Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Review

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conclude our trip through the old Mad Max films

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Kevin Optimus Solo, and with me, as has been

recently, is the one, the only, Hard Candy Mandy,

Amanda. Hello. How you doing? How has your week

been going? Too fast. Too furious? Little bit.

Any details on that, or just too fast? Uh, school?

Done? Over with? Finally? No more? Milestone.

Done with school for the, for, no more classrooms

forever. Forever. And ever. And ever. Anything

else happen this week for you? Our anniversary

just happened today. What? Just got back from

the medieval times. And half the people listening

have no clue what we're talking about. Medieval

times is the most magical experience into the

past that you will never forget. Knights jousting

and sword fights and falcons and horses and...

Fabulous hair. Fabulous long hair and food that

you eat with your bare hands. No utensils. So

definitely a cool trip into the past. Fun way

to celebrate the anniversary. And it's still

our anniversary and we are showing our dedication

by recording this episode in the wee hours as

our anniversary disappears here in the next 30

minutes. So that's some dedication for you. As

we do every week, we'll start looking at the

box office from last weekend and kind of looking

ahead to tomorrow and the weekend ahead. Obviously

last weekend, like we predicted, Avengers Age

of Ultron still reigns supreme, bringing in 77

million more. Most movies would kill for that

on their opening weekend, but Avengers does it

in their second weekend, which brings their total

up to 313 million, which actually leaves it just...

short of passing Furious 7 for the number one

spot. So one more weekend in Avengers Age of

Ultron will be number one for the year, as everybody

predicted early on. Maybe somewhat of a surprise

though, in second place Hot Pursuit. Killing

it. Killing it with 13 million! 13 million idiots

went and saw Hot Pursuit. And it came in at number

2. The Age of Adeline stayed at the number 3

spot. Furious 7 dropped from 2 to 4. And Paul

Blart Mall Cop comes in at number 5. Any surprise

that Hot Pursuit was able to come in at number

2? Don't look funny, just say it. Don't say that

out loud. I thought it looked funny. I will eventually

see this. I thought we already got that movie

last year with Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock?

No, that was The Heat. That was several years

ago. The Heat. And now Hot Pursuit is different

than The Heat because there's no Pursuit afterwards.

And it's Reese Witherspoon instead of Sandra

Bullock and Sofia Vergara instead of Melissa

McCarthy. Yeah, I'm guessing But I thought the

heat was hilarious. I can watch that over and

over again Cracks me up. Are you are you not

a knock? All righty, then so we're not let Amanda

talk anymore for a couple minutes and Obviously

look in the head till tomorrow and the weekend

the big release would be Mad Max Fury Road. So

the question that Amanda is Is Avenger still

number one for the third week in a row or does

Mad Max somehow overtake it? I just feel like

there's so much hype about Mad Max. I can see

it swooping in and knocking it down a notch.

I think there is a lot of hype, but I'm not sure

if that's just because of the circles that we

run around in. both in the physical world and

in the world of the interwebs. The interwebs,

would you love my word? But I'm not sure if,

does Mad Max really have the global or the, you

know, the widespread appeal to everybody. It

seems like it's somewhat more, I don't know,

more niche maybe? Or, I don't know, I don't know

for overselling. appeal for that I'm hoping not

but I don't know I think it's gonna be interesting

to see which one of those two comes in number

one because even if Avengers drops by like 50

percent or something like that they're still

gonna be at 30 35 million dollars that's a pretty

healthy opening for for Mad Max to beat that

so and I can still I can see people still dragging

their kids to this Age of Ultron and where you

can't really take the fam to Mad Max. I wouldn't

think so, but the gauntlet definitely is being

thrown down for Avengers to have to really kind

of put some muscle up to stay number one too

long because we got Mad Max this week, we got

Tomorrowland. the next week, so it's gonna definitely

take some shots at Avengers and see if it can

knock it down, all of which should solidify my

predictions at the beginning of the year that

Star Wars does overtake Avengers Age of Ultron

as the number one film of the year, because it's

not gonna have any competition like Avengers

is. So, that's my hopes. Anyway, has any other

thoughts on the box office from this week, or

are you looking ahead to this weekend? Is Pitch

Perfect 2, where is it gonna come in? Pitch Perfect

2? Where is Pitch Perfect 2 gonna land? I don't

even want to know. Do you remember my face while

watching the first? It was very appalling because

it's such a great film. My prediction is Pitch

Perfect 2 comes in third. Can we at least hope

it beats out Paul Blart? Can we at least hope

it beats out Hot Pursuit? Oh good lord. So I'm

going, I'm going Avengers, I'm gonna go Mad Max

number one, Avengers number two, Pitch Perfect

number three. We'll see. Alright, so we'll have

to wait and see how that all plays out in the

coming days, but let's get into our news real

quickly because we have a lot of trailers to

talk about and a lot of movies to talk about.

So let's get the news out of the way first, starting

with... Remember, there's two requirements here

at Weekend of the Movies. Number one, we have

to talk about Star Wars. Number two, we have

to talk about comic book stuff. So we are getting

the comic books out of the way right now with

an article entitled Josh Boone to direct X -Men

spin -off The New Mutants. And my only reaction

to this and everything else that's coming out

about DC, Marvel, and all the other different

things is I'm starting to feel the need for a

tour guide or like one of those books for dummies.

to try to navigate my way through what's going

on in the world of superheroes. MCU for dummies?

MCU for dummies, DC for dummies, just comic books

for dummies. I need comic book for dummies or

I need someone that's like a tour guide that's

gonna like give me a rundown every week of what

actually happened because it's spilling over

into TV series, it's spilling over into Netflix,

it's not just the MCU and DC, it's X -Men, it's

Spider -Man, it's... I can't keep track of what's

going on. I feel like that should be DJ Valentine.

DJ Valentine, where are you? I need you once

a week to give me a rundown of what happened

in the week of the superheroes for that week

because I don't even know. I've never even heard

of the New Mutants because I'm comic book ignorant.

But I guarantee DJ Valentine will be super excited.

He will be super excited and I need some of that

super excitement to get me super excited about

this because I don't know anything about the

new mutants Apparently some type of spin -off

movie that Marvel is gonna do with the whole

X -Men universe So it's a new part of the X -Men

universe and there's all kinds of characters

that are included in this new mutants I guess

most notably would be Deadpool, which we already

know is getting his own movie. So then that's

somehow going to tie into this, which could also

involve Gambit or all kinds of other people.

So I'm very confused. I don't know what's what

and I need help. You do need help. I do need

help. I'm pretty sure Channing Tatum as Gambit

is getting his own spinoff film. I don't know

if this will be directly related to The New Mutants

because Gambit was one of the original. I just

hope this isn't... I hope this isn't the same

thing that every single entity is trying to do

here, because I don't need a Deadpool movie,

a Gambit movie, another person movie, and then

a collaboration New Mutant movie. But I don't

need the same formula. I don't need the standalone

movie for this character, standalone movie for

this character, or team -up movie, happening

both in Avengers, happening in... the new mutants

of X -Men happening in DC now, happening with

the Sinister Six or the Suicide Squad. I got

too many team ups. I can't keep track of who's

on what team. I don't even know what's going

on anymore. I'm lost. So you're for the new mutants?

I think it'd be cool. I just really love mutants

and I love X -Men. She is a mutant so it's...

I am. I'm a ginger. It's really a mutation. That

is a drastic mutation. And I'm a mutant because

I have super hearing. Super facial hair. Super

facial hair right now, yes. Medieval times, I

thought I had to be gruff and burly. So that's

your comic book news for the day. We'll bookend

it with Star Wars later, so I'm getting into

some of the other stuff here. In the world of

animation, I don't know if you knew this or not,

but did you know that there was a Ration and

Clank animated movie coming? I did not, no. I

didn't know that people cared that much. Ratchet

and Clank, it's the next wave of animation we're

getting into the video games. You know, we had

the with the success of like Wreck -It Ralph

and now with the Lego movie, like people are

trying to expand. It's not more just, you know,

Pixar, DreamWorks, and Disney. So Ratchet and

Clank... Getting some voice casting news, and

here's the rundown here. Sylvester Stallone,

John Goodman, Rosario Dawson, Paul Giamatti,

and Bella Thorne are going to be lending voices

to Ratchet and Clank, the animated movie or whatever

it is actually going to be called. It looks like

the video game though. I mean, the animation's

pretty close. So, are you a fan of the Ratchet

and Clank games? Not really. I mean, I've played

it, but I don't think I've finished a game. Would

you watch a Ratchet and Clank movie? How bored

am I? John Goodman and Rosario Dossner in it.

More importantly, Paul Giamatti. Not, more importantly,

Sylvester Stallone. No. I've never played the

games, really. I know who the characters are,

that's about it, so I can't really get too excited

about this. But, uh, I don't know. It's being

directed by Kevin Monroe, best known for TMNT.

Set to debut next April. So, we're getting in

next April, and maybe some more people than I

will be excited about it. I'm sure a whole generation

of people that grew up where Ratchet and Clank

was like the Mario or the Zelda of their childhood

will be excited for this. I'm just not that demographic,

so. But, uh, interesting voice cast nonetheless.

This one you're probably more interested in,

maybe, maybe not. It's more your genre, so we'll

let you speak on this, but, uh, Zombie Sequel,

28 months later in the works. What do you think?

Did you like 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later?

