About this episode
Here's a little follow up about my accident and my progress since the last episode. Also, Cleo the Kid has joined me to talk about some fun horror flicks we've watched since the first of the year. Give it a listen, won't ya?
Transcript
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Wake Up Heavy is a weirding Way media podcast. Welcome to Wake Up Heavy, the world's greatest horror movie podcast. In this episode, my weird dad will be talking about I'm. Kidding stone it in a moment. Hello, and welcome to Wake Up Heavy.
This is Mark Begley, your host, and I'm doing a little update on my recovery. I spoke about my accident on the last episode, Annimy of a Fall. I hope you liked that clever title. And it's been exactly eight weeks since my accident. I have been home for just over six weeks, and it has been roughly a month since the last recording, and I've definitely had a lot of improvement since then.
So I'm going to go over that real quickly. And then I actually was able to get the kid to record with me over the weekends. Hey, that's me. We'll end with our discussion of some of the films that we watched before and after my accident, and I got lucky today. We have been having street maintenance on our block for the last couple of weeks.
They are repairing our sidewalks and curbs that have been damaged over the years from the roots in the trees that they park park that they plant in the park strips, and I don't know who's in charge of doing that, but how they haven't figured out which trees don't grow enormous roots that tear up the concrete, I don't know, and they need to hire someone who knows this stuff. Anyway, apparently they're not working today. It is raining a little bit, but they have worked through rain like this before, and that reminds me. We're having a lovely, cool and wet March here for the first time, and I don't know how many years it's usually already getting kind of warm in Fresno in March, and I am enjoying the fact that it is not.
So I am basically free from all the medical equipment that I had been using once I got home, so I think when I recorded last I was just about out of the wheelchair completely. I had started using the double walker because my arm was out of its sling. Didn't spend too long on that before I moved to a cane and currently I am not using any aids to help me walk. Have a pretty significant limp, but that is getting better as well. I don't use the shower bench that I was using.
Don't need to use the commode anymore. What else did I have? I'm back in my own bed, thank god. I was sleeping on the couch for the first two I think two weeks after I got home, just because wheelchair would not fit in the bedroom where my spot in the bed is, plus having to get up multiple times during the night to go to the bathroom. That that has all stopped.
I am also now able to sleep on my side. I am a side sleeper, and sleeping on my back for oh gosh, well over a month was getting kind of old pretty much. Now it's just paying the bills, and isn't that fun. My out of pocket maximum with my insurance, thank god, I have coverage like this is less than ten thousand, and I'm definitely meeting that on Hey, kind of than hot about possibly doing a go fundme or something, but it's been spread out enough to where it looks like I'm going to be able to manage it. I don't probably wouldn't get anything if I did a gofund me anyway, and I don't honestly really need it.
This is going to be a financial hit, but you know, I'm still working. I'm still getting paid, and if that had become a problem where I was actually this put me out of work, that would be something different. But I was back to work after two weeks and didn't miss any pay or anything like that. And like I said, the bills are coming in not very fast, so that makes it a little bit more manageable. Yeah, we won't get into the whole health insurance thing, but I'm grateful that I have a cap on my out of pocket maximum and that it's not too terribly ridiculous, and that pretty much everything that was done to me and for me is covered under my insurance, except for the ambulance ride, which honestly wasn't that bad of a charge.
I know that can really hurt people, as can a hospital stay that I'm sure is a couple hundred thousand dollars that they'll be billing, which I won't be anywhere near that amount. For the one thing I almost hesitate to bring this up, but the one thing I didn't mention on that first episode about my accident and how my body has been affected, And I probably didn't bring it up for good reason, but I just find it so funny now. I noticed a little while after I had gotten home, of course, because in the hospital and in rehab I was mainly laying in bed. Muscles are going to atrophy. Leg muscles, obviously, my right leg, my dominant leg, was the hurt leg.
And you know there's a lot of big muscles in there, and the biggest muscles in your legs are your glutes, and so my glutes atropheed and my right ass cheek is as flat as a pan cake. So I'm trying to build that back up. Got to do lots of squats or something. I'm pretty much done with pt I kind of fired them sort of passive aggressively, and I don't honestly think I need outpatient PTE for anything. And I just need to kind of build up my strength in my leg.
I'm driving, didn't mention that earlier. Got back in the car a couple of weeks ago. Things are looking up. Things are looking up, and everything's getting back to normal. I'm sure by summer I'll be walking as normally as I possibly can.
