Episode 289 - Fassboner for Fassbender

[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 Bryce and I'm part of the Film Rage crew which also includes Jim. Hey hey Bryce. Hey Jim. Wow. And also we got the Merman. Hey there Merman. How are you doing?

[00:00:32] Wow you guys brought the energy tonight I tell you. I am so tired but you know I'm here. You're the youngin so you should have lots of energy. I'll do my best. These blueberries are tart. I like them. These pretzels are making me thirsty. Tart blueberries are okay with me Jim. Yeah. Tart anything is actually okay with me. I'm okay with tart. Tart's too. These are a little too tart these blueberries. You stop talking about berries please. Oh. Alright. So with the introductions out of the way.

[00:01:03] Let's rage on. Well thanks to all been supporting us. If you love our independent podcast please like, subscribe, share, and give us a five star rating on your listening platform or support us and join the Film Rage community by joining our membership at buymeacoffee.com forward slash filmrage YYC. If you cannot commit to a membership you can still buy us a movie rental and dare us to see a terrible film. If it played anywhere in the cinemas in the world.

[00:01:30] Now. Let's get to raging. Hmm. What what amazing mom predict? What what amazing mom predict? Hey Joe. Hey. Mondo. Will you tell us all what Jim and Bryce are? Movies? If it comes now better watch out kids.

[00:01:59] Cause Merman is swimming too. Hmm. Swimmery, swimmery. Swimmery, swim. Swimmery, swimmery. Swimmery, swim. Swim all the way to our hearts, our rageful hearts, hearts, hearts. Alright. Well once again you guys saw a bunch of movies. We did. Probably why you're so tired. We saw six. Oh. To be exact. Yes. You saw six.

[00:02:27] One that I wanted to see which is apparently a secret. Did I see five? We saw six. We're just only talking about five. We're talking about five. Oh yeah. Yeah we saw six. But the special one I really wanted to see and then you guys saw it without me. I'll watch it again with you. Hopefully it comes out in screen X. Yeah. That would be awesome. Hopefully everything comes out in screen X. Yeah. Just you wait till next week. All I want is screen X. First one up is Nova Kane which you know stars Dennis Quaid's kid. Yep. Again.

[00:02:57] Randy Quaid's nephew. Seems to be everywhere these days. Does he? I don't know. I'm still not that impressed with him so I didn't want to see it. Oh. He was just in that companion movie. He's like it's a superhero movie but it's not a superhero movie. What else was he in? Because he's not really a hero. He just doesn't feel pain. I'm like whatever. The boys. He doesn't have any fighting skills. He's not you know good with a gun. He just can't feel pain. So I thought what's the point of seeing it? What's the boys? But I could see you guys would maybe like that. So let's go Bryce gave it a meh. Hmm.

[00:03:27] Jim might have got it to a mom though because it seemed like there's a lot of comedy and action in it. Ooh. Wowzers. Then we have Black Bag which I did see. You saw Black Bag. I did see it and. So you had the choice between all these movies and Black Bag's the one you chose? Yes because it was playing in my local cinema. Although I was not happy to have to pay the extra four dollars for the AVX. I was hoping to see it in a regular series. Why would they put Black Bag in AVX? Peace the hell out of me. It was in one of the big theaters. Yeah.

[00:03:57] There's no big action sequences. Yeah I know. I know. It's a Soderbergh talkie talkie. I was hoping to see it in one of the theaters. Yeah it's like putting my dinner with Andre. Yeah. It's like what? Or putting my dinner with Andre in IMAX. Like why are we gouging the public? Yeah no it gouged me for. I mean this was my rage one week and it continues to be because movies that are in that big screen. Like on those special screens should warrant being on those specials. But I. You know what?

[00:04:23] Even on Cheap Tuesday it was like cost me four bucks extra and with the drink that I got it was still 20 bucks. Ridiculous. In the middle of the afternoon. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Yeah. I know you guys aren't really fond of the whole spy genre. Unless they're good spy genre. Unless they're good spy genre. You know as long as it's not like Mission Impossible. Yeah. If it is Mission Impossible. Unfortunately it was not Mission Impossible. Thank God it wasn't Mission Impossible. Or it doesn't have Pierce Brosnan in it. Oh wait.

[00:04:53] Oh everything. If it's a spy movie it's got Pierce Brosnan in it. It's got to have Pierce Brosnan in it to be a spy movie. It's kind of rural now. It's rural. Cool. I think maybe Jim might have raged about it. Okay. Really? And Bryce might have got it to a man. Wowzers. Wowzers. And you saw this one. I saw this one. This is going with my educated guess. Interesting. Next up is Opus which I had never heard of. I had. But then I watched the trailer. I did too.

[00:05:22] And it's from A24. It is. There's some kind of creepy cult. Yes. Yes. John Malkovich plays that. Yes. Pop singer or something. Or something. Juliette Lewis in it. So yeah. My only female creep crush. How can it help but be a double mondo? Hmm. The Day the Earth Blew Up. A Looney Tunes movie. Yeah. Yeah. I love me some Looney Tunes. Hey who doesn't? Everybody does.

[00:05:51] I grew up in Looney Tunes. I didn't give two craps about anything Disney related. But I love my Looney Tunes. Yeah. You're here. You like Bugs in a dress. I like the Bugs and Daffy showing his ass. Ugh. That was all comedy gold. I didn't see Porky Pig though. But maybe he was there somewhere. By the way Daffy does show his behind in this video. In the trailer. Oh is it in the trailer? In the trailer. And spankering. It's like Daffy what are you doing? Oh I'm sorry. It's like his ass is hanging out. Nice. I didn't know that was in the trailer.

[00:06:20] Never watched the trailer. It's a cartoon but it's a classic cartoon. So Jim loves his cartoons. He's cartoon. He's cartoon. Let's go Mondo. I think maybe Price might have only given it a meh. Alrighty. The Way My Way. Which sounds like a religious conversion film. But actually wasn't. Not at all. No. It's got old. I'm surprised it's a lack of religion in it. It's got old people in it. It's an old guy. There's morality. And as Bryce is fond of. There's lots of walking in this one.

[00:06:50] There's a ton of walking in this one. There's a poop ton of walking. There's nothing but walking in this. There's so much walking. And apparently it's an old guy who stays at hostels. And has all kinds of bodily functions. I do like walking. And bodily functions. You like those too? Yeah. It's inspirational based on a best selling book or memoir or something. And it's kind of sporty. Yeah. I think Bryce might have mondo that. Gym because it has something to do with sports probably gave it a meh.

[00:07:19] Not really to do with sports. Well. I don't know. He's walking. It's a sport. Competitive walking is a sport. Yeah. But they're not competitive. Although he actually does kind of competitive walk. He is competitive. He is competitive. He's very competitive. And it's inspirational. Which is what most sports movies are. So yeah. Man. It was an interesting movie. That's all I'll say about it. It was Australian. So. You know. Those people are like. Yeah. They're inspirational. I do. I had an uncle that was an Australian. I have a lot of friends that are from Australia. All right. Fire away. I think they're. You know.

[00:07:49] Although I don't even know if they're married anymore. Maybe I don't have an uncle anymore. You know what? It's always your uncle. I know they still kind of live on the same property. But I think. Could you call them? Could we call them right from the podcast? Eh. I don't know. Okay. Well. Can we fly to Australia? Listeners. We'll update you on the status of Bryce's uncle. Yeah. Okay. Stay tuned. Stay tuned. All right. So our first one we're going to talk about is Novocaine. So.

