Will You Survive "Battle Royale": Exploding Collars and Bad Aim. Guest Special!!!!!!!

Battle Royale burst onto the global cinema scene in 2000, introducing the world to a disturbing vision of dystopian Japan where high school students are forced to fight to the death on a remote island. Two decades later, this cult classic continues to shock, disturb, and fascinate audiences worldwide.

Joined by our special guest and self-proclaimed "#1 Fan" Josh, we navigate the bloody corridors of this influential film that many argue laid the groundwork for everything from The Hunger Games to modern battle royale video games. The conversation quickly ignites into a heated debate about whether Battle Royale deserves recognition as the original "teens fighting to death" narrative or if comparisons to newer franchises diminish its unique vision.

Beyond plot comparisons, we dissect the film's most memorable survival scenarios. From questionable marksmanship (seriously, how did so many characters survive multiple gunshot wounds?) to the mechanics of those infamous explosive collars, we examine what worked, what didn't, and what simply defied logic. The lighthouse scene draws particular scrutiny as we question character motivations and missed survival opportunities throughout the deadly game.

What makes Battle Royale endure isn't just its shocking premise but its underlying commentary on generational conflict, government control, and human nature under extreme pressure. While the film doesn't shy away from brutal violence, it balances horror with surprising moments of dark comedy and poignant character development that elevate it beyond simple exploitation.

Whether you're a longtime fan of Japanese cinema or curious about the origins of the battle royale phenomenon that now dominates gaming culture, this episode offers fresh perspectives on a film that continues to influence popular culture more than twenty years after its release. Join us as we ask the ultimate question: in a Battle Royale scenario, would you fight, hide, form alliances, or simply jump off that cliff?

Transcript

Welcome and Guest Introduction

Speaker 2 0:25

Hello survivors and welcome back to another episode of Will.

Speaker 3 0:29

You.

Speaker 4 0:30

Survive the podcast.

Speaker 5 0:34

The podcast.

Speaker 2 0:36

I was so late, josh. I was so late, josh. No, no, no, no, you could was so late, josh.

Speaker 4 0:46

No, no, no, Josh. No, you could have been late, you could have been an hour later, but if you would have thrown it in there with the podcast, it would have been all forgiven. But you know you like the podcast.

Speaker 5 0:59

Was that a question, Josh? I don't know. I don't even know what's going on right now.

Speaker 4 1:06

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a brand new edition, a special episode. Our guest, your number one fan, official too, josh, Josh.

Speaker 3 1:23

Today we're talking about the movie Battle Royale.

Speaker 1 1:25

Battle Royale. Oh, we got to finish the sentence.

Speaker 5 1:28

From 2001.

Speaker 3 1:30

From 2000,. Actually.

Speaker 2 1:33

Oh wait.

Speaker 3 1:34

I think it was released in Japan in 2000. And then 2001,. It was released in the rest of the world.

Speaker 1 1:39

That's all some really interesting facts, TJ, but we haven't introduced our other co-host.

Speaker 3 1:43

Alex. Oh, alex is is here, I guess.

Speaker 4 1:46

I'm like a fixture around here, though everybody knows me don't you mean Tiffany it was Harry, it was Mark, it was Jim that's crazy, tiffany we are joined today by Tiffany hi guys.

Speaker 1 2:04

Wow, tiffany is a single fellas.

Speaker 4 2:08

Oh, dude, I wish I would have had. I wish I had TJ's voice manipulator, I totally I'm 84.

Speaker 2 2:16

I have three kids and I am ready to mingle and no grandkids.

Speaker 1 2:23

Does that mean she's still a MILF?

Speaker 2 2:25

That's because my eldest son does not get bitches.

Speaker 4 2:29

Is your eldest son named Eric.

Speaker 1 2:31

Wait a minute. What the oh? Where's this?

Speaker 4 2:34

coming from A different Eric.

Speaker 2 2:37

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh good save.

Speaker 1 2:39

Good save, that seems likely.

Speaker 2 2:41

Wild.

Speaker 1 2:43

What the oh man I'm starting to realize. Okay, so here's the deal. Listeners, I'm addressing you. You should know this. Tj and I won the season. We tied Technically. If we're being real, I should have won. No, technically if we're being real, I should have won because I forgot to count the last season point. That I won, yeah, but it was a single point, so every win of an episode counts for three points, while the loser gets one. I got it from Josh.

