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[00:01:18] movie podcast on the internet. I am Ryan and I am joined by Brad. Hey! Hey, D'Ho! Every week we see a new movie and we podcast our experience to the world. This week we saw Godzilla... Is it X Kong? I don't understand the title.
[00:01:37] It's like one of those Batman V Superman things. I think it's optional. I think X implies a team-up whereas Versus is like they're against each other. Oh wait, dude! I totally figured it out. This week we saw Godzilla multiply Kong, the new empire. Godzilla times Kong. Yes!
[00:02:03] Genius! Stay tuned and we'll recommend the film or not, play the trailer then spoil it. We also talk about the movie news of the week and films we've watched throughout the week that we think we should talk about. This is our 13th year, Brad.
[00:02:18] It is! We just moved into a new volume of episodes with this one. Nice! Full steam ahead I guess. Yeah, be a little more enthusiastic. 13 years of every week listening to me. You are so blessed. 13 years? I can't believe it! This is so much fun!
[00:02:39] There we go. That's what I like to hear. Struggle a little bit. Fake enthusiasm. Because I have a cold question mark. I don't know what's going on with my sickness right now. You do sound a little sick.
[00:02:52] Yeah. I feel fine otherwise, but it's not like an allergy congestion thing. I've known for three days that this feels like an idea when I get sick, but it's just not happening fully. Yeah, mine are always, they start with my sinuses.
[00:03:14] When my sinuses start hurting, then I know it's going to happen. Yeah, mine starts with the sore throat. Like one that's on fire. Yeah, it kind of went away yesterday. I was like, cool, I beat it, but now I'm just like, I sound like this. I'm worried like...
[00:03:31] The virus then used like, like a new phase. It's mutating. So it's like, you know, kind of need to do film explosion on Saturday. Friday it's going to hit and we'll be just totally bedridden. But I chose the number one movie.
[00:03:48] Speaking of film explosion, we are doing film explosion 1984, Sunday April 7th. Send us your list of your favorite films of 1984 so we can share them on the podcast. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, travel back to 1984 for the best films of that year. According to Real Nerds Podcast.
[00:04:08] A really cool year for movies. I actually struggled how I was going to put my list together because I, and again, I always boil it down to which ones do I watch the most.
[00:04:22] And in that order, because I guess in my mind, that means I enjoy them more than the other films. But there could have easily been 20 movies on my top 10 list if we did a top 20. Yeah, 84 is one of those great years.
[00:04:36] And yeah, like I did most of my list years ago, like I said before. And I did relook at it and be like, is this still what I feel? Because like, yeah, these are like, you know, it's like a difference of like one
[00:04:52] rank, you know, type thing of just like, where does it really fit? And at this point, you know, I've lived with these movies for like 40 years. So it's just like, you know, none of them have the same impact they did like 10 years ago to me.
[00:05:02] But you know, they're all awesome. You know, so. Yeah, yeah. The fine line. Yeah. But this week, we're not going to live in the past this week. We saw Godzilla X Kong. Brad, do you recommend the latest monster mashup? Sure, why not?
[00:05:26] If you liked, you know, the Skull Island and what are the last ones called? I think it was just Godzilla times Kong. It's more the same, you know, CGI monsters fighting each other. Yeah. I thought it was really fun.
[00:05:51] I think there is a charm to these type of movies. And what I respected about this movie, I'll talk about it in quote unquote spoilers. But it felt like the writers and the director like, yeah, fuck it. Let's see what happens if we throw this in here.
[00:06:05] Like who cares? Let's defy all logic even when in a monster universe and let's just make it this movie how we want to. But yeah, it was fun. I thought it looked great. Yeah. Yeah, look expensive for sure. For the trailer for.
[00:06:24] Yeah, I'm going to say I'm going to call it Godzilla Kong because I can't fucking. I hate the X in it just like I hate the V and Batman V Superman. I just call it Batman Superman. Here's a trailer for the latest adventure of Godzilla and Kong.