And if you like those, are you hoping for both

28 Months Later and then a couple years from

now, 28 Years Later? They've taken this long

to get to 28 months. I don't know if they'd ever

make it to 28 years. But I did enjoy 28 Days

Later and 28 Weeks Later. That was right when

the zombie movies started popping off. I think

it was Dawn of the Dead and things like that

coming out around the same time. time and I really

enjoyed it because there wasn't a ton of zombie

movies out then I mean like there is now everything

is zombie zombie zombie I think that was more

the front -runner for all the cool zombie stuff

to come out and I dug it I mean it was pretty

gritty filming wasn't the best -looking quality

as far as I can remember like the 28 days later

the first one But it was pretty cool, I enjoyed

it. This 28 months later or whatever this is,

I'd say I'm looking forward to it, but... I'm

not going to jump out of my pants for it. Jump

out of your pants? No, you're not going to do

that for anybody. Or anything. Except for me.

Some interesting story along with this, because

obviously writer -director from Ex Machina from

recent times here, Alex Garland, was the main

guy behind 28 Days Later, and he's talking about

how basically they couldn't go forward on this

because the rights were shared by about four

different people. So you had Danny Boyle, Andrew

McDonald, Alex Garland and then Fox so nobody

could really do much without the other people

so apparently Garland had an idea for 28 months

later and one of the other guys decided to run

with it because Garland didn't really want to

have anything to do with it as far as the work

part of it he was just kind of given ideas out

there so we'll have to see what happens with

that and see what fans of this genre or fans

of the other two movies think but you're for

it Thumbs up. Thumbs up from Amanda. Alright,

I can't comment because I've never seen any of

those films. Going into a genre that I actually

do like though, we'll talk about a couple different

sci -fi things. Oh, this is all you. A couple

different sci -fi things in the works that some

people might be interested in. We're not gonna

go in depth about them because we don't really

know much. Just gonna give you who's kind of

working on it and a little bit of the premise.

First one would be from the director of Lucy

from 2014, Luke Besson. I'm going back to a sci

-fi project, and this one is called Valerian

and the City of a Thousand Planets, based on

a French graphic novel series. The story follows

a pair of time and space traveling agents who

work together to protect Earth in the 28th century

from a host of villains, and it's already got

a couple of people lined up here, Dane DeHaan

and Kara Delevingne? I don't know her, but I

know Dane DeHaan. I don't know, I didn't see

Lucy. You saw Lucy, so did you like what Luc

Besson did with Lucy? Uh, yes and no. I enjoyed

myself until maybe the end. Okay, but do you

think... But I think that it was visually pretty

cool. So maybe if he's doing something a little

bit more otherworldly in outer space, he might

be able to visually stimulate you? If he... Yes.

Going back to that out of the pants thing. I

think this seems like something on a more grand

scale. The whole space opera feel. The title!

Valerian and the city of a thousand planets.

That's pretty grand. I'm with you. I just feel

like it's a big scale. It's a big scale. So he

can do a lot with it. Go for it. Alright, so

if people like Lucy or like sci -fi, maybe that's

one to interest you. If not, we got another one

for you because there's another... sci -fi film

coming out called Colossal, which apparently

is going to have Anne Hathaway lined up with

it. Now this one is coming from director Nacho

Vigilando. Nacho! Nacho Vigilando! And in this

one, this seems a little bit more... of a different

ilk than the one we just talked about. The other

one is very grand, seems like almost like a space

opera type thing. This one doesn't sound like

that at all. Anne Hathaway will play Gloria,

a newly divorced woman who moves back to her

hometown after losing her job in New York, when

news breaks that a giant lizard is on the rampage

in Tokyo. Gloria becomes aware that her mind

is strangely connected to the carnage in Japan.

Is this Pacific Rim Meats? Godzilla I Don't know

it sounds somewhat like that just But I think

Anne Hathaway is playing the part of Scarlett

Johansson where she does the lullaby to Hulk

Like Anne Hathaway is gonna try to do the lullaby

to a giant lizard in Tokyo with no singing with

no singing Well, I don't know. It's Anne Hathaway.

We might get singing. We might get singing in

a spacesuit with a lizard dancing So her mind

is connected to Godzilla. It just says connected

to the carnage in Tokyo. But I'm guessing yes.

She has a mind meld. Spock has been involved.

There's a mind meld between Anne Hathaway and...

a combination of Godzilla Moth or a King Kong

or whatever the heck this giant lizard thing

is. Is this a metaphor for menopause? I hope

not. And on that note, we got to go onto something

completely different. So let's go back to the

animated world, and I know a lot of people will

be excited about this, and we kind of already

somewhat knew this was happening, but Brad Bird

has confirmed that Incredibles 2 is his next...

Obviously, Brad Bird was the one behind the original

Incredibles, and he currently is dealing with

Tomorrowland, which is coming out here in a little

less than two weeks. And after that, it seems

like his next task will be doing Incredibles

2. Amanda, how did you like Incredibles 1? I

liked it, Kevin. It was pretty good. Did you

like it, or did you love it? It was close to

being lurved, definitely. That's a lot. That's

grand. Yeah, I don't know if I'm freaking out

as much as everybody else was, but I think even

like the little Jack Jack short was really good

and I liked it. It was really entertaining. Well,

he had a bunch of ideas apparently that he didn't

get to use on the first Incredibles, so obviously

he has material already kind of running around

in his mind. Another interesting little tidbit

from the article was the talk about his connections

possibly with the Star Wars universe. and that

he's actually had discussions with Kathleen Kennedy,

and apparently he's not necessarily making that

a priority or anything like that, but it doesn't

seem like he's shooting down the possibility

of something possibly in the future between him

and one of the Star Wars films, which would be

probably a very good thing for a lot of people

that are huge on Brad Bird. I'm not as huge as

everybody else, but... I could dig him being

in the Star Wars universe, but it seems like

that would be years down the road. A little interesting

tidbit at the end of that article. Alright, we

said we'd bookend it with the Star Wars news.

I know this is a little bit older, a little bit

further off, so it's not like brand new news,

but we didn't get to speak about it on our last

episode. So I have to talk about it. We've already

kind of rumored what some of the standalone Star

Wars films would be. We had it as one of our

questions one week as to which characters you'd

like it to focus on. And, you know, we already

kind of know what the first standalone film is

at least titled. And it looks like the second

standalone film will be all about Boba Fett.

And I think that's everybody's number one character

that they wanted it to be about. So Boba Fett,

the second standalone Star Wars film. I know

you probably don't care much about that. Or do

you? I do. I thought it's much deserved. There's

a lot of hype around Boba Fett. I think he is

a badass. And he deserved more than he got in

the original trilogy, so we got to see more than

just him standing on his side and then getting

eaten by a Sarlacc, so. Whatever that means.

Yes. Other news that we won't really get into

because everybody's already beat it to death,

but obviously the news is rampant about Aza Butterfield

being cast as Spider -Man. Which I'm not really

keen on. Okay. Not a fan? Well, I saw him in

Ender's Game. Yeah. And I saw him in Hugo. Okay.

And I just can't see him as Spider -Man. And

I've seen neither of those movies, so I'm completely

oblivious to who even this kid is. I've heard

his name a million times this year, but I've

still yet to even look to see what he looks like,

so whatever. Is he, in your mind, could he be

better than Tobey Maguire at least? No. No? I

mean, it's not gonna be better than Andrew Garfield.

I just see him as, yeah, exactly. I just see

him as a very young kid and I can't see him stemming

it up and, you know, ramping up that sarcastic

humor and... Yeah. I think a lot of people had

other people that they would have put ahead of

him, but it seems like that, at least for now,

is the name that everyone's saying is basically

all but cast in that role. Also, a news I just

saw here as we were getting ready for the record

that apparently Sam Jackson is connected to a

blob remake? What? Remake of the blob. Sam Jackson

involved. I don't know, we'll have to wait and

get more details for our next show or something,

but just read that as we were getting ready to

record. Is Killer Tomatoes next? Come on now.

That is showing your age compared to mine. Sorry.

Um, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes? The cartoon

from the 90s? You youngsters. Alright. Moving

on from the news and getting into trailer talk,

because good god almighty was there a bunch of

trailers this last week. I want to say that there

was probably 20 to 25 trailers that happened

over the last week. Some of them very - You know

like the very first trailer some of them second

or third follow -up trailer, but there was a

bunch of them We're not going to talk about all

of them because we would be here all day and

we got a lot of stuff to talk about as far as

what we've been watching in our main attraction

with Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. But their links

will all be up on the website. We're just going

to kind of touch on a few of them. So we'll just

go back and forth until we have nothing we want

to talk about. So Amanda, you're up first. What

was one of the trailers that you wanted to talk

about either for good or bad reasons? Crimson

Peak. Crimson Peak. So excited. Get it, Guillermo.

Guillermo. God, you have to say it for me. What

is it? Guillermo del Toro. Alright, I'll just

call him del Toro. Yeah, I think it's Gizmo.

People call him Gizmo. Gizmo? Gizmo del Toro

and Crimson Peak and that is completely up your

alley. Dude. Is that one of your most anticipated

films of the year? I think especially after like

I heard about it and I was like, oh stoked and

then actually seeing the trailer Now I'm just

pissed that I have to wait. That's angry. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know, even for someone that's not

really keen on that genre, Tom Hiddleston looks

crazy good in that. Yeah! And I will actually

watch that with you. What? It's on record, I'll

watch that with you. That's because I busted

open the Guillermo del Toro door for you. She

went crazy and bought like a thousand del Toro

movies, even though he's only had like, I don't

know, a dozen. But yeah, I've never been anti

-del Toro. So, I will definitely give this one

a shot. Alright, I'm up next then. I should talk

about that one, because you wouldn't want to.

