Strangers in the Alps: A Movie Podcast

S03E23 - Quarantine

Satellite 12 Season 3 Episode 23

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The Stangers are having deja vu, in English! This week they take on "REC"'s 2008 American remake Quarantine, starring Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez and Steve Harris.

"Quarantine" is available to rent on all major platforms!

A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC, after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.

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SPEAKER_00

And welcome to another episode of Strangers in the Alps, a movie podcast where every now and then we get together and we talk about movies. In a nonsensical way. Non-conventional. Let's not do that. Fun way, though. Frank's camera just goes off. There's consent amongst us. I turned my phone off. In fun. We're having fun. My name is Dan.

SPEAKER_02

My name's Travis.

SPEAKER_00

Travis speaking to the mic. My name's Travis. I'm Sam. My name is Frank. Speaking to the mic. And we are the Strangers Team. My name is Frank. My name is Frank. We've all had a little bit to drink.

SPEAKER_02

We have not changed one bit. It's been a while.

SPEAKER_00

It has been a while. It's good to be back.

SPEAKER_02

And we have not changed at all.

SPEAKER_00

It is good to be back and back to be live. I want to say something real quick. Yesterday, I was taking a walk, and I thought, you know what? I'm going to listen to an episode. Okay. We're going to level with you guys. We're all taking shots of one shot, Jack Daniels. We're in one shot. We'll shorten the bottle later. Travis downed his right away. It's in biddy pine, okay? Every time Sam takes a sip.

SPEAKER_03

It's so strong. I've never had the stuff.

SPEAKER_01

It's so big and strong.

SPEAKER_02

We're not done yet.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, you can definitely taste the oak. I just tasted it. That was very oaky.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, you you're like oh, you're like a critic now?

SPEAKER_00

No, that's the episode of The Office. Sonatra's select. So anyway, I'm taking a walk and I think, you know what? I'm gonna listen to one of our episodes. I need to reintroduce myself. So I go on, beep, and I turn it on, and there's nothing there. I go on another streaming service, beep, I put So I text Frank. I said, Frank, I can't find Texted the group. Oh, did I? I can't find Strangers in the Alps. Right, I did. I thought we were canceled. Yeah, it's done. I literally thought I thought they took us off the air and I didn't know about it.

SPEAKER_03

You should have been like, Frank, what did you do? What did you say?

SPEAKER_00

Frank, what happened? So anyway.

SPEAKER_03

So like when you looked us up, there was nothing at all?

SPEAKER_00

No, it would list it, but nothing would open. Oh, it's not. Like it wouldn't play anything. It just no, I would hit play and it would like nothing? Oh, it would just buffer.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

But Frank got us back on, and I got back on, got to listen to one. Yay, yeah. That's one. I will tell you in just a moment. Oh fine.

SPEAKER_03

So damn. Calm down.

SPEAKER_00

Travis, could you read the description on the VHS tape of the movie we saw?

SPEAKER_02

I'm not even gonna lie. I totally forgot we did that. I've never been less ready in my life.

SPEAKER_00

This is not a joke. Well, I can I can uh I can like fill time while you do that. We're drinking Jack Daniels Select. Sinatra Select. By the way, when I got the price of the bottle.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah, $150 for a bottle. Now can you tell them the price of the glass that you're drinking out of? Tell us the price of the glasses you're wearing.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, Jesus.

SPEAKER_02

I'm ready.

SPEAKER_01

These are probably like $400. Damn. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02

I'm ready. A spectacle, and I.

SPEAKER_00

A spectacle?

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Okay.

SPEAKER_02

So this is actually kind of funny. So I had to click on the original music. Original movie, and I hit translate, and it changed to a different movie. Huh?

SPEAKER_00

Okay, that would only be funny if we had any idea what you said.

SPEAKER_02

See, stay tuned. Okay, so a television, a television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.

SPEAKER_00

Hey, wait a minute. Spoiler. We've already done that movie.

SPEAKER_03

But in Espanol.

SPEAKER_00

We did that movie in Barcelona. In Barcelona. Barcelona.

SPEAKER_03

Barcelona.

SPEAKER_00

So the name of the movie is Quarantine. 2008. Because they're trapped in a building. So they quarantine by the CDC. By the CDC. Because there's some crazy disease that's spreading crazy. Bio.

SPEAKER_03

Starting from a pet? It was the dog.

SPEAKER_00

I guess we'll find out as we talk about it.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Do we have to?

SPEAKER_00

We'll have to let you know. So let's do our pre-thoughts. Um I will start because I want to.

SPEAKER_02

Um that's a good job. Good idea.

SPEAKER_00

I can't say I'd never heard of the movie because we already saw the movie. The original film was called Wreck. We actually covered it last year. Yeah, last year. And um this is the it was originally a movie that was done in in Spain. Uh and then they brought it to the United States and they did an English version, American version of it. Uh so I already knew the movie. Um I knew of it. I had not seen this version of it. But I'm gonna just say this. So today I decided to listen to the Rec podcast.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, ours?

SPEAKER_00

So I listened to the Rec podcast just so I could get refreshed on what we said about that movie.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I should have done that. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00

So I have lots to share when we talk about because it was really fun to listen to it. Nice. Especially after just watching Quarantine again and then and then listening to the uh to the podcast. Anyway, so that's that's my pre-thought.

SPEAKER_02

If you have not listened to the Rec podcast, we recommend that you listen to it now. I highly recommend it, actually.

SPEAKER_00

It's actually the Rec podcast was really good. Did a really really good job with it. Made a lot of fun. Okay. Go ahead, Travis. What were your pre-thoughts?

SPEAKER_03

I'm gonna listen to it now.

