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[00:01:15] Hey, hey, hey, hey! You are so lucky. You have picked the greatest movie podcast on the internet to listen to. The Reel Nerds, where every week we see a new movie and we podcast our experience to the
[00:01:28] world. I am joined always as with my buddy, my pal, my amigo, Brad. Hello Brad. Hey, what's up? Oh you know, a new week. We're getting closer to Denver Fan Expo. I see that you got the chandelier ready that we talked about last week. Dude, that looks
[00:01:50] incredible. Thank you. It was a lot of work. I can't believe you got it done. I mean, I can't believe it exists. I know. It is so impressive and so thank you for that. I
[00:02:06] bet people are going to be really impressed when they see it in our booth. They better be. You can see it at Denver Fan Expo. Next week, so make sure you say hi to us. We'll be there and we'll be given off the vibes of 1990s
[00:02:25] Pizza Hut and everyone will have fun with it. They'll be like, oh my god, you guys are so cool. We'll say we know. They're like, oh please let us suck your nerd dick. We'll be like, I know.
[00:02:41] Some of the backgrounds found that really funny. Yeah, my kid. I'm probably the best dad in the world. Definitely setting a good example. Yeah, thanks, Kallen. Kallen said I am.
[00:02:57] Thank you. So yeah, it's pretty cool. Wait till he gets to know you. Yeah, I know. Then I won't be as cool. Yeah, wait till those teen years. I keep on thinking of that Pat in Oswald bit where
[00:03:13] he says he throws my, you know, Star Trek gun on the roof and he says, oh come on son. That's all I think about. He's going to take one of my Spider-Man figures and he'll say
[00:03:23] climb and get it. Come on, son. Totally. Like this super jock and you're just being like, can't stop him. No, that's all right. Yeah, but we're also going to have a ton of cool
[00:03:40] swag to sell. Kind of, yeah. Yeah, we should. We got our pizza boxes you're going to be able to get like some gift cards and some gummy pizzas and our glass and all kinds of comic books and a little
[00:03:55] real nerd spranded pizza box. So yeah, the pizza box is awesome. If you haven't seen our logo on our socials that looks just like Pizza Hut, but it's a film strip. So yeah, kudos to you as
[00:04:06] well. And I'm going to make a copyright infringement. Yeah, I'm going to make a prediction at Denver Comic Fan Expo. I'm going to seek out, so he's the local artist named Travis Heimel and he did
[00:04:19] Ninja Turtle covers, which you're a big fan of. I should know this. Yes. And I'm going to go up and see if he wants to do an interview on our show. Oh shit. I'm going to do it man.
[00:04:35] I don't know if he can do it. That's not going to happen. I think you're going to be too busy. No, it's going to happen to me. It's doing other interviews. Yeah. No, I'm doing it. Sorry. And then
[00:04:44] he's going to be too busy. He'll be like, he'll say he wants to do it, but then he'll be like, oh man, you know, I got to stay at my booth and make money and not do your free podcast. So
[00:04:53] yeah, but I'm going to see what happens dude. Okay, we'll see. We'll see. Yeah. Yeah. This week on Real Nerds, we saw a quiet place day one. Stay tuned very soon because we'll
[00:05:07] recommend the film or not play the trailer and spoil it. We'll talk about films we watched throughout the week and further nerd ramblings. Brad, do you recommend a quiet place day one?
[00:05:24] Yeah, actually. I did not expect this to be like a quiet drama piece. The trailer just may seem like, hey, we're taking this in the action directions. It's not going to be so much this meditative
[00:05:43] thing. It's going to be like the transformers of a quiet place. And it's not that. It's actually a really nice story of mostly these two people once again surviving this alien invasion.
[00:06:00] And yeah, I enjoyed it. It didn't blow me away, but as far as movies out there right now is just kind of a nice like, here's a competent good movie. So there. Yeah. I'm in agreement with you. I appreciated the character beats in this film.