What? But I'm not going to talk about the second

Human Centipede trailer. You tried to get it

on me again. Sneaky, sneaky. No, I think one

that kind of caught my eye, at least a little

bit, in a completely bad way, would be the new

trailer for Jim... the holograms. I saw some

shit talking about that on Twitter. There's a

lot of shit talking going on about that trailer.

This is something that this if you're a geek

and a nerd and a cartoon junkie I guess like

I am you if you're not one you might not know

the all the story but this whole product has

been has had a lot of bad to it. Originally it

was a contest that people at home were supposed

to be able to submit videos and basically audition

for a role in this film. And it was going to

be entirely cast based on this contest and all

these auditions that thousands and thousands

of people around the internet were sending in,

fans of Gem and the Holograms. And then the first

time casting news came out on this, there was

legit, you know, Hollywood actors... that were

cast for the roles. So I don't know what that

whole thing was about. I don't know if there's

anybody that submitted a video to this contest

that's actually in this movie or not. But it

completely looks like they're trying to make

them look like Jem and the Holograms. And then

that is the only resemblance that this movie

will have to the actual cartoon. There was no

look whatsoever. It's Jem and the Holograms were

the good characters. And then there was another

band called the Misfits. that was their rival

band. And everything revolved around jamming

the holograms of that band, doing things right

and good, you know, like you're supposed to teach

kids about. And then the Misfits, who were breaking

all the rules and doing everything bad. There

was no sign of any Misfits in that trailer whatsoever.

Well, there's actually a band called the Misfits.

They're like a gruesome metal band. So unless

they wanted to get Doyle von Frankenstein to

do this, I don't think that was gonna happen.

Well, I'm pretty sure they probably still have

the trademark of Misfits in the cartoon, so I

mean, I'm sure they could have used it, but I

don't know. I just don't know. This just looks

like a, it looks like an attempt to capitalize

off of... The stuff like glee stuff like pitch

-perfect stuff like whatever but making it a

little bit edgier for people I don't know trying

to like oh, but I mean like Yeah, trying to like

I don't know. They're just trying to do this

reboot everything, but it has it didn't look

like I had anything to do with the cartoon I

don't know how anybody could be excited about

this It just looked bad All right, so you're

up next any other trailers on the list that that

caught your eye at all Magic Mike XXL definitely

have to watch the first one now cuz I feel super

out of the loop as you should be That seems like

a movie that the guys at true bromance would

like to talk about so maybe you can talk about

it with them I think they're gonna do best chest

next they're running out of body parts to do

best lists of so And I think that there can be

a lot of chests Alright, so true bromance guys,

if you need an expert on chests, male chests,

Hard Candy Mandy is your go -to girl here. Alright,

I'm not talking about Magic Mike XXL. What I

will talk about is Manglehorn with Al Pacino.

It looked like... Al Pacino decided that 2015

would be the year that he decides to try. So

we've already had Danny Collins, and it looks

like Manglehorn is going to be on par with that.

So I'm definitely excited for more on Manglehorn.

What about you? Anything else on the list that

you wanted to bring up? Oh, absolutely anything.

Absolutely anything. Simon Pegg is okay with

me, but this movie Absolutely Anything looks...

Awesome That was a tongue I had like wrap my

head around that I was like a delayed reaction

and trying to catch up with where your brain

was going You were looking at me weird and I

stopped talking because I didn't know if you

were following I think there's a lot of Simon

Pegg fans out there that like most of his other

work And I would think that this would be you

know something that they would like as well It

seems like right up that alley seem like I had

some funny moments So it's like the sci -fi Bruce

Almighty question for you. Will San Andreas be

better than Godzilla last year? Yes, okay I didn't

see Godzilla. Good. But I am looking forward

to San Andreas. I think it looks pretty insane.

As far as 2012, I feel like that looked pretty

realistic to me. And I feel like if you were

in the shit, that's what it would be. Okay. I

agree with that. I think San Andreas will be

much better, not only because of the rock, but

for many other reasons. Unless every other scene

they... cut away from the actual earthquake and

don't show it ever. It's not, it's the... The

St. Andreas Fault Line, I know what you're talking

about. Yeah, it's splitting. I don't know what

else to call it besides an earthquake. Are you

a fan of the Vacation series? Uh, I've seen it

a billion times because it's always on TV. You've

seen the whole series of movies a billion times

or just which one? Like National Lampoon Vacation.

Christmas Vacation, European Vacation. I've seen

all of them, yeah. Okay. And you like them? They're

kind of okay? Yeah, they're okay. I mean, I don't

know, maybe if I have kids one day and be like,

you're gonna watch this, this is funny. I'm not

like a super fan of the vacation series. I think

they are funny, but I think this is a good reboot.

Yeah, it looks pretty good. I think this looks

legit. It's spoofing on itself. Yeah, but it

looks like it'll have enough nods to the old

one, but not be stupid. So I think that has a

little bit of potential. It does have Chris Hemsworth,

which could be a nominee for your best chest,

or other body parts if Cooper Romance decides

to try to talk about other things because he

seems like he's trying to show off something

south of the border as well in one of those scenes.

I'm just saying. He came in there just to show

off his six pack. What are you talking about?

Oh, that's what it was. That's right. Anything

else from you on the list? I can't really see.

Hold on. This makes for good podcasting. I'm

sorry. I told you this was going to be a problem.

Oh, Mr. Holmes? Yeah? I don't know if this is

coming out at the right time or too long after

the big hype about Sherlock Holmes came out.

Right. But it didn't look too amazing to me.

I thought it looked interesting. I thought it

was an interesting take on it. Yeah. They are

still doing more of the Sherlock Holmes with

Robert Downey Jr. I know that there's a - What?

Yeah, there's a third third one of those that's

on the way So this is gonna kind of be in between

that but I think anybody will tune into Ian McKellen

be anybody I mean I would just listen to him

talk and he could be talking about nothing But

it's interesting the way that they're gonna kind

of do that it reminds me of a little bit about

what they did with Hercules last year where they

kind of unmasked the legend about it where he's

kind of pulling away some of the layers of the

the legend of Sherlock Holmes, so to speak. People

that liked... The embellishments. Yeah. People

that like Gone Girl. I'm sure we'll be going

crazy about return to center with Rosamund Pike

that look creepy as hell But I know a lot of

people will be on board with that. That's fine

There was another trailer for Testament of Youth

a Kit Harington and Haley Atwell war film thing

Another war film with Cuba Gooding jr. Called

freedom, which I'm sorry I cannot take Cuba Gooding

jr. Serious as an actor anymore after Jeremy

Gwyer I don't know just in the last five to ten

years. I just I did hate Pearl Harbor, but that's

not why I just don't find him believable anymore.

I just don't I'm sorry It looked like it was

trying to be 12 years a slave Like trying to

trace a couple different storylines, and I mean

it may be interesting But I don't think I had

enough power to kind of keep my interest There

was a time where I thought Cuba Gooding jr. Was

more legit than Terrence Howard And now I think

that's flopped. Yeah, I would agree with that

Some other trailers that we're not going to get

into, Into the Grizzly Maze starring James Marsden

and Billy Bob Thornton. Youth starring Michael

Caine. That trailer just confused me. The Intern

with Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro. That looked

like it could be interesting. That might give

you a little bit of the feels. The feels. American

Heist starring Hayden Christensen and Adrienne

Brody. Tell me that's not a team to be reckoned

with. And Rick and the Flash, which to me, I'm

sorry Meryl Streep, but are you just literally

trying to rip off Al Pacino and Danny Collins?

Dude, right? That is exactly what that seemed

like. With even worse hair. Yeah, it was like

Danny Collins was literally Al Pacino playing

a folk singer that was aged. Now Meryl Streep

is kind of playing like more of, not like a Neil

Diamond folk singer, this is more like Peter,

Paul and Mary type folk singer, but like, or

Janis Joplin type singer. that's washed up. I

don't know, it seems like way too close of a

storyline. But all those trailers and links will

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how your patience paid off Alright, thanks for

sticking with us. We got a bunch of movies to

talk about because see a Couple weeks ago. I

was spending all my time watching daredevil,

but this week we spent all our time watching

movies So we got nine movies to talk about so

buckle up find a comfortable seat or a comfortable

set of headphones and Just you know get ready

for some great movie talk, but we're gonna start

with to the two films, because there's always

a couple films that Amanda has seen that I haven't.

So she's going first with the two films that

she saw without me. So which one are you starting

with? Let's go with Stonehurst Asylum. What is

Stonehurst Asylum? When is this? What time frame

are we talking about? Did this come out like

a couple years ago? Ten years ago? Do you even

know? No idea, but it's on Netflix. Okay, it's

on Netflix. And it has a pretty star -studded

cast, which kind of grabbed my attention. What

genre? It's horror. Okay. What I did was just

browse for horror because that's what I like

to do. Not whores, horror. She's browsing for

whores. Browsing for whores. And I found one

by the name of Kate Backescale. I cannot spell

her last name. I'm sorry, you found a whore named

Kate Beckinsale? Yes, that's how I segwayed that,

did you like that? I like that, so I'm intrigued

now, continue. It also had a Ben Kingsley. He's

not a whore. He could be. A male whore? Yeah.

