We Recommend: A Movie Podcast
We Recommend is a movie podcast where every week Jesse and Jason discuss a movie that they love and recommend you to watch and then come back and listen to their podcast!
We Recommend: A Movie Podcast
Men in Black
"Men in Black" captures the essence of comedy and the absurd through a lens of science fiction, showcasing an unlikely duo battling with aliens while delivering memorable laughs and important life lessons. Through engaging conversations, we explore the movie's rich themes, engaging performances, and iconic elements that continue to resonate with audiences today.
• Overview of "Men in Black" as a beloved sci-fi comedy
• Discussion of humor blended with serious societal themes
• Character development of Agent J and Agent K
• Examination of alien designs and special effects
• Trivia and background connecting the film to Marvel Comics
• Companion film recommendations for a double feature
• Reflection on the enduring cultural impact of the film
Hello and welcome to the we Recommend podcast, a movie podcast, where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse, I'm Jason. You know what the difference is between you and me. I make this look good because this week we recommend Men in Black Hell.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I fucking love this movie.
Speaker 1:It's a classic. This movie's great and honestly I was thinking I was like man. Why didn't we do this earlier? This movie's so funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a lot of fun. But my youngest daughter, she's six and I was trying to watch it with her and she's like this is too weird. Daddy, this is weird, my sick friend can't handle it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is weird and that's good. Making kids watch weird movies, that's why I have a podcast.
Speaker 2:He's like turn on my Little Pony Ugh this movie so.
Speaker 1:I did. It's better than my little pony.
Speaker 2:You're back, I'm back. I've been so fucking sick.
Speaker 1:Sick. Your kid's been sick. Everyone's got a broken foot, everything's going fucking bonkers over at your house, shit goes rolls downhill and then me I'm like, oh, you can't do it, okay, I'm just going to go lay down, I'm done.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go be healthy. Thanks, I'm just going to go be as lazy as possible as I like to be Hell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's the best Men in Black. When was like the? You remember like the first time you watched it? Did you love it when you first watched it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I did. Yeah, although I really liked learning about the real Men in Black. Yeah, the super weird assholes that have no hair.
Speaker 1:They have no eyebrows.
Speaker 2:If they do, it's all fake and they obviously look like not not real humans or whatever, and I think we're, I think we're due for a remake, yeah and like, but at the super creepy, like yeah, like let's do scary kind, let's do like a scary remake yeah so do you think men in black are real?
Speaker 1:yes, yeah, at least I want them to be yeah I think there's probably just like a government agent that could come to your house and be like hey, you don't exist. Now see ya what? I don't think there's like aliens, dresses like humans, uh, pretending to be men in black. I think that that goes a little too far no, don't think that exists yes it just, we would see it by now. We would just see it.
Speaker 2:How far back do you think the neuralyzer goes? Oof.
Speaker 1:The first person that got it accidentally neuralyzed himself. He's like what is this? Just kept flashing himself over and over and over.
Speaker 2:I'm not sick anymore. No, I mean like, how far do you think that they can set it back like? Can they set you back to like infants?
Speaker 1:I don't know. Well, isn't the thing like they can just? Like they just put a time and flash you, yeah, flash you and be like this is what happened, I don't know. Yeah, we really need to get the details. I'm fine with speculation bro but, dude, I wish I had one, that'd be awesome I know people would be doing so much wrong shit. You go to a bank, just flash the bank manager. It's like, yeah, you were going to give me all the money.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, well, I'll give it to you.
Speaker 1:And then you flash the camera. So every time you go to look at the camera you just get flashed. No, but that's probably like one of my out of like all the little tech and everything, neuralizers definitely.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 1:I mean, whoever decided to put that in? There was just. It looks great. It's the red lights Amazing. Every time it flashes it's like hell. Yeah, it's one of the best parts of the movie for me. It's so fun. And then when Will Smith's like fears out about the neural you didn't do that flashy thing, you with me, did you so good, love it. So do you believe in aliens? I want to are they with us, or have they been with us?
Speaker 2:I think there's I mean there's definitely something. I really want them to be here. I just want them, I want to see them and I have to see them, like on a talk show or something before.
Speaker 1:I believe them For real, like I want a news report of like an alien landing Sugar water? All right, where's a bottle of aspirin, just in case they're going to attack. I'm just going to take the whole bottle.
Speaker 2:I don't want to be like an alien slave or something.
Speaker 1:What is it? A six year old.
Speaker 2:No, you just gotta roll with it.
Speaker 1:I've been on your side the whole time, guys, yeah, I love you. Guys, didn't you see me? I was out there with one of those airplane things, just like right here, come on, keep it moving. Yeah, you know, we got all these like drone stuff happening now and I feel like this is a very nice time to do. Men in Black. It sucks that. It's kind of like not revving down. Yeah, it's kind of simmering down. Yeah, it's simmering down Even though.
Speaker 1:I just watched a video today I guess someone took and it was like they were talking about it on the news, and it was this orb in the air right, and it was during the daytime, not at nighttime, and it was just like this giant ball of light and as it was getting closer they were zooming in on it and then the light dissipated and it formed into like an airplane.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I was like wait, what the fuck.
Speaker 1:Like it was, like they zoomed in on it when it was still a ball of orb, like just a orb, a light, a orb.
Speaker 2:A ball of orb. It was an orby.
Speaker 1:But then it just like they, like we're zooming in more and more, like all of a sudden the light went away and it was like the sun. There's no clouds or anything, so like the sun was like over or whatever. So you'd assume it would stay shiny. If it was a shiny, then it just turned into another thing and I was like what the fuck are these things in the air?
Speaker 2:They're airplanes, Jesse.
Speaker 1:It's so exciting, yeah, but like you've seen, like an airplane with like a glare on it, it doesn't look like a giant, like I don't know. You know, whenever you're outside and there's a light bulb and it's just got the glow to it, it's like usually they don't look like that if there's a glare on it right, I don't know, they don't, I don't know.
Speaker 2:We'll go to conspiracy corner with Jesse and Jason. Hell yeah, coast to coast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so where does this land for comedies for you Like, I mean, would you put this in your top 10 or I don't know. Probably Do you feel like this movie kind of gets passed up when people talk about comedies, even though it's like I rewatching it I was like, oh man, we've done a lot of comedies on this show and I think this might be the best one we've done.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know. It's because you, you often don't think of it as a comedy.
Speaker 1:Um sci-fi until you watch it again, yeah, yeah yeah. And then you're like, oh, holy shit, will smith and tommy lee jones didn't know I need it, but I'm glad we got it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, fucking rules.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like you never remember it, but then when you do, you're so glad because it's so good, it's such a fucking great film yeah, and I think, like the, because the stars of this movie have done so much other stuff and they're kind of more famous for other things, this movie kind of gets like becomes an afterthought in their filmography, like well, I think of tommy lee jones, I think of of the fugitive and no country for old men. Those are the first two. Hell yeah, and what's the movie where he, like he's got to protect the cheerleaders, what I don't know. This is one of those movies that I watched as a like in high school, a lot. Like I rented it from like a general store we, we rented movies in, movies from, and like I rented it multiple times and I'm like.
Speaker 2:I can't get it from the back area. No, it was.
Speaker 1:Well, it was like a legit, like a teen comedy movie and he was like the. He had to protect these cheerleaders because they're going to like I don't know. Like they're up. Someone threatened them or whatever, and it was just like he's got. I'm Tommy Lee Jones, that sounds hilarious. That's the plot of the movie that's actual quotes and everything oh my god but like re-watching this. I was like whoa, this might be in my top 10 favorite comedy. God, it's amazing. It's so funny. I don't know where it'd rank in though what's the funniest?
Speaker 2:what do you think's the funniest? Bit, the funniest bit is vincent d'onofrio, his entire performance yeah, he's amazing he's so funny it's specifically him in the car anytime he's in the car, just like trying to learn how to use his body, so like wow he just gets out.
Speaker 1:But yeah, he, and maybe that's why when, like I think, about this movie it's like I don't think about like all the comedy stuff with Will Smith and Tommy Lee. I just kind of immediately go to Vincent D'Onofrio.
Speaker 2:So good, I gave him a break. It's even got David Cross in it, one of the funniest people.
Speaker 1:Rip, Rip Torn.
Speaker 2:Oh, dude His voice.
Speaker 1:I can't even do it, it's so good. Alright, so so Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones, which out of the two who do you think's funnier?
Speaker 2:I guess Will Smith, just because I don't think Tommy Lee Jones is really a comedic actor he isn't, but he's so funny, he's very good. He's very funny in this one.
Speaker 1:He's very dry, yeah he plays off Will Smith very well. But, like Will Smith could potentially do the whole movie himself. I feel like, and it'd be funny, but it's like they needed each other to like round each other out. Sure, to make Tommy Lee Jones funnier, you have Will Smith to kind of tone down like the goofiness of Will Smith. You got Tommy Lee Jones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love how like matter of fact is about all this crazy shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so good. Ugh, all right, let's hop into this.
Speaker 2:This is and Bob.
Speaker 1:Yeah, son of a bitch. Thanks and Bob, but like the banter between those two, whenever they're like you know, they go to Vincent D'Onofrio's house and whenever, after he's already turned an alien, they go talk to the wife and like the whole bit of like. She's so funny too, Will Smith is like dude, like give her a better like backstory and it's like that scene would be too much if it was just Will. But the fact that you got Tommy Lee Jones, it's like him just being like, ah, you were or whatever, so funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I do really like how Will Smith kind of gave her some girl power.