[00:06:43] For centuries, there was harmony. The Titans were the guardians of nature. And the great apes became the protectors of humanity. We've discovered a signal. She can feel it. Kong, Godzilla, they can feel it too. Something is coming. Something even they're afraid of.
[00:07:37] You feel like going for a ride? I thought you'd never ask. Just try not to swallow your tongue. What? Is that a mini car? Oh my God. It's not just a signal. That's a call for war. What is that? Kong can't stop this on his own.
[00:08:39] He won't be alone. The last time those two met up was almost the end of Kong. They don't have to like each other. You just have to work together. Now I have seen everything. We've made some minor augmentations.
[00:09:19] Oh, I'm not sure exactly the time frame of this movie since the last Godzilla and Kong movie where they fought each other and then we discovered that there was a hollow Earth. But Godzilla is still cruising around and destroying shit like he doesn't care.
[00:09:57] But he's protecting the Earth from other Titans. Kong is in hollow Earth looking for more Kongs. And there's humans in it. And their story is to make sure Godzilla doesn't kill more people, but he does. And that Kong stays in center of the Earth.
[00:10:24] And Kong stumbles across more apes like him. And when he does this it activates Godzilla because the Scar King or I think that's his name. Leader of the bad apes and who rides a Titan who shoots ice isn't going to try to come to the surface world.
[00:10:49] So now Godzilla is absorbing all the nuclear power he can to prepare for battle. And Kong lures Godzilla to center Earth, hollow Earth. And then they fight a lot. And that's the movie. That's the movie. Yeah, it's fun.
[00:11:16] Like you said before, it feels like they just realized, hey, I think people just hate the human stories in these so let's produce that and just give Kong a robotic arm. I was disappointed that Godzilla doesn't really get a lot of screen time in the movie.
[00:11:35] He naps in the Colosseum and then goes to the Arctic to recharge and kill another Titan and then shows up at the end to do the badass fight scene. Yeah, it was definitely a Kong movie. Yeah. And then because the first 20 minutes is literally him
[00:11:55] in hollow Earth running around and hunting and beating up monsters. And you know what I thought was a great movie? That like no dialogue. Just I understood what Kong was thinking in a movie and like I understood this.
[00:12:11] Like when he goes into the layer of the other Kong's like no one's saying anything, but you understand what's going on. Yeah, I thought it was really cool. I mean, the movie looks incredible. Yeah, it looks expensive for sure.
[00:12:25] My kid, my kid, we couldn't stop laughing when he took that little baby Kong and was using him as a weapon. Which towards halfway through I was like, oh man, I just now realized they worked in Son of Kong into this movie. Yes. But yeah, that's hilarious.
[00:12:44] They just beating the other Kongs with the kid. But you're right. Those moments, the characters were animated and brought to life so well that just they're like facial expressions and their head nods. You understood exactly what was going on.
[00:13:05] This movie could have been completely dialogueless and just followed Kong. And I would have been like super interesting because yeah, the humans are just there to explain what's going on on screen for the dummies in the audience. I know it's and you know, they're fine in it.
[00:13:21] This is the second movie I've seen in a month where some lady explains what's happening to us for us. And imaginary it was handled really clumsily. And this one is a little clumsy, but not as bad. It's Rebecca Hall reading hieroglyphics and telling us the whole story.
[00:13:49] That's what you really don't need. Two PhDs. Yeah, but you really don't need. I get it. Like I get that Skar King is holding a titan and he's manipulating it with this. Magic rock. Yeah, magic rock. Like I get it. Like I understand what's happening.
[00:14:09] And he wants to go to the surface world and Godzilla is going to stop him. Like I don't need to be told that. I understand. Yeah. You know, I guess it was a big deal that Moth Rush shows up. Then it looks incredible.
[00:14:24] The fight in Egypt was awesome. Yeah, R.A.P. The Pyramids. Weirdest thing about these movies is this is like, you know, we're in the present day, even though there's like hover conversion on things.