An old male whore. That exists. Alright, so we

got Kate Beckinsale, Ben Kingsley. It's also

got Michael Caine, briefly, and Brendan Gleeson,

which could definitely be some kind of deviant

in this movie. But not a whore. No, it could

be. I can't scratch that off. I'm gonna stop

the horror talk. And then that guy that played

Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter series. She's

a Harry Potter geek. Don't know what his real

name is though. So what did you think of Stonehurst

Asylum? What was it about? What's the breakdown

here? The whole... I don't know what you want

to call it. The premise is this asylum filled

with... these aristocrats or these people who

are embarrassments to their noble or important

families and it's in England and It's got a the

star -studded cast but Most of these people like

Michael Caine and Brendan Gleeson. They have

very small parts. They only show up For you know

brief periods of time, but they still add little

snippets. You know where we're needed, but the

main front runners of the movie are Ben Kingsley,

which is the main main dude and Kate Beckinscale,

and then there's one other - Can you say that

name again? You can't spell it or say it. Okay,

continue. The chick from Underworld. Okay, everyone

knows who it is. We're just making fun of you

now. That's okay. But the whole thing is, um,

Brandon Gleason finds in Kate Beckinscale that

hysteria originates in the female anatomy. So

they do all these, um, like electroshock therapy

and all these, um, older methods of trying to

quote unquote cure people of their madness. But

there's a twist. involved in that, that I'll

avoid spoilers and not give that away. Nice.

So based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe, directed

by Brad Anderson, Stonehurst Asylum is a 2014

thriller with Kate Beckinsale. There's a G in

it, bro. Beckinsale. Anyways, Rotten Tomatoes

gives it a 49%. What do you give it out of five?

I give it a... 3 .5 solid for maybe so right

in the seven eight range out of ten so it was

cool I'd never seen that story done that way

before okay so some uniqueness to it and what

was the second film that you saw this week the

ward the ward is also streaming on Netflix your

Netflix horror What is your deal? Alright, so

what is the breakdown for the war? What was what

was it about? What's this? What's the deal here?

I don't even I've never even heard of this. Also

horror? What is the main chick's name? It's a

John Carpenter film. I don't know who... It's

a chick from the Mandy Lane movie. She was also...

Amber Heard? Yeah. Okay, Danielle Pennebaker

and Mamie Goomer. It was a 2010 thriller psychological

horror film. Continue. The young woman is Amber

Heard. My note's here? Just say what? Yeah, her

a question mark. Explain yourself. There was

a twist in there seems to be a trend here of

twist in the horror films normally I can spot

these but This kind of smacked me outside the

back of the head at some point. I didn't realize

it was coming until it's too late I thought it

was just pretty straightforward scary. What's

going on in this also? Did you jump? A couple

times yeah, there's some scary jump scares, but

then you find out what's really going on and

you're like whoa All comes together, so that's

definitely a recommendation from me to see the

ward if you like that. You liked it better than

Stonehurst Asylum? It did fairly considerably

worse on Rotten Tomatoes. So that's 32%. I would

say I like them about the same, honestly. So

another three and a half? Yeah. Alright, so anybody

that has some more horror films out there, send

recommendations to Amanda because she needs...

some more horror films. I will watch the crap

out of those. I'm just going to continue to call

them horror films for the rest of my days. Alright

let's move on to some films that we have both

seen. A couple weeks ago we started the trek

through the Fast and the Furious movies and we

talked about the first three of them which I

gave the first one a decent score for me for

Fast and Furious. I gave the second one slightly

less and I gave the third one I don't even know

if I gave it a score. I think it was like...

Like absence of score like it was so bad Like

zero or one or something. It was a terrible score

for Tokyo Drift So since then we've caught up

with a few more films We saw fast and furious

4 I'm just gonna say fast and furious and then

number because the naming of these movies makes

absolutely no sense So fast and furious 4 and

I guess the the trendy way to say it is fast

5 Because they couldn't call it fast and furious

5 Yeah, so I saw the fourth and the fifth installment

in this epic franchise and Let me just say that

I do appreciate the fact that they have gone

back to the original cast now I'm not saying

it wasn't a bad idea and I could have totally

seen this working I know I was complaining about

the whole formula of having like individual movies

and then teaming them up But I could have totally

seen this series What I way back when when I

was in high school or just graduate in high school

when these films first came out I thought that

they were going to do that. Where they had like

a Fast and Furious movie that starred Vin Diesel

and whoever. And then they were going to do another

Fast and Furious movie and starting completely

different people. But it was going to be still

cars, still that kind of genre. But each one

was going to just be in a different area, different

cars, different people. Which I could have been

fine with. Like New York, Miami, whatever. Or

even like they did with Tokyo, but better. But

you know, find actual people that could carry

these films. individually like if you had one

that was all Vin Diesel you had one that was

all Paul Walker or you had one that was Whoever,

you know, whatever people you get in there and

stay thumb or you know the people that show up

later And that would have been fine and then

you could have had like a team up or something

that crossed over You know later on once you

get to the like they do in the sixth seventh

movie or whatever But they kind of just abandoned

that after Three and we're like that's just not

working. So now we're just gonna do the team

up from here on out and I guess that was a good

move because Three didn't work. They didn't have

anyone that could actually carry that film. So

they've gone back to the, you know, to the trusted

true people here. So we got, you know, the reconnection

of Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, et cetera, for both

Fast and the Furious 4 and Fast and the Furious

5. And I think they're closer to what we got

with the first one. Like, I would still put the

second and the third one as the worst two that

I've seen. The third one will forever be, I don't

think there's anything that's going to top that

one as far as the opposite end, the worst. And

two, to me, just was a little bit lacking. There

were some holes in here. Now four, of course,

we see the idea that they're both going undercover

at this point. Vin Diesel and Paul Walker basically

convince or get in a position where they're both

going to be working undercover to try to infiltrate

this like, you know, another cartel or another

group of bad guys, whatever. Yeah, whatever you

want to call it. And we have the interesting

setup where someone that lives closer to the

border is going to have to tell me how that all

works because they had the clever setup of the

tunnels through the border. You drive your car

through a tunnel and you go from Mexico to the

United States. And you're good. People don't

know about these. I'm pretty sure it doesn't

work like that. I don't know. I mean, I think

there's some holes in this one here and there,

but I thought overall it was decent. You got

some dramatics with a major, I'll leave it unnamed,

character dying for those that haven't seen this

franchise, which I'm pretty sure I'm the last

one, so I'm not trying to spoil it for myself,

I guess. Don't know I thought it was decent a

decent kind of connection back to the first one

But how did you how do you feel the fourth one

stacks up against the other ones? I think this

is the upswing Yeah on the bell curve or whatever

you want to call it that The franchise goes through

I think it starts to solidify again a little

bit more was the first one that you really start

seeing More than just in passing a connection

a deeper connection with Paul Walker and Vin

Diesel Where up to this point it's been more

at arm's length type stuff where he wasn't sure

why he let him go and They had done some stuff

that was you know helping each other out, but

there hadn't been like This completely working

together type thing like they do in this one

So I think it really sets up what the tone is

for From what I hear for four episode or movie

four five six and seven where there's this real

Thematic thing about family and the bonds and

the closeness of this entire group. I think that

all kind of starts solidifying here in number

four I can't see Really what transpires between

Dom and Letty happening I'm like really but I

know that they needed that to happen to fuel

a major part of the film and Dom's kind of motivations

throughout. But other than that, besides your

border control issues, I think it was a pretty

solid one. I mean, obviously there's still a

bunch of nonsense as far as physics and stuff

that could or could not happen, but... You have

to suspend all that when you watch these movies

and you can't fault them for that. I've been

told that over and over again. So we'll get more

into that when we get through this whole series

because I'm going to go on a rant of epic proportions

that only certain people in the world are going

to appreciate. So I'm going to save that until

after we finish it. Movie number seven, but let's

move on to fast five. This is the one that everyone

everybody I have heard a podcast about from in

session film to film spotting to Talking in circles

everybody that's ever talked about these films

says Fast five is the best of the franchise.

It's the number one film. It's five and then

seven and then six or you know something like

that but almost all of them put five as number

one. Obviously this is the film where we see

the appearance of none other than The Rock which

obviously can only be beneficial to a movie or

a franchise because the guy is ridiculously awesome.

I don't know though I don't think I'm seeing

this as my favorite one. I think there's far

thus far I think there's more holes in this film.

than there was in the first one, or than there

was in the fourth one. I just think there's some

stuff that's just not believable. And I'm not

just talking about the physics part of it, I

just think there's a lot. Like, this movie spends

way too much time setting up their heist, their

mission to get this money from the police station.

Like, they are in a foreign country and we're

supposed to believe that the most powerful person

in that country who has the entire police force

under his thumb, among everything else, the entire

population is scared to betray this guy. They

say in the movie that there is a price on these

guys' head that is ridiculous. Like, a ton of

money for anybody that finds these guys. Yet

they are able to take their sweet -ass time Setting

up every inch of this thing and they even go

through the whole almost It's almost like I'm

a delay like a drawn -out montage where Vin Diesel

gets to say hey You're up and this guy goes and

does this thing on hey You're up and they get

this part of the test on they have a safe brought

in That is bigger. I don't remember what the

dimensions of this safe is but obviously It's

a humongous heavy safe that you can't just order

online from some retailer. You're not getting

this from the Fingerhut magazine. They needed

to get a replica of the safe that was in the

police station and somehow they're able to get

that in this foreign country delivered to them

and nobody notices. They go out and have street

races to get cars so that they can have them

for this heist and nobody turns them in and nobody

finds out. I know they kind of try to touch on

that by having the whole thing where the rock

shows up and then all the Brazilians pull out

their guns, but that's the rock aspect of it.

