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[00:01:16] This is Reel Nerds Podcast.
[00:01:18] unofficially the best movie podcast on the internet.
[00:01:23] Every week on Reel Nerds Podcast we see a new movie
[00:01:26] and we podcast our experience of the world.
[00:01:29] This week we saw Baby Ruby.
[00:01:32] Dun dun dun dun.
[00:01:34] Stay tuned because we will recommend the film or not,
[00:01:37] play the trailer and then spoil it.
[00:01:39] I am joined pretty much every week by this gentleman,
[00:01:44] Brad how's it going?
[00:01:46] Not bad, how you doing?
[00:01:48] Yeah, I'm complaining got back from Disney, you know?
[00:01:51] Yeah.
[00:01:52] From Disneyland with a family and
[00:01:54] it was like 75 degrees out there and
[00:01:58] you got to go on.
[00:02:00] You came back to the winter wonderland and
[00:02:02] now you're broke.
[00:02:04] I got back on that Saturday at 11 o'clock at night
[00:02:08] and then I had to do a recruiting event for work on Monday
[00:02:14] so it was almost like I never left.
[00:02:18] Yeah, we started to get some good weather
[00:02:20] the last couple days there and then here we are
[00:02:22] back in the cold, cold, snowy.
[00:02:28] I guess it's only supposed to last tomorrow and then
[00:02:30] it's supposed to be in the 50s again so it's about that time
[00:02:32] of year where it snows and then it gets cold for a day
[00:02:35] and then it gets really warm and then it snows and you know.
[00:02:38] Yeah as long as the roads clear up that's what I care about
[00:02:41] because I got stuff to do.
[00:02:43] Yeah man especially tomorrow I got to go see Ant-Man fuck.
[00:02:47] We also talk about the big movie news and
[00:02:50] something we've been watching.
[00:02:52] This week on Real Nerds we watched Baby Ruby.
[00:02:58] Brad do you recommend Baby Ruby?
[00:03:02] I don't know.
[00:03:04] Maybe if you've ever had postpartum depression
[00:03:07] and you want to feel like some solidarity
[00:03:12] then maybe this is the movie for you.
[00:03:16] Yeah I couldn't nail down the tone of it
[00:03:19] but sometimes I thought it was really funny
[00:03:21] and other times I thought it was like trying to be a horror film
[00:03:25] and then other times just being like a kind of like a surreal
[00:03:29] art house thing.
[00:03:32] So it's well made but I just didn't quite connect with it.
[00:03:38] How about you?
[00:03:39] Yeah I think I'm kind of in the same boat where
[00:03:43] because I wanted to see this movie after I saw the trailer
[00:03:45] because it just looked interesting
[00:03:49] and it was the first time director
[00:03:52] and she evidently is like a really famous playwright.
[00:03:55] So I was kind of interested in seeing it
[00:03:58] and yeah it deals with postpartum depression
[00:04:04] and I liked it more than Knock at the Cabin
[00:04:09] and a couple other films we've seen this year
[00:04:12] but it sounds weird but I don't know if because I'm a dude
[00:04:16] that maybe it didn't affect me as much
[00:04:21] because you know my wife had a kid
[00:04:24] that she could relate maybe more to what she was going through.
[00:04:30] But yeah I mean and it's tough to recommend a movie
[00:04:33] that deals with postpartum depression
[00:04:36] and a mother, I don't know you know.
[00:04:40] But here's the trailer for baby Ruby.
[00:04:45] Oh careful I'm gonna break this.
[00:04:57] You're crazy.
[00:05:01] Little strained, throwing your own baby shower.
[00:05:04] I just need it to be perfect.
[00:05:06] Nothing is going to be any different it's just a baby.
[00:05:09] How big are they even you know?
[00:05:12] You ready?
[00:05:35] This says they like to suck, swaddle and swing.
[00:05:39] I don't need some book.
[00:05:41] Spencer.
[00:05:45] Your babies are so quiet.
[00:05:47] What's your secret?
[00:05:49] You have to stop.
[00:05:51] Just trust your instincts.
[00:05:53] Great.
[00:05:58] There's nothing wrong with her.
[00:06:00] Babies cry. It's tough.
[00:06:03] Oh hi.
[00:06:05] Hi Joe.
