Episode 351 - Same old Scary Movie

[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 this Film Rage crew which also includes Jim. Hey there Jim. Hey Bryson. And also we have the Merman. How you doing Murray? Fine. Have to go to work. Let's go. Alright. So with the introductions out of the way, let's rage on. Well, thanks to all of us who have been supporting us. If you love our independent podcast,

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[00:00:53] What would the Merman predict? What would the Merman predict? Will he predict the rage or will he predict the mondo? Will he tell us so much Jim and Bryce are at the movies? Better watch out kids cause here he comes.

[00:01:08] He's coming swimming to you. And you and you. Swimmery, swimmery. Swimmery swim. Swimmery, swimmery. Swimmery swim. Swim all the waiting. Our hearts are little rage-filled hearts. Alright, three movies this week. I saw two of them. We got a scary movie, six or scary movie, whichever one you want to call it.

[00:01:35] Yipperyu. Yes. Jim likes the scary movie franchise. Bryce does not. That is true. Yes. It's called Merman and Rage. Nice. Alright. Masters of the Universe. Masters of the Universe. Reboot, remake, sequel, whatever you want to call it. Yes. Uh, yeah. Double Merman. Alright. Nice. And another one. What the hell is that one called? Power Ballet! Something to do with songs. Power Ballet. That's it. Power Ballet! Double Merman. Cause it's got Paul Rudd in it. Paul Rudd!

[00:02:03] Also good at Jonas. He's Ruddly Stunner. He's our baby actor. Ruddly the Stunnery. I like to call him Prud. Jonas the actor. So I'm sure that was awesome. Nice. The Prud. The Prud. He's Prud. I like to pull my Prud. He's the Pruddiest Prudder out there. See, I love my Pruds. Pruds awesome. Prudster. Alright. Uh, Scary Movie 6 slash Scary Movie. Uh, there is one thing I can say about this movie.

[00:02:32] It will never get a Broadway musical rendition with all the times that they say the N-word in this. They have a lot of bad words. Lots and lots of bad words. Uh, yeah. I think there's probably a hundred to two hundred thousand times they say it. So, there you go. Uh, you are either... Say the F-bomb a few times too. Yeah, that's... everybody says the F-bomb. I don't. Well, except Bryce.

[00:02:58] Uh, so you're either a liker of Scary Movie franchise stuff or you're not. In this case, I am. And I think it's all very knowledgeable to the people who listen to us that Bryce is not. That is for sure. Uh, alright. Well, uh, in this one, they parody pretty much every horror movie made since Scary Movie 5. Or maybe it was Scary Movie 2. I don't know. Uh, but they also seem to parody John Wick for some reason.

[00:03:28] Or maybe it's Ballerina. Or maybe it's, um... What's her face? Uh, that really bad actress that won an Oscar. What's her name? Oh, Jamie Lee Curtis. Yeah. For... Uh, in the horror franchise Halloween-er or something. I don't know. It's... They were parodying everything. The story is idiotic and dumber than any previous one that's ever been done. And they decided... You know what? Fuck story.

[00:03:56] Let's just do a non-PC long-ass episode... A bunch of parodies. ...of In Living Color. Is basically what it was. Sure. It's still grounded in poking fun at the whole Scream franchise. Especially making fun of how ludicrous and stupid that whole franchise is. Um... The rapper ludicrous? No. No one makes fun of ludicrous. He's a god among men. He was in Fast and Furious 9. Wasn't he in space? He's in every... He's in every lud... He's in every Fast and Furious. He's in a Fierro in space.

[00:04:26] He's a god. Just don't ever say anything bad about the ludicrous. I still celebrate ludicrousmas every year. Um... Yeah. So where was I? Oh yeah. Uh... The fact that the other franchise, Scream, still exists. Uh... Yeah. There's a lot of made fun-ness about that. The nostalgia to get fans back into cinemas. Uh... For both franchises for that... For that matter. Uh... Especially how in the end of this movie...

[00:04:53] And how the OG is taking back this franchise. Which also happened in the last Scream movie. Uh... Some of the jokes land. But most didn't. Uh... Just like most parody movies. The humor is funny for a while. And then it gets old. Um... Yes, I laughed quite a bit at some of the bits. But... I just kind of wished In Living Color would come back. Like the kids in the hall did. And do a new season instead of kickstarting a franchise.

[00:05:22] That had a terrible crash and burn to it. If anyone's seen Scary Movie 5. Which I watched yesterday. Ugh. It's... It's horrible. It's so horrible. It is the worst comedy. It is so horrible. It's worse than this? Oh, yeah. And that's... That's hard to believe. It killed... It killed it so badly. Oh, it took them, what, another 10 years to make another one? They're all equally awful. At least if In Living Color came back. The sketch comedy gets a little bit varietous. And, um... Comes at things from different angles.