Speaker 1:It was great, it's like get an interior decorator up in here Because damn yeah, all right. So for our first fact, did you know? Men in Black is technically the first successful Marvel movie. What, yeah, yeah? So before Spider-Man, before X X-Men and even Blade, men in Black was Marvel's first big success. Uh, most people are kind of unaware, did not know? This is a Marvel film since there's like really no nothing Marvel-y about it right, does it even say Marvel ever um? Well, no, I don't think, so not not on the they just own the IP.
Speaker 1:the IP, maybe they just didn't have like the they weren't prepared to have, like the logo and stuff.
Speaker 2:I mean it's kind of before everything was going on Like it's not Captain America, so but yeah.
Speaker 1:So apparently the movie is based on a short-lived comic book series. Fuck, yeah, I guess the comic itself was published under Malibu Comics at first in 1991, but Marvel purchased and absorbed Malibu in 1994, prior to the movie release. Marvel reprinted the original run and produced some new men in black comics to promote the film, isn't that fucking?
Speaker 2:wild. That's awesome. Never knew that, and I may be. Did they also have trading cards?
Speaker 1:Like for that comic. I know they had an animated series. Okay, I don't know about.
Speaker 2:I didn't read comics back in the 90s so, and this wasn't really when I did I never read comics.
Speaker 1:Did you ever watch the animated series? I remember watching a little bit. It kind of had like the animation, like almost like the gargoyle show, sure I used to watch the shit out of gargoy. Yeah, yeah, me too dude that show ruled Skate Sharks or whatever.
Speaker 2:Street Sharks Street Sharks.
Speaker 1:That was just some classic like 4 am in the morning. You're about to have to go to ESP for school.
Speaker 2:I want to talk to the people who made Street Sharks and ask them why are most of their characters completely nude and some of them have clothes on?
Speaker 1:I really wish you could ask them, but they all died of cocaine, so apparently the pug was spoiled and in a black coat they usually are.
Speaker 2:Why else would you have a dog that goes all the fucking?
Speaker 1:time. So apparently the dog. The dog's name was Mooshu, great name. He flew with luxury on business class flights had his own bed in hotel rooms, drank only bottled water, attended red carpets and ate five star meals, but also, like I guess, mushu's owner, was treated to the same thing. So you know, jesus, fuck, that's great. I'm glad he got to live his best life before getting shooken to death. Shaked to death, wait.
Speaker 2:By Tommy Lee Jones. I thought you were saying he actually got killed by, like shaken baby syndrome.
Speaker 1:It's just like he never was the same. He got put in one of those pain shakers oh, don't worry he owes him money. Such a good bit. Yeah, that was probably one of the funniest bits, Except sadly they took they saw that and everybody loved the adult pug stuff and they made it too much pug stuff in the second one. This movie, the sequel is not good and they took like everything that happened in the first one and like the good bits and just overdid it Like the little aliens in the coffee room break room, which were really funny in small doses.
Speaker 2:Yes, they're through that whole entire movie in the next one and it's just like, no, like.
Speaker 1:The funny business was Will Smith, tommy Lee Jones, I don't know. They obviously didn't understand that they're going to do a sequel after this movie, especially with Tommy Lee jones retiring, which is anyways. So. There were a bunch of pretty famous people passed on the role in men in black so, according to director barry sonnenfeld almost went with three, with different actors. Clint Eastwood was originally eyed to play Agent K, which explains the cowboy-esque attitude that K sports.
Speaker 1:It would have been all right, but it was way too serious it would have had a yeah, and like the person they're going to have play Agent J. Those two wouldn't work together. Agent J was originally offered to Chris O'Donnell, but Sonnenfeld wanted Will Smith so much that he actually lied to O'Donnell to make him decline. O'donnell didn't want another incident like Batman and Robin, which he had just suffered through. Meanwhile, vincent D'Onofrio was cast as a movie villain after Bruce Campbell and John Turturro declined. Wow See, so the other two don't work at all, like Clint Eastwood and Chris O'Donnell. Sure, like I like Chris O'Donnell. Sure, like I like Chris O'Donnell, but not that much. It's not really that funny. Well, I just don't. I mean, I literally, when I think of him, I only think of Batman and Robin. How bad, yeah, yeah, but he's also kind of funny in it, but not on purpose but good ass movie though yeah, but with Vincent D'Onofrio like Bruce Campbell.
Speaker 1:John Turturro, that would have been fun to see. Oh yeah, bruce Campbell would be the only one that I don't know. They're both really good actors, but Bruce Campbell would have been fun in this role. Sure, john Turturro is like a whole different thing, but he's such a great expressive actor as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah that would have been cool to see.
Speaker 1:He'd just been a skinnier version.
Speaker 2:Which would have?
Speaker 1:been weird. I'm just going to do two more. I don't want to overbear it. So Linda Foratino, the girl in the movie the one girl, yeah so apparently she won her Men in Black role in a poker game. What yeah, so that's legit. According to Looper, Linda actually got the role of Men in Black when she played poker with Barry Sonnenfeld. Linda won the game and her prize was the role of Laurel.
Speaker 2:Weaver Apparently. What Do you think you'll ever win?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Maybe, probably, it was really just like a handjob on him.
Speaker 1:It's like you know, we didn't have to play poker into that you just gave me a handjob. Poker face. But Linda's casting led to some changes, including the ending which her character becomes Agent L, where originally her character was going to have her memory erased. So I was like, oh cool, so that must have changed. Like man, that would have changed so much, even though she's like, not even in the second movie, I don't think.
Speaker 2:Wait, no, the second movie. I don't think. Wait, it's no, the second movie. She's, she's, it's all about her and jay, like she's jay's partner no, they bring back tommy.
Speaker 1:Oh man, it's the third one because he works at a mail room and like there it's the whole thing where he he goes to get her or him and then like all the people that work in the mill, uh, the post office are all aliens. That's like the beginning is a really good bit and I love it. Um, so, apparently vincent d'onofrio put a lot into his men in black role.
Speaker 2:Um, hell, yeah, he did, yeah, so he um did so well that they put him on law and order for 15 years so, apparently so they're like hey, here's your motivation be a sleazebag husband, yeah right talk about beating your wife the entire time um bam, who's straight to the moon yeah, so uh, I.
Speaker 1:Apparently he watched a lot of bug documentaries to get prepared for the role. Yeah, just watch bugs life just a bunch of bugs, and so his eyes were glued shut and his makeup process for the for the several stages of Edgar decaying body took six hours. Vincent D'Onofrio even went to the extra mile and put his legs in braces to keep his legs from bending simulating the idea that he was compressed.
Speaker 1:Being inside a rotten corpse, that's awesome, yeah, it's so great. Depressed being inside a rotten corpse that's awesome, yeah, it's so great. And it's like as a kid, you know. I don't really think about the fact that. Oh yeah, this guy is like in a rotting skin suit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you don't ever think of that as rotting.
Speaker 1:Yeah and then. But now watching as an adult, I'm like dude, that's got to stink.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he wasn't hygienic. It's got to be stinky.
Speaker 1:He was awful. I wish there was a deleted scene showing him being ripped out of the skin suit.
Speaker 2:Just like a really hard art or the NC-17 version, or something you kind of just see him and you see like his skin being like thrown out Out of the hole, yeah, like the throat, the bug, like he totally ate him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I can only say. He ate all the meat parts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean probably delicious.
Speaker 1:I'll take you with me for a snack. Oh God, so gross. He literally is like the best part of this movie.
Speaker 2:So I started watching the show. The stand the adaptation on Paramount. And it's yeah, whatever. I heard it was bad. It's and it's yeah whatever. Yeah, it was bad. It's kind of bad, but like the way that the people look when they get sick kind of reminds me of him, really of this character.
Speaker 1:I'd listen to the stand on audiobook. I wanted to watch the show but then, like all of his adaptations, it was deemed not good. Yeah it.
Speaker 2:It moves way too.
Speaker 1:Anyway, we're not talking about the stand, bro that book is rough, it's very long and my and the worst part of that book is the fact that my favorite part was the beginning, like. By the time I was in the book I was still thinking about like, because at the beginning of that book spoilers I guess for the stand like it it takes place from a guy who like caused like the disease or whatever, and he like he guy who like calls like the disease or whatever and he like he's running away from like the base or whatever he's coming to get his wife and things like that. So good I I.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the guy who was who had to run away, or the the the guy? Uh yeah, I don't hear you.
Speaker 1:I've seen the show uh yeah, I don't hear you, tom, as in the show. I've read the book and seen the. There was an old tv, the old, the stand, yeah, apparently also, which is better than the new. Oh, is it really? That's impressive. That's the thing I would kind of wish they'd redo. A lot of his, um, his really bad, uh shows like maximum overdrive, baby. Uh. No, there's nothing wrong with that movie, it's a perfect movie.
Speaker 1:You're right, honestly by making it a good movie, you made it a bad movie. Yeah, yeah, completely right, unless you're doing all the cocaine in the world don't redo that movie?
Speaker 1:no, but like we, because I watched a ton of like the stephen king series, because they all were on sci-fi all the time. Hell yeah, um, you got, got the. What is it? The one where they're eating the planet little, and they're like on a. There's like a blind kid or person and the airplane, they're at an airport and like the Langoliers. Is that what they're called God? I don't know. I think it's like the Langoliers. If you know, let us know movie or short Adaptation.
Speaker 1:You can't say Shining, though I really like the Green Mile, I love Shining.