[00:14:40] We're in present day and there's been tons of monsters at tax in all these movies. And yet the humans just go about their normal commerce day. Like no big deal. Like they're never going to get attacked and then they do.
[00:14:55] It's just like you think at this point, there would be no society, like structure. You know, there'd be no borders. There'd be no commerce. Like everyone should be like selling their property because like it's no one can ensure it at this point.
[00:15:10] Well, let me say this is why I don't make movies. Because if I was making this movie and I mean the image of Godzilla sleeping in the coliseum looks cool.
[00:15:19] And when he steps out and he destroys like the wall, I would have cut to some guy on the ground and go, dude! Excuse me. Yeah, excuse me. Like you have to destroy the coliseum. Because they did. They also destroyed the pantheon and. Like the Rio de Janeiro?
[00:15:41] Yeah. Fucking Godzilla doesn't give a fuck. Yeah, no evacuation time for that city. Get dead. Is she fucking dead? Because you know they show up on the beach for the final fight. All those people on the beach are dead. Yeah. Like just dead.
[00:16:00] And then they just like obliterate all those buildings like further inland. I mean I guess it's you know population control. That's Monarch's true job is to draw titans to cities they want to destroy.
[00:16:19] That'll be the next one when the CEO of Monarch is revealed as a guy who just wants to like eliminate world population like Thanos. I forget isn't that what they already did and when the past ones? I don't remember, I don't think so but.
[00:16:34] Like when Mothra came out it was like didn't like Mothra die in the last one? That like that was the tragic part of the movie? Like sacrifice yourself? Yeah. I mean I have them all. Yeah, I don't remember.
[00:16:48] Because the deal books for all of them are really cool. And you know Godzilla King of the Monsters I think is the one where Mothra does come out but it's a bad guy? I can't remember.
[00:17:04] Or maybe it's not Mothra maybe it's Mothra and we're just mixing them up. Maybe. I'm not as well versed on the early monster movies. Also like they go through the trouble of you know Godzilla's assignment is to like recharge in
[00:17:22] the Arctic but like what did getting that power really do that it was different? He turned pink? I don't know. It's pink is it a blue? Yeah and why are like Jets and stuff still firing at him? Like yeah and why? I mean he's just inhaling nuclear power.
[00:17:43] Okay we already know that Jets and helicopters are not effective against them. Yeah I know some of them were just like there to you know keep a camera on them but yeah firing at this point firing on Godzilla was pretty dumb. I mean it looks cool I guess.
[00:17:59] I mean when they lost the gravity the the camera work and the action was pretty great at that point. But you know Kong's super arm I love that it's conveniently in this outpost and that Dan Stevens character is able to pilot some sort of
[00:18:23] lying machine that we haven't seen before but it's just perfect for dropping this glove right on Kong. Yeah also like. I hope he doesn't reject it and then all of a sudden he's just fucking ripped.
[00:18:40] Also the journey back to the him walking back to that spaceship or whatever was a lot quicker than the journey they took like leaving it. It sure was. He says I'll be right back and he's literally right back. Yeah he's a marathon runner yeah.
[00:18:58] Yeah also where's the sun in Hollow Earth like where's that light coming from. It's coming from the lava viewing so high into the air that it produces UV lights as well for all the
[00:19:12] plantation I guess that whole lava cavern just made me think of tears of the kingdom. Oh yeah your underground the lava areas and like you walk close to it and just yeah without the armor and you start heating up. That's pretty nice.
[00:19:29] And he kicked that one ape into the lava in front of his kid. Little mini Kong's dad. Yeah well that kid was a little prick at the beginning. Yeah. So is his dad. Yeah but it's fun.
[00:19:46] I don't mind these kind of movies I get I understand what I'm getting into when I watch them. Yeah I mean they're supposed to be dumb fun. You're only sitting there waiting for the monster fight anyway which was cool like
[00:20:01] that final fight in Rio de Janeiro with the you know what three Titans two Kong's. Yep four because that ice one it would have been cooler if Kong would have held up that Scar King.