And we'll see, We'll see how things go as I progress and down through the years. See if I notice any pain when it starts to get cold in that foot long pin that's in my leg now and the incision spot if that'll get sore. It's a little sore right now. I still really no pain whatsoever. I kind of tweak my hip sometimes when I turn too quickly or make a misstep, but generally pretty much good to go and on the end and got really really lucky.
So, like I said, I got Cleo to join me for a recording. I knew I was going to do a quick little update on my stuff, and I thought, hey, maybe she can record this weekend. So I asked her last Friday, you want to record for about an hour sometime on Saturday or Sunday. She said yes, did it the next day on Saturday after she got home from play practice or play rehearsal. And here you go.
This is what we've watched since the first of January. Enjoy. Oh, I almost forgot. The only things that aren't mentioned on this that I watched on my own during this time were to repeat viewings. Blowout was on, and actually Cleo, I think was around.
I don't know that she really paid attention or watched it, and she might have had to have gone somewhere in the middle of it, but I think she a good chunk of it, good chunk of the beginning. I'd like to watch that one with her. I caught Escape Escape, Escape from Alcatraz, one of those childhood favorites. Clint Eastwood, a young Fred Ward. I just all kinds of people.
Roberts Blossom just a great cast, great story. Something I caught on TV when I was a kid that I would just constantly go back to if it was on cable. I know. I rented it a few times, caught it on one of our channels, and didn't get to finish it, so I went back and got it on demand and finished it off, just because I love it, oddly enough, And it might have even been the same day that I watched Escape from Alcatraz. My wife and I caught Doc Hollywood, the movie with Michael J.
Fox, which I always get confused with the Secret of My Success, which I hate, but we pretty much watched it all the way through, and Roberts Blossom has a decent sized role in that movie. I always love seeing him, and of course he's got my favorite line from Christine. But anyway, here's Cleo and me talking about what we watched. She had to smell a brand new car that's just about the finest smell in the world, said, maybe pussy. So back on this show is as I mentioned before, my third or second favorite co host, Oh Leo's back.
What the heck man? Yeah, well you know, yeah, yeah, I see how it is. It's been since August of the last year when we recorded with your mom about long legs and yeah, all kinds of other fun stuff. Yeah, that's sober six months ago. Wow, and nothing happened to you at all.
Nothing's happened since then in the world or in our lives. Oh. Mom has told me a little bit about you finding out what happened, but I haven't heard it from your perspective. I fell off the ladder, cracked my leg and my brain and my ribs and all that, and you were off with friends. Yeah.
I was at school on a Saturday, practicing for something. It was like a twelve something and he finally was our teacher was like, yeah, you guys can go on a break for a little bit. And I hadn't had my phone this whole time because we were doing drama stuff with dance. And I go and check my phone and I see a myst call, a voicemail, a text, from my cousin Will and a text from my mom, and I went, hmmm, yeah. On iPhones, you can get transcripts of the voicemail, so I get voicemail notifications.
I see what has been said. So I didn't read the two texts and I didn't call my mom back. I just looked at the notification, didn't even open my phone. I was just looking at my phone. Like dad fell off a ladder and I went, oh no, I was like, ah, we serious, and.
You know how tall that ladder was? So yeah, because I was helping you the day before, yeah. And helped last year when we did it. M hm. Did you get scared for me?
Yeah? I got worried, but I think because I immediately called mom and she was like, yeah, like he was talking and stuff when I went out there and found him laying in the gutter, and I was. Like, okay, I don't remember her at all. Yeah. She said you were like fighting Alex and stuff.
Yeah, being sassy. Yeah it checks out, guys, it checks out. Yeah that sounds about right. That's like me when I'm asleep and somebody does something I don't like, I get pretty angry too. So AnyWho, yeah.
Yeah, So I was like okay, and then I texted Will and I was like, hey, can you come get me because I'm not staying at school until two, which is when I was supposed tom. And then I told him what happened in the car and he he was like, oh, shoot, okay, and then he's like, do you want to go get Deli D? And we did so concerned, Thanks Will, guy, we were coping. I could have gone for some Deli D while I was there. It was good that Deli D that me and him had.
Although I have to say the hospital food was really good and the little pizzas they gave me a couple of tizzas were delicious, and the chicken tinders and the tater tots was another favorite. And then once I got to rehab, a bunch of cramp a bunch of cramp and everything was sugar free and healthy and baloney not malooney blooney, but blooney as an DS. Yeah. I mean I was scared, but I think the fact that I didn't know when it happened, like I wasn't here, didn't hear you fall because my mom said that she heard something. Yeah, and then came out there and you were like crumpled up on the floor or ground.
