Ep. 357: Fallout Shelter

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[00:01:14] And you're listening to Reel Nerds Podcast. Welcome to Reel Nerds Podcast, unofficially the official podcast of Denver Comic Con 2019 and beyond. I am a host, Brad, and with me is... Zach! And we have a guest today. Amil. Welcome Amil. Yeah. Hey, thank you guys for the show.

[00:01:59] It's a real pleasure to be here and I'm real grateful for the invitation to be here with you guys. What brings you to our show today? Yeah, why would you come to my basement? How dare you interrupt my incessant viewings of the show?

[00:02:10] Incessant viewings of useless sitcoms from the 50's. You know, when people just bribe me with candy down to their basements I can't help but resist. It's true. I really need to knock that off. He's not leaving trails.

[00:02:21] It's just like all the candy he buys just falls out of his hands. Oh, God, where's that twitchy roll? I swear I had that twitchy roll. The treat is a treat. I don't want to bend over. Someone will pick this up. Yeah, exactly. Leave it for the maid.

[00:02:36] Yeah, I was interested in the podcast and saw you guys at Comic-Con. I know Brad and I really respect what he does. I just wanted to come here and just see what it was like and be part of something. Nice. Emil, is a stop motion animator. Nice. Nice.

[00:02:54] Tell us, Emil, what got you into stop motion animation? How much time do you have? Most shows are three hours. You can't with showed sack. All right, so I'm sure some of my fans will listen to this and they might be curious too.

[00:03:09] And maybe there'll be new people who are interested. Basically, when I was in middle school, this was back about 1997, I had a friend of mine. He and I were interested in Legos. We were interested in Star Wars and all this stuff.

[00:03:22] We had the Micro Machine Star Wars sets. We also had the Action Fleet sets and all that stuff. So we were wanting to make a movie and we're like, how did we do this?

[00:03:32] So at the time in my house, we had an empty room and we put the little Lego or the little Star Wars Micro Machines on the floor and we tried making the camera fly around. My friend was just like, no, let's just do stop motion.

[00:03:46] I was like, what is that? And he's like, all right, let me show you. So we get a camera. He started and stopped the camera. We moved it a little bit. We did it again. We did it over and over again. Then he showed me what it does.

[00:03:57] It's like, wow, you make it look like it's moving. So that's how I got into stop motion and he and I just took off from there. And my dad is really supportive of everything I do. So he's like, oh, you like that? He bought me a new camcorder.

[00:04:07] He bought me a bunch of clay and he's like, oh, and he showed me all the stuff with Gumby. And then we started making a lot of really violent gross movies, which most middle school kids would do.

[00:04:19] And we had a movie called Saving Private Gumby, which I wish I had. It was about Gumby trying to save Poky in a war zone. And it didn't go very well for him.

[00:04:33] There's a lot of funny ones that we had, but my friend had all those tapes and he's probably burned them out of embarrassment. I would have kept them. So I kind of just did it here and there through high school and stuff.

[00:04:47] And then I went to college and then I had a friend of mine. He's a thinker. He's always like, okay, how can I make the most money for the least amount of effort? That's how he thinks. And he's like, you know what? You can do stop motion.

[00:05:01] You got a bunch of Legos. Let's make a Lego stop motion. Okay. So we got a webcam. We used this program called Monkey Jam. And I went to my friend's house and we filmed it in his room. And it took us about three days, maybe four, without editing.

[00:05:15] He did all that. And we made this short called The Sound of One Man Snapping, which is on YouTube as the bloodiest Lego fight scene ever. And it ended up getting 400,000 hits. And my brother was like, he called me one day.

[00:05:29] He goes, did you know that your animation's on a Japanese TV show? I had no idea. He found it. He sent me a link, which I wish I kept. But my dad at the same time in 2006 got published with his book, The Nymphos of Rocky Flats.

[00:05:41] And he's like, can you make me a book trailer? This is about a vampire detective. And so I had these Lego skeletons we custom made that I had for this vampire Lego minifigure.

[00:05:52] And I made this short and my dad bought me more equipment and gave me the studio space in this apartment that he and I were living in. And so I made this couple book trailers, which Harper Collins liked a lot.

[00:06:05] And then I found these little white snowtroopers that I made as a kid. They're just all white and I painted tiger stripes on them. And I was like, I want to make a movie with these. So I got two pounds of cane sugar. I made this huge complex.

[00:06:21] It was about a three foot square set. And I just covered it in cane sugar. And I just had these Lego snowtroopers raiding this compound just taking out everyone. I didn't know what the direction was.

[00:06:35] I didn't know how I was going to go, but it got really big on YouTube. I think it's got a million views or it's got more than that right now. And I kind of went through some hard stuff, went through a breakup.

[00:06:46] I didn't really want to work on any hobbies. And then I just put out what I had and then people were like, when's the next one coming up? When's the next one coming up? And then I was like, okay, so I met this friend.

[00:06:57] He had After Effects and I was like, oh, I can try green screening. So I tried a first person shooter. It didn't work as well as I wanted to, but I continued the story.

[00:07:05] And then I made a second episode and after that people were like, when's the next one coming up? So then I just kind of started thinking of the story about it.

[00:07:13] And it's what became known as the Frozen Terror series because the first episode took place in the snow. I originally wanted this series to be called Apocalypse Lego, but people just referred it as Frozen Terror. So now it's like Frozen Terror or the FT series.

[00:07:27] So currently I am working on Frozen Terror 6, which will be the biggest Lego stop motion on the Internet. I got a lot of help from actors in Denver, a lot of help from Mike Henderson who does sound design from Plan 9 Studios.

[00:07:42] A lot of great help, a lot of great talent from Denver. And so I've been working and kind of figuring out, I've also custom made parts for Legos or I didn't make them, I designed them.

[00:07:54] And then I have shapeways making for me, but they're like an arm kit that you use so that you can interchange the position of your Lego minifigures. So they can actually look like they're holding a gun. They can look like they're holding a weapon.

[00:08:08] I have a little hand kit so they can hold different objects in different ways. And I just started to utilize that in my animations. And my first real chance with that was when I made a Voldemort and Versa Navy Seals or Revenge of the Muggles.

[00:08:26] And just kind of my take on what would happen if the world of Harry Potter were real and the Navy Seals would just kind of take out Voldemort and Waterboard Lucius. So I released that and I used the arm kits and they worked great.

[00:08:42] And then I had this idea like I want to make a zombie movie. So I made Lego zombie movie, which is about eight minutes and it's my biggest movie. I hit five million views not too long ago, which is really cool.

[00:08:54] I just have a lot of fans, a lot of really loyal fans and every time I upload something they really give me some good feedback on it. And I appreciate that. I just wish that my Patreon was more successful.

[00:09:07] But it's hard because I do stop motion and I meet people who start new channels on YouTube who do gaming and stuff. And it's a lot easier because you can just record yourself. When I stop motion, it's like, okay, I got to plan this video.

[00:09:21] I got to set time aside outside of work and all these other things that I'm doing. And I got to rearrange my sleeping schedule because I film at night. And I got to like film it and it takes a while. And it's not easy.

[00:09:35] And then when I'm done filming it, I got to edit it. I got to edit each frame, each picture and it takes time.

[00:09:43] You know, if I'm green screening sometimes I have to go through and just cut out the green screen and redo it so it looks better or like it keys out better. There's a lot of work that goes into it. Not to mention the sound and all that.

[00:09:58] So Patreon would be a lot more helpful if we're gaining more traction compared to the app. But it's hard to gain traction because it's hard to have the time to really make uploads.

[00:10:09] I do have a new strategy which I will be implementing as opposed to doing the whole video and then releasing it. I'm actually going to be releasing it scene by scene.

[00:10:18] So tonight I will actually begin filming the first scene of Frozen Terror 6 and hopefully have it out in a week. Maybe we'll see if I have the time.

[00:10:27] So you do a tier like if you donate $3 a month or whatever you get this much of it and stuff like that? Well, no. I don't want to ever hold my videos over anyone for ransom or for money. I definitely advocate supporting artists that you like.

[00:10:47] I feel like I have a lot of fans and sure some of them are kids and they don't have a budget. But I feel like if you really appreciate something that's artistic then you have to make sure the artists can still continue to provide that.

[00:10:59] And I think that contributing to a Patreon or something is just a good way to show your appreciation. Saying, hey, we really like what you do.

[00:11:07] I actually started doing that for a couple of different podcasts that I enjoy because they're giving me hours of free entertainment during like anything I'm doing. Whether it's like day job or passion job or anything like that.

[00:11:18] I'd rather make sure they keep going than just rely on magic to make it happen. Yeah, it's hard. I get a lot of people who comment on my videos and they'll be like, hey, when's Frozen Terror 6 coming out? And I'm like, dude, I work. I work a lot.

[00:11:35] This isn't my full-time job. I don't know when you're going to pay my rent. Yeah, it's like that and it's like I don't want to feel resentment. My fans have been really great and they've really carried my channel and helped me get as far as I have.

[00:11:50] And I want to continue making movies. I want to continue sharing that. Nice. From a stop-motion point of view, I'm wondering like do you have any influences in terms of how you determine your style? Do you go back to the classics like Willis O'Brien or Ray Harryhausen?

[00:12:07] Or do you kind of just more rely on what you've seen on the internet to kind of give you inspiration on new things to try out? So I actually have met Ray Harryhausen. Really? I met him at CU. He came and spoke.

[00:12:21] When I was going to stop motion my dad took me to meet him. I shook his hand. Nice. Really cool guy. I got a couple of his books. I would like to say that I'm influenced by Harryhausen, but I mean that guy was just so far beyond anything.

[00:12:34] Just his attention to detail. He studied anatomy so he can build his characters to be anatomically correct. See Jason and the Argonauts for that one. Yeah. He's an amazing contributor to film. I'm appreciative for everything he's done and it's a shame that we've lost him.

[00:12:54] But he did leave behind a great legacy. As far as things I've influenced me, my influence is basically I want to make Legos do what I imagine them doing when I was playing with them as a kid. And for me that was them being very violent.

[00:13:11] That was them killing each other. That was them being a secret agent and doing action-packed things. I see a lot of people on YouTube who make great Lego animations, but they have these stories that I wouldn't really tell. They seem very kid-friendly humor, very Nickelodeon-esque. And that's great.

[00:13:28] You know, they get a lot of views and they have a lot of fans and support and that's awesome. But that's not exactly what I want. I want to tell a mission impossible kind of story and I want there to be death.

[00:13:40] I want there to be something on the line. And I want it to be funny. And I do have a hint of comedy in a lot of my videos. Frozen Terror 1, they get into an elevator, so I was playing elevator music.

[00:13:52] Who has elevator music and a terrorist compact? It's just funny. I like throwing little things like that in there. I kind of want a new season of Homeland with that in mind. Yeah, so basically my influence is just me as a child. Yeah.

[00:14:09] And what I wanted them to do. I wanted them to be engaging in that childhood aspect of yourself and letting that flourish and blossom out there. Yeah, instead of imagining them do it, I'm going to create it on film. Yeah, nice.