[00:20:17] I kept on thinking he's going to freeze him but then Godzilla is going to blow up with his atomic breath and just you know. That'd be cool if they both killed him at the same time that'd be awesome. And then it's snow like pink snow.
[00:20:29] That was pretty gnarly in the beginning when Kong like rips that whatever beast in half and like of course it's green blood that has to drip on him because it's PG-13. Yeah. Badass. I mean they stole it from Prey but you know it's still cool. Yeah.
[00:20:47] But yeah no it was awesome. Yeah. But yeah no it was awesome and like I said the characters the monsters in it look incredible. Sure cost a lot of money and a lot of people didn't go home for a couple months. Yeah. Cool. Yeah.
[00:21:09] Hey big movie news this week. It's Real News. It's Real News. Probably the biggest news is Louis Gossett Jr passed away. My cousin always loved him in Iron Eagle and it's my cousin's favorite movie so he is always a part of my life growing up.
[00:21:40] Yeah I just saw him and I think of the color purple he was in, the remake and like I didn't recognize him until the credits. Yeah I was reading an obituary on him he started in his teens acting and so he had a career of
[00:21:58] 70 years that's pretty awesome. Of course he won an Oscar for an officer and a gentleman. I'm pretty sure the first time I saw him though was in Jaws 3D. He's the like owner of SeaWorld if I remember correctly.
[00:22:15] Yeah oh yeah he was just in Outlaw Johnny Black too we just saw that. Correct. Yeah what a career. Yeah and always a dude who was on screen and you just you know he commanded he had that presence about him you know. Yeah he was in charge.
[00:22:33] Yeah although it's sad that when someone passed away he lived to be 87 and let me see how many films he was in. He was in 450 title, 200 titles according to IMDB as an actor. Two as a producer I mean director and 14 as a producer so he was quite the
[00:23:02] man who dabbled in everything and he was on stage too that's where he got his start was since on stage. Yeah I forgot he's also in the original Punisher with Dolph Lundgren.
[00:23:15] Oh shit that's right I haven't seen that movie in forever and so the only thing I really remember about that is him riding his motorcycle in the sewer as always. Shoutin' he's put that out.
[00:23:24] Yeah they do and that's the news story I have this week unless I missed something. Bottoms is coming to Blu-ray. Oh yeah that's awesome. From Kino. I was so excited when I saw that because it was such a travesty that it wasn't available.
[00:23:44] I mean I could watch it on Prime but I'd rather have the Blu-ray and have special features. You know what's funny is after all these months I did watch it on Prime and the next day you sent me that. I was like really? I did it.
[00:23:58] He willed it's existence. Yeah I was like should I re-up Prime from some delivery deal. So I was like cool I don't have to pay it as a separate rental and yeah.
[00:24:14] Nice the only bummer is Kino Lorber sometimes will announce stuff and it doesn't come out for a year. They did that with kindergarten cop. They announced it a year before it came out. Yeah there's nothing else too what is it? Fuck.
[00:24:28] I'm still waiting on things like a Vandy M movie. Oh sudden death they announced like two years ago. Yeah it's weird. I get that I mean they're an independent distributor so one day you'll just be on social media and they'll say something next month. Sudden death.
[00:24:47] But I'm okay with it because usually they do new 2k or 4k scans from camera negatives and they do usually a great job. I just got seven Blu-rays from them because they have this spring cell going on. Yeah.
[00:25:03] And they're all they're each like $7 and if you get over $50 it's free shipping. I took advantage of it to you my friend. Nice I got totally the goofy movies this time like Amazon women love I forget what it's called
[00:25:21] but it's some woman in a leopard bikini who has a spear like yeah fuck it who cares. Yeah for $6.99 I was like I'll try this who cares. Yeah that's what I did. You know I hate it you know that's a pretty good price for a Blu-ray.
