Episode 283 - Craig T. Nelson's Tighty Whities

[00:00:04] It's time to Feel the Rage! Welcome to Film Rage where we talk movies in theaters, streaming and classic films as well. Directors and actors beware as you cannot hide from the rage. My name is Bryson, I'm part of the Film Rage crew which also includes Jim. Hey Jim. Hey, hey bros.

[00:00:29] You're already annoying me. And also we have the Merman who could never annoy me. How are you doing, Murr? Uh, well let's just see how this next hour goes. I annoy him all the time. All the time. But he is yet to annoy me. Especially when he looks so damn fabulous today. He's looking good. You're looking good today, Merman. His special embrace doesn't shovel his walk. Hey, it's shoveled now. I almost killed myself. It's shoveled now. It's shoveled now. He knew on the way out you were gonna cause a lawsuit.

[00:00:57] Exactly, on the way out it was gonna be dark so I made sure it was, the path was clear for you my friend. Sure. Because that's how much I care about you. Yeah, okay. He doesn't care about me. No, I don't. With the introductions out of the way, let's rage on! Well, thanks to all been supporting us. If you love our independent podcast or you know, even just like us a little bit, um, then please like, subscribe and share and give us a five star rating on your listening platform. I like us a little bit. I do too sometimes. Um, or support us and join the Film Rage community by joining your membership at buymeacoffee.com

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[00:02:03] What would the amazing moment predict? What would the amazing moment predict? Will he predict the rage or will he predict the mundo? Will he tell us all what Jim and Bryce saw at the movies? Better watch out kids cause here he comes. He is coming swimming to you. Swimmer, swimmery. Swimmery swim. Swimmery, swimmery. Swimmery swim. Swimmer.

[00:02:31] Swimmer all the way to our hearts, our little hearts, hearts, hearts. All right. Well, so far, February sucks. What? It got cold and then there was cold. So I didn't go any damn place. So... I did not see that many movies. You saw one. I made it to one because it was in my neighborhood. Nice. You guys managed to see, let's see, one, two, three, four. We did. Four films.

[00:03:01] All right. First up is companion, which is I labeled. Companion. Lucy meets Terminator meets Megan meets ex-Machina. I don't know what some of that meant, but some of it I understood. Sex bots go wild, basically. Sex bots. Didn't we were talking earlier that the director only made porn before this? No, I looked, see, I thought he looked familiar, but he made, this is like his first feature film. Oh. Come on. Name like Drew Hancock. Yeah.

[00:03:31] He totally made porn. He must have done porn. Sure. Maybe he was in porn. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. He was an actor too. Ah. Yeah. This is all making sense now. Sure. Sex bot. Yeah. Well, it's got that guy from the boys in it. Yes. And there's literally nobody else I've ever seen in life. I don't know who the boys is. It's a superhero show. I didn't enjoy it that much. I imagine you guys probably didn't either. Who was in the boys? Let's go double rage. He was. Who's in the boys? The main actor.

[00:04:01] Josh? Jack Quaid? Yeah. Oh. One of those Quaid boys. Quaid boys? Is there more than one? I don't know. Does he relate to one of the other two? I don't know. Who's he? Looks a little like Dennis if you ask me. Maybe he's a son. Is he related to Dennis? Maybe he's a son. Well, that'll be your project. Maybe you can look it up. While I'm doing this. You're shutting the fuck up while Murray talks. Yeah. So we got double rage for that one. You're going rage rage on what? Companion. Right. Hard Truths. Yes. Which was British. Yeah. Stared that woman. What's her name?

[00:04:30] And Jean-Baptiste. Yeah. Who I have never ever seen in life. You should. Until this trailer. You should. But you guys put on the mesmerizing list. Cause she's mesmerizing. So how could this be anything but a double mondo? Well, maybe because we didn't like the movie as much as- I don't know. I don't see that possible. Even I liked it unless I was a trailer. Dog Man. Man with the head of a dog. It's a cartoon. Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan were together? Yes. Or are they together? No, they were a long time ago.

[00:04:59] And they have him as a baby? Yeah, he's their baby. There you go. What? No, they used to date. There you go. Nice. I don't know who- I didn't even know that. No, they used to date. Really? Well, apparently- If they didn't date, they at least had sex once. So is Dennis Quaid's kid. There you go. Speaking of sex robots. I would definitely have said him over his brother Randy. Cause Randy's just ugly. Randy? Dog Man. It's a cartoon. Yes. And it's about a half man, half dog. What are you talking about?

[00:05:28] It looked really stupid. Yes. But I'm sure you guys liked it, so let's go double man. Okay. And finally, green and gold. You like this. You're putting some thought into these predictions. As football fans will know, the colors of the Green Bay Packers. Yeah. And the Edmonton Elks. Yeah. I don't recognize that name. Mmm. Okay. Yeah. It looks like a churchy type movie. That's their name.

[00:05:56] Cause the guy prays to God and he bets his farm on Brett Favre and the Packers. Sorta. And his daughter or granddaughter is a music person and she gets into a romantic relationship with some other. Kinda. Sorta. Yeah. Double rage. There you go. That's quite the prediction. That's the only slam dunk of the weekend there. You think so? Yeah. There's no way that. You knew going in it was a double rage. Yeah.

[00:06:25] Jim knew it was a double rage. Yeah. I knew it was a double rage. Yep. I was hoping it wouldn't be, but maybe it wasn't. Well, you never know. I could be blowing. More to come. Exactly. And I don't know what Jim rated it. That's right. I was sitting beside it. Beside me. All right. Fire away. What are we doing? You're talking about movies. You're talking about companion. That's kind of what we do here. Companion. Yeah. Companion is a glimpse into the future where you can order a companion. Nice.

[00:06:54] Which seems in this case to be code for a sex bot. It is a sex bot. You can set their eye color, intelligence, aggression, amongst other things. Enter Josh, who has ordered one of these bots by the name of Iris. Josh has a foolproof plan to rob a wealthy Russian by having his sex bot murder him.

[00:07:22] And then he can rob him and then blame the murder on the sex bot. Yes. If you've seen that story once, you've seen it a thousand times. That sounds like a rock solid plan. And he's able- What went wrong? And he's able to do this because he's able to hack Iris and set her aggression level to a hundred. Yes. And other things. Which is not good. He did some hacking. He made her stupid is what he did. Well, he made her partially dumb.

