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I can't judge you for the Lord.

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Dallas? Yeah.

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Get it. I need you to help me

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clear out Bam's old room. He left all

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his stuff here when he transubstantiated

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out of our reality.

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Hold on one second. Bro, he's he's got

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the secret closet.

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There's so much nylon.

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Secret closet.

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No. Wait. Secret closet.

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Why? Pam's bedroom. Why are there so many

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leg holes? Oh, right. He was is that

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a logo for an octopus, man? Captain Octopus.

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Captain Octo, I think, is what it was

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saying.

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Oh, right. Captain Octo. Maybe maybe, maybe if

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he went back

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to seminary

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and became, like, a doctor, he could be

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he could be doctor

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octopus.

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Oh, that would be funny. What what are

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what are these? What? Did he pull movies

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out of the dumpster? What is this? Here's

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a private journal entry right here.

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Should we be reading his private journal? He's

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not here. Technically, he doesn't exist anymore. So

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Well, that's reality.

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Okay. So here we

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go. Dear diary,

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I was right. I truly do enjoy the

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smell of pansies and frolicking and if no.

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That we don't wanna read that.

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Here we go.

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I have made a great discovery

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in

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the dumpster.

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There seems to be an entire section of

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Christian movies about people

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who are

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becoming more than what they are

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to rise above and become heroes.

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And, oh, this is all, like, uber bam

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schlock.

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Was Branson trying to become a superhero?

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Prepare yourself to discover a world of terrible

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movies.

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High above the planet Geekery, a group of

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intrepid explorers hover over the dangerous planet in

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their fabulous super orbital spacecraft.

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Their mission, to conduct a complete analysis of

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movies known throughout the universe as terrible.

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So grab your space popcorn, grab your freeze

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dried ice cream, and join us for today's

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mission of discovery

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and wonder.

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Are these movies better than the galaxy thinks?

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Or do they really belong

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on the bottom shelf?

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What is

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happening?

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All you glorious Geek Devotions

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family out there.

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It's your boy,

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John,

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and I'm here with Captain Dallas. We are

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on this mysterious

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space station above the planet Geekery,

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watching these terrible movies so you don't have

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to, or

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if at the very least,

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you're not alone in doing so.

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You know, I think I just ran through

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all of that without even hitting a bumper,

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and then once I hit that last wall,

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it's just like, I can't think.

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Dallas, what are we watching this week?

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Well, we're sifting through Branson's,

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private collection of movies here.

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For those of you guys who don't know

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Branson,

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who used to be part of the show

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until we got separated from this reality into

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another one,

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he was an octopus. Apparently, he was playing

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a career as a

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superhero. And so I you know, I Doc

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Ock. Because apparently,

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auto auto Octavius became Spider Man in some

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I'm just finding this out. And do you

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know what I found out? Do you know

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where I found out? Where did you find

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out? I found out on the Geek Devotions

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Discord

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Oh. Under the friendly neighborhood spider fan podcast

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section of the Discord.

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Bam, bam, bam. That's how I learned, and

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I learned that this week. Yes. So check

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out the Discord, guys. You'll learn all kinds

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That being said, we're gonna look at the

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couple of these movies that Branson left behind

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here in his room when he got ripped

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out of reality.

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The first one looks like it's called

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Beyond the Mask. Yeah. Yeah. I've seen that.

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Really? I have. Wow. Is that the one

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with the, like, the green mask? It's like

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the like, it was Jim Carrey's baby? No.

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That was that was the mask. Oh. Oh.

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Was it the one about,

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the, the serial killer? And he was he

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was running around wild and No. That was

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that was behind the mask. Oh, man. I

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don't know what this one is. No. This

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is beyond

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the mask.

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apparently, there's a lot of movies that have

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perspective on

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the mask. The mask.

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to watch all these movies to make this

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make sense.

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I don't know. Like, where is this and

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where is this in the in the timeline?

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Oh my gosh. I'm not sure. Let me

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pull up this thing. Intro

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of the movie

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says,

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coming from the same company that brought you

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War Room. Oh, written by Paul

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McCusker,

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writ writer of the podcast series, The Victories

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of Joan the Arc, and Stephen Kendrick,

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not related to the guy putting out, diss

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tracks at John's in love with. No.

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Writer of Fireproof.

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I remember that one. Beyond the mask is

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the assassin's creed movie that you wish you

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had gotten. Oh, interesting.

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Star starring a borderland

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scavenger, Andrew Cheney,

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and the mightiest dwarf of them all, Gimli.

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Peter Dinklage, please don't come for us.

