yelling in front of her because, like I didn't buy it, I could totally tell he was acting, you know.
Speaker 2:But like I could kind of get the idea that they're trying to set up where it's just and you see it too towards the end, like history, like I was just talking with some my girlfriend with it about it, but like at the end of the day we essentially all become our parents yeah yeah, like I mean the whole shot the point was.
Speaker 1:It was an establishing shot for the character yeah um, but like I felt like part of the reason this movie kind of fell off I I felt like it was heavily studio influenced. We got to have some cliches in here too. The whole line was like what am I thinking of right now that I love my daughter the most? She's like five times in the movie.
Speaker 2:That's a little dorky. I did kind of roll my eyes at that.
Speaker 1:As soon as she said that. I guarantee you they're going to do this at the end. When he's a wolf, there's got to be like. It is a little bit too cheesy that one does kind of seem like a rewrite or a script to pass over and this whole movie was mostly about not really so much the Wolfman, but like as his character's transformation into the Wolfman, Like physically not even anything else.
Speaker 2:So it's a Blumhouse production right. Blumhouse has kind of fallen off it reminds me a lot of the style of the purge, where it's like let's have, we have a really good idea here, but we're gonna just kind of narrow it down to a singular, like trapped in a house film, house invasion film, you know which is gonna be like our next movie, yeah yeah, but um, it's.
Speaker 2:It works in some ways because, like, once Are we going through the plot? Yeah, so once the plot kicks off when the man's father dies and it's established that the father has been a woodsman, lives in the woods his entire life and he is aware of something in the woods that he's trying to hunt, yeah, do they clearly say wolfman or some sort of something in the woods?
Speaker 1:that he's trying to hunt, yeah.
Speaker 2:Does he? Do? They clearly say like wolf man or some sort of creature in the woods.
Speaker 1:It wasn't like the Mexican term for it that they use.
Speaker 2:Is it like Bruja? No, that's a witch.
Speaker 1:No, no, there was something like that, but it meant, like the wolf, the face of a wolf, or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but in any case, like the son walks in on his dad talking to somebody on like a CB radio about it and be like, hey, we saw it out there, like we're going to get it this time, you know, yeah, the son kind of picks up on it and, you know, as he grows into an adult he realizes and carries on this whole kind of like very traumatic experience of like seeing this thing and being hunted by this thing.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:You know, because those first 10 minutes are pretty intense, I feel like yeah, definitely. Where they set off the first attack.
Speaker 1:And it doesn't pick up again until another 45 minutes after that.
Speaker 2:It does move a little bit slow, but they do create some tension.
Speaker 1:How about when they're driving to the house they run into some stranger?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the man's father dies and he gets the notice of hey, this property is now yours. X, y, z, you know?
Speaker 1:Come close it or something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's kind of a last-ditch effort to save a failing marriage.
Speaker 1:in a lot of ways, yeah, like a family trip, and this also before we keep going. This movie was shot in New Zealand too, and it looked beautiful.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that because it looked like America to me. That looked like america to me. That's kind of crazy, um. But you know it's a last ditch thing, just kind of help save a marriage. Like come with me back to my family's home, help me out here. Like we'll take some time in this country for a bit and you know, once the mom and the daughter agree to it, shit goes south pretty quick yeah, like I mentioned, they run into an old friend of his from his childhood and uh, that guy was just odd the entire time I like that he invites himself into their car with a gun and he's just like staring at them from a deer blind and everything motionless as they're driving.
Speaker 2:So like that's, like those settings of horror movies, like deep woodsy settings in horror movies, scare the fuck out of me.
Speaker 1:I don't like that kind of stuff no, like I could go camping.
Speaker 2:I think camping would be cool, I think camping's fun, but I also like, like there's a bit of an adrenaline kick for me too because, like I'm, one of my favorite like bigfoot movies is willow creek. Have you ever watched?
Speaker 2:that no, but it's, it's good, it's good. There's a it's a found footage flick and there's a prolonged, like maybe 10, 15 minute scene where it's just set inside of a tent and, um, I had headphones on for when I was watching it for the first time and this couple's got like a camera going and everything and they, you know, they hear, you hear rustling all around and at points you see like the silhouette of a face, like go through the tent, kind of like it's sniffing them and everything. The woods are scary. I don't, I don't fuck with the woods, woods have werewolves.
Speaker 1:I let my dog in the backyard here. It's scary as shit.
Speaker 2:When it's dark, it is it is because you don't know, like at the end of the day, you don't really know what's out there.
Speaker 1:Be it like right even though, like here, it's just like raccoons and shit like that, but still that record's pretty scary as shit.
Speaker 2:Oh, I mean, they are like what's the saying? Raccoon and day, stay away, raccoon at night it's all right, I guess I don't think I've ever seen a record in their day well, if you do, that means they usually have rabies. Oh shoot, yeah, that's scary, yeah, so always remember that okay, let's go back to the movie.
Speaker 1:Though they get there, I mean they, you know they they see something in the street. I like that was a good pop up scare.
Speaker 1:I like that I'm not a big fan of pop-up scares, but that was a pretty good one and they drive off the side of the road and something attacks the car. This is our first interaction. Like I said, this is like a silhouette thing again. You just see its arms slash something real quick and you see something dragging this, this body, away too. That was genius. Like that they go running, they run through the woods until they find the house and then you see it chasing. That was pretty scary.
Speaker 2:That is a good bit like there are really.
Speaker 1:There are elements of really good moments of tension here but they get inside the house and they all they do is lock it and it was like.
Speaker 2:This thing is just like oh damn, they got away yeah, it takes them a minute to kind of get the idea, to barricade and everything. Yeah, and he's just walking around the house and they're like, but also during like.
