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Happy Halloween on this episode 
of Queen's video we discuss 

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aliens. 
We also review Alien, Earth, 

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Frankenstein, Chainsaw Man, and 
1 Battle after Another Spooky. 

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Hit record What? 
What should we call this? 

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Just our Halloween episode. 
Well, I think it is. 

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It's our spooky, scary 
Halloween. 

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Episode Welcome to Coils and 
Goons to an extra spooky 

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episode. 
Of Queens video. 

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We're never doing that again. 
That was horrific. 

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I'm count Carl Swanson. 
You made you made it spooky by 

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just being a count. 
Yeah, I guess that is I'm, I'm, 

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I'm a Republican Senator Brian 
Griffin. 

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The Republican centers are from 
Oklahoma. 

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Oh, we're we're. 
No, no, no. 

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It would be the Republican 
senator from Pennsylvania. 

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Dumb dumb. 
Keep workshopping it, we'll get 

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an intro out of this yet. 
What's this T-shirt that you're 

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wearing? 
I love. 

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It, oh, it's my, it's my, it's 
scream, but it's, it's 

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Screamface saying no. 
You hang up. 

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Yeah. 
I just watched that actually at 

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the Halloween party. 
The original Scream. 

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Yeah, yeah. 
Our friends Matt and Johnny have

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a kick ass backyard. 
They put up a like a blanket and

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had everybody like sitting along
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stuff and projected scream in 
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Scream people remember it as a 
funny movie. 

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It's fucking terrifying as well.
It's genuinely a scary fucked up

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movie. 
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was really the best environment 
for me to rewatch it in. 

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Like there was a lot else going 
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So I was, I wasn't quite like 
1st in it. 

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Yeah, but it is a little. 
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It's well clearly we're both 
fans. 

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Huge, huge fans. 
Yes, yeah, yeah, Carl, we've got

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a lot of spooky season shit 
lined up here. 

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It's true, and we've got one 
thing that we've been saving 

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for. 
This episode is a special thing 

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to discuss because the TV series
Alien Earth finally came out and

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I think that, yeah, we obviously
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We did Alien as our 7th episode 
of our podcast. 

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So yeah, Brian, what did you 
think of Alien Earth? 

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On FX, no, you're right, Carl. 
We are Alien fans, some of us 

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bigger fans than others it would
seem. 

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How so? 
You liked it? 

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You've primed me for a potential
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have. 
I loved it. 

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I thought it was really wild. 
I thought it was cool. 

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I loved how different it was. 
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it later, but this franchise is 
so fascinating for reinventing 

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itself. 
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evolving and, and like going in 
new directions. 

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And I think I think like you 
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which is Romulus, which is 
great. 

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And then something like this, 
which is actually just a step 

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forward. 
I absolutely love that. 

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It's it's a whole new vibe. 
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like, I mean, the, the, the step
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there. 
Like this one is set on Earth. 

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It's about a evil corporation 
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spaceship onto Earth that has an
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it, and has. 
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Has a lot of other aliens in it 
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of the central premise of the 
show is that the kind of next 

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big frontier in in in tech on 
Earth in like 100 or so whatever

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years is going to be like the 
search for like human 

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immortality. 
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is that they're like making 
these like robots that can, you 

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can upload your consciousness 
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then you'll, you'll be alive in 
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your life. 
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They were born human, but they 
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Yeah, and the, the, the kind of 
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it's still in the beta testing 
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So the, the, the people that get
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So like the main characters of 
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5, 5 or 6 kids that are all like
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they're on this island and 
there's a trillionaire kid who's

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an absolute Elon Musk nut case. 
I love him and. 

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He's like fighting with 
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And there's, like, you know, 
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It's the best in it, by the way,
the best he does. 

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Fantastic. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

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But yeah, it's, it's like what, 
10 episodes? 

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And over the course of the 
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spaceship crash, There's fights 
in in, you know, the city the 

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alien kills. 
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there's an alien episode, 
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I think that was the best 
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The best episode is that one 
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the ship. 
When you know like the the the 

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ship is coming home and 
everything goes to hell. 

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Yeah, and that there is there is
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have been very tired and just 
being this Alien again. 

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But it's actually a very good 
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straight up excellent like it 
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It does new things, it has new 
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basically is just Alien in in a 
good way. 

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That was kind of my feeling 
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is like there were a lot of 
really great episodes and a 

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really a lot of really great 
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But in the end, I just wasn't 
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season ended and how the story 
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And not just the fact that it 
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didn't think was deserved. 
I also thought like the last few

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episodes were all set on this 
like tropical island in the 

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daytime and, and like it had 
this this thing where it was 

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just like really well lit and 
the alien was kind of out in the

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jungle and trees and stuff and 
it just lost all of the tone and

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fear. 
Disagree and everything really. 

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You. 
You disagree. 

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No, I I agree. 
I agree that that it's 

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different. 
I agree that that that like 

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Alien is usually said in the 
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And so I really loved that they 
brought Alien out into the 

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sunlight onto the Tropic. 
To me I I I thought it was a 

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really refreshing take and and 
it was needed because I'm sick 

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and looking at a HRG bunch of 
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in shadows. 
I just think, and maybe this is 

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a spoiler, but I just think it 
wasn't that scary to have the 

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like, it wasn't that scary. 
I just don't think that the 

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alien looked like a Predator 
outside and sort of not like a 

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Predator capital people. 
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I mean like in that way that 
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people in the jungle in Jurassic
Park and they are like, they are

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predators slinking through the 
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That alien is just a guy in 
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You know, like it loses a bit of
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Or at least it did for me. 
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I one thing I really appreciate 
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the makeup, the design was 
really impressive, like maybe 

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the most impressive aliens ever 
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So I loved seeing the detail of 
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don't know if it was a man in a 
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I think they probably went old 
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and they probably did a bit of 
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it just was impressive to me. 
I thought they did a great job. 

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This show had fucking limitless 
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Mean like all these TV shows do 
now everything has a 10 million 

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budget. 
Per so right and. 

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They just, you know, shower in 
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But what did you think though of
kind of like the fundamental 

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story, Like what did you, how 
did you think about how they 

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mixed that story into the like 
Alien franchise? 

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I, I, I liked it. 
I thought it was really curious 

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choice. 
Like the thing with the kids is 

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a real is a big swing. 
So that's it. 

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It's interesting. 
I'm not ready to have an opinion

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about it yet because I, like 
you, was a little unsatisfied 

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story wise at the end. 
And I think that's because this 

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was maybe designed to be a mini 
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said no. 
Let's make it a a long form 

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thing. 
Well, what's his name? 

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Oh, who was the director? 
Noah Hawley. 

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Yeah, Noah Hawley and Fargo is 
famously like a miniseries. 

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Yeah. 
He's like, each one is 

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different. 
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And I was kind of hoping that 
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do with this. 
That would be cool too if the 

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next one wasn't alien Earth. 
It was like Alien. 

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Well, if it was alien Earth, but
like a moon part of Earth or 

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whatever. 
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was, I felt like it, it had this
vibe of like he had this story 

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that he wanted to tell about, 
you know, kids in adult Android 

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bodies. 
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told, Disney and FX were like, 
OK, well, you have to make it an

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alien thing. 
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add Alien to this other story. 
Right, Yeah, yeah, no. 

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And he's such a great talent and
I'll watch every fucking thing 

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he makes till the very. 
End. 

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I'm terrible. 
I got to see Fargo. 

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Oh, and Legion, you might love 
Legion. 

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Oh. 
Yeah, it's. 

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Excellent. 
It's like a it's it's just like 

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alien. 
They years ago Fox gave him a 

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bunch of money to make an X-Men 
spinoff and it's just a Noah 

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Holly show on steroids. 
But it does have mutants in it 

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and it's set in the future and 
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It's a who's the guy? 
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and fuck, I can't think he's 
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He's he's plays Charles Xavier 
son, basically who, who is 

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Legion, who is, who has a mental
health issue but is very 

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powerful. 
So he's a very dangerous person.

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Well, listen, if you can 
remember who plays Charles 

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Xavier's son in Legion right in 
to Queen's 

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videopodcastgmail.com. 
Yeah, Ian, Ian, where is Ian? 

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So behind the scenes info is Ian
is getting a massage right now. 

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He's probably going to come 
through the door at some point 

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during this recording, so stay 
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His name is Dan. 
Fuck, it's going to kill me. 

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Dan fuck, Dan fuck please. 
Dan fuck face. 

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No Dan Stevens. 
Oh, Dan Stevens. 

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Oh, from Downton Abbey. 
Yes, from Downton Abbey, man, 

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come on. 
Among other things, yes. 

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Listen, we have another big 
movie to talk about and this is 

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another one that we have both 
seen because Brian, you and I 

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have done our homework before 
this episode and we have seen 

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Guillermo del Toro's 
Frankenstein. 

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Advance fucking screenings, yo. 
These two Guillermo del Toro 

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heads? 
Yeah, got their asses into an 

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advanced screening at the TIF 
light box for Frankenstein I. 

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Don't think it was an advanced 
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I think it's out, but no listen.
Listen, no, it's out limited 

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though, so not everyone can see 
this movie. 

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So, so just appreciate that we 
saw it, OK. 

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We've seen it and you haven't. 
Exactly. 

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What is Brian? 
Can you tell the audience what 

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the story of Frankenstein is 0. 
Frankenstein is the story of a 

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very How would you describe 
Frankenstein? 

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Well, Frankenstein is is a like,
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surgeon, guy who wants. 
Obsessed unhealthily with death,

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and so sets it his his mandate 
in life to discover a way to 

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circum circumvent the death 
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Together a bunch of corpses and 
hitting them with a lightning 

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bolt. 
Yeah, and it works. 

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And it works too well. 
It works too well and then he 

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basically abandons his creature 
and it's a fascinating study on 

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fathers and sons and and and 
what it is to be loved and what 

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it is. 
Like hubris and like, like 

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thinking that you're smarter 
than God and getting like, you 

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know, getting getting your ass. 
Kicked and rejection like what 

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it is to be rejected. 
And yeah, it's a, it's a, it's 

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a, it's a big story. 
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getting just being told over and
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There's always a new angle. 
Yeah, this is based off of the 

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Mary Shelley book Obviously 
Frankenstein, which. 

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Or the modern day Prometheus. 
Prometheus, have you? 

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You've read it right. 
Yes, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 

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What? 
Did you think of Frankenstein 

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the book? 
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university. 
I loved it. 