[00:07:51] He didn't make her all the way dumb. He made her all the way dumb later in the movie. He made her like what you and I are. It's like 40% of what normal people are. That's not our usual. At any rate, you know, that's pretty much the movie. From there, you can probably write the rest yourself. And I think maybe they just did. I don't know. It was- I don't know. I didn't like this movie at all. No. Um, it was-

[00:08:17] It had a couple of funny bits at the start and then it just progressively got more and more dumb, which is fine in a movie like this. But I don't know. I thought that they could have turned up the gore factor if they're going to make a movie like this. I thought that the funny bits should have been funnier. I thought that they had the right- I honestly thought they had the right cast in place. Yeah. Everybody was fine in it. I enjoyed, uh, Megan Suri's as cat as the, you know, sarcastic, you know, bitch of the,

[00:08:47] of the crew. I liked their casting of the gay couple. I liked their- I, you know, there was a lot that they had to work with. I thought the script lacked. I really liked Sophie- Sophie Hatcher. I don't even know if I've- I've probably seen her before. I just don't recognize her. But Sophie Thatcher as Iris was- was good in it. I'm trying to decide if- if I liked the- because I really did like the cast. Steven Jack-Waite, I- in the role he was in, I liked him just fine. Rupert Fine as Sergei is- is- is- is- as- yeah. Sergei was awesome.

[00:09:17] He was- go on. He was- he was funny. Such a bad- I'm just trying to decide if the cast actually- Saved it? Saved it. Cause I enjoyed some performances in it. There was- okay, well, I- you be you. Yeah, it will be me. I always am. Uh, I just thought, I just got bored to tears by its third act and everything was just so predictable and maybe it wasn't dumb enough. I don't know, but I wasn't that entertained. I know- I think you were more entertained than me.

[00:09:47] Uh, I'm gonna give this a rage. All right. Murr, what'd you think of Sexbot? Yeah. Sexbot woman. After being stuck at home for four days with the minus 30 and the- With your own Sexbot. And not being able to go anywhere. Do you have a Sexbot Murr? No. No. No. No. It's called a- That's too bad. That vacuum cleaner again that he owns? Hoover? Yeah, the Hoover. I don't know. Mrs. Hoover.

[00:10:17] Have you- Anyway, after four days of being stuck at home- So you stick your wiener in the hose? Yeah. I braid the elements- And then you turn it on? Yeah, and then you put the other thing in your butt. That's got our heart. All right. It kind of blows out the back and pushes Sex from the front. No. You know, like- If you put it in your butt and you turn it on, aren't you going to like prolapse? No, I'm not- All of a sudden you'll have your anus outside of your body. No, because there's a suck and a blow on a vacuum cleaner. There's a suck and a blow? Yeah, that's how vacuums work. There's no blow. There is on the old ones, on a Hoover. Absolutely.

[00:10:46] On an old Hoover you can blow? Yes. Now guess where he's going after the podcast. I'm going to go find myself a- Mrs. Hoover too. An old vacuum cleaner. Are you two done? See what's going on with that. I think so. Okay, sorry. What were you saying? I don't know. I forgot. So yeah, after four days of being stuck at home, I decided to braid the elements, dig out my car, make my way to my local cinema to see this movie.

[00:11:14] Thankfully it was Cheap Tuesday and the discount was actually only five bucks. So it was worth the money then. Five dollar. Five dollar. $4.93. I'm going to make you holla. For the first 20 minutes of this film I was bored and shockingly unimpressed by the entire cast. Woo! Including Mr. The Boys. Didn't really like him on that show and so far I'm not liking his movie career that much either. I don't know what the boys is. You should know.

[00:11:43] Then the murdering started and the movie picked up. For a while anyway. This Lucy meets Ex Machina meets Terminator meets Megan Ripoff only further fuels my immense distrust of AI and computers in general. Who's Lucy? See I was kind of turned on myself. Lucy was Scar Jo. Who's Scar Jo? Scar Jo. Scar Jo Hanson. Oh, I know her. What planet are you on?

[00:12:12] Lucy where she gets injected with this drug and she goes from having 10% of her brain to 100%. Oh, that was, her name was Lucy? Yeah. It was a Luke Bessaro movie. What was the name of the movie? Lucy. Really? She got smarter and smarter. I remember the movie. I don't remember Lucy being Lucy. Yeah. She got smarter too. Okay, I'm sorry. Much like Iris who cranked up her intelligence from 40% to 100. So they just totally ripped that off too. They totally did. Ugh.

[00:12:41] This movie's the worst. But yeah, basically I trust computers and AI even less now. I guess that was the point. This sex pot turned Terminator story was mildly entertaining. Okay. Although I was counting the minutes until all of the despicable humans finally got killed. The Jack Quaid character was an absolute slime ball. Yeah. And he was a cocky bastard for a majority of the film.

[00:13:11] Yes. Yes. Luckily he got what he deserved in the end. What? Actually he deserved worse than what he got at the end. She's a robot for that sense. I don't even remember what happened at the end. He got something at the end? Yeah. He got something. He got it. Believe me, he got it. Oh. I've kind of forgotten this movie already. To that end, it was a very predictable film. Yeah, it was a rage. Of course it was. Yeah, it was a total rage. It's just poo poo. I should have just stayed home. Totally. I should have just stayed home too. It's a $5.

[00:13:40] I didn't even get my thousand points or whatever for going to the movies that night. Cause Jim said, Oh, we're going to go to the stupid Cineplex and watch this movie. And let's watch. And then we got to watch it in like AVX and charge five more dollars. You know what? I'm not going to tell you the whole story that's behind that. Because if he would have done what I said in the first place. Well, I didn't know I was going to be off in time. Just. So whose fault is that? Anyways, get on with it.

[00:14:09] I feel like I'm hijacking this episode. Yeah, you really. I need to talk less. You're a little. Like you said, I was at an 11. You're at an 11. Yeah. I need you at a four. Your usual place. Four. Okay. So let me tell you what I thought about. Sexpot robot revenge horror. Yeah. Yeah. And in my comparison, Murray, it's Blade Runner. Okay. Meets iRobot. Hmm. Meets Sleeper. With Woody Allen in it. Wow.