SPEAKER_02

No, so my pre-thoughts. I'll be back in an hour. My pre-thoughts were um this is actually my first time seeing the movie when we were doing the podcast. Um that's quick, cool.

SPEAKER_03

My oh.

SPEAKER_02

I had so I found out. Thanks for prethoughts. No, I found out about Wreck in high school. It was like big, like underground kind of movie. And then it seems like a few months after I'd heard about Wreck, this movie Quarantine came out, and right away I was just very against it. I was like, why? No, I'm not gonna watch it. I think my brother saw it in theaters and he said it was alright. Did he watch Wreck? No, I don't think he knew. Maybe, but um, no, and I just kind of dismissed the movie. And then they came out with the sequel, and I thought it was a funny name.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, is it Terminal?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, uh quarr quarantine terminal because it's in an airport. But also be yeah, and that's and that's that's pretty much all I gotta say about it.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my god, I get lit I think this is the fastest you've done a pre-thought.

SPEAKER_00

And we appreciate that, so I watched Rec first.

SPEAKER_03

I heard about quarantine, I didn't care for it, so I never watched it, and then Frank told me that there were things that were different from this one in this one than Wreck. Yes, piqued my interest for a little bit, and then when it was added to the list that we were gonna podcast on, that's when I watched it. Gotcha. I watched this three times. Because we it keeps getting weird.

SPEAKER_01

We watched it like four months ago. Um, Frank? Yeah, um, I saw it in theaters. I hadn't I hadn't heard of Rec until after I finished the movie. I went to go see it with my mom, who's like not the biggest um fan of zombie movies in particular. She thinks they're kind of like whatever. She she does like the Resident Evil movies, but you know, that's those are Resident Evil movies. Yeah, they're they're action slop. Special. Um but I do remember her enjoying this one when we went. I enjoyed it, and then I found out about Wreck and I want to go see Wreck, and I was like, wait a second. Wait, I've seen this movie.

SPEAKER_03

Who copied who wait? Did you know that they were? But this one's harder to follow.

SPEAKER_01

I said, wait a second, now Spanish people are remaking English movies. Wouldn't that be hilarious?

SPEAKER_03

So you didn't know. Did someone hit the SEO that came first at that time?

SPEAKER_01

No, I I did it after I found out about Wreck, but going into quarantine, I I had no clue. I just remember seeing a trailer and going, oh, I I remember thinking two things. Number one, um, that looks fun. And number two, they likely spoiled the last show.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01

Spoiler that they did. Yeah. Right in the trailer.

SPEAKER_02

The last scene of the trailer is literally like that last scene where she's laying on the floor. And it's obviously you can tell the way they said it's the last scene in the movie.

SPEAKER_03

It's like cover two of the DVD.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Being that it's a found footage movie, it would only make sense. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

It didn't spoil much until you watched it, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

But I do remember when we were gonna r do it the first time, uh, and then we had to delay the first time. I remember thinking, oh, thank God, because it's the day of and I haven't seen the movie. Um yeah, but we'll get into uh further thoughts as we go along. Did you Dan? What were your thoughts about the movie again?

SPEAKER_03

Um did I not give them?

SPEAKER_02

No, now you gotta give them. You gotta give them a shit. I've been drinking. I have no idea. Did I tell you? You gotta give them in Spanish. Elablo en Frank, did you so you said you did you did like quarantine when you first watched it?

SPEAKER_01

Yes.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. I mean it's not a I'm gonna say this, it's not a bad movie.

SPEAKER_03

Well, hang on. It's not when it's like a shot for sure.

SPEAKER_00

There's a lot to watch in the movie. If you didn't see Wreck and you only saw quarantine, I think you would go, well, that was that was pretty good. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. I think the only reason why you may not like it as much is because if you saw Wreck first, and I'm not saying it's a flip-flop they're even, but I can totally understand not to put words in Frank's mouth, but I totally understand if you saw Quarantine First that that experience of seeing that movie, I'm sure was pretty effective. It felt unique. And that's it. It is a very unique movie.

SPEAKER_02

I mean and that's why I asked. Well, and and and and that's why I asked, because especially seeing it in theaters, that must have been like really fun too.

SPEAKER_00

Right, I can imagine.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, because I'm sure it's the same. I'm sure if I had never heard of Rec and I saw the preview for this, I probably would have been there like day one in theaters watching it.

SPEAKER_03

You do like zombie movies.

SPEAKER_02

I like zombie movies, I like horror, found footage. Like, like I said, I would have been like, whoa, this is like to take what Dan said, it's very unique.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I don't think I would have watched it. That was for both Rec and Quarantine.

SPEAKER_00

Did quarantine do well? I think it did fine. It did it did fine. Let me let me look at it.

SPEAKER_02

Its budget, I think, was 12 mil.

SPEAKER_03

But the second one was straight to DVD.

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah, it was terrible. Um, okay, so the budget was 12 mil, and the t worldwide gross was 41. So not great, but not bad. They made their money back.

SPEAKER_02

Enough to do home video, turn it into home video land.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Um 41 million? Yeah. Oh wow. And that's and that's not even including like home video.

SPEAKER_01

You know what? It did pretty decently because domestically it was 31. So um they got you know more of their gross back.

SPEAKER_02

And I'm sure they probably probably made about 10 to 20 mil in like home video sales as well, you know? Right.

SPEAKER_03

And then Yeah, who was the girl in this one?

SPEAKER_02

She was in um she was in Dexter, if you watch this.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, the sister. And there were a few familiar faces in this one.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, yeah, I got one. Dan, I think you would know. I could not stop laughing. I think if I brought it up, there was a very familiar face in a very popular sitcom. Got it.