[00:08:19] A rom-com. Dressed up as a heist action adventure film. Uh. I'm not going to lie that. These days. These new mashups. Are making. Me appreciate rom-coms a little more. Like how many freaking rom-coms have we seen. Mashed up with another genre. That they're never usually mashed up against. I know. I mean. The fact of the matter is Jim. That no matter how much you hate a genre.

[00:08:47] If it's done as well as it can be done. It's still going to be good. Yeah. I'm just saying. I mean. As long as they do not follow the usual rom-com format. Which we all know what that is. Um. Which this doesn't. Well. Maybe not the. Rom-com model. But they kind of follow the formula of a heist action film. A little. Also. I am slowly becoming a bit of a fan of Randy Quaid's nephew. I'm not going to lie.

[00:09:17] Really? I like him. I like him. The concept of Jack. Jack. His character. Jack Quaid by the way. Um. Is that he's not able to feel anything. Uh. And it's not really new. I mean. We got kick-ass from a few years ago. Quaid though. Has this charm about him. As he is getting the snot. Literally beaten out of him. For almost two solid hours. The funny parts. About his ability.

[00:09:47] Is. That doesn't feel things. They hit most of the time. Uh. And build up. For the. Rom part. In the rom-com. The action side of the film. Uh. Was typically formula. And let's face it. In reality. There is no. Possible way. This guy would have survived. With the lack of blood. That he would have had in his body. Yeah. Pain or not. He's still losing blood. Yeah. But seeing him slowly become. A superhero. When he has.

[00:10:16] No fighting skills. Whatsoever. Also. Probably would. Never happen. But it was kind of okay. That. Cause. He got beaten so bad. And the convenience happenstance. That happened to save him. Were actually funny. Every time it kind of happened. So. Uh. I just kind of checked my mind. At the door. And went along for the ride. What's this say though? I had found.

[00:10:45] Another rom-com movie. And I didn't hate it. It was me. Yeah. Novocaine. So Nate can't feel pain. Due to genetic disorder. Which you know. Sounds like a making. Of a badass superhero. Right? Right. But. But then we kind of learned. That every few hours. He has an alarm set. So his bladder won't burst. Yeah. Cause he doesn't know. You can't feel things. And all of a sudden. The romance is gone. It's like. A lot of fun. There was.

[00:11:15] On the rom-com side. There really was a lack of chemistry. Between him and Sherry. It was kind of an odd. Like why. Does she really dig this guy? Or why is she. Cause he's really good at sex. I guess. I guess. So that kind of. You know. I don't want to. Send out too many spoilers. So I'm not going to go into exactly. What. You know. Who she is. And what not. But. It's. Uh. I didn't really buy that part. But watching him. Was just fun. And. He's got a character. And.

[00:11:45] And. The body horror in this movie. Oh it's so good. It's so good. I mean. The arm break. The arm break. When he breaks his thumb backwards. In order to get out of the handcuffs. Yep. The stabby stabby with the bone. Like they. Break his armory. And there's a bone stick. Like literally sticking out. And he kills somebody with that bone. It was. It was so well done. It was just a lot of fun.

[00:12:14] I enjoyed this so much. It was mad. Yeah. It was. The level of absurdity. In this. Yeah. Because there's no. There's no possible way. That he's going to live through this. Yeah. You have to check your brain at the door. There's no question of that. But. That's okay. There's movies where I can do that. Yeah. When they're not taking it seriously. At all either. And it's not. No. This movie knows what it is. And it. It does it as well as you can almost. It doesn't quite get it to Mondo. But. Yeah. Boy it was a good time. It was a good time.

[00:12:43] I would suggest people see this. And if you can see it in cinema. Even better. Because seeing this on the big screen. I mean. I took my white to it. It's too bad you can't see it in Screen X. Yeah. That's one thing that we're missing is Screen X. I'm sure it was in AVX somewhere. Oh yeah. I'm sure. It was probably. I saw it in Laser Ultra. Same thing. Close enough. Same thing. Which was kind of cool. Yeah. Because you know. Some of the. Some of those. It's a. Actually didn't we see this together? Oh. No we didn't. Didn't we? Oh did we? We went to the cinemas together. You and Kim went in one place. And Monique and I went in another place.

[00:13:14] The only place that we. We didn't see this together. We saw it at Crowfoot. Was that Nova Kane at Crowfoot? Okay then I did not see it in AVX. I saw so many movies. Give me a break. What the hell did I see in AVX then? I don't know. Well maybe something's coming. But the funny thing about it is my wife actually. Like she really liked this movie. No we didn't see Nova Kane together. Oh yeah we did. Yes we did. My wife says. She really liked this movie. She just had to close her eyes so much. Because there's so much body horror in this. Yeah there's a lot of.

[00:13:44] And that's actually the thing that Kim said. She's like Matt. There was a lot of body horror. And we were like yeah. This should have been longer. I was like I know. That's why I made it so much better. It was good. And then it was really good. Yeah I would say this would be high man. But yeah. It was really enjoyable. Yeah it was fun. Go see it. Yep. Go see this. Alright. Black bag. And that is a spy thing. Not a you know. This is a one. Actually I got some stuff to prepare. Oh you actually prepared stuff? I think so. I don't know.

[00:14:13] I don't know if I can. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I jotted some stuff down. Well then just make sure you can read. I'm. I'm going to go first. Okay. Sure. Sure. You know what? We're just thankful he's ready for something. Yeah. Well kind of half ready. Usually he's not ready at all. It's a rare treat. As I say I don't know if I could actually. This is just a lot of incoherent thoughts that I've jotted down. But I'm sure they'll make sense when I start talking right? Normally you. Sure. Sure.

[00:14:38] So I've got down here that Black Bag is a spy film for adults. Yes. Characters drive the film. George has to talk into a. Sorry. Has to look into a security breach that may involve his wife. An equally intelligent spy. His co-worker Freddy. Who George failed to promote. Because of his character. Uh. Is another suspect in this.

[00:15:09] We've got a. Uh. A young co-worker. Clarissa. Who has surpassed Freddy professionally. Who's another suspect. James. A top notch spy. Who is currently dating our last suspect. The organization's therapist. Dr. Zoe Vaughn. These are the principles. And from there. We watch as George. Plies his craft. And weeds out the traitor. Writer. Intelligent dialogue. Top notch performances. And a satisfying end.

[00:15:39] This is a very. Very good thriller. Without becoming dumb. Like a Mission Impossible film. Which are never dumb. Which are always. Never. Completely stupid. And everybody. All you people that are watching Mission Impossible. What the hell is wrong with you? Yes. Because they're so good. They're awesome. Soderbergh continues with his. Inconsistent filmmaking. Yes. By making an excellent. Mature thriller. Where the action plays out. Through intelligent dialogue.

[00:16:07] And then he makes something like. Whatever that ghost movie was. Previous to this. Presence. And like. I don't understand. This guy infuriates me. Because I don't know what I'm getting into. Every day. I guess it's good. Because every time I go to. Surprise. I don't know. Surprise. It's either going to be. And there's no in between. It's going to be either the biggest piece of crap. That I've ever watched in my life. Or. Or. It's going to be really really good. And sometimes Mondo. This one.