Speaker 2:That was cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't say any of the good ones Say the TV series Shawshank Redemption yeah. I know it's crazy. Yeah, that's Stephen King, apparently pretty good at writing, good at storytelling.
Speaker 2:He's so gross, though in his movie or his books there's so much body horror. Yeah, yucky stuff.
Speaker 1:My favorite is Revival. That's my favorite book of his Hell. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2:Anyways, we're doing Men in Black. How about we hop into the plot, brother? Okay?
Speaker 1:Golly, I'm so sorry. We're going to do a Stephen King thing soon apparently.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, man, I love Stephen King. All right, so the movie starts Men in Black. You get an excruciatingly long bug flying scene. I get the point of it and it's like a great way to do the credits or whatever, but watching it multiple times for the podcast, I fast forwarded it. So we're in the middle of an Arizona desert. We got a guy named Nick, the Dick played by Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite. Yeah, it's great. Hell yeah man. And like he's bringing in a bunch of like illegal, like foreigners and stuff like that to the United States or illegal aliens Good bit at the beginning, so he saw that like a border control checkpoint or something like that.
Speaker 1:You got all these cops there, they're having them get out of the car so they can like, talk to him. He's like, oh, y'all are all in trouble now. But when nick's about to get arrested, a black car driven by agent k and agent d as a passenger uh pulls up and they get out of the car claiming to be the ins division six. What's ins, you know? Immigration INS, division 6. What's INS, you know?
Speaker 2:Immigration, national Security, something yeah. Something made up, I'm sure yeah.
Speaker 1:So they're searching all the foreigners. They find that one doesn't understand a word of Spanish.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's like the most stereotypical. Yeah, I know, and he's the one that just starts laughing.
Speaker 1:And they're like ah, everybody else, you're free to go across the border and like the cops are like this is bullshit and he's like get out of here son, oh sweet.
Speaker 2:I love how like he's got his. His head is on a stick. Yeah, like a puppet. Yeah, cause.
Speaker 1:Agent K goes and like just cuts open his body essentially and it he's just like wrapped around a stick. He's like, hey, I'm Mikey, the alien's name is Mikey. So they're going to arrest Mikey, not knowing when he was let out of jail, because apparently he was in jail when one of the cops, janice, notices this. Mikey notices Janice, pushes D down and starts running towards him. K tells D to shoot, but D is unable to.
Speaker 1:So K shoots, disintegrating it in the nick of time, uh, janice's colleagues show up and draw their guns on k, who insists that the situation is under control. Like what the fuck is going on here? And then, all of a sudden, all these other cars pull up. It's like the containment crew or whatever. Um, they just start scorching like all the landscape and everything.
Speaker 1:Um. Then k shows the uh, the agents or the cops, the neuralyzer. Um, when janice has k who he really is, k says he is just a figment of their imagination and zaps them and it's great um. K then takes off his his sunglasses after he neuralyzes them and tells it, tells the cops to get out of here. They're lucky to be alive after such a big blast because they're apparently hit an underground gas main.
Speaker 2:That's why he's covered in snot yeah.
Speaker 1:And this next part is why this movie, I think, also is really good. Like Barry Sonnenfeld, he's a good director, but so like he goes and sits next to Agent D and like just like apologizing he's just like not as good as he used to be and he wants to be called big d.
Speaker 1:Big d I'm aging, big d but he's like apologizing for he's like too old and he's like the body is willing but the mind isn't, or whatever. Um, then he's like you know, we never take time just to look up at the stars and he's like here, look at this, at this, and neuralizes them. But it's a really sweet moment, just out of nowhere. And then they kind of do it at the end of the movie with Kay and it's just like damn, oh that's code for send me back.
Speaker 2:Send me back.
Speaker 1:But it's just like I don't know. I love. I think that's why this, you know.
Speaker 2:you know some of the problems with comedies now is that they're just goof, goof, goof, goof, goofy. Right.
Speaker 1:There's nothing he like really human yeah about it and like with like a movie like this, like this little sweet moment. I was watching it, maybe because I was a little high, but it really made me feel you know, same with kind of the ending. But anyways, we cut to new york city where a young nypd named James Durrell Edwards III later Agent K, chases after a man who he does not know is a cephalopod Cephalopod Cephalopod Cephalopod.
Speaker 2:Which is just like it's weird that they call him that. Yeah, that's, that's like a octopus.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but he had gills, like he calls his eyes the gills and stuff. But like they're running through all of New York City Drops on a like they drop on a bus. It's like it just be raining black people in New York. So good.
Speaker 2:It's a badass chase, yeah it really is.
Speaker 1:It's really good. This movie is like good.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to keep saying, good, it's great movie's like good.
Speaker 1:I'm just gonna keep saying good, apparently great. Um, edwards almost catches the man but he gets away by drawing a weapon. But it just like evaporates was just really cool shit and the effect looks really good um he run, his eyes blink, yeah, yeah, and like they run up. They get on a roof. The man's eyes blink. Um, the man claims he's coming and it's's like what? And at the end of the world, the world will end. He blinks his gills under his eyes and then he willingly falls to his death.
Speaker 2:Rip. I feel like he could have survived that fall Right. He climbed up the building.
Speaker 1:How could he just not parkour down it? He could, he could have.
Speaker 2:I think maybe the idea is. He was just like going to kill himself anyways, oh yeah, idea is, he was just like gonna kill himself anyways oh yeah, he could not be captured.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's like I can't go, I'm gonna die. This bug's gonna kill us all. It's seppuku. So then the scene cuts to a farm where a farmer named edgar uh yells at his wife about his dinner being poorly made, instead of having steak. So because he's the poor, yeah, saying that she's useless and the only thing that pulls his weight is his truck. Oh no damn, his truck. On cue, a spaceship promptly crashes into the truck.
Speaker 2:That's awesome, good bit and he walks out typical it's her fault, yeah.
Speaker 1:and then it creates a huge crater. Edgar goes outside to investigate, as his wife, uh, patrice asks Edgar what on earth is it? Is it before? Edgar really tells Patrice to get back inside he's such a dick, um. But then he gets killed by the alien. He's got a gun. He's like all right, just grabs him out. Yeah, um.
Speaker 2:and the alien steals.
Speaker 1:Alien steals his skin and uses it as a disguise. Oh man.
Speaker 2:Classic, I love it.
Speaker 1:It's so good. But then he goes in the house, he asks for sugar water and then freaks out Patrice Sugar, because she's like you don't look so good, and he just pulls his skin Does this look better.
Speaker 2:How's that? She just falls straight to the back.
Speaker 1:You got a pretty good, edgar. Just falls straight to the back. You got a pretty good Edgar and he goes out, picks up his spaceship, since he must take it with him to return home. Tiny-ass spaceship yeah, that bug is huge. I'm assuming he can just crawl. Maybe it's bigger on the inside. It's like a genie bottle or something. Yeah, how does he fit?
Speaker 2:inside the skin suit? I don't know, he's so big, he's like a genie bottle or something. Yeah, how does he fit inside the skin suit? I don't know, he's so big, he's like 30 feet tall.
Speaker 1:Maybe he's got slight powers where he can kind of like shrink and grow maybe. He's got to. I mean cockroaches, right? I don't know. So meanwhile, edwards gives his incident report to his boss and when he leaves, kay steps in and asks Edwards about the weapon that evaporated. He asked if Edwards would recognize the weapon if he sees it again. And like you got this whole thing, I love this part right. It's this oh, at the pawn shop. Well, no, just like I. Still at the little interrogation room at the police station oh yeah, he will.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you know, you know the boss, the boss is like this is what are you talking about, dude?
Speaker 1:this isn't real. You got the batter cop. He's just like being mean and rude to him. They're about to fight, but I just, and then you got a weaver, comes in and is like I said look, I just came from the morgue.
Speaker 2:Dude, I believe you, uh but immediately gets flashed as she walks out of the room.
Speaker 1:And then Kay comes in, just undoes the camera and tells him like I believe you. And then the boss is like I can't go with you. I got some paperwork, and then the boss comes in hey, great paperwork, Great work.
Speaker 2:Would you just be if you had one of these neuralizers. Would you just flash people? I could just give them completely new backstories Couldn't be trusted.
Speaker 1:I'd be the head of every company. I would be the richest man in the world. Yes, yes, that's why sometimes it's good that movies aren't real, um, but yeah, and then uh, agent, j is gonna tell him they gotta go to a um Jeebs pawn shop. Tony Shalhoub baby.
Speaker 2:It's so funny how the guy with the paperwork he's like so excited about good paperwork this is really good stuff. He's the biggest nerd in the conference. It's so good. It's like the other guys like this is him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's totally Michael Keaton's character, just like super excited about the easy stuff, and so Will Smith's going to go in there, he's going gonna play cop with him, you know, with uh jeeps, and it's not working. So K comes in and just starts immediately, blows his head off, and I love it cause you know soon to be uh. Um, will Smith's character is immediately like hands on the head, gun on the ground or gun on the ground, heads on the head, gun on the ground or gun on the ground, heads on the head.
Speaker 2:I love how serious he gets immediately, I know, but it's so cool how his head just comes back Just reforms. He's like do you have any idea how much?
Speaker 1:that stings Probably a lot. I bet the ears are ringing for a while. But so shooting his head off convinces Jeeves to show them the gun.
Speaker 2:Why is it so wet when it?