[00:14:23] Do you generally, when you do it, do you... I've seen a lot of different setups on how they accomplished stop motion today and whatnot. And actually, I'm sure you've seen it before.

[00:14:36] The King Kong documentary on the 2-Disc edition DVD that they put out years ago had a wonderful scene on how they recreated a lost sequence from King Kong. But they kind of showed the different setups and whatnot.

[00:14:50] So you talked about green screen earlier, with the green screen do you kind of like shoot in layers and then kind of like composite it all together via that? Or do you like do it a different way?

[00:15:02] I'm actually putting together a series for stop motion, like a how-to series. And I'm on the 12th episode or the 12th section of it and I think there's going to be 22 total. So I'm almost done with it.

[00:15:19] Well, I made a lot of progress with it but it's a lot of work. And in there I do talk about all that stuff. How to green screen, how to do your scene setup.

[00:15:28] You can watch it and you get a lot out of it because you are going to learn step by step. This is how you set up your stop motion, how you make it look good, and how to set up your stop motion table.

[00:15:45] I talk about the importance of having a good table and weighing it down, making sure that you have a good background. How to set your background the distance from the table to make it look like there's a horizon if you need to do that. And just like everything.

[00:16:03] For me, for the most part I have an animation table that I use. I weigh it down. It's on a concrete floor so there's no shifting. Sturdy as all heck. Yes. I had to learn that the hard way.

[00:16:15] A lot of my early animations, like with carpet and stuff, like I'd step by the tripod and shift a little bit. And now I don't even use a tripod. I have a camera mount that goes onto the table and I weigh that down too.

[00:16:26] And so I do everything I can to make sure my shot is still. I am working on doing moving shots.

[00:16:34] Frozen Terror 6 is going to be a lot of that because it's going to be basically like a video game following a character in a third person's perspective through a combat situation. So the camera is going to be following the commander of this little squad.

[00:16:47] And so a lot of that is what I'm going to be talking about in my tutorials. Like how do you do that? How do you move your camera and stop motion and stuff like that? So I touch on everything. Basically though, I have a table.

[00:17:03] I weigh it down. It's on a concrete surface. I stream from my camera to my computer. I take all my images from there. I don't touch the camera at all unless it's moving. Like I'm moving the scene.

[00:17:14] And then my backdrop, I have a big wood frame that I made as a backdrop. And I hang either a green screen behind it or if it's a day scene, I have a big blue backdrop. I pick over that too.

[00:17:27] And then if I have clouds and stuff in the scene, I just put those in and post on something like After Effects. So that's basically the basics of it. I'm down with the Frozen Terror because that sounds really awesome.

[00:17:39] But I'm also down for this how-to guide because those are things that I kind of like, binge on streaming site or anything like that. Yeah. And I'll say the reason why I wanted to do the how-to guide was

[00:17:52] I spent $100 on the Robot Chicken guide to stop motion and I got nothing out of it. I got nothing out of it. Maybe that was the joke. Yeah, maybe. Like they talk about stuff, but if you're new to stop motion, a lot of stuff they talked about,

[00:18:10] you're like okay, but how do I implement that? They kind of try touching on that stuff, but it didn't really... It seemed like for a beginner, it's kind of out of your reach.

[00:18:21] Basic concepts, but they don't give you the details almost like they don't want to spill their secret. Kind of. I mean they talked about some important aspects of stop motion, but in order to really get good at that stuff, you have to have a lot of practice.

[00:18:36] And I mean for me, it's been a lot of practice, a lot of trial and error. I have a lot of footage. Well, I used to have a lot. I deleted it, but I had a lot of footage of stuff I would try and it just wouldn't work.

[00:18:48] So I just had to do it over again. I'd have to shoot the scene over and over again, and I've done that a lot and it just takes time and practice to get that down.

[00:18:56] And now that can be put to better use in terms of giving an example and stuff. Yeah, so with the course... Like through their course is basically this is our studio and here's a... Basically a showcasing of our studio.

[00:19:10] Oh by the way, this is how you put your character on the set. And it's like okay well, I just spent 100 bucks for two hours of you showing me your studio with maybe like two minutes of talking about how to do stop motion.

[00:19:23] For me, everything is stop motion from storytelling. Like how to use your camera and all the functions of your camera. One thing that I wish I would have known is something about focal length, right? How does focal length affect your shot? Especially with something like stop motion.

[00:19:41] And I've played around with that. I've learned how to make something like a small Lego scene look like it's really deep or look like it's really shallow. And that's just from utilizing focal length. So I talk about all that stuff.

[00:19:56] And just like anything that I've had to learn, it's addressed in the tutorials. Or it will be when I'm done. And when you watch it... I mean you may have to watch it a couple of times, but all the information is there.

[00:20:11] And it's just like okay this is how I get good at stop motion. If you apply what I show in the tutorials and you just practice it, you'll get good at it. Yeah actually focal length and even depth of field to do it.

[00:20:24] The concept in stop motion that I wasn't familiar with, how do you explain how to create that until that aforementioned King Kong documentary. And also some stuff that... I wish Tim Burton would talk more about it in video form about how he does his stuff

[00:20:43] but you generally just get clips of here's the corpse ride or here's Jack Skellington and stuff like that. But those films I think when I'm looking at stop motion for the most part it's either that or Leica tend to have the most innovative cinematography going on about them.

[00:20:59] And then the case of Lego, when I'm seeing stuff like that on the internet and whatnot I'm amazed as like it ranges from parody to straight on serious cinematic intent that kind of goes through it.

[00:21:13] So that's actually pretty fascinating that you're going to tackle that within that series. Yeah you know through the series I talk about like you got to utilize what's in your budget.

[00:21:25] This for some kids they're not going to have access to a DSLR, they're not going to have access to a streaming program. Unless it's Brad, he would have found a way. So I've been touching on everything right? Using what you have to the most that you can.

[00:21:45] Just like a filmmaker credo through it through. Yeah and it's like okay but it's like okay if you do have access to these DSLR if you can film with high-end cameras this is how you do it right. But maybe all you can do is film with a webcam.

[00:22:01] But I touch on all that stuff and just talking about using what's in your budget just how do you produce something that you can be proud of and how you can submit it. How do you share it online? How do you submit it to a film festival?

[00:22:19] Things like that. So it's a very comprehensive course that I'm trying to put together and hoping it will be out soon. I can't wait to see it. Where can people find your work in the meantime in terms of where is your YouTube channel

[00:22:34] and everything and your Patreon page more importantly in my opinion? Well the Patreon page is linked on my YouTube channel so in all my major videos there will be a link there but my channel is Virgio1228 it's V-I-R-G-E-O-1-2-2-8

[00:22:49] It's Virgio because I was born in the cusp of Virgo and Leo and I just like Virgio and I was like oh I like that so I just kept it and 1228 is like a mix of my birthday and my brother's birthday

[00:23:01] and so it's always been like something my mom has used it's like a code like we had a lock 1228 not that those locks are around anymore but so I just use Virgio1228 now I've got my LLC which is Virgio Studios and so I do everything through that

[00:23:21] but my channel handle is still the same Virgio1228 look up my latest film which is not Lego Banana Boxing and it should be like on the first page Please tell me it's like California Raisins but with bananas It is bananas going to town on each other

[00:23:40] on a countertop at night and there's some live action in it I had a local actress Maya Klosterman who came in and did some acting for me she was really great in it she filmed in a day and then I took about three days to film

[00:23:55] the stop motion and then Mike Henderson did the sound on it and it's a great little short and it'll make you laugh especially the part with the pineapple just it's funny nice I do like Maya's work too she worked with us on a fake trailer we did

[00:24:08] for a DJ that like tries to kill people with his record it's a fun little bit yeah she was great and she also does really great cosplay did you see her cosplay for this year at Denver Comic Con? yeah I ran into her

[00:24:22] she came up to the booth and I didn't recognize her at first I'm recording behind it because I think you were out doing Kevin Eastman stuff and she pops in and she kind of waves her staff and what not and was like who's that Maya?

[00:24:37] yeah she really was into that costume oh yeah she did another one a couple years back where it was like Darth Maul female Darth Maul is like really elaborate and pretty stellar so yeah and when I found it around Facebook a few years ago

[00:24:52] that was her profile picture interesting way to welcome me into Maya's life when you're working with properties like Lego and Harry Potter how do you avoid complications on YouTube and stuff like that? the only issue I've ever had with anything related to copyright was in Frozen Terror 1

[00:25:14] I actually don't have the rights for monetization that money goes to I can't remember the name but the company that made Halo because they used Bungie oh Bungie yeah they use a I use one of their songs and so now they've monetized the video

[00:25:33] and they get all the money for that which is fine I mean you know I use one of their songs but with Lego and with like Harry Potter and there's a lot of like like Marvel Lego movies out there there's a lot of Star Wars Lego

[00:25:47] like they for some reason I don't know if they just don't care Star Wars has been always pretty open with the fan videos yeah Marvel Marvel I don't know what Marvel is Harry Potter has been litigious as shit recently though so

[00:25:58] they have not done anything with my video they don't care I haven't gotten a message they hang on I I'm pretty mean to some of her characters so so it's like movies like the Lego movie come like out and they do all this as just CGI

[00:26:15] like how do you tell someone who like watches your videos and like it's not it's not as fluid as like what they can do and you seem to have no interest in like pursuing learning how to model them in 3D like what's your response to that

[00:26:29] like why is stop motion better in your opinion because it's a lot more attainable the idea is I want to inspire and motivate people who want to be filmmakers and say like you can you can make that you can you can make a video that you want

[00:26:49] you know if you want to do it with CGI you have that's a lot of schooling that's a lot of that's a lot of time that you have to invest in that and then you know you gotta apply like can you can you get a job at Lego

[00:27:01] or the you know any film companies that's gonna work with Lego that's hard it's competitive but if you say you know what I got Legos I got a webcam or some kind of camera I can make a stop motion movie I could put it on YouTube

[00:27:14] I can tell a story that I want to tell and I can make Legos tell that story it's a lot more attainable and I feel like for me it just adds more to it you know like when I watch like like the Lego Ninjago show

[00:27:33] it just looks terrible to me but the Lego movies are really good but at the same time it's like I know that it's not stop motion I know that that's not really Lego those aren't real Legos that's a computer generated image but when I have a stop motion

[00:27:47] you could say that's what a Lego is doing that's a real Lego doing that that's a real Lego killing that other Lego it's not CG that's real feels more organic a little bit more real tangible yeah and then that kind of like pertains to that style of like

[00:28:04] why practical effects have been like like wonderful in some of our eyes for the past couple of recent years with big budget movies doing them is because like it feels more honest than seeing the computer do it even though the computer can do wonderful things

[00:28:20] you know how much better the thing would have been if they had kept it with practical effects oh the thing remake yeah oh yeah or it's like the prequel I love the movie but I do think I agree there's something lost because you're not getting Rob Boteen's effects

[00:28:39] in that original one like I mean I have two different versions of Carpenter's the thing I do not own the prequel even though I probably should at some point you know because it just it can never have enough evidence of like this is how amazing