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And the woman who's been on every single

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Chicago PD fire and everything else TV show

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ever, Kara Kilmer. So that's that's that's my

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intro to the movie that we have here

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in the database, John. It looked like there

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was a second paragraph there. I just didn't

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know if you were

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going to read that or not. So,

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okay.

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with that, why don't you go ahead,

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and read that back of the box.

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Alright. Back of the box says,

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the leading mercenary of the British East India

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Company, Will Randalls,

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has just been double crossed and now

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is on the run-in the American colonies. I

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feel like we need, like, colonial music playing.

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Working to redeem his name and win back

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the affections of the woman with whom he's

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never been fully truthful,

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Will now hides behind a new mask in

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hopes of thwarting

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his former employer.

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Interesting. So you've seen this?

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I have seen this. So I'm assuming you

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have some fantastic trivia for us based on

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Trivia. Mhmm.

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Actors Andrew Chaney and Kara Kilmer actually got

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married in real life

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on May 14, 2016.

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That's cool. So the romance there is real.

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Nice.

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The vote to declare

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independence was actually taken on July 2nd,

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17/76.

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The text of the declaration of independence was

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approved

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on July 4th, 17/76.

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The only person to sign the document on

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July 4th, 17/76

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was John Hancock as president of congress,

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and it was read publicly

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on July 8th

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17 1776

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by city sheriff John Nixon. Alright. Cool beans.

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Alright. So this is a

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period piece that is almost factual.

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It is. Yeah. It's,

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sorry. I thanks for covering for me, Dallas,

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while I was trying to destroy my lungs.

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that takes place during colonial

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times. Final piece of trivia I have for

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this here is rubber rubber

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tongue twister. Rubber covered copper cables,

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were not in use before 18 eighties.

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plot of 1776.

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are we watching V for Vendetta?

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that there is,

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there is definitely some references to Guy Fawkes

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Cool. Alright. Well, let's check out the community

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outreach through the magic of podcasting. We have

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a few comments based on this movie.

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So,

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from Dale,

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made me feel at times like I was

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watching a stunt show at 6 flags

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or a a play at BPCC Local Community

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College rather than a movie. That doesn't sound

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good.

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So savage.

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Branson chimed in from the alternate universe.

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Okay. Great concept. Lots of great actors, but

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the Christian part feels very forced.

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Enjoyable to see once, but I would

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I but not when I would revisit unless

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I needed to. Oh. Wait. What what's what

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what do you mean needed to? Like, when

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do you have when do you need to

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revisit a movie?

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When you do a podcast about movies that

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you've watched before. Bro.

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Y'all are breaking my heart. Alright. Alright. Alright.

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Last one is from Drew. First thought when

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the poster was, is that AI art? No.

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Can't be. The hands are too good.

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My favorite my favorite part of that is

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I having worked with AI art before that

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is the worst,

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is the hands. Mhmm. Hands are terrible to

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begin with the draw.

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Alright. Well,

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let's get into expectations. I'm gonna tell you

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this right now, John. Hearing our community outreach,

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I don't have high hopes for this film,

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but the art looks cool. And,

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and the the vocabulary from our intro of

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the movie about the Assassin's Creed movie that

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you wish you had gotten, I'm kinda looking

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forward to that. So,

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my expectations are go are we'll find out.

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We'll find out.

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As far as my expectations, I've seen this

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movie before, so

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I I'm going into it, like, there were

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this this this movie came out at a

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weird period of time in my life Mhmm.

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my

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anxiety was at an all time high, and

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I wasn't I wasn't being treated for it.

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Mhmm.

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And so one thing that people who deal

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with extreme anxiety will tell you is that

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they have a tendency to jump to conclusions

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about a lot of stupid things.

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And one thing that I did at the

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time was, like, I need to get I

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need to stop focusing so much on worldly

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entertainment.

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I need to focus in on Christian entertainment.

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So that was when I discovered this movie.

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So,

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cool.

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Yeah. I watched it, and I'm like, you

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know, this isn't as trash as all the

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other Christian movies are. So,

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and and that's kind of the impact that's

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left for me. So it's a comparative statement,

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but I remember enjoying it quite a bit.

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I'm expecting it, albeit

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I medicated now, so anxiety can cover many

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a mistake.

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I understand.

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I understand. Alright. Cool beans. Alright. Well, let's

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get into that viewing chamber, and hopefully, we

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got something good in this pot.

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Dear listeners,

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this is your opportunity to escape. Our crew

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has just entered into the media projection chamber.

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What horrors and madness that they consume are

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unknown.

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Their mental state upon their return is unknown.