Speaker 1:I was thinking the whole time. They didn't have cell phones, though I couldn't remember.
Speaker 2:I think it's an element of like it's a fucking woodsman, you know that shit doesn't work in the woods. Yeah, like it's. You know, I'm surprised there was no landline. Then the guy like do you think? Well, it was his father's place and his father was like kind of an off the grid kind of guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like he was on the CB radio downstairs, not using a phone to try and talk to people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and like the rest of the movie he said, it just takes place in this house Like, not the South, like a farmland, because they're outside a little bit too, because they're outside a little bit too During the initial attack.
Speaker 2:Though, once they get ran off the road and they pull each other out of the truck and they make the break for the house, he does get scratched, and that's when he starts to get infected.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and he slowly this whole movie is him turning into it.
Speaker 2:So I love the idea of. I think it's kind of like modern times-yy, you know, like to turn this idea of the wolf man into a virus kind of thing but this is a sidebar.
Speaker 1:Did you see the other werewolf movie, werewolves, that came out last year december?
Speaker 2:no, is that the one frank gorilla? No, I haven't. I haven't seen that either.
Speaker 1:I'm mad that I haven't seen that I think it's on peacock now or something I'll have to check that out.
Speaker 2:Um, but like, changing the idea of like the, the lycanthrope, into an actual virus, yeah, very modern, I feel like. I think that's a neat way of looking at it. I mean it, there's a lot of historical context to the idea of like back in the day, like this just being these, these guys that people saw, just being like woodsmen that were out there for too long, went a little fucking crazy. They probably did contract something from whatever animal at some point. You know, I think there is an element of truth to the lore and the mythology of the wolf man and but I do if, if, if, big if, if it is real and those kinds of things were real, I think it would be more in line with this I agree with that.
Speaker 1:I mean, you see the whole process of transforming, first like it's the senses and everything like that, and then he's physical transforming. I I like that bit a lot like one of the first things you do. You notice he has super hearing. Yeah, that's thudding like yeah, here's something pounding against the wall and then he goes, looks up, it's a spider crawling on the wall that's a cool bit it's a big ass fucking spider though that was scary shit.
Speaker 1:That was a real spider I read the but that's another reason like proof that I was filmed in new zealand. You know that was scary shit. And then, like he can his night, he got night vision. I looked up like how are they doing the perspective switching back and forth? It was all done in one smooth shot, yeah, and it was all practical. They had lighting there that they changed it. That's kind of cool. It was very cool. And then, um, another cool fact I got about like how he started not being able to understand regular human language I like that too.
Speaker 1:um, how they did that? Their vocals were overlaid by other vocals, but in reverse too, so that's what makes it sound a little jumbled. That was pretty cool. Interesting detail too.
Speaker 2:I like body horror movies. So you like the Substance I fucking loved the Substance Jennifer's Body yeah.
Speaker 1:Fun fact my friend Glenn, who's always on this podcast. He watched that at his best friend's house across the street. He called his mom to get. Can you watch me go across the street?
Speaker 2:Jennifer's Body's fun. I'm not a big fan of the Diablo Cody that wrote it. I fucking hate Juno. Juno's one of my least favorite movies I cannot stand Juno at all. But Jennifer's Body, I think, works because of Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox. Megan Fox is funny in that movie.
Speaker 1:She's in another movie that's got body. It's another robot movie, or is it a show? Yeah?
Speaker 2:Another sex bot movie. Yeah, sex bots are so hot right now.
Speaker 1:I'm sold. I'm going to watch it.
Speaker 2:Throw Cindy Sweeney in there that's gonna be the new trend in horror movies. Come mark my word we're gonna start to see more like sex bot. We're gonna start to see more like ai robot shit.
Speaker 1:Remember like back in the day like there was always tits in horror movies, yeah, now this is not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, bring that back, I want that that's very, um, specific to like the 80s exploitation era, though, of that kind of stuff. It's very titillating to have somebody be fucking and then all of a sudden get a knife to the back.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So the night vision and the vocal thing was very cool in this movie. Then you get into his physical transformation. On top of that, his family's noticing weird shit's going on. There was that one scene where he was barricading the door with a bookshelf and he looks and his wife's just there staring at him, and so was the daughter. I was like what the fuck is that about? I thought, are they seeing something that we're not seeing on screen yet?
Speaker 2:Well, the practical effects when he pulls off his Band-Aid. That was gross. There's a lot of really cool shit there.
Speaker 1:And I also read an interview. He was talking about that scene and how he gnaws on it, you know, for a little bit.
Speaker 2:That's like when that happened, that kind of got me a bit you know, Like that is good, I think. Physical character acting by the actor's part.
Speaker 1:Well, he said it was so easy for him because you know it's fake blood, so it's like mostly sugar and he said, like the bone, you see it. He said he thinks it was like white chocolate or something like that.
Speaker 2:So it was very easy for him to really get in there and do it. Yeah, like that is, like that's an intense bit, because like that's when he starts to really turn. You see him acting full on, like a damn dog.
Speaker 1:And it's not like he doesn't know what to he's realizing. Oh shit, I'm changing.
Speaker 2:He's got some sense of an idea and it's because of the fact that, like, he had that experience as a kid and he walked in on his dad being like, hey, there's something out there in these fucking woods. I saw it again.
Speaker 1:We're trying to kill it, but it got away and then there's also like I'm kind of speeding through this now, but there's also a face-off scene with him and the other wolf man. That's already existing. Yes, that was pretty cool and intense, because not only him were fighting the wife's, though. They're both fighting to protect a little girl.
