Episode 350 - The Breadloser

[00:00:04] It's time to feel the rage. The 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, part of Film Rage Crew which also includes Jim. Hey there Jim. Uh, hey hey Brass. And also we have the Merman. What's going on Merman? Tell me something. Life sucks, let's move on.

[00:00:30] Alright, so with the introductions out of the way, let's rage on. As per Murray's request. That's right. Well, thank you for all of us supporting us. If you love our independent podcast, please like, subscribe, share and give us a rating on your listening platform or you can dare us to see a terrible film and if it played anywhere in the world in a cinema, we'll watch it. Now, let's get to rage and...

[00:01:00] Amazing moment. What would the amazing moment? Predict. Will he predict the rage or will he predict the mondo? Will he tell us all what Jim and Bryson are at the main times? Better watch out kids cause here he goes. Ooooo. He's coming swimming and drowning to you.

[00:01:29] Swim Murray, drown Murray. Swim Murray. Swim Murray, drown Murray. Don't drown Murray. Drown cause of all this fucking rain that we have going on. I don't think it's ever rained for like three straight days like this. Like ever. I remember the whole month of June a few years ago where the park downtown was flooding. There was sunny. No, no. There wasn't flooding, Murray. I'm saying it has rained for three straight... No, no. Believe me, I know. There were sunny breaks though.

[00:01:59] Like there is not... Yeah, we got... Like the clouds have parted and then it rained again. Oh, I know. This... The clouds have not parted once. Is this the end times? It is the end times. It's the end times. Sure it is. That's what it is. Um... I'm not saying that it hasn't rained every single day. Did... I'm saying it's never rained steady for three days. Yeah. And with no snow break at all. Yeah. So I wanna... I just wanna ask, were you approached by some form of God to build an ark? Uh, no, but it'd probably be easier than where I'm living now. Would you...

[00:02:28] Did you get approached? By the way, I just got a notification here that there's a rain warning in effect. No. Really? Just so you know. Like three days ago? No, right now. No. My computer just... The computer just said... My computer just said... My computer says rain warning in effect. There you go. I was like, alright. Watch out it's raining. Well, I already saw some flooding. It's like... It was a little late, isn't it? It was a little late, isn't it? I already saw some flooding in the south there, so uh, yeah. Well, they did so... If you're in the city of Calgary listening to us... Talk about your Monday morning quarterbacks. They are... Yeah.

[00:02:58] They are saying... Like, there is sandbags all along the Bow River now. Oh, yeah. So, they're afraid it's gonna breach again. Yeah. We're gonna get another... You think from like... What was that? 13 years ago, they would've learned their lesson and actually, I don't know, built up the... They've spent a couple of billion dollars. They've spent the money. Anyway. I think it was enough. We're fine. Anyway. They said it was a hundred year flood. So, is this... By the way, nobody cares. So, let's move on. Yeah. I'm sure glad I'm half fish. Put it that way. Yeah, exactly.

[00:03:28] Uh, yeah. So, according to this, I've got one, two, three, four movies. Four. Which apparently you guys all saw in one day. Uh, no. We saw the three of them. I saw three. You said you saw a fourth one. No, I saw the... No, I thought you were coming to that one at the same time we were watching a different one. That was my misconduct. No, I thought you were going to see that one. No. As well. I would've, but many wanted to see it. Because the text I got from you on the Thursday said you were going with somebody else. I did. So, that's why I went alone. I did.

[00:03:58] Yeah. Anyway, speaking of... Like a heartburn? Pressure. Pressure. Alone? Under pressure. Pressure. That's pain. It's World War II and it's Brendan Fraser as Ike. Mm-hmm. The future president and I guess he was a general in the world in the war. And it's about weather. Yep. And D-Day. That's exactly what it's about. Yeah. Leave it to the British to make a movie. Yeah. A war movie about weather. Talking about weather for 90 minutes.

[00:04:26] And like two minutes of the actual D-Day. Yes. Um, yeah. Double Mint. There was too much of the D-Day actually for my liking. The two minutes hits. At the end of the movie. I did not need to see any of that. Well, I already saw it. Yeah. We've already seen it like 5,000 times in 5,000 other movies. Spielberg already did it. That's right. We already saw in grave detail what happened when they got off those books. So yeah. Double Mint. Uh, the bread winner. With Nate Bargotzi. I like bread. Who I'm sorry. He's not funny.

[00:04:56] He thinks he's funny, but he's not. I like bread. I've seen him as himself and he's not, not funny. Hey, you said that. I couldn't even imagine him. An hour and a half of a movie? An hour and a half of a movie. An hour and a half of a movie. I mean, yes, it's based on his life and with his wife and kids, blah, blah, blah. But Kamil Nanjiani's funny. Yeah, that's different. Will Forte's funny. Will Forte's funny. Eh, that's phenomenal. Anyway, the bread winner. Mr. Johansson's funny. He's like a rom-com family type thing. That's what you told me. I didn't even know he was married to her.

[00:05:26] I think maybe Jim might have found something about it. Meh. And Bryce would have raged because I don't think it's this kind of movie. Uh, Back Rooms. I read the description of this. Yes. As soon as I saw alternate realities or whatever. This was a really short movie. I'm out. I'm out. It's like, that's no, no thanks. Bryce loved the pacing of this movie. And originally I was gonna think you guys maybe gave us some mad, but considering how

[00:05:54] much, how much people didn't like this, yet it still made all kinds of money at the box office. Yeah, it's like, it was crushed at the box office. And how confusing it was and the fact that it was directed by a 20 year old YouTuber, TikToker, whatever. Yes, a TikTokean. Uh, yeah, I'm gonna go double Mondo for you guys. Alright. Sorry, people didn't like this movie? No, it had a lot of bad reviews. Cause it was confusing and it just didn't seem to go anywhere is what they all said. Oh, it went somewhere. I don't know, I didn't see it. Oh, it went somewhere. I would have never watched it.

[00:06:24] It was short, but it went somewhere. Um, Tuner, which I thought was some kind of... What are you laughing at? I thought Tuner was some kind of, you know, thing with sound. The guy's like... Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is. He's like deaf. He's a piano tuner. Or he has like a hearing... He has a disease that I can't remember. Yeah, no, it's... It's a heist film. No. Yeah, it is. Yeah, there's heisting in it. It's heisting in it. So, because it's got heist... A heist film is there's like one big heist that they build to.

[00:06:53] It's described as a heist film. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I disagree. I'm gonna say that from the trailer... I'm not saying I... I said call it that. Yeah, I said people call it that. Well, people are stupid. That's what the trailer leads you to believe. There you go. I don't think that's the truth either. And Dustin Hoffman who... Yeah, I don't know how you guys feel about him. I kinda like him, but... I like Dustin Hoffman. I'm gonna go rage for Jim and meh for Bryce. Alright. Wow. Deal with it. Wow.

[00:07:21] Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Pressure. Do, do, do, do, do. Do, do, do, do, do, do. Pressure like what they were under on D-Day and pressure like the weather that we're under today. Okay. Um, man, this title for a movie could not have been a better name for this than pressure. I mean, it's like so... You were under pressure. Yeah. It's so fitting. So many layers to that. The press...

[00:07:51] Just, just to the name of the movie. I know, right? Think about the layers. We could talk about just the name for hours. Ah! It was a 1072 hours. 72 hours. In that movie. I mean, that's right, yeah. I think that was the length of the movie. No, no, no. No, it was a tight movie. It was true. The movie took place over three days. Yeah. It was tense, man. It did. So of note, unlike Bryce, I am a huge war movie guy. I used to love war movies.

[00:08:19] I'm not saying I still love war movies. I'm saying that's a lot of where my history was, watching war movies with my dad. So, yeah. And history, of course, is also a passion of mine. I did already know that the reason that they were able to land, which I think most of us did, was because of the break in the weather. But to see it unfold on screen, the tension of the opposing forces, both of nature and egos, was interesting to see.

[00:08:48] Not saying it was great to see, just interesting. Just like most biopics, this has a bunch of stuff, like a battle of minds with the weathermen, a.k.a. meteorologists. That stuff all seemed a little Hollywoodized and corny, but the performance by Andrew Scott as James Stagg was worth the price of admission alone. There was some suspense with the will they, won't they, with the weather.