[00:14:39] This was a fun ride for most of this film. The comedy was very on point and had a pretty good idea for the story. Wow. Not fully original as we have seen Isaac Asimov's rules of robot movies where the programming put the rules in for the robots. But the problem with this one, though, is that those same rules are where it completely didn't stick to them for most of the times. Hmm.

[00:15:07] There are times that the, and I'm going to put in heavy quotes, bad guy or Iris's bot daddy had opportunities or did certain things that she was his bot. She was her bat. What did I say? Yeah, I know. But, you know. It's a bot daddy. That's what it was. Um, yeah. Well, now I forgot where I was. All right. So, he did certain things that the rules would have allowed and then never happened.

[00:15:31] And then when a sex bot supposedly does a reset, it does just that. When you reset something, there are not stored memories except in your backup and they didn't pull out of the backup. Try rebooting your iPhone and asking it to remember things. There are some fun kills. The surprises aren't really, you know, unknown. There is no surprises. Oh, well, um, I had fun.

[00:16:01] It was a fun robot sex bot revenge movie, but it had, you know, I would say quite a few flaws. Um, I didn't hate it. I, uh, thought there were some fun parts. I like, uh, murdering robots. So it was meant for me. All right. I guess I'm unpacking though. Okay. Go for it. Uh, when the bad guy says shut down. So, um, Meg Ryan's kid. Yeah. Um, says shut down.

[00:16:28] Like, why does it sometimes shut down and sometimes it just doesn't shut down? Well, I believe the term is supposed to be go to sleep. Whatever he said, whatever he's telling you. Yeah. Well, there was an explanation for that. Well, no, eventually she steals his phone. Yeah. It turns off those settings. She turned off the settings. Yeah, but that wasn't until the very end. No, no, no, no. When that happened, she had already gotten the phone and turned off those settings. But then eventually. That's why he was surprised when he was saying it. It didn't work.

[00:16:57] It's because he didn't have his phone anymore and she had already turned it off. But then eventually. She knew that was coming. Eventually. T-1000 stole it back. We can pack that in again. We don't have to unpack that. Okay. That's not. That's packed. Let's repack it. Yeah. That is 100%. So the T-1000 stole the phone back, restored the settings. Yes. If he was a good guy from that point on, then yeah, all he has to say is go to sleep and she does. Yes, indeed. Yeah. And that's why he was able to after when he got his phone back. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:17:26] Not all of it made sense. No. No, not all of it made sense, but that did. There was lots that didn't, but that did. Okay. Well, that's just an example of many things in this. All right. Well, I loved. What I loved is they made this plan to rob from this Russian guy who was a douchebag, apparently. Yeah. No, it was actually, it seems like he's a sod farmer. He's not a gangster at all. No. He's just a rich farmer.

[00:17:56] Well, he's still a douchebag. Yeah. But he's got a wife and girlfriend on the side. He didn't. They thought he was some kind of mobster guy. He wasn't. Don't they think, like most people think. By the way, how the hell does he got that much money? Like there's gotta be an, there's no explanation of why he's got so much cat. Like there should have been some sort of explanation. Sod farmers make a lot of money. I'm sure sod farmers do make a lot of money and they all keep it in cash and a safe in their house. Because they don't trust banks. Russians don't trust banks. Yeah. There you go. Because their banking system is great. I'm sure he had some coke in there too.

[00:18:24] I could go on for hours talking about the Russian banking system. But I won't. Oh, please do. No, we're gonna move on. I want to hear about the Russian banking system. We'll take that offline. We didn't start a Russian bank podcast. I think everybody would like to hear about it, Jim. Yeah. No, they don't. All right. Whatever. All right. And they probably, I don't know. Well, I'm interested to see what other people think about this movie. I think if you like sex bot revenge movies, you might like it. Wasn't enough violence.

[00:18:53] It wasn't enough anything. It was just, it was just blah. So blah. I'm like, no. I hate it. Every one of the characters. No. All right. Well, let's move on to. I don't like you. Hard. Not sex robot. Companion. Not hard sex robot truths. It's hard truths. Right. So this is introspective and intimate portrait of a family in turmoil and abuse from a central

[00:19:21] figure who has been traumatized in her youth and is angry at the world in ways no one can understand. She doesn't like people. She doesn't like people at all, Murray. Much like me. It would have been like, it was like the female version of Murray. It was the old black version with a female version of me. That's right. Exactly. She doesn't like people. Her anger is so over the top and ridiculous at times. Like me. That for the first half. See? So that at the first half of this film, it's humorous.

[00:19:51] It's so unreal. The thing she says to people and how she treats them. Most of the people in the cinema that I saw this with in a sold out cinema, by the way, were laughing out loud most of the times when she was saying things. Me included. Absolutely. All the while her sister is always joyous and a treat everyone will love and enjoy. Hmm. We get a look deep inside the effects that this has on both their families from Marianne

[00:20:20] Jean Baptiste, who is our angry sister. She lives in a loveless marriage from what appears to be her own doing and a son who is filled with disdain for her and doesn't seem comfortable in his own skin and, um, and the world that he lives in for a movie that starts out making us laugh at the absurdity. We slowly turn from laughing to sadness as the story lets us feel everything all these damaged characters feel.

[00:20:48] This culminates on a Mother's Day celebration where the two sisters start to understand one another for the first time in what's gotta be decades. Ultimately, by the end of the film, we are left with, in my opinion, a perfect ending and to absorb all that we have experienced. And the story ends with nothing resolved. And I mean nothing. This was a rollercoaster ride of emotion for me. Yes, there was some threads of the story that seemed like they weren't important and

[00:21:17] perhaps also seemed some of these threads went nowhere. But I got past this as the story of these two women and how this ended was so amazing, which I'm still processing this film because there's a lot going on with these characters. I love this film. It was Mondo. And I know some people may not have the same feelings that I do for this because I think there is some flaws in, in the actual direction, but I got past it easy enough because the characters were so deep for me. Anyway, Mondo.

[00:21:50] Yeah. Um, Mike Lay is a director. Something's kind of hit and miss for me. Um, I'm always like amazed at the way as a writer, he's able to write like black characters because he seems to be really good at it. Yeah. Um, which is weird for, you know, an 80 year old white man. Um, or maybe it isn't.