[00:25:35] Yeah I do check on Blu-ray.com on some of them to see you know if there's like some sort of hidden gem and one that I got that I'm kind of excited to check out it's called Stunt Rock. Oh that's the one I got.
[00:25:53] Did you get it nice did you read about it it's like some Australian stunt movie and I guess the stunts in it are so insane and one of the bonus features is a stunt performer talks about how deadly it was.
[00:26:08] Yeah it was like at the Alamo I think last year and I missed it so my stock came up and I was like oh here's my chance to watch it and it's like it was also feature I have this
[00:26:17] documentary called Not Quite Hollywood which is all about the ausplotation films and I guess yeah that was part of it so I'll uh. Nice yeah because I also got Billy the Kid versus Dracula, Code of Silence and A Force of One which are two Chuck Norris movies
[00:26:36] because again it's oh man one was 849 damn it but yeah I'll take a chance on them because sometimes you get really good ones that like sneak through. Yeah I got the Jetsons movie. Yes.
[00:26:53] A Divorced Dad which is like a web series or like a series made by the guys who did like the Psycho Gorman and stuff. Oh I'd never even heard of it. Yeah and then Family of the Opera the uh like original 19.
[00:27:11] Oh yeah I got that one the last time they had or maybe last year when they had to sell it the Blu-ray is awesome it has tons of special features on it because it's a special edition one right? Yeah I think so.
[00:27:23] Nice yeah it's the one that's like a painted kind of cover. Yeah exactly yeah nice like yeah I saw it in the in Kawa Springs like last year for Halloween because like some indie film thing I was like yeah I should just have that
[00:27:38] because like it wasn't great but you know it's a you know it's cinema like icon so. Yeah it's one of my 150 favorite films uh one of the reasons is because how important it is.
[00:27:50] Yeah exactly um and I mean it's you know a 1921 silent film so it's 100 years old and there's some caveats to it but I think overall like the makeup effects and the performance by Laun Cheney is great in it.
[00:28:05] Yeah I'm curious about the special features so let's check that out. Yeah they're good. Yeah so yeah. Hey we watched films throughout the week in a segment I call what we've been watching. So uh yeah this is just stuff we've been watching. Brad would you watch this week?
[00:28:25] A lot of stuff uh but I think the only thing I really want to talk about is there's a Weird Al documentary on Amazon I think it was. Was it Amazon or YouTube TV? I don't know I don't remember where I watched it.
[00:28:40] But it's called Weird Al Never Off Beat and it sucks. Oh well uh it's not just a clever name. Like I don't know 10 minutes and I was like I gotta look up what other people are saying
[00:28:53] about this because it's this seems weak and like I read the reviews and they're like you know it seems like a documentary generated by AI and like it does seem like a documentary generated by AI um and I'm guessing the script was like it just like reads.
[00:29:12] I haven't looked it up I'm sure if you looked up Weird Al's uh Wikipedia page they probably copied and pasted it and sent that right to the um because I thought the
[00:29:21] voiceover was AI um but in the credits it's it's a real woman you can look her up she's done voiceovers for other famous things um but she doesn't I guess no one corrected her
[00:29:34] because there's like parts in the script it'll say like he's won seven Grammy or like seven albums Grammy seven like the words are rearranged and like the his song Word Crimes she says is World Crimes
[00:29:49] so yeah they they shook off the dialogue for her to record and they just took it back and didn't like double check anything wow so it I'm guessing it's not an authorized biography
[00:30:01] I don't think so and there's a lot of like stock footage in place of things and you know the part where they get to where he like goes on Tom Snyder tonight or whatever to do his first like
[00:30:13] studio performance um instead of showing footage from that they just cut to him like doing an interview with the last action hero premiere you're just like what is going on
[00:30:23] like what does this have to do with that um it almost seems like like they used an AI thing to like steal footage from others like the behind the music or whatever and like like all that and then
[00:30:38] re-edit it and then um yeah it's just a mishmash of clips from other things you've seen before and then like a lazily written script about his life that just jumps around constantly it doesn't