[00:06:06] You need a rest.
[00:06:08] Take care of Ruby myself.
[00:06:17] I feel like I'm disappearing.
[00:06:19] Everyone goes through this.
[00:06:24] Don't you understand?
[00:06:26] She's killing me.
[00:06:30] You want me to believe that I'm crazy.
[00:06:33] A mother's instincts never lie.
[00:06:42] Open the door.
[00:06:45] She's so perfect.
[00:06:49] The truth.
[00:07:00] Baby Ruby revolves around a French woman who lives in America with her husband.
[00:07:05] And she is a...
[00:07:07] Is it an influencer or a blogger?
[00:07:10] I don't know if they're called now because I'm not cool.
[00:07:12] Yeah, influencer blogger.
[00:07:14] She basically her business is herself in her own brand.
[00:07:18] Yeah, so she basically does lifestyle stuff.
[00:07:22] Fashion and all those other things.
[00:07:25] But because she's pregnant, she's documenting her pregnancy.
[00:07:29] And she has what appears to be everything is fine throughout her life.
[00:07:40] Then she goes into labor.
[00:07:43] And when she has her baby, that's when her first kind of nightmare, I guess quote unquote starts.
[00:07:51] And basically the whole film is her dealing with what I want to say is postpartum depression.
[00:08:01] But that is manifested into her being haunted by herself and her mother-in-law.
[00:08:12] And she doesn't trust anybody.
[00:08:16] And what is really interesting about this film is I think, and it's obviously on purpose is you don't know what is actually happening to her and what is part of her depression.
[00:08:29] And I kept on thinking because I love in the mouth of badness but there's a part where Sam Neal says this is not reality.
[00:08:40] And I kept thinking about that every time she would see, you know, she would move and her reflection on her mirror would still stare at her.
[00:08:51] But I mean, I guess, I mean the woman who plays Joe and I think she's really good, you know, because that's a tough role to do.
[00:09:04] Because, you know, I think the director and the writer they're trying to make you uncomfortable because it's another one of those movies where the baby is crying a lot.
[00:09:15] And I don't know if it was on purpose. It was starting to drive me crazy.
[00:09:21] And I'm guessing that sound design is on purpose.
[00:09:24] Yeah, they want the audience to feel like what Joe's feeling.
[00:09:30] Yeah.
[00:09:32] Yeah. And you know, there's also a part where she meets all these other moms and you never see their babies.
[00:09:42] But they have some sort of support group really for new moms.
[00:09:47] And Joe eventually believes that they never had a baby and they're trying to steal hers because she has an affair with one of them.
[00:09:58] And but I don't also know if that was real because they never really answer that question.
[00:10:05] Yeah.
[00:10:07] About and they didn't answer a lot of questions. I'm guessing it has to do with it's the whole movie revolves around her postpartum depression is what I gathered from it.
[00:10:18] Yeah, it's like this abstract take on it.
[00:10:21] You know, it's presented like a horror film like with the trilogy and everything I thought is going to be like a possessed demon baby movie.
[00:10:27] Not right away, but a little bit into the movie kind of realize like, oh, this is like more of a drama with like like horror elements.
[00:10:37] Yeah.
[00:10:39] So but yeah, it plays with like this thread of yeah, she hooks up with one of the support group girls and then later on like it influences her interpretation of what the group is doing and what like how her husband is involved.
[00:10:54] And like maybe they're like kidnapping babies like babies around town and cannibalizing them.
[00:11:03] Yeah.
[00:11:05] I think it's all part of just like all the different like loony thoughts that Joe could possibly have as she like makes excuses for her depression, you know.
[00:11:19] Yeah, I believe that too.
[00:11:21] I there's just some also some whiplash parts where her husband who I can't remember his name right now and his
[00:11:30] Ken Harrington.
[00:11:31] Yeah, but what's his character's name though?
[00:11:33] Spencer.
[00:11:34] I remember Spencer.
[00:11:35] Okay.
[00:11:36] Spencer I did it.
[00:11:37] It's sitting down with his mom and they go well someone's going to show up and take you away.
[00:11:43] And they said, you know, can I hold my baby one last time?
[00:11:48] Yeah, sure.
[00:11:49] I'm like, wait, what are they doing?