[00:28:52] you can make things look just by applying the molding and I mean it may cost more with material but you can get it done and you can make it look astounding yeah and I mean sometimes practical effects like aren't the way to go

[00:29:08] like if you think like a Terminator 2 right I mean it felt a stop motion that would not nearly have had that's sort of an impact would have been extremely interesting but yeah but so sometimes I think you know it's a there's basically thinking about what your

[00:29:25] your film calls for right sometimes you're going to need CG I'm not going to lie like a lot of times I use CG in my videos I get 3D objects and I incorporate it sometimes into my videos the Harry Potter movie I have a helicopter

[00:29:39] everything that helicopter is stop motion except for the rotors the rotors I did in a in CG or a 3D object that I animated on top of it and that was a learning process but I didn't I thought it looked good and it's just kind of knowing what

[00:29:55] you need to achieve and the best way to get there and I think for the most part though I think practical is the way to go yeah and I feel like you can you're less likely to mess it up

[00:30:08] and I think that you're more likely to make it believable if it's practical yeah I've noticed that even with like just small touches in production design alone it doesn't even like have to do with just animating it's a it's a film maker 101 problem to begin with you know

[00:30:23] you just got to figure out the best solution and it seems like you've come up with great solutions to any dilemmas you might have come on your journey so commendable and props for that man yeah I I've had to learn a lot of ways

[00:30:36] I'll give you an example of something I've learned I wanted to utilize some kind of like blood splatter effect and when I try to use like red food coloring like it will dry like between frames so it's like you can get this progressive drying from frame to frame

[00:30:53] of this blood smearing right so I say okay I'm going to use jam or jelly so I went and I'm like okay I need to buy red jelly and it looked pink so my advice is if you're going to use jam or jelly get blackberry

[00:31:07] blackberry looks good on camera it looks like actual blood and so that's my advice that's what I had to learn Lenzol Kredis said Simpsons guy cows don't look like cows on film what do you want to do if you do a horse

[00:31:18] we just stick a bunch of cats together well thank you so much Emil for like giving us a proper 101 on how stop motion works within the YouTube age and for that more for that matter in general just how I do it there's a lot of different ways

[00:31:35] I'm a one man crew for the most part so and really quickly what was that page again it's a Virgeo 1228 yeah VIRG 1228 awesome thanks again well we'll we'll we'll get into the regular show now and we'll we'll try not to pour you to death

[00:31:52] with Brad and ours boring shit but we do appreciate any insight you can bring into the following segments that we do today Brad what do we do around here besides talk about awesome stop motion with a meal here well this week we saw a mission impossible

[00:32:06] fallout oh yeah we will talk about that at the end of the show and after the trailer we'll do the spoilers so watch out for that spoiler he jogs a lot yeah doesn't run just jogs lightly jogs through the park that's not true at all

[00:32:22] I just I like that joke I wish more people would have liked it yeah but first let's go around town with me hey film buddies follow me around Denver going round going round the town with Brad I just listened to a lot of Casey in the

[00:32:52] Sunshine Band today sorry this week midnight at the Esquire August 3rd and 4th they are showing the original animated ghosts in the shell oh hot damn in Japanese with English subtitles that remake came out last year didn't it yep oh wow feels like it was not that

[00:33:10] long ago and then the following week August 10th and 11th they're doing the apparently the 35th anniversary of a movie I've never heard of before called liquid sky and it's a trippy colorful 80s it's an underground masterpiece of avant-garde sci-fi filmmaking sounds like David Lynch's Star Wars maybe

[00:33:32] and then the drive-in is changing it up nice because they've been doing the same kind of lineup for a while now yeah well maybe this isn't as different sorry I got the wrong page that's okay right now they're showing skyscraper dress world and ant-man

[00:33:50] and they're gonna change it up to Christopher Robin and the Incredibles 2 and Disney's saving their ass this year dang Disney owns all the movies now oh yeah it's right we're gonna be talking about that a little bit more money and you know what they're gonna get

[00:34:08] my money this week with Christopher Robin because I'm gonna walk out of blubbering mess as I told you weeks before and this weekend starting on Friday is the 48 hour film project so come to the screenings the following Sunday it's August 11th and you're working on yours

[00:34:28] and I got invited actually to help with Jenny Kershdad's for certain parts of it I am a traitor but I owe her a favor for acting in my film two years ago and also I can't do these all the time anyway

[00:34:44] I found it hard to believe that anyone called in that favor I think you just don't want to be on our team this year no it's not that at all yes you know what I said to myself I hate Brad so much

[00:34:56] what team is Jenny on, what's the team name I don't know the team name yet I'm only coming on for Friday night part of Saturday morning and then part of Sunday because I've got work so I can't do the whole thing so I'm kind of like

[00:35:10] it pretty much would be the same availability would have gotten out of me and you've got a solid team anyway yeah we've got like 20 people I really gotta jump on that 48 film you've done it before? I've never done it but you know stop motion

[00:35:24] how much can I do in 14 hours you'd be surprised talk to stranger studios they've done animation many times okay and it's like insane good animation of course they do have many people so flying solo but you know the Fleischmans they did like paper cut out

[00:35:42] like South Park style animation for a couple years and they did pretty well yeah you know it'll be interesting I haven't done one in a full capacity ever but I've always kind of like thrown out help mostly to Brad

[00:35:58] and now I'm helping on a different group this year but I can't do it personally as a whole thing with me being the center creative piece because it just seems too daunting so like it's best if I'm the words of a quitter

[00:36:12] sounds like the words of a lazy person which I totally am I just can't say up more than 20 hours that will pass out yeah that's another thing it gets way harder as you get older I'm worried this year like I'm not gonna be able to do it

[00:36:28] just dying on your deathbed get the edit out they're filling out the end of the before you got a questionnaire any regret from this year yeah Brad died team leader dead so yeah that's what's going on around town nice so why don't we find out what's

[00:36:54] dropping on the show floor store floors this week with dvd releases dvd releases in blu-ray to quickly we weren't here last week but if you didn't already know you can pick up ready player one on 4k dvd all those good noises you can also pick up

[00:37:16] in the mouth of madness from shout factory screen factory which has been a staple on this show it's a wonderful John Carpenter film if you've ever heard of it at the meal and I had an issue with getting my copy from Amazon

[00:37:28] because I pre-ordered it and then they told me it was out of stock when I pre-ordered it so I canceled my pre-order thinking I'll just get it I just re-do it and then they tried to get me to re-order it at 34.99 when it would have been 22.99

[00:37:40] and then I got it on the pre-order that I initially did so I'm just going to buy it directly from screen factory to give Amazon a little slap in the face over the senior comic con weekend they had shout factory at 20% off every time if you buy over

[00:37:52] 60 or 80 dollars yeah and I jumped on that so I got a lot coming nice yeah I mean I should have jumped on it but I was kind of waiting on the Amazon train and I learned my lesson they announced some really good stuff

[00:38:08] we'll talk about in the news but this week from screen factory you can get piranha to the spawning finally oh I've been waiting yeah okay well this has been an issue for screen factory because they've had a hard time releasing this

[00:38:22] I don't know the full story but I'm sure a certain big time director who doesn't do anything really has had something to do with this release being stalled James Cameron directed it this was an early film when he was working with Corman when he wasn't full of shame

[00:38:38] but yeah you can pick a piranha to the spawning I don't know the extra feature scenario on this one also on the but on the new front you can get up toli which is Jason Reitman's new film on blu-ray no 4k release probably the same

[00:38:54] reasons for Isla Dogs just financially doesn't make sense for them and also the remake of Oberboard with Anna Ferris and the guy from How to be a Latin Lover I don't know his name so you can pick that one up also if you're a Star Wars Rebels fan

[00:39:12] the fourth season is now available on blu-ray so you can pick that up on the other nostalgia hits the original Village of the Damned from 1960 which is a creepy ass film it can be yours now from Warner Archive on blu-ray it looks like they did

[00:39:30] maybe a new transfer on it so that'd be interesting also Counterpart season 1 the JK Simmons new limited cable show so you can pick that up Brad Gill like this Dude Pro Party Massacre 3 has another blu-ray edition coming out so maybe... what did you even just say?

[00:39:50] Dude Pro Party Massacre 3 with Craig Cistero never heard of it never heard of it? yeah, you should listen to Paul Shear talk about it anyway and then the only other like nostalgia releases are Kino Lovers putting out two different ones Mr. Destiny

[00:40:10] and Taking Care of Business both starring Jim Belushi so if you like Jim Belushi your wishes have been granted I don't care someone must've if they put all that effort into releasing the mom blu-ray he's not his brother I know that's a low blow but he's not

[00:40:32] um, also Jim Carrey has a new movie out called Dark Crimes which looks like him trying to solve a terrible Russian mafia sex life mystery I don't know we're gonna beard for it, that's interesting remember number 23? that's actually unfair number 23 isn't terrible it's just not great

[00:40:58] but anyway, that's blu-rays as far as I can see Brad do you see anything that I'm missing? yeah, not really okay, yeah cool, right on, yeah blu-rays you can buy them at the store I think I might regret this but uh why don't we unspool that real news

[00:41:18] IT'S REAL NEWS IT'S REAL NEWS um, we're actually backlogged a wee bit but I'm not gonna go over every single thing I'll just touch on the main things uh, last week the internet blew up with James Gunn being fired from Guardians of the Galaxy 3

[00:41:40] after some of his past tweets resurfaced from a conservative blogger and uh, they fired him and uh, over the past two weeks since we found out the news uh, it seems like everyone's in support of Gunn and uh, not uh, happy with Disney's decision so which is great

[00:42:02] the cast today just posted a letter an opening letter supporting reinstatement of James Gunn um, clarifying their support for him which is nice it's good to know that they're uh, supporting him cause this is a very different situation from other ones that have been

[00:42:20] floating around where people are conflating the two as similar um, specifically probably um stuff involving other Disney parents so um, but yeah um it sucks I want Guardians 3 to be concluded by the person who got it up and running and uh, I hope Disney can find their way

[00:42:44] to make a better decision in reversing this, but you know, their business, they're gonna do what they're gonna do you know, and I understand why they reacted the way they did, but doesn't make it right yeah, it's a shame cause uh, the awesome mix like, that's kinda

[00:43:00] for me it's like the soul of those movies the playlist that he puts together and then builds the world around him and that's solely courtesy of Gunn these definitely volume two is I'm sure volume one is as well, but

[00:43:16] I heard he had more involvement with the soundtrack in the second one am I right or am I wrong uh, I mean both, but you probably you know, you probably didn't get any questions about the second one um I totally lost my train of thought um

[00:43:32] so yeah, like the Ruseur brothers I guess, they've tackled the Guardians but, you know, they've been supporting characters in Infinity War um, so this is a movie featuring them, it's gonna be tough for someone else to fill the issues, so they should definitely reconsider

[00:43:48] and also Gunn actually helped out with a lot of stuff for the Guardians for Infinity War so but it's funny like after, I think two weeks ago I talked about Sys and Toxie and how his impression of Stephen Hawking was like cringe worthy uh, yeah, it's already