Speaker 4 3:12

It's a single point.

Battle Royale Film Overview

Speaker 1 3:13

Yeah, but it's only a single point Every win is worth three season points. So if you count my ten natural wins because Josh never fucking gave me a season point, Never I have have 30 help me out. You won like seven and then you won six. I feel really bad, honestly, because you guys fucking team up on me but we really don't like. Oh, bullshit.

Speaker 4 3:36

I swear, it's this. I feel like tj. You know what?

Speaker 1 3:40

pick better movies yeah what the? Fuck are what that anyways yeah, so there's two readers here and I'm really quickly realizing that this episode, I have a feeling we're not going to talk about this movie wait a minute, pick better movies and we're covering battle royale wow, josh, this is, this is one of my favorite movies.

Speaker 4 3:56

Now I don't want to fuck. Do you hate josh?

Speaker 2 3:58

I'm saying bald son of a bitch. Yeah, you big bald son of a bitch you all actually.

Speaker 4 4:03

Wow, I got a week off from you all, went on vacation, got my head clear and I was like, wow, those guys all fucking suck. They turned against me yeah like oh you lost. Fuck you, I didn't lose you did lose, did you?

Speaker 1 4:18

I did not lose okay, hang on, I didn't do something. I was supposed to do. You were supposed to do something, but you gotta show them I was supposed to do something and I didn't supposed to do something, but you got to show them. I was supposed to do something and I didn't, because I got distracted and I had to show you how to fix it. Okay, anyways, hang on. Josh made something incredible and I want you to see this on full display. Could you please read this for the class?

Speaker 4 4:41

Certificate of Appreciation Alex.

Speaker 5 4:49

This certificate is hereby awarded.

Speaker 3 4:50

Okay, well you're dyslexic that says, eric that says eric.

Speaker 4 4:52

It says that says eric, so go on. It says alex, continue, go on, read it. See, teaming up against me. You asked me to read it, motherfuckers, I will have tj this certificate on the instagram okay, we'll do that. This certificate is hereby awarded to. Will you survive?

Speaker 1 5:08

I tied for first place with tj and some other guy, josh, is the loser, is the loser season five winner for being travel size. Yes, that true, and the year of our Lord, 2025.

Speaker 4 5:26

Okay, moving on.

Speaker 1 5:30

Could you please read this one? No, I can't read. That's interesting.

Speaker 4 5:33

I don't know how to read.

Speaker 1 5:33

Certificate of appreciation. This certificate is hereby awarded to TJ JT Woo, TJ let's go. Yeah, I tied for first place with Eric, and Alex is the loser season 5 winner for being black, being black in the year of our lord 2025 get fucked Alex you guys all suck.

Speaker 4 5:57

What can I say? You all teamed against me. This is bullshit.

Speaker 3 6:03

I mean, you could have just picked better movies. It is true, you all loved my movies against me, this is bullshit, I mean you could have just picked better movies, dude, it is true, you all loved my movies.

Speaker 1 6:10

Let's go through the movies you picked and let's decide that right now. Let's do it right now. Let's see, you did Dawn of the Dead. I actually liked that episode. I did like that episode.

Speaker 4 6:17

Fuck you, you can't do this and then not be honest?

Speaker 1 6:19

You did.

Speaker 4 6:20

The Grey.

Speaker 5 6:21

I did the Grey.

Speaker 1 6:26

That was mid, that was very mid. Uh, you did, did you do?

Speaker 5 6:28

you did life of pie, I actually like that, that that was a great movie shut up tj more like life of mid no, that was a great 1408 that was yeah, that was me, that was no or was that you tj?

Speaker 1 6:41

that one might have been a tj I feel like that was a. Tj movie. That one might have been a TJ movie. I feel like that was a TJ movie.

Speaker 2 6:46

You did.

Speaker 3 6:47

War of the.

Speaker 5 6:47

Worlds.

Speaker 2 6:48

Yeah, that was mid I did War of the.

Speaker 5 6:49

Worlds. That was mid.