[00:11:53] But I don't also know if that's your only hearing her kind of version of the conversation.
[00:11:59] You know what I mean?
[00:12:00] Is that really what they're saying is I mean I don't know.
[00:12:05] I think a lot of it's in her head.
[00:12:07] I think there's also like this parallel between, you know, her initial job as a blogger influencer.
[00:12:13] Yeah.
[00:12:14] Kind of selfish.
[00:12:18] And I think, you know, she stops blogging and everything like right after the baby's born.
[00:12:24] And, you know, her sister is constantly asking like, hey, you're going to update, you know, your fans want to know what's going on.
[00:12:30] And I think part of her depression is like, she's grappling with the fact that she, you know, this thing isn't just a prop.
[00:12:38] Like she actually has to take care of it.
[00:12:40] Yeah.
[00:12:41] And she can't just show it off.
[00:12:45] Like there's actually real work to be done.
[00:12:47] I think that makes her depressed.
[00:12:49] So she's trying to transition from being like, oh, I'm the star of my own life and now I'm responsible for another one.
[00:12:55] Yeah, you know, I didn't even put that together.
[00:12:58] That's great because she, because at the very beginning, remember her husband says, wait a minute.
[00:13:03] So this is a fake baby shower you're putting on for yourself.
[00:13:07] Yeah.
[00:13:08] And you realize she's making everything look perfect because she's going to take pictures and post about it so she can,
[00:13:15] because the first thing she does is she posts her article and then she goes immediately to the comments looking for that self validation of look how pretty and cool I am.
[00:13:25] Exactly.
[00:13:26] Yep.
[00:13:28] Yeah, I mean, I think it's a well made movie.
[00:13:31] I just, it's a tough recommend, you know.
[00:13:34] Yeah, if you don't like love crying babies, it's a tough sit.
[00:13:39] But yeah, I think it's interesting.
[00:13:43] Yeah.
[00:13:44] It's not a bad movie.
[00:13:48] I think the performances are really good in it.
[00:13:51] I even like the mother-in-law where she seems really friendly and there's some sinister dialogue she has about wanting to kill her baby.
[00:14:00] But again, I don't know if that is part of it.
[00:14:04] I think it's a, I think it's real but the way like just a little presentation in the music and like the performance is made to make you think that it's more sinister than it really is.
[00:14:17] I think it would normally be like it's a little influenced by Joe's interpretation moment.
[00:14:22] Yeah.
[00:14:23] I think if it's on streaming, I think maybe that might be the best way to see it.
[00:14:28] Just, you know, so you can kind of see if it's something you can put up with and if not, you can just turn it off.
[00:14:34] Yeah.
[00:14:35] I mean, I think it's interesting to watch throughout the whole thing and I think it's only maybe an hour and a half.
[00:14:39] It's a short movie.
[00:14:41] But yeah, cool.
[00:14:46] This is a big news story of the week.
[00:14:50] It's real news.
[00:14:57] So the big news story is I went to California Adventure and I got on Web slinger, a Spider-Man adventure ride.
[00:15:06] And in it, you take the role of helping Spider-Man get rid of these Spider-Bots that are multiplying in his lab.
[00:15:16] And it's an interactive ride where it's in 3D and the game senses your Spider-Man moves.
[00:15:26] And the second time I wrote it is Kellan, myself and my wife.
[00:15:32] And then this one guy got on.
[00:15:34] And I noticed that he had like this cheat sheet because you score points for how many of these Spiders you capture.
[00:15:41] And each Spider is worth a different amount.
[00:15:44] So we had this cheat sheet and he thought he was going to beat me and I made it my goal to not lose to him.
[00:15:52] And I did not.
[00:15:54] So that's the big news story of the week is that I beat some random guy on the Spider-Man ride in Disneyland.
[00:16:00] That dude's like a day away from just ending it all.
[00:16:05] And he's like, if I can win this thing, I'm going to keep on going.
[00:16:09] And my only solid is I'm going to be the best Spider-Man player.
[00:16:14] If I could just be the best at one thing in life, it's enough to make me want to live and then you come in and just destroy it.
[00:16:21] Tragedy strikes at Disneyland.
[00:16:23] He's floating in a swamp in the Everglades.
