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Novocaine with Brandon Cole
Jack Quaid delivers standout performances in both Novocaine and Companion, showcasing his range as an actor and his ability to play very different characters with conviction and nuance.
• Novocaine follows a man with congenital insensitivity to pain who must use his condition to rescue a woman he cares about after a bank robbery
• The film brilliantly portrays how dangerous not feeling pain can be – from setting timers for bathroom breaks to avoiding solid foods
• Both movies feature excellent soundtracks that enhance the viewing experience, with Companion's music particularly standing out
• Jack Quaid plays completely opposite characters – a cautious introvert in Novocaine and a manipulative villain in Companion
• Despite modest box office performance, Novocaine offers a fresh, original concept in the action genre with clever fight sequences
• Companion delivers shocking twists about artificial intelligence and human-robot relationships that keep viewers guessing
• Both films maintain excellent pacing, with neither wasting screen time on unnecessary plot points
• Jacob Batalon steals his scenes in Novocaine, bringing welcome comic relief as Roscoe
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excuse me, is anybody sitting here? Sorry, this is taken. Sorry, welcome back to this. He's taken. I'm your host, rob miranda. Sorry for the delay on this week's episode, but it's gonna be a good one to join me as one of the guests who keeps coming on for one of some of my best episodes, mr brandon cole. Thank you for coming on, brandon always a pleasure.
Speaker 1:Thanks for having me yeah, I'm excited to have you on because, like I said, you're really saving my ass here by a couple of me con. It's just flu season and cold season. Everyone who has been supposed to be coming on the podcast has been getting uh, chills, and this new person who's supposed to be coming on pretty soon. It's midterm seasons for them, so like it's kind of a busy time of the year, but I'm not complaining about it because it's a slower time for the movies. It's gonna, if this is the summertime, I'm gonna be more upset about it. You know, I was thinking this morning um, I think I can probably count on just two hands how many times I've been in the movies this year whole year okay, I am, uh, we're in a similar boat, um, I think, I think I may have finally got to double digits, but it's starting to ramp up.
Speaker 2:This is the fun part.
Speaker 1:Well, there's a lot of movies out there that I want to see. There's the Black Bag, a couple other ones I had my eye on, but I'm just busy. It's a busy time of the year for me, meeting people and stuff like that. Actually, starting next week, it's a podcast convention in chicago. I'm going to be busy with you in the whole week, so but, um, how are you feeling about the movie? So far? I go ahead, you can go first I'm uh, I'm cautiously.
Speaker 2:I'm waiting for the, for the ramp up man. I've been surprised with a few this year, but a lot of just been dumps and, like I, I know that last year we came off a not so great movie year. We are still feeling the effects of the strike and everything going on, but I think we're going to be in a much better place. What about you?
Speaker 1:So far, yeah, pretty good. I mean, there's some surprises, like some of the movies we're talking about today. We're going to be talking about Novocaine and Companion. These ones are, you know, you call them dumps, but I personally felt they were good enough to be released in May, maybe even June. Okay, but we're going to get into it because they're not doing that hot right now, so you know. But other, better movies, what's that? What says I want? And kiki palmer, that was a fun one to watch. I think I've seen that twice actually in theaters. Okay, uh, other than that, there's nothing that stood off the top of my head. I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple of good ones out there, but, um, the black bad april is coming up pretty good with some good ones, like the amateur. I'm excited you're going to be coming back on for the sinners. Um, accountant 2 is going to be a big one.
Speaker 2:Let's go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's picking up. It's picking up, definitely, and I haven't done one of these in a minute because it's kind of been all over the place with my episodes. But Hollywood updates I haven't done a whole lot of Hollywood updates since the Oscars probably, but big news literally just happened within the past two days, like one of the directors excuse me if I can't remember his name who won an oscar for um, I don't even know what he won an oscar for no other land no other land.
Speaker 1:I've never even heard of that movie, have you? Not until the oscars? Yeah, I, I watched the oscars too and I don't remember even seeing that. Um, but anyways, like it's a big, I guess it was a controversy movie, right? Yeah, yep, and then, um, you know, after following his winning, he's gotten some death threats and stuff like that, and he was actually physically assaulted and kidnapped yeah, I mean it was actually crazy.
Speaker 2:He, you know he gave that speech at the oscars about unity, about standing together, and then for this to happen like basically under the cover of Night not too much coverage about it until recently was very jarring and came out of nowhere I saw.
Speaker 1:Mark Ruffalo tweeted about it too. Well, mark's always posting something political going on. He's trying to raise awareness about something, but yeah, it was pretty scary. It's the first effect. You see somebody up there who has a platform to try to say something positive and give hope a little bit, and I think this might be the first time we actually seen something happen to one of those people, like I'm sure they might have had in the past, but it's actually a huge deal that no one's really talking about for that, you know, non-scripted documentary, I think it won like Best Documentary Feature.
Speaker 2:So for it to be like an activism situation and then have it currently, like you said, mark Ruffalo sweetened about it, so you know it's real, having it, you know so current. And then for you know this unfortunate situation to happen where he it is just a reminder of you know the the joy that movies give for an escapism, but of course we are. We always have these real life things going on as well yeah, yeah, pretty, pretty wild stuff.
Speaker 1:That's happening right now, like you said.
Speaker 2:I think you just said this morning he was released yeah, yeah, I think he was uh officially released and uh heading back home to the family. At least, that's what the latest news report uh came out, that is that is blowing my mind.
Speaker 1:Still, that's it. That's insane. Um, I mean, this has has been a lot of like um hollywood updates going throughout the whole week, coming throughout the whole week, I should say, but, um, what the big headlines are is snow white. Have you seen that movie yet? I have not, man what about yourself? Like the one of the 80 people that probably seen Snow.
Speaker 1:White. That movie flopped so hard. But I'm actually going to be reviewing that with a new guest next week and I'm super excited to get into it. But it flopped and all my news is right now, because it's a big controversy movie between the actresses and the actual studio, what they're doing with it and the remake. It's a whole big deal going on. I want to break down next week's episode, but um other than that, did you notice some show has been renewed? Um, you know, what I started watching is, uh, invincible. For the first time ever, for the first time ever.
Speaker 2:I think we actually talked about this a few episodes ago. Yeah and oh, I'm hooked I am hooked, like I.
Speaker 1:I legit I'm like four or five episodes deep in the first season, but all I want to do is come home from work and just finish watching this whole show yeah, man, you gotta lock in the season.
Speaker 2:Finality was about almost two weeks ago now, and it took the internet by storm. You're missing out on great content, man isn't?
Speaker 1:I mean, isn't that the last season, if I'm not mistaken, like the very last season, or is there still a lot more?
Speaker 2:they, uh, they just announced that it got picked up for another season, season four, and man.
Speaker 1:Steven Yeun is so good in it too. It's always JK.