[00:06:22] You know, they did the character beats. And yeah, of course, the creatures are cool. But it's really nice that they're more interested in the characters and let them have moments of building who they are. And you understand immediately what's going on. It was super nice.
[00:06:44] And if it's right in with the other films, I think it holds its own with the other ones. So yeah, go and see it. Here's the trailer for a quiet place day one this Friday.
[00:07:57] So like in the title, we're going back to the original invasion of the aliens. But this time we go from rural America to, you know, the big old New York City. Yeah, the big city of
[00:08:12] New York City. Wait, what am I trying to say? The big Apple. Thank you. Where we meet Samira and she is living in hospice care. And she is the youngest one there. Most of the people in
[00:08:28] hospice, as everyone knows, is going to be the elderly. And she's grumpy and pissed because she shouldn't be there. And I get it. And then one day her nurse guy who takes the group out
[00:08:51] to the city, they're going to a play. She doesn't want to go. But then he kind of convinces her to by saying they're going to pick up pizza. They go and watch a marionette show.
[00:09:02] And as they're leaving, the emergency starts and as the aliens invade, it definitely gives off a 9-11 vibe. And so she has to find a way to survive along the way we also meet Eric who
[00:09:24] keeps following her cat Frodo who keeps on getting away. But he keeps following it. He keeps on leading the cat, keeps on leading him out of danger. And he has nowhere to go. And he kind of tags
[00:09:40] along with Samira to go get pizza in Harlem. And the story builds from there and why she needs to go there. And you learn that she's a poet and a very accomplished writer. And it's all taken from her because of a form of cancer. And it's heartbreaking.
[00:10:00] And the character moments are great. And then the monsters attack every once in a while. But man, it was tugging on my heartstrings where she went to the bar where her father played.
[00:10:14] And they did kind of like a magic show. And there's really no dialogue. But the music and the acting is so beautiful in that part. And I enjoyed it immensely. Yeah, best part of the movie right there for sure. Yeah, it's just wonderful.
[00:10:33] Yeah, I think you covered it all. That's pretty much it. Yeah, the entire touch on how Eric's there because he's from Britain, I'm pretty sure, right? Yeah. That's right. Yeah, he was trying to go to college or finance college or something
[00:10:53] in New York. And then this happened. So he's like, he's away from his family. He's got no one else. And he's scared and young and doesn't know what to do. So yeah, he follows Samira's cat.
[00:11:04] And there was one part where the cat like wanders into the nest of the creatures. And I know. And he has to climb the girder to get the cat when the cat is clearly demonstrated
[00:11:17] that it can go where it wants whenever it wants. So there's really no need. He can just wait it out but still he puts himself in a situation to possibly be killed. And when he's trying to get Samira's medicine, if that was me, I'd be,
[00:11:33] I should just get her medicine. I've been around this cat long enough that's eventually going to show up again. And that's kind of like a running joke throughout the movie, as the cat keeps showing up. And yeah.
[00:11:47] The cat is not affected by this invasion at all. Weirdly, never meows at all. It's very present in the fact that it shouldn't, I guess. But yeah, I'm just surprised that I guess at one point it does like walk over or something that brings a bell.
[00:12:09] Honestly, that's what kept it from being like a five star movie for me. It's not that the scene is not well shot or anything. It's just, the dude's so stupid and they'd only, I don't know, it just seems really stupid. It just,
[00:12:22] it kind of took me out of the movie for a second. Like, dude, what the fuck are you doing? Yeah, it just seems engineered to like add another 10 scene to the movie and then also kind of,
[00:12:32] I don't know, show you, hey, this is how these creatures multiply and breed and very much like alien. They have little pods that they, I don't know, they ate the pods too. So I don't know what that was about. Yeah, I don't know either because I
[00:12:47] don't know. Did even a little like baby one come out of it? I don't remember seeing it. Yeah, I can't remember. And then there's also that dumb death where the nurse, like they're all sitting around the, I think church talking and then the generator goes off
[00:13:04] and so that dude runs to stop it. It's like, I know, I think like just let it run. Just let it run. Like let the creatures destroy it and so yeah, he turns it off and then his
[00:13:15] shirt rips and it's apparently the loudest thing in the room is a shirt ripping and so he gets slaughtered. So that was kind of like a, oh really contrived way to get him out of the
[00:13:24] movie. Yeah. Because yeah, it's like, dude, why are you bothering with this? You've seen the car alarms go off and the creatures go to it. Like just let them go to it. Actually, we'd probably save everyone because they'd be distracted. Yeah.