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You have been

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warned.

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I mean, seriously, if they would have if

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they would have put that in the movie

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theater and

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with the with the poster outside for the

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Assassin's Creed movie,

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Tell me, like, you would think that was

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the Assassin's Creed movie. Right?

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Yeah. Yeah. The like, Assassin's Creed 3. Right?

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It it's totally like the Connor arc. Yeah.

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Like, Hollywood.

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Welcome back, everybody. We just got done watching

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the movie,

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and it's some people might say, hey, that's

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a bit of a spoiler, but oh, nay

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nay, dear listener.

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I'm I must tell you that it's obvious

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from the art that this movie wanted to

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be assassin's creed, and boy, did they shoot

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for it in this movie. Ain't that the

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truth?

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So let's get into the

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non spoiler

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non spoiler

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e section of the podcast.

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Do you have any thoughts on this, Captain

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Mora? Yeah. Well, we've already made the the

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the the the thought process. This was, like,

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a Assassin's 3 or Assassin's Creed clone. Mhmm.

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Which, by the way, it came out the

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year before Assassin's Creed the movie. Oh, for

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real. So this was, like, original IP.

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Yeah. Wow. And so now, they probably were

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looking at the show I mean, the the

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games, and,

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Assassin's Creed had a bigger budget, so it

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was probably in production longer than this one.

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But, but yeah. Now, visually,

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it wasn't terrible for Christian films. And, again,

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we're gonna put this out there. John and

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I are both Christians. We're both believers in

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Jesus Christ, and we're gonna do our best

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not to just slam Christian, media. But there

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is a stigma about it. And, visually,

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production wise, it's not it it's not the

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low bar that is set there for it's

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a bit above it. Although, it did feel

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like, at times, like I was watching 1

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big, Highlander flashback scene. I could see that.

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Just the way that they they especially when

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they were doing, like, the fast movement and

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then there was the fog at times Mhmm.

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And, and there was, like, the period pieces,

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and you're like, something just doesn't seem right

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at the same time.

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So, it kinda made me nostalgic to go

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back and watch the Highlander TV series. Nice.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I could see that. I think

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for me, every time I watch this movie,

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I I get caught up in just the

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awe of it being a Christian film that

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has that much attention and attention to the

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to its production. Mhmm. Because whereas, like, I

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wouldn't necessarily put this on par with, like,

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the Avengers or something like that. No.

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If I put it above Dungeons and Dragons.

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The new one or the old one? The

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old one. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I would, too.

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I mean, to be fair, like, if this

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would have came out in

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the early to mid 2000, I would have

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been happy with this. Like, this would have

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been a blockbuster in the movie theater to

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watch.

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So the visuals really aren't

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that terrible. I mean, it's definitely better than

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the visuals that were in the second mummy

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movie, to be sure.

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Yeah. I'll give you that. And that was,

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like, what, 2002?

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Yeah. Yeah. Dwayne, the the Scorpion King. And

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that looked like a video game character. Like,

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for real? For real.

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You're not wrong about that.

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Whereas

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the CG in this, like, only because I

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was looking for it, I could see where

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the CG was. Right.

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There were a few green screen moments. I

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was like, oh. And a lot of that

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was just lighting differentials. And to be to

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be fair, like, the first time I watched

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this movie, I watched it on my old

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TV, which was 10:80.

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Right. And then I watched it this time

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on my current TV, which is a 4

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k.

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This movie was not made to be seen

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in 4

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k because the first the first time I

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watched it, I didn't notice the lighting differentials

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when they were on the green screen, so

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it blended a lot better. Yeah. Exactly. But

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because of the higher resolution, I was able

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to be I was able to see the,

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basically, the seams of where the effects ended

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and the actual capture began.

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Right. Right.

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The storytelling,

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the pacing of it was awkward at times.

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There were times where it was moving so

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fast. Like, it felt like it was doing

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major time jumps, and then all of a

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sudden, it was just very slow at times.

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Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Captain Gundam, are you

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seriously gonna pass that judgment?

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I mean, for real. I'm not I'm not

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saying

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I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm

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just pointing out that there was a storytelling,

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and that's how it was. It was like

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felt like it was, like, massive time jumps

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and then boom. Now you're for those who

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are wondering what John specifically is referenced to,

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he's talking about our our journey through,

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f 91,

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which, to be fair, there's a difference between

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the way f 91 did because it was

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originally a script for a series

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versus a movie, and they crammed it into

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it. No, sir. I'm just talking about Gundam

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series in general. They all have that problem

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where

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they'll go they have whiplash

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tempo changes throughout them just like, and we're

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jumping 3 months, and here's a spot, and

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then we're gonna pad this out, and then

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we're gonna hit a massive action section, and

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then we're gonna jump another year.