[00:44:04] come back to bite him he's in, yeah, Trump didn't know what trauma was then yeah, how did Disney hire him in the first place without it's, it's you know what, it's a loaded argument and issue and we don't have all the time

[00:44:20] in the world to discuss it because there's so much else that happened but I will definitely say that probably not the best idea to keep this decision as the final one, Disney um this might have something to do with why they were

[00:44:36] so quick to react because Disney in 21st century Fox, Shareholder's approved historic 7.1 $71.3 billion deal so billion dollar deal, sorry so maybe they didn't want anything interfering with that possibly, I don't know regardless though that deal went through so now it's just got to be approved by

[00:44:58] the federal regulators Rotten Tomatoes and a couple other sites did a breakdown on when we could expect Fox IPs to really enter into the Disney fold specifically Marvel, Marvel's been the big talk of that um but it looks like we probably won't be even seeing the effects

[00:45:16] of that until maybe 2022-23 so it's an interesting process but we're gonna have to wait to see the final results of it guys should be excited to see the X-Men in the Marvel Universe at some point. It'd be nice I'd like to do it right. Oh yeah, yeah

[00:45:36] that's a whole other discussion on what's right and what's wrong and whether or not Disney does it correctly we're fine with it but everyone else seems to be angry um hey Brad, guess what happened to MoviePass they went out of business

[00:45:52] well they ran out of money this weekend and now they're they had any money apparently this weekend they had to shut down their service because they had they needed to borrow $5 million in cash to pay the bills this is something we've been discussing for longer than a year

[00:46:10] I would I would I'm assuming because I think we talked about it last year right I'm not keeping track yeah but we've discussed it enough to know that like Brad here tried it he had problems with it from the get-go so it's clear that this

[00:46:26] it was clear to me that I wasn't gonna do it because if Brad's having trouble with it I can only imagine how much trouble I'd have with it but it never seems stable to begin with and um I've got a couple friends who

[00:46:34] use MoviePass who were pissed that they couldn't use it this weekend and they all assume it's dead um I don't know if there's been any follow-up since this not that I can see but they're trying to pass it off as a technical glitch but then

[00:46:50] news piece broke that they needed to borrow cash to keep the lights on so I don't think MoviePass is sticking around with as much money as they could I don't think MoviePass is sticking around with as much longer guys yeah it does matter because

[00:47:02] AMC has theirs coming out and then Alamo's beta testing theirs and so right there I'll be covered until Regal gets on board with their own good luck with that they won't, I don't think they'll do it they'll be the last to do it to be sure

[00:47:18] Landmark will do it before AMC ever or before Regal ever touches it um that's just my first time getting worked for them um Comic-Con though was two weeks ago and we got a shit ton of trailers, we don't have to play them all

[00:47:36] but we should mention that Shazam debuted a teaser trailer which looks fun I've never been like a huge follower of Zachary Levi but he looks fun in this I just, you know I saw the trailer and a lot of people that I fall on

[00:47:52] YouTube or some of my friends they're like oh man it looks so good but I just I think he just looks goofy I'm not gonna lie I feel like he's like they try to pin him in like a muscle suit and it just doesn't look

[00:48:04] right to me, he looks like a toy and I don't know I just, I feel like it might be a good movie and I think it would be a good break to add that humor to an otherwise dismal DC franchise but

[00:48:18] I don't know I just feel like he just looks like a walking toy I'm wondering if cause it's kind of similar to anything you put out a teaser for too early like they're still working on that film so maybe they're gonna do some tweaks and touches and whatnot

[00:48:36] to that suit to make it little more I don't think so, I think so because it's looked like that in the photos and I think it's if you think about like Shazam is a boy imagining himself as a superhero like a kid wouldn't have

[00:48:50] like it would be very stylized and cock-booky Rob Liefeldi um, no you can see his feet that's true so I don't know it just looks like a fun family friendly Deadpool it's because it's really referential self-referential Mark Strong sent it too so that'll be fun

[00:49:10] but yeah it does look, it's like off-putting because the DC Universe is so gritty and realistic and there's this guy with his bright colored no detail suit even the lighting bowl just feels like a plastic like emblem that's just, yeah

[00:49:26] if you look at the drawings of the comics it's embroidered into the suit but yeah he's got this glowing you know embossed plastic thing yeah but anyway let's see how it plays out for them I mean DCEU is definitely probably doing a lot of course correcting

[00:49:44] to a degree because while even I rewatching Justice League didn't mind it as much I will admit it's definitely not my favorite amongst those films that they even released um, so I think they've listened to a lot of responses and are of course correcting in a way

[00:50:00] they're just focusing on the characters instead of instead of Universe building which is nice speaking of DC Universe though too we also got the Aquaman trailer finally which looks fun I'm totally down for it I like James Wan and I like seeing what he does with it

[00:50:18] and he put Patrick Wilson in the movie so that's cool Patrick Wilson has played two DC heroes already or two DC characters I should say because his character in Aquaman's villain and his character in Watchmen was impenetrable so there's two differences you know I think there's a

[00:50:34] certain rating that we all have I don't think it's been like officially announced but we all have this rating when we see a trailer in the theater where it's like oh yeah I'm going to see that or it's like yeah that's alright and then below that is the

[00:50:48] yeah I'll catch it on Netflix and then there's the definitely no I'm not going to ever see that so I think that in a Shazam and with Aquaman it's like I think it's kind of in between the first two

[00:51:00] like I'm not going to go see it opening night but you know I'll probably see when it first comes out first release so I mean like doing the show I tend to try to go as early as possible I want to get my thoughts down but like

[00:51:12] if I wasn't doing the show I'd probably wait for a week day matinee with Aquaman because I felt burned not burned by DC but like I was less than impressed by Justice League definitely Suicide Squad I like Batman v Superman enough

[00:51:30] I loved it when it came out and then my it grew on me yeah well it started strong with me and then as time went on I started to get my thoughts back but I still think it's totally fine especially if you compare it to the

[00:51:44] other one that was released that same year which I personally I'm not a big Suicide Squad fan like I don't like Suicide Squad I thought Steppenwolf was pretty weak I didn't really like him as a villain in DC it's like you're pin all the heroes

[00:51:56] to go to the fight that guy come on yeah well I think it was because it's supposed to be a two-parter so he used the appetizer before Dark Side and then Snyder bowed out there's like that let's just finish it just finish it get it out there

[00:52:12] call this a loss but that's not all Warner Brothers gave us they also gave us a trailer for Godzilla King of the Monsters which looks fun just like some good old monster fun definitely more Godzilla and seems like the trailer I don't know if that's

[00:52:30] I thought there's gonna be a lot of Godzilla in Godzilla yeah that's what that's the issue we're dealing with so this is no barometer also another Fantastic Beasts the Crimes of Grindelwald trailer which yeah sure that should be fun I wasn't a big fan of

[00:52:46] the first Fantastic Beasts and I like Harry Potter so I will say for the first Fantastic Beasts that and James and I are agreement on this that Colin Farrell was amazing in it and then his reveal into Johnny Depp was less than stellar

[00:53:00] it's not that I don't like Johnny Depp I'm actually like probably the lone Johnny Depp supporter amongst the group but I will say that I wasn't a huge fan of him being revealed when I would have rather just been Colin Farrell the entire time

[00:53:16] yeah I think Colin Farrell would have been like if they would have aged him yeah it would have done a lot better at least for me it would also have been nice to have Colin Farrell be a staple in a franchise it would have been awesome

[00:53:28] you didn't do it with Daredevil that's true that was just a bad movie it was not a bullseye I guess it's funnier than us Brad we have to kill him now I will say actually I'm not going to lie

[00:53:44] one of the movies I like a lot is Mammy Weiss I thought he did good as Crockett he's not bad not I liked him in that and he kind of stood out ever since I saw the movie he stood out to me

[00:53:56] I didn't see Fantastic Beasts in the theaters I was like I was kind of lying around wondering if I should watch something and then I saw that it was available and I was like oh it's got Colin Farrell on it he's in the Harry Potter movie

[00:54:10] so then I watched it the only parts I really liked were the ones he was in did you see the lobster at all no it's a movie he did with the Orgis Lampimost the guy who did Dogtooth and Killing of the Sacred Deer which is also with Farrell

[00:54:26] he's got a guy who goes to a resort to find love within 30 days and if he doesn't find love he gets turned into an animal and he chooses to be turned into a lobster cause reasons yeah that was missing from that movie is a big musical number

[00:54:44] I'll tell you what man Fantastic Beasts could have used some Navy SEALS in it I'm just saying take him out Harry Pupp you gotta watch it I'll send you the link I'm gonna check it out when we're done with everything the probably biggest trailer though we got from

[00:55:04] Comic Con was the one that didn't involve superheroes in the traditional sense cause we got a trailer for Glass which looks fun as hell I was not a huge fan of Split but I only saw it once so I need to rewatch it I love Unbreakable

[00:55:20] so I'm automatically down for this with the caveat that I will go in as clean-minded as I can and not watch that trailer again not get my expectations up cause Shyamalan has been up and down for me ever since what was it? The Village

[00:55:40] I really don't want this to be a story that's playing out in anyone's head oh I hope not that would be terrible the part where they talk about you know they're in the Psychiatry Ward they're kind of insinuating that all these characters have not had powers

[00:56:00] in these past movies and it's all been a bit of a like a mind trick I'm a little worried well, just Shyamalan he will twist whatever he can to get his ending the way he wants it at the expense of us maybe it's expensive the Avatar franchise

[00:56:22] bring me your elderly but yeah and then a bunch of TV we got a purge TV show coming so yeah cool and that Teen Titans trailer looks badass I guess is that in the DC it's part of their new streaming service

[00:56:44] but like is it tied in with the movies I don't think so I think if it would have any connection it would probably be to their CW stuff and that seems unlikely just because of the um uh frickin uh uh this Teen Titans trailer looks incredibly dark

[00:57:02] Robin says curse words I think it's like Star Trek Discovery where they've pushed the envelope on that too but it's not like a dark show no but it's darker so they're able to do everything they want to do but can't do on network TV

[00:57:18] right and they also renewed or they uh they okayed season 5 of Gotham right I read that I think they're I didn't read anything on it did they come out of it with that like TV conference that they were doing

[00:57:32] I heard that they're doing it but it might be a half season I saw it posted somewhere so yeah there's I think they're just trying to wrap up everything from season 4 with it and then be done with it be done with it yeah um

[00:57:46] the Coen Brothers got a new movie coming to the Venice Film Festival and then later to Netflix called The Ballad of Buster Scruggs it was originally going to be a 6 part anthology series more in the vein of a television thing but they combined it all

[00:58:00] and edited it down into a feature length film it'll have Tim Blake Nelson and Liam Neeson in it so I love the Coen Brothers 2 Death so I will definitely be watching this the moment it pops up on Netflix because I can't get down to Venice so

[00:58:17] well I guess not with that attitude I won't and the Deadwood movie is apparently finally happening according to HBO they keep saying that I don't believe them until I see an actual trailer or the movie itself so I like Deadwood I haven't seen it in a while