So I was like, I'm chilling and I got my sandwich, so you. Know, yeah, no, I know. Yeah. Well so before then and since then, we've watched a few things. And mostly horror.
Well yeah, of course, of course, I don't want to say big things from last year, although a couple of them are two of. Them, well, one of them definitely. I guess stuff that I heard about or saw a lot of talk about on Twitter and other social media. So early on in January, we watched the Smile sequel, Smile Too. So cleverly, very cleverly named named.
So what do you think about that one? It's pretty good. I mean we both liked the first Smile. Smile Too's pretty different in like, m h, I don't want to say concept, Yeah, what is happening in it? I mean obviously same plot kind of, but different way of going about it.
It's been out long enough. Can I spoil? Yeah, I'm just going to give a general spoiler warning for this episode. Most of this stuff is from last year, last. Year except Companion come out this year.
Companion is fairly recent, which we'll get to in a little bit. But you know, at fair warning boiler warning for these shows or the movies we talk about on this folk. If you don't want to hear about it, tune us off. I kind of liked well because the first one it's like an actual psychiatry therapist. I remember.
In this one it's just a quote unquote normal person, except she's like a super pop star and is doing concerts and stuff, so it's different. Lady Gaga esque. Yeah, I think I guess very much worldwide pop star. But I thought it was fun. I prefer the first one, which I watched twice, So this one, I'm like, well, I watch it again.
I don't know, maybe we'll stumble on it at some point and go sure, why not. Yeah for Alfredo's skid marked underwear. Oh yeah, the dude the fan that was so odd was ended up in her house or that she saw in her house. Yeah yeah, and the gipsy is nasty skid mark underwear on the ground. There were some creepy shots in that though, like especially that scene where he's standing and you know, the way down the hallway and the way that was framed and lit was pretty creepy.
And I liked the beginning with Kyle Gallner's character returning. And then getting very nar like, oh yeah, that was. The gore And this was pretty heavy. Well because even the way she dies she stabs herself with a microphone in her eyeball. Well on his death and then the some of the other either imaginings or real deaths, are pretty pretty gruesome.
You'reesome. Yeah, they went all out on the Gore. Yeah. I would say I prefer the first one, but who knows, give it another shot. It's a little repetitive to me in a wh Yeah, because it's.
The same, like you can't do a bunch with. All Just like some of the scenes were very similar or to each other within the movie, not so much with the original, just within the movie itself. It's like, after a while, you kind of is what she's seen real or is it a creature or blah blah blah. Yeah. I was going to say, we need to watch the original short yeah film thing that it's based off of.
Is it Laura Hasn't Slept? I don't know, I. Don't know if that's the name, but something Hasn't Slept. Yeah that sounds cool. We got to find it.
Yeah, I like it, cry and track it now it was fine. It was fine, and then one that I did not like very much. We watched a prequel instead of a sequel, and I remember seeing this months ago and going, huh so the Rosemary's Baby prequel Apartment seven A was what peacock I think, like a peacock original or something paramount. I always get the team was a peacock. It was one of those too, I can never remember.
No, No, it wasn't Hulu. It was an original one of the streamings. I mean, I know Hulu does original things, but it's it wasn't them. It was one of the peas. It's paramount, okay, paramount plus with Julia Garner, who I generally like and stuff, and she was fine in this.
And Diane West, I mean I like her and most stuff. I did not care for her version of the character made famous by No Shoot Ruth Gordon almost forgot her name, yeah, and her husband Their characterizations were I mean, I get doing something different. You don't want to just be imitating these people. It doesn't entirely make sense for the characters. Right because they were very calm.
I guess you could make an argument that maybe they change their mo after this with Rosemary so you could say, well, yes. They learned from there. Yeah, right, they played differently with Rosemary. They weren't so aggressive about upfront about it. It just seems like one of those to me a lot of times.
And I think of and or that show, the Star Wars show that everybody really likes. It's really good, but I kind of don't care because I know what happens to that dude in the World one. I know what happens to this character in Rosemary's Baby. Which also it's a little disc acted there too, where it's like, well, if this happens to her, then who's this character in Rosemary's Baby? Right, wasn't that something we were talking about?
Like this girl, same name, but she's like doing something completely different in Rosemary's Baby. I don't know if it's completely different. This is the girl that she talks to in the laundry room in Rosemary's Baby and she says, you know this older couple they helped me and they literally got me out of the gutter and I was a druggie. And so it's the same character and that happens in this movie. But she Hella dies at the end of Apartment seven A.