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I'll say this, though. It held my attention

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better than another movie that came out in

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2015, which was Chappie.

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Chappie was boring as all get out. Bro,

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I remember that. That was the that was,

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like, the

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It was, like, an AI robot. Robot. Yeah.

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It was,

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it was, police robots and everything like that.

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That movie bored the mess out of me.

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And so,

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but similar time frame. So I'm I'm pointing

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out the fact that it the because, again,

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Chappy had some weird pacing issues also even

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though I think it was all within, like,

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a certain time period. Mhmm. This one, though,

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it was, like, things felt like they moved

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fast, but at the same time, they weren't

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happening fast, and it was just really awkward

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at points.

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So just that's just the way the storytelling

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was coming out. Yeah.

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I can dig that, but I'll say this

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Mhmm. And you're gonna find this amusing.

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Think about the storytelling

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in Assassin's Creed games. Mhmm.

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Yeah. Right? Were they just aiming to mimic

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Assassin's Creed? What's happening here?

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Seriously.

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Like, was, like were the company the guys

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who wrote this, there's, like, hey. Y'all remember

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the Assassin's Creed game we played in college?

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Let's do that.

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But at Jesus.

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Oh, my gosh. So what you're saying

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is that you want us to go around

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and kill the bad guys

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and requiem ex Pache,

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stuff like that,

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and then

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Jesus,

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and then that's it. I mean, and and

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to be fair, you know, getting out of

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that fake boardroom

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bit I was trying to do when Dallas

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was looking at me like you didn't understand

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what was going on. No. I got you.

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I'm I'm looking up. I'm trying to figure

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out,

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the release date

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of Assassin's Creed games.

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Oh, that would that goes back to the

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PS 3, my man. It does. So

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2012

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Yeah. Is Assassin's Creed

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3.

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Uh-huh. And this was, 2015.

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Yeah. 2015. So,

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quite possibly,

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the guys watched played Assassin's Creed 3, loved

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the idea of

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it, it stuck in there, and then they

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created the,

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this movie with this in the background

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of their head.

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Because Black Flag was 2013,

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Rogue and Unity was 2014,

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Syndicate, which is the best of the games,

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came out in 2015,

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and then just all goes downhill from there.

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Mhmm. Yeah. Just looking at it, like, I

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I really think

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these guys played

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a c 3, and it was just in

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the background while they were script writing. You

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know, it it wouldn't surprise me, and I'm

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fine with it. No. No. To be perfectly

529
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honest with you, it's like because I remember

530
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this came out about the same time that

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the Assassin's Creed movie came out. Mhmm.

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And when I when I I

533
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actually, like we said, this came out 1

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year before the the AC movie came out.

535
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Mhmm.

536
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But I I didn't see this until after

537
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the AC movie came out. And

538
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the thing about it is that

539
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I watched it, and I didn't watch all

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of the Assassin's Creed movie, but I already

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knew that this was just the more entertaining

542
00:20:30,095 --> 00:20:32,494
movie between the 2 because there was less

543
00:20:32,494 --> 00:20:34,755
exposition and more actual action,

544
00:20:35,140 --> 00:20:37,220
which is weird to say about a Christian

545
00:20:37,220 --> 00:20:39,380
movie. You know what I mean? Yeah. That

546
00:20:39,380 --> 00:20:40,819
was one thing I I I did notice

547
00:20:40,819 --> 00:20:42,500
is, like again, we're we're comparing this to

548
00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:44,579
other Christian movies, instead of just a film

549
00:20:44,579 --> 00:20:45,240
and period.

550
00:20:45,859 --> 00:20:46,980
But it is a

551
00:20:47,664 --> 00:20:50,384
it it felt less preachy than other Christian

552
00:20:50,384 --> 00:20:52,464
films that we've watched, that I've watched over

553
00:20:52,464 --> 00:20:53,125
the years.

554
00:20:53,744 --> 00:20:56,164
And I'm gonna go with Branson. It the

555
00:20:56,305 --> 00:20:57,904
the moment where it was like, this is

556
00:20:57,904 --> 00:20:59,204
the presentation of the gospel,

557
00:20:59,505 --> 00:21:02,200
it did feel so kind of hamstring in

558
00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:04,679
there, which is a problem within most Christian

559
00:21:04,679 --> 00:21:05,179
cinema.