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When I read it, I was, I was 
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I was like, this is great. 
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the classics at one point, so I 
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Dracula, I thought was very 
boring. 

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I didn't. 
I didn't. 

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Dracula it was. 
Boring too. 

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book kicks ass. 
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of its time, Yeah. 
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author and she's like, like, 
yeah, yeah. 

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It just it. 
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compellingly. 
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Guillermo del Toro was making 
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was then going to hem much 
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interested about that because 
like there's some fantastic 

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visuals in like Frankenstein, 
the book of him, you know, like 

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of the monster being this like 
like like lanky blonde haired 

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thing hunching through the woods
and the whole all the set stuff 

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in like the North Pole and 
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And so I was very interested to 
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going to do with all of that 
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And I think it's just so 
exciting when someone is given a

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big budget to do what they want.
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clear that it's a passion 
project that it's like it's near

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and dear and that it's been 
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And it's great. 
I love that this is this is the 

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only reason why Netflix exists 
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things because sometimes our 
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And that's the deal, right? 
He's in a, He's in a production 

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contract with. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 

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And that's why we got that 
Pinocchio movie. 

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Right. 
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Pinocchio, which. 
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Phenomenal, yeah. 
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foil to the Pinocchio movie 
because like, because that 

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Pinocchio movie was all 
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Guillermo del Toro, who is 
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fantastically visually creative 
person like he is as a designer.

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He's really cool and in 
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kind of pour that into 
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little bit, it's not that he 
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like you you need to make kind 
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him to be in. 
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watching the movie to see where 
you would get those kind of 

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Guillermo del Toro 
embellishment. 

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Yeah. 
You know, like, like the, the 

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cool coffins or the cool statues
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Frankenstein's tower that you 
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He's working the unreality of 
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Like, you just know this isn't 
the world we live in or ever 

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lived in. 
It's not really a period piece. 

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It's just another fantasy world 
completely in Guillermo del 

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Toro's hands. 
Any other film makers? 

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Like, yeah, it's set in 18, 
whatever. 

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And I'm going to research what 
it looked like back then in all 

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the costumes. 
Kira Toro's like, no, I know. 

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I have an idea. 
We have what it looked like back

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then and I wanted to look like 
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that possible. 
It's almost like a steampunk 

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like vision of it in a weird way
sometimes. 

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Very which and that fits great 
for Frankenstein. 

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Yeah, Yes, exactly. 
Yeah. 

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Let's talk about the cast 
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What did you think of the 
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I love them all. 
I mean, I think we were talking 

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about it for we we started about
the melodramatic elements of it 

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and it has. 
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story thing of like sometimes 
like characters are just loudly 

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like yelling and pontificating 
at each other in this very like 

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like theatrical. 
I wouldn't say unnatural, I'd 

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say theatrical. 
It works, it's fun, it's weird. 

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I, I think I think it's really 
cool. 

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Like I don't think this spoils 
anything, but the film is in two

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parts. 
The first part is Frankenstein's

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version of the story, Victor 
Frankenstein's, and the second 

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is Frankenstein's creatures 
version of the story. 

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And I think starting it with 
Frankenstein was a really good 

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choice because Oscar Isaac is 
not likable. 

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He's he's not, he's not wanting 
to be likable. 

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And so that over the top 
melodrama and stuff like that, 

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it works to slowly build the 
audience to dislike him so that 

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when it comes to that break and 
we switch gears and we get to 

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Frankenstein's creature. 
To me, Jacob already steals the 

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show. 
I, I, I think he, I think it's 

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not that he steals the show. 
I think he's given the show. 

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I think everybody knows how this
film is going to work. 

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And so they they, they know. 
So everyone's playing not shit. 

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But like I would say over the 
like, maybe Oscar Isaac is 

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deliberately overstating. 
He's he's a Dick. 

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He's like a, he's a yeah. 
Like he's the he's. 

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He's arrogant, he's he's he's 
obnoxious, he's rude and and and

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the monsters, even the 
performance is very like over 

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the top and and in your face. 
Jacob Lori famously like was 

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last minute replacement for 
Andrew Garfield. 

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He really kind of, you know, 
they got him, got him going and 

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he picked it up right away. 
I can't even imagine it without 

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him. 
He really was phenomenal. 

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And the makeup like the the 
design for him, like he's like 

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naked and a large portions of it
and his design is phenomenal. 

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What's that squeaking? 
Knots, Mama, It's Canada's 

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husband. 
Ian O'Connor is back. 

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From Queens Video. 
We're just telling everybody how

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much we liked Frankenstein. 
Brian, though, why don't you 

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tell everybody how much you 
liked Chainsaw Man? 

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Love me some Chainsaw Man. 
So Chainsaw Man came out over 

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this weekend. 
I've been looking forward to it 

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for a while. 
Anime's been making huge splash 

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in the US market. 
So film, theatrical film in 

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particular, is sort of a dying 
art. 

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It's not doing well. 
The box office is languishing. 

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So it's great to see new 
categories coming up and and 

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doing well. 
So I don't know what is a demon 

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Slayer is the thing the last 
thing, no demon. 

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 
Demon Demon Slayer is breaking 

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box a broke box office records. 
I think it made $660 million 

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globally at the box office, 
which is insane money. 

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So Chainsaw Man can't really 
make that, but it is so fucking 

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excellent. 
Chainsaw Man is a great anime 

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series. 
So this. 

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Is the movie. 
It's the. 

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It's the. 
It's the. 

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It's a movie. 
Picture of the of the TV show. 

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Yeah, it's a it's like a movie 
sequel to the first season of 

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the TV show. 
They do that with anime a lot 

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like you can probably bebop 
movie The Neon. 

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Genesis Evangelion. 
Movie, all that kind of stuff. 

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Both of those are excellent 
examples. 

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Like I actually think there's a 
whole, like there's a industry 

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of them where they don't work, 
they're not that great. 

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But Chainsaw Man blew me away. 
So I had the opportunity to see 

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it in four DXI. 
Would never watch it in any 

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other format ever again. 
It's so phenomenal, like just 

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getting, you know, anytime 
there's like a big anime pop and

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someone like swings out their 
sword dramatically and the chair

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just like flies all over the 
place. 

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It was not so it was so much fun
and it was I, I, I don't know if

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I've ever seen like a 2D 
animated movie in 3D before. 

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It weirdly works interestingly. 
Yeah. 

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Do they make it like do they do 
they round out the figures or do

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they make it kind of like flat? 
No it. 

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Pains at different. 
Yeah, it's it's more like 

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foreground, background. 
And you know what it's like it's

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anime. 
So like there's there's like a 

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tornado demon at the end. 
And so like that is phenomenal. 

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And yeah, true, truly. 
I've never seen anything like 

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it. 
It blew me away. 

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It was beautiful to see the 
opening scene. 

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So Chainsaw Man is about a 
teenager who can summon a a 

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chainsaw demon and just 
chainsaws come out of his head 

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and he fights other demons. 
It's quite simple. 

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It's not not not like a it's 
blade, but with chainsaw man, 

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but it's disgusting and horny. 
So he's a 16 year old boy and 

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he's always like bartering for 
sex. 

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It's very weird. 
OK, This film was so cute, like 

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the first like half hour of the 
movie, No chainsaws, nothing. 

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It was almost like not anything 
to do with, you know, the action

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genre, that that genre was its 
own weird, cute, insular story 

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of like a little, a little cute.
16 year old couple getting 

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together and going on dates and 
then the shit hits the fan and 

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like the last hour is literally 
a glorious fucking descent into 

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chaos. 
Amazing. 

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Or accent. 
It's wild, yeah. 

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Is it the kind of thing you need
to have watched the show or 

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could you go into the movie? 
I don't know how your 

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understanding would be of the 
dynamics if you, if you, if you 

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hadn't seen the show. 
I, I truly don't know. 

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I, I, I think it think it might 
be a struggle for sure. 

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Yeah. 
But highly recommend. 

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It's great. 
Maybe I got to go watch the show

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and then go watch the movie. 
I would highly recommend it. 

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I haven't had an experience like
that in years. 

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Phenomenal, yeah. 
Listen, the last thing we got to

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talk about before we get to the 
meat of the aliens discussion 

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here is that we both saw a cute 
little cute little movie called 

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1 Battle after another. 
Little I need you to amend your 

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your your description there's. 
Big movie, A big movie. 

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Paul Thomas Anderson's new film 
1 Battle After Another, starring

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Leonardo DiCaprio. 
And who else is in that? 

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Everybody. 
'S I pronounce you ridiculous? 

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Yeah. 
I yeah. 

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Who else is in it? 
It's it's true. 

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Oh oh, oh. 
Who's the Cindy that's? 

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Bone, This is the best. 
Everyone loves this. 

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And it's that. 
Yeah. 

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Regina Hall. 
Oh my God, I did. 

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I was looking at her as like who
is that? 

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I know I know her and I love her
but I can't. 

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And I nearly hit the roof when I
realized that she's. 

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Doing somebody else was saying 
this like she's she's got a good

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kind of dramatic turn lately. 
Yeah, yeah, been. 

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Doing a bunch of kind of non, 
you know, like obviously if you 

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if your experience with her is 
is scary movie, yeah, you're 

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just like, yeah, she's she's a 
she's a clown, like a really 

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good clown. 
Easy to judge that, but I think 

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it it takes a good actor to be a
clown. 

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Like it takes range. 
It actually might take more 

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talent, but watching her in 
this, she's undoubtedly 

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incredibly fucking talented. 
So OK, one battle after another,

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we'll back up here. 1 Battle 
after another is the story of 

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Leonardo Dicaprio's Bob and 
Tiana Taylor is Perfidia. 

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Profida Profidia Beverly from 
the 75 I can't remember. 

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Fuck. 
Something like that anyway. 

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They are like, they're, they're 
like freedom fighters, terrorist

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people that are like fighting 
against a guy, like a government

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that is very loosely almost 
exactly like kind of what is 

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going on in America, right? 
Now uncanny, do you think that 

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was on purpose or do you think 
that was a happy? 

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Coincidence. 
I think it's a happy coincidence

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because they would have had to 
start the production of this. 

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Years ago. 
Years ago, yeah. 

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And it is. 
Very precious and they're 

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breaking like immigrants out of 
an ICE detention. 

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Unfortunately, that's where it's
the most fantastical because I 

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don't think that's even 
possible, but yeah. 

