Episode 302 - Multitudes

[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, Brass. And looking sharp and orange, we got the Merman. Is that your new favorite color? You gonna change all your clothes to orange? I had to work for a living today, so.

[00:00:34] And you wore orange? Yeah, we're orange. What, do you work for like a road crew? Something like that. Alright. Aren't you glad I didn't say banana? That's right. Aren't you glad I didn't say banana? So with the introductions out of the way, let's rage on. Whoa, thanks to all of the supportings. If you love our independent podcast or even like it just a little bit, 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 filmrageyyc.

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[00:01:23] What would the amazing mom predict? What would the amazing mom predict? Will you predict the rage or will you predict the mondo? Will they tell us all what Jim and Brass are at the movies? Who is? Better watch out, kids, because here he comes. He's coming swimming to you. And you and you. Swimmery, swimmery. Swimmery, swim.

[00:01:53] Swimmery, swimmery. Swimmery, swim. Swim all the way to our hearts, our little rage-filled hearts. It's my turn now. Oh yeah, baby! I don't know, I'm sat asleep. Alrighty, three movies this week instead of the usual five or six. Or seven or eight. And I saw two of them. You did see two of them! Dragged to one of them in IMAX. Yes! The best Max! The best Max.

[00:02:21] How to Train Your Dragon. Yes! The live action, not to be confused with the seven or eight animated ones. Correct. I believe there's three. I don't know. And some spinoffs. Who cares? There's some spinoffs? Yeah, like they have a TV show here. Oh, I meant not in the theater though. Yeah, we saw this unglourious IMAX. It's the very back row with about a six kilometer hike to the top. Yes! Mountain climbing!

[00:02:50] Thankfully, I was able to hold my water for the entire movie. Otherwise, I would not have seen it all. I would have left. I don't know. It's a live action remake and they're not usually very good. This one was definitely aimed at kids. I don't know. You guys might have got up to a meh on that. Double meh. Okie dokie. Materialist. Which I didn't even watch the trailer, but once he told me he was in it. Yes.

[00:03:19] All I needed to know. Oh! Double rage. But do you know who directed it? I know who directed it. And wrote it? And I had a conversation with Mr. Bryce about that. Okay. But despite who wrote or directed it, it's who the two main stars were. Yes! Who were horrible. Okay. So, double rage. Then we got the life of Chuck. Yes! With a little bit of Tom Hiddleston. Yes! A lot of the young kid. Yes! And some Mark Hamill. Yeah! Sometimes a little bit of Tom Hiddleston goes a long way. Long way.

[00:03:49] It can. He didn't have a lot of lines, so. So, yeah. I think maybe Jim gave it a mondo. And let's go meh for Bryce. All right. That's all. All right. Stephen King. Stephen Q. King. Stephen motherfucking King. Yo! All right. Let's talk about some dragons. And how to train them. Oh, yeah. How to train your dragon.

[00:04:19] So, the story of a son who is a bit of a failure in his father's eyes as a Viking because he's a klutz. And I'm going to say a little and I'm going to put in heavy quotes different. He tries to gain his father's love and respect by trying to kill a dragon. But instead of killing him, he befriends one and they become best friends. Who? He retrains to fly. Because guess what? He wrecked his tail. He got a broken tail. He wrecked him.

[00:04:49] Damn near killed him. Hmm. The story of the original and the remake are pretty much identical. Not pretty much. Aside from a few differences. What are the differences? Here are some of them between the original and the CGI live action remake. Okay. In the new one, the kids are a little older and at least seem older than the cartoon animated versions. But also, they are overtly... They say the same stuff. Uh, kinda.

[00:05:18] They are overtly annoying unlike the cartoons. And incompetent. Let's add that. Yes. Uh, which makes their dialogue seem not natural and innocent as it was in the original. The animation in the original was pretty well done. In fact, it was really well done. In the CGI live action dragon look like horrible CGI dragons that take you completely out of the film

[00:05:46] because they don't look real at all. I don't know how many times we have to say this. If you're making CGI critters or creatures, just copy Planet of the Apes. That's what you gotta do. If you're trying to make dragons look like real... First off, there's no such thing as real dragons. But these look animated. So it throws everything off because you're watching a live action person playing with a cartoon. And it just doesn't look good.

[00:06:15] In the remake, they also add a little bit more story. It's not major, but they add a little bit more dialogue about the relationship of the dad and the son. Which, of course, it wasn't needed. It's just extended a kid's movie a little longer. Like, kids really didn't... Wouldn't have really gotten anything out of it. Which, you know, just added to it. Added like 25 minutes or something to it, I think. The whole... You mean the comparison between the lines? Yeah. Yeah, so they do that, though.

[00:06:44] They just add scenes in there which aren't needed. Yeah, they didn't add a lot of scenes, but they added some. But go ahead. In the original, the voice talents are all outstanding and natural. And in the new one, the acting, for the most part, was awful. Especially by our lead, Mason Tames. Whatever. Playing Hiccup. Like, he's just not a good actor. Like, I did not like... I didn't... The whole first part of it, it was really annoying.

[00:07:13] The second part, I guess, maybe I got just used to him being annoying. So, maybe it didn't bother me as much. I don't know. We'll see what you guys have to say. The dialogue at times was kind of tongue-in-cheek almost. Which also didn't work at all. Well, I don't think it'll work for most adults. Maybe kids would like the tongue-in-cheek. I don't know. I'm kind of sad, though, because I really liked the original. I thought the original animated film was original and heartwarming. And, of course, for kids.

[00:07:43] It's obvious. Obviously did well. Like, they did a ton of money, the previous iterations of this. Why not just stick with... Yeah, I don't think this one did as well. Why don't you just stick with the animated ones? Even they made spin-offs and sequels. But in the CGI live-action remake, all of everything, which was cute and endearing in the original, didn't matter. And it made it unbelievable. And it just...

[00:08:13] I couldn't accept seeing it as this... Like, everything seemed not real. If you're making an animated film, I feel... You've got your headspace into an animated film. Magical things can happen. Anything can go anywhere you want. Because it's magic and it's cartoon. When you try to make it look real, and then you do all these things that are against science and nature, it just...

[00:08:40] You're already out of the situation because the CGI dragons are horrible. You mean like riding a dragon five minutes after it tried to kill you? Yeah, like, just stuff like that. But in a cartoon, it works. It really does. Yeah, so for that reason, I'm unfortunately going to have to give this one story. Cherished animated CGI live-action remake. It never needed to be made rage. And I've got some unpacking, but yeah. I really like the original.

[00:09:08] This one, it just took me out of it because the CGI was so horrible. And the acting was not great. And they added 25 minutes, apparently, that they didn't need. And yeah, it's... They didn't need this. I didn't like it. It's a rage. Murray? This movie had everything. Dragons. Vikings. Yes. Gerard Butler. Oh, yes. That Kiwi kid from Hunt for the Wilderbeast and Deadpool 2. Wilder people.