Well, yeah, she dies in Rosemary's Baby. That's who they find in the street. Okay, yeah, yeah, it's just the way they go about it. Yeah, okay. Some of the stuff though, doesn't quite jive with what she has said in Rosemary's Baby, or I don't know I should have.
I mean, if I was doing an episode and I would have written down the goofs like something, so match. Yeah it's not consistent, but like it was okay, I know you didn't like it, but I was like, no, this is chill. I don't see myself ever watching that thing again. Yeah, that's okay, But like out of the other things that we watched that would also probably not be very high on the on the list of a rewatch. It definitely got the lowest rating from me.
Well, actually know, it tied with something else we watched recently. Yeah, I was like, seriously got the lowest rating. Well, because I might even drop that half point now that I'm looking at it. This one got half a rating higher than the other movie that I believe we're talking about. We'll get tune a little bit probably.
He tells you a lot. Of all the world, of all the women, the whole world. He chose you he ranged things because he wanted you to be the mother of his only living son. And I mentioned this on the last episode that I did, and I just am now realizing that I'm mentioned it out of order because I was talking about twenty twenty four watches for me. We actually watched one of our all time favorite movies shortly before I almost murdered myself.
Game Night. Of course, always we. Go back to every couple of months, every four I think we watch it quarterly. Now let's say yes and we should continue. Yeah, I think this time it was your mom's idea, idea, Well let's watch Game Night.
Yeah, or somebody said it. And then she was like, well, we're watching Game Night, right because somebody said. The other night, So like, aren't we Why wouldn't we? Come on, we have access to it, so why not. Literally, we've talked about it before, We've.
Talked about it multiple times. It's just the best come on, and. Every time we talk about it, I insert the Freedo lay clips. So here you go, people, I hope you're not sick of it just yet. How can I be profitable for Freedomly?
That was the last movie that I have logged before my accident. Oh so ominous. After that, the first kind of big horror movie from very late last year and early this year, we all watched as a family on your behest. Yeah, no, sparraw too. Yeah.
Now you saw this in the theater with your cousin. Yeah, so talk about that on Christmas. It was Christmas, it was earlier in the day and Will was like, do you and your family want to see those faras with me? It shows at ten to ten, and I was like, I do, And it was more of a matter if you and my mom wanted to see. It, and that is way too late for us.
But I was like, but I want to see it, you guys. Let me day over night on Christmas Day and I went and saw it with Will and I loved it. Will had already seen it, and I was just that's right, I loved it. It was so weird. Did you see it in la I think you must have.
Yeah, because it was like last it was twenty twenty three or whatever, when he was like, yeah, I saw FRA two. I don't know if it was that long ago. I don't know, I'm exaggerating. He had already seen it, so he wanted to see it again because he also really liked it, and so I was like, well, yeah, this is cool. I loved it.
I really enjoyed it. I like The Witch, and they're pretty not super similar, but like, I mean, it's the same. It's rubber eggers. So yeah, well, now you can check out these other. Movies Lighthouse and The Northmen.
Mm hmm, they're both good. I think it still goes in descending order for me. Well, no, I shouldn't say that. I really like The Witch, so I think that's my favorite. It's just nice and simple and incise.
Lighthouse is fun, but it gets a little much two dudes arguing the whole time, I mean, really extreme about stuff. The Northman I need to watch again because I think I missed a lot of that. It's pretty long, but it's basically what Hamlet. I think, so I'm pretty sure with Hamlet. I enjoy that story.
Yes, no, I would put that in between The Lighthouse and The Northmen. As far as liking it was interesting, Like, I haven't seen the original on so long, and I know it's basically a remake of I mean it really is. It's basically the exact same, but just like better and more put together. Almost me and Will after we watched it, so it was like one in the morning. We got home and we were like, let's look at the original.
So we didn't fully watch it, but we looked at like clips and stuff of it, and it is very cartoony. But that's also because it's a silent film. It's like over one hundred years old now, so. It's still fun. Though.
Yeah, it was fun, but I really really liked it. I think we should check out the nineteen eighties one. It's again pretty much the same same story, and I know that this one pulls from both of those versions, so it'd be good to compare. I watched it a couple of years ago. I don't remember all that much about it, but it was it's worth checking out.
Yeah, you should watch the full original though. It is pretty interesting. Because I think it's I want to say, it's on Paramount or it was wherever. Nos fraud to a stream and we watched that on there and it was the quote unquote extended. And it was like four minutes longer.