Speaker 4 6:52

Oh fuck off.

Speaker 1 6:53

Yeah, I can't lie.

Speaker 4 6:54

Epic fucking blockbuster. You fucking assholes. I don't think it holds up if I'm being honest, that shit did not bust any blocks.

Speaker 3 7:00

Liars, liars.

Speaker 5 7:02

There's no busted blocks in the vicinity of that fucking movie Liars that didn't bust any of my blocks. That's the true metric.

Speaker 3 7:11

My fucking blocks remain intact.

Speaker 1 7:14

My blocks remain unbusted. Wait, if you did War of the Worlds, who did Cooties?

Speaker 5 7:19

He did, I did Cooties.

Speaker 4 7:22

I did oh no TJ did War of the Worlds.

Speaker 3 7:23

No you did War of the Worlds no.

Speaker 4 7:25

Nope, I did Cooties no.

Speaker 1 7:27

I think you did War of the Worlds because Alex did Cooties, yeah, which means all that hate goes on you now.

Speaker 3 7:31

TJ. No, I'm pretty sure I did 1408.

Speaker 1 7:37

No, he did Because, yeah, you did Signs and then War of the Worlds was next. But I feel like you did War of the Worlds because I was watching the bad version and I was telling you I was like this movie sucks. Let's just, let's see, regardless.

Speaker 4 7:52

But I definitely did Cooties.

Speaker 1 7:54

Because then TJ did Castaway.

Speaker 3 7:57

Very special, as I say, every fucking episode very special. How marvelous A 2005 film. I am the host of war of the worlds. Therefore, it is not mid.

Speaker 1 8:08

Wow, great movie, fantastic I don't know, I still call that it was me okay, alex did cooties, it was all right you said you hated that you loved it I hated that.

Speaker 4 8:19

I laughed you hated that you loved. It is what you said I don't know about false accusations strong word there.

Speaker 1 8:26

Definitely, I said that right.

Speaker 4 8:28

Fake news fake news, bullshit definitely if you're gonna contradict me, you better fucking quote him. What did he say then?

Speaker 1 8:36

I think I said like I hate that I laughed. You didn't say laugh, I hate that. I found it funny you didn't say that I liked.

Speaker 3 8:42

It is my name what I said. I definitely didn't say loved. Let's talk about Battle.

Speaker 5 8:47

Royale.

Speaker 1 8:49

Let's talk about Battle Royale. I don't give a fuck about this movie, Dude.

Speaker 3 8:52

this movie was great.

Speaker 1 8:54

Okay, really quick, we're almost done. I want to go through one more, because this is an important one the Day After Tomorrow, mid. You loved it.

Speaker 3 9:05

I did not love it. We definitely did not. The day after mid none of those were code black or tarp equals map golden episodes.

Speaker 4 9:11

In my opinion, you called me out on two mid movies.

Speaker 1 9:18

I'm just saying Survivor's Auction and Life of Pi were your only good ones.

Speaker 4 9:23

Me and Eric were cooking you know what we were cooking, you know, you guys are really like bending over and sucking your own right here.

Speaker 1 9:32

Hey, you know what I would say each other, but not our own.

Speaker 4 9:35

Standing Cartwheel 69. This is like pathetic.

Speaker 1 9:39

Oh, I'm not going to lie, I was going to keep not talking about the movie, but we could talk about the movie, okay, uh, I guess. Well, since you're our guest, josh, do you want to lead the conversation?

Speaker 3 9:47

What do you want to talk about, Josh? Give us a synopsis.

Speaker 5 9:50

Battle Royale is a movie about a bunch of kids that have to kill each other.

Speaker 1 10:01

That's pretty much it. I mean, I would believe it if that was the real synopsis.

Speaker 3 10:05

To the keen listener. What you may have heard is you know, it could have been Hunger Games really, if you thought about it, if I bleeped out Battle Royale you would have just thought we were talking about Hunger Games. Again, I hard disagree.

Speaker 2 10:22

I mean if you take.

Speaker 1 10:22

If I bleeped out Battle Royale, you would have just thought we were talking about Hunger Games again. Yeah, exactly, okay, I hard disagree. I mean, if you take the absolute, most primal core aspects of it, sure, All right, hold on, but literally everything else about it.