[00:05:50] But in this, we have kinda seen it all before. Yes, the making fun of woke culture was funny. But again, not that much. It still gets a meh. Uh... Mostly because Shaq's in the movie. And that's the only reason, uh... I'm gonna say that it... It was teetering on whether it was a rage. But then Shaq showed up. And it was like, yeah, you know what? He deserves a meh. Shaq makes everything better. He does make everything better. He's like... Except Kazan, apparently.

[00:06:20] Well, nobody likes Kazan. Not even Shaq, so... Uh, they're back 20 years after the Williams Brothers had their scary movie franchise ripped out of their hands by the Zuckers and the Weinsteins after Scary Movie 2. Man, that Weinsteins took a lot of stuff from people. Yeah, they destroyed a lot of lives. Uh, well, now they're back in charge. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, you'll have to see for yourselves. This franchise started off as a parody of Scream. I know we did last summer.

[00:06:48] And to be honest, I probably didn't get all the references in this movie because I don't like horror movies. Sinners, Weapons, Megan, Art the Clown, Smile, I understood. I never saw Get Out. Didn't understand that at all. And don't remember Long Legs. And I never saw The Substance. I love Long Legs. Long Legs is so good. It's all in there. Must have been a lot of millennials in my screening because most of the time...

[00:07:18] I was the only one laughing. Uh, yeah. A lot of jokes didn't land and most of them were offensive. To one group or another. That was the point. People get offended too easily these days at the same time as a racist, sexist dictator in the White House. Just saying. I don't know what you want me to do here.

[00:07:44] I don't know what you want me to do here. Too many twists and turns to make anything believable. Again, that's probably the point. It was nice to see a few OG characters from the first one, especially Doofy and Greg the Tiny Dick as the sheriff. I really didn't like the new cast.

[00:08:13] Again, that was probably the point considering the ending. Yeah, they're just fodder. As the scary movie franchise goes, it was somewhere in the middle. Not great. Still a bit funny. So it was a meh. Nice. Too mehs, Bryce. You're up, Bryce. Total garbage. There was one joke in the whole thing that landed. It was a Charlie Sheen joke. I'm not even going to repeat it so that if you do go to it, at least you'll enjoy something. I hate this franchise. This thing shouldn't exist anymore. It's got to go away. Total garbage. I can't believe anybody could watch this.

[00:08:43] Drac. Just not funny. So, I guess that makes it a rage. What? Next. Aw. Poor scary movie. Yeah, well, that was kind of a... Poor, poor scary movie. It was kind of a long shot. He was going to like it anyway. Yeah, true. It's just garbage. I can't believe you guys could watch this. I like it. It's funny. It wasn't funny. Yeah, I thought it was funny. So, Masters of the Universe.

[00:09:12] My greatest fear... Masters of the universe. My greatest fear... Hey man, we got some Brian May guitar solos. So I don't know what else you want from a movie. You got the Highliner theme is what you got. Exactly. So yeah, my greatest fear was of them remaking this was this film was already the most homoerotic film ever made. So why do we need to remake this? That was my big question.

[00:09:42] Well, my fears were squashed as we had Ram Man who loves to ram people, mostly men. We had Fisto who is all about fisting. We got Meckoneck who has a huge, girthy, extendable phallic-like neck that bats people around with his erect stiffness.

[00:10:05] But what made it now the most homoerotic film was the way that Skeletor describes He-Man and his huge muscles and his really big sword that swings masterfully from his loincloth.

[00:10:20] With an orgasmic finale to where He-Man finally gets his big boy balls after being Skeletor's bottom the whole movie and grabs a hold of Skelly's huge ball until it explodes all over his face. Satisfying. I want to say, yes, this is now the most homoerotic version of He-Man aside from the original cartoon, which was very homoerotic. That's why I loved it so much.

[00:10:49] And then I'd say, sorry, Dolph Lundgren, even with a great cameo, you are standing in the shadows of gayness. The cast in this was great. The dialogue was cheesy and corny. And yes, at times trying to be too hard to be overly campy, but it delivers a fun fantasy adventure comedy quirkiness enough to keep it still a man.

[00:11:15] Sorry, I mean, high man because of its super duper homoeroticness of this. After leaving the cinema, I felt two degrees more gayer than I already am normally. So yeah, this had a soundtrack and score that reminded me of the feelings I had when I saw Flash Gordon in cinemas. Yeah, that makes sense. Even bringing Queen to the party again. Yes.