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But I mean like, but then then 
the story of the movie is is 

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like they they get split up. 
Like she ends up going as an 

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informant. 
She has a baby and the baby. 

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Like if she has this weird 
psychosexual relationship with. 

451
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:04,480
Sean Penn. 
Sean Penn. 

452
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,520
Who is also excellent in this 
movie. 

453
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,360
Like he plays chilling. 
Chilling. 

454
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:13,240
He plays Colonel Stephen J 
Lockjaw, who is like the ice 

455
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:18,480
Colonel and this arch like white
supremacist like who then 

456
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,280
fathers the child. 
And then, like many years later,

457
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,240
it kind of The movie catches 
back up with Leonardo DiCaprio 

458
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,280
living off the grid, raising 
their daughter. 

459
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,280
And, and it's, it's a father 
daughter story. 

460
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,680
That's the the, the, the crux of
the film is that relationship, 

461
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,440
more or less. 
And it's, it's just an action 

462
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:37,840
movie. 
It's just a thriller. 

463
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,600
Like, I mean, the title is the 
title is also the description of

464
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,280
the pacing of the movie. 
Like it's, it's nobody is ever 

465
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,360
safe, nobody is ever out of 
danger. 

466
00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:50,320
And so it's kind of the the the 
story and the situation of the 

467
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,800
characters is just. 
It's nerve wracking. 

468
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,880
Yeah, nerve wracking, kind of 
constant apprehension and and 

469
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,840
like constant, you know, Yeah, 
constant tension is awesome. 

470
00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,320
There's a scene where, like, 
people are being executed. 

471
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,160
And I remember, like, the 
tension for that scene wasn't 

472
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:05,360
so. 
Yeah. 

473
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,720
In the middle of the cinema, I 
was so fucking embarrassed 

474
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,200
because, like, someone just got 
shot, like very suddenly and I 

475
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,480
would like, like, fucking hit 
the ceiling. 

476
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,720
I was so I was like, Oh no, 
nobody, please, nobody. 

477
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,320
Look at me please. 
We were talking about this too. 

478
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,440
It has one of the best car 
chases we've seen. 

479
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:26,280
In the car, the car chase, I 
nearly lost my life watching in 

480
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:30,240
in in a good way 'cause I was so
excited for how fresh it was, 

481
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:34,760
for how exciting and cool and 
just cinematic and glorious it 

482
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,560
was. 
One of those classic action 

483
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:41,720
pieces that is simultaneously 
very exciting and never not 

484
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,680
perfect for the story. 
Yeah, Also ahead of me. 

485
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:48,000
Like, yeah, like one step ahead 
of me, the audience. 

486
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,000
Like that never happened. 
When you've seen as many films 

487
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,400
as as we probably have, it's 
it's really hard to surprise. 

488
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,960
And my God, that sequence just 
was one surprise after another. 

489
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:02,560
One surprise. 
After another dum dum, dum dum. 

490
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,480
We should go to a break on that 
because that was too perfect. 

491
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,280
But yeah, anything else to say? 
1 battle after another. 

492
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,720
No, loved it, loved it. 
Get out there. 

493
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,640
Film of the year to go. 
Go do it. 

494
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:16,640
Go. 
And while you're seeing that, we

495
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,960
are going to take a quick break,
we'll be right back. 

496
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,800
Because I want to start us off, 
I want to ask, you've probably 

497
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,480
seen this film that we're about 
to talk about multiple times. 

498
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,800
Before we reveal what the movie 
is, estimate how many times have

499
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,800
you seen this movie? 
But we have revealed the movie 

500
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,320
like multiple times. 
Yeah, it's, yeah, we're, yeah, 

501
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,480
absolutely. 
We're, we're, we're looking at 

502
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,720
1982. 
So this is part of the 1982 mega

503
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:13,600
summer where all the best 
classic cult movies came out all

504
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,480
at once 1980. 
Two No. 

505
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,440
This is 1986, what am I saying? 
Yeah, this isn't part of the 

506
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:24,920
1982 summer. 1986 Aliens 1986 
rated R2 Hours 17 minutes. 

507
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,080
So forget which was. 
Summer shit that I just said. 

508
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,840
But it was a big summer. 
I'm, I'll, we'll just ask Ian 

509
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:35,640
what other movies came out that 
summer 1886 in but it was a Top 

510
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,880
Gun, OK, Top Gun came out that 
summer. 

511
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,080
Crocodile Dundee came out that 
summer. 

512
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:41,920
I'm sorry you're talking about 
good movies. 

513
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,680
No, I'm talking about movies. 
OK. 

514
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,440
Thank you. 
Because I think Top Gun and I, 

515
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,080
I, I, I think Top Gun was the 
biggest grossing movie. 

516
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,240
Crocodile Dundee was the second 
biggest, grossing those. 

517
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,320
Two films are both. 
And then and then behind that 

518
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,440
was aliens. 
Yeah, aliens. 

519
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,000
Fucking classic. 
The reason. 

520
00:26:58,120 --> 00:26:59,440
The reason why we're probably 
nervous. 

521
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:03,520
I saw this on Halloween night 
when I was like 10 years of age.

522
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:05,680
Years ago, in the 90s. 
Yeah. 

523
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:08,400
Rough estimate. 
How many times have you seen 

524
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,840
this movie? 
I would say probably like 

525
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,400
honestly six or seven, yeah, 
like maybe two or three times 

526
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,120
when I was a kid, Definitely two
or three times with the course 

527
00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:20,080
of when I was an adult. 
I did a couple of. 

528
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:25,000
I saw it once as a double 
feature in the Bloor Cinema of 

529
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:26,880
Alien and Aliens. 
Cool. 

530
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,000
Back. 
And that was a blast. 

531
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,640
Yeah, I have it on DVD, so I've 
done a couple. 

532
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,040
Of you have the special 
editions. 

533
00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:36,400
Yeah, I have. 
I have that Alien quadrilogy, 

534
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,680
which actually I think we 
touched on this in the in the 

535
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,320
seventh episode where we talked 
about Alien. 

536
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,280
We're going to do some overlap 
I'd rather fear. 

537
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,640
No, we're not going to. 
We're I, I listened to the 

538
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,120
episode before this. 
So we'll try to, we won't 

539
00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:48,360
overlap. 
We'll build on it. 

540
00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:51,120
OK, we'll do some fun callbacks.
So we never do any fun callbacks

541
00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:52,880
to previous episodes. 
Yeah, that's true. 

542
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,520
That's true. 
So like this one, like this 

543
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,760
Alien, when we watched it, we 
watched the director's cut, 

544
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,640
which was nice and fresh way to 
look at it. 

545
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,360
I rewatched the special edition,
which I'd seen before. 

546
00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:05,320
Oh, yeah, I really love this 
special edition. 

547
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,400
And I think I didn't like it. 
I felt that that director's cut,

548
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,600
that was shit. 
It's shit to call it a 

549
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,280
director's cut because I don't 
think it truly was a director's 

550
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,240
cut. 
Listen, before we get into 

551
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,880
discussions of edits of the 
movie, let's just go over the 

552
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,280
story of Aliens here, which 
obviously for those of you who 

553
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:25,760
have been listening name to 
Queen's video. 

554
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,920
You all watched Alien, the story
that you know, movie about, you 

555
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:35,360
know, Alien getting on a 
spaceship and hijinks ensue and 

556
00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:37,760
the only person that makes it 
alive is Ellen Ripley, played by

557
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,080
Sigourney Weaver. 
So at the beginning of Aliens, 

558
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,920
they wake her up, she gets 
debriefed by the company, has a 

559
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:49,880
shitty meeting with HR and then 
is told by Paul Reiser that the 

560
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:54,480
contact has gone out of the with
the the colony that they made on

561
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,280
the planet where they found the 
original alien. 

562
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:57,680
And Paul is her friend. 
We. 

563
00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:58,480
We should. 
Be clear. 

564
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,520
I mean, everybody's her friend. 
Of course he's her friend. 

565
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,040
He's he works in corporate. 
He's. 

566
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,760
And we're we're all a family 
here. 

567
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,440
At Wayland Dutani. 
You know, and, and really, 

568
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,560
Ripley, we don't find you 
personally responsible for the 

569
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,280
millions of dollars in damage 
that happened when you blew up. 

570
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:13,960
That, but she could be 
responsible. 

571
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,120
Some might see it that way. 
Well, and so then they they way 

572
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,800
you know, he's it's like, well, 
you got to come help us find out

573
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,960
what happened with this colony 
that went offline and she's 

574
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,320
like, only if you're going back 
there to kill it. 

575
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,120
So they. 
She's a reluctant hero. 

576
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,960
She does not want to go back 
into this situation at all. 

577
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:34,920
And she goes there with her, her
cabal of Space Marines who are 

578
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,040
really fun characters. 
Oh, they're the best. 

579
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,600
Great. 
Great batch of like, you know, 

580
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,400
marine characters. 
Great. 

581
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,280
Even the bit ones that aren't in
it that long are just fun. 

582
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,640
Just well fleshed out, well 
acted. 

583
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,400
And then and they all get 
horribly murdered. 

584
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,440
Yeah. 
And then, yeah, there is a 

585
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:57,240
there's a robot that's their 
companion Bishop, played by 

586
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,840
Lance Henrickson. 
Classic Bishop is a classic. 

587
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:03,600
There's a charming little kid 
who's the surviving, only 

588
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,040
surviving colonist. 
But she has a British accent 

589
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:07,360
anyway. 
She does. 

590
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,800
They mostly come out at night 
noosely. 

591
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,840
Ripley. 
I fucking love Newt. 

592
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,760
We'll discuss Newt later, but 
like, I've always loved nude as 

593
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,400
a character. 
She's a little bit like, like, I

594
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,920
don't know. 
She's not like she's a troubled 

595
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,120
kid and like she's going to 
challenge the Gorney Weaver. 

596
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,320
She's not like a Mary Sue. 
She's a challenging child. 

597
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,360
Yeah. 
So then anyway, of course, like 

598
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,880
it's like, you know, when they 
get to the planet, everything 

599
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:37,440
falls to shit and they have to, 
you know, somehow, somehow get 

600
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:43,080
away and survive and, you know, 
survive the shitty situation 

601
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,520
that corporate has put them in, 
which I think is something that 

602
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,880
we can all empathize with. 
Yeah, yeah. 

603
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:49,080
So. 
What? 

604
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,600
You were saying you were 
watching the special edition. 

605
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,480
Yeah, so the, the, the James 
Cameron. 