Battle Royale vs. Hunger Games Debate

Speaker 4 10:31

no, let's test that In a near future. Japan, plagued by economic collapse and rising youth delinquency. The government enacts the Battle Royale Act. Rising youth delinquency the government enacts the battle royale act. Each year, one junior high class I don't like how they say junior high class, but one junior high school class is randomly selected and sent to a remote island. Their mission kill each other until only one survives. Now the reason why I say it's very similar to the Hunger Games students forced to kill each other on an island. Teens fight to the death in a televised arena, Not necessarily an island but Future Japan future US, exactly Dystopian Japan, post-apocalyptic North America.

Speaker 4 11:17

The BR Act enforces fear of youth rebellion. Capital uses games to suppress rebellion.

Speaker 5 11:24

Yeah, Hunger Games.

Speaker 1 11:26

Okay, yeah, it's, I mean, if you take it at its most absolute, core aspect, sure, but I it's just a Japanese version of Hunger Games. Shuya Nanahara. I think you could do that with every zombie movie too, like you could just say oh, this is just this movie, because it's the same core aspects of it.

Speaker 3 11:46

Okay, but zombies are a genre, but not all the way down to this.

Speaker 1 11:51

True, but that's like saying any zombie movie that's like being like any zombie movie with a virus instead of fungal or bacterial or anything. Any zombie movie with a virus instead of fungal or bacterial or anything. Any zombie movie with a virus where a character gets bit is the same exact movie. It's not. That's the genre.

Speaker 4 12:11

You gotta give us a lot more than that. That would be like saying a zombie movie. That's a viral infection that takes place in an underground laboratory where an evil corporation is building and creating an entire bioweapon out of this virus.

Speaker 1 12:28

No, that's a lot of detail.

Speaker 4 12:29

That's fucking Resident Evil. Yeah, that's Resident Evil, and Resident Evil did that. This is doing the same thing. There's so many things that are the same.

Speaker 3 12:38

Literally.

Speaker 4 12:38

Down to the hero Shuya. Nahara is the reluctant fighter. Fighter katniss everdeen was the reluctant fighter, now I do know the ending is so different.

Speaker 3 12:47

Ending is not at all different. They just because she stretched it out over fucking five books does not mean that the ending is any.

Speaker 4 12:57

I gotta hear your, I gotta hear your explanation for the ending. How is it? How is it so, uh, not different? I took the ending. How is it so not different? I took the ending to be very different. Yeah me too.

Speaker 3 13:06

Okay, I mean I took the whole movie, but sure Two people made it out. That's the first Hunger Games, right, okay?

Speaker 4 13:11

Well, three people made it out here though.

Speaker 3 13:14

Two were alive at the end. Two were alive at the end of the movie. Three were alive.

Speaker 1 13:24

No, the other guy died. He died after they escaped.

Speaker 3 13:25

Eric brought this up earlier. They fought against the establishment. Okay, she waited till book three to do that yes the main guy who was in charge of all of it had a weird obsession with the main girl, true Snow Katniss.

Speaker 1 13:46

I don't deny it, no, no, bro.

Speaker 4 13:48

He didn't have a major obsession with Katniss. Okay, stop, hang on, hang on.

Speaker 1 13:53

Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. No, because I wouldn't equate the. What were we? What's the teacher's name? The main bad guy?

Speaker 4 14:00

in this movie. What's the teacher's name? The main bad guy in this movie.

Speaker 5 14:03

Yeah, kitano Kitano, yeah, so.

Speaker 1 14:04

I wouldn't equate him to Snow. I would equate him to the Game Master from Hunger Games. If you're going to make that, comparison. He's not Snow. Snow is the government, which would be like the Japanese government.

Speaker 4 14:15

Okay, all right, I'm getting a little perspective here. If you're equating him to the Game Master, then I perspective here. If you're equating him to the game master, then I can kind of see why you think it's so different, because I don't equate this guy to the game master at all.

Speaker 1 14:28

He's not the government. He said he's. No, it makes sense to run it.

Speaker 4 14:31

Your argument is valid. I can't.