[00:09:38] Wilder people, whatever. Who, by the way, has not gotten any smaller over the years. No. There's Nick Frost with a peg leg. Was he a pirate? Despite all the dragon-y action, this was first and foremost a kid's movie. It should have come with the title card, No Vikings Were Killed in This Film. And only one dragon was killed. Was there a dragon killed? Yeah. It's a big one.

[00:10:07] But it was a giant stegosaurus, so that's okay. I guess. Or triceratops, whatever. Don't get me wrong. There were some nice bits to this film. The flying CGI dragons were cool. Until they were tamed, anyway. I liked the Viking parts as brief and historically inaccurate as they were. Don't even get me started on how badly portrayed my sweet Viking culture was. It literally made me rage.

[00:10:35] As much as I love some Gerard Butler, you know I do. In all the movies and TV shows and books and documentaries, I have never seen a Scottish Viking. I'm sure there was some, but nothing I ever saw. Because Vikings are all from Scandinavia. Okay, but I have a question for you, because I understand that point. But you know how bad his accents are? Yeah, usually just the...

[00:11:02] He may have been a Scottish Viking, but he was the only one with that accent. His own son didn't have that accent. Yeah. They're supposed to be related. He's the only guy in the whole frickin' island who actually speaks like that. Nobody else does. He was. So yeah, I wasn't buying that. In the end, this was still a live action remake from a cartoon. And it was a film with a story and characters designed for kids.

[00:11:31] So yeah, it's still a rage. I didn't like it at all. And we got to see it in IMAX, though. But you knew... Yeah, whatever. But it's not as big a rage because you got to see it in IMAX, right? Yeah, it's still a rage. Yeah, but it would have been a bigger rage if you didn't get to see it in IMAX. Because it was all CGI crap. If it was actual real... Dragons. Real dragons? It was shot in IMAX, really shot in IMAX, with real great cinematography. Then yeah, but it was all CGI, so who gives a crap?

[00:12:02] All right. Anyway. CGI IMAX. Yeah, CGI IMAX shouldn't exist. Yeah, so how to train your dragon live action version. It's exactly the same as the original, but longer. And without the ability to suspend disbelief, which you can do when you're watching a cartoon. Yes, that's what I said. Yeah, but you didn't say it as eloquently. You just said it more concisely, not eloquently.

[00:12:32] No, both actually. With a deeper accent. A deeper voice. So that makes it a little gravity, I guess. But to Jim's point, the acting is terrible in this. The acting is so much better in the animation than this. The CGI is just not good. And when you put it against the live action, it just did not work at all.

[00:12:58] And I can't get over the fact that they didn't change anything. At least with Lilo and Stitch, they made a bunch of changes. Which annoys people that really want to see the same thing. And I never understand those people. This movie was made for those people. The people that didn't like Lilo and Stitch because it wasn't exactly like the original.

[00:13:25] They'll love this because it's exactly like the original. Except 25 minutes more. Except for 25 minutes more. And some of that is an extended flight sequence. Some of that is some shots are not as concise because there's a... The way that you end up shooting it, it ends up being a little more extended when you're doing live action. But that's a long time. Like this being 20 some odd minutes longer. It's just like this. In fact, I think it was more than 20.

[00:13:53] I mean, this went two hours and five minutes. How are you making a kid's movie that's two hours and five minutes? What kid can sit there for two hours and five minutes? To watch a movie for an hour. It's insane. But I almost want to argue, I don't know if it's a kid's kid's movie. Because these kids are like teenagers. Yeah, but they're idiots. Yeah, I know, but... It's a kid's movie. Like I said, there's no violence in the whole movie. You've got dragons and vikings and no freaking violence. Oh, there's violence, Marie. No, there really isn't. Well, they're trying to pay attention.

[00:14:23] You wanted a blood bath in this? I mean, when they're doing their... A Disney blood bath. When they're doing their dragon training, how does he win everything? Oh, by tricking them, by giving them flowers. Rubbing their belly. Rubbing their bellies. The simple fact is, this story works as a cartoon. This story does not work as a live action feature. Because it just can't. And when you're doing these scenes that as a cartoon, you're like,

[00:14:53] Oh, that's funny or that's cool or whatever. You know, it doesn't work. Like when they're doing their... They're, you know, they're flying around on their dragons and they're hanging on and they're flapping around and everything. It doesn't work because it's stupid. Because it looks stupid. Yes. Because in a cartoon, you can suspend disbelief. Yep. When you're watching live action, it's hard to. And it just... And if you're going to do that, then just go way over the top. Yeah. Don't even make it.

[00:15:23] And in that case, what are you even doing? Why are we making this? So this is a total rage. The performances are awful. The... There's just... There was no reason to make this because they changed nothing. It added nothing. It's nothing. There's no reason for it. It's negative nothing. It's negative nothing. Less than nothing. But yeah, this was awful. Like just so bad. And the original was watchable. It wasn't... It's not my favorite movie. I would... But it was... It's watchable.

[00:15:52] And it's got... It's entertaining in some parts. This was not. This was just annoying. The original is actually a heartwarming story because... This is the same story, but it's... It doesn't end up being heartwarming because number one... Because everything's annoying. Everything's annoying and the acting's not as good. Yeah. The animated acting isn't as good. Animated acting. That's right. Okay. So the only things I had to unpack on this was... Yeah. The acting, the CGI, and the realness factor, which we've already all talked about.

[00:16:22] Enough already. So yeah, this just didn't need to be made. Just stop. Dude, just stop it. Like... They won't. You know, you've convinced me. I actually... I almost thought after Lilo and Stitch, I'm like, okay, well maybe every now and then we'll get... But I think Lilo and Stitch is just the exception. It's not like it was outstanding or anything. Yeah, yeah. No, I know. But I think we've... The bar is so low for these... Yeah. That it surpassed that low bar. Yeah. Just... And How to Train Your Dragon just lowered the bar even more. Yeah. Just you wait.

[00:16:51] I believe they're doing another live action of some kind. I think. Maybe that was the one Stitch I was thinking of. They still have like... Oh, they're gonna do it on... The Black Cauldron. I have no original ideas. Just go down every single Disney movie that's ever been made and you are going to get a live action version of it. Fox and the Hound. There's gonna be a live action version. They better not dare remake that one. That's like my favorite all time movie. We still don't have a Rescuers Down Under. That's true. That's coming. That's coming. American Tale. What about...

[00:17:19] Did they redo a live action one of the Lady and the Tramp yet? No, that's coming. I'm sure. That's coming. Yeah. All right. And the stupid thing is, they call it live action, but it's just gonna be computer generated critters anyways. Yep. Of course it is. Now, if they get the director... Yeah. Keep queuing that. You can do that all the way through what I'm saying here. Well, you talked over my queue. Just keep raging it. All right.