Speaker 1:Yeah and um, I swear I've seen she gets scratched too at one point like once her leg was dangling through that like thing no, they're careful with that stuff yeah, but, um, that scene was cool alone because, like, obviously it shows he's just as strong as this new one and he's kind of like I wouldn't say accepting it, but using it for his advantage.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, there's like when the other wolfman begins to stalk them and things like that. You know, there's a bit on the outside where they're hanging above like a suspended canopy time and you see the silhouette of the wolfman underneath them trying to get at them like those are pretty effective shots.
Speaker 1:There wasn't a whole lot of shots with like you see him fully no, and I think that works.
Speaker 2:I think that works. But when you did, see him fully.
Speaker 1:How did you think about the life I?
Speaker 2:think that, given the take that they're going, where they're trying to make it more of a viral thing, where it's like a disease, I think that's the best way of doing it I mean there's one people that look like fucking crackheads.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean like I think that if, if that shit was real, I think that that's how it would look like fucking crackheads. Yeah, I mean like I think that if that shit was real, I think that that's how it would look like. I don't think necessarily it would be the as we were going to hop on in the next movie. It's going to be that style of wolf.
Speaker 1:I kind of wish it was, though almost I do like the style, because I was like why he doesn't even look like a wolf.
Speaker 2:Where the fuck did they get that Wolfman title from then? Well, I mean, let's be fair, like did the like. You know how the old Universal Wolfman looked Like?
Speaker 1:back in the day.
Speaker 2:Like it didn't necessarily look the most convincing either.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess. Well, this other movie did a lot, yeah, yeah, but we'll get into that in just a second. We're almost done with this one made it ended.
Speaker 2:I wish there was like another 15 minutes added to this because, like I mean, there's not much of a story to tell really, it is like you said there's. That doesn't really feel like there's much in the way of like character development.
Speaker 1:I don't like more movies, like obviously lead to a sequel, but like I think you could have let it like expanding this universe a little bit, because is there other wolf people out there or is it just one passing on the?
Speaker 2:bloodline or what you? You mentioned the bloodline thing and you kind of makes me wonder too whether or not this is almost hereditary at a point I don't think so because they are like spoiler alert. But you know, it is revealed that the wolfman that is chasing them this entire time is like the kid's father, his, and I thought that was pretty obvious too. I didn't.
Speaker 1:I didn't pick up on that maybe I'm just a big dummy in the theater. I think you're just out of touch with your movie going stuff, because like it's a good to me.
Speaker 2:It was a cool reveal.
Speaker 1:You know like they get that wolfman down but I almost like wish they revealed that or he realized that while he was still human too yeah, because that would have been more interesting, I think. But he do you like, because then he would have more of a dilemma versus killing them.
Speaker 2:You know, I think yeah, yeah, you know like he, because at that point the animal instinct was kind of just kicking over for him too. Right, yeah, because after he kills or gets rid of the father is when he starts to fully go.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, and then, like he knows he's gonna turn on his family and then that's when he he starts to run away, but then he ends up coming back for them and then this is another spoiler alert the wife shoots him. I mean, the acting was great in this movie. I thought I didn't think there was nothing too bad with the acting.
Speaker 2:Some of the dialogue was a little bit cheesy, but the two main leads, they were great in this movie, yeah, and for the main lead, the father you other father you need, you needed somebody to have that physicality to.
Speaker 1:it was, I think james mcavoy could have did great in this role with this scene, his transformation, and split how he did that. See, but that's it takes, that I don't know you know who was going to originally play this character it was signed on two years ago was ryan gosling I can't see that either.
Speaker 2:I don't think that would.
Speaker 1:That was like right after that would have been right after Barbie too.
Speaker 2:So these movies? I think for these movies to work, they need to be about the story and not the actor.
Speaker 1:And that's why I'm kind of glad they didn't pick A-listers, you know.
Speaker 2:We want to talk about the Invisible man, for example. That's another one that updated, Because you saw that one right, yeah.
Speaker 1:I saw that and the original one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the uh, the updated version is another one that they took an idea and they modernized it extremely well and that one is super effective. Kind of surprising like a sequel to that. Yeah, I don't think there should be one, because that one works fucking well.
Speaker 1:That one I'm actually kind of surprised you don't have a monster universe yet.
Speaker 2:I don't want them to do that because they tried that with fucking tom cruise and all that shit and and Russell Crowe as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, like come on, I don't want to see that shit. Yeah, no more of these backdoor pilots into some shared dark universe. I don't need that. No, I don't need to see the Wolfman teaming up with the Invisible man to fight Dracula.
Speaker 1:I mean, we got nosferatu already.
Speaker 2:I mean like there's going to be apparently they're one of the rides that's going to be at epic universe is going to be a like harry potter style um, you've been to the one islands of adventure. There's the harry potter one that's in um the hogwarts, the, the journey, forbidden journey, or whatever yeah, yeah the one where they they have you flying through and you're going through and you're seeing the Dementors and you're going through the forest and everything. It's going to be that same kind of ride style.
Speaker 2:That one's low-key kind of. Scary, that one is low-key kind of scary Because of the spiders. That one gets me. Every time too, the Dementor pops up and everything and it's a big fucking face.
Speaker 1:And face. It's, in your face it is. It is that one gets me and I feel like I should. I'm a grown-ass I think I did. They're updating that one, right, you're talking.
Speaker 2:Well, no, they're going to take that same kind of ride style and make a giant one, set in like the dark universe yeah so it's going to be like you're in lisa frankenstein's or like his daughter's castle and like all of these monsters break out, or no, dracula gets loose and everything and you have to Frankenstein's going to fight him, or some shit. Okay, that does sound like it could be scary, but I would still ride it. Some of those animatronics that they have shown too for those rides look fucking awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, they look awesome. I'm more excited for it now. Yeah me too. I think Ryan Gos awesome. I'm always excited for it now, yeah me too. Um, I think, right, we're going back, ryan gosling is still a producer on this movie too, but like you can't have the like it's about how do you feel about ryan gosling joining star wars? What he's gonna be in um, um, who's the director, thor ragnar? Not right? Yeah, thor ragnarok tycho tycho what td?