SPEAKER_00

From So the mom, who has the kid who's sick, she was the ex-wife of Alan on Two and a Half Men. Yeah. So it was hard for me to take her seriously in this movie. Like, you're a sitcom actress.

SPEAKER_02

I I couldn't stop laughing, and I couldn't I couldn't tear myself away from it. And her?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I could I couldn't separate myself.

SPEAKER_02

And and the vet. I forgot about that. The vet was in the movie Tomadega Knights.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_02

And um You got the guy from Hostel. Yeah, the guy from Hostel. Jay Hernandez was in the Hottie. That's it. That's all I've been doing. And that's the movie. Hey, you like that, uh, you like the locker room scene, am I right? Actually, yes. You're right. Instead of they had to be like, okay, everyone, Frank's coming through. Let me ask you a question.

SPEAKER_03

Joey King was the daughter. Oh, yeah, I just saw that.

SPEAKER_02

That was her first. That was her first film.

SPEAKER_01

She did good. She did.

SPEAKER_00

That's so the first movie. The uh wreck took place in Barcelona. Yes, and this took place in LA. Where in LA the hell did this movie take place? Um clearly 777th Street.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. That's what I think. Somewhere as on Broadway.

SPEAKER_00

Is this like East LA or something? No, I think I couldn't figure out what I mean.

SPEAKER_02

I think it was total like like uh when you're on like probably like four blocks west of Skid Row. Oh, Lord.

SPEAKER_00

Because it made it, it seemed like it was in like the older. Can I just say it felt weird to sit in LA? I would have been more comfortable, like in New York or maybe Chicago. LA just didn't, yeah. LA just didn't feel like the right place setting.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

For the kind of sort of vibe and the building and the whole idea of it. I feel like people would jump out of Philadelphia. You know what I mean? Some place where it's felt more old school.

SPEAKER_02

It kind of felt very LA for me in the sense where just one thing. It was actually kind of funny. So I was watching the movie, I was eating dinner today, watching the movie, and I'm like Salmon? No, uh pork chops. And I hear the sirens and everything. I'm like, well, it's kind of loud, and it's going. And then I hear the sides of the movie. I pause the movie and I just hear like the smith. I kept he well.

SPEAKER_00

Then they boarded up the outside of his building and you couldn't get out.

SPEAKER_02

I saw the spotlight. Well, because I live by a hospital, so I'm always hearing like the sirens of the ambulances when they're pulling in and out.

SPEAKER_00

Wow, that's a good move.

SPEAKER_02

Well, I I mean it's not too far. It's just I hear more like the echo because it's across from, you know.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you, Travis. It's the hospital for anyone who wants a reference to where they are.

SPEAKER_03

Come on, don't do that. We gotta beep it out. Um, what I wrote in my what I wrote in my notes from months ago, I said apartment felt more sound staged.

SPEAKER_02

It did.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it did. It felt very and I think that it didn't feel like the like in the wreck, but it felt like they were actually in a building.

SPEAKER_02

And I think it would have felt better in like New York because especially the way that the apartment's designed. Like you said, I'm like, no apartment.

SPEAKER_00

You feel like those buildings are in New York. You don't feel like those buildings are in LA.

SPEAKER_02

Especially like having like the atrium and all that. I'm like, no building in LA.

SPEAKER_00

I mean they probably have them, but remember, I think was it The Evil Dead, the last one was that was also in LA. Yeah, yeah. It was also an apartment building that was being condemned.

SPEAKER_03

More like downtown, right.

SPEAKER_00

But it also felt like this doesn't feel like LA. Why are we doing this? You can shoot it in LA, but don't you think it's like why are we putting it in LA?

SPEAKER_02

Or they should even just been like we're in Canada.

SPEAKER_00

LA has palm trees in Sunset Boulevard.

SPEAKER_02

No, it didn't feel but I'm gonna go into it since we're saying the changes in location, um, if it affected like the film. One for me, well, I'm gonna say one for you. I have an interesting thought, okay, but I don't know if it's for localization reasons. Is so as we know, one of the big differences in the film is the origin of the virus, whereas in Spain, which is predominantly Catholic, it's a possession that turns into mutation, right? And then in this one, it's more like LA. Well, we're not LA, it's set in LA where it's like, oh, it's a doom cult that has a biological weapon that gets out and it infects. I think it's just interesting like how they changed that a bit. But like, you know, like I said, I don't know if it was like a localization reason. Because I don't know, I just thought that was interesting.

SPEAKER_00

One of the one of the problems I have in terms of discussing these two movies is I've only seen I only saw Wreck one time. And you've seen quarantine like this. I've seen quarantine twice. But to really be able to break it down like, oh, that was different, and that was different, I would have to watch Wreck like probably three times. You listen to the episode. Well, I did, but but yeah, we go beef.

SPEAKER_02

No, but I mean I just Well I can tell you other things that were different. Well, I mean, I don't I'm not saying we have to go see my I'm just saying like if any thoughts on like do you like to me it did the two movies just didn't feel different to me.

SPEAKER_00

I feel like I was watching literally an um an English version of Rec. Well and and and pretty much at the ending there was there were differences in the last scene, but very little. And I mean sometimes I felt like I was going I think this is like shot for shot almost.

SPEAKER_03

90% very unimaginative.

SPEAKER_00

Like we don't know. You can't even re like plot the out the I think she had the same outfit on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

To me, I almost thought I put on the wrong movie because dubbed no throughout the opening logos. Like you said, Sam. Yeah. Like you said, Sam, throughout the opening logos, it's the same thing where it's her talking and she makes the mistake and starts over. I know they do exactly. So they did they did the same thing, but then it gets a little bit different when they're inside the firehouse and they're doing the difference.