[00:09:18] It's tough, though, when they do that sort of thing, when we already know the dates that things happen. So it's kind of like. I was just amazed by how fast the weather seemed to blow in. Yeah. Like he walked from the wherever the headquarters to the church where everybody was at church. That's weather for you. Yeah. And like, he sat there for five minutes, watched them. And then like five minutes later, all of a sudden the storm blew in. Yeah. We live in Alberta. You've never been out there where it's sunny and then all of a sudden. 15 minutes? Yeah. I don't think so. Like in five minutes.

[00:09:48] Like five minutes. I don't know what you're talking about. You can see the clouds blow right off. That seems a little hunky. Well. Okay. Anyway. It. I'll. Apparently you've never been outside. Apparently not. He does like it inside. Not in England, apparently. Yeah. Or France. I guess it was France. Well, the weather does change. They say that you can have four seasons in one day in Calgary. Yes. I agree with that. Yeah. So, um, yeah.

[00:10:15] And they actually didn't spend a lot of time on the war side of this event. No. What I did appreciate is that it was a tight hour and 40 minute film telling a specific time in history instead of bloating it all out with a bunch of stuff that either didn't happen or didn't need to be in the story. I mean, there is stuff that's in here that there's no fictional evidence for.

[00:10:39] And to be honest, his whole wife thing being in St. Mary's didn't need as it was being bombed did nothing to move the story. I don't know if that was, I don't know if that was. Maybe it actually happened. Maybe it did. Or change in much. So, so I did look into it. Okay. And? Um, there's no, there's no actual evidence that his son was born during the D-Day event. He, he did have a son that was born in that year. Okay.

[00:11:08] But that's the only thing that they have historical evidence for. So he has, he might've had a pregnant wife. He did have a, no, he, yeah. Well, it might have. Well at that time of day, he would have had to have because it went deep. It had to be. She was pregnant. Maybe she had to be rushed to the hospital for some other reason. She's either. And didn't have the baby. She could have, but the point is, is that that, that moment in the film was Hollywoodized. It kind of made Ike seem like a dick because he didn't seem to care about the guy, the guy's wife.

[00:11:38] I think he cared about everybody. Yeah. You don't put one of the head of everybody else. But also, so did our. But he couldn't even call home. Our weather man, our weather man. He had a job to do. Yeah. And they, they already didn't know there was a leave. A five minute phone call. What was calling home going to do? Yeah. See how she is. It's not going to have. You're so sticky gooey inside. Whatever. Yeah. You're gooey inside.

[00:12:05] That's there's going to be gooey inside later on today in the podcast. So don't you worry. You guys are the ones with wives and girlfriends, but even I cared about. Yeah. So what he, so here's the thing. If you're in a war situation where they have a closed loop. Yeah. No one can talk to anybody. It's just the way it is. It's just like when they go into meetings in the Oval Office, you have to put your phone in a bag. You can't bring it in with you. Yeah. I saw a whole tray of cell phones there. That's right. Yeah, exactly. In 1944. That's right.

[00:12:35] Um, yeah. So, uh, it didn't fully annoy me though. The whole thing with St. Mary's, it was just like something that happened. Like, but you know, I'm like, they really got to stop doing that. Just tell the story. It was okay. Most, mostly for Andrew Scott. Brendan Fraser was okay. I guess as Eisenhower, it really wasn't his movie though.

[00:13:00] So it didn't, it, it like he's kind of a, he's just there. It, it, it really was Andrew. It was really Andrew Scott's film. It was mad. The, but the music and the score in this was horrible. Like whoever wrote the music and score in this should never write. Like 1940s music? No, it was just horrible score that annoyed me. So yeah, that that's, it's a man. Yeah.

[00:13:28] So Brendan Fraser is World War II general and future president Dwight D. Eisenhower. I like Ike. Yes. People did. Yeah. That was the slogan. Having never seen a picture of him or any video footage. You've never seen a picture of Ike Howes? No. I have to assume there was a resemblance of some kind. I mean, that's why the director cast him. No. Apparently, cause he came to Brendan and said, look, this is Ike. You kind of look like him. Look like him. Shave your head if you dislike him. I don't really see it. Anyways. Well, the director did. Okay. Well.

[00:13:59] But yeah, this was not really his movie. This was about meteorologists, weathermen who apparently were responsible for predicting the exact time for the allies to invade Normandy to wipe out the Nazis. Their best guess, really. Again, supposedly this actually happened. Yep. I wasn't there. No. What little I know of World War II, I learned from Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.

[00:14:25] Hanks currently has a TV series on History Channel about World War II. Yeah. If you're interested. I'm not. Andrew Scott, who I only know as James Moriarty from the Sherlock series with Benedict Cumberbatch. But I'm sure he was good in other stuff. Right. He was excellent as the British weatherman Stag. It was essentially his movie with Frasier and others as mere supporting cast. I always loved Carrie Condon.

[00:14:55] And Damien Lewis is absolutely one of my favorite British actors. Damien Lewis was really good. Although he usually plays an American. But yeah, I love him. He's awesome. He's really good at this. Yeah. There was a lot of talk, talk, talk about weather systems, charts, etc. I actually got bored a few times.

[00:15:23] Till I came in and started yelling at everybody. Did I mention how much I love Brendan Fraser? Do you like people being yelled at? That's not a thing you like. Well, yeah, but he's the president. He wants to get stuff done. I love when he shoot him out of like, you're screwing this up. Like, do it right. I just liked when he wouldn't let him call his wife. I know you love that part. Cause you're a cold and a heartless bastard. Me too, actually. That was the only good thing in it. In the end, this is a decent film considering it was about weather.

[00:15:51] Uh, Fraser made it better, obviously. Uh, it was, it was a meh. Just a meh. Alright. Yeah, I thought Fraser was hopelessly fricking miscast in this. Whatever. He was terrible. Whatever. Um, Chris Messina as Irving, the other meteorologist, he was fantastic as an American. Yeah, he was good too. You mean the moron? Yeah. He played it perfectly. I honestly thought that was Steve Coogan. I couldn't tell the difference. He looks nothing like Steve Coogan. Yeah, he does. Oh my God. Anyways.

[00:16:20] So, the movie's rolling on. It's good. It's good. I'm enjoying it. Uh, it's, it's all. Then they get to the bloody fricking thing where all of a sudden, the man that he's basically calling a moron, he comes and gives him, he's like, oh, I really need your help now. He did not need his help in any way. And that's just, I could not get over that. He was just trying to include him. He was trying to include him. He was trying to include him. Why? The guy stood in his way the entire way. I did not buy that for one second.

[00:16:50] That was the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life. See, I did buy that. There is no way that happened. That Ben Stagg was a dick for pretty much the whole movie. I knew, I knew that would bother you. But as I was watching and I'm like, you know what? I can see why he did this because he's, he's planning on leaving and after this is done and not having anything to do with it. So, he actually had a bigger impact on that guy in a positive way by doing that than he

[00:17:17] would have if he just would have continued to fight with the guy. I don't think, but he didn't have, no, but he didn't have to fight with the guy. I know. The guy was already sulking at his desk. Just let him sulk at his desk. I didn't, I didn't buy it. The guy was sitting there putting up roadblocks every single way. The guy was completely arrogant. You, there is absolutely no way that in that short period of time under that kind of pressure, trying to make this forecast that he's going to be caring about this little wiener

[00:17:46] that's been trying to sabotage him from, from the, from the get go. Not, there's, there's absolutely no way. So that didn't sit well with me. Um, but the performances were good. Um, it's as good of movies you'll ever see about the weather and you know, and war. Um, you know, once again, as you leave it to the British to make a weather movie about war. Um, but it was, it was effective. There was tension. There was, you know, there's a, there's a lot of good stuff going. And a couple of little parts I would have lost.

[00:18:15] I mean, I did not need, you know, Andrew Scott's car, stag and crick to be buddy buddies at the end. That's ridiculous. I wanted them to skip merrily out of the room. Didn't you? Yeah. Um, I thought Brendan Fraser was completely miscast, but other than that is a good movie. I enjoyed it. Um, it was mad. What? Starting off with a bang Murray. I'm afraid that's probably where it is.