[00:16:37] I thought this was so intelligent. I thought that the dialogue was so good. And Michael Fassbender especially. Was so good in this role. That's what I've been saying. Blanchette is always good. Everybody. But this is maybe one of the best cast movies too. Because everybody fit their role perfectly. They delivered it perfectly. I can't believe that I'm saying this. But I'm actually going to give this Mondo. Wow. I really. Really enjoyed this. That's a shock.

[00:17:06] This is the best spy thriller I've seen since. Maybe. Bridge of. Tinker Tailor Soldier. I was pretty good actually. It was good. But no. The one with. Bridge of Nowhere. No. No. Is it Bridge of Spies? Yes. It's got the word spies in it. Yes. That one. That one. With my favorite actor. Yeah. His name leads me. One of the guys on our list. Yeah. The tailor. Yep. Yeah. That guy. What's his name? Why is it gone? Don't look at me.

[00:17:36] You got a computer. Yeah. But it's slow. Do you want me to go first or do you want to go next? I don't know. Mine's shorter probably. Mine's pretty short. But go ahead. You know what? I like this movie. I wrote this when I thought you guys were both going to hate it. Next to a good old fashioned action comedy. Spy throws are actually one of my favorites. Not me. All the intrigue. The deception. Not knowing who to trust.

[00:18:03] Ever since I saw a certain Roger Moore as 007 when I was a kid. I've loved spy movies. Then you have Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender. Who despite their recent bad choices in film roles. Yeah. Are usually pretty good. Add in Remington Steele. Look it up Bryce. There was even Moneypenny from those Bond films I don't like. Yeah.

[00:18:31] So all the right ingredients for a juicy drama. This wasn't really that kind of film however. As Bryce pointed out. There were no action scenes. No gunfights. No Mission Impossible death defying stunts. There were a couple of saucy dinner parties though. Yes. I mean who doesn't drug their dinner guests with truth serum before playing a party game.

[00:19:00] There was a lot of double crossing and secrets and stuff. Spy stuff. Yeah. I thought it would be kind of like a Mr. and Mrs. Smith kind of a thing. Because I thought they were going to go against each other. But in the end it was kind of more like the end of Clue. Which ending of Clue? Well any of them. But six people all suspected of treason in one room. A lot of accusations. There was a gun. And finally unmasking the traitor.

[00:19:29] Yeah. It wasn't that exciting. And I may have nodded off in the middle at some point. Even though it was two in the afternoon. But I still enjoyed it. Was it a Mondo? Definitely not. But it was good enough to be a meh. And I'm glad I saw it. Nice. Yeah. If you're going to choose one film this week. And I thought I was going to have to defend it to you guys. All right. Well you don't still don't know that. I haven't said anything. That's true.

[00:19:57] So this is what I would call Mr. and Mrs. Smith British style. Yes. Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender are a married couple. Technically she's Australian but yeah. Same difference. Who are a married couple. Who are part of I'm guessing MI6. And every time there's something they are not allowed to share between colleagues. They say black bag. Yes.

[00:20:26] And it because it's contained inside a black bag. Hmm. This is a mystery intrigue rom-com. So again we have this new trend in rom-coms. It's totally a rom-com.

[00:20:40] Just because they're sleeping with each other doesn't mean it's a rom-com. It's a Taylor shop. Yes. At any rate. Go ahead. Sorry. Yeah. No worries. Thank God we figured that out. I know right. Sleep better now. I'm just so old now.

[00:21:10] It's depressing the hell out of me that I can't think of like probably my top maybe three act made five for sure but maybe in the top three actors like this guy I just look forward to see him like nobody else. Yeah but that's just it. Mark Rylance is amazing in everything. So it's tough to remember everything that he's amazing in. No but I couldn't remember his name. I knew who he was. Oh. I couldn't remember his name because I'm old and dumb. I can't remember the movie Bridge of Spies so I know I seen it. Is that Tom Hanks? It is Tom Hanks. There you go. I remember that about it.

[00:21:40] But yeah and Mark Rylance is just so good in it. Anyway sorry. Whatever. You know what? That's why it's going to be tough to take Mark Rylance off the mesmerizing list for sure. I still can't find a match for him but. Well he still keeps making movies so. Yeah but not against anybody else on this list. Well you never know. You never know. There's some British actors on our list. Okay so where was I? Oh yeah rom-com. In this case the rom-com is paired up with a spy film.

[00:22:09] Maybe I don't hate rom-coms anymore. I think that's what the moral of the story is. That's this week's lesson. Well you know here's the thing. You kind of made the point earlier. Is if it's the format that is a rom-com which is stupid idiot and it doesn't have merit if it's male or female falls in love with a douchebag asshole or bitch and and then shit goes. They fall in love. They have sex.

[00:22:34] Then something wrong happens and then there's you know a three's company plot that's thrown in and at the end they make up at the end and they run to the airport or something stupid. That is the exact model of every rom-com that's ever been made. And they're all terrible except for the Adam Sandler ones. No those are also terrible. Anything with Adam Sandler that is. 50 First Dates was terrible? It was okay. No. Wedding Singer was terrible? Wasn't he in half of those with Drew Barrymore? Yeah.

[00:23:04] Maybe that's the key. You got to be in with Drew Barrymore. Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler in a rom-com. How is she not on a repulsive list already? Sure. She's not repulsive. She's adorable. She's kind of repulsive recently but not. Yeah. She's fine. She was great in what's that movie with the fingering alien? Yeah. Fingering the alien. E.T. Yeah. She was great. But she was like eight? Yeah. She was fingering the alien. So she peaked and she was eight. Maybe. Maybe.

[00:23:34] She was adorable when she was setting all them fires. Yeah. The fire's different. Yeah. Yeah. But then she grew up and did Charity's Angels. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know. Crispy Globes. Adam Sandler movies. Yeah. I know. Well, those are awesome. I love those. Okay. So where were we again? Oh, yeah. So the writing in this was quick-witted, smart, and full of spy stuff, which was fun to track and interesting to be a part of.

[00:24:01] Fassbender in this was, and I want to say brilliant. And I mean brilliant in this. And the moral of the story is spelled out at the very end by the words of Cate Blanchett. Don't fuck with my marriage. That's right. Mm-hmm. This was a great, great, great spy film, which I don't say very often because everything made sense. It wasn't happenstance and luck.

[00:24:26] It wasn't where it's like they spell something out that never appeared in the movie. So they go, this is how we solve the crime. We put something that isn't in a movie, which half the time the spy movies are made, they're like, here's a scene we didn't show you, but this is how it was solved. And we're like, what the fuck is that? Like, that's just, it's just stupid. It's such an intelligent movie. It was so well written. Yeah. So well written. It was Mondo. I love this film. Mario? And- You know, it's curious. I'm curious? The trailer for this came out.

[00:24:57] You guys saw it. Oh, we were dreading it. I both groaned and I'm like, oh, this is going to suck. I went into this thinking I was going to hate it. Yeah. Number one, spy movie. Number two, Soderbergh. Yeah. Number three, the trailer looked awful. Number four, I don't have a number four. The first three are good enough. Number four is you were not super impressed with Fassbender at the time. No. You keep on saying that. I don't know what you're basing this on. Every time I get a fast boner, you're always like, eh, he's okay.

[00:25:26] I've never poo-pooed Fassbender. You have. You are high right now. No. Because what was the one he was in the Taco Atiti film? That was the Soderbergh one. Yeah, he was great in that. No, he was terrible in that. No, he was terrible in that. Yes, that's the thing. I'm the one with the Fassbender boner. No. You're the one that doesn't have a one. It's a Fassbender boner. It was a bad movie. Okay, but I'm the one with the Fassbender boner then. And that's not for it. Because I thought that was good too. And why? Because Fassbender was hilarious in it. No, he was.