SPEAKER_00

It's a it's it's but again, you've seen it multiple times, so you can make that observation. I I can't do that.

SPEAKER_02

Well, that's the thing. It it for me, I was thinking, okay, so they kept the opening kind of joke the same, and I was thinking, okay, cool, we're in the firehouse. They're making it, it it's pretty much the same outcome, but it's a little bit different. You're seeing more of these, like you're seeing the characters in this movie, and they're giving them life a little bit. I'm like, okay, cool. Maybe they're gonna make it a little different. Maybe this is where we're gonna separate when they get to the incident, but then it sort of loses my interest after the first like 15, 10 minutes, because once they get the first call about 20, about 15 minutes in, oh yeah, it just turns in to the exact same movie. So I'm like, okay, anything that was now had my interest is now gone. And they even kept that first big scare the same with the person falling down from the it's a good scare. It's a good scare.

SPEAKER_03

It is. I feel like the firehouse scene was longer in this version.

SPEAKER_01

It was and it it I agree.

SPEAKER_03

That's why I felt yeah, I got bored.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, no, it kept going and going and going.

SPEAKER_00

Is I mean, isn't it okay that they did all the same shit? Because they were not, they didn't care about the audience that saw Wreck. No. They figured that only about 20% of the people who saw Wreck, and that's why they probably don't speak English. Right. They're showing they're showing a movie to a uh an American audience. So they're stealing all this stuff. And that's why they read it. It doesn't matter. We're critiquing something that nobody else cares about.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, in terms of you know I mean the writers of Rec were also involved in this one. What are they doing? I think they also helped write.

SPEAKER_02

But he just apparently the director was like, I don't like this.

SPEAKER_03

I wouldn't either.

SPEAKER_02

But yeah. I mean he felt dissatisfied with it.

SPEAKER_01

But I mean there's five writers for this one. Oh, okay. I mean, the script was already there. You just need to translate. To me, it was like this in about two days.

SPEAKER_02

It's it felt like this, Dan. If you were to go to me and you would be like, hey, I like made this hamburger. It's a little different, but it tastes exactly like a Tommy's hamburger. Have it. I'd be like, why do I want a burger that tastes like a Tommy's one when I can go to Tommy's and get a Tommy's burger?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and and that's pretty much like the same outlook for all remakes and subset.

SPEAKER_02

Well, I mean, some try things a little different, at least. But I mean, I guess it it's more to Dan's point where it's like, I think this film is just it's a cash-in on.

SPEAKER_00

And you're like, this was really good. Just do this in English. I feel like that was the direction from the producer. Just do that. And it'll be great. And I think they did that. No, I I thought they actually really did a pretty damn loyal job of just recreating the original film. I think so. It had the same effect for me. I think so.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. And I like the new things that were added. It wasn't too much that it'd be like.

SPEAKER_00

What are some of the new things? I'd love to talk about that.

SPEAKER_03

They were apparent Frank, help me up.

SPEAKER_01

I wrote Um, so the two of them were the uh the dog. Yeah. I think actually seeing the dog. And the whole Ruby's thing, right? That was seeing the dog, the the dog kill, um, and also the the kill with the camera. That was the cool one. Yeah, the the camera kill alone. I was like, oh, okay, that's pretty cool. I'll I'll allow it. Um there's one other thing, and it's a thing that I bitched about on the record. But they don't do the They don't do the the the rewind up camera. Which is exactly how it would work.

SPEAKER_00

So I I appreciate the fact that I didn't know that because I w I listened to the podcast today. And when you said that, I went, Oh yeah, okay, you're right. I'd forgotten that they actually re rounded. And you would never see that. Mm-hmm. And this is what they did. They just they jump cut it. So it's the way like Frank says exactly how you're talking about it.

SPEAKER_01

Wreck, more like playback, am I right?

SPEAKER_02

Um But I okay, so one one scene that I actually really liked. There was a good like fifteen, twenty minute section that I liked. It's where the firehouse scene. No, it's where the locker room. The locker room. It's where the um where the vet is talking about, oh it might be rabies, and they're like, okay, well, why don't we just give ourselves the rabies shots? Oh well we can't because typically with rabies, um the effects don't show up for a couple months, but once the effects come in, it's just a hundred percent lethal. And then they the guys with the biohazard suits come in. I thought that was cool. Oh yes. When they came in and they were walking in, I thought that was super cool. I I like how it wasn't in the original? No, I like I like when they put the bodies in on the table and they get the drills and they start drilling into the guy's brain, then the foam starts coming out, and then and then he just I don't remember that. Just one body in the original, yeah. You gave me a lot of shit for doing this. No, no, I just You're asking questions now with The Last of Us.

SPEAKER_00

I don't remember.

SPEAKER_02

And that's why I'm telling it.

SPEAKER_00

Because I only walked up one time.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. And then I thought it was a cool scare too, where he the the body, then the fireman with the hundred dollar bet gets up and then he starts like eating the guy, like binding in the.

SPEAKER_03

Hit the bodies hit the floor.

SPEAKER_02

Drowning pool. Um, I don't know. I thought that whole sequence was really cool. I then thought it was cool too, where they when they go up and the guy's like, we gotta get out of here, and he opens up the window and it gets sniped.

SPEAKER_01

That's another thing that wasn't in the original. I did like that.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, they never they never got that far, which was really and then they go to the vet and they're like, they go to the vet and they're like, You you left us to die. And then they actually did something I've never seen in a zombie movie where the scummy character says, Stay away from me, I've been bit. And he tries to hide himself because I'm like, usually that scummy character will hide that he gets bit.

SPEAKER_03

You can tell that Travis just saw the movie. And they were going after him, going, Wait, no, this is a plot point. Get back out here.