Speaker 1:he's directing a star wars movie and ryan Ryan Gosling just signed on to star in it.
Speaker 2:That sounds awful Because Taika Waititi kind of sucks yeah.
Speaker 1:Take out him though.
Speaker 2:But if it was?
Speaker 1:in a different director, maybe like what's it? Jj Abrams or something.
Speaker 2:Taika Waititi was good back in the day. Have you ever seen?
Speaker 1:When he was fresh, when it was unique.
Speaker 2:Now we're like, used to his style there is an amazing movie um hunt for the world of people with sam neill and it is with the, the kid from deadpool 2, the little fat kid oh yeah, well, he was in y2k yeah, yeah. So if you get a chance, watch that it is a fat kid from dead it is amazing though.
Speaker 2:It's a great film. It's funny and it's sweet and it's like sam neill just being a grumpy old man. It's amazing, but like taika back in the day doing that stuff was fantastic, but like him being in charge of shit like thor no, huge movies like this no like star wars like him and free guy you know it's annoying.
Speaker 1:I mean I was decent, but like I mean it's going to be another comedy movie for Star Wars. I don't think Star Wars fans are going to like that, Especially with Ryan Reynolds Not Reynolds Ryan Gosling, who's just off of doing the last three or four movies.
Speaker 2:Nothing but comedies, yeah we don't need big names. Give that shit a rest. Disney needs to lay the IP down and just let it go.
Speaker 1:I feel like it's going to be another Free Guy type of movie with it probably will be it probably will be.
Speaker 2:It's probably gonna be stupid. Not free guy, I mean, um the fall guy. Disney has tainted my favorite franchises in a lot of ways. Like I was never really a big star wars like nerd, nerd, but I could definitely tell the output of it has made it a lot shittier overall. Like shit. Like I know that the acolyte didn't do well, the mandalorian kind of fall off that book of boba fett. Like we don't need tv. Excuse me, we don't need tv shows for over. Like when, where they come out with next. You know what I want to see next? For that? I'm getting mad now because you got me on this rant, but I want to see a fucking like documentary about the cantina band in most isley, or no, the one that plays in um java's uh oh, okay castle and like no, no, it was a cantina band you know, the one that does like that oh yeah like do you think they realize that they like drop the number one banger in the star wars universe?
Speaker 1:right there. Okay, you just you want to like. Okay, do you feel like the music type? Okay, do you feel like it's Behind the music type of stuff?
Speaker 2:Yeah, do you feel like it's like they would look back at that performance in about 10 years and it would be like the same as, like I don't know, seeing like Modest Mouse playing on the street, just playing like Float On before they got famous?
Speaker 1:You're thinking too much anyway, now.
Speaker 2:See but if we're going to do that, yeah, let's do that, let's get a documentary about that.
Speaker 1:But if they did it in the form of the Office, I think it could work.
Speaker 2:See well, the only thing that's come out recently in the Star Wars canon that has made me kind of interested is the idea of the Goonies kind of style thing with Jude Law. Okay, it's out now and it's called Skeleton Crew. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I heard about that.
Speaker 2:It's not connected to the lore of anything overarching, it's just kind of like a one-shot show where a bunch of young kids in the Star Wars universe get into hijinks. So it's essentially like Goonies.
Speaker 1:That is kind of cool.
Speaker 2:It's out there in Disney+. I'm almost interested in it, but pass all this shit. Almost interested in it, but pass all this shit. Really, if you're going to do this shit with Marvel and you're going to do this shit with Disney, you need to do new stuff. Rogue One worked because of it being a completely different kind of feel and genre to me than a Star Wars film. Rogue One felt like a spy thriller. It felt like a war movie.
Speaker 1:It didn't feel like a Star.
Speaker 2:Wars movie. It felt like a war movie. Well, it felt like a war movie. It didn't feel like a Star Wars movie. It felt like a war movie.
Speaker 1:Well, it's kind of interesting you say that right now, because our next movie definitely felt like a war movie to me versus just a werewolf movie. We're going to be talking about the 2002 Dog Soldiers for the second movie that you picked for a throwback. This movie's about a routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scottish wilderness, directed and written by Neil Marshall. I knew nothing about this movie going in.
Speaker 2:Do you know Neil Marshall? Have you ever seen the Descent? No, you've never seen the Descent. I don't think so it's one of the best horror movies.
Speaker 1:All of his movies are horrors. That looks like from his IMBD.
Speaker 2:No, he's a great. This is early on in his career, because I'm pretty sure he did this and went straight to the Descent.
Speaker 1:The Descent came out. Oh no, part 2 came out in 2009. Sorry, I can tell 90% of his budget went towards the editing. Yeah, I texted you. I'm having a seizure watching this because but the actual practical effects though too. Yeah, we'll talk about the product, because that was my favorite thing about it, but like just editing it almost looked like it was shot on an iphone.
Speaker 2:I like the fact that, like I was kind of taken back by how grainy and how uh it was very great.
Speaker 1:That's why I said iphone, but I think it added but it's kind of weird, it was like 4k, but in grainy like, because like the movements looked great like on screen cinematically but it was like it was like almost like they had a filter on over it the entire movie. It was kind of odd.