[00:25:56] The man can do no wrong. Except that movie. I don't know why you're saying that I'm poo-pooing the guy when I never have in my life. You have poo-pooed. He was also in like three alien movies too. You are. As the android person. Yeah, he was good in that. Yeah. The movie sucked. Prometheus was excellent. Prometheus was awesome. Whatever. Whatever. Oh. Anyway. All right. Well, that's enough black bagging. Yeah. We've got enough Fassbender. Let's bag it. All right. Let's talk about Opus. Opus. Opus. All right.

[00:26:24] And not from Bloom County. This is a different kind of Opus. Yes. So, is it a cult? Or a new way at leadership and seeing the world? We have been led by the strongest and then supposedly the smartest, both from the right and left brain. But what if we were level, and I put this in quote, and led by the most creative people

[00:26:54] in the world? This is the story of Alfred Moretti, who was the most famous musician and known to be the most gifted to ever have lived and performed, played by John Malkovich. Hasn't released an album in 27 years. So, he invites a handful of press from- Is it based on a true story? No. No. Because no one- Pure fiction, my friend. Pure fiction. Yeah.

[00:27:24] He invites a handful of press from the music world, which includes influencers, print publishers, TV hosts, and writers. This is for the release of his new album at his compound over the weekend. Every time he makes a grand appearance for the evening, he tells a joke. The first one is a Chuck Norris joke. Oh, no, sorry. It's not a Chuck Norris joke.

[00:27:51] You thought it was going to be a Chuck Norris joke, but it was actually a Muhammad Ali joke. That was so funny. This sets a false tone to what this film is going to be. The story, to this point, is funny and wacky and strange. And you get the feeling that something is not all that right in the state of Denmark. With the event that these media folk are all invited to. There's comedy and a lot of it.

[00:28:19] But you soon start seeing the typical, I want to call this, Wicker Man plot come about. You have a cult. You don't understand why or what. All you know is that our one lead, played by Ayo Edabiri, I think is probably my best guess at how I pronounce her name. Yeah, Ayo Edabiri. I'm not sure. She's great in everything. She's in that one TV show I watch. Yeah, that one.

[00:28:49] The Bear. Yeah. About the chef. Yeah, so she's played by her and is going to be an important part of the story. Either as the final girl or as the sacrifice akin to Midsommar. Everything in this fits inside this tight Wicker Man plot style right up until the very end. The difference in this one, though, is that the twist, although not fully a surprise, is very well written, as is this whole film.

[00:29:17] Yes, I could complain about some of the stupidity things. That Ayo goes through, a.k.a. Ariel is her name, as she's doing her sleuthing and also attempts to add escapes. But it's a well produced suspense cult film where Ayo and Malkovich are both amazing in these roles. And I mean amazing in these roles. I really enjoyed the whole tale.

[00:29:47] Well, I really, really, really, really liked it. I didn't love it. It was meh. It was very high, high meh for me. It didn't get quite to a mondo. I got a few unpackings to do, but Bryce, what do you got? Yeah, it's kind of, it's a little bit of a different film. It's, it's, it's kind of intelligent on the surface. And then when you start thinking about some of the stuff, then it becomes kind of dumb. Um, you don't want to think too much when you're watching it. Some stuff is in it just for shock.

[00:30:14] Like there's just like the bean, bean bag chair scene. Yeah. That is just it. Like, there's no way that they, anybody would ever do that. It makes no sense. Well, at that point in the movie, it's just where it's placed in the movie. Yeah. They hadn't built anything to that. No, and that's the whole thing. Like, it just makes absolutely noise. So there is, there's a lot of flow and then all of a sudden an abrupt like, huh? Yeah. And then some more flow and then some, huh? And then, then just some concentrated action and then some dead space.

[00:30:45] And it is, it is funny throughout. Yeah. The horror stuff is very good. It, it, it actually, it's all like all of it's entertaining. It's just, it's just not super cohesive this entire movie where it's, it's very uneven. Having said that two lead performances that you mentioned, they are outstanding. Yeah. Malkovich is just on that alone. And it was just nice to see Malkovich get a role.

[00:31:12] He could absolutely sink his teeth into and just go all balls to the wall. Malkovich on it. Yeah. Very, very good. Very, very entertaining. Malkovich. There was just some inconsistencies and some weird, weird stuff that they chose to do purely just for shock that I didn't think even fit. And it was like, and that's what bothered me at the end of the day though.

[00:31:34] And I didn't really dig the, the kind of prologue where we, the way it kind of ends didn't sit terrific with me yet. That I really did enjoy it. Like I can't sit here and say that I didn't enjoy it, but you, if you're going to sit there, you could sit there and pick this thing apart. I know if I sat there and I was really thinking about certain things, I could pick this thing apart. I don't want to. I liked it. I liked it a lot.

[00:32:02] It was quite enjoyable from beginning to end. Even with its unevenness, there was no point. I was bored. Yep. This was very enjoyable. It's a high math for me. Yeah. Me too. Yeah. So the things I had listed for my unpacking was definitely the, I think we were both on the same page with this pacing and this. Yeah. It was weird. It's the pacing is really weird and, and that kind of throws you off. And you know, sometimes that works in films if they do it right. Yeah.

[00:32:30] And then sometimes in this case, I don't, I don't think it fit. Yeah. Um, the concierges in this were just so good. So everybody that goes to the cult house, compound, whatever you want to call it, um, they're all giving these, get their own private concierge Murray and they literally follow them everywhere. Everywhere. When she starts jogging. When she's going to go do her job, morning jog. Yeah. It's just so funny. Cause she's starts to do her job.

[00:32:58] And there are, there are so many laugh out loud moments in this movie. It's just, yeah. And a lot of it comes from her concierge. Yeah. Well, and Malkovich, just how he's doing. Malkovich. As I say that. Or the bread scene, like the very first thing they're going to eat. So they sit down to eat their first meal and they get like all these extravagant things. And the very first thing that they hand out is a giant loaf of bread, like a sourdough bread and passes it. And they take a huge bite of it. And it's like, it's like one of those.

[00:33:28] And then pass it to the next person. They got to take it out of the same piece of bread. They got to take a huge bite out of it. And they got, it gets down to Aosha's at the end of it. And then there's like drool and snot and everything on it. And she knows she has to take a bite. To take a bite because she's the last one. It's, there's just scenes like that. And that's the whole thing. When you look back on this, I look at it with such fondness. Because I remember this scene and that scene and this scene and that scene. And they were all so entertaining. Yeah.

[00:33:56] When then you put the whole thing together and watch it as a whole thing. It's like, yeah, but. Yeah. It's not. The pacing is off. And then the other thing I was going to unpack is the oyster scene. So the oyster scene is just so, so good. There's so much good in this. I think people will enjoy it. It is. There is some wackadoo in it. And the body horror in this is pretty good too. Like. No. I love it that.

[00:34:26] I love that. They're not. Like when you see an adult horror movie. They. And I don't even know if this was rated more than PG-13 or 14A or whatever they call it. But it's an adult horror movie. I don't even pay attention anymore. It's an adult. Yeah. But, but you know the difference. Because when you see it. Oh, yeah. The body horror is there. Well, yeah. And this wasn't. Like this was. This is pretty high concept to be gearing it towards teen.