Speaker 2:Simmons.
Speaker 1:Speaking of Steven Yeun, I want to hear your take on this Because, like from my guests who had on for this movie, just hated this movie. But Mickey 17, how'd you like it?
Speaker 2:so you know a lot of people. It's always fun like doing this podcast with you, um, and I know we don't get to talk too much about it, but we obviously love movies. You called me right when you finished I did, I did.
Speaker 1:I forgot about that because I wanted to talk to somebody about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah hyped me up, man. We were texting way late into the hours of the night. I enjoyed that movie. Um, I'm not as big on it as everyone else. That being said, I still I think I gave it a perfect four uh, close to a four and a half in my book. I I very much enjoyed that movie and I'm glad to see that it's still kicking at the box office as well I loved it.
Speaker 1:My guest, my friend, who was on for that episode. He could care less for it like he's like nothing happened in that movie. I was like I guess you're technically right, but I mean it's so much more about symbolism and you know it's a lot of the story I loved it.
Speaker 1:I've been actually, I don't know if I want to go back to. I actually would go to the theaters to see it again, but, um, I'm definitely gonna be watching what's the streaming, um, but this actually episode is all going to be about Jack Quaid, who is killed in the month of March. I would say the other one came out in February, if I'm not mistaken. But anyways, jack Quaid you know, most famous for playing Huey on the Boys on Prime TV, started acting in the Hunger Games in 2012. He appeared in Scream in 2022. Started acting in the hunger games in 2012. He appeared in scream in 2022. Um voice, clark, kent and superman in my adventures with superman on. I believe it's max, son of dennis quaid. You know jack quaid is. I heard someone describe him as our generation's tom hanks.
Speaker 1:I'm not too quite sure if he's there yet he has a potential to be uh, just because he hasn't been in a whole lot of things yet, just I mean, he has the charisma and charm, I think, to do that. But, um, he's on his way. He wants to get like a little on his butt. I think he's a very, very talented actor and he seems like a cool. I think he's our age, if I'm not mistaken. He's, he's cool, yeah he is a?
Speaker 2:uh, one of the very few nepo babies that I am absolutely okay with because he handles it well. Like you said, dennis quaid and meg ryan uh produced this gem of a man. You know he he plays it so well uh, especially huey from the boys. It's one of my top five tv shows right now.
Speaker 1:So seeing him break out into more roles, like you know, in the in the starter position, I'm a big fan well, one of the hardest things I I have in my description is like it's almost hard not to see him as huey and anything, just because, like he's, he plays that character so very well and he's beloved with it. Same thing about one of the other characters we're going to talk about in this movie. He's mostly famous for a different thing. That that's all I pictured him and. But huey, I mean not huey. See, I'm doing it already. Jack quaid is a very talented actor and we're going to explore more like a different side of him once we get to the companion review in the second half of this episode. But he has range and I think he's like this one's, a little bit more pg. Well, I was gonna say it's not pg as in like action, but like his mannerisms and the way he speaks is more PG than himself in the Boys.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of in this movie. You can see the director watched the Boys and was like that's what I want. I want that performance. Just put it in a copy of my homework, but change a few of the answers.
Speaker 1:I did read an interview. The Boys is definitely the big part of why he got this role. He plays it incredibly well. Interview like the boys is definitely the big part of why he got this role. He plays incredibly way. Before we get into more further, like talking about this movie, um, this movie nova came for those you don't know. It's about when the girl of his dreams is kidnapped. A man incapable of feeling physical pain turns into a rare condition, turns his rare condition into unexpected advantage in the fight to rescue her.
Speaker 1:This movie was written by lars jacobson and directed by dan burke and robert olsen. I try to look up there some of their work. I didn't really recognize I mean the robert, not sorry, dan burke is mostly in like core, smaller horror movies and I couldn't. So I mean these directors are kind of unknown to me a little bit and I like that not knowing what to expect to going in there, because there's something like the rooster brothers. I already didn't know what I'm gonna kind of expect to see. Yeah, I, this movie was a ton of fun. I don't know what I was expecting walking in there. I was expecting gruesome, because that's a lot of the trailer showed and yes, it was gruesome, but I think the trailer did a good job about showing most of that stuff, so I wasn't like turning in my seat too much throughout the whole movie. Um, but what they did undersell was how funny this movie was. I was chuckling throughout the whole movie. Um, did, am I mistaken? Did you see this movie?
Speaker 2:twice. Uh, no, no, I only saw it once I saw you watch it last night.
Speaker 1:You posted about your story and I thought that was maybe your second time watching it um I've seen this opening night. If I I'm not mistaken, I think I was the only one in the theater.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I went to go see it yesterday. Funny enough there was like a lot of couples in my theater. You know it's a Monday night, so nothing too crazy, but it's getting some word of mouth. So I'm glad people are still trying to check it out during the week as well.
Speaker 1:Well, this had the worst opening of the year, this movie. It had a budget of 18 million opening weekend. It only made back 8.7 million the lowest move, the lowest for a movie to leave the charts this year. Don't know how, and I I I didn't think the marketing was bad for this movie, like it was all over, like the trailers and stuff like that. It caught my attention right up in trailer. The trailer looked awesome.
Speaker 1:I think they relied too heavily on social media ads like TikToks and stuff like that, versus actual physical. And it's hard for Jack Quaid to do this too, because he's just finishing up marketing for Companion too, so he's going to go right back in it less than a month later. So his time is spread out and I'm sure he's gonna go right back in it less than a month later. Um, so I'm not, his time is spread out and I'm sure he's still acting too. And like when I tell it's mostly based off of social media marketing, like I've seen a lot of tiktok ads, a lot of instagram ads, but nothing other than that. Like I mean because I go, we go to the movies a lot and I see the trailers every time I go there. Other than that I don't think I've ever seen like a billboard or or any kind of physical marketing for this movie, and I think that's where kind of they dropped the ball a little bit and 18 million isn't a huge.
Speaker 2:I think you muted yourself um, which is crazy, because they actually have a fantastic poster, uh, like the one where it looks like he's like running with all the different things and I'm like operation, man, operation, yeah, that. Uh, I love that poster, like I could absolutely see that hanging in my in my crib for a little bit. So they, they have a lot of things that work going into this. They just can't, like you said, rely only on the power of social media.
Speaker 1:I mean it was a great cast too, Like it had all the marks.
Speaker 2:Do you think this movie would have done better if it was, like it's really, say, in may? I don't know, because that's the thing I was thinking it obviously march. We had this weird release where, you know, snow white's here, black bag is here, um, I think there was a magazine dreams just dropped and like this. So it's in like a good if. If you want to go to the movies, this is a great first option, um, but it may have benefited, you know, I hate to say it around a superhero released where maybe somebody didn't want to. You know, maybe that one's full it's also around and it, you know, gets a little bit of leverage from there. But I think a march release is kind of what this needed. It just didn't execute I 100% agree.