What happened to the kingpin here, the drug lord

guy? They wouldn't have done that if he would

have showed up there. It was very obvious that

they were there. They weren't hiding it. They

were a very public display of what they were

doing. And if The Rock knew, then that guy knew

and he would have showed up and the Brazilians

would not have pulled their guns on him. I don't

know. There was just like every little part that

went up to making this. I can't like these guys

are supposed to be like covertly plotting something

and it's just not believable. And then the whole

scene with the safe on the freaking bridge or

whatever you want to call it, being swung back

and forth and hitting cars and not having any

impact on the cars that are dragging it. I don't

know the physics behind cars, but I don't care

what kind of engine it is. When that thing is

swinging back and forth, you're not going to

have control of your car like they do. So I had

a lot of problems with Fast Five. I know, again,

I know I'm supposed to suspend all my ideas of

realistic things and how physics works and how

cars work, even though I don't know much about

cars. But even I, as ignorant as I am with cars,

know that this stuff is impossible. So I had

more problems with five than I was expecting

to. I would actually put it below number four

and below number one. I still think the first

one and the fourth one are better than this one.

So what about you? Where do you put fast five

in the top five so far? The first five. I say

it's probably my second favorite. What's your

first? The first one. So you like fast five a

little bit better than four? Just because of

the rock? Yeah, the rock puts it over the edge.

I can see that and you know you get the whole

like you said the whole fight between Vin Diesel

and the rock which again that's unbelievable

too but but I was still fun to watch. Vin Diesel

would never get the upper hand on the rock. Blasphemy.

Whatever bro. Blasphemy. Anyways alright let's

get away from the Fast and the Furious franchise

and talk about something else. Let's go to you

brought up Del Toro earlier. Will you do scores?

Oh scores on Furious 4. What do you give it?

2 .5 right in the middle and fast 5 3 .5 3 .5

for furious 4 I'm gonna go with a 3 and for a

fast 5 I'll give that one a 2 to maybe two and

a half if I'm feeling generous maybe two and

a half all right the rock straight snap that

dude's neck he did and that's another thing that

I don't think was believable Not that The Rock

can't snap somebody's neck, but that guy apparently

has free reign to do whatever the heck he wants.

It's Brant Zill, the guy was shooting at him.

He's just saving bullets. I guess. I guess. Alright,

let's move on to a completely different film.

You were talking about Del Toro when we talked

about Crimson Peak. We also watched another Del

Toro film this week and that would be Pan's Labyrinth,

which I had never seen before. Which is one of

my favorite movies. I used to go to sleep to

this movie every night I know it's super brutal

but it just the sound of it has such a lullaby

feel to it I just I can get that I get the sound

and there's definitely some fantasy elements

I feel like I was misled with this film a little

bit I've never seen this film actually um nothing

against it nothing against El Toro I just never

had sat down to watch it and I You know, even

the back of the DVD of the Blu -ray or the DVD

describes it as like fantasy elements on par

with like Lord of the Rings or you know that

type of like just a complete world of fantasy

and I get that that does exist. But I was expecting

the ratio of fantasy to reality be much more

swayed onto the side of the fantasy end. I was

expecting over half of the film to be more in

this fantasy world. I thought the first part...

I felt misled because I felt like the first part,

okay, we're setting this up like a lot of fantasies

do in the real world. We have this child that's

being put in this different environment and they're

searching out stuff, almost a similar setup to

what we had in the Narnia series, where you have,

you know... kids going in a different area, a

different part of the world away from their immediate

family and they're exploring the house or they're

exploring the grounds and they find some type

of portal or some type of opening to a world

of fantasy. Like, they're similar in that respect.

And then I thought once that was kind of established,

you know, that slowly we'd be transitioning into

the rest of the film being all in that fantasy

world. But that's the thing, they blurred that

line between the real world and the fancy world

because you don't know exactly if it's real or

if she's making it up until the end and you still

don't know. Was this all a dream? Did this happen?

Was she making it up on the way throughout the

story? Right. And I'm not saying any of it's

bad. I'm just saying I've just... That's not

the direction. I thought we were going not saying

I didn't like the direction I just figured we

were gonna get to see much more of That fantasy

world and and I thought we just kind of got the

surface of it I expected to see way more Way

more of it not to say that that's took away from

the movie I just was confused in my head as to

where I thought the movie was gonna go The dude

was one of the biggest douchebags I've ever seen

in a movie in the world in the world That guy

was a bastard And I wanted to punch him in the

face. I wanted the rock to snap his neck. But

there was definitely a lot of visual... Just

running in DDT that dude? Yeah, just rock bottom

that guy. There was a lot of cool visual stuff

going on here, a lot of stuff to look at, a lot

of fun, kind of just captivating scenes and things.

The monsters were super cool. Yeah, that frog

thing was weird and gross, but also very cool.

But all of the different creatures that kind

of exist were cool. I was really kind of pissed

off at that girl, though, at some point. She

makes some stupid decisions. I hate when kids

are portrayed as idiots. I'm sorry, I just do.

It's almost like the classic... I know you hate

the word, but it's the classic trope where you

have the... Whoever the Indiana Jones the MacGyver

the the badass guy who's got like some kid or

some lady or whatever that somehow was with him

at that point and they're like stay in the car

or Don't touch this and they always do it and

I'm like no nobody would do that like you're

with this badass. That's just like done some

amazing feet Whatever he tells you to do you're

gonna do like you're fighting Nazis or you're

fighting like you're gonna be like, okay I'm

just gonna stand in this corner because that

guy seems to have things under control Just like

Edward Norton in American History X when he tells

that guy I'm gonna kill you. He's already killed

somebody He's probably gonna kill you too. These

guys aren't joking around here Listen to him

and that girl like when you're in a fantasy world

and this big old tree like mother looking guy

says don't eat the food on the table I'm gonna

warn you about this is that you can given you

this task you're gonna be tempted and the whole

Adam and Eve type thing don't eat the fruit all

right don't eat the damn fruit girl she deserved

to die in that scene I was hoping she was dead

she got all those cool fairy dudes killed those

fairies murdered murder lady she deserved to

die That dude was creepy. Why would you be sticking

around like this is two grapes? I'm just gonna

stick around eat two grapes and the scary dude

is sitting at the end of the table Yeah with

eyes in his hands this stuff I don't know this

girl is not very bright if I'm in a world like

that that I know nothing about I am following

every rule that tree dude tells me to do And

the fairies those could have been some blue lagoon

go to sleep never wake up berries. You don't

know Yeah, obviously there's a dude sitting at

the end of the table that looks like he was at

one point living that probably could gain life

again because he's not decaying. So I'm not going

to touch anything near him. In fact, I'm probably

just going to get a knife and stab him in the

back a couple times real quick just to make sure

this dude's dead before I eat the fruit. Anyways,

this is one of your favorite films, so I'm guessing

you're giving it a pretty high score. I'm going

to give it a 4 .5. 4 .5? Not a perfect. No, just

because it's like... I wanted more fantasy elements

like you did. I want to see more of that world

fleshed out a little bit. And I'll just be slightly

below you. I'll give it a four out of five, so

eight out of ten. Like I said, if it had a little

more fantasy and a little less psychotic Hitler

type guy, I probably would give it a four and

a half as well, but I'm gonna stick at a four.

So then we have one more film. We were scouring

the on -demand... I feel like I should have a

word like interwebs for on -demand, but... The

cable webs? The cable webs. We were scouring

for 2015 films because a bunch just became available

and I'm gonna watch all of them but we had to

pick one first because Maggie was out there,

Black Sea was out there, there's a bunch of stuff

and a couple other things from 2014, Selma was

out there. But we went with a sci -fi film, Infini,

which is an Australian film. And it's a science

fiction film where these guys... One of the guys

is one of the Hemsworth brothers. Yeah, the oldest

and least attractive Hemsworth brother, Luke.

He could be the hobbit of the brothers. Luke

Hemsworth not getting the good side of the DNA

pool from the Hemsworth family. It was all used

up on Chris and Liam. Chris and Liam, I guess,

got him, and Luke, the older brother, is apparently

not... let out of the house at times, because

he's in the small -budget Australian film. And

they have this thing called slip -streaming?

Slip -streaming? I think that's the method of

traveling where... Data transfer. Yeah, it's

like a data transfer. They hit this button and

they, like, have a seizure and, like, become

molecules and get transported to a different

place. Basically. I guess. But anyways, there's

this outpost somewhere... That's how they space

travel. Yeah, that's their space travel. It's

slipstreaming. And, you know, basically what

we are presented with in the movie is there's

this outer colony type or satellite mining planets

or something like that. And there's been some

type of craziness that happened, some type of

outbreak, some type of disaster, contagion, something

happened and... we're basically going to investigate

that through both a team that's sent there and

then our main character who slipstreamed there

when the whole west coast got destroyed. I'm

not spoiling anything yet. Nor could I, I don't

think, I think I could describe every part of

this movie and it would not be spoiled because

I still don't know what I'm supposed to think

about this film. But basically, the whole film

is this away party is what I'm going to call

it, showing up on in is the planet Infini or

is it I don't know what the outpost was called

yeah and they show up there and everybody there

is dead brutally dead like blood and guts places

they go into one room and there's like faces

and skin and body parts and all kinds of nonsense

and then it's completely dark it's also completely

frozen where they have to have suits on because

it's like negative 70 degrees So they're trying

to figure out what happened. I can't believe

you remembered that exact degrees that they said.

Yeah, I'm good like that. And they have two mission

objectives. Number one is to stop the payload,

which apparently if it goes where it's gonna

go, it's gonna just bring this contagion to Earth

and everywhere. Which is what they're mining.