I don't know if you noticed anything extra about it. I'm trying to think. I think I looked it up, and now I don't even remember because it wasn't big enough for me to have noticed from what I saw in the theater, so still fun. I was surprised at how funny it was he in particular count Orlock. Of the film, he's like, will be neighbors?
Well, and him just going at what's his name that went to he went to his cantleh cantle castle. Like everything he said was a cut on him, and it was just I'm like. He was mean to him. This is really funny. Yeah, but I love it when he finally is like they've made the deal about the house and he's like, we will be neighbors.
Like, Okay, that's so odd. Who the heck played that character? Why can't I think of who. Was Nicholas which one? Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know him him. It's kind of great at playing those kind of weird loser well. I think of him like in the Menu and how he thinks he's such hot poop and he's a big dumb ass. Well even kind of in Mad Max Ferry Road he's yeah, yeah, I like him In Fury Road and in The Great which me and mom have watched, he's also a loser. He's very much user in that.
Yeah, he's good at playing those guys. I think they're something special and they're really dufuses. But Thomas is a little more chill. He's just going through it. That whole movie, him and Ellen and Lily Rose.
Depp was really good as Ellen. Yeah, I like it, Sure, I don't like that was good. Backing was good, cinematography was really interesting. I like that. You know they built sets for it, and yeah, it was.
All like real stuff, all the real rats. His look didn't bother me at all. People were like, why does he have hair and a mustache because he's he's like. A bajillion years old and like Romanian, Hello, he's paler. And the choice of having him be like an actual corpse instead of Twilight esque as vampire.
They're dead, they're undead. So yeah, I liked all of it and like, I don't know the way it looks, it's super historical and the historical like costumes and stuff, which I love. I was very pleased with that. It's very fun. I liked it that in the Witch.
Im Yeah, we'll check out those are the ones. Then we'll have to. Very goodness to what your Bastian and I owe the pleasure. Well, we were all just talking and we realized we've had a game night and age is just the seven of us. So I thought you were going to your brother's house.
I never said that. Come on, Garbert, I live a little. It's the weekend. We were just saying, how you always better at games than Debbie was? Thank you not to besmirch my ex wife.
That woman is an angel. Oh yeah, she was much better games than you. Well, and I have eagerly awaited to visit such as this. There you go, Derry Value. This skims like.
I'm scared. The other big one from last year. This maybe one of the biggest horror movies in a while. Yeah, and we again watched as a family. I've been pushing for this for a while and then we finally got to it substance.
Yeah, so Demi Moore almost almost won an oscar, almost almost being in a horror movie. And we watched it the day of the Oscars. Literally finished it like rights before it was supposed to start. That is right. I loved it.
It made me. You probably heard me talking about it that it made me sad. Well, yeah, I mean that's kind of point. Yeah, but it was good. It was gnarly.
I was trying to think if that had well, yeah, thinking of the end of Revenge and how extremely bloody that blood this is by the end of the movie. I don't know if you heard me, but we were watching it and we got to the very bloody part of the substance. I was like, Wow, she really likes her blood. Yeah, because think about Revenge, that whole end chase around the house and just blood everywhere. Yeah, And of course that's more realistic stories, so it's maybe a little bit more impactful in that.
Yeah, substance, But in the substance, it's just fun because it's her arm sprang everywhere. I enjoyed it. It got I give it the same criticism as like Smile To where it was the same spelled, like the same scenes being repeated. Yes, route that was kind of my thing because it's a pretty long movie. There was a lot of focus on the switching back and forth, but a lot of the time it was just Sue or oh god, what'll her name Elizabeth?
Yeah, it was either it was just focusing on one or the other, which like, yeah, that's the whole point. They have to switch off each week until they don't. But I was like, it takes a good amount of time for some certain things to happen. I still liked it. I think once we got to the part where it's mostly just Sue and she's delaying the switch, it felt like, Okay, I need a switch.
I need yeah. I need something to change. I get it. She doesn't want to switch back back. How many times are we going to show this?
And it is great though when they do finally switch back and we get to see what Elizabeth looks like. Yeah, ooh the repercussions of Sue taking too long to switch back. Back and she gets her gnarly little finger and then it's the old lady leg. Yeah, it was good that I could see watching again for sure. Oh yeah, it was just all the needle stuff that kind of hurt my heart.