606
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,360
So when they were doing these, 
these special edition DVD's back

607
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,800
in the day, yeah, James Cameron 
was offered, you know. 

608
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,120
Who is James Cameron? 
He is a Dick. 

609
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,440
We've covered him previously. 
Go listen to. 

610
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:15,480
So he was given the opportunity 
to release a director's vision 

611
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,960
and he was like, no, no, no, I 
don't want to ever call it a 

612
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,200
director's cut because it 
implies that that what we 

613
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,960
released is lesser. 
Ridley Scott did not make that 

614
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,120
choice. 
He elected to make a director's 

615
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,040
cut. 
And I call Shade because that 

616
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,840
director's cut, what put back in
is actually garbage to me. 

617
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,280
It's not useful at all to the 
film. 

618
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,480
It's very superfluous and I 
can't think it kind of damaged 

619
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,720
my experience of rewatching it. 
I was like, oh, I didn't like 

620
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,120
the movie that time because of 
that superfluous nonsense. 

621
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:46,240
But I really like the additions 
in the the James Cameron stuff. 

622
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,680
So and that's that's what that's
like the there's a little bit of

623
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:50,920
back. 
Story for you. 

624
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,720
Yeah, and like there's an 
establishing scene on the colony

625
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,600
before everything. 
Goes to hell and it's great. 

626
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:01,200
More character work for Ripley. 
She has her daughter and she 

627
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:02,720
understands has just passed 
away. 

628
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,200
Yeah, she's very sad and tragic,
but also adds depth and layers 

629
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:11,160
to to Ridley's, Ripley's 
relationship with Newt as well. 

630
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:16,160
So it just really hammers home 
the the, the whatever the 

631
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,400
maternal themes of the film, 
which are very strong. 

632
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,760
And then there's also a few more
bits of action, right? 

633
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,000
Like, aren't there the aliens 
and the aliens, you know, 

634
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,680
getting gunned down by the gun 
turrets? 

635
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,040
There's that I can live without,
but it's fun. 

636
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,720
It's fun. 
It's it's, it's, it's 

637
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,440
interesting. 
None of it's terrible. 

638
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,360
None of it looks cheap and 
garbage like in Alien the 

639
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:41,520
director's, but it's all good 
and it's all cut originally just

640
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,640
for pacing I think. 
Yeah, but it enhances the films.

641
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,840
I didn't watch, I just watched 
the the theatrical release. 

642
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:50,000
Also phenomenal. 
Well. 

643
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,280
I think, you know, when we're 
talking about these directors 

644
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,440
cuts and special editions, I 
like we were talking before we 

645
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,280
were rolling about, you know, 
how important it is sometimes to

646
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,880
have a producer be like, Oh 
yeah, no, we're cutting this. 

647
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:03,640
This is this is not the best 
idea. 

648
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,320
It's like I keep saying it's the
George Lucas in the prequel 

649
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,720
trilogy problem where it's like,
you can't actually just have yes

650
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,200
men around you all the time. 
True. 

651
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,280
And and sometimes they're like, 
there are nice bits of pacing 

652
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,480
that you can you can help with 
with one final edit. 

653
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,920
That's just like, no, let's this
doesn't actually serve the 

654
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,440
story. 
Let's let's take it out. 

655
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,520
Let's, you know, do these kinds 
of things. 

656
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:26,960
Yeah. 
And. 

657
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:28,280
You know, do you know what they 
say? 

658
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,880
You you make the film three 
times, You'd make it when you're

659
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,560
writing the screenplay, you 
remake the entire thing from 

660
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,440
scratch when you're shooting it,
and then you remake again in the

661
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,800
edit. 
Like you make 3 films and 

662
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,120
they're all completely 
different. 

663
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,440
Well, and So what do you think 
then in terms of comparing this 

664
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:49,520
movie to the first Alien? 
What do you think of the 

665
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,040
distinctions there? 
Oh, it's really hard to compare 

666
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,080
you asshole. 
That's a really tough question 

667
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,280
because it's it it enters a new 
category. 

668
00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:00,320
I think what's wise about this 
movie is it really is a we're 

669
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,160
not doing that movie again. 
We're doing another movie. 

670
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,920
We're going in a new direction. 
We're going forwards, not not 

671
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,360
backwards again, which I really 
respect. 

672
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,120
And that's why I love this 
franchise. 

673
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,239
It's always I, I think I said it
earlier, but like it's always 

674
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,400
remaking itself. 
It's always doing something 

675
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,639
different. 
Even like a Prometheus is wild, 

676
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,520
totally different to anything 
that came before. 

677
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:26,159
And I love that Romulus, I love 
it, but it is a nostalgia fest. 

678
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:30,480
It's it's, it's, it's, it's 
holding itself back by doing 

679
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,239
that. 
But Aliens is the like the 

680
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,520
sequel coming out the gate like 
that and doing that sets this 

681
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,520
franchise up to be super 
ambitious. 

682
00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:42,040
And it is to this day enduring 
an ambitious and it pays off. 

683
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,280
It always is an excellent 
experience. 

684
00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:48,400
It has some fun kind of 
structural like beyond the 

685
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,840
obvious obvious similarities 
like it's still about, you know?

686
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,560
And face. 
Huggers and chess bursters and 

687
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,560
all that kind of stuff and, you 
know, hatching eggs like, yeah, 

688
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,000
you know, and, and spaceships 
and those kinds of things. 

689
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,360
It also like it. 
It does some very smart 

690
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,440
structural callbacks to the. 1st
movie homages. 

691
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:10,880
Yeah, like the whole opening 
sequence matches the opening 

692
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,160
sequence of the first movie of 
like a ship drifting through 

693
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,320
space. 
You know, the camera club fault 

694
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,120
like goes in and and you see 
somebody in a sleeping pod and 

695
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,280
then like and that's all that's 
all like. 

696
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:24,840
Even the sound design, the. 
Same. 

697
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,160
Yeah, yeah, a lot of the same 
they, I mean it. 

698
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,440
We'll maybe talk about the score
later, but a lot of the score is

699
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,640
the same because James Cameron 
just didn't like the score that 

700
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:34,880
got written. 
So he was like, fuck it, I'm 

701
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,320
just going to put a bunch of 
this stuff in. 

702
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,160
We're putting in James Horn. 
Who thinks in the first one? 

703
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,640
Yeah, well, James Cameron is a 
very difficult man to work with,

704
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:42,640
and if he doesn't like what 
you're. 

705
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,400
Doing That's a shame because I'm
writing. 

706
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,680
I love the music musical score 
for Aliens. 

707
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,840
I think it's iconic and 
brilliant. 

708
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,000
Yeah, but I can see why he would
be annoyed with him. 

709
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:52,920
Well, I mean, because he's James
Cameron. 

710
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,000
He's annoyed by everything. 
Can I give you one piece of 

711
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,680
interesting film trivia? 
Not trivia, but knowledge 

712
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,040
please. 
Do you know that opening 

713
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:02,560
sequence? 
You know the little laser light 

714
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:06,120
that comes through? 
That laser light is actually in 

715
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:10,080
the original Alien and was 
created by That laser light is 

716
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,360
created by the production 
designer of Alien and it's used 

717
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,680
a lot in like, you know, in like
shows and stuff like that where 

718
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,440
they put smoke out and they put 
a laser through it, a line of 

719
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,280
lasers, and it looks really 
dramatic and cool. 

720
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,400
So Anton first developed that 
technology. 

721
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:31,840
Anton First was the production 
designer of Tim Burtons Batman 

722
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,800
and was criminally like 
depressed while making that film

723
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,160
and committed suicide before 
that film came out. 

724
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:44,040
So like, yeah, so the production
design of that film is like part

725
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,920
of, you know, how he was feeling
at the time and it shows. 

726
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,640
The production design in that 
didn't Tim Burton's Batman is 

727
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,360
very dark, very dreary, even 
darker than any of the other 

728
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:54,880
Batman movies, and that's saying
something. 

729
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:56,920
Aliens. 
I forget the name of the the 

730
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,240
sound stage or the the stage 
that was filmed on. 

731
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,520
In in Britain, right? 
Yes, in Britain and the the 

732
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,280
climactic scene of aliens is 
filmed in a power plant that 

733
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,640
then was the same power plant 
that was used in the filming of 

734
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:13,960
Batman. 
Wow, Wild. 

735
00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:15,880
That's wild. 
Yeah. 

736
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,160
What is the name of that? 
It's a famous studio. 

737
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,040
Oh yeah. 
Everything is filmed there and 

738
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,440
yeah, it's like a legendary 
thing, something like that. 

739
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:24,720
Did they do the bomb? 
It doesn't matter. 

740
00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:27,200
We're not going to get it. 
Funny, we had a producer here. 

741
00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:32,000
We're trying to think of the the
famous studio in England. 

742
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,680
Where, what is it? 
Ellersley. 

743
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,120
Ellersley Studio. 
Ellersley Studios could be, I 

744
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:38,920
don't know now. 
Now you're saying that I'm like 

745
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,760
completely second guessing. 
Do I even know this at all well?

746
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,360
Listen if you know the name of 
the studio right into 

747
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:48,080
queensvideopodcast@gmail.com 
because there is somebody 

748
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,200
screaming at their podcast 
headphones right now being like,

749
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,280
you idiots, Why would you do 
this, like without knowing the 

750
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,280
name of the thing? 
And the answer is because we 

751
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:57,800
just want some audience 
involvement. 

752
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,240
How the fuck are we supposed to 
know everything? 

753
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,400
I'm going to get us. 
I see it as my responsibility 

754
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,480
because I got us off track. 
I'm going to put us back on 

755
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:04,840
track. 
Ealing. 

756
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,440
Studio EAL Oh yeah, Pinewood 
maybe, is what I. 

757
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:14,600
Was saying yeah, well, listen. 
Those other alien like original 

758
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:18,040
alien flourishes. 
My favorite is at the end where 

759
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:19,320
sorry I may be getting ahead of 
it. 

760
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,080
No, no, no. 
I wanted to talk about this too.

761
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,200
At the end where they're running
around and there's like the 

762
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:30,520
woman is like very calmly just 
being like explosion event, yes.

763
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,880
Well, and it doesn't so that and
that's the movie ends in the 

764
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:37,200
same way that the first alien. 
There's a. 

765
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:42,000
Countdown There's a run through 
the I the the station slash the.

766
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,760
Fat and it's a fake. 
Out there's there's a fake out 

767
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,880
where they get to safety and 
then all of a sudden there's an 

768
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:47,920
alien on the thing. 
Yeah. 