[00:22:17] Um, but this is a, this is definitely a unique journey. Um, Marianne Jean-Baptiste is amazing in it as is Michelle Austin at the, they're the two sisters in this. Um, it's, it's a, it's a strange movie. Um, it is a strange movie. Yeah.

[00:22:39] I, I found myself absolutely almost annoyed by the character until they got to the scene in the bedroom where this, this sisters, she's over at her sister's house. She goes to the bedroom to just kind of get out of the room and just decompress a little cause she's getting a little emotional for the first time.

[00:23:07] We see her get emotional in a, in a reflective and sad way as rather than just, just rage. Yeah. Um, and so her sister goes in and at that point, this movie turned for me. Yeah, it totally turned. And I, and I, and it's not that I didn't like, I didn't hate it at going into that, that, that moment, but I was like, what are we doing? This is, this is going nowhere.

[00:23:35] And that moment was, was enough to, to make this, to turn this film completely for me, where I thought that I actually might rage on this, but I, I ended up having an appreciation for the whole journey because of where it ended up there. Yeah. And as you say, it's got a, it's got a perfect ending that this ending is so that I am as well, just brought still processing as well.

[00:24:02] I'm, I think I, it's good. It's very, very good. And it, it will leap, you know, it's does stay with you. Like there's no question. This is one of those ones. I think you got to watch again. Like I really do. It's funny how like sometimes like you're taking a lot of time to process this film, just like you did with, um, the other one. Yeah. Like, you might've gone to man. This film, it's a hard watch.

[00:24:32] It is a really hard watch. It is. But the characters, there's just like the level of complexity these, to these two characters is probably the most complex characters I've seen in the story in a long time. And when we look at say a Nora as an example, as a comparison, we hated those characters for half of the movie. Yeah. This one, we loved her sister through the whole movie. We loved her. Yeah.

[00:24:59] And I, and I, and I actually, it's a weird thing, but I, by the end of the movie, I definitely had affection for both sisters. Yes. Cause you knew exactly where she came from. Yeah. And it's, it's still math for me. Okay. But it's for me, if a movie sits with me for days on end, I can't give it anything more than a, less than a mondo for me. Yeah.

[00:25:22] I'm, I'm, I'm actually just impressed to be honest with, with Mike Lay that he's still turning out at, at his age, not only directing, but writing stuff that's of this quality. Um, yeah. Like normally we've seen with directors that they just like get long in the, yeah, well, you know, Clint Eastwood, it's just, he's fallen. Yeah. He's just getting worse and worse. And Mike Lay, I wouldn't say he's getting better because if you look at it, you know, you'll go through his catalog. Pretty good. It's pretty good.

[00:25:51] Other than, you know, I wasn't a big fan of a couple of them, but you know, I really liked pretty much everything that he's ever made. Yeah. Like really. I wasn't a big fan of career girls, but I mean, secret and lies were, was great. Secrets and lies naked was great. I hopes was great. Topsy turvy was great. Vera Drake was very, very good. So at some point we may have to, we might have to look at them. Yeah. I don't think I've seen Peter Lou.

[00:26:21] So that's the one thing that me. That's okay. Yeah. Anyway. I got sidetracked by Mike Lay, but I, I'm just amazed that this, while everybody else seems to fall off a cliff at his age, he's still putting out some real quality. Complex. This is film is complex. It's, it really is. And it's, it's, it's a very, very good character study. And I, I, as I say, I enjoyed it a lot. I just. When he watches it again. Yeah.

[00:26:51] You know what? I'm not going to argue with you on that one. Cause I might watch this back again. And. And I, and I, and I might come up with a different, I could totally see it. I could totally see it, but for now it's, it's a man. It's very worth watching though. I'm as I say, it's very good. Just be ready. Cause it's, it's, it's, there's time. It's hard to watch. You gotta look for the humor in it for sure. Yeah. And there's, there's, it's, oh, it's there. You can't, you really can't miss it.

[00:27:19] It's just, sometimes you're like, why am I laughing at this? It's so horrible. It's, but it's like, it's cause it's funny. Exactly. All right. Well, why don't you tell us about dog man, dog man. Can't believe you didn't go to dog man. I don't think of all the movies that we went to. You went to Jack Quaid's movie. What's wrong with you? Oh, pish posh.

[00:27:47] That's what I have to say to that. Didn't you see the Terminator or not Terminator? What's that robot movie? I don't know. So many robot. Transformers. They're more than meets the eye. And it was totally robot. The robots in disguise. Cause there was a Hemsworth in that one. Oh, well, that's an exception. There was probably someone in dog man. Was it the good Hemsworth or the bad one? Well, I consider him the good one. Okay. So Liam. If you, if you talked to Miley Cyrus, it was the good one. Who's Miley Cyrus?

[00:28:18] She's a singer. This is Billy Ray's daughter. Who's Billy? Oh, the, the, the, don't feed him anymore. This is the Hoochie Coo thing. Or don't, what is it? She's a wrecking ball. Acky Breaky Heart. That's it. The Acky Breaky Heart. You know that one. Hoochie Coo Heart. Yeah. His kid. Yeah. She doesn't know about good things to say about Liam. So yeah, no, it was the Hemsworth. Oh. And, uh, that black, one of the black dudes. What's his name? Who was in it? The other guy that you like. Which? It was in Transformers. Transformers, yeah.

[00:28:48] The other voice. It was, uh. The bad guy. No, no. He's, yeah, Megatron. Yeah. I don't remember. Anyway. Anyway. That's why you wanted to. That's the reason why I went to that one. Wow. That and I grew up with Transformers. That's different. There you go. I never grew up. I didn't grow up with dog. You grew up with Transformers? Like they were in your house? I had, I had Transformers. Yes, I did. I had little ones. Oh. And then a big brown shark came. I think I owned like one Transformer. I never owned any Transformers. And then I like broke it. Of course, because everyone breaks them. I know what you said.

[00:29:17] Because there are some parts that are not meant to be transformed. Then I was like, this is a stupid toy. I had Dinobots. What the hell is a Dinobot? Anyway. Sorry. Why don't you tell us about Dog Man? Dog Man. I was about to, but then I got sidetracked. Yeah. That's happening a lot. Like all night. It's happening a lot. Oh, just stop it. It's fine. My story's in a sack? Yeah. Do that too. Okay. Dog Man.