[00:13:43] Lupita Nyong'o is so good in this movie too. She's such a great actress. I love her at everything she does. Oh yeah. I love her mission to get the pizza too. She's relentless in it. Like, and yeah, she kind of has that luxury because she knows
[00:14:01] that she's going to die anyways. So there's no reason to be precious about her life. So eventually she kind of does because she kind of puts all the line to help Eric. Yeah. There's also a cool tie in Jaiman Honsu's character. You see him and his family
[00:14:24] at the beginning and the end and how they're already- Taking Eric to that island in Quiet Place 2. Yeah, was Eric in Quiet Place 2? I don't think so. I think it's just introducing
[00:14:37] Henry and his family to us and like this is how they got out of New York and got to the island. Yeah, he figures out how the creatures operate very quickly which I don't know. Seems a little
[00:14:54] lucky for him but yeah. Some people are smarter than us I guess. Yeah, clear that dude's not. Yeah, the rest of New York very much not so much. And there's that dumb sequence where
[00:15:06] all those people are wandering through New York is like this one wave of mass people and like I would never walk close to other people in this situation. No, I'd wait for everybody to leave and then I like oh they can't swim. I'm sure there's a boat
[00:15:23] that I could get on. Yeah, it's like driving. Just stay away from the other cars as much as possible. You'll be better off. Great. Yeah, the movie's really good though. It definitely-
[00:15:38] it's a cool series because I think each one of the films in the Quiet Place series are all really good so the quality stays there and I'm sure it helps that John Krasinski even though
[00:15:50] he's not directing it he kind of is the guiding light for it also. Yeah, and I like that the fact that they're not just constantly following the same family like this is a world
[00:15:59] where you can just do separate isolated stories about this global event so you just pop in on different countries or different human situations that- Yeah, I agree. Like what's it like for these people? So yeah, they definitely extend this franchise that way for sure. Sweet.
[00:16:24] Yep. Yeah, I got it. Every week we also watch films that aren't the film of the week and it's like when I call what we've been watching. So yeah, this is the stuff we've been watching.
[00:16:43] Brad, what'd you watch? Two big things and then one little small one. I saw a movie from 1959 called A Bucket of Blood which we didn't do news this week but Roger Corman died.
[00:16:57] Yeah, did he die this week? Yep, that's why this movie was on the docket or maybe it was last week. Yeah, Roger Corman is very instrumental in finding ways to make movies on the cheap and
[00:17:11] making them successful. Yeah, this one's from 1959. I didn't just seek it out. It was with a group of people. We were watching a bunch of movies and so yeah, this is what I watched. It starts Dick Miller
[00:17:26] who you've seen in a ton of like he's usually the old uncle or neighbor or he's trimmed it like most 80s movies and he's a busboy at a cafe and he kind of wants to fit in and so he's like
[00:17:46] doing like plaster casts of things and then he goes home, he's frustrated and he ends up killing his landlady's cat on accident and so he tries to hide the body by like putting it
[00:18:02] like in a sculpture and then everyone's like, everyone sees the sculpture like oh what are like an amazing piece of art you made you know? Not knowing there's like this actual cat with a knife
[00:18:14] in its body underneath and so he gets people start getting a he starts getting a ton of attention and rises in popularity and then as things get like crazier and more elaborate he
[00:18:28] just makes more mistakes and then everyone eventually finds out that there's a murdered people in his you know sculptures and yeah so it's corny and the effects are typical 1959 special effects and yeah it's like I don't know how to describe it like this typical like 1950s dialogue delivery
[00:19:00] yeah it's all right what else uh yeah and the two big things I watched were uh the final the room and the final rocky horror picture show at the Esquire yeah yeah I've never seen obviously I've seen the room a bunch
[00:19:27] I've gone every chance this year I had and uh it's a bittersweet you know we it was sold out it's packed and for the first and final time I remember to bring a football