Speaker 1:I mean, I watched the premiere too. The premiere seemed a little bit small. One of the things I liked about the premieres they had a, a punching bag where Quaid's head all bruised up and everything like that. That was pretty funny and interesting, see, and also one thing I did forget to mention about the marketing, the only thing I've seen them do publicly the studio must have gotten tickets to courtside seats on a March Madness game and he shows. They're all beat up with an arm and a sling and, like you know, I'll cut just to promote the movie a little bit and he, like he, shot up basketball in halftime or something like that. That was pretty cool, but I think they expected that to blow up bigger than what it did, because I had to go digging for something like that, you know yeah, yeah, especially, you know it's again.
Speaker 2:It kind of feels like they're hunting for that viral moment, right, but you still gotta market it for people to have that love for it. Uh, and they, you know, like you said, the trailers. I I do my best to stay away from trailers now, but of course I'm in the theater and I remember, like covering my eyes at parts of the trailer, so it definitely has a good hook.
Speaker 1:If you, uh, if you're interested definitely, um I the first thing I thought when I saw this trailer it was like this movie looks original. I like it just for that fact alone. I did my research to see if it was based on like a remake or or like a spinoff or like a based on a comic book even. But no, it's fully original and, as far as the directors go, like they wanted to make this as real as possible, like they did the research about the actual um, I forget what it's called the medical problem this guy has, like yeah, you can't feel paid.
Speaker 1:Um, they did the research like what they really know really entails it, because they didn't want this to be marketed or seem like a superhero movie. They just wanted the show like they did, did research on how far the human body can push itself to go, and I think he did a good job. Not once did I think this was a superhero movie. Yeah, this guy's taking blows left and right, but you can see it's still affecting his body.
Speaker 2:A hundred and you know what they actually went about. A lot of it smart. Don't get me wrong. This is a movie that's fun and goofy. There are definitely moments where you just got to suspend it, but it's all rooted and I I didn't actually know that they did that much research. So even hearing you say that, that checks the box for me on, well, that makes sense, because a lot of the times even, you know, with the adrenaline, I'll just leave it there, like it makes sense to drive the story forward of like that's how that would handle, uh, or be handled.
Speaker 1:so I absolutely love that yeah, yeah, I'm excited to get into it too. Um, I mean the pacing of this movie we just talked a little bit before because I have my notes. I have deep notes on almost all the characters in this movie.
Speaker 1:The pacing in this movie was phenomenal. At no one point I don't think I looked at my phone the entire time. It's a shorter movie, I think like an hour 40 minutes, something like that. Uh, actually an hour 50 minutes, but I didn't look at my phone. Once you know, I was entertained throughout the whole time. I was constantly guessing. Some of the stuff is a little bit cheesy.
Speaker 1:Some of the dialogue like after I kill they get like a cheesy one-liner um. Other than that, I didn't have a problem with most of the stuff like that. I think this is filmed in cape town and south africa, if I'm not mistaken. I was surprised by that. I was like it totally looks like I think they were based in new jersey or something like that. I don't know actually where they were based at, but it it totally fooled me. I thought they were in america and um, but a lot of their sets were minimal and enclosed area, so most of it was probably done on the studio set, like his apartment and the club and stuff like that. Um, and funny, like I said, there's great chemistry between some of the characters. Not so great chemistry in my personal opinion, uh with a few of them but other than that I had a great time watching this.
Speaker 1:It was funny as hell and I just can't wait to get to talk about some of these characters. Obviously, we got to start with Jack Wade, who plays the main character, nate. He has this condition. I wrote it down here but I'm not going to be able to pronounce it Congenital insensitivity to pain, with anhydrosis Basically means you can't feel physical pain or hot or cold, and they do a good job about explaining that in the movie. I like how they waited to explain that before we knew that because, like the first time I think we see it, he burns his hand on the hot ass coffee and the thing that makes this movie so cool and unique and like smart we see someone getting hot coffee poured on their hand. Our instinct is like oh, that's gotta hurt. He doesn't show any reaction, which I'm sure as an actor was kind of confusing on set a little bit at least it wasn't me and he gets blows to the stomach and you know he's not even flinching.
Speaker 1:This guy, legit, can't feel pain. The one thing I was worried about when I seen this trailer this is a legit disease not I don't want to call it disease like medical thing. Yeah, and I I remember hearing about this when I was maybe like a little after high school. Maybe it is, and they do a good job about emphasizing this in the movie. It is very, very dangerous to have it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you cannot feel pain. Yeah, seems like a good thing, but no, like you could definitely hurt yourself and not even realize it. A point of case in the movie he said one time when he was a kid he stepped on the nail, didn't realize until his shoe was full of blood and you know they dropped the fact that you can't. The life expectancy expectancy is, um, is very low chances to live past 25, which is why I had looked that up and it is true like not that many people live at 25, because not only like you're, you can step on a nail or something like that, like they point out in the movies, like you gotta set a timer to even use the bathroom.
Speaker 2:Oh dude, that was so gnarly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't even feel that your bladder is being full and you have to use the restroom. Like how wild is that? Like I can't imagine how that would be like living and they do such a good job of showing him to being like a protective, cautious kind of man, like he has like fricking little wax balls on top of his pencils in case, like he hurts himself on it.
Speaker 1:You know, he has protective things in the corners. Like he, he never eats anything solid food. Like he drinks everything just because he's afraid of swallowing bite off his own tongue. And I think they did such a great job in the movie. And especially like him driving I'm sure that's a wreck for him when he first started driving because he's like three cars behind the person in front of him. He does not give a fuck. His character development in this movie was phenomenal. I thought From the beginning of this movie to the end of this movie it's almost night and day kind of people and it was gradually getting up there and the whole message of this movie I like it was like do not live in fear.
Speaker 2:You know, go out there and live your life like we all are experiencing the same things and you're just gonna waste your life if you're sitting inside doing nothing, 100, and I think you nailed it right that that feeling that when we first hear about his uh disorder, um, or you know, his situation was like, oh that's, that's got to be sick, right, that's going to be so cool. And they start up front. Being like this is problematic and the life that you can live is so stressful and that's why he's such a reserved self-introverted. You know, likes his alone time, but you know, has to, has to grow yeah, and he doesn't have a whole lot of friends.
Speaker 1:He has a lot of online friends because he's so afraid to go out into the bar, like at the work hours, that he doesn't like to mingle with anybody. I mean, to the outside person he's just a huge introvert who doesn't like doing anything, but then realize he he's just being precautious. You know he doesn't. He's afraid to die, which you know. I'm not blaming him. Um, I don't think about it all the time. Like you know what that happened with david, with not david schumer, um, danny from full house, what's his name?