It wasn't too realistic, though, at least I don't think that's. My thing infamously. Sorry, I sorr. Yeah, that had realistic male and teeth. Oh yeah, no, I was thinking of people actually them showing close ups of people actually getting injections.
Oh, and you can tell it's like a real injection. I can't do injections, I know. Well, I don't like seeing it up close on a movie most of the time, So none of this seemed all that realistic to me. Yeah, but it was goodson. We got two more movies that we watched.
You and I watched on the same day we did at double feature just last week, actually. Robotic double feature. And I didn't realize horror comedy double feature. I knew the first one, I wasn't aware that the second second one was a comedy. Yeah.
So the first one we watched was Y two K And I don't really know anything about that guy. The comedian SNL. That's like the only thing that I know. I've seen his face, but I don't really watch SNL anymore or a lot of sketch comedy shows anymore. So I was like not tuned into his whole deal.
Yeah, but I remember hearing about it and seeing clips and then hearing a lot of negative stuff, and I think didn't Will was like ripping on Will. Didn't like it. But I think you just thought it was dumb. It is not a good movie. It's not like this is trash and it's like an insult to horror or whatever.
It's just dumb. It's just a dumb kind of fun movie. It is very dumb. It is very dumb, poorly written. Yeah, you just got to give up on stuff making sense after a while or their plans being thoughtful.
It's more for fun, I think, and I had fun watching it. It was fun. It's fun. It's just really dumb. I like the actors in it.
I mean, other than the guy that wrote and directed it, who I have no real connection to, Kyle Mooney. I keep forgetting his name, Jaden Martel. We like Rachel Zegler. I've only seen her in a couple of things. I like her, Yeah, I really like her.
And our dude names our Kiwi Julian Dennison. Love him. Yes, he's been in good stuff. He's always fun too. That dude from Stranger Things that was in it as the bully, the way he dies so pretty much.
Yeah, it's y two K, the electronics come to life. It's not just computers, it's everything. It's Maximum Overdrive. Yeah, which is a but it's even dumber than really bad movie. But it's fun to watch.
And like I said when we were watching it, so we should do. A double you could, I'd probably want to end on Maximum Overdrive because I think that movie is just slightly better as bad as it is. Yeah, and I have a soft spot for having watched it as a kid. But yeah, this was just like a dumber Maximum Overdrive without a big Joker truck in it. Or whatever is it Joker, green Goblin.
Green Goblin. Sorry, yeah, I was like, it's one of the green ones. Uh yeah, no, you're right. That would have been amazing if it was in y two K. I don't know why I said Joker, to be honest with you.
First one that you're mine. I don't know. It was fun, definitely not amazing or good, but I can still, like, I think, if movies are fun, I can still watch them and stuff. I mean I could actually see watching that again just for laughs laughs. To be honest, which honestly is probably the whole point of it.
Yeah, not to be too serious. One of those weird A twenty four movies, like why did they pick this up? Yeah, let's say twenty more. This machine just call me an asshole. And then the last one we watched right after.
That, yeah, Companion, Yeah, with Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid. Do I know any of the other people in that? Oh? I don't remember his name, but the guy from What We Do in the Shadows. Yeah, the guy that's in Lucas Gage, he was in Smile Too.
He's in Oh yeah, he was in Smile Too. I totally forget about that. He's in The White Lotus, which your mom just started watching. Mmmmm yeah. And what we do in the Shadows, guy Harvey.
Geen Gi in probably something. Friend very briefly. A lot of the other people I wasn't too. Yeah, oh my gosh friends. Yeah, he's the rusky freak.
Yeah. So I didn't really catch on from the trailers and stuff that I saw that this was a comedy. I didn't either dark. Comedy, I guess maybe. Yeah, it's not a comedy like Y two K that's laid four laughs.
But this has definitely got a funny undertone throughout. Even when the scenes later in the movie where she like switches her voice to I think it's mm hmm, that's kind of a tense scene, which it's comedic on purpose, I think. Right right with the cop Yeah, yeah, I think I sussed out just from the trailer as what was going on in this movie, and it's not I mean, this is spoiler territory, people, so I don't know, tune out if you don't want to know, but it's revealed pretty quickly. And I think if you're paying attention at all to what the Jack Quaid character is saying to her character, the Sophie Thatcher character, I don't know why, no idea what their names are? Do you?
It is Iris? Yeah, you're much better remembering stuff like that. Which also the other thing, I don't know if this is done on purpose, but Iris is Siri. Oh yeah, And. I don't know if that was on purpose.