769
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:49,600
And then they all go to sleep at
the. 

770
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:50,520
End. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

771
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,480
And it's very like, I mean, it's
not, it doesn't hit you over the

772
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,240
head with it. 
And it's not a case of like, oh,

773
00:38:55,240 --> 00:38:57,960
brother, they're just, you know,
they're, they're stealing from 

774
00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,720
the better first movie. 
It's just a case of like, 

775
00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:01,200
there's a structure to this 
story. 

776
00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:02,440
Yeah. 
And we're playing inside that 

777
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,000
structure. 
Well, it's an enhancement. 

778
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,760
It's to let you you know as well
that it has the same DNA as the 

779
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,200
original film. 
Like it's actually on purpose. 

780
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:10,160
Yeah. 
It's not stealing. 

781
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:10,760
You're dead. 
Right. 

782
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,800
It's it's a it's a conscious 
creative choice. 

783
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:15,760
That's brilliant. 
That works excellently. 

784
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:16,800
Yeah. 
Love it. 

785
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,960
Love, love that so much. 
Did you know that the scene 

786
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,240
where, you know, where they 
eject the alien at the very end?

787
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:24,400
No, no, no. 
It's the explosion. 

788
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,640
And the music's like dent, dent,
dent, dent, dent. 

789
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,040
Yeah. 
And they're going away from the 

790
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:32,880
like, nuked. 
Site. 

791
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,160
Yeah, I believe James Cameron 
hated that music, even though 

792
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,400
it's the most used music in 
trailers like that. 

793
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,400
That music was used in every 
single trailer during the like, 

794
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,400
1980s and 1990s. 
Yeah, yeah. 

795
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,880
I think it's also I was hearing 
that that effect is just a light

796
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,280
bulb behind a sheet of cotton. 
Fuck off. 

797
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,560
Yeah, that impressive explosion.
Because I was looking at it like

798
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,200
just last night and being like, 
whoa, how'd they do that? 

799
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,960
Well, listen, let's talk about I
actually do want to talk about 

800
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:02,520
how the effects look in this 
movie. 

801
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:03,960
So why don't we take a quick 
break? 

802
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,560
Yeah, gather our thoughts and 
we'll be right back. 

803
00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:41,240
So you're saying Carl Bishop is 
not a big bag of COM? 

804
00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:43,800
No, he's even grosser. 
He's a big bag of milk. 

805
00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:48,080
And then when they did all the 
like like Android slicing 

806
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,800
scenes, the set then stank like 
3 days afterwards because there 

807
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,760
was milk everywhere. 
Do you know if they did that for

808
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,520
Alien Three too? 
Because he's like, quite Milky 

809
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,720
in that movie too. 
I honestly I haven't. 

810
00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:01,320
No, I think they might have used
COM for Alien 3 maybe? 

811
00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:07,120
Welcome back to Queen's video. 
We were discussing the themes of

812
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,480
this movie. 
We're discussing special 

813
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:11,400
effects. 
But it's interesting. 

814
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,920
So because you said that like I 
was watching this on like the 

815
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:20,080
Disney plus streaming version of
it on like in 4K and everything.

816
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:24,120
And it's so funny how 4K fucks 
up some parts of these movies. 

817
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,200
Like it's like there's some the 
the inside stuff all looks 

818
00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:30,120
outstanding. 
Like other close-ups on, you 

819
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,120
know, the actors and all the 
sets and stuff. 

820
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,080
Like it looks like you're 
watching it in a movie theater 

821
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,360
and everything. 
Then there's the ones like like 

822
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,400
the. 
Go outside and it gets grainy. 

823
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:42,040
Yeah, and you can see the like, 
black lines around the ships and

824
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,280
things. 
There's also this like like this

825
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,480
movie and Terminator all have 
this James Cameron doing these 

826
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,960
like futuristic outdoor sets 
that are just dark and windy and

827
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,120
look like they were filmed in 
like an 8 by 8. 

828
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,400
Room Is it weird that I love 
that Carl like like I see that 

829
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,320
and it like stimulates my brain 
and I love it because it gives 

830
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,000
me comfort. 
I think it reminds me of a 

831
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,240
simpler time, but I I actually 
love seeing that in films. 

832
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:10,320
I guess I like, I think maybe it
would like it would be what you 

833
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,440
would have been used to seeing 
growing. 

834
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:12,960
Up. 
Yeah. 

835
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,760
Yeah, exactly. 
Yeah, it look, there are parts 

836
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,840
of it that look fantastic. 
There are parts of it where you 

837
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,400
can kind of suspend your 
disbelief because it's like a 

838
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,720
rear projection thing or they're
doing something cool like that. 

839
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:26,760
And then there are other parts 
of it where it's kind of that 

840
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,600
Blade Runner thing where the 
ships are moving like 

841
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:32,760
differently than the background 
behind it, and it just doesn't 

842
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,440
look all that great. 
But I mean, there's plenty in 

843
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:37,360
this that does look great. 
Yeah, fuck you, Carl. 

844
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:39,160
Well, you make a better movie 
then. 

845
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:43,560
No, like the alien queen 
puppetry effects. 

846
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,560
And the design like the alien 
Queen a bit different than and 

847
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:50,320
like not at all HR Giger, like 
they definitely went a different

848
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,600
approach. 
She's more visible. 

849
00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:56,760
She's designed to look more like
clear and well lit. 

850
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,360
She's designed to be well lit 
because they're very proud of 

851
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:03,680
the design and it's sleek. 
She's almost like, you know, 

852
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,400
alien looks fleshy. 
You know what I mean? 

853
00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:10,000
She doesn't. 
She looks almost metallic and 

854
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,280
and unreal in a weird. 
Way well and and but but very 

855
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:18,000
much still like like insectoid 
yeah, you know like like very 

856
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,800
when they were like hey, we need
a queen yeah and then they just 

857
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,880
made her like an alien queen 
yeah, but let's OK so this is 

858
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,800
actually a good launching point 
then to talk about the kind of 

859
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:33,120
themes of the movie. 
Well, but like video the Queens 

860
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,840
a a Queens of action, Queens of 
horror. 

861
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,280
So we know, we understand, we 
understand the Queen alien. 

862
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:45,120
Understand how hard it can be a 
queen it is to be a queen No, I 

863
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,120
think yeah the the kind of the 
biggest theme I would say of 

864
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,080
this movie is like motherhood. 
Absolutely, in a way that the 

865
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:55,040
first one like is is not like 
the first, the first movie has 

866
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,480
some, some big, you know, themes
of like kind of. 

867
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:01,320
Sexual. 
Violence, you know, kind of like

868
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:05,600
man versus nature and the, the 
kind of like, you know, the 

869
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:09,040
impossibility of, of, you know, 
overcoming nature when it's just

870
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,720
there to fucking kill you, that 
kind of thing. 

871
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,920
And this, this one, there are 
it's it's a very powerful movie 

872
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,440
about motherhood. 
It is, and it's not too cheesy 

873
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,080
about it, but it has. 
Really like it, like the the 

874
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,600
scenes that really hammer at 
home are the ones where like, 

875
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,120
she's tucking Newt in, you know,
and she's just like, like not 

876
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:32,520
just trying to save Newt, but 
like, you know, trying to, to 

877
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:35,200
keep her, Yeah, trying to keep 
her safe. 

878
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,320
It's one of those things like 
with filmmaking where it's it's 

879
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,840
you understand the person you've
cat where they are in their 

880
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:45,200
career and what they're doing. 
Like James Cameron looking at 

881
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,920
Sigourney Weaver is looking at 
someone who just broke out, 

882
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:51,520
who's doing phenomenal, is 
making like next big film and 

883
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:53,840
like is going forward is like 
pushing herself forward and 

884
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:55,160
doing something different every 
time. 

885
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:59,040
So he's knowing that she can 
grow the character, the Ellen 

886
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,600
Ripley from the first movie can 
grow and be a bigger character. 

887
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,680
And it's an opportunity. 
He probably just saw an A 

888
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:09,040
tremendous opportunity and like 
probably campaigned for her to, 

889
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,760
to, to be, you know, cast in the
film as well. 

890
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,920
Yeah. 
Because some people, some some 

891
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:15,800
creatives throw the baby out 
with the bath. 

892
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:19,040
Water and they were I, I 
remember because they wanted to 

893
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,480
keep like the budget was for 
this was like 18 1/2. 

894
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:22,720
Still tiny? 
Yeah. 

895
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,320
Tiny budget and they were like, 
they didn't necessarily want 

896
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,680
Sigourney Weaver back because 
they thought that she would ask 

897
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:28,760
for too much money. 
Yeah. 

898
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,080
And so her salary for this was 
1,000,000 and A and a piece of 

899
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,040
the box office, which is still 
like. 

900
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,520
Obviously that's pretty big. 
But like, she did it like it was

901
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:40,120
such a good play that then she 
ended up getting a Best actress 

902
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:41,480
nomination. 
For her. 

903
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,840
Performance in Aliens. 
Sigourney Weaver was nominated 

904
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:46,480
for Best actress. 
Deservedly so. 

905
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,600
You're right. 
It is a it is a very good 

906
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:50,680
performance. 
Yeah, it it works. 

907
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:54,280
And and like, you can't, you 
can't have, you can't have that 

908
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,120
in that movie because of her, 
because of who she was at the 

909
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,560
time as well. 
I was going to say though about 

910
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,360
the kind of like motherhood 
thing, like somebody I I heard 

911
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:06,280
somebody describe the difference
between alien and aliens is like

912
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:14,040
the alien is about risking your 
life to save your life and 

913
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,720
aliens is about risking your 
life to save somebody elses. 

914
00:46:17,720 --> 00:46:19,080
Life, right? 
Yeah, it is. 

915
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:20,360
It is. 
And it's cute. 

916
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,440
There's little details in it 
that really hammer home that 

917
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:27,560
like it's she is always pushing 
her out of the way or like 

918
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,520
trying to save her. 
And like the last act of the 

919
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,960
film is really they're going 
into hell. 

920
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,040
They're like basically we just, 
it doesn't matter. 

921
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:37,280
We just have to go in and get 
her. 

922
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,280
And there's no even question. 
No one chickens out. 

923
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,080
There's no plot point of you 
can't go. 

924
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,000
But in there, it's dangerous. 
Everyone's just like. 

925
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:44,640
Well. 
We're going in, yeah. 