Speaker 1:uh, danny tanner, um, not danny tanner, yeah him bob saget, bob saget, yeah, he hit his head on the toilet in the bathroom and he didn't think anything of it. He got up and went on thrills the whole day and turns out it did some real, pretty bad damage and he died from that. You know, that's like a million times worse for this guy. You know, like one paper cut could turn into an infected guy. But because of that his character became so smart, because he read nothing about medical books, because he's always getting in accidents and he's very smart. He could have probably been a doctor if he wanted to.
Speaker 1:Um about taking care of injuries. You know what to be looking out for versus symptoms like my biggest thing, like if I get sick, like just from the common flu. You know how can I really prevent this from getting any worse than what it is? It's not like he has a weak immune system, it's just he just can't feel it, and he can't feel hot or cold either. I mean, which is crazy. Yeah, this guy's doing a polar plunge every year, probably cold showers, his heating bill must be fantastic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I'm sure he has ups and downs. Um, this guy would have been a hell of a football player, honestly yeah, like an endurance trainer, like those marathon runners he would be.
Speaker 1:Uh, he'd make a name for himself oh, yeah, yeah, probably would have lived till 23. But yeah, uh, we'll go throughout the plot a little bit as we go along. But amber mid thunder plays sherry very pretty in the movie but I felt like she did not do anything extra to the movie. She didn't bring anything extra to the table. Um, she had good chemistry with jack but not, but I never really fully bought their relationship, which I guess you know to the plot was kind of the point. But no, I'm with you I'm with you.
Speaker 2:I think that they 100 could have done a better job than similar to you. I was like she's fine, you know, and I I like the one scene that they had. But yeah, I was like, if he's doing all this for her, I think I need a little bit more yeah, I'm looking up her imbd right now.
Speaker 1:She was in the movie prey in 2022. Avatar, the last bent airbender that just came out last year. Uh, she was in the show legion. Other than that, I'm not really recognizing too much of her work. She was an opus that just came out this year as well. Have you seen that yet? I have not. I. Is that gonna be on your list? That's kind of on my list too, like a soft on my list. If I have time, I'll go see it, but uh, but other than that, I mean she's a she's a good actress.
Speaker 1:I think they could have done a little bit better, but, like I said, the budget was only 18 million. I'm sure jack's is. I think it's probably two or something like that. I don't know how much is getting paid now. She was good. I mean, she was good about showing emotion, I feel like on screen, because like when the whole thing, like when she takes him, when he takes her back to her apartment, yeah, she was generously genuine, like genuinely curious about his tattoos, which we'll talk about that in a second his tattoos, like her scar, and she has a little bit mysterious herself. Um, that part of her character I thought was very good you like that a lot yeah, but once it comes to like oh, oh, I actually do care for him.
Speaker 1:I didn't buy that at all.
Speaker 2:She did a good job of, like you said, displaying curiosity. I totally bought that. She was fascinated by him and there was that scene in the apartment where I was like you can tell she wanted a connection. It felt like something was holding her back, which we know why. But her having fun with them, she, she gave crazy from the start. I don't know if you got that, but like as soon as he walked out I was like this girl's crazy because of the cherry pie scene, like in the diner, and then the bar scene, Like a good segue of you're a great actor. But I was like this she up to something.
Speaker 1:So for here, for, uh, what's his name? Uh, nate's character as an introvert, this girl is every introvert's dream. She comes up to him, she asked him out, she does all this great stuff. Like, like, all this stuff introverts want you to ask them, she does. You know, I can see the attraction right then. And there, of course, she falls in love instantly. He had a great night with her. I mean, she, like you said, like um, she invites him out to lunch. He has, she helps him experience apple pie, like cherry pie, whatever it was, and he's like orgasm right there in the diner. From that he uh, so he instantly feels attracted for it. He invites, she invites him to his art show and grab a drink afterwards.
Speaker 1:Her art was pretty crazy. Like that was a weird characteristic for the character because they never went back to that side of her at all who just wrote like nudity paint too, like it was. It was odd choice, like why not just regular paint, if you're not gonna come back to this, if it's not gonna be a big plot point in the whole movie? So they go back to the bar and have like a drink and then you really, you see, he runs into some bullies that, um, you know, once you, I, I could totally see this happening too. Like you know, if once the kids find out that you're you can't feel pain, of course they're gonna test that, especially in middle school you know.
Speaker 1:So he runs into one of his old bullies there and she kind of gets him back from in a very cool way. So not only is she inviting him out, she's standing up for him too. Um, knowing he can't taste. So he's like guys, I got a shots and it's like extreme hot sauce or something like that. He can't even taste it so it feels pretty cool, like, and then um, he's like oh my god, can you believe he, what he thinks?
Speaker 1:like if I'm going to take you back to my place and she goes, you are taking me back.
Speaker 2:That was a bar. That was a bar. I love that.
Speaker 1:Like I said, a huge introvert's dream come true. It's almost too easy and because of this he has all this time like as an introvert. He's learning new hobbies and one of the things he can draw and he can tattoo, he practices himself. He has his wicked, wicked full body tattoo on his body. I thought that was insane character choice like. He doesn't seem like the type that would do that. Not only did they show it, I thought it could have looked better. I mean, it just looked like sketches scribbles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I, I thought that as well, especially because, um the comment of like, well, if he's had so much time to do so, you know, you think that there'd be a dramatic increase in skill set, especially if he's for him to like knowingly leave that giant space in the middle of his chest too.
Speaker 2:I thought that was kind of weird too, like yeah, there's no way he would really do that no and like, especially with an imagination like his, like I. I could have bought it if it was like a normal person, because, oh, he's moving from the pain, but like he's just drawing.
Speaker 1:So come on it can absolutely be better, yeah um, I do want to talk about ray nicholson, who plays simon, the main villain of this whole movie. I mean, there are a couple of villains in this movie, but he's the main honcho on everything. His character is a very basic villain. He didn't have much to mention to other than greed and wanting to be rich and be a dick, basically Willing to kill his own sister. He reminded me a lot of Conor McGregor in Roadhouse actually.
Speaker 2:Okay, hell yeah, I mean just there remind he reminded me a lot of conor mcgregor and roadhouse. Actually, okay, hell yeah, I mean just that crazy like run through a wall, like, uh, energy, exactly, I mean like it I.
Speaker 1:We find out a little bit about his family history just a little bit. But other than that, like I, I don't know this guy was an asshole, like he is supposed to be an asshole in the movie. But like I don't know, I wanted to expect more from him in this movie. But I don't know I wanted to expect more from him in this movie. Not that he didn't do a great job playing this guy, he did a phenomenal job playing him. Even Jack Quaid commented on it, saying he's such a nice guy in real life and to see him flip a switch and turn into the psychopath is incredible.