Right, so they gotta stop that transport, and

they also have to find this guy that they know

slipstreamed there to see if he was still alive

and if so to bring him home. Not gonna go too

much more into it, but the basic... idea for

the rest of the film is trying to figure out

what caused the outbreak or what caused everybody

to die and to figure out who's infected and who's

not amongst the people that are still walking

around and then there's a bunch of twists and

turns around along the way and if you're a sci

-fi fan or if you're into like anything that

I'm describing you should watch the film and

let me know what you think because I get what

science fiction you got to do like It's the unknown

and you explore a lot of like different themes

and you're trying to pose a bunch of different

questions to your audience. I think the problem

with this film is they do pose a lot of questions

and there are some potential to investigate some

interesting topics and themes and whatnot. But

I don't know if they ever really. It's one thing

to not answer your questions and kind of leave

it up to the audience to determine. But there's

got to be some type of semblance of what the

actual question is. Like I'm talking in vague

terms, but but you can ask a question and not

answer it You can ask a question and kind of

leave it as a cliffhanger and let people decide

what side of that question They're gonna fall

on or or how it ends or they're gonna say it's

good or bad But as an audience you got to know

what that question is To be able to have that

discussion to be able to have that debate And

I don't think at times the movie knows what that

question is so I think it's a little bit confusing

for an audience member and it kind of leaves

you scratching your head and I Maybe some people

would love this because there's a thousand different

ways that you could extrapolate What happens

in this film or what it means or what happens

afterwards? But I just think it was lacking a

little bit of direction. What did you think of

this one? I think it had a good base But it did

lack direction. I think it was pulling itself

in a lot of different ways without Giving us

enough information on one idea. Yeah, I did like

the main dude not the Hemsworth troll But the

the other guy they're all Australian, but this

other guy I could see him in some other roles

like I could have seen him like Kind of like

an action hero type guy, so I give him props

I don't know what his name is because I didn't

know anybody in this movie, but it feels like

it Was akin to the dread remake yeah, I could

see it kind of similar to that This guy, like,

I could see him in something like that. I could

see him in RoboCop. I could see him in, you know,

different things like that. Daniel McPherson.

Daniel McPherson, maybe, is his name. I'm not

sure. I'm trying to get that for you. But, I

don't know, I would give this probably a two

and a half, right in the middle, like a five

out of ten, because I think it had some potential

and it had some interesting things. I just think

it lacked some direction. What about you? I'd

give it a 1 .5. I wasn't too invested in this

movie. I didn't, I couldn't really get into it.

Alright, fair enough. That means that we will

be moving on to our last couple of films. I think

we only have two left before we get to our main

attraction. And that would be a re -watch of

Thor and Thor the Dark World. And this is our

opportunity to try to finally convince people...

that they need to revisit these movies. Because

these movies, I think, are way underrated. I

think everyone does all their racking and stacking

of all the Marvel films, and they always just

want to throw the Thor films at the bottom. Like,

oh, Captain America is so great, and the Avengers

movies are so great, and Iron Man, except for

the people that hate Iron Man 3, is so great.

And then they always just lump Thor and Incredible

Hulk at the bottom. I can't speak to Incredible

Hulk because I still haven't seen it. but Thor

is easily easily visually the most appealing

film in this entire universe at least up until

the point where Guardians of the Galaxy came

out and then I could see those competing and

I know those are the two space centered ones

so maybe that's cheating to say that but it's

not just because they're in space it's everything

that everything that's created like the buildings

the colors everything is very cool and Always

kind of fell in line with everybody that I'm

like well Maybe I'm just wrong and Thor just

isn't as good as all these other films But on

rewatch I liked it even more than I saw it when

I saw it the first time and the storylines that

run through them are bases for a lot of the Bigger

it's like yeah Like we said a couple a couple

weeks ago like there is no storyline more important

than the Thor storyline in this entire universe

Like, you could take the Incredible Hulk storyline

out and this whole thing could still basically

have happened without him. You could, for all

intents and purposes, I know everybody loves

Captain America, but except for the bonding of

the team and maybe leading the team, he's not

necessarily essential to this whole thing. Like

everything is involving this the infinity stones

and Thanos Thanos I'm gonna say it wrong and

somebody's gonna yell at me. I'm sorry I don't

know the right way to say it Thanos And all those,

you know, the connections to Guardians of the

Galaxy, the connections to this whole bigger

thing that there's always this alien threat,

it's like even in Avengers 2 where Iron Man is

talking and he's saying, you know, Tony Stark

is saying, look, we can fight all these mob bosses

and all these ground, you know, the people on

Earth all day, it doesn't matter because there's

bigger, badder things out in the universe. That

is directly connected to the Thor storyline,

like... They know about these things because

Thor came. Right and I just think people discount

it way too much and everyone always wants to

point to the the love story and oh it was so

cheesy and none of the other Marvel movies had

done that and it was it took away from it and

I almost agreed with them originally but into

the rewatch I was not bugged by that love story

at all. I just really wasn't because it's just

it is what it is like I just didn't like Natalie

Portman in it I think I can get that I think

if they would have put somebody in that had more

chemistry with Luke Hemsworth That wasn't what

did I say you said the troll the troll Chris

Hemsworth that Wasn't so overshadowed by him

that could you know hold their own a little bit

more with him right alongside him and I think

they're gonna cast that better too they always

want to cast these like Scientist and these doctors

and everything like this as these like Hollywood

like leading ladies or whatever and it's not

very believable for that standpoint But I'm not

But but what I'm saying is I'm not necessarily

Like I could see it being a different person

But I'm not bugged by the fact that he shows

up on earth not knowing anybody and is gonna

have some type of connection to the people that

rescue him, or the people that find him. Like,

whether Natalie Portman's in there or not, or

whether it's just, uh, Stellan Skarsgard and

Kat Denning, like, that would've been fine too.

Um, you know, I get that they had to have some

type of connection to somebody that's gonna...

There had to be a... You almost had to have a

love connection of some sort, even if it was

quick, and even if they didn't develop it a lot,

because you needed something that actually made

Thor care about Earth. Like, if it's just...

hey, there's these nice people. He goes back,

he's never gonna think about Earth again. Like,

there had to be something on a deeper level that

would be pulling him back to have some type of

interest in what happens on Earth, or he's not

even gonna be there for the Avengers. So I mean,

I get the purpose of a love story. Obviously,

you can't develop a love story in a superhero

film like that probably very easily in two hours.

So I kinda give him a somewhat of a pass on that,

but I just don't think that was enough to take

away from the overall film. And you got the best,

I don't care what people say about Ultron, even

the people that, you know, even Kingpin, who

is a great Marvel villain here in the TV series,

there is still no villain better than Loki in

the Marvel Universe, in my opinion. You like

Loki or not? I do like Loki. I think he tends

to be a lot of talk though sometimes. When in

the dark world, I feel like he got... He got

his hands dirty a little bit more. He got a little

bit more gritty and hands -on and wanted to kick

some ass. Okay well let's get our way into the

dark world but before we do that let's close

out Thor with kind of what your grade is on Thor

overall and what your final thoughts are on the

first Thor. First Thor I give it... Frost Giants.

Frost Giants get a 3 .5. Okay, I'm gonna be at

a full -out four on the first Thor. I liked it

a lot more than the first time I watched it and

I was thinking I was gonna find a lot more holes

this time around, but honestly I really enjoyed

it. I think the Frost Giants were decent. I think

the combination of both the Frost Giants and

Loki give you a lot to kind of think about and

look at and I thought they were, I thought it

was entertaining. I thought it was visually stunning.

So four out of five for me for the first Thor.

What are your thoughts on the Dark World? I think

this is my favorite out of the two and those

Dark Elves are actually way more hardcore than

some of the other villains that we've encountered,

even Ultron. I feel like they have some really

cool tricks up their sleeves. Even like how they

speak is really crazy cool and gives you this

like cool daunting feeling because... This doom

is going to happen just based on how badass their

voices sound and they look really cool and they

meant business. And as far as it being visually

striking, I think it beat out the first one as

well because they were in space more. Definitely

more contrasting between the darks and the colors

in this one with the dark elves obviously. I

think this one, there's some stuff that I like

a lot about it, and there's some stuff that draws

me back a little bit. I do like the Dark Elves,

and I do like all the dynamics that we're getting

now post Avengers with Thor and Loki, and how

they're dealing with the fact that he no longer

can trust Loki. And the whole movie, even as

an audience member, you don't know if Loki is

just gonna continue to be bad. or if he ever

is going to be able to turn over a new leaf and

return to the good side. And he flirts with that

and goes juggles that back and forth throughout

the whole film and you never quite know what

to expect. And obviously like him and his mom,

you never even know when someone is Loki and

when someone's not. So I really thought that

was a really fun aspect. My only drawback from

this one kind of goes back to what you were saying

with the first one is the Natalie Portman storyline

in here. because I didn't necessarily care for

the moments where she's in Asgard and dealing

with that and how she's kind of there on the

battlefield and kind of a key component to this.

I didn't care for that as much. I get that all

the planets are lining up and there's portal

jumping type things through there. And by the

way, I was a guest on In Session Film. week or

so ago when we talked about our best superhero

fights I did not even give this an honorable

mention but the portal fight in this one originally

when I saw this this made one of my top scenes

of the entire year when I did my top 30 or 40

scenes from the year and I completely spaced

on this but the portal fight between Thor and

the I don't know what the dude's name was but

is pretty darn epic. Yeah, it's pretty crazy

and this as they're fighting back and forth and

the hammer's being thrown and going through portals

and dimensions and different stuff like this,

this is a crazy good fight that's way unique

and this is something that Marvel did a very

good job at and they've done this throughout

the Marvel Cinematic Universe is changing up

fights so there's some type of cool new element

to it. Use of their power or whatever. Yeah,

so it's not just a stand by, you know, like a

fist of cuffs. face to face. Not a Dragon Ball

Z fight. Right. But I don't know, I just didn't

like the whole Aether being in her and I think

there is some holes throughout Thor and the Avengers

as far as when Thor is able to go to Earth and

come back to Asgard and back and forth. I know

they try to explain it and they try to kind of

make it all okay, but it just seems like they

might not be super consistent with what he's

able to do and what he's not. The Allfather musters

up this dark magic or whatever. Can we say though

in both films that Heimdallr is a badass? You

just you have a serious I have a man crush on

Heimdallr He's a badass in this film. He jumps

off of this bridge and takes down a whole ship

He's a man and he takes down a spaceship. He's

basically a god. He can see everything in the

universe. He can see a butterfly's wings in three

dimensions away or something as they said in

the movie. That's not the exact line, but I'm

thinking it's pretty close. Alright, you said

you like Thor 2 better than Thor 1, so what would

your score be for Thor 2? 4. Alright, I'm going

to go the opposite. I've always said that I like

Thor 2 better on a rewatch. I liked Thor 1 better.