560
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:05,799
And,

561
00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:07,960
we can get to a conversation about Christian

562
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,559
cinema later if you want to about some

563
00:21:09,559 --> 00:21:10,380
of the issues,

564
00:21:10,759 --> 00:21:13,480
that they run into. But it it felt

565
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,075
more actiony. It did have that and, again,

566
00:21:16,075 --> 00:21:17,375
this is a legitimate issue.

567
00:21:17,755 --> 00:21:20,174
Christian cinema markets itself towards,

568
00:21:21,595 --> 00:21:24,075
stay at home moms. That is the that's

569
00:21:24,075 --> 00:21:24,575
legitimately

570
00:21:25,115 --> 00:21:27,035
like, it's a it's a known thing that

571
00:21:27,035 --> 00:21:28,494
that's how they build their stories.

572
00:21:29,559 --> 00:21:31,080
It still had a bit of that in

573
00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,720
there, but a lot more action to cover

574
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,660
up for for for dudes.

575
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:36,619
Yeah.

576
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:38,299
Yeah. I could see that.

577
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,240
And I I remember at the time when

578
00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,480
I bought the movie, because I bought it

579
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,474
sight unseen because, you know,

580
00:21:45,855 --> 00:21:46,355
paranoid

581
00:21:46,654 --> 00:21:47,154
anxiety.

582
00:21:50,414 --> 00:21:52,355
One of the things that I read from

583
00:21:52,654 --> 00:21:55,215
the production people or the company that made

584
00:21:55,215 --> 00:21:55,955
this movie

585
00:21:56,414 --> 00:21:58,015
was that that, yeah, they were they were

586
00:21:58,015 --> 00:21:58,515
specifically

587
00:21:59,009 --> 00:22:01,330
trying to make movies that people wanted to

588
00:22:01,330 --> 00:22:01,830
watch

589
00:22:02,289 --> 00:22:03,109
rather than

590
00:22:03,410 --> 00:22:05,349
something that was designed for the

591
00:22:05,809 --> 00:22:09,330
specific Christian cinema crowd. Which I really appreciate

592
00:22:09,330 --> 00:22:11,009
that that they were just trying to do

593
00:22:11,009 --> 00:22:12,075
art. Mhmm.

594
00:22:12,875 --> 00:22:14,714
And I I will agree with you that

595
00:22:14,714 --> 00:22:15,855
the part where they

596
00:22:16,634 --> 00:22:19,115
put the message in felt like it was

597
00:22:19,115 --> 00:22:20,095
shoehorned in,

598
00:22:20,474 --> 00:22:22,634
typically in the in the way where you'd

599
00:22:22,634 --> 00:22:24,255
have a shoehorned romance

600
00:22:24,714 --> 00:22:25,694
crew card in,

601
00:22:27,150 --> 00:22:29,170
which I I felt was kind of sad

602
00:22:29,230 --> 00:22:31,309
because I felt like the whole message that

603
00:22:31,309 --> 00:22:33,390
they were trying to convey was throughout the

604
00:22:33,390 --> 00:22:35,970
entire movie fairly well. Yeah.

605
00:22:36,430 --> 00:22:37,650
In in a very,

606
00:22:38,750 --> 00:22:40,289
Lewis, what's his face,

607
00:22:41,394 --> 00:22:42,134
Sort of.

608
00:22:43,154 --> 00:22:43,654
No.

609
00:22:44,115 --> 00:22:46,035
The guy who wrote art in the bible,

610
00:22:46,035 --> 00:22:47,414
Louis Schafer. Oh, yeah.

611
00:22:48,115 --> 00:22:50,855
A very Louis Schafer sort of way where

612
00:22:51,154 --> 00:22:54,035
it wasn't ham fisted, and the the theme

613
00:22:54,035 --> 00:22:55,015
felt natural.

614
00:22:55,394 --> 00:22:57,990
But to me, I would almost be willing

615
00:22:57,990 --> 00:22:59,850
to bet that there was probably some,

616
00:23:00,950 --> 00:23:02,009
church investor

617
00:23:02,309 --> 00:23:03,769
or some spiritually

618
00:23:04,390 --> 00:23:05,609
based investor,

619
00:23:06,630 --> 00:23:07,609
that was like,

620
00:23:07,990 --> 00:23:08,730
there isn't

621
00:23:09,109 --> 00:23:10,890
as strong enough of a message

622
00:23:11,325 --> 00:23:11,825
of,

623
00:23:13,484 --> 00:23:15,904
of a call to repentance, so to speak.