[00:17:48] But if they get the director of... Crap. The one Ochi. If they get the director to Ochi and get them to make him all in puppets, then I'll believe it. Oh, there you go. Right? Yes. Totally. All right. Materialists. Now, I know we have said this. I want to say maybe every single time we see either a romance or a rom-com film, but this one was just like past lives. But this time...

[00:18:17] At least this time, it was the same director and writer, Celine Strasong. And I've definitely never said this ever before. And you can quote me on this. Dakota Johnson was not as repulsive as she usually is. In fact, I actually liked her in this. Pedro Pascal is his usual fabulous self. And Chris Evans was charming. In fact, I'm going to say he was actually great in this.

[00:18:47] I'm going to say it's the best performance that Chris Evans has ever done aside from when he was in Scott Pilgrim. And I will fight Bryce to the death to protect his performance in Scott Pilgrim. Although, you know, it was a comedic role. But he showed his acting chops in this. Go on. Yeah. The soundtrack is amazing and fits very well with this film. And there's an abundance of music in this.

[00:19:16] And I say abundance of music in this. Which, to be honest, I've grown to expect when I see an A24 film. For those of you who have not checked out A24's website, you must do this. Because they are kind of like, when you remember the 80s, which I know Murray does very well. And you see all of the John Hughes films where every single movie was like, what is the hottest thing that's in music right now?

[00:19:45] A24 doesn't necessarily do it for the hottest thing that's out there right now. But their soundtracks, they're putting on albums too. So you can get, for example, the soundtrack to The Legend of Ochi on album. Like, they're just so fucking cool. They have a knack for putting music, again, back into the forefront of films they produce. Which is, to me, is so important.

[00:20:11] Every emotion, every feeling you get when you're listening to a movie with the right music paired to it or the right score paired to it is just so, so important. Salin's song is such a clever writer. She knows how to create real situations in relationships that are funny. And especially when we get to see how horrible and shallow mostly men are, but not always.

[00:20:37] Then, especially when it comes to dating, especially rich people who have a bloated expectation of their worth. Think, money makes you a 10. And they expect 10s, usually 20 years younger than them, when they're dating. Which, a lot of the scenes, as Dakota Johnson's doing her interviews and they're showing these people, the comedy in there is just gold. Because you know that's exactly how these people act.

[00:21:04] This story does get us inside the heads of each of the characters, we feel, for each one of them as their lives intertwine. The film is yet another unique and original film by this talented writer-director who keeps every line of dialogue important enough that in a romance slash comedy, you are glued to every clever word that is said. Because it is always such a joy to see what smart people,

[00:21:33] who are incredibly deep characters, say about anything. And always. But there's an expression in sales that goes, never sell past the closing. And this is exactly what happens in this film. It needed about 15 minutes cut out of it. We got this story and it was tied up in a nice little bow. And then she didn't end it. So because of that, she does not do another perfect rom-com.

[00:22:01] She just does a really good one. Uh, I will never doubt anything that she puts out. Um, even though the trailers for this looked horrible. And if she's writing and directing, I will always want to see what she's doing. Even if the actors that are cast are ones I would normally avoid. Because she can bring talent out of the most talentless and write stories I want to see. But she cannot duplicate another Mondo. Like Past Lives.

[00:22:30] Because this is only a high meh for me. I really liked this film. I liked where it was going. It was too long. And it dragged out at the end. And she just needed to end it at a different point in the movie. When we saw Past Lives, we both looked at each other after and said, Okay, she did the same thing. But the ending in Past Lives is perfect. Yeah. Yeah. And I got a bit of unpacking. But what it... So yeah, it was a meh for me. Yeah. Um, Celine's song is... She's kind of amazing.

[00:23:00] She took Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans and made them watchable. Which, not everybody agrees with me. But I think Chris Evans is awful in everything he's in. Other than... He peaked in Not Another Teen Movie and he's been terrible since. But he was okay in that. It was kind of funny. But... And Dakota Johnson is downright repulsive. However, Celine's song did the impossible. She cast them in this movie and she made them very, very watchable.

[00:23:30] In fact, dare I say, the best performances either of them have ever given. I'm sorry. Better than Scott Pilgrim versus the world for Chris Evans. And she made... Like, if I didn't know either of these before, I'd say, Wow, pretty good actors. And Celine's song does that. She brings out performances in people that you just don't know that they could even do.

[00:23:55] She's also one of the best writers of dialogue that's in the business today. Between this and past lives, the dialogue is tremendous. But yes, this gets to a certain point where it needed to kind of end and it drags on a little bit. I honestly thought we were on our way to a mondo and then the story just kept on going for 20 minutes too long. I like the way that she...

[00:24:23] I was okay with the way she tied it. I shouldn't say I liked it. I was okay with the way she tied it up at the end. But it was... It's so funny that... And it's hard not to compare it to past lives because she's made two movies. So how do you not compare it to the previous movie when it was... A perfect movie. A perfect movie. Like, it really was.

[00:24:49] And to have maybe one of the most perfect endings ever in a movie in her first effort and then to have a movie that just sort of didn't know when it needed to end. Yep. And then when it did, it was like, It's so weird. Take nothing away from her writing ability. She's so good, but I don't think she knew how to end this one. You know, it's funny you say that. But the other thing I want to point out real quick is... I love Maren Ireland.

[00:25:18] She was in that birth rebirth. And she's just... She's always kind of been creepy. That girl in a lot of stuff. But she wasn't in this. She was actually the head of a dating app or whatever it is. Well, they're match. It's a match. Matchmaker. Yeah. She was like... She was the head of this matchmaking business, I suppose. And yeah, she's always really good. I was just glad to see her do something a little different. Even if it was kind of, you know, in rom-com territory.

[00:25:48] Because I think that she needs to be cast more, to be honest. I really enjoy her performances all the time. And Pedro Pascal is Pedro Pascal. Let's just face it. It doesn't matter what he's in. He's always good. And he's Pedro Pascal. You don't have to say anything more. He's lovable. But yeah, I'm sorry. I interrupted you. Did you? Oh, no. I was kind of interrupting you, really. I was just like, it's... You're right. It's interesting to think that she...

[00:26:13] It's almost like when you have a writer-director, now that she's done one project that is so good and she's so known for, it's almost like I kind of wish for the next project when people get in there. Especially because she's been a writer longer than she's been a director, right? So she's stepping her toes into there. You almost want to hope that she surrounds herself with people in the industry that get her and she can take.

[00:26:40] And I have a feeling, because we've seen this with other directors, especially some of the big ones, like What's-His-Face Avatar Boy, that it's just like, you know, you are horrible at writing and editing and now directing, let's face it. But they have such an inflated ego. So I hope, you know, maybe she and women in general can do that. Because we've seen, I've seen way more, I mean, there's way more men directors anyway,

[00:27:09] but I haven't seen it as much in female directors. It seems like they surround themselves with good people. And I hope that she continues to do that. Because this could have been a Mondo. This could have been Past Lives Part 2. Yeah. But... And as I say, it was on its way to be a Mondo. But, you know, at the end of the day, it is meh. It's a pretty high meh. Because I absolutely... And I can't believe, like if you watch the trailer, as you mentioned, how on earth could this be as good as it was? Yeah. Because it looks horrible.