[00:11:44] Now, I can't wait to see what She-Ra does in the sequel. Yeah, that ain't gonna happen. But based on the box office numbers, it looks like we may not get another one of these, but we will get another scary movie, Murray. Yeah, we will. I'll keep making them. I just really hope we get it picks up in the next half of the summer because I need there to be a She-Ra. Yeah, I think so. I need my She-Ra. All right.

[00:12:11] Murray, what'd you think of Masters of the Universe? I have a fondness for the cheesy original with Dolph Lundgren. I was a teenager, saw it on TV many times. I liked Billy Barton, the actor. I actually met him when he came to Saskatchewan several times to star in our local TV telethon. Nice. He's a cool guy. I had a thing for He-Man's lady sidekick. What's her name? She-Ra? Oh, Tila. Tila, yeah. The actress who played her. She was hot.

[00:12:40] Everybody was hot in this. And then, Pluto TV aired the classic all weekend, so I watched it again. Nice. It's still awesome. So, I was prepared to hate this unnecessary remake. What? For the most part, I did. What? First, the bad. Sorry, did you say it's still awesome? It's still awesome. I still loved it. It's cheesy as hell and I loved it. Okay. I was just checking. Yeah, well. We all got our taste, Bryce. That's right. It's still better than this one. That's for damn sure.

[00:13:10] What? No. Yes, it is. No. I will argue. Yeah, for the most part, I hated this. What? First, the bad. Jared Leto is box office poison. I believe that. He is that now. And it's been proven again. Poor guy. He was so good as Skeletor. Yeah. Yeah, well. I agree. That's your opinion. That's your opinion. That is my opinion. He seems to be- He was the only good thing in the movie, actually. You bite your tongue. Can I finish? Yes. I don't have a lot of time here. Yes.

[00:13:37] He seems to be destroying all my pleasant childhood memories with every crappy reboot that he attempts. The Joker, Morbius, Tron. All good. And now Skeletor. I started to think what's next. Knight Rider and Greatest American Hero? I swear, I will- With Jared Leto, that'd be awesome. I will hunt him down and beat the crap out of him if he tries that. That's all I want to see now. I really wish he would go back to making serious films and leave the campy stuff to real movie stars like The Rock.

[00:14:07] Rock the Dwayne Johnson. His Skeletor was a petulant child, which according to the cartoon, that's the way he actually was. This was like the cartoon. I'm sorry. Frank Langella is still better. No. He was throwing temper tantrums and behaving like a five-year-old for most of the film. Yes! When he wasn't throwing out really bad one-liner. Good one-liner. The only part I did like was when he was in that whole dream sequence thing and he was like, HR dude. That was funny. That was awesome. That was funny. You know what? I might change my rating.

[00:14:37] Um, yeah. Then there's He-Man. I'm sorry. Adam. Yeah, Adam. There's a scene in the film where this wimp goes to the gym to try and get stronger. Oh, you must have loved the cameo. Of course, he runs into Dolph Lundgren, a nameless muscle head, who gives him some life advice, which was stupid advice. Oh, and you must have loved he gave him the old, uh, whatever it is, salute thingy. Yeah. Hail Satan? Good journey. Good journey, son. That's right.

[00:15:06] That, that must have made you a little giddy. Honestly, that was my favorite part of this. All right. Um, anyway, you know what Lundgren's version didn't need? He made a magic sword to give him muscles and help him fight because he was already a fighter. In fact, if you go back and see the original, uh, He-Man doesn't even use his sword till like the end of the movie. The cartoons are the original. No, but no, but okay. Well, the, the move, the live action one then. Oh, okay.

[00:15:35] He uses a gun for most of the movie. He's like shooting people. It wasn't till the end. He uses a sword. But this guy is like a 98 pound weakling. He raises the sword. All of a sudden he has muscles like freaking Stallone. Like, what the hell? I don't know, man. He looks pretty buff under that pink shirt. Yeah. Well, he played a wuss pretty good then. Yeah. No, I don't think he's- He was a bottom for the whole movie. That was his point. Yeah. Well, anyway. Um, yeah, for the first half of the film, you guys ass kicked pretty much by everybody. Yes.

[00:16:05] Including inanimate objects. Like he was a klutz. Yeah. He kept walking stuff over and tripping on stuff. Yes. Then he says some words, raises a sword and goes from skinny Steve Rogers to Captain America. Okay. Um, also I don't know what to think about Sir Idris Elba. That's right. He was knighted by King Charles last week. Nice. He hasn't had the best track record recently. Much as I love the guy, this character was some kind of drunken Heimdall. Yeah.