[00:18:44] Uh, maybe, but no, it's going to continue for a little bit. Right into the breadwinner. Oh, that's a, with Nate. Inguise, is a boo. Boozoo boo. Arzen bars and boo. Arzen. What's his name? Not to Zazen barzen boo. Nate, Nate. It's Nate, right? Nate is, is, is correct. Okay. Nate, Nate, Nate, base the bar. Yeah. All right. Um, okay. So I got to look up what his name is.

[00:19:14] I honestly don't know as we've already alluded to me. Thanks to the mer something. If you have seen the trailer for this, you have definitely seen this movie already. I mean, I think half of Eddie Murphy's and Martin Lawrence's and Adam Sandler's move last movies have been about an idiot parent having to take on the responsibilities of their spouse. Yeah. Was he a Mr. Mom? Uh, he was a Mr. Mom.

[00:19:44] There you go. Well, that's what the trailer tells us. Well, that's this movie, but with someone who's clearly has never seen household appliances before or seen a commercial on TV about anything household related or has no ability to decipher anything logical about any parenting duty whatsoever.

[00:20:06] Or worse, he's never actually looked into his fridge to know what kind of milk they drink or the eggs that they eat. But he is the top salesperson of a car dealership where in today's society, his boss says he doesn't have a job anymore. If he's going to take two weeks off to take care of his kids. Like in, in what this was Toyota dealership is that ever going to happen?

[00:20:36] Sometimes you got to have a little creativity to forward the story. Okay. So none of this stuff would ever happen. So here's a clue, Bryce. Here's a clue for you. Apparently, um, if you have one of the top salespeople. Yes. At a dealership and you need, uh, they need to leave of absence for any reason. Your company is going to allow it to come back whenever they want to, but that doesn't fear the story.

[00:21:01] They fear you are going to work for your competitors and top salespeople. It just happens. They're the top. I didn't buy him as a top sales. Yeah, I didn't because he was a complete idiot. Like I've never seen someone that's portrayed more as an idiot in a movie than this guy. And he wrote it. He wrote it. So what is his comedy going to be like? It's not. So that's what we're subjected to.

[00:21:27] I think you left before is you got, you got to see some snippets of his comedy during the trailer or the, uh, your credits. Yeah. Thank God. I'll never, I'll never flip through that. It was, it was so funny. They were so funny. He's not funny. I don't know why people think he is. Yeah. So it's, it's an obvious story. The trailer explains how it's going to, to be for the entire movie with the, and I'm putting this in heavy quotes, breadwinner in it.

[00:21:51] But we, but what we didn't know about this prior to the trailer or after is that in addition to someone who is an idiot is running a family of young ladies who are not idiots. Um, is this is also packed with a ton of very funny people. We have Kamal Nanjiani. We have Colin Jost and we have Will Forte.

[00:22:15] And whenever they're on screen, they are, and they're, they're comedy genius and they're hilarious. The problem is they're not in the story long enough. Basically, if we just had those three in a movie being them, that would be a funny movie. But what we got was three funny people in a movie that is like every other horrible family comedy movie that isn't for me.

[00:22:39] I mean, people who like daddy daycare grownups, one, two, and three, and big mama's house, five, six, 10, one through 800 will probably like this. But this was just as bad a film as I imagined it would be in seeing the trailer predictable, completely not funny to me, except those three characters whenever they're on screen.

[00:23:04] Uh, if this was a complete rage, I have only one thing to unpack, but I'll, sorry. Did you see something different in this? I laughed four times in the first like 10, 15 minutes. This could have been... Was it even because of him? No, none of it was him. There you go. It was Nanjiani was funny. Oh, he is funny. He should have been the star of the movie. If we can only... You should be the star of every movie. Every movie. And Will Forte had a couple of yucks.

[00:23:32] And if you could only remember his big line, he says, once you've had Pakistani, and then he said something else that rhymes with it. And it was like, that was hilarious. Yeah. I can't remember exactly what it was. You know what? It was funny. And the interweb couldn't tell me. I tried hard. I'm sorry, Kamal. You're hilarious. He is. He didn't stand a special time. But yeah, other than that, then the rest of the movie came out and it was just, I'm sitting there watching this movie and I'm like, I'm sorry, I'm supposed to be laughing at this guy who doesn't know like one thing about his kids.

[00:24:02] Like he's like the world's worst father. Am I supposed to be accepting of this? And this is funny. I don't think this is funny that he absolutely knows any, like literally knows. Like he's, how is this adorable? Like what, what is, what is, what am I supposed to be laughing at? The world's worst father put on screen in a family movie. Yep. And this is funny. This wasn't funny. This was like sad. It was one of the saddest movies that I've ever seen in my life, but it wasn't because

[00:24:31] I'm supposed to be, I know I'm supposed to be laughing at it. Cause I'm looking at the situations. I'm like, I think they're trying to make me laugh, but it's just making me more and more sad. What is going on? This, this type of movie is going to do like, this could do more like damage to like society. This could destroy society that we live in. We need to stop this type of movie right now.

[00:24:53] Cause this was not like, he literally, he is such a, all this guy does apparently is sell cars because he doesn't know anything about his household. He doesn't even know how to operate an appliance. Yeah. He can't cook anything. No. Like he's, he's an infant. Yeah. And he's a father. This is awful. How did anybody want to have sex with him? I am so, I am so offended by this movie.

[00:25:19] Like on so many levels that I can't even like, I can't even put it into words. How, how, how like damaging this movie is to like, this is, you need to just burn this thing and no one should ever watch it. Like leave it to beaver's dad was even better than this guy. I am sorry. There are some violent, horrible movies out there that do, will do less damage to a kid watching it than this movie. If you're going to look at this and think that somehow this is funny.

[00:25:49] And some of this stuff is normal. That is just wrong. Nate Bargaboogadoo. You need to just take a look in the mirror, buddy. He needs to just go away. Check yourself before you wreck yourself. This is an unbelievable rage. This, this thing should not exist. It is just, it is psychologically damaging is what this movie is to, to, especially to the audience that it is being put, you know, as a family.

[00:26:16] Like as a family, we're going to go see this together and go, wow, you're, you know what? You know what? I bet you people. I'm sure the kids that go to this movie with their parents are going to go to their dad and say, dad, you're not, you, at least you're not as bad as this guy. Yeah. This, this guy was beat me and you're still better than this guy. This guy was, this guy was absolutely deplorable and unforgivable. And you're supposed to, you're supposed to like, I sympathize with him. Like what? I don't think, you know, I don't know. Well, weren't we?

[00:26:46] I don't, I think we're supposed to like this guy. And he's like, he could be the most horrible dad that's ever been put on screen ever. Yeah. Like there's been like, remember John Wayne Gacy. Wasn't he a dad? He was. He had to be a better dad than this guy. Exactly. Big Crosby used to beat his kids. Yeah. There you go. But you know what? I mean, mommy dearest. Yeah. She used to beat her kid too.

[00:27:15] She wasn't a dad, but you know. Anyways, he's worse than all of them. So there's only one thing I have to unpack. And you wonder why I chose to miss this. Yeah. Well, you were lucky. At least those guys probably knew something about their kids. Yeah. The only thing I had to unpack on this was how could he function in daily life if he was as stupid as he was? Couldn't he make coffee at work? He couldn't. He couldn't do anything. Murray, his boss used to bring him his coffee in the morning when he came in. He won hell of a salesman. Yeah. You know what?

[00:27:44] But Nagyani was hilarious. Gamal Nagyani was great. Will Forte is always great. And Colin Jost, man, he needs to just be in more things. He's just so funny. He wanted to come out and play disc golf with him. I would have played disc golf with Colin Jost. Yeah, who wouldn't have? Did he have a disc golf scene? Yeah, well, there was. There was. The scene when Colin Jost is trying to show how his disc golf skills were was pretty hilarious too. Oh, Colin Jost. Why is that it can get to a mondo for you just because of that?