[00:34:53] Which is what most of the horror movies are doing these days. Yeah. This isn't going to land with teens. They knew when they were making it. It wasn't going to land with teens. No. So, yeah. It's. It's. It's. It's definitely made for its audience. Which is. Me. Yeah. And. Well, not quite us. Because otherwise we would. Well, yeah. Somebody who doesn't have a problem with pacing. And as critical as you and I. There you go. All right. So. Looks like we're kind of batting. What are we agreeing? For the most part. I haven't been paying attention. Okay.

[00:35:23] Uh. We both agreed. We both agreed at Nova Kane. Yeah. We went. Yeah. Yeah. We both agreed at Black Bag. Except for Murray. And we agreed on Opus. Group is on Opus. Okay. So this is one I think we're not going to agree on. Oh. And it's the day the earth blew up. All right. Or a Looney Tunes movie. All right. Porky Pig and Daffy Duck are roommates who live with a farmer. Or maybe it was their dad. I know they called him Farmer. Farmer Jim.

[00:35:53] They called her Farmer Jim. I like Farmer Jim. Who doesn't? Farmer Jim's great. I have no clue what he was to them. And a meteor. Just the guy they lived with. Just a farmer that they got his house. Yep. That's okay. It's a cartoon. And a meteor blows their roof off. And they have 10 days to get the roof repaired or lose their home. Yes, that's right. It's a cartoon. So don't expect any of this to make sense. Don't matter. Now. Take away their home if they don't have a roof on it. That's right. Yep.

[00:36:22] Porky falls for a dame named Petunia. Who we all know. Petunia Pig. Petunia Pig. Who gets them a job in the gum factory. At the same time, the green goo producing meteor that destroyed their roof starts possessing people and wants to take over the world. Yes. And that's right. Chewing gum. Again, cartoon plot. Don't expect much. But then again, what would I expect from a hero who's a pig and his best friend is a dog?

[00:36:52] Yes. This has all the wackiness. No bugs? No bugs. No bugs. No bugs. And you've got a movie about like space invaders and whatnot. You got no Marvin the Martian. I mean, what are they thinking? I know. No Tasmanian devil? No. No. No Yosemite Sam? Just Porky? Porky, Daffy, and Petunia. That's it. That's disappointing. You owe me a Coke. Okay. Where was I? This has all the wackiness that you may remember of Looney Tunes as you might have remembered

[00:37:22] as a kid. Except this does have a little more adult sexualized humor in it. It does. Which I was completely fine with. And was heavily, and I want to say heavily influenced from cartoons like Animaniacs or even Yeah, I noticed that. Even Ren and Stimpy. Seeing Daffy and Porky work together and being buddy roommates was cute and always with Looney Tunes. It's fun and silly and wacky.

[00:37:52] And I mean, who doesn't love Porky and Daffy? You know, it's a foregone conclusion. But the movie, I'm not so sure needed to be a movie. I actually just feel Looney Tunes should be shorts like they were in the olden days. Also, there was almost too complex of a plot for a cartoon. It was way too long. By the time it got to the end, I'm like, thank God this is over. It was fun.

[00:38:21] I really did like seeing Porky and Daffy together. I did not love this movie. It was mad. It was too long. And Looney Tunes needs to be in and out in 7 to 11 minutes. They need more characters too. No, they don't need any more characters. Yeah, they do. No, they don't. This wasn't an all-star jamboree. We just needed... It should have been. No, because then you get Space Jam. We don't need Space Jam. We don't need another Space Jam.

[00:38:50] Good God. What's wrong with Space Jam? Or Space Jam 2. You know what we needed, which we didn't get in any of the cartoons ever? We needed some character development. Yeah. And you know what? We got a butt-tongue. Butt-tongue. Butt-tongue. A butt-tongue. A butt-tonue of character. I have never known Porky and Daffy as well as I do now. As well as I do now. Because they really did develop the characters. But I didn't need them to be developed. I didn't either. And that's fair. And that's fair.

[00:39:19] But I thought that this was very well done. I love that Porky Pig is kind of the older brother figure with Daffy as kind of that self-destructive little brother that's always getting into trouble. Porky's always the responsible one. I know. But they've never developed. Like, the way that they had the whole history with them growing up together and everything. That was so cool. And I don't think that is actually, you know, how it was intended at the beginning of when they came up with these characters. Nobody thought that they grew up together.

[00:39:48] But this was a kind of an homage to what everything was with bringing new stuff in. And even though these are tried and true characters, they were very true to what they were. Yeah. But they developed them in a different way. And I really enjoyed the way they did that. And my God, that Petunia Pig walking into the diner. That was hilarious. Oh, yeah. That whole scene was fantastic. It was. The movie looked good.

[00:40:17] The animation was top notch. Yep. I thought that the energy on the whole was good throughout. Yes, you're taking something that's normally like seven minutes and you're making it into like. Two hours. It wasn't two hours. It felt like two and a half hours. So there was a little bit of lagging here and there. A little bit of lagging? I'm not going to lie. The ending went on forever. But you had to appreciate the probing talk. There were lots of funny bits in it. This was made for adults.

[00:40:47] This was absolutely made for. You know what? It was, but there was enough in here that the kids would enjoy it too. But there was a lot of adult humor that would have flown over the radar as it were for the kids. It was really enjoyable. I don't know why you think we're disagreeing on it though. It's absolutely meh. But I'm glad I saw it. But yes, it could have been a little shorter. I thought you were going to love it. I enjoyed it a lot.

[00:41:16] But it's not Mondo. You know what? What's a problem for it right now is it has a high bar. Animation right now has such a high bar with movies like My Robot. Yeah, My Robot. Is that what it was called? No, the robot, the nature. What the hell is it called? Wild Robot. Wild Robot. That's it. Wild Robot. Dog Man. Dog Man. The last Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Yeah.

[00:41:46] Like the bar has been raised so much. And it doesn't even. Spider-Verse. Spider-Verse. It doesn't come any close to those movies. Yeah. But it was still really enjoyable. Yeah, it's enjoyable. So it absolutely can't be Mondo. I enjoyed it a lot. It's worth seeing. Especially if you like Porky. You like Daffy. You're going to find some entertainment in this. Good movie. Yeah. It's Matt. No bugs. I'm out. Yeah.

[00:42:14] And Porky didn't dress. Oh, no. Porky did dress in drag. Or no, not. Was it Porky or Daffy? One of them dressed in drag. Daffy was in drag. Okay. So the only thing I have to really unpack in here is the voices. We're very Mel Blanc. He died. No, I know. But I didn't. Like whoever was the voice actor in this. I should have known. They were nailing Mel Blanc. They nailed it. Like the voices were like what we remember as a kid.

[00:42:44] It's not like you remember when they would bring out some of the like Winnie the Pooh and things like that after the originals have died. And you're like, this isn't fucking. This isn't right. This is poo. Yeah. This really. Or this is poo. Anything from Henson after Jim died. Yeah. I mean, his. Kermit. Like the Kermit. His son cried, but he didn't. He couldn't quite nail it. No, the voices are really good in this.

[00:43:12] Like they sound like Porky and Daffy. It's not. It doesn't sound. Yeah. So that. And that's the whole thing about this movie. There's so much nostalgia here, but they've put a spin on it. And sometimes that just absolutely just kills it for people. I don't think it'll kill this. Kill it for anybody. I think that they really did this well. Yeah. You know, here's the. Again, I think they could have taken 20 minutes. Yeah. I don't. And I'm not. I'm not arguing that. Yeah.