[00:58:33] but I remember liking it so I would like to see them wrap it up but stop teasing me HBO just give it to me and last piece of news which I thought was fun but bittersweet Stoned Alone Ryan Reynolds is developing an R rated Home Alone riff

[00:58:51] and yeah so it's going to be like a stoner home alone this sucks because I think Andrew Bueno should be the star of this movie he has a wonderful joke about what the actual Japanese title of Home Alone is I don't remember the exact title he gave

[00:59:11] but it had to do about like a great non-joke he's like it's called murdering white boy or something like that but it was really funny I don't know why no write in tell me what the actual joke is so I can prove how funny you are but yeah

[00:59:29] sure why not is anyone clamoring for parody of Home Alone I wasn't even clamoring for more Home Alone period might be 20 years too late but we'll see yeah sure is it going to have Macaulay coconut in it you should have a cameo as someone

[00:59:45] at the very least yeah and nothing Joe Pesci well it took Martin Scorsese forever to get him out of retirement for that Irishman movie so I don't think Ryan Reynolds is going to be able to pull the same cloud yeah Rick Moranis is coming back right

[01:00:03] is he coming back to acting I hope so we need him he did that spaceball sequel he better be down for it there was this shout factory interview with Mel Brooks and Mel Brooks was saying like someday I'm just going to make spaceballs too on my phone

[01:00:21] it'll be 5 minutes and I'll put it on YouTube they said like no make an ad for spaceballs too coming for this and monetize it and then just take the money and run um now don't make me think about that because

[01:00:35] everyday I think about Mel Brooks and it makes me laugh and it makes me sad because I'm like a lot of his friends are gone right now and then someday you're going to have to deal with his passing oh you know what

[01:00:45] the day that Mel Brooks happens two things are going to happen one I will be in a dark room crying and two laughter will be dead so um because he's the greatest comedic mind we have right now and it's slowly dwindling uh but anyway that's Mel Brooks

[01:01:03] that is Mel Brooks that is news um yeah a lot of stuff out of Comic Con so I guess until the review that just leaves what we've been watching yeah so uh yeah this is the stuff we've been watching Emil what have you been watching

[01:01:23] okay so I watched the Netflix original How It Ends you guys seen that? Forrest Whitaker is it a movie or a dv show? I haven't seen this on their thing yeah how it ends okay so I can't remember the actors I only remember Forrest Whitaker

[01:01:43] basically Forrest Whitaker's daughters engage this guy and Forrest Whitaker is kind of hard on him so he goes he flies from Seattle to New York to talk with them and like get the blessings for their engagement or whatever and then he calls the guy calls his fiance

[01:02:01] Forrest Whitaker's daughter and all of a sudden she's talking about like some events happening or something and the phone goes crazy and then also like the power goes out everywhere no one knows what's going on so him and Forrest Whitaker

[01:02:13] Forrest is like we're gonna go save my daughter and he's like you come with me and they'd like do this cross country travel and like there's like mayhem everywhere uh you know a lot of stuff happens and I feel like you know my little brother liked it

[01:02:27] I felt a little disappointed by it and I felt like there's a lot that I would have done differently I'm sure we say that about a lot of movies but you know there's just you know I watched it and I was just like okay well there's that

[01:02:41] I mean it's definitely like like I said you have that scale like okay I'm gonna see this opening night I'm gonna catch you on a matinee I'll just catch you on Netflix it's definitely like yeah I'll just catch you on Netflix

[01:02:53] oh well luckily they took care of that for ya yeah basically so yeah that's probably aside from the movie we're gonna discuss that was the most recent one that I've watched cool yeah awesome um I'll go next because it'll be really brief okay I rewatched tag again

[01:03:15] which is the more I watch it the more it's climbing my film's explosion list so especially when you go back and watch it there's dialogue that goes throughout the movie that foreshadows the end you know that you only recognize on the second second pass it's really

[01:03:35] heartbreaking but some of those details are I don't want to spoil them so yeah I want to see it I don't know if I'd see it in the theater but I definitely do want to see it at some point we'll be talking about it in a second

[01:03:47] it's a lot of fun and it's really funny because I saw it too this since we've been gone from regular show and then the last thing I've been watching is Hell's Kitchen so I've been watching Gordon Ramsay yell at people for seven seasons so far um

[01:04:03] of course you have and I keep going because I appreciate watching someone who does something really well like at the top of their craft getting berated for it they're not the ones getting berated but like him demonstrating for them how to be a great chef

[01:04:19] so now when I go out to dinner I'm constantly looking at the food I'm eating and just critiquing it myself and like would Gordon Ramsay approve of this um so for the most part the show is really entertaining the only frustration is like at seven seasons in the

[01:04:35] they change up some of the expectations of where people get voted off or where certain things are revealed um but the essence of the show is always the same the you know 16 chefs come in all their dishes are terrible

[01:04:55] once in a while like someone does a good dish but he merely throws out all the dishes and then for the next like 12 weeks it's people cook meat wrong people cook fish wrong they can't get orders out and it's just over and over again like that until

[01:05:09] finally two people are left standing and they get to design their own restaurant in the Hell's Kitchen and then a winner's declared and so I'm kind of at the point where it's like you're only just meeting new personalities and they're clearly picking not talented people

[01:05:23] so that the show kind of stumbles and get like ads drama and it's like I just want to see people do really well at this point I worked at a restaurant for 17 years oh wow and it's like anytime I go to a restaurant

[01:05:37] like I'm always critiquing the waiter it's just something that's been embedded in me on that point I watched my girlfriend loves cooking shows and stuff so we watched Sugar Rush Sugar Rush is a competition show for like desserts and things yeah so there's Zumbos Just Desserts

[01:05:57] which is the other one and Zumbo is in Sugar Rush 2 and basically it's a competition Zumbos is more of like a season long competition and Sugar Rush is more like daily competition so you have four different teams of two and then they each get eliminated every round

[01:06:15] and there's one person standing or one team standing and they're both interesting I mean I like them but it's just kind of like I like to watch the creations and stuff and these they're talented but then you got a show like Nailed It and Nailed It is another

[01:06:31] daily competition show the host is kind of annoying but I think for the most part she kind of fits the role but these people who like have some experience baking come on the show and then they make these they're supposed to like make some kind of a predetermined

[01:06:47] concoction and it just it always like it never looks right I would like to see someone from Zumbos Just Desserts or Sugar Rush come on and to those competitions because I think they would kill it but it's like that show banks on people just not doing it well

[01:07:05] and so I don't know I think it would be boring if everyone just like without the drama well there's no drama in this show I mean Zumbos there's definitely drama and Sugar Rush are kind of is but like Zumbos one of the girls like cried a lot

[01:07:21] and it's kind of annoying but Nailed It everyone's like oh okay yeah I sucked whatever I accept your critique yeah I can't believe some of the people especially when you're at season 7 like the people who still challenge Gordon Ramsay's opinion like did you not

[01:07:41] watch this show before you like signed on he wanted to come to the restaurant I worked at yeah but I mean what restaurant? it's called the Brushes they used to be in Wheatridge on 32nd Youngfield and then about a year ago they moved down the street

[01:07:57] they bought land and built their own building now it's a Brushes Fire and Wine on like 20-30 Youngfield it's urban Italian food it's good and oh was he coming for the Kitchen Nightmare show? yeah he wanted to do the kitchen but we didn't really have any issues

[01:08:11] like our stuff was fine like we were a well-won restaurant so I want to check out Pantoleon's I think it's on like Holly and like Ysidvae 25 I think I drove by that the other day yeah it's a pizza restaurant family owned and he redid that one

[01:08:29] I guess it would be like four or five years ago so let's see if it's still running yeah so anyway there's a one that popped up two years ago that the pizza bar called Perris that's pretty fun I don't know if they're like chain or anything

[01:08:47] it doesn't seem like they are but nice little like they had a spread of sampling buffet for us so we tried out a lot of their items and really saw it like greasy diner pizzeria food and stuff like that which is kind of my style

[01:09:03] not into fancy Italian yeah go check out our bruxes man it's good urban Italian food wheat rich? no technically Lakewood so Ramsey never stopped by because the restaurant wasn't in decay well no they probably would have staged it if we had one of them too

[01:09:25] we had to do that we just kept business as usual which is fine sweet cool cool I have a few things but I'm going to be quick on July 20th to commemorate in a positive manner the anniversary of the Aurora Theater shooting I decided instead of sitting

[01:09:51] in Wallow to go out to the movie theater for the entire day so I went to four movies and one day kind of theater hopping I wanted to do it one movie per theater but I ended up doing two at AMC Highlands Ranch one at the South Glen

[01:10:07] and then finally ending it at the Alamo Littleton I really think that should be a thing that real nerds like perpetuate is like take July 20th just see as many movies you can in a theater that day well and it sucks because I know

[01:10:21] that unfortunately I kind of sprung it on you at the last minute if we had prepped more we might have both been able to do it do I spend so much time like going through all those theater schedules and I applied like five different scenarios

[01:10:31] where I could go to different ones or just say at the Highlands Ranch 24 all day right well this was always this year I meant to do it as a trial run because I want to do this every year because this was always something I wanted to do since

[01:10:45] having been evacuated from that theater but I don't I never really found a way to accomplish it personal problems and also just scheduling problems in general gotten the way but I found a way to do it this year

[01:10:59] kind of a trial run with four movies because I wasn't trying to over extend myself so I saw Hotel Transylvania 3 which was fun I like those movies I think they're adorable this one in particular was interesting because they found something fun to do

[01:11:13] with the Van Helsing character which they had never tackled in Hotel Transylvania for some reason and the way they do them is pretty fun because in their version he's been living he's been living beyond the 1800s and the way he's been able to keep alive is fascinating

[01:11:29] and I don't want to spoil it because it's kind of disturbing then I saw Sorry to Bother You which Brad saw the week before I feel like you undersold me on the craziness of that film but maybe that's just the way you read it

[01:11:43] I didn't paint it clear enough no you painted it clear but like it's weird right? I will not spoil it like you did were you interested in seeing Sorry to Bother You based on the trailers and stuff? sorry I was not oh no

[01:12:01] it reminded me of all the stuff I did watch and I forgot about no it's okay if you want to go back and I will but Sorry to Bother You I think it's a very wonderful surreal satire on it doesn't it seems like the trailer set it up

[01:12:17] for a race a racial critique and it actually goes way beyond that and turns into something a lot more I think universal but it does it in the most limiting of ways because I will just say the ultimate thing it tries to satirize is abusive workforce power

[01:12:45] and specifically how management treats associate workers and anything throughout a tiered level hierarchy and the way they do it is very interesting because they tackle a lot of things maturely and there's one thing they tackle that while mature is disturbing but I will say

[01:13:07] the practical effects involved in that are beautiful and like terrifyingly croninberg-esque but yeah Bruce Riley the director of it I didn't know he was a rapper, didn't know he was like a conceptual artist but great job for him

[01:13:23] I wish I could have gone to the Q&A he did at the Sloan's Lake because I would have loved to ask what the fuck not at the Q&A just like go up to him in the bar respectfully then I would have left