[00:29:43] A cop and his partner who happens to be a dog are involved in an accident while trying to capture the criminal mastermind Petey, who just happens to be the world's evilest cat. As a result of this horrible accident, the officer has sustained an injury where only from the neck down is he functional.

[00:30:07] From there, fate takes over as his canine partner has suffered injuries that render his body useless. And only his head is functional. Yes. The brilliant doctors then decide to take the dog's head. Two lady doctors too, by the way. And attach it to the officer's body. Hence, Dog Man Super Cop is born. Wow.

[00:30:38] It's like face off. Oh, yo, yo, yo. Kind of. There is so much silliness in this, but it walks the line of silly and cerebral like you've never seen. And the jokes come rapid style that will have you wanting to see it again just in case you miss something. And trust me, you will. You can feel the joy in the voices of the actors.

[00:31:04] You know, they're having so much fun with every delivered line. The whole thing was perfectly cast with Pete Davidson as Petey the Cat, Isla Fisher as the TV reporter Sarah Hadhoff, Lil Rel Howery as the police chief. Man, was he funny. He was so good. And Ricky Gervais is absolutely perfect as the most evil villain, Flippy the Fish.

[00:31:32] This was funny, funny stuff. Super entertaining. Dog Man singing along to I'm so lonesome I could cry by Hank Williams was worth the price of admission alone. When that happened and the dog started, Dog Man started singing along, I lost it. I was laughing as hard in a movie. I had tears streaming down and I was laughing for like the next 10 minutes.

[00:32:00] And my girlfriend Kim turns to me and is like, I mean, it's funny, but is it that funny? I'm like, yes. I just, I was that sad. I was crying. It was sad. It was so, oh my God. I can't. I don't remember laughing in a movie that hard in forever. Dog Man was Mondo. I was literally brought to tears with laughter in this movie. Yeah. It was so, so good. And there's so much in it.

[00:32:30] There's so many little side, little jokes and little things. If you look in the background, you'll see it and you might not, but you better watch it. Like I can't wait to watch it again. Cause I know there's so much I missed. Oh, totally. I'm going to be watching it at home so I can just rewind and watch that scene again and just keep on, you know, get through the whole thing. It is so funny. I enjoyed this so much. It is super duper Mondo. I love Dog Man. All right. Well, let me tell you what I thought of Dog Man.

[00:33:01] Yes. He's the greatest, the greatest dog, the greatest dog man ever. A cop who's a man and his partner, who's a dog, explode in an explosion. They do. And then they get put back together. Yes. With the dog as the head and the body of the man. Cause the dog is smart. Dog is smart. And the man body knows Kung Fu. It's totally knows Kung Fu.

[00:33:30] And Dog Man is born. Yes. With animation that feels like a cross between puppets and stop animation and is super, super creatively drawn. Where the story is both fun or heartwarming and extremely punny. It's so punny. It's so punny.

[00:33:52] All the jokes are both funny for adults and kids alike, but so many that are for adults with references that only adults would get. Sorry. Sorry. My cough is horrible today. Of course, we have our hero, Dog Man. His nemesis, the evilest cat in the world, Peavy. Uh, the chief, the mayor and, uh, the reporting team of Seamus and Sarah. Sorry. Sarah had off.

[00:34:22] Plus a super zombie come to life. Evil fish played by Ricky Gervais. Okay. This had me laughing all the way through it. And when I wasn't laughing, I was learning valuable lessons, Murray. Like, love isn't just something you feel. It's something you do. Mm-hmm. And when you feel, Murray, listen to this. It's very important. When you feel life isn't fun or fair, you just got to call 1-800-LIFE-ISN-FAIR.

[00:34:52] Yeah, I'm sure that helps. And when that guy answers on the phone, he's going to say, life isn't fair. And that's all he says. That's deep. It was pretty deep. All my problems are solved. No. Life just isn't fair. Yes. It's like that old joke of here's a quarter, call someone who cares. Call 1-800-LIFE-ISN-FAIR. Well, it's a song, but yeah. Yeah.

[00:35:17] So the script was so well written and clever when the humor of scenes come back later, reminding of you how fun it is. And at times is rapid fire with everything that's happening. You have so much fun. You almost forget you may have missed another rapid fire joke. Sorry. I haven't had this much fun watching a cartoon since I was a kid.

[00:35:42] I mean, I've loved animated films that I have thought were brilliant, but I've never had as much fun. And I mean, actual fun seeing a movie than I did having this. This is the most Mondo animated film I've ever seen. And I love animated films. Yeah. It's so, so good. There's only one thing I have to unpack though. What's that?

[00:36:09] So his girlfriend leaves a Murray because he's a dog man. He's a dog now. Yeah. And I'm thinking to myself, okay, so why would you not want to stay with you? You get the best of all worlds. You've got a dog's head with a super long tongue and you can pet him. And then you have the man body for the other things you need. Like what is, why would anybody leave that? That's literally the dumbest thing. I couldn't believe she left him.

[00:36:41] Am I crazy here? You're making, you're making some sense. Right? It makes complete sense. Why would you not stay with him? And it broke little dog man's heart. Best of all worlds. Yeah. Was he so lonesome he could cry? That's why he was so lonesome he could cry. There you go. God damn this cop. That's explaining. All right. So everybody who has a kid or doesn't have a kid should see that movie. You don't have to have a kid.

[00:37:10] Just go to the movie. You'll look, you'll be, you'll look creepy while you're. Is there a foul language in this? That's okay. What's that? No. Is there foul language in this? No. Of course not. There's in, there's some insinuated things in it. Cause some of those cast are known for their potty mouth. Yeah. No, there's no potty mouth in it. There's, um, there's a, there's a, there's a, they know, they know what movie they're making though. Hey, I see. I've seen cartoons that have. Yeah. It's true.