Well I'm sure it was, but yeah, robot, she's a robot robot companion, shall we say again? You can tell when he's asking her what the weather, or even at the very beginning when he starts to wake up Iris, and it's like, okay, yeah, I get it. I'm like, is that really what's happened? Oh yeah, okay, So yeah, Like I said, you could kind of suss that out from the. Trailer trailers because I think that I saw, I knew.
I don't even remember I remember knowing. I was like, she's a robot, isn't she? And then it was like he finally did the go to sleep thing and she just whatever. Yeah. And I liked the twists in it that there's more than one robot companion in the film.
Won't say who, will leave that a surprise for either, Yeah. Because I didn't necessarily see that coming. I didn't see that coming actually at all, just because of the way that they interact with they're not obviously robots. Yeah, I feel like Iris is a little more clearly put to be not a real person. Well yeah, and that's just mainly because of the way he talks to her.
But which is also a commentary. When they replace scenes of the other conversations, then it's like, oh, yeah, and I catch that. It was a lot funnier than I was expecting. And people that listen to my show know that I'm not big on horror comedies, but I liked this one a lot. Yeah, it was good.
I liked it too. I it was like enjoyable and I didn't really know where because there are plot twists and like weird not weird directions, but there's like it doesn't go in the way that I necessarily assumed when we were watching it, And I liked that and mind that well. And it's one of those ones where I'm like, did they play their hand too early? The inciting incident happens pretty early on, and so then you're like, well, what's the next step going to be? What's going to happen she gets out of that situation.
I was like, well, what there? What are they going to throw at us next? So they hit those spots pretty well if well, Yeah, it never turned into the ridiculousness in Y two K, like what's going to happen next? And it's like yeah, where it kind of drags. Well, and then they do something really stupid.
Yeah, Iris is trying to get away this whole time, and that's thwarted at every turn, but nobody does anything really too terribly idiotic to where I'm just going, ah please, Yeah. No, a lot of the things that she would have been able to do she can't because like they're isolated, or there's a big part of the movie where it's like, well, she's a robot. She is controlled by jack Quade, so she can't do certain things like literally because doesn't At one point he puts her intelligence to like zero or something. She like, she can't do anything about that. Right, the obstacle she faces that she conquers, and then that's what I'm saying, it's done very well, where he has control over but then she gets it back and then she loses it again but you know, or she makes her escape but doesn't quite and yeah, it's written in a pretty thoughtful way where we don't have to just make it an idiotic event that somebody does something really stupid just to propel the plot, which I eat and it sort of ends.
Like X yeah, yeah it does, which is also pretty similar like commentary. Yeah, yeah, I mean robot Chicks, you know, robot Chicks. I liked it. I like Companion, something that I briefly brought up on my last episode that we watched at the end of last year also had Sophie Thatcher in. It, The Heretic.
Yeah, we watched her and the Boogeyman. Yes, I always a. Few years ago. Yeah, and then she's in your guys show Yellow Jacky. She's in Yellow Jackets, What's Your Mom?
And I watch and she's very good in that. She's really good in this, And I don't know if she knows how to speak all those languages or she just fudged, or if I hope they didn't use AI for that. It seems to be what people are doing these days. Yeah, the brutalist going to say, she probably just like learned it for her lines for it. I believe it.
She seems cool. Don't use AI so. Be that well, I wouldn't be heard be the filmmaker. Yeah, yeah, she was good and the heretic. That was a fun one to watch.
I really enjoyed that one. I also recently rewatched that with my boyfriend. Oh oh that's right, you mentioned that. Yeah, yeah, I would watched that one again. It was It's good, twisty and turney as well.
A little bit sadder though than this one. Yeah, for sure, not as what happens to people happy, Yeah, not as comedic, No, there's. I mean there's some funny stuff in it, like. Him singing creep. Right, that's so frightening.
So I will not accept that you stand there and tell me that you've never heard the air that I briefed by the hollis when I know that you have heard creep I radiohad. Oh yes, you come. Creep. I'm a weirdo. Okay, what the hell am I doing?
I know these are things you're thinking right now, but that also lyrics. You recognize, Yes, and he's Goodternet, thank you. Grant is a good horror villain villain. Yeah, and a good umba lumpa Um no, No, he's okay, that's a silly movie. Yeah, which also me and Will rewatched.
Well, Will watched for the first time. I rewatched Wonka before we went in Saunos Faratu to pass time on her fades. Oh that's an interesting feature. The Hollies filed a plagiarism lawsuit against Radiohead, which they later settled by proving that the melody and rhythm of the air that I breathe appearing creep. How are you nineteen or twenty something like that?