Speaker 1 14:34

I can't dispute that position, but I wasn't making that comparison that's the comparison that I'm seeing it as, and I'm like I. I get it in the sense that it's like the government is making these kids, uh, fight to the death, what so? Here's what I don't understand about this genre, I guess as a whole, which is why kids. I feel like that would be the hardest bill to enact, like it would be so much easier to convince a government to allow or to force a group of adults to kill each other.

Speaker 3 15:03

To be fair, our government doesn't care about kids dying.

Speaker 1 15:05

Yeah exactly Like prisoners. So it's so strange that it shoots to kids.

Speaker 4 15:10

Wait how TJ.

Speaker 3 15:12

Repeat that. No, I heard what you said. I said our government doesn't care about kids dying so like damn, but we didn't pass no bill saying that you have to.

Speaker 1 15:23

That's the thing. The problem with our government is a lack of bills.

Speaker 4 15:27

You know we also have another problem with this movie. Is future dystopian Japan on the track that they're on right now? They're not going to have kids to kill a child through.

Speaker 1 15:37

Their birth rate is really low.

Speaker 3 15:39

They're beyond extinction level. To point out another thing thing this is very much like uh squid game, also very squid game-esque in a way. Do you do?

Speaker 4 15:49

I never watched squid, never okay, all right that that show I I hate that. I've watched and enjoyed two episodes of it.

Speaker 3 16:00

No, so basically there's a front man, it's brutal he's in charge of all these people, these people go through.

Speaker 1 16:06

Hang on. Hang on, sorry, sorry. Hang on.

Speaker 5 16:07

Hang on, josh have you seen probably about half of the first season, so would you say that it's very similar.

Speaker 3 16:12

I don't know. Only one can survive at the end that's such a basic premise, though.

Speaker 1 16:19

Only one can survive.

Speaker 5 16:21

We all knew that old man was the ringleader.

Speaker 1 16:24

Yeah, Wait. Are you talking about in Squid Games? I didn't.

Speaker 5 16:31

If you look at certain parts of the games that he's in. He's never had shackles on him.

Speaker 4 16:38

Oh, interesting.

Speaker 1 16:39

That would be such a key detail? Is this the?

Speaker 4 16:41

same guy who, just in the most recent episode, was screaming at the other person. Why me? Why do I keep the old man?

Speaker 5 16:48

the old man in the in the tug-of-war game was different when they're doing the tug-of-war. He, if you look very close, he does. He's the only one in the line that does not have handcuffs on that's so interesting I'm I'm gonna be deemed a racist here because I don't know.

Speaker 1 17:04

I don't know the difference yeah, you can't tell an old korean guy from a young guy.

Speaker 5 17:08

He's the only. He's the only one that's like in his 80s he's.

Speaker 4 17:12

He's old as fuck oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, all right, not the guy that I was talking about, right yeah, yeah, I know if you look if you look, if you look very close in certain parts of the show where they have them handcuffed. He's Wait, do we gotta give a spoiler alert? This is the first season.

Speaker 3 17:28

No, no, it's been out for years.

Speaker 1 17:33

They're here. Who the zombies? I thought the gate would stop them. They knocked it down instantly.

Speaker 4 17:38

How much time do we have it down instantly? How much time do we have?

Speaker 1 17:41

They're already here.

Speaker 4 17:42

We should have bought that beautiful Los Angeles dream house in that safe neighborhood that Corinne showed us.

Speaker 1 17:46

I know it was so much more defensible and Corinne would have had us moved in before the apocalypse.

Speaker 4 17:50

Do you think it's too late to call her now? I'll try.

Speaker 2 17:55

No, no, we should have called Corinne sooner.

Survival Issues and Plot Holes

Speaker 4 18:01

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Speaker 1 18:31

Let's talk about the complete lack of survival and a moment that just made me go Okay, the lighthouse. Yep, what the fuck was that?

Speaker 5 18:40

What happened? That was complete bullshit. I don't know what the fuck that was. What I had a thing about was that stupid girl that had a gun to the other girl's head and it was like oh my gosh. I'm so defenseless now because you have a taser.

Speaker 1 18:56

Yeah, she got tased and she dropped the gun.

Speaker 4 18:59

I don't know how that's supposed to be real tased and she dropped the gun. I don't know how that's supposed to be real, because if she's standing there holding a gun, to that girl and she gets tased.