[00:28:14] Well, I'm not Brace, so that doesn't happen. I don't know what that's supposed to mean. You know, remind you of the two minutes of Billy Crystal in a movie, changed it to a man. He was so good in it. That was Tooth Fairy, right? Well, Colin Jost talking more disc golf for two minutes. That's right. No, it didn't. Because Nate, what's his name is just so bad. That's the difference. Yeah, that is the difference. Yeah, Bargatsy. That's his name. All right.

[00:28:42] I say no to Bargatsky. That's right. Yeah, no, I've seen him. Trust me. I know who he was. That's why I didn't go. Nice. All right. Well, let's talk about the shortest movie that Bryce has seen this week. Shortest movie. It was really short. It's called Back Rooms, Marie. I liked it. This movie is a mindfuck of biblical proportions. Yeah.

[00:29:08] Built on suspense, tension, and a score and soundtrack so creative and pulse driving. It will have you on the edge of your seat. I, and not maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe not just for the time you're watching this, but possibly enough for the rest of your life. The story is so creative and original sci-fi horror, and you will not know what the fuck

[00:29:36] is happening almost from moment one until the end of the film. It, you and of, of all the time, you know, by you guys both know how much I absolutely despise found footage, but how they used found footage in this film is only in a minor way, but the only way it should ever be used, not as an entire movie concept, but part of a bigger construct.

[00:30:00] And only we're having found footage would be actually used in a movie. So kudos to this 20 year old ticky talker, uh, to, to, to use found footage the way it should be intended. The story is worth it for the set design alone. Like I know I had heard somewhere that the set in this was all constructed.

[00:30:29] So everything is practical except maybe the door that going through from the one place to the other, not counting how you are so connected to our characters. And as the story unfolds, we get more insight into them and understand how their mental health past formed their current states and how it continues to haunt them and us into back rooms that are never ending.

[00:30:57] It was literally completely surprising. And, and I was fascinated by this from the first moment it opened. It is creepy and creative and it's, it's, it's so fucking Mondo. This film is so brilliant. And the ending was perfect. Absolutely perfect. Leaving us with no answers for pretty much anything, but I'm sure this will generate conversation

[00:31:25] for years about pretty much everything in this film. I'm not going to really tell you anything about the plot. You kind of get to see that from the trailer that this guy goes into his basement and finds it, how, how it's described in the film is that if someone had never seen a dog and you, you tell them, you, you tell them about the dog and have them redraw it for you. That's what this film is.

[00:31:54] It's, it's one you need to see. That's from the movie. Yeah. If it's one, you need to see in a cinema full of perplexed and yearning minds. And, um, Chuet, is it Chuetl? Chuetl? Chuetl. Chuetl. Chuetl is your, it's your, it's your four. He, the more I see him, the more I absolutely love him. And, and Renata Renasev. I'm terrible at, at foreign language.

[00:32:24] They were both absolutely freaking brilliant in this. Like she, every time I see her on screen now too, I'm just baffled how she's not in every single thing. These two together in this, they had so much chemistry. I, I, I love this is, um, this is my favorite movie of this year so far. Yeah. But it was so short. So I'm, I'm watching the movie and okay, go ahead. It was Mondo. Okay. So yeah. So the movie starts, I'm watching them. I'm like really into it.

[00:32:53] And we get introduced to these characters. We get Bobby and cat and Clark is the main dude. And Mary as the other, she's kind of the other me, but here's the thing I'm, I'm watching it. And then I kind of blink. And then all of a sudden I don't see Bobby and cat like at all anymore. Like, I don't even know what, like, what, what happened to Bobby and cat? Like it wasn't in the movie. All of a sudden they're there. Did you not, and then they weren't there. Did you not see cat later in the movie in the refrigerator free refrigerator?

[00:33:21] No, I just saw, I saw them on the poster that they were missing at the end. So you basically missed the entire movie. No, no. I think I, I, I just don't understand the, like how they could leave like that big, a plot point out of the, cause you introduce us character. I start caring about these characters and then all of a sudden those characters are gone. Okay. What I can say Murray about this is that he did not snore last night, but he was, he was definitely enjoying his slumber. I can tell you, tell you that.

[00:33:51] Oh, I was going to wake him. Which movie was this? But you looked so peaceful. This was, this was in this movie. Yeah. Well, I would have. Back rooms. First I would have slept for about 20 minutes and then I would have just left. Cause I don't like movies that are confusing. Yeah. This was not a Murray movie for sure. No, but this was so, this, this thing sucks you in man. And then, but then it just, it really leaves you wondering. It really sucks you right in. Cause then characters are just missing. And then, you know, then Phil shows up at the end and starts asking Clark some questions about some stuff. And Clark's like, I don't know.

[00:34:21] And then Phil's like, well, you know, and then that wasn't Clark. Oh no, it was, it was Mary. That's right. He's asking Mary. Okay. So Phil's asking Mary some questions. Because you're not going to spoil any plot. Yeah. Just tell everybody the things that you remember about this movie. Okay. So the dude was like in his, in the place that he works, but that's not what he actually does. He wants to be an architect, but he's working in like a furniture store. Does he have a wife?

[00:34:51] Uh, he had a wife. Yes. I think they've separated. Yes. Maybe. And he's having some issues and he's kind of trying to work them out with his therapist, Mary. Yes. So he's working these things out with a therapist, Mary. And then he's like sleeping at the furniture store though. Yes. Okay. So, but then he's like, he starts to investigate some stuff that's going on and he like goes behind this wall. And then obviously he's just like, holy crap, I can get, I go through here and look what's going on back here.

[00:35:20] And then all of a sudden he's like exploring and there's like stuff and he's like, and like there's rooms everywhere. And then he like gets a Bobby and cat. And I think they, they work there. They work there with him. Yes. And he got them to like come with, I think they were, got a camera. Did they have a camera? They made a commercial of his. Right. Yeah. So they brought the camera. Yeah. The commercial.

[00:35:46] Um, he had a pig leg and it was really funny cause you could see his legs sticking out. Yes. And he was kind of, he was, yeah, I remember. Okay. Yep. So then that happened and then they went, they went behind the wall. Uh, and then, and then, um, and then I saw like a, I saw like pig leg version of, of Clark, but he's like really big and he's hanging out with Clark. I think. And that was, but then that was at the end of the movie.

[00:36:15] But then something like horrible happened. Cause Clark thought that they were buddies, I guess. And then I saw like, uh, she's, uh, she's the, the Mary. I don't know how she even got there. Cause Mary was there, but she wasn't there before. It's like, she just got teleported there or something. It was like Star Trek. And so Mary's there. And, um, then Mary's talking to Mark Duplais. He's Phil.

[00:36:45] Yeah. And he said, Phil's like, you know what? I used to be like a neurologist. I think they made an MRI machine. There you go. He made it. Okay. And then they found this place. And then the, the, all of a sudden he's like not doing that anymore. He's doing this. And it's like, what are you doing? He's like, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just doing this. And then the, then they put up the, then I saw the poster that the cat and Bobby were missing. So that was, that was something.

[00:37:14] And, uh, then the movie ended. It was pretty good. I liked it, but it was really short. Okay. Your description is longer than the movie. No, the movie was actually, and I'm trying to nod off here. Let's get to it. So I pretty much saw the whole thing, right? You didn't see anything. Well, you saw the, you saw the bookends. You knew that he had to, he finds this back rooms place, but ultimately with the back rooms places.

[00:37:43] Any, any, like, he like, he likes wanted to something about eating them. But I don't know what that was about. The funniest scene in it was, but then pig, big pig leg guy, like, yeah, basically, I don't know what was going on. Basically, the, the back rooms is, is people's memories that come to life. Oh. And places come to life. And that's, that's the, the precipice of how, why it exists, but how it got there, all of the questions around.

[00:38:12] So everything around it. Did you like read something about that? Cause I didn't see that in the movie. No, no, it's in the movie. It's, it's in the movie multiple times. Yeah. What was I doing? You were sleeping. I don't think I was sleeping. Okay. I'm guessing this is the kind of movie you probably had to be awake for most of it. You know what? The, the, even then it's, it's not so much that it's confusing. Um, I enjoyed every second. The linearness of the story.

[00:38:40] It's still a very linear story. The, the thing that makes it confusing is about the concept of what this place is. And that's more of what makes it, but the tension in this is so, and, and part of it is because how the director builds the tension is that you never, there's so many great sounds that are happening around you. And you know, you'll hear like, you can hear this monster coming, but you never really get to see it till the end.