Okay, so maybe you know Lana del Ray, who remarkably was sued by Radiohead for plagiarizing Creep in her twenty seventeen song get Free Iterations over Time, diluting the message, obscuring. You noted that you were logging on your letterboxed Minority Report. Oh yeah, that in your class? So what else have you watched in your class? I can actually look, let me pull it up.
But we recently. We watched Minority Report. The week before, I think two weeks ago now, we watched The Village, which I love the Village, so I was very happy that we got to do that. I love it too, that's good. Oh, and we watched Hamlet because we had to do a Hamlet unit, and then we watched The Lion King because that's Hamlet.
Which Hamlet? Did you watch, Kenneth? Yeah? And All One, which hurt my heart a little bit. I didn't there was some directorial.
Yeah, I don't think I've seen it. I've seen some of his other I've seen Henry the Fifth, but I haven't seen many of his other Shakespeare adaptations. Yeah, it's four hours long, so yeah, and weird. We watched Interstellar in that class. Truman show Jaws.
Oh, let's see Edward's hands. You said Interstellar and I heard Innerspace, and I'm like, you watched that. Movie in class? No? Yeah, we watched Intersteller.
Oh No, that wasn't the movie I tried to get you to watch. It was another Tennis Quaid movie, Dream Skape anyway. Huh. Yeah. I like that class because we get to watch a lot of good movies, Like we watched True Grit in that class, which I like.
Yes, and I had seen before we watched it in film, Yeah, I hadn't. Kind of so rude, What did you say? After Interstellar because I sort of interrupted you. Truman show, Jaws and Edwards is your hands in rear window? Yeah?
Nice, good stuff. Yeah, good movies, good, all of them. Well, accept for our Hamlet, which I don't really enjoy, but it was still fun to watch. What do you guys have coming up? I don't know our next movie, but I do know that we have to do a Frankenstein unit, and I know my teacher wants us to watch Young Frankenstein, which I have seen and I also really like.
And I think we're gonna watch like the thirty seven nineteen thirty seven Frankenstein and maybe Bride of Frankenstein. I think they're earlier than thirty seven. I don't even know, but I know we're gonna at least watch like the Ogs and Young Frankenstein might. Be nineteen thirty two. I'll have my AI companion that here.
Frankenstein was released in nineteen thirty one and Bride of Frankenstein in nineteen thirty five. Son of was released in nineteen thirty nine. We watched some you remember we watched I know we watched Son of Frankenstein and maybe Bride. Yeah, well quite a few years ago. Yeah, because I was younger, and I don't really recall a lot of it.
Yeah, but we've watched Young Frankenstein a few times. Well, Young Frankenstein, that's a no brainer. Yeah, come on, Hey, that's kind of. A pun for the movie. Yeah.
Yeah, Oh my gosh. Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty four inch white. We're on a symbolism unit in films, So that's why we're watching weird like Minority Report and The Village because I guess both of those have a good amount of symbolism in them, which they do. Yeah, yep, yep, it's fun. Well, maybe you guys will watch Trap.
No, I'm kidding. Oh, there's so much symbolism in that. There's sis. We should go down there. Cool.
It's cool. That hole that they've just left wide open kill somebody if they were walking through the aisle right now. It was so great. All right, kiddo, Well, all until we meet again? What should people watch?
Out of what we talked about? Substance and no sparatu, I throw a companion in there. Yeah definitely. I'll just say I'm a two faves. I agree, I concur if you dare or why two k yeah, if you if you need a laugh late at night and you're feeling silly, maybe yeah, check that one.
All right, kid, Well, thanks for stopping by the Old Man's Show, of course. I don't know. Maybe during the summer wall hit some more episodes or spring break. I don't know. Oh yeah, we oh yeah, we do.
We've got to watch more movies though. I know we need to because you know, you fell off the ladder, so we we had to kind of pause. Yeah, I don't know, two weeks at least for that. Yeah, that was so fun. All right, Well we will talk again.
When we talk again whenever that yeah will be Thanks for stopping by, kids, of course, and thanks to you all for stopping by and giving us a listen. Hopefully I'll have something for you soon. I am still thinking about my tech Talk episode, which I mentioned who knows how long ago, so maybe that'll get done sometime soon. All right, have a good day, have a great month, great rest of your year. Still keeping our fingers crossed on how things are going, and don't forget anything can happen when you wake up heavy.
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