[00:27:39] And this was really, really good. Yeah. It's just not quite Mondo because it just kind of loses steam at the end. Yeah. But man, can she write characters? Oh yeah. And dialogue. And you care about everybody in this film. Every single person. And it's just, you know, it's just a really, really good movie. I'm going to disagree with you with the fact that I don't dislike Chris Evans. I just find him... I know you don't. I just find him a bit of a root vegetable. Like... Yeah.

[00:28:08] Well, he's a one-note actor. He's pretty one-note. He was better in this. But this stretched him as an actor. I hope to see... I actually... You know what? I'm actually looking... It just goes to show you, though, the power of a good director that can take someone and just like get that performance out of them. Because I know she's obviously doing it. Because she took a couple of rutabagas here and actually bought something out of both of them. Oh, like I actually am looking forward and I never thought I would ever say this

[00:28:37] to Dakota Johnson's next film because of this film. I still can't say that. Unless it's in a Celine song movie. I don't want to see it. Well, we're going to see. We're going to see. All right, Marie. Adam Webb too. Oh, God. I don't think that's happening. All right. From there, we go to the life of Chuck. Yeah. I'm going to start with one simple thing. All right.

[00:29:07] I am multitudes. We are all multitudes. We're all multitudes. And I'm not going to lie. I'm going to get this right out of here, right from the very beginning. I cried a lot in this film. Mostly from the moments of joy, but also about the heart that this film contains. So much heart. It's a film in three acts. And we learn at the beginning, as it starts with the third act, that our lead is not going to live forever.

[00:29:37] So spoilers, folks. He's not going to live forever. So just accept that. Sorry if it spoiled it. But you know pretty soon right in the movie that that's the case. We then go back to act two, meeting our lead Tom Hiddleston in this section. And of course, his dance number, which makes me cry because of the joy I felt. The joy of someone who knows their future and decides at a particular moment

[00:30:05] that he wants to be his true self for a short moment in time. Act one is the young Chuck, which is where most of this meat of this film is. We get to learn who Chuck is and all the situations that made him who he is. Stephen King, even when he's writing horrors or not writing horrors, still has a way to bring supernatural or extraordinary tales to life

[00:30:34] in his development of these characters and the worlds he creates. This is an introspective film, I feel. And depending on where you are with your own journey in life, you will get something different out of this. We've talked about this in other films that at certain, for films that are this deep and vast and like, I could literally talk about this movie for hours of the complexity that is going on in this film. And,

[00:31:03] and I'll just interrupt for a bit. It's one of those movies that I almost, and I'm going to spoil it because I love this too. You almost don't want to talk too much about it. Yes. Because you want people to go in with fresh eyes. Not knowing anything. Not knowing anything. And just experience this. And just experience just the masterful way that everything was put together in this movie. And it really, it,

[00:31:33] it reveals a lot in the first act, but you're a little confused at the end of it, which is the third act, I should say. Yeah. And then everything comes clear and I kind of knew where it was going after, you know, we got into the second act, but it's still just a wonderful journey. And I, you really don't want to spoil anything because I want everybody to experience this with an absolute blank slate and just go into it and just let this movie wash over you. It is. And you're right. You will get,

[00:32:03] depending on who you are, where you are in your life, you're going to get something different. Like eight, I'm thinking about, like, as I'm watching this, I'm like, if I, if I watched this when I was 18, I think I would have got this out of it. If I watched it when I was 30, I think, and now that I'm 50 some odd years old, I'm getting something different out. And I guarantee my, if my mother watched it, she would get something completely different out of it too. Oh yeah. And, and well, and because not only just, not only about where you're at, but who you are and where your past comes from. Right. So,

[00:32:32] so for example, and it's literally a movie for everybody. Cause, and there's, you can take, I think you can take a 12 year old to this and I think they'll get something. I really do because I think they'll relate to the kids. And like, I think there's, there's something for everybody in this movie. It was just so good. Possibly. We're going to find out for Murray things on that, but Chuck's life. And the reason I think I was so connected to Chuck's life is that I found it kind of mirrored mine a little bit.

[00:33:02] Um, so I think I felt every turn of this story a little more deeper than maybe some people who saw it, because I can see where some people, if they didn't have similar experiences, wouldn't, wouldn't know that the choices for the cast in this was perfect. The story was Mark Hamill. Oh, Mark Hamill's never been better. Like what is it? We've said Mark Hamill's fantastic. Like this. I didn't know. I'm like, really? That's Mark Hamill.

[00:33:31] Like that's Luke Skywalker. Cause he's been Luke Skywalker. Or the Joker. Even when there's a Joker, he's kind of Luke Skywalker. He's not. He actually has a voice actor. He was pretty good. He's a pretty good voice actor. He is. Yeah. But you know, I like to see him stretching him himself as he gets older as an actor, which I think he's taking some great, great, um, roles, but yeah. So, uh, the cast is fantastic. In fact, they're perfect.

[00:34:00] The story and the supernatural part of this, albeit a soft part of the film does help to answer some of the questions for what we see in the third act. But until the end, we really don't know everything at the end. And I'm going to say, I think different people, like I think Murray might have a different feeling about what the, his take is on this. My wife, who we went, Murray, my wife and I all went this together. I know her thoughts and feelings. We talked about it on the way home.

[00:34:30] Yeah. No, she didn't enjoy it. She didn't. It wasn't impact her. Yeah. It didn't impact her. On the way. The same as it did to me. I, I think this is so far, probably my second or third favorite movie of this year. Yeah. I absolutely love this film. It was Mondo for me. Murray. Wow. My turn. Yeah, baby. For a film that started off with the end of the entire universe.

[00:34:58] This was surprisingly upbeat. Don't get me wrong. And there's a lot of tragedy and sadness too. What Chuck teaches us is that with little rain, there is sunshine too. Everyone talks about Tom Hiddleston and he is great, especially in that 15 minute dance scene. Yeah. That was so good. But it's really the young Chuck in the final act or act one. Yeah. And his wise old grandpa, Albie.

[00:35:29] Yes. Played by Mark Hamill. Their relationship was truly wonderful to watch along with Mia, Sarah as his grandmother. Yeah. Where did that come from? Chuck to dance. Yeah. It was actually really nice to see her again since she retired from acting 10 years ago. Wow. Way to come back to work on this film. Yeah. With the director. Like she had retired. She was gone. I wonder what made him think of her and just, I don't know.