So I'm going to go down to a three and a half

for Thor 2 just because of the Natalie Portman

aspects. So let us know if you disagree or agree

with the views we just gave on the movies that

we've been watching. But right now, it's time

for our main attraction, which is Mad Max Beyond

Thunderdome. Alright, it's the third in our series

of Mad Max films. We already talked about the

original Mad Max and we already talked about

the Road Warrior. Just to review our scores on

that a little bit, you gave the original Mad

Max a 2 and you gave the Road Warrior a 2 .5.

I gave the original Mad Max a 2 .5 and the Road

Warrior a 3, so I was a half point higher than

you on both films. And now we make our way to

the last installment at the time of the original

Mad Max trilogy, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

Before we get to this though, we gotta kinda

set the stage for those that don't know. For

those that are not in the know, this at no time

was intended to be another Mad Max film. This

was gonna be a dystopian... Lord of the Flies

type film where a hero is brought in to save

this group of lost kids That's basically what

the what the main premise was and then the idea

got floated that why not use that Mad Max character

and have him be the hero and Then it became part

of this trilogy. So there's definitely some Like

all of the films in this trilogy. There's not

necessarily like complete connection between

the three chapters. They're very distant from

each other, they're separated in time and in

what the environment is, which makes them all

very much different. We have, you know, kind

of on the brink of right when society is starting

to fall apart, then we have like something that

seems like it's happening like right in the aftermath

of that, and now we have something that seemingly

is happening, you know, five, six, seven years

after that possibly, where it's a completely

Different environment so see that guy from the

second movie that the pilot right who now has

a son who is old enough At least four or five

something like that rifles, he's got to be at

least separate. Yeah, so I mean it's a good,

at least six years after the last movie. So they're

all separated, which I think is one of the unique

things about this trilogy. There's not these

like super fluid connections between them, so

they're all kind of, they all can be standalone

films for the most part. I feel like this one

though, you can definitely tell it could have

been on its own. Right. You can take this as

its own film. Alright, so let's first talk about

the title, because the title is Mad Max Beyond...

Thunderdome. Which is perfect because they're

only actually in the Thunderdome for a couple

months. I feel like they should have underlined

the beyond. Like this is beyond Thunderdome.

It's not just Thunderdome. It's not Mad Max Thunderdome.

It's beyond that. Because it's what happens after.

So we find ourselves obviously at the beginning

with with Max coming across this this civilization

of barter town and Being introduced to the character

of Auntie Played by none other than Tina Turner

and a hundred twenty pound metal dress a hundred

and twenty pound eat that lady guys guys We're

not joking. This is this is on the DVD extras

here a hundred and twenty pound Dress that she's

wearing the whole time with shoulder pads like

a boss and chainmail and all kinds of car parts

probably on there somewhere So anyways, he comes

across her and obviously at the beginning. We're

not sure if she's good. She's bad She's more

kind of introduced as the good person in this

kind of dual society where we have above ground

and underground Can I mention that the whole

time I was picturing Nicki Minaj? playing Auntie,

what's her name? They don't ever say her last

name. No they do, it's like Auntie something.

No, they say it on all the other information

like the DVD extras and IMDB trivia and stuff

like that but it's never said in the actual movie.

They just call her Auntie? They just call her

Auntie. So Nicki Minaj in that part. Oh yeah,

I feel like Nicki Minaj could have done that.

In a modern day maybe it could have been. Oh

wait, we're having a modern day Mad Max. Where

the fuck is Nicki Minaj for this? They don't

need her. Thank God they didn't put her in it.

But anyways, so obviously Mel Gibson's character

has to figure out what is actually going on in

this barter town because we have Tina Turner,

Auntie up in the above ground area kind of ruling

things and then we have Master Blaster in the

underground area ruling things. Who run barter

town? Who run barter town? Let's talk about how

they speak in this film. Good lord. It's just

like Cloud Atlas. Just like Cloud Atlas. Watch

Cloud Atlas and Beyond Thunderdome back to back

and you probably will at some point understand

what they're saying. I think they need to put

out a... dictionary or some type of guide so

I can follow along like even with the subtitles

on it's hard to follow at some point what they're

saying and just as an example of that they say

it at least twice in the movie and I'm gonna

reach out to those other people that are listening

you fellow movie aficionados or podcasters or

cinephiles or geeks or whatever out there someone

please explain to me what they mean when they

say this is jerking time Because I think something's

been lost over the last 20 years since this was

made I know this is an Australian film and we're

talking about a language that's made up for an

Australian film back in the late 70s early 80s

I think something's been lost in translation

here because It's not just that they say this

is jerking time. The people that say that throughout

the movie at two different times are the kids.

And it's very off -putting to hear these five

and six and eight and nine -year -olds say this

is jerking time. What did they mean by that?

I don't understand. This is nonsense time? This

is joking around time? I was very thrown off

by that phrase. But they know how to say what

the fuck. Yeah, they don't know how to use some

of the language, but they do know the phrase

what the fuck. Kids. So they didn't need they

didn't say that backwards what the fuck came

out exactly like it should have so that was interesting

What did you say the kids reminded you of There

was once there was not just the Lost Boys But

one specific kid reminded you of he looked like

the human version of an Ewok he had like little

buck teeth and He looked exactly he probably

could have I think he was transplanted from Endor

to the Mad Max setting. Like, I think he was

on Endor with the Ewoks, he was friends with

the Ewoks, or he got separated, like, in some

kind of an evolutionary chain. Like, if he would

have stayed on Endor, he would have became an

Ewok, but he got in with these Lost Boys, so

he became a human boy. I don't know. He's like

the Pinocchio of Ewoks? Yeah. And obviously,

there's a... Originally, like, right in the beginning

of the film, when Mel Gibson is figuring out

what's what, he has to go underground, kind of,

to figure out... Undercover to find out what's

happening with this whole master blaster thing

which ends up with him in a fight in the Thunderdome

with blaster One half of the team of master blaster

and we get a fight in the Thunderdome with ropes

and spring like things and weapons and harnesses

What was your take on the actual Thunderdome

battle had you ever seen anything like that?

He was freaking lame. Have you ever seen the

cage match in wrestling? They could have done

something better like made the Thunderdome taller

or Why do they? Why were they fighting on those?

You know trapeze harness my thought is I'm trying

to put myself in Mel Gibson's head When that's

happening because it's like it's all built up

like this epic You know mano -a -mano fight like

two will enter and one one will leave type thing

and Then they get in there and it's all like,

you know There's gonna be weapons here and there

and you can choose your own weapons or you can

grab whatever weapons you can get to it's just

gonna be an all -out brawl and then they start

to attach you to a harness and at that point

if I'm the hell gives and I'm saying what what

is this? Like I would thought we were just gonna

fight like he was like swinging him around like

yeah, he's like dancing with spinning them It

was like a try. It was like one of those like

I think I saw them Yeah, it's not an America's

Got Talent a couple years ago. I think the re

the reimagining of this But turns out he's fighting

the kid with Down syndrome. Yeah. Spoiler alert

for those that haven't seen this film in 20 years.

No, I'm just kidding. But yeah, obviously the

reveal of him being a Down syndrome kid, but

that didn't help because he got killed anyways.

So not this is the second time we've had, uh,

you remember when we called the guys from road

warrior retarded this, this guy is the guy that

we weren't trying to offend. Like this is an

actual handicapped individual. The guy from the

second film was an actual retarded person So

that's the separation there And then obviously

we find out that Tina Turner's character is not

as good as we are led to believe at the beginning

and that leads an all -out battle between Tina

Turner and Mel Gibson's character where she banishes

him They do the Wheel of Death, or whatever you

want to call it, the Wheel of Luck, where you

get to spin this wheel and just about every category

was terrible. And he got banished to the Gulag,

and he got sent out into the desert where the

Lost Boys find him and take him. It's very much

similar to Peter Pan, I think, at that point.

It's like a combination of Lord of the Flies

and The Lost Boys from Peter Pan. He said Wendy's

a bitch with a twitchy ass eye. Oh my goodness,

that girl's eye was going crazy and we talked

about the moment where the feral kid in the second

movie chucks the boomerang and freaking kills

that guy in the forehead and then takes off the

other guy's fingers and how it was like something

we weren't prepared for. Alright, so this dumb

girl... About to wander into the desert to her

to her impending death with a pregnant girl.

That's about to pop Yeah, apparently a pregnant

girl. That's about to pop um they could say that

phrase, too Who's baby is this? There was some

older guys there. There was some there was a

couple teenagers in that group both guys and

girls It was blue lagoon. We got so many crossovers

in this film blue lagoon Ewoks? Anyway. So anyways,

this dumb girl is about to just walk into her

death and Mel Gibson decides to take the rifle

and shoot a warning shot, to which she doesn't

listen. So he takes the rifle and shoots another

warning shot, to which they start to throw spears

at Mel Gibson's character. And then Mel Gibson

walks up to this girl and talk about moments

that we weren't prepared for. punches this girl

smack in the face. Thinks about it for a second.