Speaker 1:It was hard to get over there but because of that, like the first half hour was hard for me to get into yeah but once you start getting into the action a little bit more of the plot and like interesting plot, I mean this script is not the best script but it has bones of a great story. Yes, and I really appreciate it in this movie and towards the end it really like okay, I'm going to give it a higher rating a little bit just because of the ending. We didn't do the rating for Wolfman, sorry. One out of ten.
Speaker 2:I would say I did enjoy it 6.5. I'll give it a 6.
Speaker 1:6 out of 10. Yeah, I did enjoy it. 6.5? I'll give it a 6 out of 10. Yeah, it's not a bad film.
Speaker 2:I don't think it is.
Speaker 1:Would you want to see a sequel?
Speaker 2:No, I don't need a sequel.
Speaker 1:No, do you think it will be a big Halloween costume?
Speaker 2:No, me neither. I think they're going to have problems trying to get these universal monsters off the ground.
Speaker 1:I feel like which is wild, wild.
Speaker 2:Scary movie's coming back next year. I'm excited for that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I need to.
Speaker 2:I didn't even fucking think about that.
Speaker 1:I bet you like. I wonder if they'll just spruce this Wolfman.
Speaker 2:I would Like is it Anna Faris coming back? Like are the Well the?
Speaker 1:other chick is coming back, I heard, but they need Anna Faris. I know I feel like if the other girl's coming back, she'll probably come back too.
Speaker 2:I don't think nothing's been officially announced yet, though? No, because it's not going to be the same without her. She's the only character in all of them, right? They're so fucking funny yeah. They are so funny, like the one where she's in the grudge house and it's offensive and I feel bad for laughing. But she's talking to the little ghost cat guy or ghost cat kid and she's just like mitsubishi honda, like it's so funny.
Speaker 1:You said that I was laughing about it this morning just in the shower randomly it's a good bit cracks me up every time sanada teriyaki samurai it's stupid.
Speaker 2:I feel like I shouldn't laugh, but hey but uh, let's go back to this movie.
Speaker 1:I mean the outside shots, like when they come into the helicopter or anything like that. The woods itself looks like in the back of a neighborhood are you familiar with any of the actors though?
Speaker 2:no not that I recognize. So one of the guys has been a doctor on gray's anatomy for a fucking minute is that sean? No, that was uh, ke McKidd, kevin McKidd. He's been on Grey's Anatomy for damn near 10-15 years. At this point it feels like as uh, dr Owen Hunt, the other guy, the guy Pete Pertwee, pertwee, sean, sean Pertwee, sean Pertwee. It plays Alfred in Gotham. Have you ever seen Gotham?
Speaker 1:oh, yeah, you're right. Yeah, yeah, I forgot about that so that's.
Speaker 2:I liked him in that he's a good military kind of style guy, Because even in Gotham that version of Alfred was very, very rough and tumble.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Military background and everything, yeah, and they're both really good actors.
Speaker 1:What do you think? The point of this movie, though, was made in southern Scotland.
Speaker 2:I think that you get out this is like an american movie.
Speaker 1:Right, it's not like it was overseas, it was shot overseas, I mean it was shot overseas, but it didn't really wasn't over like a foreign movie.
Speaker 2:From what I understand, it was released in theaters in across the pond but, like over here, it got a streaming release okay um, I think it did pretty well over there, but yeah, um, I think that that kind of stuff's a hard sell for an American audience.
Speaker 1:I mean this movie on IMBD has a 6.8 out of 10, which is pretty decent.
Speaker 2:But, it's a cult movie now it didn't get a lot of big buzz until after the fact. After the fact that he did the Descent, which is one of the best cave horror movies of all time.
Speaker 1:I gotta check that out now.
Speaker 2:It's good. Are you claustrophobic? No, but I might be after that movie yeah, you might be after that Some of it's tough.
Speaker 1:But you mentioned practicality earlier. I mean Wolfman had a lot of practical effects on it too, like the makeup and everything like that. This one took it to whole nother level, like obviously the wolf people were practical but like the guts coming out and everything fun bits, man like this is my kind of horror movie where it's very gory it's action.
Speaker 2:It's gore, but the gore is funny in a lot of ways too.
Speaker 1:You know they're they're literally shoving them back in oh yeah, the guts it's like okay, even if you sew them up, he's still probably got hella infections. Now.
Speaker 2:There's a bit where the dog that they find is just trying to play tug of war with his intestines too. That's funny. It's funny. It's my style of horror movie, where it's action, it's comedy, it's really good. Practical effects the reason why I love this movie is because of the werewolf design too. Yeah, these things are fucking big and these things are fucking well, you know what the the director did?
Speaker 1:he hired dancers instead of stunt people to play them, to make them more like light on their feet and no shit, I didn't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's kind of makes sense, though yeah, um, but I mean, this film was very, very shot, dark too, and most of it has to do with a practical, because I don't think they can move every single muscle in their face, no, and all they could probably do is open their mouth and close their mouths, really. So that's why they did simple shots. All of the action shots are very fast and quick, so you can't pick up on any mistakes with them. That's why I said it's heavy on editing. There's a really good fight scene, though, towards the end, between one of the guys and a werewolf, where he's just like he gets a good upper hand on the werewolf at this point, like they're, they're desperate and like because he had guns in the beginning, I think they end up fighting with pots and pans.
Speaker 2:Yeah like that's. You know this is a very much like, in the same vein of like the wolfman. This is kind of like a home invasion movie where they're under siege, they have to like stay the night and try to survive. When it's revealed that this werewolf, the, this clan of werewolves, is a family that owns the house and everything I actually like that that there's multiple werewolves in this one yeah, versus the one because, like it's more of a threat.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah yeah, there's like there's almost like, oh shit, how they can get out of this. You know it's very alert, they don't. No, not, not all of them because that doesn't kevin mckinnon live most positive he does well, I don't know, maybe because he's the guy, that um.