Speaker 2:And this also guy is like the freaking Terminator, or Michael Myers terminator or or michael myers like this guy gets stabbed and punched and all kinds of he gets right back up like his classic tough guy you know, yeah, that was like one of the only parts where I was getting not frustrated, but I was like it's not, like he has superpowers, what are we doing?
Speaker 1:he got shot and he was able to like drive an ambulance like across town and shit like that take blows to the head. I was like ain't no way, guy, ain't no way. Um, probably one of my favorite part about this movie is jacob badalon, who plays roscoe. You know, the kid from spider-man. This actor shined. He was the highlight of the whole movie for me, even though he has very minimal screen time. But every time I'm watching this guy, anything, not just this, I think the same thing in, um, uh, what's those uh taron call tar movie Terran and he was in like the vampire movie or something like that. You can't help but think of him as Ned from Spider-Man and he's playing Ned.
Speaker 2:He is a version of Ned in this movie, exactly.
Speaker 1:Just like a little bit more rated R version of it, like with his humor and stuff like that. Yeah, but he was hilarious in this movie um first, like even he wasn't on screen like for the first half of the movie.
Speaker 1:You don't even. You don't from the trailers. We know what's him but like you don't know, it's him and he's. He's funny through the headset because they're playing through online video games. You know calling him a pussy for not going out and stuff like that. It was hilarious. Uh, one of the random I mean he's very genuine with with anyone he has screen time with but one character, but I wish I was seeing them together. More was him and Matt Walsh's character who plays Coltrane the cop. He got annoyed with him because he kept talking so much.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God, I wish I would have seen a little bit more. There's definitely some deleted footage that they can release, because I like that banter. Have you seen?
Speaker 1:that meme going around, everyone's calling the CEO of sex CEO of sex. Yeah, he's kind of like Pedro Pascal, he's kind of embracing it a little bit. People call. Pedro daddy. Yeah, I'm daddy.
Speaker 2:He was like yeah, my fiancee, my wife was like what is this? It?
Speaker 1:started out of nowhere too. I don't know, but we're just rolling with it. It's hilarious he did. He did recently get engaged too, so that's pretty exciting for him. Um I don't know if it's been confirmed he's coming back for Spider-Man four. I know Zendaya has, yeah, um, but I'd like to see him.
Speaker 1:There's also rumors that harry osborn's probably gonna get introduced in the spider-man 4, so I mean there's a lot of things going on, uh, with that stuff, but anyways, he was a funny part of the movie. Like him making references him, it's like jack, not jack. Nate goes like this is the first time meeting him, rescuing him and said you look different than you described yourself. He's like you said, do you? You look like jason momoa?
Speaker 2:no, I said I kind of look like jason, I feel like that's a very specific archetype, yeah, and then he wore a leather jacket and helmet.
Speaker 1:It's like, oh my, my motive, my harley's outside, it's like a little mope got catfished in real life yeah, yeah, yeah, um, those are all the characters.
Speaker 1:I mean there's a couple cops, it's like they were pretty funny and important to the story too. But overall, like the plot was great, it was very original. I mean a little bit cheesy sometimes, but I had a great time watching this movie. We need to talk about the plot a little bit more.
Speaker 1:Like you know, he, this guy, plays a huge introvert. Uh, this girl, sherry, invites him out. You know, have a great time. They end up sleeping together. Uh, the next day, like you can totally tell night and day, like he's like you know what, maybe life is worth living a little bit. So he tries taking a little bit more risk. He's happy.
Speaker 1:You know he's dancing, he's making breakfast, he's eating stuff, actually eating stuff and then, um, he almost gets into a car accident because he's singing and dancing so much in his car. You know he's having a great day at work. You know everything's going very well for him. So he's going to go talk to the girl Like, hey, like I had a great time. You know, like I don't want to seem too forward, but you know I'd like to see you again Ask her out on the second day. Basically, well, shit goes nowhere. Yeah, they get robbed by three santa clauses and, um, they actually end up killing, uh, the bank manager, which is like, oh shit, like that made it real for me yep, you know right away um they're gonna kill the manager.
Speaker 1:So nate is the assistant manager who knows the codes, it's like that. So they take him. He, this is like where you like, you really start to like his acting, like you're not feeling pain because they beat the shit out of him and he doesn't flinch at all, he's too busy looking at the girl. They just slapped the shit out of his girl, um, so they get the money and they end up taking the girl as a hostage and there's like three or four cops outside already like, but they get shot at. Nate goes up to one of them trying to like who has all this medical training or self-trained stuff, helps him out as much as he can and he realizes, oh shit, backup isn't coming for a while. They're gonna get away. So he steals a cop car and he goes after them. They separate because there's two different cars. He ends up going for the wrong car and it's the one without the girl, sherry.
Speaker 1:And what an epic bat. Like fight in this movie, the kitchen scene. I mean like he drops the gun in the air. Fight, he picks it up with his hand. I mean like it's, it's genius like for like the audience, like the directors, to do that. Like because, like I'm flinching the entire time you put my hand in there, just as someone who works in the kitchen for a little bit, like you know how hot that is end up shooting him in the head and I was like, hey, man, are you okay? You know, just because he never killed anybody, he throws some, he throws up from it everyone's reaction, I think. So he ends up going on the mission to find I'm not gonna spoil too too much in this movie, but he ends up going on the mission to find these people, like he goes out there, like I need to know where they're from, who are they working with, so I can try to get any clues and a lot of clever ways too
Speaker 1:yeah, there's a whole scene in um, a tattoo parlor, you know, with this guy, huge, fucking humongous guy. He ends up getting an epic battle with like that. That was pretty gruesome too. Uh, long story short, he finds them spoiler and he finds out a big twist with the girl he likes I'm not gonna spoil that at all, because I think everyone should go see this movie and the end is a big battle scene. Like he does like end up breaking a lot of his bones, like there's no way in real life this guy would be walking around. But I think a lot of that is psychological too, like oh shit, I see my thumb is fucked up, like yep, I can't move anymore. You know, versus like if you don't feel it, you don't, if you like, if you don't mind, you don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you don't know you're not going in a shock there, you're not like, at least not mentally yeah, so I mean it.
Speaker 1:It was incredible, incredible. Fight to the like damn near world. Yeah, fight to the death. Towards the end of the movie I laughed throughout the whole way. You know, I did feel sympathy for the character. I didn't care for how it ended, like him still wanting to be involved with her. And the ending it bothered me so much Because, like he you know the big thing about this movie he didn't want to eat cherry pie because he's too afraid to bite his tongue off. The camera shows him this is how the movie ends. The camera shows him taking a bite of the cherry pie and just smiling and eating it for a little bit too long, for like a good 45 seconds. And the whole time I'm thinking like is he gonna bite his tongue off right now? Like is that how they're gonna end the movie? And no, like he didn't, it's just him smiling in pie. I was like why did I sit through like a full minute watching this, like if nothing's gonna happen.