[00:19:41] with me and intermittently there's been like this one guy who always sits in the front row in the very middle always gets that seat when he's there and uh the last time or the time before
[00:19:53] he was there he forgot his spoons so he asked me if I could share my spoons I did and so this time I asked him if he could be the guy I throw the football to and so throughout the movie whenever
[00:20:05] there's a football throwing scene uh yeah we got up and threw it around the room and that was fun nice yeah but we weren't the only ones there that did that so uh yeah you had a little snippet
[00:20:17] on your story and it seemed there's a very raucous crowd yeah like all these sold out crowds for the end of the year have been just amazing just yeah everyone's so into it um and uh
[00:20:31] yeah that's uh an experience I'm I'm glad you got to have and I don't know if uh I'm trying to get it at the bug but definitely an experience I can't get anyone from the room to like answer my emails so
[00:20:46] yeah and then um you have no idea if landmark's gonna push it to the theater uh yeah then the rocky-core picture show um I've seen the movie I've seen the play um for the like a live element
[00:20:58] elsewhere but never at the Esquire and it's been there for like 20 plus years and I've never bothered to go until the very last one which was also sold out like months in advance and uh
[00:21:11] like the room you know I'm not like a huge fan of the movie itself alone but the crowd definitely has an amazing energy to it um I was surprised that it was like like the commentary like in the you were there for the room where it's like
[00:21:31] you watch a little bit of the movie and someone says something you watch a little bit of the movie and someone says something in this the organizers are constantly commenting on something like there's always some like addition to the movie that's being made I'm not even joking
[00:21:50] for the whole runtime there's no downtime of just like let's just watch the movie and see what happens like there's like a response to every line of dialogue that's going on every action and
[00:22:02] then there's um platforms in the front of the theater where they are it's called a shadow cast so they're recreating the movie live so they've got props and costumes and uh in this instance
[00:22:16] they actually because you know it's the last one they had different actors play the characters throughout so like you know there's a franken ferder for the first half of the movie and then
[00:22:25] a different person plays franken ferder for the second half and same thing for all the other characters and um it's really impressive like you think about like oh they've been doing this
[00:22:37] for 20 years uh this live setup you know when a meatloaf rolls in they have like half of a motorcycle like the front end that he's just rolling down the aisle to get the front of the room
[00:22:50] and uh yeah there's uh just other people walking down the aisles saying the the jokes of the movie and stuff um there's one point where they made a comment about like oh there's also this
[00:23:03] like lead-in where you have to like swear allegiance to the whatever movie itself or something and uh they have this thing of like if you don't like this get the fuck out and if you don't
[00:23:15] like this get the fuck out and if you don't like uh the sqare being redeveloped into or if you like the sqare being redeveloped into condos and restaurants get the fuck out stuff like that
[00:23:27] it was it was a lot of fun and like less fluidy than i expected because i know like years ago i heard they like sprayed the audience with stuff and uh constantly but yeah there was really none
[00:23:38] of that like i think there's like a water gun at some point um yeah and uh they had this funeral for the sqire in the parking lot beforehand so there's like a bunch of merchant like merchants and live
[00:23:52] bands happening and people are selling like these packs like party packs you had like a toilet paper roll and other various things like throw across the room at certain points you know um yeah it
[00:24:06] was fun like i i pardon me regretted that i hadn't done it more often up to this point and they've found another venue in aurora so it'll be it'll continue elsewhere but for the sqire itself like
[00:24:19] the vibe there's i just think it's it was just so cool so uh yeah that's what i watched this week uh very cool um mine's not quite as cool i watched a film that one half was directed by