[00:39:08] And, and obviously it, it, it looks differently to different people, but it's a memory that comes to life. But so they have these people in it, Marie, but their faces are kind of not quite finished because think of remember about the dog where if I explained to you what a dog was and you had to write it, you might not be able to fully completely do. Cause it's your memory that's been posted. And he, he, he's talking to her about talking to Mary about it. And one of the major pivotal scenes of the movie. And he says, but the greatest thing about it is you can eat him.

[00:39:36] And then he rips up this guy's shirt and he pulls out a big chunk of his fat and plops it on the plate. And she's just going like, this guy's fucking insane. I didn't see that. All I know is that this was one of the quickest hour and 50 movie minutes that I've ever watched. It was like, it went by like, like it was 20 minutes. Everybody needs to see this movie. It's, it's, it's creative brilliance on a screen.

[00:40:06] You're making me think that I might have to watch it again. You will have to, you know what? We'll do a double feature. I'll watch. I love boosters and you'll watch that. All right. All right. Tuna. Not. So that was just you reviewing it. Is that what that was? Well, I guess. Cause he didn't fully see it. He didn't give it. He can. I guess I can't cause he didn't see enough of it. Apparently I didn't see enough of it. I enjoyed what I saw. Yeah. It's, I mean, there's a lot of walking. So there's gaps in the story.

[00:40:36] Yeah. Completely edited. Uh, Tuna Murray. Tuna. Tuna. Depending on how you pronounce it. Tuna. Tuna. It's tuna, which, uh, Dustin Hoffman refers to. He's actually, what was his nickname again? Big tuna or something like that. Or. Tuna. Tuna face or tuna sandwich. New England. It had something that he said. It's, it related to the piano. Didn't it? No, it's because he, he always talked about how.

[00:41:06] Tuna has too much mercury in it. Hmm. This is about a tuner. It's about a tuner, but. Dustin Hoffman. I'm trying to remember. What the hell did he say? To talk about tuna. And every now and then. He cracks open safes. He. Yeah. Dustin Hoffman doesn't crack open safes. No, the tuner. The tuna. The tuna. The tuna, Bryce. So, uh, it's just like past lives, but with a piano tuner, Murray. This is a movie. Yeah, there's a lot of past lives.

[00:41:34] That after watching the trailer, I did not want to see this. It seemed like it was going to be like every other heist film. You know. It was built as a heist movie. Where our lead gets in with some bad. It wasn't a heist movie. It was built as a heist movie. I didn't say it was. I don't think it. I don't think anybody that watched that trailer could think it was a heist movie. I 100% thought it was a heist movie. Oh my God. And that's why I didn't want to see it. I don't know what you guys are talking about. You guys obviously saw some special trailer that I didn't see. Uh, no. It looked exactly like a heist movie.

[00:42:04] No, it didn't. All right. So, you know, uh, heist movies where your lead gets in with some bad dudes, uh, to help his aging father figure, then things go bad and, but not after until he falls in love. And then everything he holds dear is threatened like every other heist movie that's ever been made. What, which is exactly what actually happens in this.

[00:42:28] But in this case, what is different is that the characters are super well developed and you care about each of them very deeply. And it kind of, it's kind of less about the heist to Bryce point and more about the past lives, uh, slash romance and relationships. Okay.

[00:42:50] So the, the major part of the end Murray is a giant heist that they're going to get this passphrase for this guy's crypto account, which is the heist of the movie. There's no heist. Which there is a heist. There's a robbery. Yeah. Which is the same thing as a heist. Nah, heist involves more planning. Well, they had to do a lot of planning to get him to come. No, they didn't. Okay.

[00:43:19] They just had to get him to come. That was, that was their whole plan. Get him there so he can open the safe. That's not a heist. Well, they had to do things like show up at a wake and you know, make him fear for his girlfriend's life and all kinds of stuff. Which is totally heisty. I don't know. Okay. Anyways, keep on talking about your heist movie and I using heavy, heavy brat or quotation mark. Right. Because I'm saying it wasn't so much about the heisting. Well, it wasn't a heist. It was more about the past lives.

[00:43:49] Hey, go ahead. As for the reason, the heist stuff actually seemed natural and believable. Well, at least for the predictable romance heist films, that is. In fact, I was really enjoying the story. And as much as I already mentioned, I really liked the characters. And then the back end of the film comes and there is something that happens that, of course, we all knew was coming.

[00:44:18] It just really irritated me for the whole convenience factor of it. Yeah. Convenience stuff happens though. It's all dealing with a pearl watch. I would have said a pearl necklace, but we didn't get to see that. We just saw a pearl watch. Hmm. Um, and people can say, Oh, well, how else was the story going to happen if we didn't have the pearl watch? Yeah. There's a number of different ways of the story. The story would have been shorter if we didn't have the pearl watch. No, no. Blah, blah, blah. It's lazy writing.

[00:44:47] The story was doing fine without it. Give me like 20 minutes alone in a room with chat GPT. I could have written something better than the fucking pearl watch scene. And, and I could have made something way more original and less annoying for the story to come to its ending. Uh, for a story that had so much going for it, including Dustin Hoffman in a great and witty performance, by the way. He's so good. He was, he was so good in this.

[00:45:16] It makes you, it reminds you, cause you know what? I was trying to, I went back and looked at his recent credits and most of his stuff he's been doing is more animated. Like he's done Kung Fu Panda. Well, he almost got canceled there for a minute. So, oh, I was, I can't remember some sexist comments or something back in the seventies or whatever, before there was internet. I don't know when he played Tootsie. I don't know what it was. Just, yeah. People weren't too high on him for a while. Yeah. Anyway, disappeared.

[00:45:45] He's, he's been doing a lot of animated stuff. So him seeing him, it reminds you of how good of an actor this guy is. Like he's just, he's, he's got so much talent. Um, and he's a very good driver. Uh, like a race car driver. Good driver. I remember a good driver. Oh yeah. Definitely. Definitely. Definitely. Judge Wapner. Um, yeah. So the, it didn't destroy this film. Uh, the very ending of this was very satisfying.

[00:46:14] Like the very last few scenes of this movie was so very satisfying and leaves you on a positive note, Murray. So you probably would have liked the ending of this. Uh, it was a pleasant surprise to have got to that ending without the, uh, the pearl watch. Fuck you in your pearl watch. I'm just saying that that pearl watch. Yeah. He's not in that room without the pearl watch. Okay. I don't even have to think hard about this, how they could have made it something different than that.

[00:46:43] And it would have been better. That's all I'm going to say, but there's the whole, but I don't think, but if you, if you, the symbolism of the pearl watch and the fact that he ended up with the pearl watch in the end, even though it looks like there's no way he's going to, but it's because of a certain thing. Like it all had that. That's the only way he ends up in that room. No, I just, I completely disagree. Was it a back room? Yeah. No, it was, it was right up front. It had big windows.

[00:47:14] There was totally windows. You could, we're going to, we're going to, you could see it from the outside. We're going to agree to disagree that Bryce, Bryce admitted to me yesterday, Murray, that he, he, he is very happy that the world we live in now is all predictable. What? He's 100% happy. The only person that can write an original film is Boots Riley. Boots Riley. We're going to get a new movie every seven years. Boots Riley.

[00:47:40] And I still have, I still have a hope for, for Oz Perkins. I think that he can continue to do original stuff. So if it's not Boots Riley or Oz Perkins. Well, what's his name there? The guy you met at the festival, your favorite guy. The hell was his name? I don't know what he's talking about. We see a lot of people in festivals. No, the guy. Oh, the guy. The movies that he loves that we hate. Uh, Oh yeah. You know the guy. What's his name? We, he was at, he was at cuff this year. Yes.

[00:48:08] One of your favorite director, filmmakers who we both hate. Yeah. Oh, Mickey Reese. There you go. Mickey. Yeah. He makes original stuff. You know what? Maybe there is some original things out there. There is some, there is some original stuff for sure. Uh, but this, this movie is not one of those, but I can tell you, I can tell you one thing about this. Well, it is. The characters were really well done. It's, it's, uh, it's a really well done character study. It's just like past lives only not as good.