Speaker 1:reforms Right, I right. I guess it's like birth right come out wet. But Jeeves shows him the guns. Edward picks out the one he saw. Kay yells at Jeeves, thinking that the weapon was used for an assassination attempt and that the alien who bought it was unlicensed. And then so they go out. Kay neuralizes Edwards and then decides that he should join the company. He really works for the Men in Black.
Speaker 2:But I love it because they have dinner. Yeah, he wakes up and he's telling them a joke.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then afterwards he's like who are you? But yeah, he gives Edwards a business card, that just is like and lets him pick up the check. So good.
Speaker 2:Don't really joke.
Speaker 1:It's so funny in this, this is dry humor, so good. And then we see Edgar kills an exterminator and puts his big UFO in this tiny truck.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's all sticking out the top because he had to squish it in there. Yeah, and it's like the bug truck from Hank Hill. Oh, it's like the bug truck from, uh uh, Hank Hill, Uh it's like King of the Hill.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah From King of the Hill no it was Dale, yeah, dale so um, so Edward shows up to the address on the card along with some other government agents. Edward gets his training. Uh, first is a written exam. Where Edward's unable to write in, the chair drags a table over the loudest table drag ever.
Speaker 2:I hate those fucking chairs too.
Speaker 1:Is that a real thing? Have you sat in something like that? Well, it's impossible.
Speaker 2:Anything with like a rounded where your legs come out. Yeah, it looks very, if you're tall, like those round chairs you get for college or whatever.
Speaker 1:So yeah, Full shit and I love like cause you have a bunch of like um, you have like a bunch of military yeah.
Speaker 2:Very skilled Edward's, just like an NYPD guy.
Speaker 1:And he's just like it's not working out, Cause what like they're all so taking orders, but he's just like what are we doing here? What is this? He can't even open the packet. He breaks his pencil. Give him a mechanical pencil, come on. Rips the page.
Speaker 2:They gave me such PTSD for taking standardized tests. Yeah, in high school we're like. I remember one time I took one and I filled out the entire wrong section, so I had to erase every single answer and then re-put it in the other. But I finished early enough so I had just enough time to just do all the other ones Like what?
Speaker 1:the Scantron cheat so annoying Scantrons were the worst. Like, let's make it look even more boring. Next is a target practice where the recruits grab pistols and shoot at cardboard cutouts of extraterrestrials. All the recruits fire at every target that passes by, except for Edwards who waits and then fires a single round. The MIB chief Zed asked Edwards why he thought the target why did little Susie have to die Small?
Speaker 1:girl. Edward explains, though, that one target hanging from a lamppost is just working out. Another target who is snarling has a tissue in his hand, and the target Edward shot was an eight year old girl reading quantum physics. I mean, he's got a point, but was he right?
Speaker 2:I don't think so, because the other guy, the other men in black guy, comes in. He's like what the fuck man?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was it why did you choose this guy? But he was right. Yeah, he was totally right.
Speaker 2:I was like was this girl an alien?
Speaker 1:Like what is it? Did he do it right?
Speaker 2:I want to know, Maybe she was one of the aliens. That's safe. Yeah, she's just trying to live.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's just a really smart alien, yeah, so, but I think, like the idea is that they're just supposed to be like very intuitive yeah, great situational awareness. Yeah, you're supposed to be able to tell who's an alien or not, when there might be obvious aliens. Who's an?
Speaker 2:alien or not, when there might be obvious aliens, yeah or who the real bad guy is. We need more police officers who won't immediately shoot everything, yeah.
Speaker 1:But they'll hesitate and shoot us eight-year-olds.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we already. Exactly, we have those already.
Speaker 1:Yikes Once again, we lost all police officer listeners.
Speaker 2:Just kidding, we all know one yeah.
Speaker 1:So Zed and Kay debate the results and decide that Edwards is the right candidate Agent.
Speaker 2:Kay, Because he ran fast Well no, they're like he chased out a cephalopod. He's like okay, fine, all right, he's in. But he's intuitive too, he's a fast runner.
Speaker 1:Kay just has that good sense about him. You know, yeah. But K pulls Edwards aside while Zed neuralizes the rejected recruits. He says I have an eye exam.
Speaker 2:An eye exam.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hell yeah. K says he's got the job. He explains that the agency he will work for deals with aliens. Edward doesn't believe him. K introduces Ed to the worm hey, they're in the coffee room and tells them that humans are not alone on the planet and that aliens live among humans in secret. I love the worms yeah, they're great.
Speaker 2:They're fucking just like spilling coffee smoking and spilling coffee great.
Speaker 1:What do they do here?
Speaker 2:I don't know this is a comedy relief room. Yeah, this is.
Speaker 1:It's just, I guess, they keep the coffee warm and give you cigarettes? And then annoy you to death. They keep this room completely full of smoke. Yeah, that's their job, I mean Agent K seems to like them, though, yeah they're pretty chill. Yeah, they seem like a good hang. It seems like if you ever need a laugh, you just go in there and one of them will do something funny hell yeah, man.
Speaker 2:I bet that's great for company morale yeah.
Speaker 1:So Agent K takes Edwards outside and tells him that he's got until sunrise to think about joining the MIB. I love there is a quote that I really liked. K says a person is smart, people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it.
Speaker 1:Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was at the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, what? And 15 minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Damn Because he is. And then the rainbow with the star goes over his head. He's like the more you know, the more you know, I don't know, this is just I know, this is just I know, take a look.
Speaker 1:I've never watched that show once. Never watched it. You never watched Reading Rainbow. I've never caught it. That explains a lot. Yeah, that's why I don't read and I hate rainbows. But yeah, I just love that, you know. It's just another point where they took like a second to kind of be a little serious about in the movie and I just love that shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so do you think? If someone told you you have till sunrise to think it over, would you stay up all night sitting at that bench in the city park or would you immediately go home and go to bed?
Speaker 1:I went home and just kind of sat on my tv going like because yeah, you'd be googling I got a skinny little butt so it'd be uncomfortable after like 30 minutes yeah, nobody can sit on a park bench for that long.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think they're made that way.
Speaker 1:Unless you like I got some bread and I'm just throwing it to some birds, some ducks. But then I'd be like are these doves? Are they, are they aliens?
Speaker 2:or are they aliens? I don't know anymore. You got a tiny. At that point you have to say yes, yeah, exactly because you have to know.
Speaker 1:Once you know that aliens are real, it's like, well, no, I'm married so I wouldn't want to lose all contact to human people. I'd be like can my wife join?
Speaker 2:yeah, he's just a neuralyzer, though. It's like, ah, she'll, uh, I don't know she'll. She'll help out with the alien stuff yeah, like, I feel like if you were to join this organization and they would just make you disappear, you have to kind of request that your loved ones like get neuralized immediately, forget about you.
Speaker 1:Be like look, all right, I'll do it, but you have to neuralize my wife and Ryan Gosling. And now Ryan Gosling is my wife's husband. And she'll never know. I gave her that gift, but she has that gift now. Sorry, eva Mandes.
Speaker 2:She gets neuralized too.
Speaker 1:So the next day Edward returns to the MIB headquarters after deciding to join MIB. Also, I love that the entrance of this building there's just like a security guard standing in front of this giant fan has to be the most annoying job in the world.
Speaker 1:Then it just leads straight to one elevator. Also love that. He's like all right, I'm gonna join, but we gotta get this straight. Don't call me son, junior boy, any of this. And the rest of the film they constantly call um. So we see the headquarters for the first time. It's great. There's aliens everywhere. Um, you got like a customs area.
Speaker 1:You have a lurch yeah, slug monster, he's got the crazy ass fruit, yeah, or whatever yeah, and like they show him, like oh, you see, this is where we have like all our, this is where all our modern day inventions came from. Shows them this little tiny disc and it's like see this, this is what cds are gonna be replaced with yeah, funny thing is just a little bit bigger, but that was the gamecube. Oh shit, yeah, you're right. And plus now switch.
Speaker 2:All their games are just on the tiny tiny little cards, yeah, but the fruit in the custom scene. When he pulls out the weird thing, it looks just like those things that come out of the fruit in the custom scene. When he pulls out the weird thing, it looks just like those things that come out of the ship in Fifth Element when they have to squish them. Yeah. Yeah, I don't like that fruit. The fruit looks gross but it's delicious.
Speaker 1:It looks slimy in that it can move yeah. I like that it vibrates, then you get the ball bit, the little glowy ball thing, the thing that caused the Chicago blackout.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the ball bit. The little glowy ball thing, the thing that caused the Chicago blackout? Yeah, it's like hey, maybe don't just put that in a room where anybody can just touch it. Put one of those Beauty and the Beast glass things over it. Yeah, exactly, so new people can't just touch it. And then we meet the twins.
Speaker 1:I'll let you do their names yeah and Bob. Yeah, bob. So we see that they keep a lookout on disguised aliens like Al Roker, sylvester Stallone, danny DeVito. Danny DeVito's totally alien, Barry Sonnenfeld he's also one Barry Sonnenfeld's daughter's also up there, oh shit.
Speaker 2:And then we learn Agent.
Speaker 1:J's teacher was an alien as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's like I knew it.
Speaker 1:It's a good part of me, Thanks, Um, what's that? Uh show that Nickelodeon show, Jimmy neutron.
Speaker 2:Oh sure, yeah, Kind of reminded me of that. It was a giant forehead. Yeah, Add all that brain in there, so um all of Edwards identifying marks are as well as getting the last suit he'll ever wear, and he is renamed Jay. The newest MIB recruit. Love it, you see? So they've only got 26 agents at any given time, I guess. So, unless they start, doing like first and last name initials, I don't know A1.