[00:24:35] george rameiro and the other half was directed by adario argento it's called two evil eyes and they take two stories from edgar allen pove um and made a film about it um the the first one is this
[00:24:52] really old dude who's dying and he has a young wife who's trying to get all his money um he eventually he dies before she he can sign over all the money to her and he uses this uh hypnotist to
[00:25:12] well sorry it's really confusing anyways she's the hypnotist for him to say that she gets all the money then he dies too early before she can get it all so they keep his body in a freezer in the
[00:25:24] basement and they can hear him communicating and because he died when he was hypnotized his soul is like wrapped and uh because of that you know horror ensues and um it's fun it's the one that's directed
[00:25:42] by george rameiro it has like a zombie in it and stuff so definitely up his alley uh the second one is harvey kytel who is a photographer and he has a his wife is uh a musician who plays the
[00:26:01] violin and teaches students and i don't know what is about cats but this one also has a cat in it and um the cat harvey kytel kills and publishes pictures of him torturing it and it becomes like
[00:26:18] an art book and when his wife finds out she goes crazy and he ends up killing her um and putting her in the wall of their apartment and she's eventually her body's eventually discovered decomposed
[00:26:36] and inside her body is a litter of kittens um it's pretty it's pretty grotesque but it's like in a cool way yes awesome yeah so the movie's okay um you know the argentine one is more fun
[00:26:52] the rameiro one is a little bizarre i mean the special effects are done by tom savini so the gore is pretty cool in both of the stories and they're each exactly an hour
[00:27:02] so it's kind of cool because they have room to breathe opposed to a lot of anthologies where you know they're maybe 10 15 minutes long so that was really cool um so yeah it's called two evil eyes
[00:27:17] and it's a gory fun movie um and the other thing i watched and how i said you know i'm sometimes a bad dad so kellen sees that i'm doing this random movie generator thing
[00:27:32] and i he wanted to see a movie that randomly got picked i'm like yeah sure so the movie that got randomly picked was atomic blonde which i didn't remember very well yeah yeah so you know it has
[00:27:48] like a really long single take actions sequence at the end yeah it's awesome so there's some really cool moments in it but there's also a hardcore lesbian sex scene that i totally forgot
[00:27:59] about um and i go oh man i'm not a very good dad right now um because there's cussing and violence and but you know i think he enjoyed it i mean yeah but it's a cool movie it's very stylish um
[00:28:16] you know the director of that went on to direct i think deadpool two um and then a john wick movie um and the fall guy right uh and the fall guy yeah so uh he doesn't have the style and it's really cool
[00:28:31] in fact i think there's a clip from atomic blonde in the fall guy oh i don't remember that the very beginning i think when they're doing like an homage to stunts and everything that makes sense
[00:28:42] because it's david leech so yeah um he came from being a stunt man to being a really cool filmmaker um so yeah that's yeah that's a fun film and the still book is really cool um it has cool
[00:28:56] special features on it um charlie theron is in it and she's really good um yeah and there's a couple fight scenes because there's one right in the middle two where she's on a staircase
[00:29:07] which is pretty sweet um and there's also you know uh other good actors that are scattered throughout it and um i just wish it took a little more advantage of its 1980s setting in
[00:29:22] yeah um the soviet i mean there's some neon colors but i want it to be like super neon and with the music you know what i mean but yeah uh but it's still a fun movie and it is cool to see the
[00:29:34] end of it it's from 2017 and doesn't seem like it's that old but it is and we've been doing this for 13 years when seeing a movie once a week and you know you forget how long it's been since you've
[00:29:48] seen a movie and when it came out um because it all starts blending together and that's what i saw this week cool uh next week we are seeing maxine the trilogy capper on thai west's x trilogy or i
[00:30:07] don't know what the actual name of it would be called i guess x trilogy um excited for that one because i love the other two films in it so until next week we'll see you at the movies
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