[00:48:37] It, well, of course it's not as good as past lives. I mean, come on. There isn't anything. But that doesn't mean that it's not awesome. It was good. I liked it. It was me. Yeah. It was better than that. No, it was man. No, it was better than that. No, it was just man. This was so well cast. The performances were fantastic. Yes. I, I, I enjoyed every single second of this. Your, your convenience factor, whatever. It doesn't matter.

[00:49:06] You know what? You know what? The watch, the watch got him in that room for the final scene, which was so satisfying. I didn't think I was going to be satisfied by him being able to do that, but they did it in a way that I was like, you know what? I, I knew this was going to happen at some point. And I thought I was going to go, eh, when it did. And that's what I did. But then he did his thing. And the last comment.

[00:49:35] And I'm like, glorious. This is a fantastic movie. So it didn't, it, it didn't, it was, there was nothing in the sense of convenience that of all, Kate Murray, out of all the things you could steal from anywhere. It's something, it's something that's going to sound out though. It just happens to be. And they're in a certain class of people where that could happen. That you can. You know what? It's totally believable. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. I'm, I'm on board with it. I'm so glad you're. Is it convenient? Yes.

[00:50:02] It, but did it get me to the point that I needed to get to? Yes. Apparently it did. Can I forgive the convenience? Because even though that particular thing is convenient, the, the stuff that happened after it made perfect sense. And the fact that he woke, that he woke up in the hospital, looked in his bag and saw what he saw. That was, that was like cool. And then he got like, you know what? Is it a watch? Yeah.

[00:50:32] It's a watch. So it's, it doesn't matter that it was predictable. It doesn't matter that it was convenient. What matters is the feeling that I had. Okay. There we go. Good. As we watched those, those last five minutes. That you were irritated by the convenience and the lazy writing that I was. And I didn't, I thought that, you know what? That is fine. And I, or, well, no, that part was fine.

[00:51:01] There was one part in the entire movie that maybe, maybe they could have come up with something different, but that thing got us to where we needed to go. So sometimes that's lazy writing. No, it's not. It's just, it's sometimes convenient things happen in our lives. Sometimes when we touch. Sometimes, you know, that's just the way it goes.

[00:51:27] So yeah, no, I, I thought, I don't need, I don't even, have I even seen this kid anywhere by the way? I don't know, but I want to see him everywhere. Yeah. He was the performances in this. Yeah. Leo Woodall. I'd never even heard of the guy. You know, Leo Woodall is, you know, Leo Woodall is TV show. Is he in your favorite TV show? Is he a YouTuber millennial? I don't know. He's probably in his twenties. I'm guessing. He's pretty young and good looking. Anyways, Leo Woodall was really good in this.

[00:51:55] He knows how to finger some locks for sure. Yes. But yeah, no, every, and it's just, and you've touched upon it. Like every character, you knew every character. By the end of this film, you absolutely knew every single character that was introduced from, from, you know, Horowitz's wife to, to the, the, the, the, the, the criminal dude running this thing and to the, to the, his underlings. Like you knew them all.

[00:52:23] You knew every single, and you, you feel like you, if someone said, tell me about this, this guy, every single person in this film, you could actually sit there and talk for a few minutes about this guy. I agree. And so, yeah, just, just a wonderful, wonderful character study. I, I enjoyed this immensely. I, I, this was Mondo. Are you? Perfect. I'm glad. I'm glad you're. Leo Woodall was in Nuremberg. Oh, I remember that. And the last Bridget Jones movie. Oh my God.

[00:52:53] He had a leading role in. Thank God. He's, he's doing better things. And the White Lotus TV show. Oh, that's why. There you go. Everybody loves the White Lotus. I don't even know what that is. It's a TV show. Never heard of it. Nice. Whatevs. I'm sure glad I missed your triple feature last night. Cause it sounds like I would've hated all three of them. You would've liked this one. I think I would've hated all three of them. No, you would've liked this one. No, you would've liked this one. It wasn't enough of a heist movie for me. It was a heist movie I would've liked. There was heisty stuff. You would've liked it. Heist adjacent.

[00:53:30] Guess what I'm gonna talk about? A movie? This week we saw another Brendan Fraser movie. Ah. Sorta. He was in it, even if it wasn't about him. Uh, I know. Fraser has had an up and down career. He even took a break for like 15 years. He didn't even act. I don't know. There's a whole story to that. There was a George of the Jungle, Dudley Do-Right, Airheads, Encino Man. I liked Encino Man. Uh, but I was also like eight. He did some serious films too.

[00:53:59] Well today I'm gonna spread a little Brendan love. Oh, that's sweet. First honorable mention to Rental Family, which I did not see. It's fantastic. You guys said it was a good movie. It's fantastic. It's fantastic. Almost spent the $7 to rent it this weekend. Almost. It'll come on streaming soon enough. Well no, it was on Prime. Just I wouldn't pay for it. Uh. It wasn't for free. Yeah, it will be. It will be soon. Okay.

[00:54:25] So, with honors, 1994, I gotta admit I love this film. What's it? Joe Pesci in his post-Goodfellas era, playing a homeless guy, blackmailing a Harvard student who wants his thesis back. He attends classes with him, crashes on his couch, and generally pisses off Frazier. Yeah, okay, maybe not a great premise for a movie. Frazier's performance is sensitive and complex. Plus, Moira Kelly from Cutting Edge.

[00:54:55] Topeic! God. Ah, Bedazzled. 2000. Directed by SCTV alumni and Ghostbuster Harold Ramis. Starring Brendan Frazier and the always smokin' hot Elizabeth Hurley. Frazier is an IT worker who is granted seven wishes by a sexy version of Satan. All to gain the attention of a co-worker.

[00:55:22] He is appropriately charming and the concept is played out with cleverness and panache. Ah, he plays multiple roles including a Mexican drug cartel leader and a dumbest rocks NBA superstar. I laugh so hard every time he screwed up a wish. Ah, school ties! Okay, 1992. Very seldom, if ever, will I say something positive about a Ben Affleck movie.

[00:55:49] Let alone one also starring his BFF Matt Damon. Matt Damon! This would be the exception. Way back before Brendan Frazier, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell and Affleck were movie stars, this film attacked the important issue of anti-Semitism. Right after World War II, it is a relevant issue in today's turbulent times.

[00:56:15] He is a student at a New England prep school who has to hide his Jewish faith in order to play for the football team. Of course, they find out and all hell breaks loose. Mm-hmm. Features terrific performances not only from Frazier, but from the young Damon and his less talented buddy Affleck and Chris O'Donnell. It was a great film. It was a great film. I loved it. It was probably one of Frazier's first things he ever did. The Quiet American, 2002.

[00:56:43] I just recently saw this because I haven't cancelled Prime yet. It was one of the few movies I could see for free. This movie, to me, seemed like Good Morning Vietnam without any of the humor. I have to say, I was very impressed with Frazier in this one, especially opposite a legend like Michael Caine. Like Good Morning Vietnam, it's set in Saigon during the Vietnam War.

[00:57:08] The British reporter, uh, Caine is living there away from his wife with his Vietnamese girlfriend, who's much younger than him. He meets an American, Frazier, who falls in love with his girl. It's a clever cat and mouse game with, basically, Frazier stated his intentions flat out and then Caine's trying to like kibosh it all. And eventually, these still like sending him out to war. Uh, Frazier and Caine have surprising chemistry.

[00:57:36] It's a roundly entertaining and thought-provoking film. The Mummy! You knew it was coming! Without a doubt, Brendan Fraser's most famous role. So beloved, in fact, he's coming back for another one. Mummy 4! That's right. Please don't. The Mummy is just a great thrill ride of a motion picture, of fun and frolicking, rousing and dispensel. Ah, he's charming and witty and charismatic. Yeah, the film itself hasn't really aged that well, but his performance is still great.

[00:58:06] He's funny and totally badass and about as different from his character in The Whale as can be. Which brings me to The Whale, 2022. There are very few films that affect me so much, at the same time disturb me so much that I can never watch them again. This is one of them. Everything that has been said about this film is true. Watching it will have a profound effect on you.