926
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,360
Because everybody else is dead 
by that point. 

927
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:47,640
Yeah. 
Except for Michael Bean. 

928
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,760
Charming Michael Bean. 
There's there are these cute 

929
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:54,680
little moments of romance in 
Aliens that are like, they're so

930
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,320
they're not played big, but it's
like, I love the. 

931
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,200
I love the scene of of. 
Oh. 

932
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,400
And what is Michael Bean's 
character's name in this? 

933
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:03,920
Hicks. 
Yeah, I love Hicks teaching 

934
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,040
Ripley how to use the gun. 
Yeah. 

935
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,680
You know, because they're like, 
like, he's, he's, he's holding, 

936
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,120
like he's behind her. 
And they're clearly like, you 

937
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,280
know, like, you know, like up 
against each other. 

938
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,920
And it's just flirty in a 
really, like, fun, natural way. 

939
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,960
And then there's even the one of
like Vasquez and the other and 

940
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:22,680
the blonde Marine are always 
kind of they're they're they're 

941
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,280
clearly they they're clearly 
like flirting with each other 

942
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,280
and not in a big way. 
They're always just kind of like

943
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,480
competing with each other and 
like, and, and, you know, like, 

944
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:30,480
like. 
That's great. 

945
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,640
Vasquez is a great character as 
well. 

946
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:33,760
Yeah. 
What's her face? 

947
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:38,640
Jeanine no Jeanette. 
Goldstein, Jeanette. 

948
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,520
Goldstein. 
Jeanine is her character's name 

949
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:43,640
in Terminator 2. 
Well, I mean, and it's kind of 

950
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,840
it like, and this is, this is a 
great one because Jim Cameron 

951
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:50,520
brings in his like, pinch 
hitters from the Terminator. 

952
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,200
Yeah. 
Which which makes me question 

953
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:55,720
that is he a Dick Lance? 
All these people come back to 

954
00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:57,840
work with him. 
Well, I may get the page. 

955
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:59,120
But I mean, yeah, Lance 
Hendrickson. 

956
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:04,840
Michael Bean. 
Michael Bean, Bill Paxton and 

957
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,320
Jeanette Goldstein. 
And Bill like, yeah, although 

958
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,480
like I did look at Jeanette 
Goldstein makeup and I was like,

959
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:16,440
did they fully like put her in? 
Like yeah, like they they gave. 

960
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:20,400
Her I never even thought about. 
Her so that she would look more 

961
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:24,960
like Latin American. 
Oh, somebody write into Queen's 

962
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:26,640
video and tell us if that's the 
truth. 

963
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:28,280
Actually, you know what? 
I'd rather not know. 

964
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:30,920
Don't tell me. 
Yeah, if it's problematic, if 

965
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,440
it's problematic, we don't want 
to know. 

966
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,480
I mean, we do want to know. 
But no, it was the 80s. 

967
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:37,760
We have to be a bit kinder. 
It was a different time back 

968
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:39,440
then. 
Because she's fantastic and 

969
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:40,800
she's so Butch and she's so 
cool. 

970
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:45,040
She's great and and and like for
years I never really made the 

971
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,880
connection that they were the 
same person that no, that she. 

972
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:49,280
Disappears into the role? 
Yeah. 

973
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,800
She also disappears under a role
of very dark foundation. 

974
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,240
Stop so. 
Yeah, the the cast said this is 

975
00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:58,080
phenomenal. 
Yeah, I'm really happy with it. 

976
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,720
The other theme though, that I 
keep thinking like now that I'm 

977
00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:04,760
an adult and work in a corporate
world, I think that there would 

978
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:09,360
be a very interesting like like 
Marxist theory of Labor kind of 

979
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:10,880
reading of this whole. 
Movie. 

980
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:12,440
Oh yeah. 
Like and that's. 

981
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,800
What? 
I think there was a version of 

982
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,960
Alien Three that was going to 
explore that. 

983
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,360
Well, and a lot of the other 
movies then coming down the 

984
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:23,040
line, yeah, really do explore 
that, like, like a big, big 

985
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:27,360
thing, like a big thematic 
element of later alien stuff. 

986
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,040
And even like it's in the first 
one, but they really get into 

987
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,440
the second one. 
How, like corporate is out to 

988
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:34,640
get you. 
Yeah, you know, like there is 

989
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,120
the people that own the 
companies and the means of 

990
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:41,960
production will like throw the 
workers out, literally cast 

991
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,880
their lives aside to make money.
And that's something that 

992
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,080
obviously is a thing. 
The the first movie, like we 

993
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:51,480
talked about this in the in the 
podcast, how kind of like the 

994
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:53,920
the first movie is just about 
like truckers, like it's about 

995
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,000
like it's about blue collar 
workers, you know, get become 

996
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,560
being a victim of like a 
terrible. 

997
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,080
And a company makes a quick 
calculation, decides it can make

998
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:04,000
more money with them dead than 
being alive. 

999
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:05,840
Than alive. 
And this one does that again and

1000
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:09,040
and like then they actually kind
of put a corporate avatar in the

1001
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:12,520
movie of what's his face. 
Yeah. 

1002
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:13,920
What is his name? 
Parker Burke. 

1003
00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:16,280
Burke. 
Not Parker. 

1004
00:50:16,720 --> 00:50:19,760
There's Parker the cat. 
Oh, I can't even remember. 

1005
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,120
No, the cat is Jonesy. 
Parker's from the first film. 

1006
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:25,800
Sorry, I'm all turned around. 
Anyway, anyway, Burke Burke is 

1007
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,800
not just not just a shitty 
corporate middle man, but he's 

1008
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:35,160
actively like he he opens up the
head the OR the the. 

1009
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:40,400
The cryo the the tube that the 
the head the the chest bursters 

1010
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:41,520
in. 
No, but they're not called. 

1011
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:43,760
Those aren't chest burgers. 
Face huggers, face Huggers. 

1012
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,960
That's head crabs. 
Is half life Face huggers is is 

1013
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:48,680
alien. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 

1014
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,280
And he is like actively in the. 
And then like when they're in 

1015
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:54,280
the room, he's not in the room 
and the aliens are chasing them,

1016
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,640
he like, locks the door to try 
to kill them because. 

1017
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,400
They said. 
Yeah, yeah. 

1018
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,720
But even then, like at the 
beginning of the at the 

1019
00:51:00,720 --> 00:51:03,320
beginning, the one of the very 
first scenes of the movie is her

1020
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:07,400
in a meeting after she has been 
her entire crew has been killed 

1021
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,680
by an alien. 
She's only barely survived and 

1022
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,240
has had to like blow up the ship
in order to do so. 

1023
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:16,400
And all of her, you know, like, 
like HR corporate meeting people

1024
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,560
are just like, well, I mean, we 
don't have any proof that this 

1025
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,200
actually happened. 
She's like, what proof is right 

1026
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:22,960
here? 
I'm telling you. 

1027
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:24,680
Yeah, yeah. 
And they're like, well, really 

1028
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:26,840
all that you're telling us is 
that you blew up millions of 

1029
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,800
dollars worth of our property. 
So it's just, yeah, like there's

1030
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:34,160
like to add to the layers of 
meaning in Alien is this whole 

1031
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:38,240
kind of exploitation and labor 
and capital and this like kind 

1032
00:51:38,240 --> 00:51:42,560
of very anti corporate message 
that like James Cameron loves an

1033
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:45,720
anti corporate message. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. 

1034
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:49,240
I think in the 80s that maybe it
was whatever was going on in LA 

1035
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:51,320
at the time, but like, they 
really hated. 

1036
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:53,600
Well, they hated America. 
Yeah. 

1037
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:57,360
Like, look at RoboCop like that.
That is that is like a complete 

1038
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,120
satire of America. 
So was aliens. 

1039
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,960
But I mean, like, like the 80s 
is Ronald Reagan, the 80s is, 

1040
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:08,520
is, is like deregulation. 
It's like, it's like this is the

1041
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:12,400
the flip side of all of that is 
Ghostbusters where like the 

1042
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:16,320
heroes of Ghostbusters are going
against like government 

1043
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:19,680
regulation. 
They're they're like the DEA is 

1044
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:22,560
the bad guys in, in 
Ghostbusters. 

1045
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:26,800
They're just these like, small, 
like small businessmen trying to

1046
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,440
like, you know, make a buck. 
And the government is always on 

1047
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:30,240
their ass. 
Yeah. 

1048
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:33,040
And Sigourney Weaver is also in 
Ghostbusters. 

1049
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:38,400
Well, 80s icon, yeah, very sexy.
And it one thing that always 

1050
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:42,840
strikes me about this movie that
I fucking love, there comes a 

1051
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:47,280
point in this movie where it 
becomes it can start wrapping 

1052
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:51,440
up. 
So like once Newt is after the 

1053
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:55,000
the chest or the face hugger 
scene, I feel like any kind of 

1054
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,560
rescue that happens after that. 
It could be wrapping up the 

1055
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:01,720
movie and said they're upping 
the ante for more action and 

1056
00:53:01,720 --> 00:53:04,680
more action and more action. 
And it's becomes like a 

1057
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:10,080
thrilling, relentless, like 
roller coaster of energy that's 

1058
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:12,640
really unmatched. 
Like it, it, it, it's, it's so 

1059
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:15,560
amazing what they do. 
Like they just go from set piece

1060
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:18,760
to set piece and each set piece 
is bigger than the last one to 

1061
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:20,640
the point where you think 
they're safe in their, in their 

1062
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:22,960
ship and you're like, there's no
more weird set pieces. 

1063
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:26,040
No, there's an airlock and a 
giant fucking queen out of 

1064
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:27,640
nowhere. 
You said roller coaster, and 

1065
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:29,960
that's the same words that Roger
Ebert used. 

1066
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:31,280
Really. 
Roger Ebert said. 

1067
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:35,720
Like if the first alien is a 
haunted house, the second alien 

1068
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:37,880
aliens. 
Is a roller coaster. 

1069
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:41,000
Oh my God, that guy so good. 
Yeah, I I would not. 

1070
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:43,520
Be and it's true. 
There's I like I counted it is 

1071
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:49,560
one hour of pure action from 
when Ripley and Newt wake up and

1072
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:51,920
the the face huggers are out to 
the end of the. 