[01:13:39] and then I saw Tag which I loved I don't really like going to comedies in the theater anymore unless they're like a sorry to bother you where they've got like a hook for them Tag has a hook but it was also kind of one

[01:13:51] that I thought I could have saw on DVD and been fine with I'm glad I went to the theater for it though because it was fun watching those stunts on a big screen yeah it's not an essential theater watch

[01:14:01] it is like something you could just catch on Netflix however there's some fun action sequences in there that I was sitting in the front rows so it was like fake IMAX for me so that's why I always call it so just watching the action sequence

[01:14:17] like this first sequence when they're running through the apartment complex in Denver is really fun the whole in the forest sequence is pretty awesome I'm gonna look predator yeah the chase through the golf with the golf carts is pretty fucking awesome too the AA sequence was great

[01:14:39] and then it got both great and weird because of like them trying to figure out whether or not it was a miscarriage or not I watched the when Jeremy Render hops on those chairs and just like is this the part where he fell down

[01:14:49] and broke both his arms oh yeah I was trying to figure it out too and I'm like that seems most likely yeah and also Jeremy Render has one of my favorite moments in the film is two of the characters have a crush on the same girl

[01:15:05] they've known in the past and John Hamm's staying behind while Jake Johnson's going up to talk to the girl and it's John Hamm Jason or Ed Helms and Jeremy Render and they're all making fun of John Hamm and his name

[01:15:25] and how terrible it would be to say that name during sex oh Bob it was beautiful I love that I can't do it justice but Jeremy Render does like a high-pitched voice that's really funny and also the ending was more tender than I thought it would be

[01:15:39] and like I'm glad it saved it being tender for that moment because I like that up to now it's been like pretty unforgivingly relentless in its in its attitude and then you realize that that's all because something means so much to them

[01:15:57] that it kind of unloads it in a fair way rather than an exposition dump um so yeah tag I think you should do a check it out and I saw Incredibles 2 I hadn't seen the first Incredibles in a long long time and didn't watch it prior

[01:16:11] to seeing the sequel so I liked Incredibles 2 probably as much as I remember liking the first one um I wish I could have kept my eyes open for the strobing sequence but that was giving me a bit of a headache so I had to kind of

[01:16:25] shield my eyes um but the story I think is pretty interesting because it it maturely tackles a superhero question um for a kid within the context of its kid family related themes um uh though I could tell who Screamslaver was from the get go

[01:16:45] just kind of like the way the way everything built up and it kind of just it like Pixar's villain reveals lately while I have no problem with them they are very easy to predict predict nowadays Coco kind of had the same issue although with Coco

[01:17:01] I didn't care because that movie was like doing it so well um and uh and I liked Craig T. Nelson in this one a lot him trying to be a quote unquote super dad my favorite my favorite sequence in the movie is when he thinks the way to

[01:17:17] uh make peace with Violet is to take Violet to the restaurant where of the boy that she likes works and causing that whole family drama issue uh it was pretty funny um and then uh yeah I would go check that out um I rewatched Saving Private Ryan on

[01:17:37] uh right after we recorded our 98 film explosion because I hadn't watched it in two years um I think I'd probably put it up two spaces higher um oh really maybe maybe just because having rewatched it it's still an amazing film it definitely wouldn't take my two or one

[01:17:57] spots because those are spots that won't be changed um and you guys are also entitled to your own damn opinions well if you put it up two spots it would be uh higher than me so I would be the lowest yeah

[01:18:07] I see you would have been he would have been the jerk but the thing is is like part of the issue was I ha it's such it's a long movie and I don't have time to necessarily set it around set aside three hours unless

[01:18:17] it's the theater to rewatch Saving Private Ryan and also it's an emotional film it hits your core very hard and so I don't necessarily like crying all the time I suppose there aren't more 20th anniversary screens of that right now um maybe they might do it

[01:18:33] later they should have done it around June because of the anniversary of D-Day um but yeah but it looks fun it looks still looks great um I don't I need to get the 4k TV very soon because I got the 4k version

[01:18:47] but I had to watch the Blu-ray version because I don't have a 4k player or TV yet and I think that Blu-ray transfers not that great um it but again I may not have my settings correct whatever I'm an idiot so what do I know

[01:18:59] but I like rewatching the movie I forgot Ted Danson was in it and that's always interesting to suddenly reveal ampal geomodis in it too um so yeah um and then the final scene with uh Ryan at the end going like am I a good man

[01:19:15] have I loved to let a good life is a beautiful speech and I love it to death um so yeah Saving Private Ryan pretty fucking amazing so you should rewatch it um and probably be better than me and not put it at number 5 on a top 10 list um

[01:19:31] below the faculty which I I love but I will readily admit probably not as quality better as Saving Private Ryan so how about quality it's about what your favorites are exactly that's why I put it where I put it on the list and I got

[01:19:47] the shit kicked out of me um I've been rewatching some of my screen factory stuff so I rewatch Prince of Darkness, John Carpenter's film from 1987 um it's a still fun film it's about like a bunch of people find a evil force inside a church

[01:20:05] that's run by Donald Pleasence they try to investigate what the evil force is in the church via quantum physics and uh it becomes a big question of science and religion and how they collide with each other it was made in the 80s and it went

[01:20:19] over everyone's head so it did very poorly at the box office but uh screen factory really cleaned up that thing and it looks beautiful um and it's got to act Dennis Dunn and Victor Wong from Big Travel in Little China are in it so it's pretty fun

[01:20:33] to watch them work with Carpenter again um and uh the special features on it are pretty interesting there's an interview with Alice Cooper cause he plays one of the uh zombified hobos that kills people outside of the church and it's pretty awesome

[01:20:47] um and then the last thing that I rewatched was uh John Carpenter's The Fog um which was a film he did right after Halloween um I've talked about it before on the show but if anyone hasn't seen it it's uh the town of Antonio Bay is haunted by

[01:21:03] pirate, not even pirate ghost leper ghosts uh who descend upon the town on the 100th anniversary of the night that their ship crashed because the town fathers uh set a fake distress signal in the lighthouse and they crashed

[01:21:19] so uh and it's got Adrian Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins uh Tom Atkins by the way does drink uh road beer in the movie he's clearly just drinking Budweiser while in the car not giving a shit and he's done that several times in movies uh it's

[01:21:35] it's amazing that man just has no scruples whatsoever um he's wonderful uh you you know if you've ever seen Halloween 3 season of the witch at all watch that movie watch how much he drinks it's it's incredible that he's standing up um or his character is um

[01:21:51] and uh Hal Hallbrook's in it too but it's a it's a wonderful like slick 90 minute ghost story movie and I enjoy it um the opening sequence was the main reason I was rewatching it because I'm working on a project that I'm trying to get off the ground

[01:22:03] for January and uh that opening scene is very key to something I want to try to pull off so um but yeah and uh that is all I watched this week sorry to ramble on it's reminded me uh because we had

[01:22:17] last week for the film Slogans so I need to talk about I I I tried to do my own uh July 20th thing so after I waited around all day for a meeting that never happened um for work yeah I kept texting you going like

[01:22:31] it's over right so no no I never fuck went into next week and anyway so I managed to get three uh one was tag again uh and then I saw heart beats heart beats loud which is with Nick Hofferman and Nick Hofferman um and uh it's okay

[01:22:51] um I was a little distracted because the only other people in the theater with me at the mine was some couple who were just talking the whole time so I went into the back far far back and so my attention was a little not so great so

[01:23:05] can I do a dumb impression of that couple that bothered you they're at the box office one ticket to the Rontz wants a movie please that's my dumb impression never said it was supposed to be funny no that wasn't that I'm not just there

[01:23:16] they were more not just they always had a thought that they just couldn't save for two hours so they would just whisper over each other and I didn't really whisper

[01:23:24] kind of just like talk out loud and what if their whole conversation was actually just about you like look at that loser sick alone could have been that would have been oh my god when I saw Incredibles 2 my girlfriend very rarely goes to

[01:23:36] movies but she's like yeah I'll go to that movie and she just does not like noisy kids it was just full of noisy kids it's like it's gonna be so hard for me to get her back into the theater what time of day?

[01:23:48] I was a matinee yeah I usually save like kids movies for 10 o'clock screen yeah but she goes a bit early if it's like after 10 o'clock she crashes so but anyway heart beats loud Nick Opperman is a widower who has a daughter who's about to go off to college

[01:24:06] she's focused on going to med school he is losing his indie record store to rising rent prices so he's trying to hold on to his he had a recording career at one point in the movie they showed the movie so he's trying to hold on to that dream

[01:24:26] and so one night he's hanging out with his daughter and they're goofing around they make some silly song he's drunk, he puts on Spotify and the next thing a couple days later he goes to his coffee shop and it's playing on the radio

[01:24:40] and so he starts to believe that this song is gonna help them take off and you know maybe he'll do a father daughter band and he's consistent, she's focused on having a career going to med school and so a lot of the movie is Nick Opperman

[01:24:58] also sort of like straddling the line falling into alcoholism so he starts to make some bad choices he's struggling with what I do about losing my record store my daughter's not interested in this band with me Ted Danson is actually the bartender of the bar he goes to

[01:25:16] Ted Danson appears in the most unlikely places he's a huge hippie and just leaves his bar to go to Woodstock and so Nick Opperman's left taking care of the bar for him so it's a cute movie and the songs are very like cliche indie rock

[01:25:38] but it's a lighthearted nice movie and then the last thing I saw was the Esquire was playing Mad Max for your road last weekend so I caught both midnight to that and I hadn't watched it in a while because I watched it so much when it came out

[01:25:54] but revisiting it in theater just inspired me to love that kind of filmmaking again, leading up to the four days just like I know we can't do car crashes and stunts like that but as far as like specific not with that attitude

[01:26:14] like playing with color and the editing and um you gotta have a guy strapped to a car with a guitar do four year yeah it's one of the movies that just makes you want to make movies it's a film that I need to I've only seen it once

[01:26:30] at the uh in theater which was amazing but I've been holding off on getting it on Blu-ray because I was waiting for that uh Ultimate Edition that had both versions of it that George Miller did the Black and Chrome one specifically no I know it is now

[01:26:48] and I actually read recently that it's pretty affordable so maybe that's this week well I mean there's 4K on the horizon so you should probably hold out maybe or um you know I mean we'll see I will say one of my biggest regrets

[01:27:02] like of the past three years is that I haven't revisited it I saw it in the theaters it was so amazing that like almost feels like any time I'd watch it again unless it's on an equally big screen which I should have gone with you

[01:27:14] but uh if I try to rewatch it on like my TV here which is more for personal intimate viewing same as I just the sound design that like I missed at home that actually would be fun to revisit because I did the same with the Lego movie

[01:27:30] and I missed a shit ton of stuff in the theater apparently and it affects the Lego movie that I missed um but cool awesome so I guess that takes us to the review of the week which is Mission Impossible Fallout oh shoot wait

[01:27:46] I rewatched the first two Mission Impossible movies I won't say anything uh made long about them other than I like Mission Impossible 2 more than I did the first time oh really? yeah more than still bad but I will say when it came out like I mean