[00:35:59] For those of you who don't know, kudos to Mike Flanagan. She was the girlfriend in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Yeah. She sure was. She has done a lot. Although ironically, she actually played Harley Quinn. Oh, really? In a TV show. That's funny. Interesting. Yeah. So Harley Quinn and the Joker together again. Exactly. Yeah, no, she played Harley Quinn. Well played. It was called Birds of Prey. It was basically. Maybe that's why he brought her back. See, this is why you're on the podcast, Murray. I never, in a million years,

[00:36:29] I never would have known that. That's like, that right there was just the most entertaining part of this whole podcast. There you go. Joker and Harley Quinn together again. Overall, the cast was amazing. No kidding. This film wasn't without issues though. What? I thought it was a bit too long. What? I'm not a fan of telling stories in reverse order. Yeah, it's not your thing. I never have been. It felt like watching a combination of The Truman Show, Big Fish, and Benjamin Button at times. That sounds wonderful.

[00:36:59] It does. The first part, called Act Three, was pretty funny. Nobody knew who Chuck was, but his signs and billboards kept popping up everywhere. It was also enjoyable to see civilization falling apart, losing internet and cell phone service, and the degradation of the roads. Yeah. As great as this film was, it didn't quite get to Armando. Definitely a high man though. So,

[00:37:29] I didn't like it as much as you guys, but no, it was really good. Well, Murray doesn't like, Murray likes linear stories. I do very much. So, it makes sense. I understand why. And it is a bit of a cerebral film. I found it very cerebral. It had a lot of dark moments. Yeah. All right, Bracey Pants. This was just a joy from start to finish. Every, every actor in it too. I mean, just the, the little scene with Matthew Lillard, who knew he had that in him.

[00:37:57] He was so unbelievably good. And then David Dasmalchian. Oh yeah. I laughed my ass off. I know. Their whole diatribe with Pornhub. Pornhub. Pornhub is down. How can he, it's just cruel. It was just so funny. It was at a parent teacher conference. Yeah. Pornhub. I mean, like there were just no, for me, he, Mike Flanagan just made like almost,

[00:38:27] I think he made a perfect movie. I, I, there's, I had so much joy watching this. Yeah. And you're right though. You can't really talk a lot about it because like, that's the whole thing I want. I do. And I want to say so much. I want to talk about all these individual scenes. Yeah. And also, I don't want to wreck anything for people. I really don't. Yeah. I think you need to go in this with, with fresh eyes. Yeah. So I'm going to say it's an amazing film. The performances are fantastic. The music is so, so good. Yeah.

[00:38:57] It really, I don't think it could have, I don't think you could have taken this story and made it any better. Or different. Like I, I think the way they did it was good. Kudos to Mike Flanagan, who's obviously got like a major boner for Stephen King. Cause you know, he did Dr. Sleep. Yeah. He did the Gerald's game. Yeah. Gerald's game, which by the way, it's, it's, it's, it's okay. I mean, it's math, but it's the type of story that people thought couldn't be put to film. Yes. And be effective. And it was.

[00:39:27] Yep. And I think this one, probably if you would have read it, I don't think you might've thought that this could be really made effectively. And it's more than effective. Well, but he, he, he just made such a good movie. This is a total mondo. Look at the, look at the Stephen King films that are not horror films. Yeah. Like even misery. I don't really consider like misery is a mind fuck film too. Right? Like, like when,

[00:39:56] when somebody can take a Stephen King film and squeeze the heart of Shawshank Redemption, right? Like the green mile, like the green miles, another one. It's just like, I like Stephen King's non horror films a lot better than any of his actual horror films. He's just, he's, he's such a brilliant writer and, and then people get him if the director gets him and can bring it to the screen. It's, it's just such a joy. Yeah. And, and obviously Mike Flanagan has great affection for Stephen King's writing.

[00:40:26] I bet you they get along well too. Like I've never seen anybody. Yeah. No, I, for Stephen King to trust him. I know they do. I think King may have been one of the producers. Yeah. King is on board with this guy. There's no question. He definitely gave approval anyway. Yeah. But man, I, once again though, man, every performance in this is just, just so good. Oh man. Apparently the people at TIFF also agree. Carl Lumbly as, as the, the, the, the, the retirement, not retirement,

[00:40:55] the funeral home director guy. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. How good was he? Yeah. He was pretty good. I just like every scene in this just had, just, just jaw dropping performances. And just, it was so good. Idris, but the other guy, Chowatler. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The, the main actor in the first one, but you know it. Yeah. Chowatel. Edgifor. Yeah. That's, that's the guy. He's always good. He's always good. Yeah. But yeah, good movie. No, go see it.

[00:41:25] By the way, it breaks my heart, but this thing wasn't like, Didn't do the business that it should have. Oh my God. Yeah. Like the fact that, how to house train your dragon. How to house train your dragon. Oh God. As you may know, we had a Friday the 13th this month. What? We did. For some reason,

[00:41:52] all the major networks and movie channels, and even our local art house theater, decided to show horror films. In particular, Friday the 13th. I don't know if they, did they show that one? Cause now nobody on TV showed it. That's weird. Everything except there was like, what you call it? Saw and a bunch of other ones. But even though I don't like horror movies, especially slasher films, I decided to watch the classic Prom Night. What?

[00:42:22] This film from 1980 stars Leslie Nielsen. Yes. And the queen of Scream herself, Jamie Lee Curtis. Indeed. It started off pretty well with creepy ass kids yelling, kill, kill, kill. Yes. Over and over until somebody actually falls out of a window and dies. Nice. Nothing better for Prom Night. Years later, apparently these kids are all like in high school. Cause they were 12 at the time or whatever. Where all the kids,

[00:42:52] they've grown up to be self-centered, self-indulgent teenagers, getting ready for the prom. Here's where the problem is. They were horrible, despicable human beings. That's right, Mary Lou. Um, I wanted every one of them to die painful and bloody deaths. Even Jamie Lee, whose character was so shallow and annoying that I wanted to see her dead too. Biggest problem,

[00:43:20] there wasn't any killing for at least an hour into this 85 minute film. Yes. Nothing. Just that thing at the start. Another problem was the cinematography. I know it's an old film, but every scene in the last 30 minutes was dark and grainy and out of focus. I liked it. I couldn't follow the action. I couldn't see what the hell was going on. You should have asked us. And I could barely see the death scenes.

[00:43:48] You should have asked us if you should see this or the second one first. Cause the second one would have been for you. I'm getting to that. Oh, okay. Second one would have been for you. It was better on a bigger screen in the old days. Leslie Nielsen, who made a career out of doing comedy after this film, was completely wasted as the principal slash father. He had like two scenes. There weren't enough scenes with him and I didn't like Jamie Lee characters at all. So yeah, this was a big old rage. Man, I never hated it. Oh my God. Now watch.