[00:58:33] He absolutely deserved to win his best actor role for this role. It was a once in a lifetime performance. He stars as a 600 pound gay man trying to reconnect with his strange teenage daughter and find some peace and redemption as he slowly eats his way to a heart attack. Of all the performances that were amazing in this, from Hong Chow, Sadie Sink, Samantha Morton, Frasier was never better than he was in this film. And yeah, I will always love Brendan Frasier.

[00:59:02] I would agree. And he's actually Canadian. His parents are Canadian so that makes him Canadian. Well, he considers himself Canadian. Well, he was born in Indianapolis but yeah, both his parents are Canadian so... It's surprising if he has dual citizenship but... Yeah. Oh, Canada. Not too sure. All right. Temperature rising. Dishon blurring. Rage taking over.

[00:59:28] Oh, I... I kind of raged about this last week but in a different capacity.

[00:59:54] But I really wish that we didn't have to watch trailers in front of... Of movies. I just... I'm seriously considering showing up 10 minutes into the movie. Yeah. Just to avoid... Well, I don't want to show up 10 minutes into the movie. Mostly because of the commercials. But I find like the really good trailers... I just stare blankly at the screen. I don't really see them. I don't know why you're sitting paying attention. I'm trying to not watch them. I have no problem.

[01:00:24] It's a giant screen in front of you. Yeah. I just look at the screen glassy-eyed and look at the pretty colors. I don't really pay attention other than that. People with the walking around phone actually look at their phones. You teach me how to do that. So this week... Yeah, people need to put their phones away when you're in the theater. They don't. I think it should be like the Oval Office and you drop them in a tray. You drop your phone in a tray when you check in. I would like someone to invent a device that they put in the walls of the movie theater to block all cell phone signals. Yeah, that'd be cool. No internet, no nothing. That'd be good.

[01:00:52] Well, as soon as the movie starts, just like what we call it, the jammer or scrambler shows up. People would just watch their downloaded porn in there. I don't understand. Like, I get it like watching the breadwinner. I kind of wanted to actually just watch my phone even like Bryce does looking at the pretty colors of my phone. When most trailers show up. Instead of watching that movie. A lot of the crap I don't want to see. But okay, so I just want to recap. I just want to recap the trailers for this week that we saw.

[01:01:20] So in watching the trailer for Pressure, I was like, okay, it's another war movie. I'm like, whatever. The breadwinner, I watched it. I said, I don't want to see this movie. I wish I didn't have to see this movie. And then I saw the movie and it was just as bad as the trailer. Back rooms was a great trailer. And it was a great movie. Okay.

[01:01:46] And then the tuner, I didn't want to see it because of the trailer. I want to see it because of the trailer. I didn't want to see it because of the trailer. Because it totally looked like it was an anti-heist movie from the trailer. Yeah, kind of like an anti-heist movie. Yeah. That had heisting in it. No, it didn't look heisty at all in the trailer. Which made me not want to see it. The trailer made it look like a character study, which is exactly what it was. Why didn't they have it look more like past lives in the trailer?

[01:02:14] It did look kind of like past lives in the trailer. It did look past lives enough. I don't know what, my rage this week is that the tuner trailer wasn't past lives enough for me. Then I would have been more excited to see it. And I actually liked this movie. It was a good movie. It's really, really good. If it didn't have the lazy writing and the convenience factor, it might have been a mondo. It was a mondo. No. You're just now accepting too much lazy writing.

[01:02:43] You're just like accepting it now. You know what? You just allowed it to sleep into your pores. I think it was a mondo because you didn't fall asleep in the middle of it. I didn't fall asleep in anything. That's the prerogative now, I think. Maybe back rooms, but I don't like this. I made it through the whole breadwinner. Yeah, you totally did. Of all the movies you should have found. I wish we watched back rooms first. Yes. I got to start arranging this better. You got to stop watching three movies in one day.

[01:03:09] I think the last showing of Stupid Breadwinner though, I think was like at eight o'clock or something dumb. So there's no way to get three movies in. It's a family movie. What about in another cinema? I wouldn't have mind driven across the... Or we would have had to like watch Tuner at like 10, 20 or something and I didn't want to do that either. Well, you made the right choice. Yeah. Anyways.

[01:03:52] Yeah, my rage this week is the fact that I've been trying to put this stupid video game controller and hook it up to my system for like months. Yeah, what's going on with that? For like months. So first of all, it's like it's keyboard based and I'm like, okay, it's keyboard based, but the emulators I have apparently don't talk to keyboard based ones. So then I got all confused and I'm trying to figure it out. I finally figured that out and I'm like, okay, so then I need this to be a, it's like called X input is what I need.

[01:04:22] I need an X input and I can make my controller X input by ordering this chippy do. Oh yeah. From the thing. So I ordered it. Yes. And then after I ordered it and it had already been shipped, I found out that all of these controllers out after 2019 that have were shipped out already have this thing in it. So I spent $60 for nothing. Cause it's already in my controller, but I have to go on to mode four in order to get it.

[01:04:51] But here's the thing you go on to mode four and it's just not automatically set up. You have to like download some sort of thing. I'm a bobber off the interwebs. And then there's also some, some firmware updates that you have to do. And like I go, so then I click on the thing to download the, the, the thingamabobber off the interwebs and it says, okay, this is for, for Mac OS. I'm like, okay, well this isn't a Mac OS. It says right on the thing, click here to download.

[01:05:21] And it says PC Mac O slash Mac OS. So like either one. Yeah. And I click on it and it's just Mac OS. So at this point I'm like, I don't know what's going on. So then I email the guys and I'm like, please take pity on me. I, I bought your, and I know that you're, you're giving you money. I know your controller is going to be fantastic when it finally works. And from what, everything I understand, once I get this X input thing going, it's going to work like an Xbox controller, which I, with my Xbox controller, I can play all the games.

[01:05:51] So in theory, once it does that, I'll be able to play all the games with this. Are we going to, so more importantly, I need to stop you just right there quickly. Are we going to be able to play? No, no, no. Are we going to get to play missile command together? Someday. All right. I could have bought an actual arcade game missile command for like 500 bucks and be done with it. Okay. So anyways, so I sent them the email. I'm like, please take pity on me. I can, can someone just send me some sort of step-by-step instructions on how in the

[01:06:21] hell I can just make my controller work with it. And I was very nice about it. Cause I, I know it's not there. You're a nice person. I know it's their, not, it's not their fault. I'm like, I'm sorry. I'm completely computer illiterate. I'm doing my best here. I know once this gets set up, I'm going to be so happy with it, but I need help. Please, please help me. And so I get the email back and it's like, thanks for your email. Eh, we'll be back. We get a lot. We've got a lot of, uh, uh, uh, uh, traffic right now in our email box.

[01:06:50] So it's going to be like seven days until we, until we get back to you probably. And I'm like, all right. So now I'm waiting. Um, you know, one thing I know about you and your technology, one thing I know that you know very well is C colon enter. I don't know what that means. What's C colon enter? Are you sure that's a computer programmer thing? Yeah. The old days. But it's also C, it's people who like back end business. C colon enter. Yeah.

[01:07:20] I don't know why you're making this dirty. You just met him? It's butt stuff. It's butt stuff. You like the butt stuff. It doesn't. Rage. It's exciting.

[01:07:49] Welcome ragers to Film Rage's totally retro nostalgia recall flashback. On this week's segment, Jim takes the crew on a horny little adventure back to 1982 when he thought this film was named after him. That's right. The last American Virgin. Let's listen in to our friends thoughts on what that generation's idea of the word virgin in the title of a movie meant and find out this is the was in fact the movie where Jim lost

[01:08:17] his own mind. I mean, did you think I was really going to hint at when Jim lost his virginity or that it somehow intertwined with a film or that it involved a oh, oh, I can't violate my NDA to the ragers. Okay. So this movie was like Bryce.

[01:08:43] Bryce has this thing about the movies that he has brought to us that are the coming of age films. This was my coming of age film. I picked this. That's right. I picked this. It the soundtrack in this is so killer. I don't know how the hell they even got the music. I don't know how they got the song of that year.