Speaker 2:I fully thought that, like they were gonna, because it's cherry pie, so I thought they were gonna at least have him like smile and like his teeth be red. Like you know, did he do it, or like I thought there was like a good trick that they were going to that would have been incredible.
Speaker 1:I didn't even think about that. That would have been amazing.
Speaker 2:But no, they didn't, they didn't touch it at all actually. Yeah, I mean I also hate it. Not hate it. I was frustrated by the end of it because it was so good. Leading up to it, again, a lot of my frustration came, for it just went a little too long. Not the movie itself, but just the final scenes was like okay, all right, at one point, like somebody's got to go down. A lot of people are surviving things that they shouldn't, right.
Speaker 1:Even Nate himself, like there's no reason he shouldn't be scarred for life. Like even his hands, like they were literally burnt. I was like, and he's walking out without a scratch this whole movie it's like you taking blows to the head. Yeah, it's a full like. Well, like eight months later, something like that they said at the end you you would still be on crutches or something you know, you would be an arm cast. Like there ain't no way like you can be fully functional normal again I talk about like how do you even have your job still you?
Speaker 2:know like no, no, and that's the thing they did, the thing where they made the joke like oh, you had a lot of legal troubles. But you know, xyz, and I'm like I don't know if that's how that would go, that for either of them that almost like turns it into a superhero movie.
Speaker 1:Almost you know like unrealistic endings and honestly I when they were it almost spoiler alert. It almost looks like he's gonna die. I was like, yeah, no way they're gonna have the balls to pull that off in this movie, and sure enough they don't.
Speaker 2:Like he wakes up in a coma later no, that would have been insane even that last injury that he had, uh, with his arm, was so gruesome that I was like he's not getting that arm back, like you gotta amputate that thing, because there's just no way. I think that's what I missed, like I just I wanted a real consequence you know right, right, um other than that.
Speaker 1:I think that's all I have for this movie. Like what would you get this movie?
Speaker 2:one out of ten yeah, um, teetering between seven and eight. I really, really enjoyed this movie. I think I'm gonna stick with the seven um and kind of let it float into the sunset, but that's still a really good score.
Speaker 1:I thoroughly enjoyed it I probably gave it a seven as well. I 100 agree with that. Like there's some like cheesy lines, I would take out of this movie some of the endings that would change. But overall it was very original idea.
Speaker 2:I had a lot of fun, had a good soundtrack, pretty decent soundtrack very good soundtrack, had a ton of fun, was out of my seat for at least 20. You know I don't do gore hiding, so I uh, and it was a very well, well structured, uh, like you said, high-paced movie, so agreed uh, which kind of leads me to the next movie we're going to talk about.
Speaker 1:We're going to talk about jack quaid's other movie that came out in earlier 2025. We're going to talk about companion, and the reason I bring this up is because, like you're not really into horror movie or kind of gruesome movies, and this is this movie trailer definitely led you to believe this is going to be scarier than what it was first of all, and um, but I was interested to see how you ended up seeing this movie yeah, uh.
Speaker 2:So I got dragged to this movie, uh, with my friend and I genuinely had no idea what this movie was. Uh, it was one of those. We ended up trying to go to one movie. That one didn't work. So, oh, I think I remember seeing this one. It's got jack wade, let's go rock out. I tell you, my jaw genuinely dropped at the twist, I was on a roller coaster that this movie had a very big impact for me oh yeah, well, and it's on top of that, it's a very quick watch.
Speaker 1:It's only an an hour 37 minutes. Jack Quaid stars in it. I was very excited when I seen it when because this trailer came up before Nova came out, obviously because it came out sooner. When I seen him on the big screen I was like, yes, you know, I'm finally getting more Jack Quaid, because I'm so used to seeing him on TV. He's I was. He deserves it. I'm excited to see where his career takes off too.
Speaker 1:For those who don't know, this companion is about a weekend getaway with friends in a remote cabin turns into a chaos after it's revealed that one of the guests is not what they see. This movie is directed by drew hancock and also written by drew hancock. Stars like sophia thatcher playing iris, who did an amazing job. I can't wait to talk about her. Josh is played by jack quaid. You know luke, luke gage playing patch. It's a small, very, very small cast. Um, other than that, I don't think I recognize too many other than maybe matt mccarthy who plays one of the paramedics, who plays sid at the end of the big big guy. Redhead got it. Talk about soundtracks. Man, this had a phenomenal soundtrack in this whole movie. I loved it for that alone. It almost had like a James Gunn kind of vibe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, catch us when we do the end of the year wrap. This will be in my soundtrack highlight.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, I'll probably be on mine too, so all right. That description didn't do it justice to what this movie was about, and have you gone back and tried re-watching some of the trailers for this movie?
Speaker 2:I did. I did because I wanted to see if I would have still got that effect, and I wouldn't have because the trailer spoils.
Speaker 1:The trailer spoiled everything in this movie. And that was one of the biggest things that everyone was mad about. Like I wish we didn't. Really, I almost wish we didn't find out she was a robot, and I also wish we didn't find out that she kills him at the end. You know, like that's how the movie opens too, like two days, yeah, that would be.
Speaker 2:My biggest critique was that opening line. Thankfully I low-key forgot about that line because I was watching it like so intensely as you can imagine, um, but by that like I mean there's a lot of false flags in here, but I thought you know it ended. I was like whoa, so uh, yeah, it went out of its way to spoil itself.
Speaker 1:I, I cannot for the life of me fathom and it's interesting too that they just chose to do like a narration of the main character in her head, because, like one, we find out she's not human. But I guess it does give a little bit more humanization, if you want to call it that way. Um, because we do have those thoughts in our head, you know. It's like that was like we're constantly thinking out loud to ourselves sometimes and, um, I like I feel like they would put that detail on someone, because who else should be talking to you know? So this movie opens up about a loving couple meeting this. Uh, it's a getaway and I don't know if she's I'm assuming this is the first time meeting their friends, or she was a little bit nervous about this trip. Yeah, she goes there. It's a gay couple and a female who's dating the guy who owns that house, if I'm not mistaken yep.
Speaker 1:I think that's all of it is. It's a very, very small cast very small. Um, you know a little bit. You don't find out right away that she's a robot I don't think so at least, and, like I said, I like that they hinted at it like little subtle details, like there's one moment where they're having like weird sex and then she's trying to talk to him.
Speaker 1:She was irish go to sleep, she just turns off. Basically I was like what the fuck? And then like how they go back and explain her history and stuff like that yeah but anyways she goes. We're just going through the whole movie, I guess, like jack. Well, first I want to talk about jack wait, a little bit too, because he's a totally different character in this movie. Like uh, he's very innocent sweet man in the movie. He's a very big dick in this movie.