1073
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:54,880
Movie yeah, yeah. 
And it's phenomenal and it never

1074
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,800
wait out stays it's welcome. 
No, it and it's so interesting 

1075
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,600
too, because like that it 
actually means like it's a slow 

1076
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:05,720
movie to start like like there's
there's it it doesn't get going 

1077
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:10,240
kind of like in. 
It broods a little bit. 

1078
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,040
No way. 
You like the And it doesn't. 

1079
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:15,240
The first action sequence is 
when the Marines are going down 

1080
00:54:15,240 --> 00:54:17,200
into that hive after they land 
on the thing. 

1081
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,240
Yeah. 
And that's even like, like half 

1082
00:54:19,240 --> 00:54:20,640
an hour after they land on the 
planet. 

1083
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:23,040
Yeah. 
Like, like there's, it's, it's 

1084
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:25,440
not a movie that panders to the 
audience. 

1085
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:31,040
At all Yeah yeah, and I guess 
but a film that budget can 

1086
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:33,560
afford to do take risks like 
that. 

1087
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:38,040
I think like a smaller budget 
yeah, I think this would be like

1088
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:41,840
18,000,000 would be AI think 
it's mid size back then it's mid

1089
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:43,120
size. 
Obviously these days it's 

1090
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:45,880
considered small budget, but 
that's a mid size budget. 

1091
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,840
But they're pulling off a bigger
movie, you know what I mean? 

1092
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:50,720
Like they're making it's the 
Matrix. 

1093
00:54:50,720 --> 00:54:53,960
The Matrix was pretty modestly 
budget, but it looked 

1094
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:57,400
phenomenal, like the effects 
yeah, really impressed and like 

1095
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:02,040
looked like look, look the part.
So it's elevated to to a bigger 

1096
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:05,320
class of bigger budget. 
Yeah. 

1097
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,080
We'll say the timeline of this 
is very interesting. 

1098
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:10,760
Like it was very delayed. 
Like they were obviously looking

1099
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:14,600
to make a sequel immediately 
after Alien was a big hit and it

1100
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:17,360
was a big like that one. 
That one made like $70 million 

1101
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:21,240
in the 70s. 
And it took them many years and 

1102
00:55:21,240 --> 00:55:24,280
many iterations and many like 
pauses to do stuff. 

1103
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:28,720
And then James Cameron was 
involved with Terminator and 

1104
00:55:28,720 --> 00:55:31,000
they had to wait to do 
Terminator because Arnold 

1105
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,280
Schwarzenegger was involved with
the Conan sequel. 

1106
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:35,440
And that's when James Cameron 
wrote script. 

1107
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:38,160
And then, and then it took them 
a while to get more financing 

1108
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:41,720
for Alien and, and everything. 
So, and, but I mean, then like 

1109
00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:44,640
at that point, obviously like 
Alien, the first Alien made a 

1110
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:47,840
ton of money and the Terminator 
also made a ton of money. 

1111
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:51,120
So it's very, you know, 
interesting that that they only 

1112
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:54,320
gave this one, you know, like 
$18,000,000 to be made. 

1113
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:58,280
And James Cameron, Dick though 
he may be, managed to pull off 

1114
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:01,880
the chute in the right, like, 
without going overtime and 

1115
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:04,560
without going over budget. 
Yeah, you know, absolutely. 

1116
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:06,960
And that's, I guess that's why 
people get then that's why they 

1117
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,200
trust him to make whatever he 
wants now, because. 

1118
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:13,040
He literally just is given it. 
They throw cash at him. 

1119
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,120
Yeah, and and he'll get us cash 
back. 

1120
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:16,520
Yeah. 
Well, and I mean, now he 

1121
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:18,720
probably has most of the cash 
himself that he can just kind of

1122
00:56:18,720 --> 00:56:20,480
do whatever. 
Yeah, yeah, he can. 

1123
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:23,240
I think he does produce his own 
stuff, mostly documentary stuff.

1124
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:26,200
Yeah, he does a lot of water 
documentary things, but he likes

1125
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:29,640
water. 
He also likes women like I mean 

1126
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,600
this like I, I, I like watching 
all. 

1127
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:36,760
These many wives. 
Well, well, that too, but I, I 

1128
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:38,520
mean, I meant it more in like a 
character thing. 

1129
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:42,080
But yeah, he definitely like he 
married, he married, he married 

1130
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:46,160
Gayle and Heard, then dumped her
and then married ohh, Linda 

1131
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:48,880
Hamilton and then dumped her and
then married Catherine Bigelow 

1132
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:50,720
and then dumped her. 
Yeah, buddy. 

1133
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:53,680
Yeah, those are all great women.
They are. 

1134
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:55,880
They're fantastic. 
Well, and then and like, Ellen 

1135
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:57,280
Ripley is a great woman. 
Yeah. 

1136
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:01,200
And oh, what's Sarah Connor? 
Great woman. 

1137
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:04,520
Rose Dwipicator, Great woman. 
Rose what? 

1138
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:07,120
From Titanic. 
Oh Jesus, shut up, Carl. 

1139
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,880
I fucking love her, she's great.
I I don't like Titanic. 

1140
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:12,160
Famously, I don't like Titanic. 
There's there's a problem. 

1141
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:14,280
It might be me. 
Yeah, I don't think it is me. 

1142
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:16,600
I think that's a weird movie. 
Interesting. 

1143
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:17,840
Yeah. 
Is it interesting? 

1144
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,280
I always don't get why people 
like do you? 

1145
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:23,320
Would you put that on the same 
pedestal as you would something 

1146
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:24,840
like a Terminator 2 or an 
Aliens? 

1147
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:26,360
Yeah, absolutely. 
You're wrong. 

1148
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:28,760
It's fantastic. 
It's so corny. 

1149
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:31,200
It's. 
Well, yeah, but then like, first

1150
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,840
of all, it's romantic, and 
second of all, it's just like a 

1151
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:37,240
it it. 
It's a cheese ball fest. 

1152
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,600
Then the then. 
The boat so hammy awesome. 

1153
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:42,200
I know the boat sickly stuff is 
is is awesome. 

1154
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:46,040
I will say the action is great 
in it, but it's so hammy and 

1155
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:48,840
silly and goosey. 
I mean, Brian, if you can't open

1156
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:51,560
your heart up to love, then I 
can't help. 

1157
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:57,680
You. 
Listen while we, while we, I 

1158
00:57:57,680 --> 00:57:59,320
don't. 
Know should we just grab some 

1159
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:02,440
tea one and and and fucking 
chalk this fucking Titanic shit 

1160
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:04,320
out in the back for a bit? 
Let's do it. 

1161
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,840
Let's we'll we'll fight and 
we'll be right back. 

1162
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:40,360
Jesus, You know what, Carl? 
I don't know if I said this 

1163
00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:44,960
already on the the the the on 
the previous podcast. 

1164
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:49,240
Doesn't matter if you Remember 
Me saying this, just fucking 

1165
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:52,160
edit out. 
So when they were releasing The 

1166
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:57,960
Abyss and 4K recently, like on a
physical release, it got banned 

1167
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:04,240
in the UK because there's a 
scene in the Abyss where do you 

1168
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:07,240
know, this liquid that they 
actually use is real, this pink 

1169
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:10,440
liquid that you can actually 
breathe in underwater. 

1170
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:14,520
So they did that to a real life 
rat in the movie, like to 

1171
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:16,280
demonstrate it, but it's like 
it's cruel. 

1172
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:18,720
Like you can't do that to 
animals, you can't it. 

1173
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:24,440
And so the RSPCA different like 
the animal rights people in the 

1174
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:28,440
UK were like absolutely cannot 
do that and have a major problem

1175
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:29,440
with that film. 
Oh, wow. 

1176
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:33,480
So you're saying that the 
British government cares more 

1177
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:36,600
about the welfare of animals 
than it does the welfare of 

1178
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:41,640
trans people, and we're back. 
No. 

1179
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:44,680
Yeah. 
We'll, you know, leave it there.

1180
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:46,880
That was a good discussion of 
aliens. 

1181
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:49,840
Yeah, a lot. 
My brain always gets so tired 

1182
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:53,880
from our alien episodes because 
I'm number one. 

1183
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:56,840
I get over stimulated watching 
the movie and then I'm like 

1184
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:58,840
almost over stimulated talking 
about it. 

1185
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:02,040
I I like almost like oh, I don't
know what to not. 

1186
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:03,840
Say about the movie either, you 
know what I mean? 

1187
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:06,520
Like it's it's it's like, how do
I edit myself to to get my 

1188
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:08,680
thoughts across because I love 
alien so much. 

1189
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:12,720
We we should do like Alien 3 and
Alien Alien Resurrection. 

1190
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:14,880
We'll do it. 
I mean, we'll keep this podcast.

1191
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:18,040
Might as well, yeah. 
I like those are ones. 

1192
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:20,840
Those are I. 
I've only seen Alien Three one 

1193
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:22,600
time. 
I've seen Alien Resurrection a 

1194
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:25,680
couple of times. 
Fucking hate Alien Resurrection 

1195
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:28,800
really. 
It's the one Alien movie I do 

1196
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:30,040
not like. 
I kind of can't wait. 

1197
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:32,160
The rest of them I love. 
It has Brad Duriff. 

1198
01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:33,480
I love Brad Duriff. 
Yeah. 

1199
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:36,560
And he's great in it, Yeah. 
And it has that one shot of of 

1200
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:40,480
Ellen Ripley tossing the 
basketball over her shoulder. 

1201
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:42,360
Yeah, which is a real life, not 
an effect point. 

1202
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:45,280
Yeah. 
Also the the narrowly ending 

1203
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,440
where the alien gets sucked out 
the little hole in the window. 

1204
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:51,040
Yeah, yeah, it's so gross. 
But that's why I hate the movie.

1205
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:55,840
It's taste levels are fucking. 
Wacko no and the taste levels in

1206
01:00:55,960 --> 01:01:00,760
aliens are perfect. 
You know like even James Cameron

1207
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,840
doesn't do a ton of slow motion,
which I always kind of find 

1208
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:07,680
annoying The couple of times 
that it happens are are perfect 

1209
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:10,120
in this one. 
You know, like this movie, I, 

1210
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:14,560
you know, we've done a lot of 
comparison discussion of Aliens 

1211
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:17,480
as as it as it fits in the whole
franchise. 

1212
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:22,000
But in in terms of like specific
things I would say about this 

1213
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:26,080
are just that it is a perfect 
sequel. 