[00:44:18] If I didn't get enough. I also watched. What? Mary Lou. From night two. Luckily, this had nothing to do with the original. No, it didn't. And there was a lot more to like about this. Yes. No, there wasn't. It was still bad. And there was way too much religious crap. I can't believe you watched both of them. That's crazy. They were on back to back. That's awesome. However, the spirit of Mary Lou,

[00:44:44] the prom queen possessing the main killer character and killing everyone was deeply sad. And bloody. Oh my God. Then there's Michael Ironside. Yes. Solid as usual in the early role as the principal slash former boyfriend of Mary Lou, who tries to stop her in this new form. There was also a juicy shower scene, which I'm just going to leave there.

[00:45:11] As much as I don't like horror movies or slasher films, I kind of enjoyed Mary Lou. I knew you would. So that one gets a meh. Nice. Great soundtrack too. Yup. So yeah, that's what I did with my Friday night. That's, that's on the side. Temperature rising. Vision blurring. Rage taking over.

[00:45:38] If everybody remembers my rage from last week.

[00:46:10] Nobody does. Okay. Well, I'm going to remind you. My rage this week is that we saw three movies in cinema. We saw, in fact, it was a very well balanced episode because we had rage. We had meh and we had Mondo, at least for you and I. Yup. But we know we did not have was another Vietnamese film. So for that reason, this week I'm raging. Now, that being said,

[00:46:41] cause I want to see a Vietnamese film every week now. I don't think they make that many. Yeah. Well, they, I'm sure they do. I mean, there's a new week. We get two or three English speaking. I mean, how many Vietnamese people are in the world? It's probably a lot. They can probably make a movie a week and I should be seeing them. Okay. That's my rage. Now, next week, surprisingly, I'm going to be very excited because I've talked Bryce into going to see a Bollywood film.

[00:47:09] And we don't normally go to Bollywood films unless it's an epic adventure. What the hell was that four hour thing that you guys went to? RRR. That's the one. One of the greatest Bollywood films ever made. I still can't believe how entertaining RRR was. next week, I'm not going to tell you what we're seeing, but I can tell you, when you look, when I looked at the trailer, I'm like, this looks like it could be the RRR of this year. What it looks like.

[00:47:38] It looks like a bloody good time. It does look like a bloody good time. And if there is not Bollywood dancing in this, which this genre should never normally have, but if it doesn't have it, I'm going to be a little disappointed. That's all I'm going to say. So, my rage this week, not enough Vietnamese movies. That's all I'm going to say. That's all I want to see is Vietnamese films. That's fair, I guess. So,

[00:48:27] typically, I'm a little annoyed by the weekend box office, but I think I'm more so annoyed this week than like for a long, long time. Because of Life of Chuck? Yeah, because How to Train Your Dragon did over 40 times the dollars at Life of Chuck. Over 40 times. 84.6 million compared to 2.3. Like, what in the bloody hell? And here's what makes me even more angry. Are you ready for this? Yes.

[00:48:57] Karate Kid Legends did over double. And it's what? Second or third week? I don't even know. Second weekend? Third week. Third week. Yeah. And it's third week. It did over double. 5.3 million compared to 2.3 million. What is going on? Come on, people. You know what? This is the problem that we've been talking about with Hollywood films. Okay? is that

[00:49:25] they have nothing original to bring to the table unless it's A24 to be honest. Well, no. Our problem shouldn't be with them. Our problem should be with the public. Keep on buying tickets for this crap. But you're right. But who's... Okay, so who's buying tickets for that? The adults and kids. The adults are not going to the cinemas anymore. Like that 20... Well, let's just say 15-year-olds to... Let's go 35-year-olds

[00:49:55] don't go to the cinemas. They want to stream stuff. Stream everything. And parents that have their kids that are in their 35s and older are bringing kids to these movies. That's the only people that's filling the seats. If we didn't have all this crap even though we hate it if we didn't have all the crap that comes to the cinemas the cinemas would be closed right now because they can't make... Like, I'm agreeing with you. I'm pissed that Life of Chuck didn't have 10 billion views this week. But

[00:50:24] you know what? Just keep allowing us to see it. Yeah, but that's the problem, Jim. If these movies keep on doing this bad a box office they're not going to exist anymore either. Well, that's why we keep having to allowing horrible Disney CGI remakes to keep coming out. That's the only thing that keeps the cinemas... At the end of the day a movie's got to make money though. I mean they can only... Because if this is a way that's like

[00:50:54] this movie costs some money to make there's no question. Yeah. 2.3 million in its opening weekend is not... Yeah, it's not going to make its money back. It's not going to make its money back. No, it's not. So, okay. So, I mean we've had this discussion many times. Like, the movies that are put out by Disney that are not original content I would rather replace that crap because we know we're going to already hate it. I mean occasionally we get something we like. Let's go see a Bollywood film.

[00:51:23] Maybe there's going to be stuff in there we're going to go like you know what? Like, we should see more of that unless... You're getting to the point where maybe we should just turn our podcast into just anything that's not North American. Or if it's not A24 or... It's A24. It's got to be A24. We've got to make a list. And films abroad. Yeah, films abroad A24 and Neon. Neon's usually pretty good. Yeah, there are some production companies. Actually, that's kind of funny is there's like there's a handful

[00:51:53] of production companies that you can't necessarily count on but you can kind of count on. Like, even to a certain extent there's like the... Black Bear, for example. Film Nation. Yeah. Actually, it's pretty high percentage of quality stuff. Mongrel. Mongrel's usually pretty good. Mongrel's pretty good usually. So, I mean, but there's some that you just want to avoid like Blumhouse and Disney. So... Or Disney subsidiary. Yeah. Marvel, Star Wars. Yeah, Marvel, Star Wars.

[00:52:23] They're all bad. Man. Anyways. Anyway, you're... So, yeah, my rage is that Life of Chuck didn't do what it should have. Well, but my rage is more that how to train your dragon. How does it do 40 times? I could accept double but 40 times? There's a lot more Karens taking their kids to those. Good God. What am I going to do with my kid on the weekend? I don't even like my kid. I'll take him to the movie. Take him to Life of Chuck for crying out loud. No wonder

[00:52:52] all our kids are so dumb. Taking him to How to Train Your Freaking Dragon. They probably watched it on Disney+. Don't take him to somewhere they might learn something about humanity. Take him to bloody How to Train Your Dragon. That spot's intelligent. By the way, top two movies. How to Train Your Dragon? Lilo and Stitch. My God. All right, Murray. Anytime.

[00:53:22] That's all you got? That's all I got. Well, he could go on for hours. I was looking up here. He could go out for hours. It's exciting. Last week on Rage or Dare, the boys decided to come to Uncle Casey to get their rage and I must say that I did deliver.