[00:30:54] adhere to like chronology um yeah it's literally feels like they just copy and paste with his Wikipedia page and then told the computer to make a documentary out of that because yeah and then there's just like random like stock footage like palm trees because they're in California
[00:31:12] or like that one point where they're like talking about what was it going at the end I think it's like uh his walk of fame star like there's just like an insert of like a camera on the
[00:31:23] ground spiraling so you like to see the trees rotating you're just like what why is this shot in here it's art man it's art yeah it's bad and they don't even need it they already released
[00:31:35] the 100 true story and weird the alieganic story right like that's the most uh authentic biography you can possibly do on weird ale I know and I don't know why even I won't even try to make
[00:31:47] another one so yeah that was pretty bad oh I guess I saw the new roadhouse that's a new thing roadhouse with Jake Gyllenhaal and that's a movie that's been like lambasted in the uh
[00:32:00] critical I thought it was okay like I didn't mind it yeah it's it's not great but neither is the original movie like you know it's it's not it's not a good original movie is badass because it's so over
[00:32:11] the top um that it'd be hard to remake that style of movie I mean it's it's not it's it's definitely a different vibe um but do they have a blind uh band rock and blues band that plays at
[00:32:26] a bar I think so I think that they don't they don't outright say they're blind but there's like three or four acts in that cage that they could have been blind and yeah there's one point where
[00:32:37] the bar empties out and they're still playing so maybe they don't know that people left because they're blind so that might be an odd to that uh but the villain uh or the like the biggest
[00:32:48] douchebag from the friday 13th remake is the villain in it oh sweet fucking love Trent yeah it's kind of fun to like oh yeah that guy he's a you know super sadistic douchebag in this one
[00:33:00] um yeah the action should be typecast is that yeah you need a douchebag yeah get out the roller coaster douchebag hollywood douchebags who could play this good-looking blonde haired guy
[00:33:14] perfect um so yeah I didn't mind it I think that was kind of fun oh I guess in the the spine of night I saw which is like a kind of like a swords like a like a throwback to like the Ralph
[00:33:29] Bokshi animation stuff where it's like super violent um you know Conan but the barbarian style yeah stuff like yeah animated people getting like hacked in half and yeah meanwhile there's like tons of like animated nudity and uh man just like the intro scroll yeah but like yeah the
[00:33:50] animation is a little sloppier because it's it's like that rotoscoped Ralph Bokshi animation and the story is like I'm not sure really what it's trying to do other than like yeah this power exists over generations and uh all these different eras try to like stop this
[00:34:10] one evil dude who stole the flowers and yeah it's like story's not that interesting but you know as far as like a classic classic throwback to that that style of uh cinema is kind of cool so yeah
[00:34:23] would you watch uh I just watched a few things um well actually I did did I talk about Candyman Dave the Dead last week no okay because I forget where I started watching stuff this week uh Candy
[00:34:40] Man Dave the Dead is a third Candyman film that was straight to video and those were those ones that when you went to Blockbuster you know in the mid to late 90s and they would have really cool
[00:34:52] covers and you'd get them and you'd be disappointed by what you watched and um this is definitely one of them Tony Todd is still great as the Candyman but it's an extremely limited budget and um
[00:35:08] the movie is just okay the cool part is is on the special feature Tony Todd talks about how the movie's a piece of shit so that's cool um because it's funny because he said you know
[00:35:20] it's an okay movie and it has its fans that's his really nice way of saying it's a piece of shit um yeah it feels like it was a tv movie uh yeah if it would if there wasn't tons of like
[00:35:33] well I guess tons of the right word but there is a lot of gore in it and some of it's pretty badass like he jams his hook through this dude's throat and rips his face off um but it's you know kind
[00:35:45] of far between because they don't have a budget and um and the rest of time is I don't know it's it's okay it's not great but it's not so horrible it's unwatchable it's in that
[00:36:01] mid 90s great to vhs style so just know what you're getting into and if you get the Vastar on series that's a lot of their stuff it's still fun um that's just what it is I