Speaker 3 19:09

I think she'd pull the trigger body would clench.

Speaker 4 19:12

So how did she throw the gun away? Also, did you see the continuity issue in there? Oh, I did, I was watching amazon, so it it comes up. They had a major continuity issue right there. The gun in the the beginning of that scene was a browning. After it switches back and shows the taser, it's a uh 1911 oh, that's funny so they like totally changed the gun didn't notice, didn't care me either.

Speaker 1 19:39

I mean it is interesting. That's not what I mean. I meant like I would. That was not my concerns in this movie.

Speaker 4 19:46

It didn't even dawn on me about that the fact that they were still interrogating about killing each other. In that scene you killed her.

Speaker 1 19:55

She had yeah, the whole fucking villain monologue. I just just kill her, shut up, and that's what got her killed.

Speaker 4 20:02

I'm like that's such a classic mistake I had more respect for those two who jumped off the cliff me too I was like honestly, probably nobody tried to rip their like necklace off beforehand yeah, nobody even tried.

Speaker 1 20:18

Oh, I wanted to talk about this, sorry, really quick. Do we think that would be an instant death or do you think you would feel that?

Speaker 5 20:23

for a little bit. Right, because it's only blowing out Before you die. It's only blowing out the front of your throat, so it wouldn't be an instant death. You would literally be choking on your own blood.

Speaker 4 20:34

It would only be seconds.

Speaker 1 20:36

But how fast, before your brain just shuts off and is like nope, can't do that.

Speaker 4 20:40

Well, because it would kill off both the carotid and the.

Speaker 5 20:43

No, there wasn't that big of an explosion.

Speaker 4 20:46

Carotid artery and the jugular vein.

Speaker 1 20:49

It would cut off both of them.

Speaker 4 20:50

And the amount of blood that came out.

Speaker 1 20:53

I definitely think it would.

Speaker 3 20:56

Think about how much blood if it tears out the trach is like this in your neck, so it would burst the bottom half where it would still take about 37 or like 40 seconds for you to bleed out I think it's like.

Speaker 1 21:10

I think it's like nine seconds but from the carotid artery yeah, because slitting a throat is a thing yeah and like you, die pretty fast if you tilt their head back but what if you got like a piece of?

Speaker 4 21:24

yeah and shoved it right through, oh my god the the under the collar about and then to pull it off to stop the explosion oh

Speaker 1 21:39

yeah, I was with you, alex. I was like what are you? What kind of torture are you suggesting? Okay, I understand what you're saying.

Speaker 3 21:46

This but everybody has the reverse bear trap from Saw, oh man so headshots, you can't get headshots, you just. You know what I don't get.

Speaker 5 21:59

How could those kids be so smart to hack everything else, but they couldn't fucking get the the colors off oh, the one guy disabled them.

Speaker 1 22:07

No, I know, but he's the one who it was. It was the one at the end, but it was the ones that had the entire system.

Speaker 5 22:13

They couldn't get those off.

Speaker 1 22:16

No, that was the one guy.

Speaker 5 22:17

The one guy that he said that figured out how to do it was the one that survived at the end.

Speaker 3 22:23

Yeah, but there's the three dudes who did the hacking. Shut the whole system down.

Speaker 1 22:27

Oh, it was three of them. Yeah, that sounds bad. I really thought it was one guy, but I genuinely just thought it was one guy sounds bad.

Speaker 3 22:34

I really thought it was one guy, but but I genuinely just thought it was one guy. No, there was three of them and they were uh. And then the fucking, the one dude, the exchange student who shot him up after two of them went to go get supplies, while the third one got all the hacking yeah, okay, that's what I thought.

Explosive Collars and Hacking Discussion

Speaker 1 22:51

Yeah, so one guy did all the hacking, the other two were just like his assistants. I think they did disable the callers, though right, the one guy like he disabled his own at least and he showed um nanahara and nakagawa how to disable theirs even the, even the teacher, the main bad guy was like I know this doesn't do anything. After he clicked it he was like I know you figured out how to turn them off.

Speaker 5 23:13

That was the one that survived the last Battle Royale, but we're talking about the one that got shot up.