Speaker 2:At the end of the movie there's a um because you remember, they're talking about the football game throughout the entire movie, yeah, and they're like wanting to know the sports and everything and like I think one of the final shots is a newspaper in the front page is a top page, is the results of the game that they were talking about. Underneath it there's a small little blurb like werewolves ate my platoon. It's his story and everything.
Speaker 1:One of the plot points of this movie is that there's a betrayal in this movie. I kind of wish that Wolfman had a bit of betrayal, like maybe that guy survived, who they found, and he leads people to his dad to feed him. I was wondering about like yeah like the Wolfman.
Speaker 2:Very simple plot compared to what this one is. Very, very simple, yeah, and I think for the most part it works for the Wolfman, but right though like this. For the most part it works for the wolf man, but right though, like this, one has that element of betrayal. There's the uh, military guy that you know was training kevin mckinnon in the beginning and they eventually find out that there was a black ops team that was sent to kind of hunt and retrieve a werewolf for that kind of extraction and study it and everything right.
Speaker 2:That guy ends up getting infected too and starts to turn the fucking, the design, though these things are hulking beasts I was.
Speaker 1:I mean, just their legs alone were incredible because they're very muscular oh yeah the hair everywhere.
Speaker 2:I mean it looks more wolf than man, that looks like we talked about the differences in terms of, like the viral nature and the. I feel like for this version, this is much more supernatural in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I could see that they even talk about how do you feel about realizing myths. Their myths are real, or something.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:Who would you give this one out of 10?
Speaker 2:I fucking love this movie. I would say probably 8, 9, 8.
Speaker 1:8. I would say 8. Greg. Oh my goodness, this is a good foreign flick.
Speaker 2:It is on shutter, it's streaming well, it's also 2002 too yeah, but like it's a good horror flick, it's on shutter, it's streaming, it's easily available to watch. It's got a really good sense of humor throughout all of it I think I watched this on peacock, so it's on peacock too there's a bit of like of a running bit where they realize that polaroids like the flash stuns and everything, and there, towards the end, you see the fucking polaroid pictures of all that, like it's made by a filmmaker and a director that is very early on in his career.
Speaker 2:I could tell that, and it's super cool though, because, like once you, if you were to go and watch his filmography after the fact, you see these little throw like through lines where you can see him in that style that's in. This, apply to the descent too. You know, it's interesting. I liked it, it was good.
Speaker 1:I would give it a 6.5 out of 10, though really, you like, you like, wolf, wait, I give six for the wolfman, 6.5 for this one really yeah, that's a bummer this one's fun though it's, it is fun, it's ridiculous and it's fun, but it's very british too, which I like very british. I like that a lot, though, because, like these guys, that's why I was questioning if it was a foreign film or not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, these, these actors, though, like it is very different to see a group of british like english actors and what their version of military looks like and what their version of what a soldier should look like. Should look like versus American yeah like if we were to have this movie now but set it in like, let's say, the Appalachians or whatever, that military team would all be fucking CW, fuck boys, you know.
Speaker 1:But for real, though, like it would be the prettiest guys on the block.
Speaker 2:You know, like they don't cast military men that look like military men anymore oh I thousand percent agree with that. Like you look at predator, for example, you know, like those guys weren't necessarily the most conventionally attractive, you know, but they were all fucking built like they looked like but then you go to like to gi joe was like channing tatum and stuff like that. Yes, I don't want to. I feel bad saying that. Like the guys in predator looks like men, yeah, like men.
Speaker 1:Soldiers versus just different generation.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, you're right, you're right. That's a good point, though, too, because, like the guys in gi joe or the guys that are in these action movies now, they look like actors, they look like action stars. They don't look like these gruff military men.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I would like to see that make a comeback, a little bit Like they hired real people Like Danny Trejo. He was a real Mexican gangster and they threw him in the movie. It was real practical. It's unheard of now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, like Trejo, that's unheard of now. Yeah, no, like. Uh, trejo for trejo's a great example. Yeah, because trejo is got that history that informs every character that he plays. Yeah, but it's also, you know, he's got the acting background and he's funny too, like he's a cool guy, he's charismatic enough now he's fucking beating people up now well, like, uh he like, I've always wanted to try those tacos that you never tried them?
Speaker 2:yeah, uh, I, I know that he does do food trucks and there are restaurants out in I want to say LA and Florida, right, I?
Speaker 1:thought it was LA and Texas.
Speaker 2:I bet those tacos are damn good.
Speaker 1:I'm interested and I'm surprised he hasn't came out with tequila.
Speaker 2:Honestly, just because you can't come out with tequila, doesn't mean you should.
Speaker 1:I'm a sucker. I mean, if a celebrity is attached to it, I'll probably buy it just for the celebrity like cluny timothy shemley's has spoken for a cologne right now. I would buy it just for that, honestly you are such a sheep. You are such a sheep it's not even his cologne he's. It's a cologne's already established.
Speaker 2:He just spoke from right now oh, actor likes something, I would buy it too, oh.
Speaker 1:I have a friend who was a.
Speaker 2:You are the sucker they talk about in all those board meetings.
Speaker 1:I have a friend who, like Sidney Sini's a spokesman for Sasquatch.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Bob, yeah, the soap, he buys it just for her.
Speaker 2:I was like Like she's getting a cut of the prophet.
Speaker 1:Well, like she's gonna come to his house and like you smell good like oh, you've heard my call. Yeah, how'd you know this would summon me I don't know where the next monster movie's coming out, really there's like I like monster movies.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're cool.
Speaker 1:I kind of want to go back and watch invisible man now, yeah, well, actually, you know, I'm starting to do a thing new thing where I recommend movies towards the end, and invisible man was the only one I could think of for this movie the.
