Out To Lunch | Undertone | Reminders of Him and More

Here are the movies I saw this week:

1. Protector
2. Hoppers 
3. Train Dreams
4. Undertone
5. Reminders of Him

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Hey guys, this is Jason Douglas, voice of Burrest Destroyer from Dragon Ball Super, and you're listening to the Revit and Go podcast. Make sure to rate the podcast, leave a review, and share it, or else I'll hello and welcome to the Out to Lunch edition of the podcast, where I, your host, Andy, uh talk about or quickly gloss over, recap the movies that I saw in theaters this past week.

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And just let you guys know it goes from it might be weird, but I'm gonna do it from Saturday to to Friday, basically, because Saturday's the days that this goes out, and I sometimes go watch movies on Saturdays. So it's going from Saturday to Friday, which means we're gonna start off with the movie that I watched last Saturday. So that's how we'll do it. This was a six movie week. Pretty crazy, pretty proud of it. Even though last week was seven, whatever. Still a lot of movies that we watched throughout the week. Those six movies are Protector, Hoppers, Train Dreams, Undertone, Reminders of Him, and One Battle After Another. Before we get into those, make sure you guys go ahead and follow us over on Instagram at Revan and GoPod for a bunch of fun pod posts, Instagram updates, uh, quick movie reviews from me and Adam. Uh pretty often, almost every other day, almost every day, to be completely honest with you, over there on Instagram at Reven and Go, as well as our Letterboxd account over there on Letterboxd. You can find us over there under at Reven and Go. Make sure you follow us over there. Okay. Without further ado, let's get into it. First movie of the week that we're gonna be talking about was Protector. I'm gonna be completely honest. My girlfriend and I decided to go watch this movie just for the sake of like, hey, well, we already watched a bunch of other movies in theaters. There's not really a whole lot of new movies out besides this one. So let's just go watch it. Oh boy, were we in for a surprise. Yeah, we read what the movie was gonna be about beforehand, and just in case you guys don't know what it's about. It's essentially a former war hero, Nikki. Nikki's peaceful life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped, thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military. She must fight to rescue her child. We read that and we were like, okay, sounds interesting enough. At least it's gonna be one of those kidnap, and now I have a specific set of skills that I will use to find my daughter. And for the most part, really, really enjoyed it. Um a lot. It's a rated R movie. Even then, I didn't really know what to like how so how brutal the action would be. Because I'm assuming it's only rated R because, well, you know, there's sex trafficking involved and all that stuff. But from the get-go, from the get-go, our our main character, our star, our war hero Nikki, played by, I'm sorry if I butcher the name. I feel like I apologize that pretty often on this pod about butchering names, but her, she's played by Mila Jovovich. Jovovich? Yep. Pretty early on, she's chasing down the people who are kidnapping her daughter in front of her eyes, chases them down, and stabs one of them with the key fob. Oh, and it's not like, oh, he got stabbed. No, it's like, hey, here's the close-up of him getting stabbed in the eye with the key fob. Obviously, um, the daughter ends up getting kidnapped, anyways. But from the get-go, this movie lets you know, okay, we're brutal as hell, and we're not afraid to show you it, right? So, you know, good thing. Movie was very brutal, very much like that. I don't know what it is when I feel like I complained this about I said this about some movies last week too, where it's like, why do they have to write like teenagers so poorly? Like to the point where like I don't like you, yeah. Yeah, sex trafficking is horrible, but like you did this to yourself, right? And on top of that, they don't just write her daughter terribly, they write her friends terribly by being absolute dicks to her mother. Like, you guys just left this person with a stranger and you guys think she's okay. Oh, I I can't stand horribly written teenagers that make me want to that make me roll my eyes every time a word comes out of their mouth. Absolutely hate it. I'm not too crazy about um Mila's performance throughout the movie. It's very like this movie feels very indie, you know, in the sense that like some of the shots feel like I don't know how to explain it, just don't feel all that great. It feels very like here's that first idea we had with the shot, and that's where we're gonna go with it. There's a whole lot of like, oh, this is what's gonna happen, but we're not gonna show it because it low-key will make no sense if she can take on like 12 guys at once, you know? It's just boom. Really cool, like, oh, six guys are after her, what are they gonna do? And she ends up killing him. None of that is shown. Performances are uh a bit