[00:43:39] And the other thing is like this, I don't think is going to get big at the box office. Like most animated films. No. Well, it doesn't. Sell out like. It doesn't. And it all. Well, yeah. And it doesn't have the. It doesn't have the big push behind it because they did. Warner Brothers didn't even release it. It was released by Watchima Hoos. Oh, really? Yeah. Some. Oh, Watchima. It's a little Watchima. Yeah. They decided that they. They just want to stick to their TV stuff. And buddy that made this. It was. I mean, don't get me wrong.

[00:44:08] Warner Brothers, it still owns the rights and everything. They didn't distribute it. They didn't like it enough. It was distributed by paintbrush or something. Something weird. Oh, yeah. It was some weird company. Anyway, if you get a chance to check it out, wait till it comes out. And I wouldn't go to the cinema. Yeah. Honestly, if you wait three weeks, you probably see it on VOD. Yep. Yeah. All right. It's good though. The way. My way. The way. My way. Murray. It's not the way. My way. It's the way. Well, you screwed up.

[00:44:37] Enough times last week. The way. My way. You finally got it right. The way. My way. Apparently, I'm still getting it wrong. The way. My way. No, it's not. Okay. Let me track them. The way. My way. My way. That's right. There's a freaking comma here. I know there's a comma. It's the way. The way. My way. Talk about it already. All right. All right.

[00:44:58] So, biopic docudrama of a man who decides to walk 800 kilometers along the Camino de Santiago. And the memoir this film is based on. The best rule of marriage is spelled out in this. If you need to get your contents of your backpack down to 10% of your body weight. Such a good scene. And everything you need.

[00:45:27] You wing it and it has to go into your backpack. The answer that your wife comes up with is just start eating more. I loved her. She's awesome. We then get what appears to be one of the most annoying and crotchety old man portraits as ever. He's so good. And he bumps into everybody he bumps into.

[00:45:55] He finds a way to rob them the wrong way. But especially the server. Somebody else I know. I know a few people in here that do that. Yeah. Exactly. All of us at times. Especially the server that he meets at the very beginning of his journey. And then everyone he asked to take a picture of him along the way. I'll have to too much headroom. That's like his favorite expression. Not too much headroom. He doesn't want too much headroom.

[00:46:24] He wants his head at the top of the film. So he has these rules when he's asking someone. It's not like he can't edit the film afterwards by taking out the headroom. No. He makes people try and get that. Which becomes a running gag. Or his ability to offend people by lecturing them on how heavy their backpacks are. Yes. And how they are supposed to walk or do things. They got the wrong shoes. They got the wrong socks.

[00:46:53] You need the Marino socks. Exactly. He's got rules for everything. His own self description is one word. Bullhead. Definitely not a patient man at all. All this is shown to us in funny moments that are not laugh out loud funny. But are slight chuckles that come the first part of the film. And they come galore.

[00:47:21] Like there is a lot of chuckling for the first half of this film. The best interactions he has through this is with his wife though. Where she is so cheeky and funny. Along the way he did seem to meet some very kind and welcoming people that help him along the way. And help him to hopefully become a better person. Although in reality if anyone was annoying and rude as this douche bag. No one would have given him a second look.

[00:47:51] Because he's that annoying. He's old. This is. People give you some extra rope when you're old. Yeah when you're old I guess. They were feeling sorry for him. This is a fun little traveler story with some lessons for everyone. Especially older cranky people. Like maybe all three of us on this podcast. It's one of those ones that you know what you're in for from the beginning to the end. And if you connect with the lead and the peripheral cast. Then you will probably enjoy it. I liked it.

[00:48:21] It was meh. But the second half of the film is not like the first. They're two completely different films. Chris Haywood as Bill Bennett was outstanding in this. Some of the other actors not so much. Plus also it did go a bit long for a biopic. If docs should be 77 minutes biopics should probably be no more than 72.

[00:48:49] So I like this film. It was it was it was. I think you'd like this one Murray because I think. It looked funny. Yeah there's some funny bits you would have you would have related to the characters for sure. I think I think anybody over. I'm just going to say anybody over the age of 40 should see this. I did laugh when she was talking to him the next day and he asked how she slept and he's like oh there was some snoring going on and then there was like some farting and stuff and it's like yeah. Yeah. He knew she was talking about him. Yeah.

[00:49:18] But he didn't do that stuff. I thought he did. Well he did. Yeah. But he said he didn't. Oh he claims he didn't. But yeah that was pretty funny. But yes. Yeah. Interesting. But yeah. So Jim of the of the 20 speaking parts in this movie how many do you figure were actually professional actors? One. Three. Two. Maybe two. Two max. Two max? Yeah. You are incorrect. What? Only one? Four. What?

[00:49:45] There were four professional actors and the rest were actually people that he actually met during based on his memoir. They're people that he actually met on this walk. That's because none of them could act. They could just be themselves. Which you know is this a great movie? Absolutely not. Technically no. The writing no. There's nothing in this that would say yes this is a really really good movie.

[00:50:12] Except for the feeling you get while you're watching this movie. There's lots of walking. Lots of talking. This is one of those movies that has no business being as enjoyable as it was. Yes. Like it really does. Like in the first couple minutes I'm like oh god what am I getting into? And I was still already a little amused. But I'm like this is just this is brutal. It was all about walking. But you know what?

[00:50:41] There was so much walking in it. Yeah. And don't get me wrong. I mean I love a walk-in movie probably more than most. More than anyone that's ever lived. How about that? And there is a lot of walking. This was just such an enjoyable little romp. There's moments in this that are really quite brilliant. And a lot of stuff that's just not. Throw away. But it's not throw away though.

[00:51:08] Because for some reason at no point was I going ugh. I didn't roll my eyes. That's for sure. Yeah. And you might. And you're loud. No I didn't. I said I didn't. I didn't roll my eyes. And that's the thing. And there's sometimes where when I'm looking back at it I'm like I really should have been rolling my eyes. But at no point did I. Very enjoyable movie. Very sweet. Messages that are very good. Life lessons. There's just.

[00:51:38] There was so much in this. And it was too long. It was too long. It did need to be so long. It needed. That's okay. So we all agree docs need to be 77 minutes. We've been told that by Oscar. Yes. So the rule is for biopics. It's like putting that dollar bill on the table for tipping. Any biopic that goes over 72 minutes.

[00:52:03] Or at least if it's a biopic that's not necessarily a biopic about their story. But an event that happens as a docudrama or whatever you want to call it. Yeah. 72 minutes. They're going to lose a dollar. Yeah. Most biopics I've seen recently are all like two and a half, three hours. Oh, they're way too long. Sometimes longer. But yeah, this does suffer from its length. But at the end of the day, I mean I was. But it does have girth. And it does. I was never bored.

[00:52:32] I enjoyed it a lot. There were some scenes that I'm. That were. As I say, were absolutely brilliant. There is a lot of wisdom in this movie. It is. It's an enjoyable watch. It's meh. It's. It is. It is. It is meh. But. This is a miracle. Do you know that this is a miracle? I did. We have not seen five movies ever. Where we agreed. And completely agreed with every single movie.

[00:52:59] And even as I was watching these, I didn't think you. I thought you would agree with me on some of them. But I didn't think you'd agree with me on all of them. Like I actually thought you. I'll be honest. I thought that you were going to Mondo Opus. I thought you were going to meh Black Bag. Which we ended up flip flopping those. And we both saw them the same way. Like we saw everything the same way apparently. And if you would have asked me, I would have been wrong on a few of them. I think I would have been right with the other ones. I thought you were going to meh this.