[00:16:34] I guess that figures since people are describing this movie as a mashup of Flash Gordon and Thor Ragnarok. Yeah. Overall, this film tried to make a joke out of everything. I know- That was a problem. It didn't. The source material wasn't exactly Shakespeare. I mean, Mattel created the character to compete with G.I. Joe in Star Wars. I had a huge problem with Alison Brie as evil man. Get it? Evelyn? Yep. She sounded and acted like a 12 year old girl.

[00:17:03] She had zero credibility as any kind of sorcerer except maybe true brief scenes. Lady from the 80's film had piercing blue eyes, was scary and could transform herself into other people. Brie had none of that. She was a joke. It wasn't all bad. The soundtrack was pretty good. They actually got Brian May from Queen to do the guitar riffs and used the theme song from Highlander. That Queen wrote and performed.

[00:17:32] The fact that the Earth cops called him a Highlander was a nice throwback. I mean, the guy did have a big sword. The fight scenes and special effects were impressive as well, although they're probably mostly CGI. Once, Adam hulked out and stripped down to his homoerotic battle armor. Yes! And Skeletar started throwing down with Yoda-like force moves. I wish there was more of that.

[00:17:56] I also enjoyed a few of the supporting characters like the talking tiger and the wise cracking female fighting robot, voiced by Kristen Wiig. Nice. Ram man and Fisto who misses people. I cannot love that. That trap try guy was pretty cool too. As much as I wanted to hate this film, it did enough to get to a mess. Nice! I just wish it was about 30 minutes shorter. I wish it was like an hour long.

[00:18:22] And with Leto actually trying to be the bad guy instead of a stand-up comic. He almost ruined this whole film. This really is like redoing of the cartoon. This is what this was. What? No, it wasn't. Yeah, it totally was. This didn't know what it was because it, one second it's like, it actually was kind of serious for no reason. Because if you're going to go down the humor route, just keep on going down that route. And it did, it had some, it actually did have some brilliant stuff in it.

[00:18:51] Like the Skeletor in his head at the end there with the HR and all that other stuff. That stuff was brilliant. Like that was the best part of the movie. It was so good. And that, that whole, the whole movie either needed to be that or it needed to be like what Murray wanted. It, it was neither though. It, and what a waste of like, this is a rage just for wasting Idris Elba. You've got Idris Elba and this is what you do with them.

[00:19:16] And you, you take this man at arms character and, and make them into a drunk nothing. Like if you're a fan of this franchise and you see what they did to man at arms, you're pissed right now. I'm not a fan of the, not the franchise of the, the toys, I guess. And the cartoon, I'm not a fan. And I was pissed that you, what are you doing to man at arms? That totally makes sense to me. Anyways, they totally wasted Idris Elba.

[00:19:44] They, they, they had them just, if you're going to have a guy like that in this, this movie, do something with them. This was the only thing that was good was the sequence with, when Skeletor's in his head and the music and just, and the music. The music actually was annoying for the first 15 minutes or so, but I don't know what it was. That, that fricking music just grew on me by the end. Of course it did. And I was just aching for more. And then when they did like, they played the queen, they queen. Here we are. Yeah.

[00:20:14] It's like, okay, I'm all in on this music. But the fact of the matter is this was two hours and 20 freaking minutes. It felt like an hour. It felt like six hours. It felt like an hour. It had a few sequences that were good and just a lot of filler garbage. And I did not like it at all. This was another freaking rage. This was fun. This was not fun. It was garbage. I had so much fun at this. It almost made it to a. Garbage. Almost made it to a mondo. Garbage. Ugh.

[00:20:44] I'd never been more turned on by watching. Garbage. Toys on screen. Toys. All right, then. It was great. All right. Power. Ballad. Sure. Power ballad. Getting our prod on. Yeah. We got predicated. So much prod. I need to throw this out here. I love Irish films. All right. I really love Irish films. This is an Irish film? Yep. It is.

[00:21:12] The Irish are like the Koreans of Europe when it comes to family dramas. Nobody understands family like the Irish do. Like people, the Brits can kind of, they play around with family, but they don't get it like the Irish do. The Irish fully embrace how to pull at your heartstrings when it comes to family. This was just like the commitments, Murray, but with Paul Rudd. With, sorry, prod.

[00:21:43] With prod. Yeah. It, it, and, and the Jonas. You know how much I love him. Yeah. We know how much you love him. He's so good. No. He's so predly. He's predtastic. And the Jonas brother. I like him. The Jonas brother. Rick. Harvey. Harvey Jonas. Yeah. Rick Harvey Jonas. He was actually pretty good in this actually. Billy Joe Bob. Yeah. Jonas was all right. He was good. Yeah, he was good. All the actors in this were great.