[00:37:38] What's that wiener one that Seth Rogen made? Yeah. The sausage party. Sausage party. Yeah. It's not sausage. This is absolutely a kid's movie that any adult that, that has, you know, that has a sense of humor will adore as well. Yeah. And just be prepared that you are not going to catch everything that's on in here. There was a scene. I actually asked, talked to Bryce when we met up cause we both saw this separately and

[00:38:06] I was like, okay, did you see the scene where they made the reference to the warrior? And he's like, yes. I'm just like, there's little things like that. And I'm sure there was so many things in here that you, you just miss. And it's, it's another one of those reasons that you want. I never really want to watch a movie ever again, but this movie I want to watch again. Yeah. I'm going to own it. I'm going to watch it. I'm going to watch it with my grandson. I'm going to watch it with you, Murray, because you will like it. I don't think I will. You need some, you need some dog man in your life.

[00:38:35] Everybody needs some dog man in their life, Murray. Yeah. It's true. You're, you're no different. You think you are, but you're not. You need some dog man too, just like everyone else. I think so. I think you do. Yes. I was going to say that may be the only movie that we fully agree on so far until now. Oh yeah.

[00:38:58] No, we're going to agree on this green and gold or, and why they didn't choose this name as their name. Cause it makes way more sense. Maybe God loves the green Bay Packers. Like if you're going to, well, that made, but that made no sense either. Cause they, they chose the year that they didn't win the Superbowl to make this movie. Oh, is that the year it was? Yeah. They got, they got to, they only got to the conference finals. They didn't even get to the Superbowl. They got beat by Dallas. I was going to say they were at the Broncos.

[00:39:28] Yep. Cause he lost the Broncos too. I think. Yeah. Well, no, they didn't even make the fun. They only, they only got to the conference finals in this. I think, I think they got lost to Dallas. They did. They did. Which, which makes no sense. Spoiler alert. He lost the farm. Uh, well, well, well, Murray, that's where it gets to completely dumb. It's double or nothing. Oh, okay. So, um, Craig T Nelson coach in his tighty whiteys. Yeah. That's the only thing was any makes this actually watchable.

[00:39:58] There you go for those scenes, but we only get that a couple of scenes in the movie and maybe totally on screen for maybe 30 seconds, which are basically the only 30 seconds. Best 30 seconds. We're seeing in this movie. They're so good. Then we got, it was so good. And then we got convoluted rom-com farming football, Jesus movie that none of it made any sense.

[00:40:23] Or maybe I should say made complete sense to biopic movie magic where a banker allows a bet when he should be repossessing a terribly idiotic 90 year old farmer who by some miracle could save their farm after a year. Give me just another year. And even though his farm is in way too much debt when he actually only has maybe 20 cows

[00:40:51] and possibly two pigs. I mean, even if milk prices go to, to pay a thousand dollars a gallon, they would never be able to pay back the bank or the debt that they have acquired, which of course only him Craig T Nelson's character knows about the debt and he's leaving everybody else that he's making be part of his dream. Be in, in the dark about everything.

[00:41:21] Oh my God. Um, this is so ridiculous and convoluted. The characters are paper as is there's not one surprise that takes place through the entire script except for the tidy whiteys. Everything else in this was completely horrible. And when I say horrible, I mean completely horrible. This was the biggest rate.

[00:41:47] Well, so far it's the biggest range of 2025 and I can't see anything beating this by, by any stretch of imagination. And I do have a question for you. Do you think the $20 every town member gave will continue to save their farm? I mean, after all these people are really stupid. So everybody gives them $20 in town. If there's 500 people in town.

[00:42:12] Well, we don't know that they only gave, some of them gave 20, but maybe there is like somebody, maybe they had one guy that's like super rich and gave him like $2 million and then boom, they're in business again. But you think this is still going to save their farm? Like $2 million will save their farm. Yeah. I don't know. In Wisconsin. He's losing money. Every day he has that farm open. And then, of course there's a QR code at the end of it. There's always a quick QR code. Was there a QR code at the end?

[00:42:41] No, there was. Sure was. To watch more episodes? No. No. That's what we thought was going to happen, Murr. But no, it was a QR code to go learn more about Culver's Steakhouse. What the hell? This is put on by Culver's Steakhouse. But they sponsored the movie? Yes, they did. They did. It was brought to you by Culver's, which I didn't even know what Culver's was. Because he was a dairy farmer, so it made no sense. Yeah. But you know, they love their farmers, Culver does.

[00:43:13] So, you know. You know what else they love there? They love their cheese. Sorry, was this a rage? Yeah, it was a rage. It was the worst film of this year. You know, I'm not going to go into this film because it's awful. There's so many dumb things in it. There's a dumb side story where she's a country music star or wants to be a country music star. And some guy like steals her song. Like there's so many. Oh, is that what happened?

[00:43:40] Yeah, there's so many dumb things going on in this that I just, you can't even keep track of just the. Did Craig T. Nelson hunt him down and gun him like a deer? No. He said he was going to. Yeah. Did he? Okay. If it was me, I would have done that if they stole my granddaughter's song. Well, she never told him and nobody knew anything that was going on. Well, then she's stupid. Just like us. Like every single person is this is stupid. Yeah. And it made us feel stupid while watching this film. Now I lost my train of thought.

[00:44:08] Oh, there's the convoluted story about too many side stories. Yeah. Yeah. There's no, but that wasn't, that wasn't where I was going. Yeah. That's the last thing you said. Yeah. I know. It's the last thing I said, but that was like the, the. The precipice. It was tacked on to the, the, the meat of what I was going to say. And there was, then you guys started yak. Yeah. Was the meat to do with the cow farm? Cause the 20 cows, the 20 cows, the 20 cows that they had on their farm that they were going to make money from 20. Yeah.

[00:44:38] Well, nothing, nothing made sense in this. He had 20 cows. They fit all onto one truck. He does things old, old style and he doesn't, he doesn't do anything with like new equipment or anything. Even though he does it the old way. I think less than a half. This is how dumb his farmer is. They had milk them all. Yeah. And they all, but which is, which is, you know, only 20 cows. So he's not a real dairy farmer. Oh, he's a real dairy farmer. Yep. Well. But he's just waiting for the price of milk to go way up. This is how dumb he is, Murray.

[00:45:06] He bought a tractor, but then he never used it. But the tractor is also faster than a car. Yes. It beat the car into town. Yeah. Which is probably 15 kilometers away from where he lives. Sounds awesome. Yeah. It was, did you have any other meat you wanted to add onto that cow bone? I had something like totally genius to say. Was it monumental? I'm sure you did. It was going to have people both laughing and thinking. Is it written here? But it's gone. No.