624
00:23:16,284 --> 00:23:17,964
That because it showed the repentance, but it

625
00:23:17,964 --> 00:23:21,244
didn't have a call to repentance. Mhmm. And

626
00:23:21,244 --> 00:23:22,784
as a result, I could see,

627
00:23:23,244 --> 00:23:26,250
somebody who is less focused on making some

628
00:23:26,650 --> 00:23:28,589
less less aligned with

629
00:23:30,009 --> 00:23:33,130
the mission of the production company of making

630
00:23:33,130 --> 00:23:35,049
Christian movies people wanna watch

631
00:23:35,529 --> 00:23:36,009
Mhmm.

632
00:23:36,569 --> 00:23:37,309
To making

633
00:23:37,849 --> 00:23:39,150
movies that Christians

634
00:23:39,930 --> 00:23:40,430
will

635
00:23:40,974 --> 00:23:42,494
feel like they have to watch, if that

636
00:23:42,494 --> 00:23:45,154
makes sense. I guess that. I don't know.

637
00:23:45,615 --> 00:23:47,134
It's just sad that people feel like they

638
00:23:47,134 --> 00:23:48,734
need to crowbar that in there because the

639
00:23:48,734 --> 00:23:50,654
best pieces of Christian are are the ones

640
00:23:50,654 --> 00:23:51,554
that don't feel,

641
00:23:52,654 --> 00:23:53,634
that don't use

642
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:55,140
proselytization

643
00:23:55,919 --> 00:23:58,179
as a chore or a checkpoint.

644
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:00,579
Right. Yeah. So,

645
00:24:01,759 --> 00:24:02,720
I'm trying to think of what else we

646
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,220
can say without giving away too much.

647
00:24:05,759 --> 00:24:07,059
Can we talk about costuming?

648
00:24:07,494 --> 00:24:08,554
Yeah. Let's do that.

649
00:24:09,015 --> 00:24:11,414
Because again and we're again, we're gonna be

650
00:24:11,414 --> 00:24:12,634
trying a lot of comparisons.

651
00:24:13,335 --> 00:24:14,794
And to give to give,

652
00:24:16,294 --> 00:24:17,974
a kind of a peek as to why

653
00:24:18,054 --> 00:24:19,274
what we did this month,

654
00:24:20,054 --> 00:24:20,554
basically,

655
00:24:21,539 --> 00:24:23,620
I didn't want to do Christmas movies for

656
00:24:23,620 --> 00:24:25,460
the month month of December because I hate

657
00:24:25,460 --> 00:24:26,440
Christmas movies.

658
00:24:27,539 --> 00:24:28,039
And

659
00:24:28,820 --> 00:24:31,059
I said, hey, let's let's give each other

660
00:24:31,059 --> 00:24:33,240
a gift and pick movies that we like.

661
00:24:33,380 --> 00:24:35,220
And something that we've we said when we

662
00:24:35,220 --> 00:24:37,695
started this podcast was we didn't

663
00:24:38,154 --> 00:24:40,075
wanna when it came to Christian media, we

664
00:24:40,075 --> 00:24:42,654
didn't wanna pick low hanging fruit and just

665
00:24:42,875 --> 00:24:43,375
bash

666
00:24:43,835 --> 00:24:46,715
give people a reason not to watch or

667
00:24:46,715 --> 00:24:49,755
consume Christian art Right. Especially when there's enough

668
00:24:49,755 --> 00:24:51,375
stereotypes that is bad

669
00:24:51,690 --> 00:24:52,190
already.

670
00:24:53,210 --> 00:24:55,130
And so I said, let's do this. Let's

671
00:24:55,130 --> 00:24:56,909
pick Christian movies that

672
00:24:57,210 --> 00:24:58,429
we both enjoy,

673
00:24:58,970 --> 00:25:00,490
and that will be our gift to each

674
00:25:00,490 --> 00:25:02,169
other. We're being like, hey, I dig this

675
00:25:02,169 --> 00:25:03,690
movie. I think you will too. Let's watch

676
00:25:03,690 --> 00:25:05,815
this and review it. Right. Right. The whole

677
00:25:05,815 --> 00:25:07,255
thing on the front about Bryson becoming a

678
00:25:07,255 --> 00:25:09,015
superhero was a joke for those of you

679
00:25:09,015 --> 00:25:10,795
guys who missed that, although

680
00:25:11,174 --> 00:25:13,575
Bryson has sung songs about reading about wearing

681
00:25:13,575 --> 00:25:15,115
tight tights. I'm just saying.

682
00:25:16,134 --> 00:25:17,115
I've heard it.