[00:22:09] Um, the, the, the two, I guess, Steen, Steen Steelers in this is the buddiness between Sandy and Rick in this. Uh, and it was bringing back memories of, I love you, man. The two of those two together. And there's the scene where they kind of get separated because Paul Rudd's being a dick and they meet back up.

[00:22:36] And I was just, I turned to Bryce and I said, he's gotta say it. He's gotta say it. And he never said it. He never said, I love you, man. He never said, I love you, man. And I was waiting so hard. But we know. We know. Everybody who, every night he knows, who knows the prud knows he was saying, I love you, man. He was saying it with his eyes, Jim. He was, and maybe with his pants. No, he wasn't saying it with his pants. Why do you always have to go there? You always have to be dirty and I don't understand. Well, we just watched masters of the universe.

[00:23:05] What can I say? Ram man. I didn't see any of that in there. I don't know what you're talking about. So, so, you know, here's the thing about this story. When it started out, I was kind of not liking it so much. It was, it was kind of following along a typical model, but the characters, the characters are in this, which, which drew me to this film so much because people are real in this.

[00:23:34] Like, everybody in this was real. Like, even Jonas Brothers character. He, you, you. He felt genuine. He felt so genuine. I believe it. I, I do too. And, and how. And even him, you know, wrestling with his decisions. Yes. Like the whole time. You could see like, he, he did a great job for, I don't know if he's done any acting before this, but I wouldn't mind seeing him in more stuff. Has he? Yeah. He was in a bunch of music. Oh, was he? Yeah. Oh, nice. Like the new ones. Yeah.

[00:24:04] Welcome to the jungle, baby. He was in it. Yeah. And you know what? He was in the first one too. I think he was in both of them. Probably. What did he do? I don't know. He was in. They had Jack Black. I avoided them like the plague. There you go. Which actually drew me to it because I love Jack Black. Jack Black's awesome. But he's almost as good as a Jonas Brothers. You know, this, this little Jonas boy, he, he is so adorable. I can see why they were so famous. Yeah. And you know what? To be honest, the music in this was kind of fun too.

[00:24:32] Um, you know, I wrestled with this when they ended the movie. There's a scene near the end of the movie. I'm like, please just both Jumanji. Nice. In case anyone was wondering. So there's a scene at the end where I'm like, please, please just end this movie right here, right now. And they didn't end it. And I was like, please don't fuck this up. And then they didn't fuck it up. No, they didn't. And they ended it. And it wasn't better than what I imagined was going to be, but it was still pretty awesome. Yeah.

[00:25:02] I didn't. I, yeah, I was okay. What they needed to do is end it exactly when his daughter discovers something. And then we don't need to know anything after that. No. Just end it there. Yes. That's exactly what my thought was. Yeah. But how they ended it was better than them doing all kinds of other garbage. They could have, they could have really messed it up and they didn't completely mess it up. No, they, they, they gave it a really good. They didn't make it better, but they didn't mess it up.

[00:25:31] That's a hundred percent. So for me, this was a Mondo actually. I. What? Yeah. No, I, this was a really heartwarming story. I love the characters in this. I laughed a lot at the points where you're supposed to laugh. Not like there wasn't a lot of stuff in this that was, and, and Pratt just, he's just so lovable. Pratt is. You can't help but, but feel sorry for him. Like everything that was, and maybe it's because. I felt for him. There's no question.

[00:25:59] He actually is me from another life. Like I was a musician. I had a band. We toured, we're about to tour Europe. The band broke up. All these things happen. I had kids because it was just like, bam, bam, bam. That's me up on the screen. That's me up on the screen. I didn't write a power ballad. No. Cause I never did write power ballads. But if I did, it would have been awesome. There you go. All right. It was Mondo for me. I loved it.

[00:26:27] I mean, how can you, the characters are great. I mean, his daughter is spectacular. She is. She is. She has some, just some really funny lines in this movie. Um, it really, really good cast. Really good cast. And yeah, the bromance between the two, you know, you can't, that's, that's great. Jonas coming in. You're fired. Well, I quit. Well, I quit. Yeah. It's, um, there's just a lot of good stuff in this movie.

[00:26:56] And yeah, it's, it's a very, it's kind of a believable story. Like you could see everything in this actually happening. And I tell you at the end of the day, it's, it's a really, really good romp. There's some stuff that really annoyed me that I think annoyed you too. Like the canned music. Oh yeah. It was, you have to, can you not make it sound live? I wish they would. I wish they wouldn't. Good God. That was awful. Can you not just actually, I don't care what you're doing.

[00:27:25] If you have people playing behind these guys and just actually record it being played live with the, with the audience or with the, the, you know, the people that are at the wedding, just making a little bit annoying. Can you not just do that? So it doesn't sound overly. It sounded overly. Oh my God. Ran through a compressor. It, and the lip syncing was awful. It was awful. It's like, good God.