[01:28:02] when it came out I was like oh yeah I'm metallic I did a song for it and I watched the movie I don't remember my first reaction but then like a few years ago I was dating this girl

[01:28:10] and she had it and I was like oh let's rewatch this and I remember watching it like oh my god this is horrible I think it's a misunderstood but necessary entry in that series well if you watch the special features they talk about like the goal of it

[01:28:26] is it's like Mission Impossible but as a love story that's sometimes which I don't think anyone's going to Mission Impossible to watch Ethan Hunt fall in love no the open funny is like the third movie instead of it being

[01:28:40] like what it was like it was about the wedding like oh no someone dropped our cake we gotta get a new one in time for the wedding your mission should you choose to accept it is to find these appropriate flowers the flower girl's been kidnapped this uh

[01:29:04] I guess this matrimony if you choose to accept it also MI2 has that unfortunate two unfortunate scenes one involving Anthony Hopkins being incredibly sexist and the other one telling with the villain trying to be like intriguing sexy and instead just creepy sexy

[01:29:26] I thought you wanted to see me try on the dress later I'm like how about never on any of it I tried to imagine him because he was in the running to be Wolverine so I was like no trying to imagine this guy in place of Hugh Jackman

[01:29:42] yeah I'm good Logan has proven that I'm good on that made a better choice yeah so I actually my girlfriend's never seen the Mission Impossible so I showed her the first one and then I showed her ghost protocol and then I watched Rogue Nation on my own yesterday

[01:29:58] so I was like okay I need to kind of watch those catch up and I saw the third one a lot so I think I remember that pretty well so if there's anything that I needed to tie into the fallout no I think actually rewatching the first one

[01:30:16] I love Di Palma's take on it Di Palma is a fantastic filmmaker across the board I think the only thing that feels non-Di Palma ish to me but at the same time works within him is the train sequence at the end of the first one

[01:30:30] it's only part of the word that effects don't hold up after all this time they don't but the transfer is so bad on this Blu-ray set that I got from Paramount that I didn't really care like if I'm sure if I was seeing it

[01:30:44] in the 4k upgrade or whatever they did it probably would be sticking out like an even bigger sore thumb it moves fast enough though too that I just don't care plus I'm kind of there for all the espionage and the slow burn

[01:30:56] thriller that they kind of do within it although that movie is the shortest of them all but anyway sorry didn't mean to frack off again yeah you did I did I like derailing you Emil should people go see Mission Impossible fallout so you're asking where I'd rank it

[01:31:14] oh yeah so what we do is we just before we play the trailer we just ask people if they should go see it or not and add some fine points then we play the trailer and then we talk about like in depth like this specific

[01:31:26] so this is on spoiler where it sits on my scale so like is it like a see it opening night or is it see the matinee is it see it on Netflix or is it just don't watch it all together I think it's definitely a matinee worthy

[01:31:40] movie I absolutely do I was really entertained by it there is a lot of suspension to this belief but I still feel like I feel like I was really entertained I got my money's worth from this movie so Zach should people go see Mission Impossible fallout

[01:31:58] before I tell you what I think James did text me so James does want me to tell everyone that MI6 is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen in a theater and everyone should see it so James who is not here today gave us a review

[01:32:12] and I'm sure either Ryan will tell us next week or he'll just call in and we'll insert it later as for me though I really liked it I wish I had seen it in the IMAX I went to the Alamo which was just as fine

[01:32:24] but I definitely want to see IMAX for this one because this was insane I thought Ghost Protocol was the film that got me back into Mission Impossible I liked three but I was like fine if I never saw another one again with this one

[01:32:40] there were moments where I literally had lost my breath in terms of how the stunts were being pulled off and also I thought the story was actually pretty fun and it wasn't too complicated like it didn't need I'm glad that it didn't need to be

[01:32:58] I didn't really have many problems with it so yeah I think you definitely should go see it on probably the largest premium format you can unlike Sky Scraper this one is a definite don't miss and I like how Christopher McCorre is treating the series because he's kind of

[01:33:16] I like how it's become more global whereas as the Mission Impossible movies have progressed some of them have had different styles but some feel international some feel local but this one is global the threat is so massive to a degree only because of the way it's being presented

[01:33:34] and I think it's pretty beautiful action filmmaking Brad should people go see Mission Impossible fallout before we find out Corinne should we what do you think of Mission Impossible fallout hi nerds it's Corinne I guess my previous voicemail got caught off or something so I'll just

[01:33:56] leave you an entirely new voicemail now that it's been a couple of days for me to process Mission Impossible fallout it was a good movie I liked it for the most part I'd give it like a B plus overall and there were some parts

[01:34:15] that felt long like a couple of the action sequences I think could have been shortened and I think the ending could have been done a little bit better but I really like the characters I liked the dynamics and some of the questions that characters ask of one another

[01:34:31] and kind of this examination of Ethan's psyche, psychosis or something and just like his fear and the people that he cares about but also kind of seeing people fray upon this reason anyway yeah it was really good if they make another one I'll probably go see it

[01:34:59] I really like the character Ilse so I hope another thing that bugged me about the ending is I really hope they make more movies because otherwise the ending feels like so just lame and there's nothing there you know it's like it was just kind of like slap

[01:35:23] dash kind of on the screen and I wanted a little bit more weight and resolution to it than what we got anyway yeah I would tell people if we go see it I had fun and I think other people would have fun too alright see you guys soon

[01:35:39] bye thanks for the input Corinne yeah that was insightful so I've actually seen this movie twice already once in 3D I definitely think you should go see it although I feel like there's something missing from it for me it might be story wise I can't

[01:36:03] it's bothering me and I can't put my finger on it you know there's something about ghost protocol and rogue nation I still like more but this movie definitely it's one of the few movies that has me in my seat clenching myself because it's so tense

[01:36:19] in some of the sequences other than the fact that it's really Tom Krugus doing the stunt they're not doing any crazy stylized CGI or anything to enhance those sequences that I can tell they're just like it all just feels organic and natural so again a genuine

[01:36:41] sense of fear for some of those finale sequences I was impressed that it got that kind of reaction out of me so nice definitely don't see it at home go see it in the theater so here's the trailer for a mission impossible fallout the greater the suffering

[01:37:07] the greater the peace the end you've always feared is coming it's coming and the blood will be on your hands I prayed to God that it wasn't true Solomon Lane escaped in Paris now the world is at risk this is the CIA's mission you use a scalpel

[01:37:40] I prefer a hammer this is a bad idea is it ever a good one? honestly he's not just some observer he's an assassin I don't trust anybody outside of this room you go rogue, he's been authorized to hunt you down and kill you that's the job

[01:38:08] no hard feelings which way Betty? turn left go go go go what are you waiting for? I'm jumping out a window oh sorry good luck the clock stops Ethan Hunt will lose everyone he ever cared about you don't understand what you're involved in you need to walk away

[01:38:39] please don't make me go through you you must know who we are maybe we need to reconsider that except that Ethan, he lost this one when stun is done what stun is done when we say it's done showtime

[01:39:09] I hope you played the one with the Imagine Dragons song no we played before the movie came out we played the trailer for this movie so many times and it was that one we're done with that one but uh I guess I'm curious

[01:39:45] since you can't pinpoint it yet we won't know but I'd be curious to know eventually what you found lacking in this one there might be nothing maybe just thinking about it too hard I guess there's not a single sequence that's like scaling the tower in Ghost Protocol

[01:40:09] they don't really treat the well I'd actually I'd make an argument for the helicopter but it's cross cut actually that's frustrating that might be it because in the trailer they show that helicopter rushing towards a truck on the highway and so I'm going to the movie thinking

[01:40:33] I wonder how that gets resolved and that's not in the movie until the ultimate director's cut at least two years later so now I'm just left wondering like was that like an Avenger-style misdirect or was that something

[01:40:47] that was part of the story that I do have to wait for the both-speechers to find out this movie is long so maybe they had to trim out something but uh I mean I'm the one scene that looked like it might have been heavily enhanced

[01:41:03] but I don't think it was just based on the way it was shot was them out of the plane to land on top of the building in Paris which I'd make an argument for that being a standout piece because there's

[01:41:15] this incredible moment in it and I know it probably is more than likely enhanced by CGI because of what they have to do in that sequence but he's trying to grab onto Cavill's suit to like re-fix it or something like that and then you just hear like

[01:41:29] are you okay and then the sound cuts out and the big lightning strikes and it just goes silent and it like made my brain skip a second I thought it was having a stroke because it was that like jarring but it was beautiful like

[01:41:43] make my heart race action um and I really like the uh the way they handle um a lot of the car chases in this one some of them just like seem like it was one of the regrets I had not

[01:41:57] seeing in IMAX because some of them just feel like you need to be sitting in the middle of that giant IMAX screen and watching him going down the road like that um like it's just kind of the way he's swerving in and out on that motorcycle

[01:42:09] sometimes it's it's it's beautiful um but story wise I liked this one because I I'm assuming Rogue Nation is a big setup for this one because I still haven't seen that one yet oh wow um yeah so I basically well the whole all the Ilsa Faust

[01:42:25] stuff you're probably lost on not no I was able to catch up on it pretty quickly at first I thought she looked incredibly like Michelle Monaghan but I was having face blindness throughout the entire thing until that was cleared up for me

[01:42:37] in the third act yeah uh I'm a little disappointed because I I I I appreciated that felt like um it was nice to add a platonic you know uh female character to the team like they've been there before but this one has more to do

[01:42:53] now that they're kind of making her a romantic interest I'm a little disappointed in that turned off by it um in both ghost protocol that was Paula Patton's character essentially wasn't it or not Paula Patton who was the who was the female uh

[01:43:07] like heroin and ghost protocol I can't remember I forget yeah but she was not really like a love interest so much as a just an asset to the team yeah just yeah just there um where's in Rogue Nation like Ilsa's connection to Solomon Lane is a driving force

[01:43:23] in the story rich and it's interesting not having seen Rogue Nation yet I was able to pick on it just fine so I don't think it's going to isolate anybody who wasn't able to catch Rogue Nation prior to this uh enough of the information is

[01:43:37] given to you I think like the key kernels are given to you to make your bowl of popcorn there um also Alec Baldwin gone before I even got to see him the first time but he goes out in a badass way I've never watched the TV

[01:43:53] show but is that a thing in the TV show where you kill off all the heads of the IMF like I don't in most movies tell me secretaries are going to be killed yeah I don't know about that but uh I'd like Baldwin's uh interrogation moment when

[01:44:11] uh when he when I think it's Cavill turns and points the gun at him and it doesn't shoot and what and I was like oh you were doing so well that's another cool thing about the movie is there's a lot of cool twists and turns

[01:44:25] yeah um that they although in the first after the bathroom scene and they say like oh you need this wristband to get through security and so he gets through security talks to the white widow and then um like walkers in the room and like that immediately goes away

[01:44:43] for me that he is John Lark I knew from the get go that it was a bad guy because he had the mustache that he wasn't allowed to take off well I like it I was thinking about that