SPEAKER_02

Well, there is a very much setting up a plot thing that makes no sense in the movie.

SPEAKER_01

What is it?

SPEAKER_02

Now you're having me like fast forward to this podcast. Please do is the scene where they knock on the guy and they're like, We're gonna need you to go to the atrium. And he goes, Does this have anything to do with the cable being out? They're like, no. We just need everyone to go to the atrium. We have no reason, and they bring everyone out. I'm like, okay, so you're just bringing all the people out because you need all the characters to be out of their apartments in the atrium area. Kind of made no sense, but they had to do it because they had to get all the characters out.

SPEAKER_01

So that you can so that you can meet them all.

SPEAKER_02

Exactly. I was like, I was like, there's no logical reasoning on why they would bring everyone out into the one interview.

SPEAKER_01

I think they were framing it as like a kind of evacuation, but also like Because they weren't even exactly, they weren't even being like quarantined, they weren't quarantined yet. Not yet, no, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Cool.

SPEAKER_02

But um It's good to be back talking about movies. No, I I was just saying, it's Heartbreak feels good in a place like this. Stop it right now.

SPEAKER_00

Podcast feel good in a place like this. I think the movie has such a great sort of journey in terms of of the stakes. Like they come in, this wacky crap happens right away with I think I miss Espinoza or something. I didn't stop the video on this one, but in the but in Rec I stopped. It was 13 minutes when the old lady went nuts. I think this was longer.

SPEAKER_03

This was like 20 minutes. I wish I would have been.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, they they leave the higher fire uh higher house.

SPEAKER_00

The firehouse about 15 to 17 minutes, and then about like 20 minute range is when um But the journey is so great in the story how it just sort of escalates and sort of keeps shifting and keeps going, or not shifting, but keeps going up and up and up. Even in this version, I mean you've just it's very well done.

SPEAKER_02

It's a cause it's a cool idea.

SPEAKER_00

It doesn't have a lot of I mean, it has it doesn't need a lot of twists. It just keeps getting worse.

SPEAKER_03

Like, how are they gonna get out? Literally that's it.

SPEAKER_02

It's a very cool, unique idea that's hard to mess up, especially them making at found footage, because I like to at the end when she has the realization she's like, is it even worth trying to escape or trying to survive or trying to because like they're not gonna let us out. Like, we're not gonna live through this. Yeah, like we're gonna die. Like, none of this matters.

SPEAKER_00

They're not you know the guy was taken to the vet already, so it's already outside the building. Yeah. Because isn't dog the patient zero?

SPEAKER_01

Yes.

SPEAKER_00

Terminal. They already took it to the vet. That's where they're gonna get terminals. They've already they've already shared the he's already shared the virus. That's true. That's true because they they take it to the airport. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

Is that true? I don't know. Okay, so there's no no I think they do kind of tie it in in some loose, dumb way.

SPEAKER_03

I have I have a confession to make. So I was your confession. I was supposed to I watched another confession. Thank you. I watched this movie. I put it on and it took a nap. Um, I forgot. Are the kids part of this where they snuck in? Is this this movie? No. What movie was that?

SPEAKER_01

It's probably one of the like the other recs.

SPEAKER_02

Was it like rec 2? That's rec 2. Yeah, I was gonna say that's rec 2. We watched that a few weeks ago.

SPEAKER_03

Oh man, never mind. Good thing I didn't say it.

SPEAKER_01

Wait, was that the first time you guys had seen it? Rec 2, no.

SPEAKER_02

Have you seen it?

SPEAKER_01

No, I haven't seen it.

SPEAKER_03

It's really good.

SPEAKER_01

Wait, you know what? I think I started watching it and then I didn't really like finish.

SPEAKER_03

That one is continuation right from the end of Rec. So it's really good.

SPEAKER_00

Well, isn't the record? Isn't quarantine two like a military thing? Airport.

SPEAKER_02

No, quarantine two, that's what's called terminal. It's in the airport. Regular people and you're thinking of you're thinking of rec 2. So rec 2 is the same events. Well, it starts off, but it it it's through the perspective of uh police the police. The SWAT team going into that.

SPEAKER_03

It starts with them going into that apartment.

SPEAKER_02

Gotcha. Yeah. And let them.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, didn't you know that, Dan? Don't you know movies?

SPEAKER_02

You call yourself and you and you're on a podcast. And you call yourself You want to be my LaTeX salesman.

SPEAKER_00

What? You want to be my latex salesman. Seinfeld. Oh.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. Well, okay, moving on. Yeah, please. So we talked about some of the differences.

SPEAKER_02

We talked about stuff we liked. Dan, Frank, what Frank, Sam, that what are some scenes you liked?

SPEAKER_03

I still like the the kid biting the mom.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that was a good scene. Yeah, it's my my daughter, she's okay. She's still gonna have to. And then you see the glass.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I really liked um the the firefighter dropping scene always gets me. Yeah. It's really cool. Um really great stuff. Uh I also really like when they Who was it that they that they encounter up top? Espino m Mrs. Espinoza, right? Yeah, we're pretending to be able to do that. From that moment to running down, like to to when they get to like the uh the attic or whatever. Um that whole section I thought was really well done.

SPEAKER_02

It's very chaotic and also um it's it's a it's a little it's a little over the top, but I think it works since it's found footage and kind of goofy. Basically, when she turns, she kind of almost to me kind of turns into like a Resident Evil 7, almost kind of like zombie with the really long hair and like the almost kind of like spiky teeth with the eyes. Yes. I think it really works for like the fountain footage um format too, because you know you're having characters coming in and out of frame and being crazy. I I think the more over-the-top works for this movie.

SPEAKER_03

Uh uh.