Speaker 1:Or it's like maybe they just they're like all right, what letters we got left. It's like our D's up. So if we can find someone named D. Everybody wants D it really eliminates, like, if that's the case, like the you know people, they can call.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I mean, you could have called them anything, that's true. Agent Splunge, agent Splunge.
Speaker 1:Agent Splooge. But so we're back with Edgar. He's following an alien named Gentle Rosenberg who has a cat in the exterminators. Oh man, the wild movements by Edgar, he's like, because he's trying to turn around like kidding everything.
Speaker 2:Maybe he's just like going through puberty he just can't figure out his new body. I just don't know.
Speaker 1:Well, all his body's stuck in this thing.
Speaker 2:He's like trying to like yeah, don't we all feel like that?
Speaker 1:Sure, that's what puberty is.
Speaker 2:Yeah and that's what Marvel was all about. Yeah, puberty, puberty, every single.
Speaker 1:Marvel character. Yeah, Hex man, I mean.
Speaker 2:Captain every single character. Yeah, x -Men.
Speaker 1:I mean. Captain America, essentially it's skinny boy gets real ripped. Yeah, he does. Iron man damn, doesn't really work for him. Hulk, essentially puberty.
Speaker 2:Spider-Man.
Speaker 1:Spider-Man's, like the most obvious one. Yeah, so we see Javin is given, j is given his first assignment with K to follow reggie regic, an extraterrestrial in new york, in new jersey, despite the fact that he's restricted to the new york city area um they go outside and they're like, oh, what's this old piece of shit car, the car effects?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, the worst part of this movie. They just sped up the footage and it's like oh God, yes, it was bad, it was terrible, it was really bad.
Speaker 1:How about we redo just that scene?
Speaker 2:You could have just like made the car go fast. Yeah, I know, just drive fast guys.
Speaker 1:So they see.
Speaker 2:Reggie. He is in a rush to get off the planet. It was funny though. Yeah, so they see.
Speaker 1:Reggie, he is in a rush to get off. Yeah, so they see, reggie, he's in a rush to get off the planet with his wife, even though they have a newborn baby on the way. Kay finds this unusual and decides to check out the news. Oh, yeah, he finds this unusual. We get the whole scene with the birth thing.
Speaker 2:That was awesome. Yeah, I love how, like you show him he's talking to the driver and then he's like completely not notice the woman in labor in the back seat.
Speaker 1:He's like oh, oh, I see oh, oh.
Speaker 2:And then he tells like hey, jay will take care of this. He's a professional at this, it's okay, you just catch. It's like slamming him on the hood and shit the baby's so cute it is adorable when he's just like. You know what?
Speaker 1:this is actually kind of cute, like even cuter yeah, it's pretty, and who knows that throw up might smell good or something oh, that tastes great stuff, right um but he's like why would he be trying to uh, travel light speed, whether he's got a baby on the way? So he's like something's weird here. So they go and you stand and he gets out like the tabloids yeah, it's so good um he sees, I love the picture.
Speaker 2:That was like the my uh alien took my husband's skin or something yeah, because it's like the farm, the classic american gothic skeleton farmers.
Speaker 1:So he sees that article written by Edgar's wife. Alien stole my husband's skin and they go and investigate. Meanwhile, edgar follows Rosenberg to meet with another alien of the same race who informs him that a bug landed on the planet and that he must go away.
Speaker 2:This is the large character, oh yeah, he goes to talk to him. I got you some diamonds for your kids, like do they eat?
Speaker 1:diamonds, I don't know, maybe that's like some it's just to them. It's probably like not expensive at all.
Speaker 2:I don't know, he's got a billion of them.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's like, if you're gonna stay here, here's your college tuition for your kids no, they definitely eat them. Yeah, it's got the hell of a intestines, oh and your teeth, yeah but while they're talking, edgar comes in, ends up killing them both and takes position stab me to the neck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's great and the cat's there into the restaurant with him. So after killing him he takes the diamonds but leaves the cat. I hope that doesn't come into play, because they believe that that because the two characters are talking about the galaxy, you got to keep the galaxy safe or whatever um thing which ends up being on the cat's neck oh, the guy, the lurch guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he looks. Have you seen the? Um? There's a stephen king movie where the the woman gets trapped in a house, her husband like handcuffs her to the bed oh yeah, that's the same character it's the same guy, isn't it the same guy? It looks the guy in the Stephen King movie is really fucked up looking yeah this guy's less fucked up looking.
Speaker 1:Gerald's Game that movie. I remember kind of like not wanting to watch it because I didn't know what it was about. And then, you know, as I got more into Mike Flanagan stuff, I was like oh shit, we gotta watch it.
Speaker 2:So good yeah, that was crazy we're gonna do that on this podcast.
Speaker 1:It looks like him, yeah actually a little pause for a second. Let's see gigantism. Adam's family, yeah, and I'll be a singer.
Speaker 2:He was lurch. Yeah, he really was lurch. Yeah, I was telling you he was lurch.
Speaker 1:Wow, I saw you making a joke only one person looks like this, jason, and he's made a meal of it his entire life. I would too, except for the guy that used to work at GLC Really tall guy that everybody called Lurch. Oh yeah, you don't work there anymore, anyways.
Speaker 2:He was killed by a low-flying plane.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but Edgar, he thinks he got the galaxy, but he didn't. K and J pose as FBI agents and question the wife. They learn about the sugar water, the wife, and once they have all the information they need, she is neuralized. And K tells the wife that there was no alien and Edgar ran off with another woman, kay's like or Jay convinces Kay to ad-lib the memory she gets, and Jay extends it.
Speaker 2:He's like no, you threw him out. Yeah, you threw him out. So I want you to go to town get a little cute dress, some shoes. Get your nails done, get your nails done A little face. Make a day of it, get an interior decorator.
Speaker 1:Oh, will Smith is so funny, did you know? Because I thought we were going to end up bringing up the fact that he slapped Chris Rock at some point.
Speaker 1:I was going to be like oh yeah, it's like the crazy relationship he has with Jada Pinkett Smith, but the only reason he did this movie was because of Jada Pinkett Smith. But the only reason he did this movie was because of Jada Pinkett Smith. Oh, really, because he didn't want to do this movie, because Independence Day was a year before or whatever, oh shit. And he's like I don't want to do another alien movie, I'm going to be an alien guy.
Speaker 2:And then he did another alien movie after this. Then he's done multiple alien movies since this.
Speaker 1:After Earth. That was one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, three of these movies Great.
Speaker 1:So at the crash site in the farm, k analyzes the dirt and was hoping that the alien would not be a bug. Turns out it's a bug. It's a bug. He tells Jay that they will watch the morgues with a bug in town.
Speaker 2:Do you know, whenever they were testing atomic bombs and it irradiated a bunch of cockroaches in that area and the government put out a notice that said if you see these cockroaches, smash with hammer.
Speaker 1:Smash with hammer, not with hand, that's what happened?
Speaker 2:They cannot be killed except with hammer, he's got these cockroaches walking on two feet, jacked to shit.
Speaker 1:Smoking a cigarette.
Speaker 2:They've got hammers in each of their hands.
Speaker 1:Hey, we're here for some crumbs. Give me some sugar water, don't mess with you. Throws out a switchblade, I'll cut you.
Speaker 2:You bring out the hammer, though, and they run.
Speaker 1:They're like oh shit, they can walk on two legs and they're jacked, but they're still small, I'd still be afraid of them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, holy fuck afraid of me. I'm afraid of the ones that hiss.
Speaker 1:Well, the fucking ones. In this movie it's like does new york not have normal cockroaches? Well, no, these are?
Speaker 2:those are madagascar car, yeah. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they are those madagascar hissing cockroaches yeah, because they're like the most famous ones, and it's the only ones in New York, apparently, in this movie.
Speaker 1:So they were at the morgue. A pathologist, laurel Weaver, who apparently is a damn ass freak in this movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, she doesn't get a lot of human contact.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she just immediately starts hitting on it, like your eyes are so pretty. But she examines the bodies and finds them unusual. But also we see the body go into there and he got a cough and he says here's the body. He's like what's with the cat? It's like, oh, there's a problem with the cat, what's that? But he waits until she signs it.
Speaker 2:It's your problem, it's your problem.
Speaker 1:So Jay and Kay come in posing as doctors, they examine the bodies and they discover that Rosenberg really isn't dead yet. But you got this whole scene where Kay is looking at the lurch body and Jay is looking with the body that's going to eventually have the alien head in it with Weaver, and it's just like, oh, do you feel this? It's like yeah, it's like, isn't that weird? It's like, yeah, it's all there.
Speaker 2:it's like no, there's nothing there yeah, yeah, I thought that's what we meant here and then she's like you have really pretty eyes and it's like why? Are we talking? But it's great, she said something like she wants to go deeper into the weirdness and then they get cut off. It's so funny, it's like wow, are they going to have sex on this body?
Speaker 1:But yeah, he comes back because she's like hey, I have to really show you something here.
Speaker 2:And there's like this little button she presses on the ears.
Speaker 1:And this little cute alien that's like on the verge of death his last words are the perfect war the galaxy is on orions bell, what's his word?
Speaker 2:The galaxy is on Whenever you're or up or I. It's Bell. Bell, what's his word? Yeah?
Speaker 1:Oh, it's a cute little alien, though it is adorable. Oh, I'm so sad he died, but anyway.