[00:53:51] They chose the 2007 remake of the 1986 classic Rutger Hauer film The Hitcher. And FYI, he's not in this one, boys. This week, it's Bryce's turn to Rage or Dare. What? Let's hope that Jim gets it right this week. Right, Bryce? I don't think so. Come on, Jim. Now, let's check in with the boys and see if Sean Bean dies in this remake just like he does in pretty much every other film he's in

[00:54:20] or if instead he does all the killing. Side note, I recently sat behind Sophia Bush who was in this remake on a flight back to New York. I refrained from telling her what I thought of this movie because I don't need any restraining orders. All right, then. You want me to go first? Yeah. All right. Let's talk about sex, baby. Let's talk about

[00:54:49] you and me. No, we're going to talk about The Hitcher. Ah, okay. So, of course, I had to watch the original before I watched this. Like, I saw The Hitcher when it came out. Yeah, I saw it on VHS like soon after it came out. Yeah, like late 80s. See, Thomas Howell and Rutger Hauer in the original are great. Just two dudes mano a mano down the road mixing it up who are both at the top of their games.

[00:55:19] So, as I started watching this dare which is a remake and right from the beginning we know this is not just a remake because we get a boyfriend, girlfriend, couple involved. Wasn't the original it was like a waitress? Well, yeah, but that part, yes, sort of. but the original the waitress doesn't come in until later. It's like after he does the runs

[00:55:49] into him he has to kick him out of the car. That's right. So, it's all coming back to me. I didn't rewatch it. I wanted to but I, yeah. You should have because you would have, well, I remember enjoying the original even though I remember it was all I remember like I remember a lot about it but I do remember it being a little bit silly and Rutger Hauer is almost like superhuman in it. But, but yeah, yeah, okay, anyways, go ahead. I don't know. All right. I'm just babbling. Yeah, you are like normal,

[00:56:19] but that's okay. So, yeah, Rutger Hauer was so creepy in the original. He's so creepy. He's so good. Yeah, he's beyond. Rutger Hauer is always good. He's always creepy. He's just like he was kind of channeling his Blade Runner but even more bleedier runnery. So, this one we get a boyfriend, girlfriend couple involved and it starts like most rom-com horror rip-offs. You know, especially when they are produced by Michael Bay. It starts out

[00:56:49] like a music video. I was produced by Michael Bay. I thought, oh man, I'm in trouble. I know. It starts out like a music video. They're going on a road trip in his souped up muscle car but wait, they actually write this into the story that the girlfriend has to stop to go to the bathroom which is obviously foreshadowing for something, right? But no, it's not. Like, what the fucking point is having her go to the bathroom? Like, it made no sense.

[00:57:19] They didn't add anything. They just said, they made it sound like, oh, you're... They added some time to the runtime. They're like trying to make her out like she's the bad person or something because she had to go to the bathroom. Like, it was just the whole... It was pointless. It was like seven minutes they added to this film which added nothing to it. Mm-hmm. And the difference is in this also, other than the whole rom-com aspect of it, is that instead of picking up a hitcher, they almost run

[00:57:49] him over as he stopped with his four-ways on. So right away I'm kind of like... Huh? I'm like, Sean Bean has a perfectly good reason for wanting to kill them. Yep. In the other one... I'm on Team Sean Bean. I'm on Team Sean Bean too. Like, they almost kill him and then instead of making sure he's okay, they're like, let's peel out. Yeah. So like, if I wasn't a murderer, like in Rutger Hauer's case, it's like, he is a killer. Yep.

[00:58:19] He's motivated by this. This is his thing. In this one, I got the feeling it was more like, you know what? Fuck you two. You almost killed me and now I'm going to kill you. Although later, on we learned that he is kind of a killer. He's a bad guy. Yeah. I was still rooting for him. Not going to lie. They keep the same major line from the first film though that he uses, which is, I want to die, which in the original, it made sense. In this one, it was like they added it because they had to have the same line.

[00:58:50] Okay. Yeah. They get him out of the car in the similar way, like, except for there's two of them and in the other one, they basically punt him out of the car. But, because in the original, they didn't have cell phones also. In this one, they had to add a whole cell phone subplot to it, which again, don't know why. Didn't really work. Some of the scenes follow the original, like the family in the car that he hitches with, but in the original, it was just done better.

[00:59:20] And they have all this extra, and I'm putting this in heavy quotes, added in by having a second person in comparison to the original. It just kind of slows things down a bit and it's like, I didn't feel that they were connected in any way, like, this is girlfriend, boyfriend, they're rooting together like it's a team. In the original, when they did have him kind of hook up with the waitress later, it kind of felt more natural and real to me. Like, it was,

[00:59:50] it felt like there was a teamwork there, but in this, it didn't. All the story is following similar plot. They lock them up because they were covered in blood. Same deal, he breaks into the police station yet again, but this is 2007, not 1986. So the concepts don't fly because they kind of have everything captured on video. Like, all they got to do is go back and then right away you know that he's not the killer anyway. So it changed

[01:00:19] the whole feel of the film because in the original, it's like... They tried to be true to the original probably in like the wrong time. Like, there's places they could have been true to the original and would have worked, but they want to be true to the original in places that it didn't work. Yes, exactly. That's, you exactly nailed it. And I'm sorry, Sean Bean, I love you, but you are no Rutger Hauer. Like, I was not intimidated by Sean Bean at all. I mean, even, um,

[01:00:50] yeah, some of the, so many points they seem to add, but they just did nothing ultimately. Plus, the original, all the scenes transitioned easily as much as you know it's tough for him always showing up. Like, Rutger Hauer is always showing up and you're like, how is it doing it? But it seemed natural. In this one, it didn't seem natural. It just seemed like, okay, that doesn't make sense because he was way over there and now he's here. And all the extra again, I just kept putting the, there's so much extra in this

[01:01:19] that they didn't need to know. They didn't need this at all. It's not even close to being as good. And when you're comparing the two, um, original is just so, so much better. Like, there was a couple of good scenes in this and I remember when I watched this in cinemas when it came out and I thought the truck scene in this was better because you actually saw him tear in half better. Like in the second one, when they tear him in half. Yeah,

[01:01:49] it was good. Um, so, the question I have though is because I saw the original and it's so much better than this. I have a tough time filtering. If I didn't know anything from the first, like it's really hard when you know, there's a and I can tell you, Jim, you still would have hated it because I've I'm, I'm so far away from the original that I, as I'm watching it, some stuff was coming back, but I wasn't really even comparing the two. Cause you just can't connect to these

[01:02:18] characters. So there's yeah, this wouldn't have mattered. You still would have hated. Okay. Well then, um, yeah, I, it's a rage Casey. Well done. I mean, we know Casey's a huge fan of Rutger Hauer. So yeah, you know, anything that's going to be made with Rutger Hauer, anybody with half a brain is a huge fan of Rutger Hauer. Cause he's awesome. Um, so that I, well, so I was watching this and I was like jotting down stuff and not, I don't even know what the heck I was talking about. So let's see if you

[01:02:48] can decipher what I, so I'm, I'm watching this. Apparently there was a CGI bunny, like right off the bat, which just looked ridiculous. Do you even remember that? Wasn't there, there was a CGI bunny and there was CGI bugs too. Bugs? Yeah. Right in the first like two minutes of the movie. And I'm like, okay, we're starting off with bad CGI. Like we're talking with 2007, this is 2007 horrible CGI bunny, horrible CGI they haven't gotten any better. Oh,