[00:53:28] Just because you can't hate this movie. You come out of this with joy. You just can't. Exactly. Well, especially the wife. Like you know. And the thing is, you know what's going to happen. Like if you see this movie. You know she's going to be there at the end. It's like there's no question. Well, especially when he can't find her. Yeah. It's like. Yeah. It's so sappy. It's just ridiculous that I ate it up. Yeah. I did. What's wrong with you? I know, Murray. I know. What the hell happened to your rage?

[00:53:57] I'm going to be honest. We should have hated this movie, but you just can't. I thought you would at least rage about Black Bag. I'm so disappointed. We bondoed it for crying out loud. Yeah, for crying out loud. Disappointing. Well, Murray, here's the thing is when this comes out on VOD, you and I will watch this. Oh, I'm sure I'll love it. I love that kind of shit. You will like this movie. Like Cool Runnings, Eddie the Eagle. I love those kind of movies. It's nothing like those. It's nothing like those though.

[00:54:25] If it's got anything to do with sport and if it's inspirational and funny. It's inspirational and funny. I love it. So I knew I would like this one. Yeah, you're going to like this one. I thought you guys would hate it. Yeah. So did I. So did I. Well, I knew I wouldn't hate it because I knew there was a lot of walking in it. I honestly don't know what it is, but when you show a character walking, it's good stuff. For you. For you. For you. I don't know why.

[00:54:58] All right. I have a good one for you this week. Some time ago, I had some movie channels before I canceled them. I came across a movie that looked interesting, though I didn't watch it until this week. It's called Handling the Undead. Oh, yeah. And it was at Sundance last year. Yeah, it was good. I saw the description. It was about zombies and it was from Norway. Yep.

[00:55:29] That was all I needed. It's so good. It's good. You guys know I don't like foreign films or subtitles. Norwegian films are the exception. I have yet to watch a Norwegian film that I didn't like. Well, hold on to your hat. What? No. This movie was so good. The story of the film is this.

[00:55:54] Three different families have their loved ones show up after they've died. Yes. In one case, an old guy digs up his dead grandson and brings him home to his grieving daughter, the mother. Yes. There was no eating of brains. No. No tearing of flesh. No. No running and screaming. No. Because we've seen all that before, Merck. No chopping off a butt. Why would we want to see that again? But it's a zombie movie. Is it?

[00:56:23] Well, there was none of that until maybe the last ten minutes. A little bit. Then there was some at the end. Eventually, the zombies turned on their human caretakers. Too little, too late. The only violence in this entire film is a zombie mother killing the family's pet bunny in front of them. There wasn't any eating of the dead animals. This was no dead snow. It wasn't even dead snow, too. No.

[00:56:53] What I should have known, since this was a big-time festival film, is that it was less of a horror film and more of a zombie drama. Drama. A drama. Yeah. There's pain and there's grieving and drama. Yes. You know what there wasn't a lot of? What? Talking. There was so much awkward silence in this film. So good. Minute after minute, just sitting there. Nothing. No music. No nothing.

[00:57:23] I gotta watch it again. Just sitting in a room. Oh, I'm aching to watch it again. Thank you. The term dead air definitely applies. Man, this film was so slow. Yes. I know. It was like watching Ice Melt in Greenland. How this film got nominated for so many awards at so many festivals, I don't know.

[00:57:53] I read other reviews. There weren't that very many positive ones. Except by me. Except by you, Brennan. You're the exception. And me. So I'm not the only one who didn't like it. Much as it pained me, I have to give a Norwegian film a raise. What? It was so boring. I had to stop watching it and take a nap to keep from falling asleep in the middle of it. I absolutely love that movie. I'm sure you guys liked it though. Anyway, yeah.

[00:58:23] I gave it a shot because it's Norwegian. I thought it must be good. You know, this is where you see that Murr has grown as a reviewer in these six years. You gave it a chance. I did give it a chance. A, he gave it a chance because it's Norwegian. And B, normally if this was Murray five years ago, he'd say, it's Norwegian, so it's Mondo. So we're glad you're coming to- And I stuck with it. I mean, I could have shut it off for 10 minutes and said, this is crap. I'm not going to even bother. But I sat through the whole thing.

[00:58:52] I just- Nice. Wasn't enough action. And yeah, just so much just sitting around. They weren't even talking to each other. They just were in the same room together, just sitting there. I'm like, fucking say something. But they didn't. No. They just sat there. Have you ever heard less is more? And there was like no emotion. Like these people have lost their loved ones and there's no crying. Oh, there was emotion. There was no shock when the dead people showed up. There was understated emotion. There was like no emotion. Like there was more emotion from the zombies than there were from the humans.

[00:59:23] Norwegians are a quiet folk. We are a quiet folk. But yeah, I thought there should have been a bit more. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, it wasn't a hard rage, but yeah, I didn't really enjoy it. Okay. So there you go. At least somebody raged this week. Yeah. About something. Yeah. Temperature rising. Your turn. Vision blurring. Rage taking over.

[00:59:48] All right. My rage is, um, it's very specific this week. My rage is they're redoing another final destination film. Uh-huh.

[01:00:17] That has got to be the worst franchise I've ever seen. After seeing the second one, I'm like, this is the dumbest franchise that has ever been created. The fact that it existed past two. Wasn't Elijah Wood the first one? Who cares? You know, uh, the first one was, was okay. If I had to rate the, the final destination films, the first one was a man. And then two was rage. Three was a rage. Four was a rage.

[01:00:47] Five was a rage. They're all right. They're all awful. Murray. Like they're just, you watch them all is just sad and depressing on its own. What are you talking about? Final destination is awesome. And I am so looking forward to it. I stopped after the first one. Yeah. Because there's, there, there's nothing good about them. They're, they're boring. They're unoriginal. They're stupid. Death has a plan. Apparently. The death has a plan to make me rage. Death has a plan. To make me rage. Yeah. This is. I can't wait. We're in the. What is it called?

[01:01:16] It's like final destination bloodlines or something. You know what they call bloodlines? They call those made for TV movies. Whenever a movie is going to be horrible, they put the bloodlines. Bloodlines. Bloodlines is just an excuse to. Hellraiser. Bloodlines. Another character from the franchise. Wasn't Hellraiser Bloodlines in space? Oh, so awful. Anything with the title. We should have final destination bloodlines. The only thing that would make it better if it was in space. Maybe it will be. That'd be awesome. It will be. Yeah. You and your final destination. Big old car just floating in space. Yeah.

[01:01:46] This, that's, that's awful. It ruined my viewing experience to see final destination. Having to watch the trailer? Yes. Let me guess.

[01:02:15] You got nothing. No, my, my rage is. Because you're still on the happy pill. My rage is that Jim's rage is final destination. That's ridiculous. How can you not be looking forward to final destination? Read my lips. They are the worst franchise. They're so good. Next to Saw. It is the worst. Sorry. Next to the scream and saw. I always, I always go into these and.

[01:02:39] And I, I always hope that they're going to rekindle that early flame because I loved the first one. Like I loved it. It was me. It was so mondo. No. As was the second one. Have you rewatched these lately? I've, I should. Cause they're great. You should. You know what? You really should. I should rewatch them. I rewatched all five of them. Yeah. Back. I don't know. It was about a year ago. Yeah. Cause you were talking about. They're so good. You know what? I don't even remember them. And there's a reason I don't remember them. I really want you to rewatch them.