Speaker 2:Kay neuralizes Weaver and they head back to headquarters. Does he neuralize her like a couple of times? Yeah, it's like, are you sure that's not going to give her brain cancer? That thing is going to give her brain cancer.
Speaker 1:Then there's a quote Jay, did you ever flashy thing me? Flashy thing me, kate? No, jay, I ain't playing with you. Did you ever flashy thing me? No. Then also Kay's like tells the people the Neuralizer and Jay's like looks at him.
Speaker 2:And then Kay's like looks at him and then Kay's like and make up something nice, thank you. Thank you. So Edgar is banging the diamonds around the truck.
Speaker 1:Can't figure it out and then he's like he's all pissed off because you know, know, it's just a bunch of jewels. He resumes his search while Jay and Kay look at Orion's belt, but Zed thinks that they heard wrong. Kay looks up a woman that apparently is his ex-wife. How much do you I? Love this technology, the technology it's like enhance, enhance it's like on something that's older than AOL, yeah, but it's like enhance, enhance.
Speaker 2:It's like something that's older than AOL, yeah, but like it's so old, and yet they have cameras on every person on the planet.
Speaker 1:Maybe when you join the agency they can be like all right, we can put one satellite on one person. They then discover that a bunch of aliens have left the planet and they notice an Arkylian battleship above the Earth conveying a message I love the nobody else notice it yeah.
Speaker 1:We have telescopes and it's not that far away. It's like there's more agencies out there. So K and J they're going to go down to Rosenberg's jewelry store to find clues and Zed tells K to give J a weapon. K gives J the noisy cricket. This was on an episode of Pop Culture Jeopardy.
Speaker 2:Oh shit, Because we did it after we watched the movie.
Speaker 1:And because of its size, j doesn't think it will protect him. You know, he's like I'm going to break this damn thing, yeah, and he like points and I was like whoa, I'm like dude, if that gun goes off in this room, you're both going to die. How about this? His first gun, not a giant missile, you know.
Speaker 2:maybe just give him like a smaller like this handgun that's a laser or whatever Slingshot oh this tiny little nuke in a gun. Because it's more powerful than like anything that K has I know, or it seems like it.
Speaker 1:It's like sheesh, but Edgar gets the Rosenbergs before J and K do, however, and he breaks in to look for the galaxy. He sees a picture of Rosenberg's cat, who was by his side at the time of his death. Edgar sees a marble on the cat's collar. She thinks it's the galaxy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he kind of recognized it yeah.
Speaker 1:He notices the exterminator truck being towed and goes out to investigate. It's like because he like pulls his shotgun out to the tow driver.
Speaker 2:And he pulls out a magnum.
Speaker 1:He's like hey, I don't think so. I'm like, yeah, but he could just still shoot you. You're still got your you're not aiming at him.
Speaker 2:You should still be afraid of him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, k and J arrive with their weapons, notice that the havoc that has been wrecked upon the store, and J finds it unusual that anyone has broken in without taking any jewels. They suspect that the bug is behind it. Technically it's behind them. They hear a shot and they see Edgar walking with a gun in his hand. Edgar gets in the tow truck, drives away Jay, fires the noisy cricket which is Sends him flying back into the other car yeah. That was great. He fires it two more times.
Speaker 2:Kay gets super angry he's like. Launching him across the street.
Speaker 1:Destroys an entire semi-truck K's like we're not supposed to do this in front of people. He's like what are you talking about? It's like it doesn't matter. He can't go anywhere without his ship. Yeah, and I feel like maybe Jay should have some more training. Yeah.
Speaker 2:He had zero training.
Speaker 1:Yeah, up to this point. This guy has no idea what he's doing here. Maybe give him a week to learn.
Speaker 2:Yeah, give him like one day of the firing range with any gun that you guys use.
Speaker 1:Kay calls a Zed for a containment crew and Kay is told that the Archeleon want the galaxy. I'm so sorry, guys, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:I can't say that word, it's just like I see it.
Speaker 1:I see like there's like an I LL and an I and like that my brain goes into overdrive and then I'm like I don't know. Edgar in the meantime asks the man, where do you keep your dad? And eventually gets the city morgue out of him. And then Edgar steals some postcard and then proceeds to the morgue. Why did he get the postcard?
Speaker 2:oh, because of the spaceships oh yeah, because of the world fair.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I forgot about that. I was just like he just immediately grabs some postcards, like maybe he just likes post some postcards, like maybe he just likes postcards.
Speaker 2:Maybe every time he goes to another planet.
Speaker 1:he gets a postcard Like do we still have?
Speaker 2:cards that talk about the 1930 World Fair.
Speaker 1:I guess in New York, when everybody's aliens maybe, I guess.
Speaker 2:Oh, did you hear about this? That happened, I guess, in the 90s. It would be like, oh yeah, this happened 60 years ago. We're still advertising for it. Are those things still there?
Speaker 1:I don't know. You know postcards have just random places like on the pictures of them. Yeah, it's like their thing, I guess. I mean, I guess maybe, well, they're close by. So you know, usually whenever you're like at the Grand Canyon, you can buy a picture of a postcard that has the Grand Canyon on the front. If they're nearby the World's Fair, just maybe they have a postcard with the World's Fair.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it was 60 something years.
Speaker 1:Well, if the buildings are still there, they'd be like whoa hey, I want a postcard showing them. I went to the World's Fair. This is great. It's this completely unbelievable movie.
Speaker 2:How could they have postcards of the World's Fair?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're right Pulling a Dakota here.
Speaker 2:And according to the Simpsons, those towers are just full of wigs. What?
Speaker 1:are in those towers. I don't know, Wigs I guess I guess so Because the Simpsons got everything right Wigs and aliens. That's just where the aliens go. I don't know Wigs. I guess I guess so Because Simpsons got everything right Wigs and aliens, that's just where the aliens go to buy their wigs.
Speaker 1:So K and J talked to an alien dog named Frank and told the galaxy is on Earth and that it's tiny. But yeah, there's just some. They're like hey, you want a spinoff? Yeah, it's like just the great bit. Like, don't worry, that dog owes my friend money. And I love the little quote that the dog Frank says just because something is very tiny doesn't mean it's not important.
Speaker 2:That's true. That's true For all you micropenises out there.
Speaker 1:My tiny ass heart, it's important to me the little baby heart, yeah, the baby heart.
Speaker 2:Yeah, doctors don't like it.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Jay and K'fay, jay and K'fay what the hell? Jay and K' are confused, but when they see Frank bark at a cat, they know where to find the galaxy. Now they're like oh shit, the cat, the cat man. I wish my cats had the galaxy on them. Pet the kitty. Don't know what I'd do with it. What happens if you break the galaxy open? Does it just like fall on the ground and like-?
Speaker 2:I don't know, you probably can't break it open.
Speaker 1:Well, it's just an ugly-.
Speaker 2:I know, but those little, those like glass, like-.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's probably made of some sort of special alien glass.
Speaker 2:Yes, but even normal earth glass that we have in that little globe form is so powerful you can't even crush it with a hydraulic press. Have you seen these? They're so powerful.
Speaker 1:See these boys, give me anything, I'll break it. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1:Take it back. I'd chew the hell out of it. If you got a glass ball, you better throw it so you can bring it back. So Edgar goes into the morgue and threatens Weaver for the cat. Its name was Orion, orion's belt.
Speaker 2:But he's not even wearing pants. Good bit, it's a car. Oh yeah, before this Because you don't call a neck thing a yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, aliens don't know where you call the caller you stupid alien person. I did. Our killings are going to come, but before all this I forgot to mention Edgar. Comes in. David Cross is like smashing some bugs and then, yeah, Edgar just goes into the ceiling.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, he's got a lot of extra goo. Yeah, he gooey boy Like the cockroaches is goo up playing.
Speaker 1:I don't think so, because I think in Mimic the same thing happens. The movie Mimic, oh, guillermo del Toro's first movie, what?
Speaker 2:was it American movie? Wow, first big studio movie. I don't remember that at all. It was either Mimic or Mimic 2 is one of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the studio took the movie away from them and made them re-edit it and everything. You know, like all the best directors end up having it done to them. James Cameron, same thing with Piranha 2. David, what David?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Piranha 2.
Speaker 2:Yeah, James. Yep. Piranha 2. Yep.
Speaker 1:James Cameron.
Speaker 2:Piranhas was so good, they needed a second one.
Speaker 1:It's called the Spawning, the Spawning. And if you're wondering if the quote from one of the Tremors movies, they Fly Now, they Fly Now, hell yeah, that could also have been the quote for Piranha 2. Really, because they got wings, they fly. Now what? That's not even a thing. It's a weird movie. The movie was taken away by the producers from. James Cameron oh man, david Fincher, aliens 3. People really like doing sequels of their first movie.
Speaker 2:Maybe it was taken away from him.
Speaker 1:It's crazy, crazy Anyways. So Jay enters the morgue and then discovers that Weaver is being held hostage by Edgar, but it's like there's this whole date bit.
Speaker 2:She's like. I really need you to see this. I really need you to see this.
Speaker 1:It's like how about you take me out for a coffee? He's like damn girl, you work fast. It's like how many times have you been neuralized and hit on me? And she's obviously like I'm being kidnapped.
Speaker 2:He's like what do I?
Speaker 1:spell it out for you, because eventually the cat comes up onto the top of a gurney that she's hiding behind and he's like stills, the cat got the gun to her head. Yeah, so Edgar has like the gun up to Weaver's head. He's like okay. He's like let her go shit eater. Oh, listen, monkey boy Compared to you humans, I don't even got the voice anymore.