SPEAKER_00

Can I ask you a question? Yes. Not on the podcast, but since you arrived this evening, Resident Evil's come up quite a bit. Why? Because it's because some some recently.

SPEAKER_02

There's a recent game, a recent game came out, and it's on your brain. Well, a recent move a recent game came out, and then Frank and I generally talk about Resident Evil a lot because we were talking about the game before. I was playing Requiem and his playing separate ways.

SPEAKER_01

And uh also not by journey. No. But also, uh like it's it's because of that and the fact that the uh Zach Krieger uh adaptation is in post, like it's it's going around a lot right now.

SPEAKER_02

And and I don't know, I think it's maybe too because it's like the first person of this, it reminds me of the game I'm kind of playing right now.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I talk about Resident Evil a lot, Dan. Just something like that.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, Dan, deal with that. So yeah. Um you know what you're now now that you mentioned it, though the those moments do kind of remind me of that.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. But like I said, it's it it and I don't want to sound like a broken rocket. I think it w I think sometimes when stuff is a little overdone and a little more like overacted, the makeup's overdone, I think it works for the most part with found footage. Um, which is also why I'm gonna go back to the original rec. I kind of find rec more scarier because it's in Spanish. Yes. But I think a lot of it's a lot of it, too. I think I don't know if it has to do with the well, one, I'm reading subtitles, so I'm extra paying attention, and two, because it's found footage, you know, you kind of feel like you're there. And I feel like it's especially since a lot of the things like in the background of people saying, I don't really understand what they're saying in a sense, so it's me kind of trying to figure it out too.

SPEAKER_03

It feels more chaotic, and it's more chaotic, exactly, because I don't know. Yeah, your attention's being pulled in so many directions.

SPEAKER_00

I think for this movie, and probably true for a lot of movies like that, but for this movie for sure, watching the Spanish version feels way more like you're in it. Oh, yeah, for real. Oh, yeah, and you don't know any of these people, you don't recognize them from anything you've ever seen before. So they all seem like they're real. Like that is really a fireman. That really is a journalist. Those really are uh residents of this hotel. And evil and it seems very and it seems there. It seems very it's a realist film. And I don't feel the same way. Yeah, it's the same movie essentially, and it's not they didn't do a bad job making quarantine. But it doesn't have the same effect. But again, I can go back and say what if I'd have seen Quarantine first, I might have a totally different opinion about the movie having seen Wreck first and then quarantine.

SPEAKER_02

I have to say, Dan, at the end of the day, I do think this film accomplishes what it set out to do.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Did it do scared?

SPEAKER_02

Did it do anything else beyond that? No. No, but they didn't have to. That's not what they wanted to do. They could have, but I'm not gonna fault, but I'm not gonna fault the film for not doing it.

SPEAKER_00

But what a what a what a what an assignment for a director. Here, just make that movie. He he well I'd be like, um what else is on it?

SPEAKER_02

I'd really like to do that. He did the Pokevsky tapes differently.

SPEAKER_00

Talk about his other movies.

SPEAKER_02

Well, no, Sam asked what else has he done?

SPEAKER_00

I'm just saying, I feel like what a terrible assignment. Just do that.

SPEAKER_02

Sort of.

SPEAKER_00

But you don't need a real skilled director to do that. You always see the guy just to block that to do that.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. And it's interesting because I'd almost expect him. I almost expect it now, knowing the other films he did, I expect this one to be a little darker because of the previous film he did, which was also a found footage movie. That's above, so below. Uh well that one he did after, but no, but I can't ever say it.

SPEAKER_03

Poughkeepsie?

SPEAKER_02

Pokee ski tapes, which is basically about um someone kind of footage. They found like a bunch of snuff films. And my favorite. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So Oh, snuff.

SPEAKER_02

What is it? Sniff? Oh. So you would almost expect something a little different, but I mean, you know, it's I'm sure he got paid well to do it. Yeah. And, you know, we we did What was the budget?

SPEAKER_00

Twelve twelve million. It wasn't very high.

SPEAKER_02

But I'm, you know. Um he and he afterwards he did a movie. I only saw the one time, but I did have a lot of fun in theaters, was as above, so below.

SPEAKER_03

I hated that movie.

SPEAKER_02

Which was I thought you loved it. It was essentially it was a yeah, it was a found footage movie in Paris. But it took place in the Paris Catacombs.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Um I was in the catacombs.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, and that's when I brought it up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Um, like, if you had found the secret entry.

SPEAKER_02

You would have been the same thing. But I think, and I and I and I'm gonna a hundred percent. I I always start when I tell people about the movies, I had a really fun, interactive audience. Like, not obnoxious, but we were having fun watching it. Good. And I think that totally added. It's kinda like when we saw This movie? It's no uh so bad. It's kinda like when we saw Ugly Stepsister in theaters. Yeah. It was like a really good audience. And I haven't seen it since because I'm like, I'm probably not gonna like it.

SPEAKER_03

I'm good for final thoughts.

SPEAKER_02

I already gave my final thoughts, so I'm gonna give it a score. I'm gonna give it a score. Partially your final thoughts. Um yeah, so you loved it. Yes.

SPEAKER_00

I thought it was fabulous.

SPEAKER_02

So this is why. Um hold on, let me just go through and make sure I said everything. Yeah. Okay. So at the end of the day, I give it, like I said, it's not did what it did. And I so I have to rate it based on that. And I'm gonna give it a four out of five. No, I'm gonna give it three out of five. Wow. Pipe holes. Oh, wow, okay. Because that's the sign in the fire station. They're like, oh, that sign says pipe holes.

SPEAKER_03

Dan, do you wanna go?