[00:27:50] You, what, how can you make a movie all about music and then have every time the music plays annoy the live and poop out of you. I know. And because of that, this could never be a Mondo. Cause I was annoyed for a third of the movie. I know that annoys you. I just, I stopped looking. It was so freaking annoying. That's why I couldn't get into the Bob Marley biopic. Cause that was the same thing. I know. And it's, it takes you out of the movie and there is so much good in this. And I want to sit there and go and praise it like you did.

[00:28:20] Yeah. But I can't cause I can't get past this awful, awful sound mix. Like it was beyond awful. It was bad. It was really, really bad. It was really bad. But I can overlook it because. I cannot. The story, the characters, everything else was great. The story was great. The characters were fantastic. But if you're going to have a movie that annoys the bleeping crap out of me, I can't give it a Mondo. Cause it's a, it's the whole package. I'm not reviewing just part of it. Okay. So I just have one question for you. Yes. Okay. When you were a child. Yes.

[00:28:51] Did you ever play pretend with anything? No. Okay. Murray, did you? Of course. I didn't have any siblings. That's right. I spent a lot of time alone. No pretend. No pretend. So, so me. It is what it is. I pretended all the time. Okay. Whatever. Anyways, this was a mess. It was, it was very, there was a lot of good in this and I wish I could give it a Mondo, but the, it's just good God.

[00:29:14] How can you make, how can you be a professional movie maker and, and not have like, how can you watch this back in, in one of the first screenings and go, we gotta, we gotta fix this. The Jonas should have. And it's not just one scene. You've got professional musicians. It's a third of the movies. Why aren't you doing it live? It's a third of the movies. That's what, that's what he's complaining about, Murray. There's a lot, there's a lot of music played. If it's just actors who are lip syncing, that's different, but these, is an actual singer. Yeah.

[00:29:42] Well, Paul, Paul, Paul Redd actually sings all the songs he sings. Oh yeah. So they could have easily done live music. They could have just done this. They could have. But anyways, it is still a meh. I enjoyed every part that wasn't the music and I didn't, the music wasn't terrible or anything. Even the hit song is pretty good. Of course we had to hear it 800 times. Oh my God. I don't think any songs been played over and over like that ever in a movie. How about that thing you do? It's like the only song in the whole frigging movie. Not like this, man.

[00:30:11] I understand what you're saying, but if you ever watch this, I mean, it's, it's ridiculous how often this gets played. Murray, you like Irish movies. You'd probably, if you could get over the prod, you would probably like this movie. I love the prod. There's Irish actors in them. It's Irish actors in Ireland. It had all Irish actors except two. And there was in Ireland. Jonases are not Irish. Here is Paul Rudd. Yeah. Just saying. Those are the only two basically in the movie. Well, that's right. So they're Americans in Ireland. That's not the same thing. No, no.

[00:30:40] Two Americans and a bunch of Irish people. And every other person was Irish. Yeah. I'm glad I missed it. Whatever. You done? Yeah. Meh. Mondo. Meh. Mondo. Yeah. I got nothing. Beautiful. Moving on. The shortest Merman minute ever. Temperaturizing. Vision. Blurring. Rage. Taking. Over.

[00:31:23] Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet rage. Oh, I love you so. Okay. My rage. I'm just waiting for music to hit. All right. You know. Get on with it, man. Hit in the timing, fucker. Murray's sitting here tapping his finger. He's got things to do. He's got shit to do. And you're yammering on and on. That's not his finger.

[00:31:49] My rage this week is that I watched Scary Movie twice. Bryce doesn't know this, but that was the second time I watched. Oh, we're ruining that, are we? I'm ruining it right now because I didn't have any other rage. I did watch Scary Movie twice. I don't know. Did you? I watched it with Murray yesterday. Yeah. A little secret. I did too.

[00:32:17] Cause I went to it on Thursday to a sold out showing of millennials. And then Jim's like, let's go to a movie on Sunday. Like, okay. You guys sat through that piece of dog crap twice. Yeah. It was great. I enjoyed it more than the second time. Yeah, me too. Cause I was with Jim. And I was with Murray. Oh, for fuck's sake. So my, you know what? They say, you know, you can turn a frown upside down by just sitting with Murray. That's right. Just the male companionship. That's right. That's all we need. You guys are too much. I don't know how bad the movie is.

[00:32:47] It was bad. It was good. It was almost Monday. All right. That's all you got? Yep. All right then. My rage is just that a scary movie seems to be the number one movie this week, which was, which was very predictable. It's the universe bomb. Yeah.