1214
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:29,680
It's it's filmic in a way that 
the rest of them or like the 

1215
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:31,840
first one isn't again. 
And now I'm now I'm comparing it

1216
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:34,600
again, but I always say like, I 
feel like Alien, you could do a 

1217
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:38,760
play of Alien and it would work.
You could put Alien on stage and

1218
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:42,160
it would and and you could make 
that work very well as a stage 

1219
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:45,400
play. 
Aliens has to be a movie. 

1220
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:48,480
Yeah. 
And it they nailed it's as a 

1221
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:49,400
movie. 
Yeah. 

1222
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:53,000
And I, I think it's James 
Cameron really knowing he had 

1223
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:55,040
something special, like he had a
good idea. 

1224
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:57,480
He had a great vision for how to
go forward. 

1225
01:01:57,640 --> 01:01:59,040
Yeah. 
I'll bet he was very driven and 

1226
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:00,560
very passionate about this 
project. 

1227
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:01,360
Yeah. 
Yeah. 

1228
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:03,600
Well, you know, excellent work 
of Canadian cinema. 

1229
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:06,000
Good job. 
Good job, Jim. 

1230
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:08,840
Now keep it going with the 
Avatar. 

1231
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:10,840
Fire and water. 
Yeah, I want to see aliens 

1232
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:12,720
energy here. 
Good luck with Avatar 14. 

1233
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:18,000
Good luck with your marriage. 
No, that's good luck with 

1234
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:20,080
Sharknado. 
Oh, I hope you stay married. 

1235
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:23,520
What are other choice lines 
from? 

1236
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:25,920
What like your tits look 
fantastic. 

1237
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:28,200
Oh thanks, yeah, same guy that 
did yours. 

1238
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:33,360
We'll put a link to this in the 
episode description, but this is

1239
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:33,960
just. 
Brian. 

1240
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:36,240
Being shitty. 
Listen, why don't we wrap it up 

1241
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:38,840
before we say something too 
offensive to James Cameron? 

1242
01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:43,240
Thank you, Carl. 
Thank you, Brian. 

1243
01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:53,200
Good night and good luck. 
We are VR. 

1244
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:55,760
We are VR troopers. 
Do you ever have that car? 

1245
01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:56,720
I have. 
No idea what you're talking. 

1246
01:02:56,720 --> 01:02:58,240
About they were a Power Rangers 
spin off. 

1247
01:02:58,240 --> 01:02:59,440
They were called the VR 
Troopers. 

1248
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:01,480
So exciting. 
Yeah, listen, the one thing I 

1249
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:03,880
wanted to say, we we finished 
this up, but this is after after

1250
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:05,800
the recording. 
One thing I wanted to talk about

1251
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:09,920
was that I realized that Star 
Trek First Contact draws a lot 

1252
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:12,360
from aliens. 
Explain that Now, I don't love 

1253
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:14,520
Star Trek First Contact, I think
it's a weak one. 

1254
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:17,600
But what? 
What, what, what, what? 

1255
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:22,160
So I mean beyond the obvious 
things of like Alien Queen, 

1256
01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:25,160
right and going back. 
Sorry, pause. 

1257
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,760
Star Trek First Contact is the 
good one I was thinking of. 

1258
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:29,080
Generations is the one I don't 
like. 

1259
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:31,560
First Contact is great, you are 
right. 

1260
01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:34,120
Yes. 
The Borg are very which are 

1261
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:36,800
Giger, which are very like like 
alien. 

1262
01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:39,800
Yeah, there is. 
Strong, empowered woman, Yeah. 

1263
01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:43,520
The main character is motivated 
by trauma, right? 

1264
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:47,000
Captain Picard is motivated by 
his trauma being abducted by the

1265
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:48,320
Borg. 
Corny Weaver is more. 

1266
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:52,680
Ellen Ripley is not motivated by
her trauma of having the aliens 

1267
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:57,680
kill all of that hurt them. 
There's plot revolving around 

1268
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:01,280
the main character going in to 
rescue somebody from the heart 

1269
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:05,680
of the alien thing. 
Captain Picard goes and rescues 

1270
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:08,320
Data, Ripley goes and rescues 
Newt. 

1271
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:13,120
And then obviously a lot of the 
visual stuff is the same of like

1272
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:17,080
assimilated. 
Enterprise is a lot like the 

1273
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:21,680
kind of alien infested interiors
that kind of thing. 

1274
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:24,080
It's a it's a really impressive 
Star Trek movie. 

1275
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:27,560
One of them actually like a like
an assassin, like a stealthy 

1276
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:30,000
assassin movie. 
I think it's really like under 

1277
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,480
appreciated as well in in all of
them. 

1278
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:35,400
It's the best, probably the only
good one, of that cast. 

1279
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:38,960
I I yeah, it's it's the only 
it's the best of the next 

1280
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:41,360
generation movies slash probably
the only actual good. 

1281
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:42,280
One. 
Yeah, yeah. 

1282
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:44,520
So anyway, that's listen. 
Cool. 

1283
01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:45,480
Yeah, good points. 
I forgot. 

1284
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:48,080
That I wanted to bring that up I
realized that watching later 

1285
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:49,560
that's. 
Directed by Jonathan Frakes. 

1286
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:51,480
He's probably an Aliens fan. 
That's cool. 

1287
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:53,160
Probably. 
Well, you know, like if you're 

1288
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:57,120
going to try to make a good 
science fiction movie, that's a 

1289
01:04:57,120 --> 01:04:59,200
good one to draw from. 
Let's get Jonathan Frakes back 

1290
01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:01,680
in the fold Directing, please. 
I, you know, absolutely. 

1291
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:03,960
Star Trek is a fun little 
incubator for directors. 

1292
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:07,160
Like, they like to give the 
actors a chance to direct 

1293
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:08,280
episodes. 
Yeah. 

1294
01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:10,200
Which is. 
Cool lets them grow their career

1295
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:13,000
and it keeps it in the family, 
which I appreciate. 

1296
01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:16,480
Yeah, well, and much like 
aliens, it's all about family. 

1297
01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:18,400
It's just. 
Like the team at Aliens? 

1298
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:20,400
Yeah, well, just like the story 
three of Aliens. 

1299
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:23,040
Yeah, Aliens is all about, you 
know, family and motherhood. 

1300
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:26,280
Yeah, until we get to Alien 3. 
Well, I mean no, I mean like 

1301
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:30,080
Aliens the movie. 
Oh, just one Alien, this Aliens 

1302
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:30,960
movie. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

1303
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:32,800
So not Prometheus. 
OK, fine, fine. 

1304
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:35,120
I couldn't tell you. 
What the exclude? 

1305
01:05:35,120 --> 01:05:38,720
The themes of Prometheus are 
like. 

1306
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:41,880
What are the themes? 
Can you please summarize? 

1307
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:45,600
Do it one of your world famous 
Carl summarizes Prometheus. 

1308
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:49,720
Carl the the theme of 
Prometheus. 

1309
01:05:49,720 --> 01:05:52,480
The only the thing I can 
remember from Prometheus is that

1310
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:56,240
she gives herself the abortion. 
Ohh that's the best. 

1311
01:05:56,320 --> 01:05:59,080
The robot surgery thing. 
And the machine is like, I'm 

1312
01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:00,960
sorry, this is not configured 
for women. 

1313
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:04,000
And she's like, no. 
And she has to like do like a 

1314
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:06,800
abdomen to me or whatever it's 
called. 

1315
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:10,920
So the theme of Prometheus is 
that women's Healthcare is 

1316
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:15,360
important and needs to be, needs
to be supported because the, 

1317
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:19,240
yeah, the, it's, it's, you know.
You're telling me there's a 

1318
01:06:19,240 --> 01:06:22,400
machine that like can perform 
any kind of surgery in space in 

1319
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:26,000
the future, but it only does 
male or females? 

1320
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:29,800
Like it only knows those two? 
Like that's transphobic. 

1321
01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:32,040
Absolutely. 
Much like Britain. 

1322
01:06:32,440 --> 01:06:35,480
Much like. 
How Britain would rather a rat 

1323
01:06:35,480 --> 01:06:38,840
not drown than provide, you 
know, healthcare to, to trans 

1324
01:06:38,840 --> 01:06:41,240
people. 
So that's one of the many gripes

1325
01:06:41,240 --> 01:06:44,400
that I have with Britain. 
We're united in our front 

1326
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:45,080
against. 
Britain. 

1327
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:47,880
Oh really, Brian, what do you 
have against? 

1328
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:50,160
Britain, that's it, That's all. 
I wouldn't, I wouldn't say 

1329
01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:51,760
another word. 
I have no other notes for that. 

1330
01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:54,360
OK, now let's cut this off 
before we. 

1331
01:06:54,640 --> 01:06:57,040
Get our Thank you Carl. 
Carl Namaste. 

1332
01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,000
Namaste. 
Goodnight, Brian. 

1333
01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:01,400
Good night. 
Yeah, we'll see you next time. 

1334
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:12,360
Absolutely. 
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1335
01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:15,840
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1337
01:07:18,280 --> 01:07:20,840
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rating and a review. 

1342
01:07:47,560 --> 01:07:50,280
You look great now so you're 
good and done. 

1343
01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:52,360
Not moving forward with plastic 
surgery. 

1344
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:55,200
I think I've made that clear 
like about 100 times and. 

1345
01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:57,880
I didn't hear that 100 times. 
I'm so sad. 

1346
01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:00,520
Maybe this you only read the bad
things, but I've been made that 

1347
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:03,280
really clear so many years but. 
So does it. 

1348
01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:04,960
Read what you want to read, but 
everything you know. 

1349
01:08:04,960 --> 01:08:07,640
It was really nice talking to 
you and I really good luck with 

1350
01:08:07,640 --> 01:08:09,320
your show and. 
Good luck to. 

1351
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:12,160
You too, and I'm so excited 
about Sharknado and I hope you 

1352
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:15,000
stay married and I hope. 
That you stay married too. 

1353
01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:18,399
I I will, and I hope your knees 
get a little wobblier than they 

1354
01:08:18,399 --> 01:08:19,960
already are. 
So I think my knees. 

1355
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:22,560
Oh yeah, I hope your tits get 
even nicer because amazing. 

1356
01:08:22,560 --> 01:08:23,640
Same guys. 
Do mine right. 

1357
01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:26,000
Thank you guys. 
Fantastic. 

1358
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:27,960
Same guy. 
Always use your advice, you're 

1359
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:29,880
the best. 
Love you Tara. 

1360
01:08:30,359 --> 01:08:31,760
Good luck with Sharknado 18.