Speaker 2:Invisible man works well because, like I said again, there's not a big-name actress in there or actor. They could have done what they could have and casted a big-name star in the role of the Invisible man and just been like Ha ha, you don't even fucking see him throughout the entire thing. I think they're probably going to do with downy, with dr doom, you know well.
Speaker 1:More so like silver surfer I would say, because I think silver surfer's a female in that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah uh, but like for the invisible we've never seen a wolf female, wolf man, so that'd be interesting that's true. That's true. Uh, the invisible man works. So because it modernizes the story, they make it a technological kind of thing. Yeah, there's, it's the Invisible Man's fucking scary. It is very scary and it works with the way that you know the camera lingers on these like empty spaces and you are put in the actress's mind of being like oh shit, is there something there that I don't see?
Speaker 1:You're always going to be looking over your shoulder, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a good one. I actually think the next monster movie is Frankenstein with Frank. It's a very famous actor, not the actor. Director.
Speaker 2:I don't like. I want to see them do some of these more like universal style horror movies. I think that there's something to be done with them. I want to see them update the idea of the creature from the Black Lagoon. That is one of the classic big ones, but they don't talk about that one. I think the closest that they come to something along those lines. I don't even think it's universal, but the Shape of Water.
Speaker 1:Oh, I forgot about that one. Isn't that more of a romantic one too?
Speaker 2:It is, but I also in some ways I think the creature from the black lagoon was romantic too. I don't think I've ever seen that. I don't think I have either, but I do think there is an element of that kind of idea towards like this thing being something that could be loved or needs some, like it's looking for some sort of connection that it can't get yeah I'm gonna have to look that up though now, when we tie in like monster, say monster movies, would you tie in like king kong and godzilla and all that too?
Speaker 2:uh, those are kaiju movies. Okay, yeah, kaiju is the japanese term for like white godzilla, is you know, a big, giant fucking thing. Break it like really the like thing, like a city destroying thing yeah, I think they're coming out with a Godzilla minus one sequel.
Speaker 1:I still haven't seen those.
Speaker 2:That's a good one. Like I'm not a big Godzilla guy.
Speaker 1:Well, that one's pretty good. I mean, it's like an anime filmed in real life.
Speaker 2:I know this sounds bad, but like the Godzilla with Matthew Broderick, might be one of my favorite Guilty Pleasure movies.
Speaker 1:I forgot about that. That was like the first one, right yeah, in the franchise with brian cranston too. And all that, no, no, no matthew bro, I don't know if I've seen that one, bro.
Speaker 2:It's the one in something like the 90s and shit like oh no, I definitely, you never. It was one of. It was the first big like americanized version of godzilla since the japanese ones. It's a real bad movie don't get me wrong, it's a bad movie, but it's also bad in a good way, was it?
Speaker 1:better than his Inspector Gadget. I fucking hated that movie. I hated Inspector Gadget.
Speaker 2:Inspector Gadget was one of those ones that got like a ton of fucking cuts to it too, because I remember seeing that and there would be like clips in that movie where Inspector Gadget flashes back to things that like didn't happen in the movie. Yeah, but that one, yeah, no.
Speaker 1:At the end of the episode. Last thing we're going to talk about what movies are you looking forward to coming out this year?
Speaker 2:Oh, God, I've been off that kind of stuff. I know that there are. What's the?
Speaker 1:Rami Malek has a new movie come out that I'm very, very interested in. His wife gets they both work for the government, but his wife gets I think it was a plane crash gets killed or something like that and people killed her and he, as he's a normal guy, he's never killed anyone in his life. Lawrence finch lawrence fishburne born is in that movie too. He like, uh, rami, wants to go and kill the people who kill them, but lawrence is like the guy who trained him how to do it. He's like you're not a killer, you can't do what I do no and it's, it's looks good as fuck.
Speaker 1:I'm just not doing it justice describing it, but it looks pretty good okay but and uh, I didn't want to see companion.
Speaker 2:I know that was coming out. It's a great movie. I would watch that again I can't think of.
Speaker 1:Jack quaid has another movie coming out next month, I think, um uh, nova came, nova came.
Speaker 2:Yeah, where he's? Uh, I can't feel pain. It looks more funny than good, I'm not a big Jack Quaid guy.
Speaker 1:I am.
Speaker 2:I'm sold on him. Were you a big.
Speaker 1:Dennis Quaid. Huh, were you a big Dennis Quaid, or yeah, dennis Quaid.
Speaker 2:I like Dennis Quaid in the Substance. He was great in the Substance that was a great role for him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he did great in his role.
Speaker 2:He had fun in that, um, but like the Jack Quaid, I wasn't really a big boys fan, to be honest.
Speaker 1:Oh really.
Speaker 2:A lot of that.
Speaker 1:Not anymore. Ha, ha, ha ha.
Speaker 2:Uh, real funny. Um, that was a good one.
Speaker 1:Proud of that, yeah, yeah, um, the uh, yeah, a lot of that stuff just seems like shock for the sake of shock Plus like they're weird like overly political leanings of some of that stuff yeah, but that's also like one of those shows that's just trending at the time, like I don't think it's gonna last, like forever? I hope not, because I think I like, I mean they're on their last season but, like I think they have a couple spinoffs I don't want spinoffs.