[00:33:17] But, uh, yeah, I, which means that we're probably going to get another one. Yes. We do not need any more of this garbage. Ugh. Can't wait. That is my rage. All right. So both of our rages were scary movie? What, the same thing? Yeah. But for different reasons.

[00:34:04] Welcome ragers to Film Rage's totally retro nostalgia recall flashback. On this week's segment, Jim is back at the helm with his first horror film that he ever saw in cinema from 1974. It's, it's alive. Let's check in with Jim and find out if this is where his love for CLFs came from, or was this the film that fueled his passion for having kids of his own? It's alive.

[00:34:33] It's alive. It's a little Frankenstein there, right? He did. He threw in some Frankenstein just for Bryce. Hmm. Uh, okay. So, hmm. Okay. So first of all, the reason I picked this and you know, I want to correct Bryce the other week. He kind of gave me shit for picking a movie that he didn't like.

[00:35:00] And when he met, he picked clash of the Titans, he said to me, this is the reason why we have this segment. And I'm like, you know what? The reason we have this segment is because for whatever reason, all of us had fond memories of a movie. And that's why we're going back to rewatch them. So this one in particular was the very first horror movie that I saw in cinemas.

[00:35:25] So imagine if this came out in 74, I was eight. I wasn't born yet. Exactly. Unless this came out really late in 74. There you go. Then I'd be an infant. Maybe you could be a baby in your mother's tummy. Maybe you were the baby in the movie. Hmm. You were a baby in Leslie's tummy when this movie came out. Yeah. You could be the It's Alive baby grown up. Right. For all I know. It came out in April of 1974. So it came out many months before I was born. Yeah.

[00:35:56] So here's what I want to say about this. Mm-hmm. The lighting in this is so dark for most of the movie, but intentionally so. And it's very 70s. Um, I love how they build all the cuteness with the babies in the hospital and the character development and how their 11 year old kid is worried about his mom during birth. Uh, I love the smoking and the coffee drinking in the poker room, the hospital.

[00:36:25] And, uh, um, the doctor who, who shames the mother for giving birth to this thing. Uh, it had the original, it was the originator of monster vision. This was the first movie that I ever remember that had monster vision. Mm-hmm. Right. Can you, can like every time it would come on and go, Murray, there's the baby. There's the baby vision. Yeah. Point of view from the baby. Yeah. It was so good.

[00:36:55] Uh, it was the greatest father son redemption movie probably ever made. Wow. You know, in rewatch of this, I got to say it's, it's pretty slow. Like there it's, it's not, it's not like it, it almost feels like those seventies. I thought it moved a little too fast. It had a very seventies. It reminded me of Italian cinema. I needed to let it wash over me a little more than it did. I thought it was kind of rapid fire. I don't know what you're talking about. What movie were you watching? I don't know. That baby was everywhere.

[00:37:25] I know that baby could move. Yeah. Baby could move. I don't know what you're talking. My, my favorite scene of the movie is, and I said to Murray, I said, Murray, watch for it. When the milkman gets killed and say, you watch Murray, you watch what's going to happen. He's like, what? And he's like, just wait for it. Just wait for it. It's coming. And he's like, it's not coming. It's not coming. Where, what, what am I supposed to be waiting? There it is. When the, when the white milk turned pink. That's good stuff. That's good stuff. So you know what?

[00:37:53] After watching this again, I, I, I don't own this, but I want to buy the box set. It's still Mondo for me. I love this movie. I love how creepy the baby is. I love the, that the director does such a great job keeping the baby for the most part hidden for the most of it. Um, yeah, this was a fun rewatch. I still think it's Mondo. Murr, what'd you think? Uh, we have another gym special this week. Yes. It's alive from 1974.

[00:38:23] Yes. I was three years old when this movie came out. Barely older than the demon child in the movie, but almost as evil. Almost. At least until my French Catholic family got ahold of me and dip me in holy water. Nice. They could have used some of that in this movie. What? Uh, this film was groovy. Everything about it. Scream seventies. Cars, the clothes, men smoking in the hospital, waiting room. Playing poker.

[00:38:52] Actual milkmen delivering milk and glass bottles. Mm-hmm. I can appreciate the era, even though I don't remember much of it. For me, the world started in 1980. Everything before that? No idea. Hey, what the hell is up with this kid? He's born with fangs and claws. Yes. Kills the doctors and nurses before he's even able to walk. Yes. And jump up great heights to grab things. Yes. Travels like those worms from Travers.

[00:39:22] Super baby. And can take down full grown adults like a serial killer. Yeah. Vicious. That's it. That's all any of us want. The deformities are a result of either nuclear testing or some experimental fertility drug. Doesn't really matter. Either one was ridiculous. All right. Uh, this film was very cheesy. It's hard to watch because it was so slow. It was a bit slow. No, it wasn't. Stop with the slow.