rough, specifically from her, and then we also have we even have Matthew Modin in here, who plays like a colonel with who was her colonel and all that stuff. It just some performances just come off really cringy, really dig the action, with the movie being roughly 90 minutes, an hour 31. The pacing, no surprise, it's just there. It's from like I said, from the get-go, there's a really quick action sequence, and it does not stop from from that point forward, does not stop, really dig, no problem with the pacing whatsoever. Oh boy, and right when I thought I knew where this movie was going, as most of these movies go this way. Damn, what a twist ending. Did not see it coming. Dare I say, it's I think it's something I've never seen before when it comes to movies like this, where someone gets kidnapped and this person goes chasing them. So good on that movie for doing that. Really, really dug that. With all that said, I am going to be giving Protector a 7 out of 10. Moving on to the movie, I genuinely wasn't looking forward to. Watched the trailers, it did absolutely nothing for me. Only reason I went to go watch it was so I could go to the movie theaters. I went to the movie by myself, no one else was in the auditorium. Granted, I did go on a Monday, so whatever. And I left incredibly surprised. I was shook at how well this movie was, and that movie is Hoppers, by the way. Can't believe I forgot to say the name of the movie until then. But yes, that movie was Hoppers. Honestly, super surprising. Didn't expect this from this movie at all. But here we go. We we had we had Piper, uh Piper, Kurda, Kurda, Kurda, played Mabel, our main character, and oh my god. They from the get-go gave us, at least for me, an annoying character, someone I didn't think I was going to like at all. Actually, for the good chuck on the movie, I didn't like. And I'm just like, oh, great, unlikable character. And I know the person she's going up against, uh, Mayor Jerry, played by voiced by John Hamm. I'm just like, I mean, I get it, yes, we're on her side, but whatever. I was shook. I can't explain just how shook I was watching this movie. Um, this movie is basically about this girl, Mabel, trying to stop the mayor from building like a highway over this little patch of like land where there's a bunch of animals, and it means a lot to her because that's where her and her grandma like that was her grandma's her and her grandmother's spot. So, and her grandma passes, and her grandma's like, do whatever you can to keep this place safe. And that's essentially what she does. And granted, I thought the idea of like, oh, we're gonna take the person's mind and put it in a robot animal so they can go and actually understand the animals, really cool. Something they did that I thought was really, really cool is like whenever they cut to these real animals, or even the robot animal before it's you know, before the the mind of a person is in it, they just look like you know, run-of-the-mill animals. They're just there. They're the type of animals that people were upset about in the like the live first live action Lion King, where like how can you how can these be the main characters if they can't eat moat, you know? And then when Mabel gets put into the robot uh beaver to the regular person, she looks like a regular beaver, but for the audience, the face, like the mouth kind of changes and the eyes change to let you know that hey, this is specifically not necessarily a person, but like now this person has character because there's uh there's somebody in here talking to her. And I was like, okay, that's cool. And then you know, we gotta look at the bear early on, a bird, another beaver early on, and we're like, okay, yeah, those are very, those are animals. They look very animal-y. They don't look like how you do. But when she starts interacting with them, you know, then these run-of-the-mill beavers, bears, all the animals have now like um, I don't even know how to explain it really, but now they look more um like they're emoting more now. Like they have way more human characteristics while Mabel is interacting with them all. And then as soon as she's out of there and she's back to like talking to a regular animal when they can't understand each other, they're back to just looking like normal animals. It's super, super cool. The animation, no surprise, you know, it being a Pixar movie. Um top notch stuff. I really felt like I like the bears and the beavers were like so flow. I feel like you can like legit see the layers of fur in them. Absolutely great. Again, no surprise, you know. It is it is Pixar, so again, no surprise there. Only real like drag of the movie is that for the most part, our main character, Mabel. Ugh, it's just pretty annoying. Can't really stand her because you know where this is gonna go. You know she's gonna and again the trailer kind of um gives you it that she's gonna push it too far, and there's no like throughout her interacting with the animals where it's where she's like any sense of redeemable, so she comes off very, very irritating, I'd even say. Besides that, though, the movie's a lot of fun. There's actually a few moments