683
00:25:18,679 --> 00:25:20,440
He's also has swung a sword around and

684
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,400
tried to cut Dallas's throat. Well, not cut

685
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,599
it. Just puncture it. No. You can't puncture

686
00:25:26,599 --> 00:25:28,919
without cutting, my man. Yeah. Depends on how

687
00:25:28,919 --> 00:25:30,140
you look at it. But yeah.

688
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,319
Anyway, the point is, is that Branson tried

689
00:25:33,319 --> 00:25:34,894
to kill Dallas. That's all we're trying to

690
00:25:34,894 --> 00:25:35,394
say.

691
00:25:36,894 --> 00:25:38,734
But, anyway, god, now you made me forget

692
00:25:38,734 --> 00:25:40,515
the point I was actually trying to engage.

693
00:25:41,054 --> 00:25:42,974
Well, this is these are movies that we

694
00:25:42,974 --> 00:25:44,174
liked, and we're trying to avoid the the

695
00:25:44,174 --> 00:25:46,515
low hanging fruit. Right. Right. Right. So,

696
00:25:47,375 --> 00:25:48,674
basically, you know,

697
00:25:49,130 --> 00:25:49,630
this

698
00:25:50,090 --> 00:25:51,789
for me coming into this,

699
00:25:52,090 --> 00:25:54,350
all the all the production points here

700
00:25:54,809 --> 00:25:57,130
are fantastic. And and and we're going to

701
00:25:57,130 --> 00:25:58,650
make we're going to make a lot of

702
00:25:58,650 --> 00:26:01,690
comparisons to other Christian cinema. And it's not

703
00:26:01,690 --> 00:26:03,470
necessarily to say, hey,

704
00:26:03,795 --> 00:26:06,674
Christian cinema is terrible because let's face it,

705
00:26:06,674 --> 00:26:08,215
there's a lot of indie secular,

706
00:26:08,994 --> 00:26:13,075
cinema that's just as terrible. Right. But we

707
00:26:13,075 --> 00:26:15,335
want we're simply doing it to accent.

708
00:26:15,809 --> 00:26:17,649
This is growth. This is progress, and it's

709
00:26:17,649 --> 00:26:20,049
something that should be pointed out that this

710
00:26:20,049 --> 00:26:21,829
is something that should be celebrated

711
00:26:22,450 --> 00:26:24,710
because we're demonstrating that in previous

712
00:26:25,250 --> 00:26:29,365
whatever Christian cinema, it wasn't this good. And

713
00:26:29,365 --> 00:26:31,605
this needs to be pointed out because this

714
00:26:31,605 --> 00:26:33,605
needs to be this is this needs to

715
00:26:33,605 --> 00:26:36,644
be the new standard, not the new Yeah.

716
00:26:36,724 --> 00:26:37,224
Exceptional.

717
00:26:38,325 --> 00:26:40,724
So with that said, the costuming in this

718
00:26:40,724 --> 00:26:41,220
movie

719
00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:45,000
so far above the normal Christian cinema standard.

720
00:26:45,380 --> 00:26:46,819
I know I took the long route to

721
00:26:46,819 --> 00:26:48,519
get there, but I didn't want to drop.

722
00:26:49,140 --> 00:26:52,099
I didn't. I didn't want to violate our

723
00:26:52,099 --> 00:26:54,500
own rules about taking a dump on Christian

724
00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:56,664
cinema because I don't you know, there are

725
00:26:56,664 --> 00:26:58,684
some good Christian movies out there. It's just

726
00:26:58,744 --> 00:27:01,465
their production is poor because the money isn't

727
00:27:01,465 --> 00:27:03,785
there. Right. And when the money is there,

728
00:27:03,785 --> 00:27:06,365
you're not gonna make it back. Right. Because,

729
00:27:06,505 --> 00:27:08,664
like, this probably should have been something that

730
00:27:08,664 --> 00:27:10,045
was said in the

731
00:27:10,890 --> 00:27:11,390
beginning,

732
00:27:11,769 --> 00:27:13,609
and I gotta pull it up again. But

733
00:27:13,609 --> 00:27:14,349
if I

734
00:27:14,890 --> 00:27:15,710
recall correctly,

735
00:27:17,450 --> 00:27:18,990
beyond the mask

736
00:27:19,450 --> 00:27:21,710
did not even make its budget back.

737
00:27:22,089 --> 00:27:24,474
Oh, I'm sure it probably didn't. Alright. So

738
00:27:24,474 --> 00:27:27,355
it had a gross, well I can beat

739
00:27:27,355 --> 00:27:29,034
you to it. I'm not seeing a budget.