Speaker 4 23:19

Yeah, that was what was his name. What was his name?

Speaker 1 23:24

The other exchange student, the other exchange student, right, oh the crazy guy.

Speaker 4 23:28

He's the one that Kawada killed.

Speaker 5 23:30

Which was ridiculous, because he got shot several times in the movie nobody in this movie had it knew how to aim no, nobody in this movie knew how to aim at all. Even from like three feet away, they were still missing.

Speaker 1 23:41

They were all stormtroopers I think I think what's even more bizarre than that. To me that's realistic because, remember, these are all kids, right? So that makes sense. Most of them have probably never shot a gun before. But at the same time, I think a high schooler for sure could easily miss 35 shots in a submachine gun. I remember when we went to Vegas and we shot guns, they handed me an MP5. And they were like just pull down the trigger, it has no recoil, it's super easy. The fuck, it has no recoil. What the hell was they talking about?

Speaker 4 24:14

the guy, the guy who showed him how to shoot, was like 200 pounds.

Speaker 1 24:18

He's like six, three 200 pounds and he's like there's no recoil in it and, and like me, it's an mp5 guy, it's a submachine gun and it like pushed eric around hey, I wouldn't say that, but like I couldn't hold it steady, it was recoil but what I'm saying is I could see all these skinny Japanese high schoolers not being able to control a gun. I could see that easily. What I don't understand about this movie is the fact that everybody is a fucking bullet sponge oh, they could just take 8, 9, 10 shots.

Speaker 1 24:53

I could just take, or like nine, ten shots dude, they would, I, I could, I could understand two or three shots, but they're taking like eight shots and then still standing back up to shoot back no, you're not what.

Speaker 3 25:04

He got up to fucking answer a phone call and now that was funny yeah, I thought they were gonna pull, like a saw. Yeah that scene.

Speaker 1 25:13

I laughed Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous Mostly because, like I looked away for half a second to do something and I turn back and I see him sitting on the couch and I was like what the? I didn't even see him get up. I was like what the fuck just happened. I just kind of accepted it because that's kind of how this movie is, to be honest, and I just accepted. I was like I guess he's alive again. And then he died on the couch and I was like I guess he's dead, he again he put, he put the last cookie in his mouth and he died to do a whole bunch of other shit.

Speaker 4 25:41

I had to. I had to do other stuff. While I was watching this, the one thing that I was really um lacking on was he had picked up grenades when the the the real bad guy, kiriyama.

Speaker 5 25:54

Uh, he went and picked up grenades and I didn't see enough like use of that type of munitions grenades yeah, explosives yeah because clearly they had more than just those three yeah yeah, when he, when he got that, got that kid got his head chopped off with the katana yeah, and then he fucking put the grenade in his mouth and then they it was.

Speaker 3 26:15

It was like 30 seconds right before it went off always, always I missed that, did you?

Speaker 4 26:22

well, it's always a katana. There's always a katana death there has to be.

Speaker 1 26:26

I saw him, I saw him jump from above with the katana and then I heard the slicing. I did not realize that he put a grenade in his mouth, because it I guess it did take like 30 seconds, because I thought that explosion was completely separate from that event he stuck the grenade in the guys in the kid's mouth and he threw the head through the window yeah, oh, shoot, yeah. No, I did not catch that head grenade aren't grenades like three seconds?

Speaker 5 26:52

I thought it was like 17 seconds. Let me look at.

Speaker 3 26:55

Oh, it's probably longer than three, but I don't think it's that long.

Speaker 1 26:58

I think it's under 10, but like you could pull the pin and hold the trigger still, but as soon as you let go of the the trigger four to five seconds okay, four to five seconds. Okay. So four to five seconds, okay, yeah, so not that long no, not at all.

Speaker 3 27:11

I feel like. I feel like that should be longer. Hear me out. We're putting people in danger.

Speaker 1 27:16

What's a standard Japanese grenade timer? Well, I think we can all agree there's a lot wrong with this movie, but it was a movie.

Speaker 3 27:26

One of my favorite movies.

Speaker 1 27:28

One of your favorite movies.