[00:39:52] I enjoyed the baby killing people scenes, but not enough of them. They also used the evil dead can pretty well, which I understood hadn't been invented yet. That's right. So I guess Sam Raimi owes something to this film. Yes. I would say so. He sure does. I did not enjoy the shaky cam scenes. Eh. According to Google AI, the steady cam was invented in 1974. Same year as this film. I'm guessing the filmmakers either hadn't heard of it or couldn't afford one. Probably. It was pretty low budget. That's too bad.

[00:40:22] Probably both. Ending to this film was kind of stupid and almost ruined the film for me. What? What? I don't like horror movies. It's not really a surprise. I didn't like this one very much. Okay. Sorry, Jim. It's not a rage, but it's just barely a man. Oh, you know what? It still made it to a man, Murray. Yeah, barely. All right, Bryce. What did you think of? It's alive. It's alive was awesome. I don't know. My one quip is that I wish it was two hours because it was just moving too fast. There was just too much going on.

[00:40:52] So have you seen the sequels? I have seen the sequels. Yeah, I've seen. I watched the first one. Yeah. When you when this came up, I was like, okay, I'm actually looking forward to revisiting this, but I don't remember it being that good. But then I watched it again. This is awesome. Can you guys imagine though an eight year old seeing this in cinemas? That's the thing. You got to take yourself. I think I probably saw it on VHS when I was like 14 or 15. But even if I was I remember kind of liking it back. I like this a lot more than I remember.

[00:41:23] I'm trying to decide whether this was Mondo or not. Maybe it was. I mean, it's a game changer for film. This was another one of those. That's another thing where you just as you mentioned, you're watching stuff and there's there's so many things that were influenced by this. There was so many, you know, sort of devices that they use that kept on coming up in later later movies. Yeah. This was pretty original for its time. And when you put yourself in that mindset, you got to appreciate the technical stuff.

[00:41:53] You got to appreciate a whole lot of things that were in this movie. Some of the dialogue wasn't fantastic. I mean, 70s. Exactly. I can forgive that. Just on the fact that I really did have a very good time watching it. I man is I'm going to give it a Mondo. It deserves a Mondo, especially for a horror fan. Yeah. Murray, we can understand because he's not a horror fan. Yeah. So. I tell you, it's fun. I liked it.

[00:42:22] I'm going to buy the box set from Amazon. Is there a box set? Yeah. It's a Blu-ray box set. It's $44. Yeah. So that's pretty cheap. I know. Right. You used to be able to buy the series, but like on, on Apple, but we had to rent it on Apple cause you couldn't buy it. I would have bought it. I watched it on. What did I watch it on? Something. Fawesome. Fawesome. Yeah. It's a, it's a free app. It's a, it's legit.

[00:42:52] And yeah, it was on there. I got to look up Fawesome now. Yeah. Fawesome movies and TV. All right. It's just like Tubi only it's called Fawesome. And there's no, and there's no Tubi originals on it. Aw. That's kind of, it's kind of bad. I love Tubi originals. But no, they got like a mystery science theater 3000 channel. And I actually watched a couple of movies in a row last yesterday. Cause I was, I was just dead tired. I'm like, I'm just going to lay in bed watching the movies. Nice. Yeah.

[00:43:23] Fawesome. Is it like film awesome? Is that what it's probably. Yeah. And then awesome. Fawesome. Fawesome. Fawesome. Fawesome movies and TV. We, for next week, my friends, we are going to be going, I think this is Murray. Maybe. My girl. Is this you? Definitely not me. No, it might be mine. My, must be you then. Macaulay Culkin. That's right. It is second best movie he's ever been in.

[00:43:52] And Jamie D Curtis. I'll, I'll, I might have a story about that movie next week of why I went to it and the circumstances. Yeah. It's kind of sad. Well, cause somebody, you know, got stung by a bee. No. All right. It was, it's a silly story, but I'll tell it anyways. So next week you'll hear all about the circumstances that I went to my girl. We're going to find out what we all think about it. We're going to hear a story. Does it have a happy ending?

[00:44:23] Not really. It's just a, it doesn't really go anywhere. Oh. It's just a story. I always like getting a happy ending. Yeah, I know. All right. Well, thanks for listening. Thanks to the extended film rage family. You can find in our show notes. Thanks to Casey from the nerdy photographer for the voice of rager dare, our God of rage and the voice of film. Rage is totally retro nostalgia. Recall flashback. Find the nerdy photographer. Wherever you stream this podcast, find us on social media everywhere at film rage, YYC.

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