Speaker 2:I've lost the voice.
Speaker 1:I'm on top of the evolutionary ladder, so can it all right. Yeah, nice. Hey, Kate, you're breaking my heart. Show me your face and I'll cure all your ills. You ever pull the wings off a fly. You care to see a fly get even oh it's so funny. Oh yeah, that's good man. It's just like maybe the best cinematic character in the history of the world so good.
Speaker 1:I just need to remember. Anytime someone says what's your favorite movie villain, I have to think of Edgar. Edgar, because he's like one of the funniest and he's so powerful.
Speaker 2:He's a good villain. It's a great creation.
Speaker 1:So he escapes with Weaver and tells her to take him to the World's Fair, where there are working flying saucers. He also eats the galaxy. Why is?
Speaker 2:that, yeah, do you think? Whenever he said, take me to the world's fair, she's like what?
Speaker 1:It's like she has no idea that there's spaceships. So Kay tells Jay not to worry about him, since they have his ship, he can't get off the planet. Back at the headquarters, the Acrylians fire a warning shot and say that they will go to war in an hour. Like at a galactic hour or something that's like yeah, it's like um well, no, it's like a galactic week but it's an hour for them, yeah, and they're like, um, I think one their their whole day.
Speaker 2:There was a gag in the in earlier. Where will smith is like, y'all ever get any sleep around here? He's like, yeah, yeah, we, we switched to 36 hour days or some shit.
Speaker 1:Crazy, fuck you man, like you'll go insane for a little bit. Um, so they're like questioning, like where's, where's he going to go to find a ship? And then Jay's like, uh, hey, old people, because there's a picture on the wall of the World's Fair. And he's like, what about there? So that's where they're going to go. Edgar arrives at the fair before Jay and Kay, who are driving through the Queen's Midtown Tunnel and manage to zip past traffic by pressing the red button.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah, he's playing Elvis.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it allows the car to go super fast and also go on the roof Apparently, yeah, it's great. They're like oh, Elvis isn't dead.
Speaker 2:He just went off.
Speaker 1:He just went home. Yeah, edgar drives, drags Weaver with him while getting into a saucer, because I'll need a snack and J and K they lock in fucking low.
Speaker 2:Let's go go bugs check in. Yeah, they don't check out.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's so good. Hell yeah, man, I love, I just love a good.
Speaker 2:You know lock and load yeah, lock and load like, and they even had a good one-liner.
Speaker 1:good or lame, either one it's great, they're it's both in, also at the same time Great. But they arrive just in time to save her. They shoot down the flying saucer. Edgar takes off in. You got the whole baseball game thing where the guy's like trying to catch a ball but then sees the UFO overhead of him.
Speaker 1:But it's also you got the lights going through the woods, like whenever it first lifts off it's going through the. It's also you got the the lights going through the woods, like whenever it first lifts off it's going through the, it's lifting off and you can see the shot through the trees. You know, usually, like when you see like fake UFO videos, they always kind of have something like that yeah, it was just, it was perfectly it was awesome, it was beautiful as a UFO boy.
Speaker 1:It's beautiful. And then you also have them. Once they shoot it down, the UFO crashing and sopping just in time, because Agent K is so good, he knows when a UFO is going to crash land and where to stand and they don't move at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but dude, this shot fucking goes though it's so good, like the tidal wave of earth just coming out. Oh, it's beautiful man it was badass.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to lie. This movie might be 10 out of 10. It's so good. It actually might be one of my favorite movies ever made Not going to lie, it really is. We don't talk about it and it just sucks because everything after it is bad. I will say Did you watch Men in Black 3?
Speaker 2:I don't think so.
Speaker 1:It's actually pretty good, not like pretty good. It's good, lowercase g good, but like Josh Brolin yeah he plays, because it's like a whole time travel thing. We go back in time to when Agent K's young. It's played by Josh Brolin and he's so great at being a young Tommy Lee Jones. That's young, oh shit, and he's played by Josh Brolin and he's so great at being a young Tommy Lee Jones. That's awesome. Yeah, it's pretty cool. And I remember watching that one at Home Depot, like we had in the break room, we had TV.
Speaker 2:You had TV, yeah.
Speaker 1:And they had like direct TV or whatever. I think they got it free because it's depot that's badass.
Speaker 1:This is a great way to spend your 15 minutes breaks so great so many, much longer breaks taken because of it um, but like there's a part of men in black three where it's, there's a lot of like daddy issue stuff in it and it's just like all the guys you know like they're all kind of they were taking a break, they're all so in tune to this like daddy issue. Daddy issue scene and I was like, wow, I think a lot of these people might have daddy issues.
Speaker 2:For sure.
Speaker 1:Oh, snake just farted. Nice Woo, let's get this over with then. So the bug takes Edgar's skin off. He reveals his true form he's just a giant weird like centipede cockroach-looking thing, oh yeah he's terrifying.
Speaker 2:He's just a giant, weird centipede cockroach looking thing almost.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, he's terrifying. He eats their gun, kay does not like this idea.
Speaker 2:He's got like a slime tongue thing.
Speaker 1:Kay attempts to have the bug eat him so he can get their guns back, eat me and he does. Eats them right on up, swallows them whole. Good thing he doesn't chew. He's in there for a long time. He's in there for a while.
Speaker 2:Some stomach acid would get him a little bit, or you'd think he'd find it. Yeah, like, how big is this thing's stomach?
Speaker 1:I know right, I don't know. Well, it's just like the UFO ship he's in. It's just a second ship and he starts creating a distraction for the bug. Jay begins fighting with the bug by stepping on.
Speaker 2:Well, first, he just gets a shit beat out of him for a while. That was awesome.
Speaker 1:Then Jay begins fighting with the bug by stepping on cockroaches.
Speaker 2:Is that your auntie? Is that your?
Speaker 1:auntie. But then, like, as the bug's about to just destroy Jay, yes, bug explosion. That was great. Great Funny thing is Will Smith Hated having the slime on him. Oh, really Hated all the goo and the slime On him. Tommy Lee Jones Didn't mind it, that was the exact words that he said.
Speaker 2:I didn't really mind it.
Speaker 1:That's great, I think, for him. This had to be really fun For Tommy Lee Jones.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah, man he never really did anything Like this.
Speaker 1:This was like his. I think for him this had to be really fun for Tommy Lee Jones Hell yeah, man, he never really did anything like this.
Speaker 2:This was like his one big, like goofy sci-fi comedy.
Speaker 1:He's like, yeah, I get covered in goo one time in my life I've done so many police officer movies. Okay, I want to be covered in goo once Goo me, baby Goo me. Goo me daddy. So they're all covered in book slime. They get the galaxy back and deliver it to the aliens, Whatever.
Speaker 2:I'm tired of trying to say it. There you go.
Speaker 1:While Jay and Kay are recovering from their battle, the top half of the alien is still alive. The top half of the alien is still alive, but Weaver shoots the alien by using Jay's gun, which was dragged out of its stomach, and tells Jay and Kay how interesting their jobs are, surprising both of them.
Speaker 2:I kind of feel bad for her whenever she got thrown from the top into the tree. God, that must have hurt like hell.
Speaker 1:She was annoying him so much.
Speaker 2:That's her superpower. She's probably trying to get him to go out with her.
Speaker 1:Wow, you have nice brown skin. Did anybody ever tell you you smell like trash? I love it. That's my favorite way. That's my favorite smell. So as the men in black crew containment crew cleans up the situation, kay tells Jay to neuralyze him. No, it's like the severance suicide, yeah, so he wasn't training a partner, but rather a replacement. It's been like two days. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:He's not ready, he has said zero.
Speaker 2:He's had very little training. He probably doesn't even know where the's not ready. He has said zero he's had very little training.
Speaker 1:He probably doesn't even know where the bathroom is yet, because he walks in there. They're like all right, you got to leave. And he's like okay.
Speaker 2:Well, I think the suit has like a built-in bathroom. Yeah, probably yeah.
Speaker 1:The suit's much bigger than you think.
Speaker 2:This is the last thing you'll ever wear, because you can't take it off. You can't take it off. Actually, they stitch it into your skin.
Speaker 1:So Jay accepts and Kay is neuralized and Weaver joins the MIB as an Agent L. Then we see, then we go into, we like zoom out and keep zooming out and keep zooming out, and keep zooming out and then we see that we are just marbles being played with by bigger alien creatures that's the real story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what's real. So our universe is inside of the universe which is inside of a universe which is inside of the universe, which is inside of the universe, because we're probably just tiny little atoms for some.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dumb ass dumbass creature.
Speaker 2:We're just unimportant specks in this huge universe.
Speaker 1:I fucking love it.
Speaker 2:It's like everything in this movie is kind of perfect.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so fun, Even the ending where it's just like hey, guess what you know? Like maybe your atoms have fucking personalities and talk to the other atoms. Guess what? That's what you are? Yeah, you're just this fucking speck. Guess what? That's what you are? Yeah, You're just this. We're something that's Adams of. Another thing that's Adams of another, everything's meaningless. All I hope is when I die, I get to see everything. I want to know what everything is. Oh yeah, that would be yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, we die. We just go to like a Google yeah.
Speaker 1:That would be ultimate Google. Yeah, oh, we die. We just go to like a Google browser. That's where we live, oh, no, no. Well, P-O-R-N-H-U-B.
Speaker 2:They still have that here. Yeah, no, it's blocked. No, where's a VPN?