[01:03:09] The escalator scene. That was so good. They're all terrible. That was in three, I think. It doesn't matter. I think they. You know what? After two and a half, I had to take a two week break between them. I got through two, three, halfway through it. And then I said, I can't take this anymore. Really? It's so stupid and boring. Yeah. I don't know what you're talking about. I really want you to go watch them all again. I think maybe I will. I don't know when I'm going to find the time. You know what? You got nothing but time. We're only seeing a couple of movies this week. Are we? Yeah.

[01:03:39] Seriously. All you got. That's so disappointing. Yeah. Well, you know, I'm pretty happy. I think I can sit there and whine about my job. I think you're having some new medication. Whine about traffic. I mean, there's a lot of stuff that I've said about. Whine about the fact that I haven't had a good night's sleep since I've had my dog because he wakes me up like four times a night. There's lots of stuff. But as far as movies go right now, I'm actually pretty happy with what's going on. Yeah.

[01:04:05] As far as what's coming out, I'm pretty happy about what's coming out. You think so, do you? I do. Bryce has not experienced ScreenX. I'm looking forward to ScreenX. It's going to be stupendous. It's going to be stupendalicious. Whatever happens, if he's going to see it with Kim, he's going to have to see it in ScreenX. He's going to have to suck it up. No, no. Anyways, we'll see. That's the rule. I have to sit for that. Bryce, you don't make rules for me.

[01:04:34] We made the rule. Don't get me wrong. I want to see something in ScreenX as soon as possible. This is coming out, so there you go. Snowlight seems like a bad introduction to ScreenX. It's a very bad one. It's a bad introduction to ScreenX. We'll just listen to your raise next week. No, I want to see an action movie in ScreenX. That's what Snowlight is. Because you love your action movies. How about Mission Impossible? Yeah, okay. It'll add something, maybe. All right.

[01:05:09] Well, my list is getting really short. Because everybody on here, I can't match up with anybody. So I don't know what the hell I'm going to do. Got to have something. I do have something. I'm going way, way back for this. Yes, thank you. Well, because I didn't want to see one of these knocked off. All right. But I actually saw this back over the holidays when I did have movie channels. Well, I didn't watch the whole thing. I watched enough of it.

[01:05:36] But no, the two of these people are in it at least more than five minutes. All right. We've got Gregory Peck. Right. Yes. And Jimmy Stewart. What? Nice. How the West was won. All right. And they are both in it, I freaking guarantee you, more than five minutes. Oh, those two are absolutely. And they were both at the top of their game. So we'll just see. This is awesome. But yeah, I got nothing.

[01:06:05] You got to start throwing more names at me to match up. Because these guys are not making any matchups. Well, hopefully we can come up with some. Otherwise, we're going to have about 30 names on here forever. Because they're not stopping it. Well, you know what? What's his face? Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement. I haven't seen this movie in like 35 years. I'm really. This is in the 40s. Yeah. It's really old. I understand that. But I watched it probably twice before I was like 18.

[01:06:35] Yep. So I'm looking forward to it. How the West was won. I'm not usually a big fan of it. And I guess I miss Jim Spiele of what the lists are. So why don't you go through it? That's okay. It's all right. People know by now. Go to our website. Find out. Filmratesyyc.com. There's lists. This is a mesmerized. Yes. We're getting. Trying to get rid of people, but it's really hard. Peck versus Stewart. This is like. I'm genuinely excited. Yeah. That's why I'm saving it. I am genuinely excited. That's why I've been saving it. All right.

[01:07:03] Because I didn't think anyone could take out Jimmy Stewart. But perhaps if someone can. If someone can. Exactly. It's Catherine Hepburn. I got that one too. Oh. I got that one too. All right. If he survives this one. Oh, nice.

[01:07:54] Last week on. Jim's memory of his fondness for Josh Hartnett's early career. Stands up to his current day feelings. Or maybe the merman and wherever he heard this was a rage. We're right. And instead of fishing his wish. Jim hooked a 20 year old stinker. My personal thoughts on the matter. That's for me to know and you to find out. Right now when I tell you I think Jim will be pleasantly surprised. But that's just me, folks.

[01:08:23] He's the best. All right. Lucky number 11. This film has a weird feel to it. Because it is cleverly written and all kinds of quick humor and double entendres. All done with a tongue in cheek delivery at times where everybody talks quickly. Except when they want to get all dramatic.

[01:08:50] And for the most part we get Josh Hartnett walking around with only a towel for most of the film. Who doesn't want to see that? I like it. There is a ton of, I want to say, A and B list actors in this. All who seem to be having fun delivering these lines. We get top of his game, Bruce Willis in his best stoic seriousness.

[01:09:20] Lucy Liu in her smart ass, smartness and cuteness era. Morgan Freeman as a bad guy. What? And we get Ben Kingsley in another film where he plays another culture to add to his, I think, 27 ethnicities that he's played over his career, maybe? We get misdirection, mixed identities, people trying to kill each other. There's lots going on in this.

[01:09:49] But all in all, it's fun watching. Josh Hartnett gets punched in the face or in the stomach or again in the face or again in the stomach by literally everybody in this movie. Basically, it's because he is named Slevin. And he's actually not that lucky for most of the film. This is a well-written and interesting film with some flaws, but ultimately it was fun to watch. I'm sorry, Murr. It was a meh. Have you seen this one? No. Ah.

[01:10:19] It does look bad when I saw the trailer. Yeah. It's okay. Yeah, it's good. It's meh. It is okie dokie. We lost Bryce. He's playing with his dog. Well, his dog's trying to eat plastic. No, his dog grabbed his tray. Someone put their tray down where the dog could get it. Because the dog wasn't here 20 minutes ago. Exactly. Well, you knew he was coming at some point. Do we? Comes like a missile. Comes like a missile is right. All right.

[01:10:45] So for next week, we were dared from Cinebiju. And they're at the Cinebijou on Instagram to see the movie called Black Bird from 2018, which is a dance movie. Sweet. Black Bird from 2018? Yes.

[01:11:15] Doesn't Bijou mean cinema? So it's like cinema, cinema? It stars the lord of dance himself, Michael Flattery. Flattery is in it? Flatley. Isn't Bijou a jewel? I thought it was cinema. Who directed it, wrote it, and is in it. I'm sorry. Michael Flatley wrote, directed, and is in it? Yes. Sweet. And this was a movie that played in theaters? Yes. In 2018. It doesn't have the word dance in it?

[01:11:43] I don't know, Jim. Yes, it did. And it still continues to play. It actually plays at a festival every year. That's one of the worst movies that's ever been made. So I am super excited about this. I could not be more excited. Okay. I don't know how to fuel boat this one, but I guess I'm watching it. Yep. And I even sent you a link to watch it for free on YouTube. It's on YouTube.

[01:12:14] Yeah. Sounds terrible. So the Murmire will watch it to see. I don't know about that. The Lord of Dance himself. It's got dance in it. Yeah. Well, it's got Michael Flatley in it. Blackbird starring Michael Flatley. There you go. All right. All right, then. Doesn't get any better than that. I guess. Like for our listeners, maybe. All right. Well, thanks, Ragers, for listening. Thanks to the extended Film Rage family you can find in our show notes. Thanks to Casey. I'm the nerdy photographer for the voice of Rager Dare and our god of rage.

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