where like I didn't know they would do things, so it you know, my jaw dropped. I literally gasped in the theater, thank goodness no one else was in there. And on top of that, this was a 4DX experience. I wasn't digging the 4DX early on in the movie, but man, when stuff starts going, that 4DX is not does not let you sit there comfortably. Um, and there's a reason why I didn't eat any food during this movie because I knew I was gonna be flying all over the place. And boy did I, boy did I! Super fun movie, really, really surprising. Might be my movie of the week, to be completely honest with you guys. Um Hoppers is getting an eight out of ten from me. Make sure you guys go check this out. Next up, we're talking about Train Dreams, another movie that I had no idea what it was about, even though I watched the trailer, watched it, no idea what it was about, went into it, because why not? And still had no idea what was going on. Um, but yeah, it's basically about our main character in that of his name being Robert Grainer, played by Joelle um Edgerton. If that's I I hope that's how his name is, and I'm not butchering it. Then again, if I am butchering it, then what else is new when it comes to this pod in me butchering names? But it's basically following his life's the good and the bad of him living in this like early 20th century as a rail railroad worker, you know, constantly building railroads, always being gone, coming back, meeting somebody, having a kid, um, and then still having to go do this railroad job. Railroad, dang, I can't even say that, railroad job, even though he's gone for a long stints of time. Like, okay, he's trying to figure out him and his wife are trying to figure out how they can make sure he's home more and dealing with all the like I said, the the great things that the life can bring you, like a family and a bunch of tragedies that can also come with it, and still, you know, trying to go on go on about your day, about your life, really. And so that's the gist of the movie, right? But I again hour 42, movie feels like two plus hours, really slow paced, and I I don't have anything negative to say about this movie besides like what are we doing? Like, oh, okay, this happens, great, this happens okay, and now how's he gonna deal with things? Yeah. Um, like I said, very slow-paced movie. Uh I d am into the characters, really feel for um, I already forget his name. Robert Grainer. Uh that's not that's the character's name. Uh Joel Edgerton. Really good performance. Really feel the the struggle that he's going through. But again, the movie just was just like, and yep, that's how his life went. And then it ends. And I'm just like, okay. Interesting. Uh what I think what was interesting also, I didn't know that this movie was actually a a Netflix movie. Came out on Netflix and then they re-released it in theaters. I didn't know that until as I'm sitting there waiting for the movie to start, that the Netflix logo came up. So I'd say that was probably the most interesting thing about this movie. Didn't know it was a Netflix movie now on the big screen. So yeah. Uh Train Dreams, it's gonna get a 7 out of 10. I don't have much to say about it really. The day I saw Train Dreams, though, an hour later, after the movie ended, I went to go see Undertone. So I think everybody on this pod knows I'm not a horror movies person, but you know, you sometimes you just gotta go watch them. And Undertone is another one that I saw this year or this week. Oh boy. Pretty simple movie. Um, 90-minute movie following our character Eevee, played by Nina Cierry, where this okay, the tagline for this movie is the scariest movie you'll ever hear. So I'm like, okay, and I figured it'd be one of those, like, sort of, I don't know how to explain it, one of those movies where like everybody's basically doing a FaceTime and they're FaceTime each other, and the movies just tow through that perspective. Okay, okay. It's not really like that at all. Our main character, Evie, hosts a podcast with her friend Justin, who we never see, he we just ever hear his voice because they don't live near each other or whatever. And they start going through these, I don't even remember what like the story of the evil person is because I don't really want to say it and jinx jinx it, and then I start suffering because of it. Um but they start going through these audio files that they were sent, and each audio file is just going over this couple that starts off with like, hey, she star she didn't think she slept talk, talked in her sleep, and I'm recording to prove it, and then there's ten of them, and they progressively get scarier and scarier and scarier. And to the point where like, why am I doing this? I keep asking myself throughout the movie, why am I here? I shouldn't be here. I don't even like feeling like this, right? The the best thing for me in this movie was the camera work. I adored the camera work. There's a bunch of shots where our main character, Evie, is kind of like off to the side, really, right? And the the focal point of the of the shot is whether it be like down the hallway or the stairway to her left or to the TV over there. And 