[01:44:55] I think they wanted to give him facial hair so that it would kind of um juxtapose him away from being Superman or being a hero it's a different image oh it definitely juxtaposes him being different from Superman yeah yeah something different but

[01:45:13] I think that's part of the reason why they wouldn't have yeah yeah one of my friends uh was a is a podcaster in LA post checked into the movie on facebook and he said this mustache better be magical hahahaha and I

[01:45:31] commented like well like did it save the day and he said the mustache plays and I was like I hope it gets a spin off um you know like my little brother and I were joking too we're like like it was so

[01:45:43] integral like at the end it's like it's because he like Ethan is hanging him by his mustache but then the mustache like hahahaha all of that that'd be really funny if he has one of those imf masks where like he peels it off and it's like mustache lists

[01:46:01] it's the only change it's still his face yeah you just gonna see a bunch of like people from DC in the room going like motherfucker showing your true face John Lark um and incidentally if uh Mondo ever does a poster for this movie I think the best uh

[01:46:17] artistic image in my mind to do it would be after Ethan saves the day and he's like leaning cl- or lying close to the edge of that fucking cliff just like taking a bunch of breaths because it's a beautiful image yeah

[01:46:29] but also that part where he flips John Lark over and he just misses the detonator oh yeah yeah like you're expecting it to get knocked off and it doesn't mm-hmm yeah it was intense and they brought back that climbing thing that he did in two

[01:46:43] he's getting a two but they brought back his climbing skills which I'm like that's cool like like climbing on rocks not buildings yeah but uh like this that cliff sequence is pretty fucking amazing uh and then uh there was a moment where I thought that uh uh

[01:47:01] so the helicopters have already crashed into the snow and uh I think it's Cavill sitting there and he doesn't realize that and he's the helicopter starts to like toss and turn down the hill and at first I thought there was gonna be a shot cut to a

[01:47:17] shot outside of Tom Cruise rolling it going give me the detonator which would have been amazing but no then it's just they both crashed me pretty strong too I guess that'd be awesome like well as we've learned through this movie and other movies in the series Tom

[01:47:31] Cruise is kind of a superhero like in his own right uh that man runs beautifully and he does it really well in this film as he does it most uh I wouldn't say this is the best running job he's done because I think ghost

[01:47:43] protocol is the one I remember the most um but uh yeah and uh I like Simon Peggin this one a lot too I like that the whole impetus in his character side journey is that he's trying to become a more active member of the team

[01:47:57] in terms of like action stuff well again you've missed a recognition so well yeah he's already doing that okay well um and then I didn't realize like because Ving Reims isn't in ghost protocol so um seeing him back was fun uh I uh but again I'm sure he's

[01:48:15] in rogue nation and I'm again I need I have it sitting on the desk right now um I was I was yeah I really like this I think you should watch it it's kind of like a fury road in the sense that

[01:48:27] like you should watch it in the theater on the best screen possible to kind of get the full scale of it and it's it's long enough that it does feel like a fun thrilling event and not just like a quick flash in the pan yeah uh 3D though

[01:48:43] I don't think you need to um everything look 3D but there was nothing that like jumped out that made like oh wow well I'm sure is the best way to see this I'm sure if anything it was a post conversion so it wouldn't have been

[01:48:55] essentially yeah especially the first dream dream sequence it felt very cardboard cut outy but after you know he wakes up everything else feels that might be a stylish choice though well you did I'm sure you shot it on film because that thing look that had the grain

[01:49:09] and the texture to it even without uh seeing it in IMAX like you could you could just tell especially if you're close enough yeah and that like when the rocks fall through the like when the helicopters are stuck wedged in the mountain oh yeah the rocks falling

[01:49:23] they fall towards the lens um and then the hook when it flips out oh yeah that that damn hook not holding on anything yeah um like not once but twice it got like wow yeah pretty lucky yeah uh you know I just

[01:49:41] I watched a lot of uh before before filming this I was watching a lot of interviews with Tom Cruise and Henry Keville about uh the movie and stuff and I just like you know Tom Cruise is crazy but he is so interesting like

[01:49:57] him spending a year and a half learning how to fly a helicopter for this movie and it just like you know I mean of course he's got the money to do that but it's just it's not even the money it's like the avid like

[01:50:09] enthusiasm that that man possesses yeah it's it's like part of his charm like he's very charismatic and it's because he is kind of that go-getter kind of person he loves making movies yeah his steepin' levels are off the charts man I had to do it I was talking

[01:50:25] about that like like he would almost say he's the most interesting man in the world but it's like you would sit and have a conversation with him and you know he'd be talking to you tell him about stories about flying a helicopter or whatever

[01:50:35] but then he'd be like so dianetics and he'd be like ah man just ruined it here's the thing like it's not the most prevalent part of his life for me but it's definitely it's there and like it was it was a it was a very prolific

[01:50:51] issue in the early 2000s for people um but like even talking in the film club thread like there was a lot of love for cruise films like all over all across the board in different capacities like I have like a favorite cruise film from like the past

[01:51:05] three each in the past three decades magnolia tropic thunder and then color of money so you know like and I love his action films but like I love it when he acts like he's a really good actor he saw it like his his scene

[01:51:19] when he's confronting his father magnolia is amazing and him yelling in yelling via skype to hit for the key grip to hit a director in the face and tropic thunder is one of the very one of the single best deliveries I've ever heard in

[01:51:33] film hit him in the face really fucking hard sorry man anything else amiel uh thoughts on fallout thoughts on fallout yeah you know you're just saying that he thought something was missing and I feel like though it was a simple story like the whole

[01:51:56] like motivation for everything I still feel like there's a lot in the movie that you're like you know this whole plan could have fallen apart so easily oh yeah I mean definitely could have fallen apart easily and there's a lot and I'm just like

[01:52:12] you know some of it makes sense like when they got the the uranium in the beginning like why didn't they just kill the team then like you know if they're behind them why not it's because Solomon wants them alive but it's just like

[01:52:28] there's just so many things in it like Henry Cavill trying to set up Ethan as being John Lark and stuff and I feel like that was really set up in a very fragile way like I feel like it didn't really make a whole

[01:52:42] lot of sense how he was trying to do that I know if he doesn't take out that guy in the bathroom then the plan goes nowhere yeah the scene where he's talking to Bassett like can kind of like setting up the frame job

[01:52:56] almost felt too revealing for me because like when he has that having seen Six Mission Impossible at this point I'm like oh okay he's gonna he's a traitor so the the turn that they do in the interrogation room with Solomon Lane or who you think

[01:53:12] is Solomon Lane kind of falls flat for me like what Alec Baldwin does afterwards doesn't but like the reveal itself kind of feels like well I knew this like you didn't have to you already wasted that in another scene way earlier on and like

[01:53:28] from that moment on everything he did for me was kind of like I get it you're portraying everybody but let's see where this goes anyway because people are gonna like crash into things and it's gonna be fun but if I could pick a weak moment in the film

[01:53:42] that would be it but I don't even think it counts because at the end of the day we're six movies in I should know going in having only having seen a majority of them that everything's gonna be pretty obvious I would say Ethan does not

[01:53:58] have good luck with helicopters no constantly betrayed has no has no good history with flying things can't keep a wife yeah that too that was surprising because they spent three movies building up that was working out and all of a sudden this one is like

[01:54:18] the rugs pulled out from India and like no somewhere between the last one that fell apart well no I mean in Ghost Protocol at the very end you find out that Jeremy Renner's character Brant he was in charge of protecting her and they thought that she was dead

[01:54:34] or he thought that she had died but then at the end Ethan explains no we hit her I'm the one who should be protecting her and I would have liked to have seen how much different the movie would have been if Jeremy Renner were available

[01:54:48] what he would have added to this movie I think it would be really interesting I'd like to see him come back he's been missing from a lot of things he had to play tag with his friends yeah nothing like a good game of tag

[01:55:02] he's really good at tag though I was like sucks that John Renneau was killed as the bad guy and the first one as one of the bad guys in the first one but like if this was a fast and furious scenario find a way to resurrect him

[01:55:16] because I haven't seen him in anything lately and I kinda want that to change did you know that the white widow's related to the Vanessa Redgrave character from the first one? yeah someone Dan explained that to me actually because we ended up being at the same screening on

[01:55:30] on Sunday but like I caught I'm glimpsed if I didn't think about it and then Dan confirmed it for me so I'm glad I rewatched the first one then because that did bring a bell but I didn't really kinda like there's so much stuff happening

[01:55:46] that's more regarding previous films that are more recent that it didn't really register with me right away yeah I know what I read about it yeah but the actress they got to play her is really cool she's got a defining look to her striking woman so anyway yeah

[01:56:08] well cheers thanks I just wanna say thank you guys again for allowing me to come on as a guest thank you very much Amil for sitting down and chatting with us remind everybody again where we can find you on YouTube my YouTube channel is Virgio1228 that's B-I-R-G-E-O mmhmm

[01:56:28] got 12,300 subscribers as of today I think so I'm looking to get more and uh yeah check it out I'd love to hear from anyone out there leave me a line leave me a comment something nice awesome cool

[01:56:42] I guess next week you guys are gonna go see Christopher Robin oh yes the the aka Kleenex the movie for me just handkerchief the movie you need to find a screening where there's no one at it so you can just cry in the back cry terribly hard

[01:57:00] not be embarrassed and I'm gonna have to get in the helmet just just imagine him with like a goldfish globe around his head it's just all fogged up he's just gonna hear like a muffled like can I tell you guys the greatest story for my moving going experience

[01:57:22] sure it was actually when I went to see The Last Airbender mmhmm and despite how bad that movie was it was a good experience because everyone dressed up a lot of people dressed up and when we get there there's a guy dressed as Uncle Iroh

[01:57:36] he's got the big belly right and think it's part of a costume the lights go down the guy turns around he goes do you guys want to slice a cake opens his belly up he had snuck a whole cake into the movie and each

[01:57:48] of us got a slice of cake how did he keep icing from like smearing I don't know I don't know what it was I just know that I had a delicious piece of cake and it I mean it didn't offset how bad the movie was but it's made

[01:58:00] a little bit better it eased me into it a little bit Brad this is tolerable Brad so now so we already we've already established that I'm a fat ass right we need to sneak cakes in in your stomach no see here's the thing that no I'm gonna

[01:58:12] get thin but we won't post any pictures of my progress so that way I can continue to start sneaking cakes into theaters that he just gonna do your products no one will be the wiser when there's like plastic cake and he just drops out of your stomach

[01:58:28] and you get the ticket counter like oh no I will name it John there there's like hey proud father there there hush hush cool all right cool thanks everybody and yeah I hope James Ryan are back next week because otherwise this is gonna be you oh I will

[01:58:52] I'll pull a Ryan a Ryan solo episode you watch be all over the place I'll have Maddie O'Connor call in for a quick guest spot just two hours of Jack Benny oh no no no I'm not that cruel and y'all y'all y'all y'all don't need to

[01:59:08] know the divinity of Jack Benny until you kind of come to it in your own terms alright until next week bye thanks for listening and have a nice day