[00:16:26] Yeah, the ride is really fun though and it's really cool because Tom Holland does the bit and is Peter Parker and Spider-Man in it.
[00:16:37] So it's really cool.
[00:16:39] The new Guardians, I guess it's not really that new but it's maybe three or four years old.
[00:16:45] But it overtook Tower of Terror.
[00:16:49] And so it's basically a drop ride but it has all the actors who play, you know, the characters.
[00:16:59] And when you go into the room before you go into the Gantry device which is just the old Tower of Terror elevators,
[00:17:05] Rocket shows up in the collector's room and he stills Peter Quills Walkman again.
[00:17:11] And when you get on the ride he plugs it in so it plays some classic rock song or a song from Guardians of the Galaxy.
[00:17:19] And every time you're on a new floor, the door's open and it's a different scene plays out.
[00:17:25] So it was really cool. We wrote it a second time and it was a different song and it was different scenes.
[00:17:31] So I don't know how many different scenes they have for the ride but it was really cool.
[00:17:37] So yeah, that was a lot of fun.
[00:17:40] But the real movie news is they're going to start Spider-Man 4.
[00:17:45] They just started writing the script for it.
[00:17:48] So I mean, I haven't heard officially Tom Holland's going to be back but I know Amy Pascal who's the producers on him
[00:17:57] said that he's going to do another trilogy but I could have sworn the last time I read an interview with him
[00:18:02] he's like, I don't know if I'm going to do anymore.
[00:18:06] But I'm guessing they're going to send him a lot of money and he'll probably do it.
[00:18:11] Yeah, you're looking at another decade of commitment.
[00:18:15] Yeah, I mean I get it though.
[00:18:18] I know he wanted to take time off because he literally shot I think four movies over three years
[00:18:24] and they're all really taxing between the two Avengers movies, then Spider-Man
[00:18:29] and Spider-Man and Uncharted, you know.
[00:18:36] That's a lot of work.
[00:18:38] So I know he's taking this year off and I mean he hasn't been in anything since No Way Home.
[00:18:45] Plus he's probably like what, 30 now?
[00:18:47] No, I think he's 26?
[00:18:52] He's pretty young.
[00:18:54] Yeah, it's still by the time he's, he'll be his late 30s by the time he finishes those three movies
[00:19:01] so there is just the age factor.
[00:19:05] So he is 26 right now.
[00:19:09] You know, I mean he's still kind of got that boyish look to him but
[00:19:15] I just wonder what Marvel's plan is to keep him looking young, you know?
[00:19:22] Yeah, I mean he doesn't really have to be because I mean he's technically done with high school.
[00:19:26] So the next time you see him it could be like a real time has passed, you know, three, four years.
[00:19:32] I guess they do keep track of time now, you know, the blip and everything so yeah.
[00:19:36] Yeah, so I mean I'm always down and they're also saying that they're going to start shooting Blade in 10 weeks.
[00:19:49] So it's cool because every time a new Marvel movie is about to come out they start doing press tours
[00:19:54] and filling in some of the gaps and I do know that there's some movies in Phase,
[00:19:59] so we're in Phase 5 and Phase 6 that aren't quite announced yet.
[00:20:04] So I'm not sure which ones those ones are going to be and I'm guessing one of them is going to be a Spider-Man movie.
[00:20:12] I mean, I can't imagine them not making another Spider-Man movie because that one almost made $2 billion.
[00:20:18] So yeah, so hopefully we'll hear news.
[00:20:22] I'm guessing maybe around Comic-Con or D23 they'll probably announce another Spider-Man movie.
[00:20:29] Cool.
[00:20:30] And that's really it for the news.
[00:20:32] I mean nothing crazy is going on right now.
[00:20:35] Steven Spielberg was overheard at the Oscars luncheon telling Tom Cruise he saved Hollywood's ass with a top gun.
[00:20:45] I saw that, yeah.
[00:20:47] That's funny.
[00:20:49] But yeah, hey we watch things throughout the week and we're going to talk about some of them and what we've been watching.
[00:21:00] So yeah this is the stuff we've been watching.
[00:21:04] Brad what did you watch this week?
[00:21:07] Do you want me to talk about one of three things.
[00:21:11] The greatest showman missing or fire of love or wait four things sunset five things sunset Boulevard or assault on Precinct 13.