SPEAKER_00

I thought the both films, yes. I thought both movies in their third act pretty much accomplished the same thing. They just got really crazy. And I really think that's the I think the movies both the uh Spanish and the English version, but I think they the journey takes you to uh a great place in act three where it does become a wild ride in both versions. Um I know I said that I I didn't care for the explanation and the end of um wreck because I felt like it wasn't really necessary that you have to explain all this to me. I'm kind of okay with whatever. I don't know why we have this, but I'm fine, whatever. But I found this any more confusing and more frustrating because okay, now we're just making the tape warbly so you can't understand anything that's being said. That was hard to read. I found that really distracting. I would just as well just don't either do nothing or just do what they did before. But um but but yeah, I mean we've said everything else. Um it's a wild ride. It's two thumbs up. It does really well in accomplishing the same thing that the first one does. I think for everything we uh all said why we I or I like or Travis said about why we like the first one better is is um is fine, but it it's still it's okay. I would give it three out of five smashed rats. Nice item.

SPEAKER_02

Because you gotta smash rats. I'm gonna give one more example real quick. Yeah. Like, just real quick, kind of just to kind of frame myself in this. So the Naked Gun movies. Everyone always says, oh, the first one is like one of the best comedies ever made. It's hilarious. When I was a kid, I saw Naked Gun 2 first. Which to me, I was like, oh, that's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. So while people are always like, oh, the first one's funny, when I watched it, I was like, oh, yeah, it's funny, but to me, it's like, well, to me, because the second one is the first one I saw is my introduction. I'm like, I just based everything off that.

SPEAKER_00

He saw the second one and he watched the first one. Wait, they did those jokes. Exactly. That's what I'm thinking. I've already seen those jokes.

SPEAKER_02

Exactly. So that's why to me, I'm like, oh no, the second that's why, to me, like the second one is my favorite one. Does that make sense? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

It made sense the first time you made a point.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. I have to feel relevant.

SPEAKER_03

Anyway.

SPEAKER_00

Do you think if you saw Jaws 2 first? Oh god. And then saw Jaws, you'd go, God, Jaws 2 is so much better.

SPEAKER_03

I feel like you would smack him.

SPEAKER_00

I feel like Jaws 2 really was great. You know, it's you saw Grease 2, and then you saw Grease.

SPEAKER_03

I saw Grease 2 more, didn't you? He was in Greece. He was under the influence.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, I was heavily under the gummy influence. He greened out. He greened out. They weren't gummies back then. But um I went home and I told Joni, this is the best movie musical I've ever seen. She took a friend the next night, came home, and said, Are you out of your mind?

SPEAKER_03

You're like, Yeah, I was actually.

SPEAKER_00

I said, Well, kinda. No, she mentioned that. Pretty smoked up at that night.

SPEAKER_02

I I saw that was that was the that was the chair. I saw I saw I saw Army of Darkness first. But anyways. Do you have more points? No, that's it. That's it. Go ahead, Sam.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, for me, what you said about you, Travis, that for Rec for quarantine, the new things that were added were good, and if it didn't happen, like it's fine. I definitely agree with that. Then with what you said, Dan, whichever one you saw first, I feel like you would be more loyal to it. And that's what happened with me. I'm more loyal to Rec over quarantine. Me too. I enjoyed it, and I enjoyed the new things, but if I were to recommend it, I'd be Wreck.

SPEAKER_00

Recommended.

SPEAKER_03

Um so over.

SPEAKER_00

I think Rec is a better movie.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_00

I really do. I agree. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And what you guys said, like the different the the foreign language and then like the scares, it just feels like you're more immersed in it. Um so for me, I give it 2.7 firefighters, firefighters falling on the ceiling out of five.

SPEAKER_04

There you go.

SPEAKER_01

Firefighters falling from the ceiling on me out of five.

SPEAKER_02

Do you do you slide down the poll?

SPEAKER_03

Are you asking me that?

SPEAKER_02

I was like, whoa.

SPEAKER_00

Well, you picked the most random things to quote. And then you wonder why you just said that to a woman and she misinterpreted what you said.

SPEAKER_02

As soon as I said that, I was like, oh my god. Hey Dan, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00

And do you like sliding down the polls? Hey Dead. Oh, I didn't mean that.

SPEAKER_03

No, why did you take it that way?

SPEAKER_02

Because you said it? I'm just gonna stop talking.

SPEAKER_03

Whoa.

SPEAKER_01

I doubt it. What? Go ahead, Frank. I do slide down poles. Um You didn't ask me, but I do slide down poles. Um I mean, there's not a lot that you can say about it that hasn't already been said about Rek. Travel's having to say. Yeah, I know, but um his face is just so he's shocked.

SPEAKER_03

Uh he's just trying to shut up.

SPEAKER_00

I I liked it. He feels his career's over right now for everyone.

SPEAKER_03

He feels that every podcast episode.

SPEAKER_00

Talking about the sliding up pulley, my career's over.

SPEAKER_03

This is why our podcast went dark.

SPEAKER_00

Exactly. That's why we got taken off. That's why we got canceled. It's gonna ruin the tour. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

It's just the three of us.

SPEAKER_00

The hell with the tour. Um we can't go without Travis.

SPEAKER_03

I can.

SPEAKER_00

Travis is our meat and potato.

SPEAKER_03

He's our scapegoat.

SPEAKER_00

He's the guy that makes this wheel turn. He's the meat and the potatoes. The guy greases the wheel. He's the one that's the fire. He's the guy that makes the pole nice and greasy.