[00:45:36] Okay. So the first thing I have is, have you ever said anything that's actually genius? I don't think so. I don't believe so. Yeah. I don't think so either. Uh, I've said lots of stuff that's genius. Do you have more? Can I hit the button now? You can hit the button. I guess it's a rage, but yeah. Okay. Aren't those tiny whiteys so good though? The tiny whitey scenes were so good. Murray.

[00:46:03] What did you as a football fan think about the football part of this movie? Well, the football part was all just non-existent really. Well, yeah, they just, they flashed us some scenes of, uh, clips from the NFL, which apparently the NFL provided some clips for it. I'm sure they paid for it too. Yeah. But, uh, yeah, no, it's, it, it was all just, um, like in the fact that a, you know, banker would say, yeah, I'll bet you that, uh, well, you can keep your farm if the Green Bay Packers win the Superbowl.

[00:46:32] Like there's no, it's supposed to be based on a true story. Like it literally says based on what, what in there was true? Yeah. I don't know. Like there is farmers in Wisconsin. There's farmers in Wisconsin. They're stupid enough to bet their farm on a football game. Some of those farmers have cows. I think that's it. I think that's all the truth. There's a lot of cheese in Wisconsin. So they must have a lot of cows. And some farmers, daughter, granddaughters sing songs. Yes. That's the truth. They sing country songs. They do.

[00:47:02] So I've never heard any heavy metal groups from, from Green Bay or Milwaukee. Oh, there's gotta be some from Wisconsin. Oh yeah. There's some pretty good death metal bands from Wisconsin for sure. Sure. Anyway, is that it? That's all. I guess that's it. You know, if you remember anything later on, you can bring out this, this, um, what'd you call it? Genius. The genius will eventually show up. You can bring out the genius later on. All right. I'm listeners are dying to hear it. I'm sure. Yeah. Whatever.

[00:47:36] Alrighty. I came across another gem this week. What? Without really looking for one. And guess what? It's a sports film. Oh, so that's an oxymoron. I guarantee Jim would probably hate it. I already do. You don't even have to repeat it. I like some sports. It's called Warrior Strong from 2023. One of my favorite bands is from Wisconsin. There you go. Lazarus AD. They're awesome. Okay. Then there you go.

[00:48:05] So stick that in your pipe and smoke it. All right. Well, we want to hear about this. Horrible. I just got excited because I love Lazarus AD. It's fine. I started watching this movie for one reason. Okay. Sorry. What was the movie called again? Warrior Strong. Warrior Strong. Probably didn't even hit the theater. Warrior Strong. I watched it for one reason. Andrew Dice Clay. Oh, God. I know. The king of the dirty limericks and offensive comedy from the 80s. He's a...

[00:48:35] No matter what you think about his comedy, he's slowly turning into a decent actor. Okay. He's been in a number of acclaimed TV series, plus a solid performance in Blue Jasmine with Cate Blanchett. In this film, he plays a tired old high school basketball coach. Sounds horrible. Who recently... His wife recently died, and he had a heart attack during a game.

[00:49:02] And his star player, who went to the NBA from his team, comes back and tries to take his job. All right. Look, this film uses pretty much every sports cliche there is. There is a disgraced NBA star who slithers back to his hometown for redemption. There's a team of losers that get molded into a winning team.

[00:49:30] They're not saying Andrew Dice Clay was an NBA star. No, no. He was the coach. He coached there for 30 years. Oh, okay. And this tall black kid made it to the NBA. Jordan Johnson Hines. Yeah. Oh, that he was... And he comes back to his hometown to help him coach these losers. There's a sexist, racist prick on the team. This sounds... That represents the worst of society. This sounds like everything I hate. There's a gender neutral person who looks a lot like a female, but identifies as they.

[00:50:00] Nice. The end of this film is a playdress. There's a guy who is ostracized and overlooked, who becomes part of the team. Of course. Even though it's an all male team. Of course. There is the fat kid with the heart of gold. Yeah. And these guys are going to win. Who rides the bench. And yes, there's a typical Mighty Ducks story with the Hollywood ending. but this film was about so much more than that it had some heart and emotional performance by the usually foul mouth clay

[00:50:29] who is getting soft in his old age yeah you guys probably wouldn't like it I think it's actually a Canadian film judging by the credits Telefilm Canada and all that well that would make it Canadian you don't get any more Canadian than telefilm it's not a fantastic film and definitely very predictable but I actually enjoyed it not a mondo but definitely a sporty man

[00:50:57] and I don't even like basketball so it took a lot for me to enjoy it but yeah I liked it I enjoyed it it was on so I watched it you did not want my alternate topic I was going to talk about where's my bag I don't know I don't know I'm just going to put this into Bryce's bag temperature rising what are you talking about vision blur oh don't no

[00:51:27] rage don't be so I'm going to put it in your bag you shouldn't have said anything I would have forgot about it now it's totally going in your bag warrior strong 2023 going in Jim's bag it's on Crave by the way is it yes that's where I saw it nice alright okay

[00:51:56] so my rage this week is actually turned out to be a positive which has never happened okay my rage is usually real and it stays with me it helps to give me further ulcers that I have significantly in my gut so we got to watch companion okay in AVX and that's my rage as

[00:52:25] did I imagine I paid five dollars to see that movie yeah you did we paid we paid fifteen dollars there you go that's right and then I win and then no we win do we for the rage side of it oh cause we did okay yeah I forgot about that actually and so we had to rewatch the movie let's say the first ten minutes twice Murray oh god because the the voice

[00:52:54] didn't match up with the film lip sync did not sync yeah it was not synced so then even after the syncing was redone it still wasn't synced so we watched the entire movie as if it was overdubbed like it was actually filmed in another country sweet and then they overdubbed it with English did I mention my honeybee story or whatever that movie was yeah with James Caan and Alan Burstyn oh yeah that one yeah we lost power to the whole theater halfway through the movie oh I wish I would

[00:53:23] and then they restarted it but they restarted it like past where where we had seemed so we missed a big chunk of the movie in the middle sounds good anyway for that movie so yeah we had a power outage yeah well we didn't have a power outage we re-watched the first 10 minutes twice sweet with the syncing wrong you mean the part that I almost fell asleep during yes but the positive yeah we re-watched it twice but the positive spin on it was that this is the first time so this is a props we don't normally like to give Cineplex props because most of the time