[00:21:22] How about you choose what you think is the most interesting one and are all just do quick takes of all five.
[00:21:36] Sounds good.
[00:21:38] Assault on Precinct 13.
[00:21:40] Apparently a John Carpenter classic.
[00:21:44] I did not like it.
[00:21:46] I thought it was terrible.
[00:21:48] Yeah, just I thought the acting was awful.
[00:21:54] The premise was ridiculous.
[00:21:59] Yeah, fight me.
[00:22:01] I would tell you.
[00:22:03] I do know that's like his.
[00:22:06] That's kind of the movie that got him going, you know, yeah.
[00:22:11] Because I think he made Halloween right after that.
[00:22:15] Yeah, this is 76.
[00:22:17] Yeah, two years before.
[00:22:20] Yes.
[00:22:24] If you haven't watched it, you're listening and watch it.
[00:22:28] This police officer trance like is a transfer to this precinct that's shutting down.
[00:22:37] It's like being relocated.
[00:22:40] So he goes over and like watches the empty station as it's being relocated.
[00:22:48] There's a couple of people left behind.
[00:22:50] Meanwhile, there's this local gang that attacks a father and his daughter kills the daughter.
[00:23:00] And then the father tracks them down and kills some of them.
[00:23:04] And so they chase him back to the precinct.
[00:23:07] And he goes catatonic like you can't explain anything that's happened.
[00:23:12] Like I don't know.
[00:23:14] Like apparently that whole situation was so traumatic.
[00:23:18] They certainly can't explain to the officers there what's exactly going on.
[00:23:24] So the officers stumble through the on the oncoming onslaught of gang members who lay siege to the station.
[00:23:34] You know, he could just said like hey I'm being chased by this gang and it probably would have saved a couple of those officers life but whatever.
[00:23:42] And then there's like a police woman who is like strangely attracted to this.
[00:23:52] Like there's these couple criminals are being transferred to the station on their way to on their way to a prison.
[00:23:59] And so like they have these scenes of just like mild attraction to each other that's kind of weird.
[00:24:06] And yeah they just kind of defend the precinct as just hordes and hordes of nameless faceless gang members lay siege to him.
[00:24:16] So.
[00:24:18] And then I always had fun with it.
[00:24:20] I don't think it's one of his best ones, but I think it's a fun one.
[00:24:24] Yeah, it's not like any like cool dialogue or and you're just kind of rolling your eyes at a lot of like the like stupid things that are happening.
[00:24:34] You know, yeah, these should be like the best trained people and they're not very strategic at all.
[00:24:40] Like they're constantly putting their heads like in front of the glass window.
[00:24:43] Like even after seeing some guy just get shot through it, it's like maybe don't stand in front of the glass window.
[00:24:52] Yeah, there was a cool reveal when that one guy escapes into the car and then he drives her a little bit and then there's there's just one of the gang members in the car the whole time.
[00:25:03] Yeah, and then I saw sense at Boulevard for the first time.
[00:25:06] Zach joined me for it.
[00:25:09] Not a great experience because the crowd was really obnoxious.
[00:25:15] Really? That's weird when it's like in classic movies like that because you think it'd be a more of a movie crowd.
[00:25:22] You know what I mean?
[00:25:23] Yeah, like a respectful crowd but no it was like two hipster douchebags like him and his girlfriend were just laughing and chatting.
[00:25:32] To the right of us the whole time.
[00:25:34] It could not stop distracting me but also overall I didn't think the movie was like that interesting, you know?
[00:25:43] This guy is in debt and he's escaping.
[00:25:49] The people trying to collect on him and he just stumbles into this mansion where this old Hollywood icon is kind of a recluse and she's got a butler
[00:25:58] and she hires him to write the script that's going to revitalize her career and then she like falls for him.
[00:26:04] And then he eventually kind of goes along with it but meanwhile he's got eyes on this other producer or secretary at the studio
[00:26:16] and then what's her name? Like Norma? What's the actress's name?
[00:26:25] Man. So full disclosure Sunset Boulevard is one of those classic movies that I'm not a big fan of.
[00:26:34] Oh.
[00:26:37] It's okay. I know it's super famous. It's just Gloria Swanson.