Speaker 3 27:29

Yeah, I'm adding this to the favorite movie list. It's not fucking top one, probably not even top 10, but I feel like I'll put this at like a 84 in my top hundred.

Speaker 5 27:40

No, no, no you gotta, you gotta go, you gotta go lower than that.

Speaker 1 27:44

If this is 84, I feel like you've only seen 84 movies.

Speaker 3 27:49

Nah, dude, this is yeah, no, this is a great movie.

Speaker 1 27:53

No, I think you've seen 85. Number 85 is Zombies. At the Beginning, that's it.

Speaker 3 27:58

Exactly, that's not even on the fucking 100 list. What are you talking about? My top movie of all time is Interstellar.

Speaker 4 28:03

Bullshit Zombies at the Beginning for TJ is like number two.

Final Thoughts and Episode Wrap-up

Speaker 1 28:07

Well, with that, this was an okay movie. It was a movie it was a movie, an okay movie.

Speaker 4 28:12

It was a movie.

Speaker 3 28:12

It was a movie, Alex you got our socials Memento's at least top 50. Have you guys seen Memento?

Speaker 1 28:18

We're not talking about that anymore. Garbage movie Memento's good, oh great.

Speaker 4 28:25

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Speaker 1 28:56

Well, I think TJ and I both being hosts is confusing because we're both.

Speaker 3 29:00

It's been a really long, hard fight. For the one of you, I really think you pulled it in at the end. You were kind of slacking At most of the points. You knew some things and you really didn't know anything. So I think, we can come to an agreement, Eric, that this person is the only one that should win.

Speaker 1 29:24

I agree, I loved the way that you watched the movie and that you're in this call.

Speaker 3 29:33

Yeah, you really are in this call.

Speaker 1 29:36

It's truly inspiring. It is awe-inspiring. It makes me want to give the golden buzzer, but I am going to save that Against all odds. So with that, I think we can announce the winner together Three, two, one.

Speaker 3 29:52

Josh. Kareem Kare abdul-jabbar kareem, as in kareem, salas at next home grandview. If you need your dream home, you can go there and check that shit out and need something. I don't know. Alex, you win. Fucking idiot, what love you something I don't know, alex, you win, fucking idiot.

Speaker 5 30:16

What Love you. No, no, no, no, you already said that I won.

Speaker 1 30:22

Well, he's server muted so he can't talk back. Okay hang on. Well, we split votes, so we gotta re-vote. Okay, ready 3, 2, 1.

Speaker 3 30:32

Corinne Alex. Fuck what, oh, we gotta do it again. Okay, 3, 2, 1. Corinne Alex.

Speaker 1 30:36

Fuck, we got to do it again, okay. 3, 2, 1. Alex Alex.

Speaker 2 30:41

Yay, no.

Speaker 3 30:43

I'm the winner.

Speaker 2 30:45

Tune in next week where.

Speaker 3 30:46

Alex does Gepardy.

Speaker 1 30:49

But also 50 billion points to Josh. Thank you so much for waiting here.

Speaker 3 30:52

Everybody say thank you to Josh.

Speaker 1 30:54

Yeah, you're doing G for being here Everybody say thank you to Josh. Yeah, you're doing Geopardy.

Speaker 2 30:55

Everybody say thank you, josh.

Speaker 1 30:56

Thank you Josh.

Speaker 3 30:57

We agreed on you hosting Geopardy.

Speaker 1 31:00

I was gonna. Yeah, it was in the fine print you signed.

Speaker 4 31:04

Yeah, I know, we said Geopardy is gone, done with Never coming back.

Speaker 3 31:08

No, no, no, if you listened to the last episode.

Speaker 4 31:12

No, I remember, because you said it'll be fun to say, alex, yes our host Alex, because that's him. Alex is the host.

Speaker 3 31:19

And we'll just do it the same way and you'll just be the host and I'll click the categories. Anyways, thank you all for listening to this episode. My name is TJ, I'm Eric, I'm Alex and I'm Josh, and Josh is not going to be here next episode because Josh is our number one fan official and if he joins the podcast, he can't be our fan. And until next time say hello.

Speaker 2 31:41

We love you, josh, you're the best. © transcript.

Speaker 1 31:42

Emily.

Speaker 2 31:42

Beynon.