[00:53:53] well yeah it's like they don't even care about their clients they should give you a free pass so they actually came into the movie and gave the four of us that were in the cinema oh they're lucky they not only gave us a free pass they gave us an option yeah they did they said we'll give you two free passes if you want to leave now because this is just not working for you or we'll give you one free pass if you want to suffer through the rest of this movie with the with the audio not synced sweet so we just took the one you toughed it we toughed it out

[00:54:23] we didn't want to come back in AVX and I'm looking at the ticket I'm actually more impressed now because it's you can use it for anything you can use it for anything well we paid basically the most expensive well no we didn't there's more expensive stuff we could do so we can use it VIP we can do we can do IMAX 3D Dbox 4DX Ultra AVX you can do it for any of those not VIP though wait a second uh do

[00:54:52] Cineplex Prime Seats or VIP Auditorium yeah nice Cineplex Prime Seats or VIP Auditorium sweet so you can go to VIP with us too we're gonna be going to VIP this weekend let's do it you will I will alright that was my rage but you can't earn any scene points alright then bye cause you're not paying anything it's a free ticket you already got your scene points you got your scene points in the other movie this doesn't earn you any scene points then that's my rage

[00:55:22] there's your rage right there I should get scene points too I should get my scene points too so my rage is uh related to your rage

[00:55:51] sort of what adjacently my rage is movies that aren't anything special to look at there's nothing overly visually there's absolutely no reason that they need to be in an AVX cinema or a laser ultra cinema and they're just in there to gouge you for a few more bucks there's no way this movie needed to be an AVX there's nothing

[00:56:21] in it that made it AVX worthy there's nothing in it that makes it laser ultra worthy there's nothing and I gotta spend five more dollars on the ticket because it's the only time that happened to be convenient I understand that we could have gone a different route if you'd gone to a regular theater guaranteed it would have synced up it was the AVX that screwed you over well there you go AVX screwed me doubly screwed me over then but there's a I'm sick of movies that are in these

[00:56:50] specialty cinemas that absolutely don't need to be in the specialty cinemas other than to gouge you for a few extra bucks they're gonna put a movie in it well they gotta put a movie in it but there must have been something else that warranted AVX that was playing at that cinema though I guarantee there was they put the new releases that is garbage of all the new releases so let's if we list down our new releases I don't care Sexbot was the only one

[00:57:19] Sexbot did not need to be in AVX should have been in Dogman should have been in AVX there we go yeah but it wasn't so ultimately your range I would have loved to have seen Dogman in AVX I know me too because that was visually stunning yeah there you go that's my rage

[00:57:37] last time on Rage or Dare Jim braved Bryce's newly minted rage bag again and pulled the 2018 John Travolta film Gotti

[00:58:07] this week Jim and Bryce will get the honor of raging or daring together now let's check in with Jim and find out what it's like to see a John Travolta movie with a zero fresh tomato rating on Rotten Tomatoes is this is this really a thing there's a movie with a zero oh boy or should I say yikes I'm sure glad I wasn't Jim this week unlike most weeks where who wouldn't want to be Jim

[00:58:38] exactly my point wasn't Battlefield Earth a zero rating did someone actually enjoy that I don't know maybe it's got John Travolta in it it's pretty much a zero rating these days so okay let me make this real simple first off what the heck was this John Travolta is horrible and when I say horrible he is horrible in this the story is like all over the place makes up like so much time

[00:59:07] where it's just flipping around you don't know what the hell's going on the makeup looks like it was done by kindergarten kids learning to finger paint John Travolta plays three or four age groups but his kid who's in it plays one and all at all the time he looks exactly the same I had no idea what was happening through this whole movie sometimes Goddy's in prison talking to his kid sometimes he's narrating sometimes actually no way all the time I had no clue

[00:59:37] what was supposed to be showing me through this whole movie they say a lot of names that nobody watching knows who these names are there's times where they're just listing names it was like I'm gonna just shoot a movie where they John Travolta lists off a whole bunch of names and I'm like who the fuck are these characters we don't even know any of it yes and then every three minutes they have to of course do a scene change and there is no real story or at least one that you

[01:00:07] can follow it's like they wanted to be good fellows but without any writers or story or focus or sense or any of that what I can say is that the zero on the fresh meter was too much for this piece of garbage I'm not sure if this was the start of John Travolta's choices that put him on our doubted list but this is definitely one of the main reasons he's on our doubted list this film

[01:00:37] is just horrible it's so bad yeah yeah it is it is so bad I had no clue about anything that was happening it was just all over the place it's true it's true you're a horrible person as I say you are in for it with this round of stuff from my well he only spent six months compiling this rage bag and it was worth it

[01:01:07] because man it is something to behold something to behold well you know what at least I have something to look forward to I don't know what something in there is going to make me happy I can feel it alright well let's pull from the merman's ice creamy bucket of rage let me just reach into this bucket of wholesome goodness alright let me just pull this out recoil what's recoil recoil

[01:01:37] what year this is recall recall recall is that what it is recoil I think this is Steve Austin stone cold stone cold stunner versus Danny Danny Trejo Danny Trejo's in it okay it's gonna be good and Steve Austin how can we be bad with Danny Trejo who doesn't love Danny Trejo who doesn't want a whole I love Machete Machete versus stone cold Steve Austin that sounds like a match made in heaven yeah Machete's like

[01:02:06] what five foot two yeah Steve Austin's like seven feet he is short no he isn't he's no he's he's short six feet no Steve Austin's short no Machete is short he is I met him got a picture with him and I'm taller than he is yeah he's five like I said he's five foot two I am also taller than he is I'm not sure if I am he can still kick my ass Machete is like in his 80s doesn't even have to kick your ass he could just knock you down with his stare Machete yeah

[01:02:36] well or his Machete okay well you know what I haven't seen a good Machete movie in a while so I'm looking forward to this there you go and we can see it on Tubi Tubi well you used to be able to I don't know if it's still there but let's hope they do occasionally pull stuff but alright then nice very good alright well thanks ragers for listening thanks to the extended film rage family who you can find in our show notes thanks to Casey the nerdy photographer the voice

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