SPEAKER_01

Go ahead. Um Yeah, I I have positive things to say about the movie. I have positive feelings, but they all come from the fact that they were done in a different movie. So it's kind of hard to um really like give it pros and cons because it feels like I'm doing it to Wreck as well. Um so I'll just talk about the things that it did differently. So I liked the fact that it showed you a little bit more desperation. Like in Rec, nobody tried to leave the building, nobody called that bluff. So I like that they did that. I feel like they could have done more with a dog. That was cool, but um that's there. The the uh the camera kill is really good. So I really liked that and uh the whole not skipping ahead thing. I don't want to say that it did everything better, all these new things better, but I appreciated that they um the little that they did that they diverted in ways that ultimately worked for me. So, like as a whole, this is more about it's more about whether the movie justified its own existence or not for me. I don't think it did. But I think it did enough well that I could give it like a like a 3.5 out of five.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, 3.5 out of 4.5.

SPEAKER_01

Uh no, 3.5 out of 5 hot firefighters. I think the point five is the one that's missing the leg.

SPEAKER_00

I think it it it did what it was supposed to do. Yeah, it did okay. It did fine. It recreated the movie for an American audience. Yeah. And I think that you know, do you remember a film called Daz Boot? Does that remember any bell to you at all? Travis has something to say. Do you know it, Travis? Do you remember it? Okay. So it was a it was a foreign film about a German uh submarine. And it was U-boat. U-boat, sorry. And it was very, very successful. And it was actually very successful here as well. It did well on both sides. But then they had to make an English version of it. Was it called U-boat? It was called the Boat, I think. Oh. Is that what Das Boot means? And it was just it was not successful at all.

SPEAKER_03

What was it called the boat the boat? Travis, let's fucking say it.

SPEAKER_00

And it was just like that was weird because as a foreign film, it did really well on both sides of the of the pond. I was like, mmm, why are you doing this? Whereas I think this had a legitimate reason to be the boat. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

What year? Um like the 80s, I think. 81 was Das Boot. Um 81. Was that I think the remake? Hold on. Um Das Boot was 81. Let me see.

SPEAKER_00

So I think it's it is it's just it's fine. It's totally fine. What would I recommend? I would say watch the re I would say rock to wreck for sure.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. And ever if you're ever so inclined, go ahead. Watch quarantine.

SPEAKER_00

Two. But not one, just two.

SPEAKER_03

Just go straight to two.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. It makes sense. Watch rec and then watch quarantine two. Right. It makes sense. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And then watch wreck two and then watch quarantine.

SPEAKER_00

There you go.

SPEAKER_03

That's a good way to watch it.

SPEAKER_00

How many how far do we go into quarantine? Like, is there a three and a four? No. They stopped at two.

SPEAKER_03

No, no, no. There's oh quarantine two. Yeah, there's two.

SPEAKER_00

How about how many recs?

SPEAKER_03

Wreck is four. Third one is supposed to be a comedy.

SPEAKER_00

It's Spaniards four, Americans two. That's the score right now? Yes. That's the that's the movie score.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I don't actually don't know if it's called the boot. I'm not finding anything about an English remake.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, I'm pretty sure they did. Oh man, am I wrong?

SPEAKER_02

They did an English dub.

SPEAKER_00

Um but I don't maybe that's what it was. They they dubbed it.

SPEAKER_04

Das Boot.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. That might okay. I think you're right. I think that's my my fault. Am I wrong? It is your fault. Feel bad. Yeah, they made it just a lot of things.

SPEAKER_02

But the English dub was but apparently, yeah, and I guess some of them has like newer sound effects and some of it. I don't know. I guess explosions in German sounds.

SPEAKER_03

Das U-Boot.

SPEAKER_00

Wow. So uh this is fun, right? Welcome back, guys. Glad to have you back. Um I would ask what we're doing next week, but I don't think we know.

SPEAKER_03

So step in the air.

SPEAKER_00

We'll find out.

SPEAKER_03

This is probably coming out after a trip podcast, huh? You should mark it.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, because Trip Podcast comes out next week. Yeah. Wow.

SPEAKER_00

Our movie A Shadow. And I'm not in it. So there you go.

SPEAKER_02

If you have not seen it already, it's been out for a few weeks, possibly. Probably a couple months. You should go back on Satellite 12. Frank and I have a film that we co-directed, uh, written by wonderful Sam called Trip, starring Camille. Um, she's uh been here on a few episodes. You should watch those episodes too. Um they're a lot of fun. Brotherhood of the Wolf. Uh and um the uh I think Hellhouse was the first one's the first one. Um yeah, we have those two episodes. You should definitely check them out. The lot of fun. Check out Trip if you have not seen it. Um Trippy. We do have a trigger warning beforehand, so we might want to check that out. But no, it's if you hey, if you're watching horror movies and stuff, give it a watch.

SPEAKER_03

And then after you watch our movie, listen to our podcast.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, and then you know, you can actually listen to the podcast that we did about it. We have a making of with Camille on there, uh, filmed on location of where I'm I'm supposed to be looking this way. Sorry. Filming where we actually shot the film. It's a lot of fun. It's a one-year retrospective, and we get into it, we talk about it. It's a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01

And we rebuild Sam's apartment just to film it.

SPEAKER_02

And you know what, while you're ready there, you should also check out Frank's other film he directed, Interloper. Yes. Um, yeah, with our other Yeah, and um Roger Garland while you're at it. Yeah, another podcast regular trip, put on some Roger Garland and then Interloper.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Trip, Interloper, and then Roger Garland as a chaser. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Pop up some popcorn, pour yourself some Jack Daniels, and have a good evening.

SPEAKER_02

Where do I sign up?

SPEAKER_00

That sounds great. All right. Start by not doing that again. All right, well, let's get the get it back together soon. This has been a lot of fun. My name is Dan. My name is T Travis. I'm Sam. I don't know what that.