[00:36:13] uh also got the 4k ring collection from scream factory which uh I love the first ring movie I think it's really good Naomi Watts is really great in it um but did you see that with me in
[00:36:28] the theater as Brad pretty sure it did because I always remember I can't remember if you were there too I remember Adam and Cliff were there yeah and the reason I know this is because I took Cliff home
[00:36:40] and I'll never forget when we left it was foggy and rainy uh that's kind of weird and oh yeah the chair on the road yeah remember and Cliff lived in that like really dark neighborhood
[00:36:53] and the chair randomly in the middle of the road so uh movie yeah that movie always stuck with me because of that and it's still really good um ring two is okay um it suffers from not as good director
[00:37:11] which is a bummer because it's the director of the original Japanese film and when I was watching the making of it he got kind of uh hamstrung by the Hollywood machine that it made because the first
[00:37:29] one made so much money and of course when producers interject themselves into how the movie should be um it usually suffers and you could tell there's conflicting uh visions in the film
[00:37:45] where he and even talks about the best thing on this set is there's an hour and 45 minute documentary of making of the series which is really great and he talks about that you know how he wanted Samara in the original series she was more of a ghost
[00:38:04] in the American version she's kind of like a zombie ghost which doesn't align with his with the Japanese culture and he struggled making the movie for an American audience because he didn't know exactly what the American people wanted and then the producers had him
[00:38:23] do this other stuff and there's this weird transition thing where they're trying to be scary but it isn't quite scary because it's too CGI from you know the mid-2000s so it lost a lot of subtlety I think what he was going for in the film
[00:38:39] but it's still not a bad movie it's just a step back from the first one because Ghorfor Binsky is he's a great director and then the one I haven't seen is the third one called
[00:38:49] Rings have you seen that one? Yeah it's not good I don't know they try to give way too much backstory to Samara which I think sometimes can hurt the legend of who she is. Yeah it's less
[00:39:10] scary if there's no mystery to it. Yeah and then the cinematography was so dark and I don't know what they're trying to do with the effectiveness of it but it'd be so dark it only
[00:39:23] light up maybe a quarter of the actors faces and it'd be that ring color where it's like a kind of a bluish or like a greenish color so there was not a lot of detail even on a 4k disc until
[00:39:39] it would be daytime and then you go oh wow this movie has lots of like colors in it but then it cut to nights or darkly lit things and it lost a lot of it and the characters were so dumb
[00:39:50] in this one that it just irritates me. The premise is that the girlfriend doesn't want her boyfriend to die so she watches the video because it's you know the way you stop yourself from dying
[00:40:03] from the ring or Samara is you make a copy and show it to somebody else and so she didn't want her boyfriend to die so she watched it and go let the fucker die and his boyfriend was douchey and his name was Olt.
[00:40:21] But there is some cool parts in it the ending is interesting but it came with a set I really wanted it for ring one and ring two and I didn't know there's a two-hour documentary on it and the documentary is awesome because it
[00:40:35] starts with the actual Japanese version and I didn't know it was a book before they made it a movie so learn something new. The last thing I watched was Immaculate which is the Sydney Sweeney NONE movie. She goes to a monastery in Italy and while she's there
[00:41:01] she becomes pregnant which is the Immaculate part even though as it was happening I go oh I now she gets pregnant. I think there's this scene in it where I don't know I won't spoil it but
[00:41:18] it's so obvious that it really takes away from the mystery quote unquote leading up to what happens. There's some pretty gnarly stuff in it. It's not the best horror film I've seen this year that's still
[00:41:36] stop motion but I mean for a Monday morning I had nothing else to do it's not bad. I mean it's pretty gory in some parts and all the actors in it are really good and it's shot really well
[00:41:53] so you have nothing else to do and it's not bad. Right on. That's what I watched this week. Next week is film explosion 1984 we ain't afraid of no ghosts but we are afraid if you don't send
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