Speaker 2:He's an asshole. He starts off like a normal guy.
Speaker 1:You know like come on girl, like you know we're going to have fun, you know it's going to be a good weekend, stuff like that. And then once shit starts going down, like he almost has like zero emotions and he's heartless and he's ruthless and he wants it's. It's a different, darker side of him that, like I said, gives him range for me in this movie.
Speaker 2:I, I think he's a fantastic actor, um, anyway, and they do that, uh, to that point, from him going like it, it really just shows like that trojan horse, like I. Obviously this movie has a lot of themes in it, but one of that is that like master manipulator, like the guy who's like, oh, that can't be me, I'm one of the good ones, I'm like one of the nice guys. So when you see like a jack quaid, you, you, you get that feeling inherently.
Speaker 1:But unfortunately, this is some layers to it underneath that are just terrible which I'm sure that's what appealed them to this kind of movie too, which I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think it was a smart choice for this movie. Um, let's talk about sophie thatcher, who plays the main character man does she do a great job acting like not only should he play like just a girlfriend and stuff like that, she plays someone who has to outsmart somebody else. Uh, she's very witty, she like there's times where she plays like has, like her voice changes too. So they I don't know if they did that afterwards, or she voiced mouth or words or something like that for someone who has that camera, but she did phenomenal, she did great in this whole movie. She shows her strengths, her weaknesses and her real improv. I don't know if she improvised too much in this movie, but physically she did a lot of cool stuff in this movie, absolutely, anyway. So they go to this cabin and they're like I guess everyone does know that she's a sex robot, but that's how normal it is in this future and it's indistinguishable, like where? Like even the robots themselves do not know the robots.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:She finds out she's a robot. It's the same time we're finding out she's a robot too, which is awesome.
Speaker 2:Especially me, cannot stress that enough. I was stressed man and, like you said, said just to hop back onto it real quick the little things that they did with him, being like iris what's the weather? And she does, like the little announcer voice and you think it's a cute little quirk. Nah, man, that thing they are. So they went about it so well.
Speaker 1:I was, uh, yeah, finding out I was the ideal audience there and I didn't like how they did that with the whole weather thing too, because it makes it seem like you're talking to an Alexa, like you're not alive, you know well, I didn't you know.
Speaker 2:Going back, I'm like so I didn't even realize. You know, her name is like a, uh, it's Siri in reverse, and I was like oh, I never, I never thought about that either, like stuff, like that dude I, I was cracking up that is.
Speaker 1:That is very clever of them. Is it clever or is it kind of lazy, honestly?
Speaker 2:little column, a little column b um.
Speaker 1:So, going back to it, she like one of the guys like who owns the house. He's kind of like a pretty big dick too. He's he of a pretty big dick too. He's a weird guy. He kind of reminds me of. He's seen Friends in it Monica's boyfriend, the older guy, the older guy.
Speaker 2:He's a famous actor.
Speaker 1:He was in.
Speaker 2:Not Dennis Hart. He reminds me of Burt Reynolds.
Speaker 1:He finds out he's a sex robot and he's like all right, let me get a pass at that. She doesn't know that's what she's meant for. Basically she has no idea that and technically I'll give him this like technically she's not meant just for sex, you know, she's meant to be a companion, but everyone knows what that means, you know. So then, um, she's like nah, I'm only his, I'm only um, what's his name? Josh's? So he ends up killing him out of self-defense.
Speaker 1:Now, these robots do have rules programmed in them. It's like they can't kill, they can't, you know, disobey certain rules and stuff like that. They have to do what they're told. Well, josh mess we find out later this is a spoiler, but this movie's been out for a minute josh tampers with her settings a little bit and she like allows her to kill. So she kills him out of self-defense. And then the you find out later was I'm sure this was a big shock to you, because it kind of shocked me too a little bit.
Speaker 1:The reason they killed this guy is because he was supposedly a dick and he, he ruined many families. You know, he's a big drug dealer, he's just an evil guy and they're gonna rob his ass. Now that he's dead, everything goes well until iris starts she escapes from them. Like when she finds out, um, about she's being a robot and stuff like that, she kind of freaks out because the cops are never gonna believe them. She's not gonna be there now, and then from there, I like how they did what they like they went back in time to show her origin story, how she got delivered in a box and how their program was the me and stuff like that. This was a complete shocker to me. I my jaw almost dropped when I found this out that one of the gay boyfriends one of the boyfriends was also a robot too I wish I had a camera on me because I thought this.
Speaker 2:I was already crescendoed with the alert. I was like what is happening?
Speaker 1:and then they had like these fake store memories in their head too, like the scenarios of how they met. They have fake memories implanted in them and some of them are ridiculous, like josh and iris's was like they met at a grocery store. But these other two guys let me look up their names because they were awesome um, what's his name in the movie? Patrick and, uh, eli. Patrick and eli. They met at a costume party. He was just up as a dinosaur and then later in the movie we find out like the same memory, but with josh instead, and it's exactly the same. It was incredible to see how these robots operate stuff like that and towards the end, especially him in the costume. Did you not get the feeling you're watching terminator a little bit?
Speaker 2:a hundred percent and I think that they, you know, were being very intentional with the framing of that.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that dude was a mess and he was very like a ken kind of bot, like a person, like he he symbolizes like a, like a perfect body, like he did look like a chiseled robot. You know, I'll give them that same thing with iris. She looked very robotic even though she he did her best look human. It was incredible. So now, like they're fighting with iris to try to capture her, some people get murdered by accident, some people get murdered intentionally. I don't want to spoil too much in this movie, but how it is.
Speaker 1:This movie was gruesome but again, I think they spoiled a lot of the gruesomeness in the movie. I mean the trailers, because I was not surprised at all about anything that was happening, like any kill or anything like that. You knew how it ended from the very beginning. You knew how it ended brandon. I was so upset that they did this like everyone was very upset about. That was the biggest complaint about this movie. I had a fun time watching it. Like I said, the soundtrack was amazing. It made it more fun and relatable and you find out the big twist ending like they killed kind of an innocent man, like he was a dick but he wasn't evil like they thought he was just a rando.
Speaker 2:That didn't change their motives at all.
Speaker 1:So, other than that, I had a great time watching this movie.
Speaker 2:Let me, let me ask you this let me ask you this because I have a sex robot probably no joke, just joking I'm joking. No comment yo. If um did you? Did you empathize with iris at all? Oh yeah, 100.
Speaker 1:You know like I'm finding, that's like right now. If I found out I was a robot, my whole life will be radicalized dude.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you this, and here's my controversial take I did throughout the entire movie. I was excited for her getting away. I realized at the end, when she like kills him, I was like dang, that's crazy. Like imagine your toaster killing you. I was so mad, I was like I don't know, I feel like I wanted him to get away with the money. Obviously he's not a good dude, but it's kind of crazy that this program is happening.