[01:03:18] right on the road. Cause the bunny was hopping across the, then I, then I wrote don't say anything. Does that mean anything to you? Why would I write that? I don't, Oh, you mean when he was asking him like, tell me you want to die? Is that it? Don't say anything. I don't know. This is kind of a fun game. This I do remember, the crushed truck off the rocks. Yes. So they're walking along. How in the hell did he get this truck up on these rocks? Yes. And throw

[01:03:48] it off a cliff and it just misses them. There's no road there. No, there's nothing there. How did this thing get up there? I'm very confused. Movie magic. It was movie magic. How many times do I have to tell you this? And then they're just walking along and all of a sudden this truck just falls from the sky and just misses them. And then Sean Bean's nowhere to be found either. He's like, uh, throw it off the cliff with his big muscles. So then I wrote dropped by a CGI dragon. It probably

[01:04:18] was. So then I wrote lock. Then she's in a shed. Does that mean anything to you? She did go into a shed. She did go. Here's the thing I do remember about that shed when she stand at the door and there was literally a spider web and a plastic spider. Yes. And you could totally tell that it was a plastic spider. But not a CGI spider. And it's just sitting, it's not moving at all. She's moving around and the spiders just stay and put. I was like,

[01:04:47] what is going on? And the fact that he, this guy like just, he goes in and he's one man and he just takes on all of the cops. He goes through a cop shop and everybody's dead. Well, that's what makes it harder to believe. In 1986, you can believe it because it was kind of like a small town sheriff and that he could kill easily a couple people. This was like a full cop shop with modern day weapons. So then I jotted this down and I guess this I know what

[01:05:17] it's referring to, but it's another thing that just like why is like how does this make sense? All of a sudden they cut to them having like sexy times in the shower. Yes. Even though they've got this killer good like after them, like I'm sorry, they're not going to take a shower together. Number one, one's going to be standing guard and like they need if they really need to stink less. Yep. They're going to be out there one on the lookout. They're not going to just both be in the freaking shower. It made zero sense whatsoever.

[01:05:48] Then I wrote down how many you killed. Does that mean anything to you? Like in total, like how many he killed? I don't know. Maybe. That makes no sense. All right. Then I put slits his throat. What is that referring to? He slit someone's throat. Okay. All right. So, uh, why were they following him? Like that made no sense. Like why did they go out and follow? Why wouldn't they just be trying to get away from him? because at one point I think they started following him in a

[01:06:18] car or something? I don't know. Because it was stupid? Okay. So then, then we got to the scene where they open the back door of like the transport truck. That's like, okay. How did they do that? They don't have keys to it. It was a transport truck. You can't just walk up to it and just open the door. It's got a latch on the outside. Yeah, but it's locked, Murray. Maybe it wasn't. They're not going to get out. They're at a truck stop. They're going to lock up their stuff.

[01:06:48] Not they're Unless it's an empty. And then we get one of those stupid scenes where the van blows up and the dude just walks away and there's like, doesn't even flinch, which just annoys the hell out of me every time I see it. Like right beside him. And how did she kick out the back door? Like she literally just kicked out the back door that she was in the transport truck at one point. Is that what it was? Movie magic. And then she just like kicked like everything was just stupid in this. Like everything I wrote down, I wrote it

[01:07:17] down because I was annoyed by it. Some of it makes no sense now that I'm looking at it again. I wish I would have written maybe more detail. But you know, I'm watching the movie. I'm trying to search for something in it, but there was nothing to find in it. It was awful. And I'm sorry, it's a tough act to follow when you've got Rutger Hauer in the original. Rutger Hauer, you know, like I can watch like the worst Rutger Hauer movies and they're still awesome. is some pretty bad. Yeah, like Blind Fury is not a good movie, but Rutger Hauer is so awesome

[01:07:47] in it. It's like, how can you not like it? He's a blind guy and he kicks ass. He's just Isn't he in Hobo with a shotgun too? Yes. totally in Hobo and he's awesome in Hobo with a shotgun, by the way. Buffy the vampire. Oh, he's amazing in that. But that's an amazing film, that one, man. It's got Pee Wee Herman in it. It is so, so good. It's the best. But yeah, this was awful. It was a total rage. Casey, you're killing me with your bag. You're the only bag that I dread right now because I know that it's going to be

[01:08:17] awful. So, okay, the director, Dave Myers, he has directed, I can't even count the number, he's directed like 850 music videos. And then he has a movie called Foolish from 1999 and he has a couple of things on TV and then somebody gave him a chance to direct this movie. and then I'm pretty sure he went right back to music

[01:08:46] videos. That's where, yeah, this was awful. And a lot of it is his direction too. Like, there's just stuff that cutaway stuff and just like, there's no flow to it. Murray's going to be excited about this. He directed the music video with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Tom Petty and Jelly Roll because I guess they remade Last Dance with Mary Jane. Oh, for crying out. That needed to be done.

[01:09:17] I haven't even heard it and I hope I never do. Well, if you love the Hitcher as much as we did. you got to add a little jelly roll to everything. Yep, absolutely. Okay, well, let's see what you get in my bag, little mister. I got a pick out of your bag. Here it is. And you've gone through it now. I've gone through it. There's a couple in there that had like $12,000 but they did have a release.

[01:09:51] Did we not do Look Who's Talking 2 yet? Nope. You're sure? I looked it up. I think we might have said Look Who's Talking Now, but we didn't do Look Who's Talking 2. Isn't this the one with like Roseanne? Yes, as the other baby. As the other baby. Yeah. Right. Is it Bruce Willis and Roseanne? Yeah, Bruce Willis and then Travolta and Crusty Alley were the parents. Oh, fantastic. All right. Thanks a lot, Jim.

[01:10:21] You jerk. Is this not a kids movie? Nope. All right. Didn't we take that out? What? No, I think we did. No, we didn't. Yeah, we did. No, we didn't. We took it out for going to them, not for Rage or Dare. Gotcha. Because then you're going to get a bunch of freaking Hannah Montana garbage. I don't know. She hasn't had it. But I don't know. A bunch of kiddie movies that I'm just bad. Spy Kids. Spy Kids.

[01:10:51] 1, 2, decided we weren't going down that. Okay. Well, you're going to see this because, you know, it's adult acting. Thanks, Ragers, for listening. Thanks to the extended Film Rage family you can find in our show notes. Thanks to Casey from the Nerdy Photographer and our voice of Rager Dare and our god of rage. Rage Find us on social media everywhere at FilmRage YYC. Check out everything at FilmRage YYC.com including our merch site for Redbubble and TeePublic where I also want to make this a raging blast for all listeners. So please comment, like, subscribe, and send us emails to FilmRageCalgary at gmail.com dare to see

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