[00:26:49] Norma Desmond, that's the character. Yeah, Gloria Swanson is the actress.
[00:26:54] Yeah. I don't think it's like an interesting story.
[00:27:04] I think it's all about the performance and Norma Desmond is crazy, unhinged.
[00:27:10] And I actually missed like the first two minutes of it because I was a little late.
[00:27:16] So when I got to the end and there's a... So I've been dead this whole time device.
[00:27:24] Like all this narration throughout the whole thing. I was like, oh, by the way, I've been dead.
[00:27:27] Zach leaned over to me and was like, oh, by the way, he's been dead the whole time.
[00:27:31] I was like, yeah, I figured that out. I'm pretty sure this movie started with this scene. I got you.
[00:27:42] But hey, just in case.
[00:27:44] Yeah. So yeah, I recognize it's a classic but it didn't seem like a deep interesting story.
[00:27:51] It seems like an interesting romance idea.
[00:27:57] Yeah, I don't think it's a good movie. I just have never been like that in love with it.
[00:28:06] Then I watched The Greatest Showman because I was the Esquire late night that week and that movie was corny as hell.
[00:28:17] Oh yeah.
[00:28:18] It's like so cheesy.
[00:28:21] And definitely like, I don't know, like White Wash is the legacy of P.T. Barnum and all the abuses of owning a circus and treating people.
[00:28:34] Yeah, they definitely went the other way on that because I'm pretty sure he was probably a lot meaner to the Freaks than his stable.
[00:28:43] So yeah.
[00:28:46] Yeah, he's definitely had a niche but yeah, that was definitely a candy coated version of the circus life.
[00:28:57] Yeah. And then like I didn't even put together like halfway through that Zach Efron was Bailey.
[00:29:03] Like they even said his name Bailey constantly. I just did not like, oh yeah, Barnum and Bailey. That's why he's the other guy.
[00:29:09] Okay. What's this character supposed to do?
[00:29:13] They haven't had circus, that circus probably what, 10, 15 years? When's the last time they had it? When did they completely shut down?
[00:29:20] Oh, I was going to say I think they shut it down like 10 years ago.
[00:29:24] Yeah, it's been a long time. I know that.
[00:29:26] Like way before this movie came out.
[00:29:28] Yeah, and I didn't think the songs were that great either.
[00:29:33] I remember it being advertised like, hey, it's from the songwriters of La La Land and everything.
[00:29:38] And I thought like La La Land had way catcher stuff than Greatest Showman. Like it's not bad but it's just like, I couldn't.
[00:29:44] I felt the same way about Bohemian Rhapsody. Not that the music in Bohemian Rhapsody is bad, but the movie was so stupid.
[00:29:52] For everyone, like how much money it made and how much people loved it. I got this movie as dumb.
[00:29:58] And the Greatest Showman I thought was more entertaining, but it's another movie that just had such like long legs.
[00:30:05] Everyone's like, oh man, this movie is so cool and you know, you should need to see it.
[00:30:11] And then when you see it, you go, okay.
[00:30:14] Yeah, Heavy CGI.
[00:30:16] And like, yeah, I think everyone like performs well in it, but overall it's just like, I don't know.
[00:30:23] There's a lot of like just cringy choices to it. You're like, okay.
[00:30:28] Then also Watch Missing. Do you remember that one?
[00:30:32] That's the sequel to Searching, right?
[00:30:34] Yeah, sort of sequel. Yeah, it's not direct, but it's in the vein of like, hey, the whole movie is just on this computer screen the whole time.
[00:30:42] And I found it really compelling. Like for what is essentially like a lot of pop-ups and CCTV cameras.
[00:30:52] And that Searching was way better than it had any right to be.
[00:30:55] Yeah, I saw that one like at the drive-in like years ago obviously when it came out.
[00:31:00] But yeah, I went and being like, oh, I'll just watch this because I need something to watch.
[00:31:03] And then coming away from it being like, wow, that was actually like directed and was actually really compelling for what it is.
[00:31:10] Yeah, I agree.
[00:31:11] Like way more interesting than a lot of like just straight up dramatic like cinematic movies are.
[00:31:18] And Searching is like that too, except that like the last act is a little ridiculous.