Speaker 2:Stop, stop trying to spin off shit. Like give me new ideas. I don't care what some fucking side character is doing in a show that I don't even particularly care for. That's a good point. But you see, the problem is, all of that shit just inflates the cost of streaming as a whole. Yeah, because I would love to be able to stream on a service that does not have its own original content. Because you have to go and think about this, because Netflix they probably up their prices left and right, thinking that Stranger Things, that's our show. There was a lot of big-name Netflix shows that they put a lot, they threw a lot of fucking money into that bombed.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't think any streaming service is profiting. No one is making money off of these things. I don't think so either. I know they're not. I thinkflix might be the only thing closest so far. That might be making a problem, but they've been in the game for like over 10 years now yeah, exactly, so I mean it.
Speaker 2:I would go back to the dvds if they brought them back I could see you owning a red box see there's some. Like every time I see one out in the wild. Now I try and see if it's still turned on, because I know for a point in time like they were just spitting out free movies.
Speaker 1:Oh really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:I don't think they're like in business anymore Redbox. You know what's coming back. It's Blockbuster, but in the form of like a nightclub or something like that. What, yeah, nightclub or a bar or something like that.
Speaker 2:I would think it's Blockbuster. But it's more of a gimmick versus so like in 90s. I think there is a big market for that you know, Because, let's be honest, like the world today sucks, yeah.
Speaker 2:So if you offer people my age, and like maybe your age too, that chance of a nostalgic kind of spot to go to where it is like that same color scheme as a blockbuster, let's say you know, they got 90s shit going on on the walls, they got backstreet boys playing, yeah I mean as a movie adult guy, that sounds like a dream job I've always like, even when I was a kid.
Speaker 1:I always wanted to work at a video rental store yeah, and I know that sounds silly and it sounds dumb, but it's like I love. You know that, and a comic book store would be cool I thought about that too occasionally, but I'm not that invested in comics like those guys, like those people work there. They really like comics.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, I I did at one point. Yeah, I well, I recently went like maybe about like fucking five or six months ago, and I bought like a couple and it felt really good to like do that thing again and like read those stories. I miss that kind of time in my life.
Speaker 1:You still bring it back. You're never too old for a comic book. I think those things are A super expensive and B like yeah, they cost like four bucks a book now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Versus. Like for a story, it usually would be like 10 to 12 books that you have to buy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's real easy to get sucked into having a big list of shit you're getting pulled. Yeah, because like there was a time where I was, like when I was living with my parents in griffith, you know, like I was spending damn near like 80 bucks on comics a week but it's all like new shit yeah I had a blast, though you know like it is a good time when you don't have any responsibilities and you just read comic books.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, and like I read entirety.
Speaker 2:I think I hopped onto the comic book stream and this is why, like I get on my soapbox about this shit, Like I liked that shit before, it was cool.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, a lot of people did I suffered. I mean not a lot of people, you realize, a lot more people did I mean true, I guess, yeah, but also I suffered for my nerddom.
Speaker 2:I suffered. I had people make fun of me for reading comic books, and these motherfuckers are the first ones in line to go see fucking Captain America. That shit pisses me off a little bit.
Speaker 1:Well, Greg, probably the next time I see you will probably be at the premiere of Captain America 4.
Speaker 2:Yeah, fuck you, I ain't even playing that game, thank you so much for coming on, Greg.
Speaker 1:It's been a while since.
Speaker 2:I've talked about this movie. This is awesome. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:I think next episode is the Valentine's Day episode, so I don't think there's going to be any new episodes like new movies, I should say but we're going to talk about a couple of throwback rom.
Speaker 2:She just recently introduced me to a movie. He's Not Just that Into you. He's Not that Into you, yeah.
Speaker 1:I think I did watch. I can't remember who was in it. It's not Matthew McConaughey.
Speaker 2:It's Bradley Cooper, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Connelly, Justin Long.
Speaker 1:That's who I remember Justin Long, yeah.
Speaker 2:There's a good amount of big name ones in there. I really enjoyed that. I like the experience of having her in my life now because I get to watch some of these things. I don't really necessarily would go to. I watched the Vow with Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum and I enjoyed that one. What else? There was one we watched the Four Christmases one with.
Speaker 1:Reese Witherspoon yeah, it's pretty good.
Speaker 2:Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn.
Speaker 1:Reese Witherspoon has a prime movie out right now with Will Ferrell that I heard not that many good things about, but I'm still going to give it a shot.
Speaker 2:I also watched a little bit of the one that we were talking about. I kind of fell asleep through it and probably didn't finish it. But the one with Justin Blake, or no, blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, the Sends With Us.
Speaker 1:Oh, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, the Sends With Us oh you've never seen it.
Speaker 2:I watched like 45 minutes of it and I passed out it's cliche, very cliche. I could tell by her name being Lily Bloom.
Speaker 1:And owning a flower shop.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. That's when I was like I don't know if this it also has that chick from Parks and Rec. I went to Marcel Lach shell with shoes on. Have you ever seen?
Speaker 1:that I think I've seen that one you need to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that needs to be.
Speaker 1:I've never seen that. And um the what's that robot movie, the wild robot? I've never seen that. Yet you've never seen that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, jesus christ, I'm gonna watch this you need to have like a small little, like family friendly movie day watch that I will I watched marcel at a hotel on uh way home, and it was one of the best movies I've seen. Really, though, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1:I heard enough of a great things about it.
Speaker 2:Loved it.
Speaker 1:That'll be your recommendation for this episode, then.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Greg, I kept you way too long but thank you so much for coming on the podcast. It was a great time talking.
Speaker 1:I can't wait for you to drop the news when your podcast is starting, but, like you said said you're in between stages of life right now, so there's no rushing on it at all. Give me time but you'll probably be on the podcast before then anyway too, because a lot of good movies coming through. Now that we're finally getting back to the regular schedule after the strikes and everything, it's going to be an interesting year with movies, so I'm excited for it right on.
Speaker 1:Thank you for everyone. The captain america episode right after that so uh stay tuned next week I'll be saving you, you.