[01:09:06] They've got the cars, Joe Jackson, the gleaming spears, the police, the waitresses, Devo, REO Speedwagon, Oingo Boingo, you two. Like this soundtrack in this alone is worth seeing this movie for. Well, no. Yes. The soundtracks were worth. You just shout out the dialogue. Maybe. Yeah. So and close your eyes. And there's a comma Commodores.

[01:09:35] What about the drugs? What about the coke? Sweet. I don't care. I'll go girl. Yeah. Gratuitous nudity. Yep. Measuring. Yep. And Camilla. Remember Murray. Do you remember Camilla? I remember her now. She was in Death Race 2000. She was in Death Race 2000 as Mira. Wasn't she Carmilla? Yeah. Best hooker ever from a movie. She was just happy.

[01:10:05] She didn't have to do with anybody, even the fat guy. She was just doing her business. This is the greatest coming of age movie that's ever been made. No, it's just stop. It's funny. What? It's disgusting. It's... This movie was made for me. Apparently. Now, it's a coming of age movie, so it's still a meh in rewatch, but I remember loving this movie so much, and I still... There was still things about it that I like.

[01:10:34] I can't believe that this is more offensive to you than some of the garbage you've made us watch already. It's not offensive, Jim. It's just bad. Yeah. It's bad good. No. It's... Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Yeah. That's... That's a coming of age movie. Thank you, Murray. This was a fantastic coming of age.

[01:11:04] This is exactly how my childhood happened. I know the answer to this, but yeah, who the hell picked this movie? It was me. I remember watching this on Skinamax as a teenager. Nice! Uh, there certainly was a lot of TNA in this film. There was! Which a 14-year-old me loved. Uh, I remember the fat girl that Gary tries to make out with, and she used scissors to cut off her bra. She's like sitting there eating chips. I'm like... I remember that.

[01:11:33] It's like the best scene ever. Um, and then his chubby friend who had more sex in the film than he was. And he did. Yeah, he was the last American Virgin, Murray. Yeah, and the slimeball horndog stud muffin friend who stole his girl. Yes! He basically had to be the first one to have sex with any woman that these three came across. Yeah. Like, every time they... Whatever hooker, whoever they found... Yes! ...that the young good-looking blonde guy who had sex like every other day... Yes! ...had to be the first one in.

[01:12:04] Yeah, he was an asshole. You know what? This is reminding me. This is actually a mondo. Uh, beyond that, and every cheesy 80's love song on the soundtrack... I don't remember liking this film that much. Other than the TNA, but again, I was 14. Uh, this film was only 90 minutes long, but it took me three hours to watch thanks to the crappy link that Jim sent me. It's the only way I could get it. It's the annoying ad that popped up every four minutes.

[01:12:34] I know that because I started timing them. Every four minutes! The same ad. I know, it was horrible. And then, oh, and every 20 minutes, it would crash. I watched it right through. Yeah, because you have all kinds of illegal stuff. I watched it on this. I don't have any illegal stuff. Whatever that daily emotion, whatever the hell it is you gave me. What are you talking about? It kept crashing. It's the only way I could find it. I couldn't... It cracked. It wouldn't play on my computer. My laptop. It just... And my new phone, which I just got a week ago, it tried to download viruses. Spyware.

[01:13:03] So I had to use my really old phone that's cracked, which has internet access at my house. I watched it on that and it still crashed half a dozen times. That alone makes me rage about this movie. Just that. Just having to endure all that to watch this. Uh, the main character, Gary, is a loser. I get that he was in love with the new hot girl. I counted at least three different girls in this movie that wanted him and he totally ignored.

[01:13:32] Like, the girl's best friend was like throwing herself at him. The heart wants what the heart wants, Mary. Whatever. She wasn't ugly. She had glasses, but she was blonde. She was cute. I mean, go for her. If all you wanted is sex, go for her. He didn't. They showed that. He didn't want just sex. Um, yeah. He never even told the love of his life that he liked her until basically the end of the film. So what did he expect? Serves him right for dying alone and still a virgin. Cause he's an idiot.

[01:14:01] If he wanted sex, he could have got sex anytime he wanted. He just...yeah. I get it. It was about love. But nah, everything. I was offended by everything in this movie. Except for the nudity. Which, I was 14. I mean... Haha. Watching this movie, all I kept thinking about was Fast Times at Richmond High. Both movies came out the same year. 1982. I don't know which one came out first. But Fast Times was a far superior movie. Basically the same plot. Is that in high school?

[01:14:30] Two best friends. One's a sleazy ladies man and one's a hopeless nerd. sleazy friend steals the girl has sex with her and gets her pregnant then the abortion difference is victim owned was a much better friend despite it all this asshole and this he had zero redeeming qualities this guy rick and this movie didn't have spicoli did not but yeah i'm getting to that i'm supposed to care about any of the characters in this movie then the filmmaker failed

[01:15:00] this is such a huge rage and i never want to have to see it again i'll take spigoli any day and i don't even like sean pan i don't i don't know why he's brilliant anyway you know i yeah i thought i remember liking this movie but again i was 14 so i remember hating this movie and uh yeah nothing's changed it was like 10 when you came out yeah i've i didn't see it until i was probably 14 or 15

[01:15:26] i saw it on vhs do you remember those yes vhs um yeah this is this is total trash i felt like we were in the rage or dare segment i'm like how is this any this is a rage or dare movie if ever there was one because this could be the worst movie that i've ever watched in my entire life there's absolutely no redeeming qualities it wasn't it wasn't one of those movies where their despicable characters were entertaining they're just they were just despicable everybody in it was horrible the dialogue

[01:15:56] was horrible even the editing was horrible but the scene the first scene when they're in that house and they're they're like if you watch it carefully every time they cut to a different angle stuff's in different positions and their hair looks different and it's just like it is the one of the worst freaking continuity movies that you'll ever watch i wouldn't know because there was a damn pop-up at every four minutes to cut away from the movie so i couldn't even tell this this thing is atrocious

[01:16:22] the only thing it had going for it was was the soundtrack but that was not near other than the fact that they played that one i don't even know who's saying that one it was it's an rio speed wagon song i think that they played about five times yeah that every time like she came into like yeah yeah it was like her theme song yeah yeah the rio speed wagon yeah right at the end that song is awful and there's a commodore song it was stupid it just okay the ending was perfect no i will i will tell

[01:16:48] you that yes the ending was perfect unfortunately it's exactly how it would have happened there is just yeah and that i kudos to it had not having like a hollywood ending the ending was i thought was was great unfortunately the journey i had to take with these this awful character was yeah i know he was horrible to watch yeah everybody in this was just like there wasn't one ridiculous like how can you

[01:17:12] make a movie where no one's likable not one person not even i liked all of them actually i liked her friend she was cute the only glasses like anybody i like the chubby one that really liked this this oh yeah yeah she's been in a few of those movies i couldn't name them all but guarantee there's at least a half a dozen of these teen sex rom-com that she's placed the fat girl in yep that was her thing this is one of the worst movies that i've ever watched in my entire life like legit i think it's

[01:17:42] funny it's it i i literally did not even smile once in this whole movie not even once like not even a smirk like there was nothing funny in this i don't know what the hell i don't like crabs are funny no no you know what crabs probably could be funny in the hands of someone that can write or direct had sex with a 30 hooker and they oh i got crabs really because they're they're stupid high

[01:18:10] school boys this was all that was basically me and my friends growing up well then i feel sad maybe i grew up in a different era like five years later garbage this is garbage having sex was not our number one priority for the well i mean yeah we wanted to date girls but we weren't like going to hookers to get laid we were just trying to go to school dances and like slow dance with a girl that was as far as we got so yeah this is america apparently so that's all we want to do is get

[01:18:39] late let's just well he didn't he wanted to fall in love he doesn't even know he doesn't even know what that is what's her name carmela the first time he showed up with the pizza threw herself all over i mean oh i gotta go i'm like really dude you could have had her all to yourself i know you just bring back my hot friend so he can have sex with her well it's a double gym week this week people oh we're

[01:19:04] gonna be watching good god it's please it's alive okay that i can handle well you'll be watching it with me yes you will so next week we'll be watching it's alive i'm very excited about that by the way wow what an episode people the last american virgin has spoken thanks ragers for listening

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