Speaker 1:But I don't know how we got there.
Speaker 2:But anyways, that's Men in Black, we're going to hit our first category for the movie the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine.
Speaker 1:It's where we discuss the good of the film, something we like. The bad, something we didn't like. The ugly, something we thought didn't age well. The fine something that did age well. What is your good?
Speaker 1:Just the weirdness, the creative weirdness, the creative, uh, weirdness that they made and just great like how well, like I mean for you know, like ufo buffs and stuff, you know, whenever they think of things it's like, oh, that could be like a ufo actually, like with the world's fair, it's like, whoa, those look like um yeah, they kind of look like ufos or like the space needle and uh, in seattle, seattle, it's like that looks like a ufo and like you know there's, I'm sure there's like some post on reddit.
Speaker 1:It's like do you think this is actually a ufo? Fuck? Yeah, it is, and it's like that's so great that they're like hey, yeah, this is what people would think on like these uh reddit boards and it's like, hey, we have a whole movie about it. Yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's probably because, like most alien stuff is that we know it comes from movies anyways yeah, it's all from movies, because like, not like uh something of the third kind, like that's when everybody got the same idea all of a sudden about what aliens look like whenever Well, it's like whenever they saw the first like saucer, like the movie that had, like the first flying saucer all of a sudden, there's UFOs everywhere.
Speaker 1:Now we're seeing saucers, yeah. But then you like see old paintings and stuff and it's like why is that an alien?
Speaker 2:Why is this?
Speaker 1:a normal human picture. And then all of a sudden there's a ship in the sky, because it's just what our brains can fathom. Yeah, it's like who knows what, this fucking painter who's probably on like just eating opioid plants or popping seeds, constantly high as fuck ate a mushroom that day and painted I was finished his painting ate a mushroom.
Speaker 1:I was like, oh, I got an idea. Wait a second. What if I put weird stuff on here too? Hell yeah, man, my good, was the concept, kind of essentially what you said, and Will and Tommy Lee Jones are a perfect pair.
Speaker 2:They really were. They're amazing. So good together.
Speaker 1:It's a great classic buddy cop combination.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it kind of puts a spin on the whole buddy cop thing. Yeah, with the alien.
Speaker 1:And it's just like it with the alien and it's just like it's so fun, it's wild and it's such.
Speaker 2:You know, I'll save it for the bad. Alright, the bad. What do you have? For the bad there's not really a whole lot of bad. I think there are just like practical effects that they tried to do the car thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I thought the CGI was kind of fine. Yeah, the CGI was fine. It wasn't great, but it was pretty good for 96. Yeah, it was great. It was fun. Mine was a car speeding up the car it looked terrible. Of course, really bad, yeah, because even their heads in the vehicle were like going super fast, and also the fact that they did not give the female character anything to do?
Speaker 2:Just sexual innuendos. Character anything to do? Oh, just sexual innuendos. Yeah, that's like her whole role was just like sexual innuendos. That's all her role was.
Speaker 1:she's a sex object, that's it.
Speaker 2:I mean at least they gave her.
Speaker 1:You know the like she gets to actually kill the bug, which was fun. That was cool kind of redeeming. Yeah, this is like she's gonna play a pretty big part in it. We're like we didn't know anything about her, except she wants to go on dates with Will Smith. She really does. She loves dead people. Yeah, and for the ugly, I didn't really have anything bad.
Speaker 2:No, there's nothing, really no, yeah, maybe I guess you could say the whole illegal alien thing at the beginning.
Speaker 1:I think that's a good joke.
Speaker 2:I mean it is a good joke.
Speaker 1:I'm just I'm just grasping at straws here. I didn't think it was really Too offensive. This is a play on words, no yeah, yeah sure. If they were all aliens, then I might I don't even know If that would have been offensive. That would have been funnier.
Speaker 2:I don't know, but it was.
Speaker 1:You know this was a good set up. Yeah, it was it, you know. Just, no matter what, throughout life we will constantly be having to hear about the border.
Speaker 2:I don't illegal, yes, forever.
Speaker 1:Ever going to hear about for the rest of our lives. Yep, okay.
Speaker 2:I really don't like how they handled the cat. Yeah, they mishandled they. They were like Edgar was like pet it the wrong way.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:His tail was twitching. Did you way? Yeah, his tail was twitching, did you know?
Speaker 1:no, cockroaches were harmed on the set of this movie. Fucking bullshit. Why not, bro? Pete'll be out. Pete is gonna be out, your door.
Speaker 2:Those roaches, those madagascar roaches, were like a thousand dollars a piece.
Speaker 1:Man, he cannot squish those for real I bet, yeah, they probably were very expensive things and plus know what? You can't kill actual cockroaches on set. It's like, hey, you put them there. It's like killing a roach in your house, but it's like, hey, you put us here, don't step on me.
Speaker 2:Those could have been the ones that are so clean you could eat them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so maybe they ate them. We should watch Fear Factor. Oh no, we should just do like a day where we just like stream us watching Fear Factor. Gross, all right. Last one the Fine Something that aged well I put effects and how fun the aliens look, fuck yeah, man Aliens and the music video. Yeah, oh, we didn't even talk about how good the Men in Black song is Been in my head ever since we watched it.
Speaker 2:It's a really good song. It's wild, it's so catchy.
Speaker 1:They're all dancing, yeah, I used to love that shit. I actually have something that's kind of ugly, so shit. Who did the music for this? He does all like the Tim Burton music stuff.
Speaker 2:Music Danny Elfman. So Danny Elfman did the music for this. What?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I thought I remember this score being like super popular and like special Dude.
Speaker 2:I don't, I don't remember anything about the music the time that I popped up, except for the music video at the end. Yeah, like for a Danny Elfman score, not that great Because, yeah, music really wasn't like a big part of it. There were like a few times where you hear the music swell in the background and like good for like strong moments, but like that's it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember I was looking at facts. People were like, oh yeah, the iconic score for this film. I was like what.
Speaker 2:Yeah we need Danny Elfman to make a French horn play loud in the back for a second. Yeah, it was very memorable.
Speaker 1:All right, we're gonna hit our next category Double feature. It's where we recommend a movie to go alongside this movie. What you got.
Speaker 2:Well, it made me think of Tommy Lee Jones, so I thought of. One of his other ridiculous movies is Volcano where it's like disaster movie with a volcano like kind of shows up in like the middle of somewhere it's like LA or some shit, but it's so dumb. It's funny because it's so dumb and it sucks seeing Tommy Lee Jones having to play dumb yeah, and it's funny because it's so dumb, yeah, and it sucks seeing Tommy Lee Jones having to play in this like a serious character in this dumb ass movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've always wanted to watch it. There's another volcano movie. I can't remember what it's called. I think it's got Pierce Brosnan in it yes, point.
Speaker 2:Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about yeah, mine was Hellboy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it's essentially this movie, but different hell. Yeah, I want to watch it because there's like the secret society of all these like creatures and stuff, all the weird ass creatures, yeah, this normal world they're trying to stop. Like some of them are getting out into the world and he's gotta like stop them and things like that oh yeah, I love his, his fucking sawed off shotgun pistol thing. It's so good have you, so you haven't seen either of them no boy I've seen pieces and the golden, the hellboy, 2 golden army that one's really good.
Speaker 1:Fuck. Yeah, man, I'm gonna buy them. Yeah, it's guillermo del toro baby that's so good. That's why ron perlman's the lead, the man with all the face.
Speaker 2:I remember jurors, the enemy at the gates, with him uh-uh uh, he's in it for a brief moment where he's and he's like he gets shot in the face god damn it we need some of that face, but he's good at that one like for as long as r as he's on it.
Speaker 1:Ron Perlman's a great actor. He's so good Like he should be in everything.
Speaker 2:Like Sons of Anarchy. He's always leaning on stuff. Yeah, when he talks Classic. That's our episode, baby.
Speaker 1:I hope you enjoyed it. That was a fun episode, I think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hell yeah man.
Speaker 1:It's probably. Sadly, jason won't be joining us on our next movie, but Dakota will be here with me to talk about one of my favorite movies ever made that also stars Tommy Lee Jones no Country for Old Men. We once were trying to do this before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we did. No, we did it, we did the whole thing. We did the whole damn thing.
Speaker 1:The whole episode. It was like an hour 40 minute episode, and then we got neuralyzed and then it it never existed. We were just talking to each other about movies.
Speaker 2:Which is great.
Speaker 1:Great, don't you add a butt in there had a great time, but it would have been cool if it was recording. But yeah, so join us. Next week It'll be me and Dakota talking about no Country for Old Men. He's so excited to talk about it. Hell yeah, because we were originally going to do it a couple weeks ago this movie is cursed but we couldn't because it snowed and I was like I don't want anybody to risk their lives. And then I got on the roads and the roads weren't bad at all and I felt real dumb. But yeah, join us for that. Also, we would love for you to send us some fan mail. Top of the description there's a link that you can click. Click it, send us some fan mail, just be like hey.
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Speaker 2:It's so weird.
Speaker 1:So now I got micro penis on the brain. Yay, Um, what's the movie where it's like I got penis on the brain? Um, damn, what was that from?
Speaker 2:Oh, that's from the office.
Speaker 1:That's what it is. All right, we're laying in the damn plane here. Thank you, Joey Prosser, for our intro and outro music. Follow him on X at Mr Joey Prosser. God dang it. This has been the we Recommend podcast. God dang it. I've been Jesse, I've been Jason. We come in peace, baby.
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