95% of the time, there's nothing there. But by always showing that there's could be something there because we're also going with these audio files and all that stuff, it really builds like your anxiety, like, oh my gosh. And every now and then, Evie will it's like she's paranoid. She'll be on or recording her podcast with her friend, and she'll constantly look over her shoulder, like, hmm, kind of felt like something was there. Adding to the anxiety, adding to the paranoia that us, the audience, are feeling. Like I said, 95% of the time, there's nothing there but the camera work. Just like I'm just gonna, yeah, I know she's recording, but we're gonna slowly pan around the room. Oop, maybe there's something there. Most of the time there's not, but it's just building and building and building. Like this, the the stuff that you expect from horror movies, like the pop-ups and all that stuff. There's very, very, very little of any of it. And again, that's them slowly but surely building it and building it and building it and building it, and it's genuinely terrifying. I I respect that this is for me a good horror movie, but I I was like, why am I there? Why am I there, right? Ugh. Really good, really good watch. Again, I bec I think it's because I don't like horror movies that I kind of hold them to a high standard. That if I am gonna watch it, I hope it's good. This was a good one. I'm giving Undertone an eight out of ten. 45 minutes or so after watching Undertone, I went back to the movie theater to watch another movie, and that was Reminders of Him. Honestly, this week has been filled with a bunch of movies that are like kind of all over the place from Protector to Hopper, the Train Dreams, Undertone, and now Reminders of Him. I'm gonna be completely honest, this was the movie I was looking forward to the most. Judge me all you want. I don't care. And not only I don't even think I was the only one looking forward to this movie because this auditorium that I went to was packed. I mean, from top to bottom, end to end, every row was full. And to no surprise, a majority of the people in the auditorium for this movie were all women. Of course, there are some women who brought their boyfriends, whatever. You know, we go we go to go. I was still looking forward to this movie, regardless. Regardless, and damn. Again, no surprise that it surprised me. Um, I was ex- I wasn't expecting much for this movie because it's one of those like based off the book, tragedy, dark romance, drama, stuff like that. But hey, on top of those things, this movie was also pretty damn funny. The drama isn't so like insanely over the top where you're like, ugh, rolling your eyes. Like it's not one of those Netflix, like, we're just gonna make it super cringy. Like the the romance isn't anything like that. It feels pretty darn genuine. Um, the the tragedy, it's very heartbreaking. Again, the drama between Kenna, uh Kenna Rowan, played by ah, dang it. We got one of these names that's hard to do. Uh Micah Meka Monroe. She portrays her character so so well. She's um no surprise, she's the main character. She delivers the best performance. Um, her with Ledger Ward, played by Tyreek Withers. Uh he was a bit stiff, didn't give too much, didn't give a whole lot of range or all that stuff. But you know, still really good. Their chemistry, really good. Um, Bradley Whitford and Lauren Graham. I can never pronounce that last name. Graham. Whatever. They're also really well in there. They really portray the the loss and the tragedy from their son in this movie, like top tier, and you know how you would hold that against the person that they blame for it, right? Really, really well. And I'm trying to find her right now. Zoe Kazovic Kosovic, who plays the daughter, Diem Landry. Oh my gosh, I'm not even kidding. She was so freaking adorable. She was super freaking funny too, and she put she's a five-year-old, she's five in this movie, right? She's so funny, absolutely adorable. I don't know how they got her. She says a she has a lot of lines in this movie, and they're not little like, yeah, my favorite color is red. None of that. She speaks full ass sentences. So the fact that this again in the movie, five-year-old is memorizing all these lines and delivering them the way she's delivering them. My goodness, future of the acting industry. She tremendous, absolutely tremendous. And I ain't gonna lie, this movie gets you really pretty emotional with you know, a parent trying and just wanting to be there for their child and willing to do anything to not only just get to see her, but to like to make sure she has a good life. Absolutely heartbreaking stuff. And I and I enjoyed every single second of it, every single second of it. Reminders of him is getting an eight out of. Of 10 from me. So, yeah, those are all the movies I watched this week. Hope you guys enjoyed. Don't forget to check out our Instagram for a bunch of fun posts, movie reviews, quick movie reviews from me and Adam. You can find us over there on Instagram at Revit and GoPod. Make sure to follow us over there. Once again, I've been your host, Andy, and we'll see you guys on the next one.