[00:31:23] And I don't want to spoil it, but there's a plan that's going on and I'm not sure how it was supposed to work if it was successful.
[00:31:33] So other than that, like everything lead up to it is just twist and turn.
[00:31:38] And they're all like really, oh man, I didn't see that coming.
[00:31:42] Or can you believe this?
[00:31:44] Like this is actually where they're going with it.
[00:31:47] Yeah, it's pretty effective.
[00:31:50] And then lastly I watched Fire of Love which is documentary of these two volcanologists who were a husband and wife,
[00:31:58] French couple that traveled the world just documenting volcanoes.
[00:32:03] Yeah, how many looked interesting?
[00:32:06] Yeah, it's all like on super eight footage.
[00:32:09] I don't think it's a secret they died in 91.
[00:32:14] Yeah, what did they die at a volcano?
[00:32:17] Yeah, an eruption in Japan.
[00:32:19] They're watching and kind of the big thing is the filmmaker takes like his reels of footage and tries to build
[00:32:30] because they also didn't have kids or family to consult with really.
[00:32:35] So it's a lot of just kind of guessing and trying to craft this story of these two people from a lot of footage
[00:32:43] that's just starting to stop random stuff that he shot, you know, like he didn't go and shoot like, oh, I'm going to do this with a plan.
[00:32:51] It's a lot of just b-roll of, you know, sometimes it's rock, sometimes it's the four tour guides on horses
[00:32:58] and he like turns it into like a sort of a Western thing and then it cuts back to his wife just kind of sitting around looking in the distance.
[00:33:06] So they, you know, the big challenge is whittling all that down and also it's super eight so there's no sound attached to it.
[00:33:14] So they have to make up the volcano sounds and everything else.
[00:33:19] And there's a narration by Miranda July that kind of takes you through it and adds some kind of philosophy to a couple things
[00:33:30] and reinforces what's going on.
[00:33:33] And so like the most interesting part for me was like where they actually talk about all volcanoes and my big takeaway is those two kinds of volcanoes.
[00:33:42] There's the red kind and then the gray kind.
[00:33:45] And the red kind are like the ones we like watching because they just, you know, run rivers of red lava out in the ocean.
[00:33:53] And yeah, it's a little destructive but it's not like you can kind of plan and adapt to that.
[00:34:01] The gray ones are the dangerous ones where it's just a tremendous instantaneous explosion and there's not really like lava spooing everywhere.
[00:34:09] It's just like a cloud of dust that just envelops the landscape.
[00:34:14] That's like what Mount Haines St. Helens was and the one that killed them in Japan.
[00:34:22] And they have footage of like them that day before it happens.
[00:34:28] And then they have footage from the camera.
[00:34:31] There's like a helicopter that catches this plume of gray smoke.
[00:34:35] This like comes down the mountain and they show like, yeah, this is where they were.
[00:34:39] And all they found was the camera and like his watch.
[00:34:43] Oh shit.
[00:34:45] Yeah.
[00:34:46] And so, yeah, it's pretty sad but, you know, they talk about like, you know, them being like this, you know, in this crazy world of tectonic plates and fire and, you know, how insignificant we are.
[00:35:02] And that these two people had the same love of this, found each other and managed to go on this journey together.
[00:35:11] It's pretty special.
[00:35:12] So that was kind of cool.
[00:35:14] What did you watch?
[00:35:16] Honestly, I didn't watch anything because I was on vacation all week.
[00:35:23] I watched episodes of Family Guy with Kellen and he was laughing at when Brian Marry's that one woman because he thinks she's going to die in two weeks of cancer.
[00:35:36] And then when she doesn't and she has six months of cancer farts built up as she walks, she just farts everywhere.
[00:35:44] So yeah, that's all I really watched because I just was busy.
[00:35:51] Makes sense.
[00:35:52] Yeah.
[00:35:53] Next week, we're seeing, or tomorrow, we're seeing Ant-Man and the Wasps, Quantum Mania.
[00:36:02] Yep.
[00:36:06] So we'll see you at the movies watching that movie.
[00:36:13] Yeah, I'm sick.
[00:36:15] I'd be totally way more excited.
[00:36:17] So hopefully I still get to go.
[00:36:19] Cool.
[00:36:22] Well, until next week.
[00:36:24] Bye.
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