Speaker 1:Not only does he get killed how he gets killed with that corkscrew. You know that corkscrew was going to come back into play because they messed with it like eight times throughout the whole movie A hundred times Smoke and gun right yeah.
Speaker 1:Some of the side characters, like the programmers who came and collected the body and stuff like that they were. They were funny because they, they, they generally thought they could certain like um, seem like concerned, like what happened to her, and stuff like that, and then they go back to the cars. Like you know, this is the next thing. People like fucking murder these things all the time. He was like this guy's an idiot actually. Actually. Yeah yeah, yeah, it was great. It was a great movie have you seen? Have you had a desire to see this again?
Speaker 2:I want to show other people this, like that's how much fun this was for me. I would absolutely sit down and like throw this on the rotation again.
Speaker 1:I'm going to ask you this again too, like do you think this movie would have done better or worse if it came out in the summertime?
Speaker 2:so my hot take um, yes, I definitely would have done better, but I think for this specific type of movie it came out near valentine's day. For whatever reason it came out two weeks early. That didn't make sense to me. Um, but like a valentine's day release, like it's so in tune for what this movie was going for, or I guess, guess, an anti-Valentine's Day, but I think they missed the mark there. I saw this in Love Hurts Like at the same time. Oh, I hated Love Hurts and I hated that. That's why I had so much fun with this.
Speaker 1:I think the one like I compared that movie Like Love Hurts seemed like AI wrote that one. Seems like Iris wrote that one um, it seems like iris wrote that, yeah, no iris would have done better. Um, now I didn't get like love, like this school didn't been good about valentine's day, maybe in the summertime because it is a summer house that they're visiting and kind of like, um, like a jason, kind of like a cabin in the woods kind of stuff, you know something like that.
Speaker 2:Even maybe fall time, when halloween is approaching, okay, well, yeah, it's the couple-y thing for me like obviously, like this was a vacation for all these couples, so it just like kind of lent itself in my head to like, oh, it's a good date night type deal. Um, but yeah, it was. It got crazy quickly and I 100.
Speaker 1:Yeah, recommend this movie to anybody. It's definitely a good date night movie, like you said, like having like people over something like that. Like it's it's good to put on a little bit. It's not that hard to follow. It's a very short watch very short, and it's gonna make you see like what the fuck you know a lot.
Speaker 1:You'll have a lot to talk about after watching it was a little bit funny too, I'll give it that too. I did chuckle a handful of times throughout the movie. It it's just like not anyone making jokes, but like how absurd something was.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What would you give this movie a one out of 10?
Speaker 2:Um uh, I think I gave it a three and a half, so seven again, yeah.
Speaker 1:Going right in that seven range. I want to say the same same thing seven. But out of the two Jack Quaid movies that came out back to back, which one are you going to re-watch first? Novocaine for sure, novocaine. Okay, I'll give you that. I'll give you that.
Speaker 2:The action in it, man, and, like you said, it's funnier.
Speaker 1:So it appeals a little bit more to that sense of my brain. What about you? That was probably a more gruesome movie, but yeah, I'd say the same thing, same thing, I. But yeah, I would say the same thing, same thing. I'm going to re-watch both of them at some point, but novakane is probably gonna be first. Actually, I might even see novakane again in theaters. That's how much I like that one. Okay, hell, yeah, yeah, um, brandon, this isn't gonna be the last time. Thank you so much for filling in the very last second. Again like this is like the last minute episode we threw together and a very good episode.
Speaker 2:Like I couldn't ask for a better guest.
Speaker 1:It was better than I was like plenty to be like or who I was originally gonna do this with. Um, I know you're gonna be coming out for sinners again that one. I'm really gonna be forcing the movie theaters out of your comfort zone because that one is a little bit scarier. But it is michael b jordan and ryan coogly cooly, is it cooly, coogler, coogler?
Speaker 2:and I know you love those two, so I mean, if it was, if it was anybody else, I would have hit you, I would have blocked your number when you asked me.
Speaker 1:So but I mean it was a tie between that movie or the amateur, which one I wanted to see, and I know you're a fan of those two. I mean a fan of ryan, michael and ryan, so like, okay, I gotta give this to you too, but are you excited to see the amateur?
Speaker 2:I'm very excited to see, I had not seen the trailer until this, until I went to go see novocaine. I don't know how I missed it. I've been in the theater and so much I was like, oh, that's gonna slap. Like I know I'm gonna make fun of that movie, but I'm like I'm locked in rami malik, who it's a remake.
Speaker 1:Did you know? I don't know if you knew that it came out like in 1986 or something like that. I just recently found that out because I saw it was on hulu. Uh, the original is on hulu right now. Then I might re-watch that before watching the new one, but it's similar concepts. I don't know the direct title off the top of my head, but it looks good. What's it? Lawrence Fishpond's in there too. You can't go wrong.
Speaker 2:It's like a. John Wick-y like it feels. But it's dark and it feels like we kind of hop into it. I love it. I love the unassuming hero, and rami malek can do no wrong in that crazy person role.
Speaker 1:So I'm like it's kind of like a psychological through, like uh, thinking too, but he doesn't necessarily kill them. He find he's a smart guy, so he'll find out what other ways to kill you versus actually pulling a gun on you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, he's not a physical threat at all, and they make that abundantly clear, which I almost appreciate more yeah, yeah, I'm so excited to get into that one.
Speaker 1:Um, I believe I have a first time you know who I'm actually in talks having to come on that, for that one is chris fitz. Chris fritza fritza fritzinator you might be making a debut on this podcast for that movie for me. Um, but again, brandon, thank you so much. Like I said, we're gonna be seeing you less than a month coming soon. Um, thank you so much for coming on this podcast. What are you currently binge watching right now?
Speaker 2:right now. Um, of course, the uh daredevil I'm locked into on disney glad to have him back as mac murdoch or farming every day, and uh reacher on amazon prime those are good one.
Speaker 1:I gotta rewatch that one. Uh, I actually in the middle of re-watching season one of Severance because I want to get on season two.
Speaker 2:Okay, please let me know when you finish. I just wrapped that episode on Sunday. Is that the season?
Speaker 1:finale, yep season finale. I loved everyone in that cast and Ben Stiller directed and produces it. You can't go wrong in that one again. But once again, thank you, brandon, for thinking for everyone listening through this podcast. Thanks for everyone supporting the Instagram page. Subscribe and follow to the tech doc Cause I'm starting to try to make more content, different kinds of content, more behind the scenes a little bit. You know I posted a few of them I, but I posted a few of them. I had a great episode last guest. I want to keep that going. So, yeah, thanks everyone. Stay tuned next week where it's going to be Snow White and the new first time guest on my podcast. I'm excited to talk about her. Stay tuned. Next week we're going to save a new scene. Outro Music.