He stops. Let's her think about it for a second.

He cocks his arm, stops and says, this is a girl

and then his second thought is, but I'm in the

middle of nowhere and these are all kids and

they don't know that I can't hit a girl. And

he pops her in the face, then ties her up, puts

a stick in her mouth so she can't talk. This

shit got real. Real fast. It got real real fast

We're gonna stay here. I'm gonna be grateful.

I actually had to stop the movie Rewind it and

watch it again Because I could not stop laughing

at the fact that Mel Gibson just punched this

bitch in the face We also had the ghost face

killer as you call them. Dude, Ghost Face Kill

a Lost Boy. Yeah, he becomes like post -Ghost

Face later on in the film, but in the beginning

he is definitely Ghost Face Kill a Lost Boy.

He never says a fucking word, but just does the

most badass shit. Okay, we just got way too vulgar

for no reason here. Just kidding. Anyways, they

all got crazy names, and it was a lot to take

in. You also said that you thought Mel Gibson

reminded you of somebody at some point. He had

this whole Assassin's Creed look going on this

leather pants and this like flowy skirt thing

and Yeah, um and we also had some weird -looking

guys back in barter town. We had the midget guy

that was on top of the Down syndrome guy. Like,

how did this pair come to power? I would just

like to know the origin story of Beyond Thunder

Goal. First of all, we were breaking barriers

way before anything. We have an African American

female that took over of the above ground. Part

of barter town and then we got a Down syndrome

giant with a midget on his shoulder that took

control of the underground Send your hate mail

to me. She's not a part of this. But anyways,

this is a weird society in this post -apocalyptic

Mad Max world and Then the people that are surrounding

these guys we got the one guy that has the chick

from the grudge above his shoulder with the hair

like hitting him in the face all the time like

he was crazy he he reminded me of both someone

from the second movie and someone from the first

he reminded me of the guy the one half of the

homosexual couple from the second movie The Balder

one that doesn't die with the boomerang to his

face. And then he also reminds me of the guy

in the truck at the beginning of the first Mad

Max film that's just going insane and yelling

things. Like the Knight Rider or whatever. He

reminds me of both those guys. This dude was

crazy, but apparently was super strong because

there's a scene where he's doing a post -apocalyptic

version of an arm wrestle. but they're pulling

on chains. And the guy he's pulling against looks

like Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was like Mr.

Olympian. And this guy looks like... nobody.

He's like a flabby little asshole. Yeah, like

he does not look like he's that strong and he's

kicking this dude's ass in this... in this...

feet of strength or whatever they're doing. Um,

then there's also the big fat guy with like the

monocle or whatever. He doesn't really have a

monocle, but that's what he reminds me of. I

don't think he had a monocle. That was like,

um... One of her main henchmen that initially

takes Mad Max to her and then there's like the

creepy MC That has all the famous lines about

the Thunderdome and it's dying time and stuff

like that that dude was creepy So there's a lot

of it as creepy as the costumes were in the second

one are the actual characters in this one and

you get to hear them talk and you get to interact

with them. You see that the craziness of their

environment has really taken root in their psyches

and there's no order and no sanity. And like

you said we do have also the connection between

the pilot from the second movie so there's some

continuity there and his son. Which they don't

touch on where the mom is or if the mom was even

that chick that he left. with from the second

movie or? Remember babies and moms in this franchise

can disappear even throughout a single movie

and we don't need to know where they're at. I'm

sure a few people out there wish their baby mamas

would definitely disappear. Yeah. And we did

talk about the land of the pigs down there too,

that the underground land was fueled with pigs.

Pig killer. And that the pig, the methane from

the pigs is what fueled this whole place and

what not. But anyways. I thought that was cows.

It's pigs also. It's all manure basically. Pig

shit. Cow shit. No, it works the same. So let's

break this down then. As we wrap this whole trilogy

up and we get ready for Mad Max Fury Road, what

place does Beyond Thunderdome hold? Is it better

or worse than the other two you've seen so far?

I like it better, definitely. I feel like there

was things going on that I could follow, even

though there was a lot going on that I... really

had no idea what was going on or I mean he he

was in barter town now he's made his way to this

other little Lord of the Flies colony going on

now the land of the cracked earth I believe is

what they call it okay so he's out in the middle

of the desert land of the cracked earth he's

in the desert yeah he wanders away there and

then he finds his way back To barter town. To

barter town. He breaks out of barter town. It's

the only city I think in the world, so it's gonna

light up the sky at some point. At least in Australia.

Yeah. In Sydney. I thought that the scene of

Sydney was really cool. Oh yeah, at the end when

they're flying over, that's a cool scene. But

what didn't you understand about him getting

back? What I didn't understand is where all these

frickin' kids came from. Well they came from

that - And where's all the adults? Well they

had the plane crash that was there. So at one

point that plane - they kinda talk about it when

they're going through the - the weird language

of the Tellian story thing, kind of how they

make it there. We do the tales. I don't want

to try to quote it and get it wrong, but, I mean,

there's a reason why they're there and in connection

with the plane crash and everything like that,

and that's just kind of a place where they developed

and stayed because that's the only place they

knew, and they were afraid of going across the

desert too far until Mel Gibson's character gets

there. So, I mean, I don't think there's too

much that you need to know about that besides

the... They've just been surviving there for

at least a few years. I don't know what the youngest

child is. It seems like they're about four maybe.

Like the youngest kid in that group is about

four. So you can kind of sense that they've been

there for two, three, four years at the most.

Kind of living on their own. Yeah, but then the

parents go, okay, you guys stay here. We'll be

back. Chill. Nobody left a couple parents in

charge. No, I don't think there was any I don't

think there was I think there was very limited

number of adults in the original grouping of

that and it was mainly mainly kids and very few

adults so the few adults had died off trying

to Help them or in the crash or something like

that. I Don't know. I'd have to rewatch it very

carefully listening to those tales, but So you

like it better than both of them. What score

would you give it? Oh, I'd give it a three Okay,

I was at, let's see, two and a half for the first

one, three for this one, or for the second one.

I would definitely be up to at least a three

and a half on this one. I'd give this one a seven

out of ten. This is definitely my favorite one.

I know a lot of people like the Road Warrior

the best, but I am of, even as a kid, I like

to be on Thunderdome better, and I like it better

here too. And we didn't even talk about the music,

but obviously you've had a chance to hear the

music as you listen along here, and goodness,

that's a great song. I don't need another hero.

But I do want to know why that song was chosen

because doesn't seem to make any sense It's like

the kids are saying I don't need another hero,

but then they do need Mad Max because he saves

their lives They do need to know the way home,

so that song doesn't really quite fit, but it

sounds great So we have that all right, so that

is it for our main attraction. We're looking

forward to go and seeing Mad Max Fury Road as

is everybody as this is coming out. It's out

in the theater So go see it and we'll be talking

about it next week. We'll be we can't get enough

Mad Max talk So one more time next week. So looking

ahead to DVDs that are coming out this next week.

We have blu -ray releases of hot tub time machine

2 We have girlhood Cymbeline the big one American

sniper for everybody that wants to see that is

out on blu -ray and we have poltergeist 2 and

3 in preparation for the next installment in

that franchise. And like I said, theater releases,

Mad Max, Fury Road is the big one. We also alluded

to Pitch Perfect 2 being something that's coming

out to theaters. There's actually quite a few

other films that are coming out either straight

to on demand or in the theater, so in a movie

called Area 51. Every Secret Thing, which is

that creepy film with Dakota Fanning and that

other girl who, like, killed... one of their

friends or something, and then they're still

crazy. The Slenderman shit? Yeah, it's got Elizabeth

Banks, Dianne Layne, Dakota Fanning, and then

another creepy little girl. That film is coming

out. Good Kill, which is from Gattaca director

Andrew Nickell, who reunites with Ethan Hawke

for a drama about the human costs of advanced

war technology. A movie called I'll See You In

My Dreams, a film called The Surface starring

Sean Astin. A film called The Connection, and

I'll give you the description here because it's

kind of interesting. Directed and co -written

by Cedric Jimenez, The Connection was entirely

shot on 35mm and is the European flipside to

William Friedkin's The French Connection. A stylish

70's period crime thriller inspired by true events,

it tells the story of real life Marseille magistrate

Pierre... Michelle and his relentless crusade

as it's dismantled the most notorious drug smuggling

operation in history the French connection We

have the Michael Fassbender joint slow west hitting

some limited theaters a sci -fi film Yeah, I

do too a sci -fi film called time -lapse a film

called absolution and the only thing you need

to know about that one is it starring Steven

Seagal in the name of my daughter echoes of war

and and Shake the Dust and Where Hope Grows.

Where Hope Grows is kind of an interesting tale

about a baseball player who has panic attacks

at the plate and kind of what happens with that

and what happens with his career and his life

following that. So that's what's being released

in theater or on demand this week that you can

look for. As far as a question for next week,

I don't know if I've given you a chance. Have

I given you a chance yet to ask one of our questions?

Continue with the Mad Max and let us know what

your favorite Mad Max out of the three would

be. So don't count Fury Road if you've already

seen it, but which of the first three is your

favorite? How rank the Mad Max films? So Fury

for Road Warrior, Beyond Thunderdome, and the

original Mad Max. What are the best and the worst

in that trilogy? So that's it for now. Thanks

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