740
00:27:29,034 --> 00:27:30,014
I see gross,

741
00:27:30,554 --> 00:27:31,934
worldwide, which was,

742
00:27:33,274 --> 00:27:33,774
1,236,

743
00:27:37,470 --> 00:27:37,970
94.

744
00:27:39,230 --> 00:27:42,529
Opening weekend in the US, 18,000. 18,000.

745
00:27:42,910 --> 00:27:44,910
Mhmm. I'm not seeing a budget for this

746
00:27:44,910 --> 00:27:45,650
film, though.

747
00:27:46,430 --> 00:27:48,289
I don't remember where I saw the information.

748
00:27:48,835 --> 00:27:51,315
I don't know. But even still, or maybe

749
00:27:51,315 --> 00:27:53,715
it was the other movie we did, The

750
00:27:53,715 --> 00:27:56,134
Masked Saint, that didn't make its budget back.

751
00:27:56,355 --> 00:27:58,434
Alright, so the budget for Beyond the Mask

752
00:27:58,434 --> 00:27:59,174
was $4,000,000

753
00:28:00,355 --> 00:28:01,494
Okay, there we go.

754
00:28:01,819 --> 00:28:03,900
So the problem and so the problem is

755
00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:05,819
is that people don't show out to Christian

756
00:28:05,819 --> 00:28:06,720
cinema because

757
00:28:07,099 --> 00:28:08,720
Christian cinema has a tendency

758
00:28:09,180 --> 00:28:11,420
to be poor in quality. So we are

759
00:28:11,420 --> 00:28:13,500
trying to point out that it can be

760
00:28:13,500 --> 00:28:15,785
done. So let's do that. More of that,

761
00:28:15,785 --> 00:28:18,505
please. Yeah. Definitely. But it it's only gonna

762
00:28:18,505 --> 00:28:20,265
happen where the money's at, so we're gonna

763
00:28:20,265 --> 00:28:23,785
point that stuff out. Yeah. Definitely. Definitely. So

764
00:28:23,785 --> 00:28:25,805
cool. Well, let's go into spoilers, man.

765
00:28:26,265 --> 00:28:28,525
Let's go into the spoiler

766
00:28:28,904 --> 00:28:29,404
boo.

767
00:28:34,470 --> 00:28:35,529
Ladies and gentlemen,

768
00:28:36,230 --> 00:28:37,450
the spoiler section.

769
00:28:39,590 --> 00:28:41,509
Can I talk about my the funniest light

770
00:28:41,509 --> 00:28:44,055
moment for me? Go ahead. It's when,

771
00:28:44,835 --> 00:28:47,234
home dude has just, like, jumped out the

772
00:28:47,234 --> 00:28:49,734
windows of wherever he was at because,

773
00:28:50,275 --> 00:28:52,355
they're after him. And the the crowd who

774
00:28:52,355 --> 00:28:54,914
thinks he's so many time in this movie,

775
00:28:54,914 --> 00:28:56,275
apparently, you have to be a little bit

776
00:28:56,275 --> 00:28:57,929
more specific. It was right it was right

777
00:28:57,929 --> 00:28:59,849
after the dude from Sliders is about to

778
00:28:59,849 --> 00:29:01,069
get him. And,

779
00:29:02,809 --> 00:29:04,730
and, and they just revealed the fact that

780
00:29:04,730 --> 00:29:05,869
he is the,

781
00:29:06,730 --> 00:29:09,529
the the the terror of India of any

782
00:29:09,609 --> 00:29:12,295
of India. And Yeah. He's he's jumped out

783
00:29:12,295 --> 00:29:13,494
there. He just knocks out a bunch of

784
00:29:13,494 --> 00:29:15,595
guards. He's holding a gun, and the entire

785
00:29:16,134 --> 00:29:18,375
population is standing there going, why does the

786
00:29:18,375 --> 00:29:19,595
pastor have a gun?

787
00:29:22,375 --> 00:29:23,975
Like, this is awkward. It's like, why does

788
00:29:23,975 --> 00:29:25,674
the vicar have a gun? This is interesting.

789
00:29:30,109 --> 00:29:31,490
The thing about it is

790
00:29:31,869 --> 00:29:34,589
like the story of this movie is pretty

791
00:29:34,589 --> 00:29:35,089
forgettable.

792
00:29:35,549 --> 00:29:36,049
Yeah,

793
00:29:36,430 --> 00:29:38,450
I'm I'm I'm a be honest. Like, everything

794
00:29:38,509 --> 00:29:40,670
that I love about this movie could easily

795
00:29:40,670 --> 00:29:41,410
be communicated

796
00:29:42,095 --> 00:29:44,575
in the beginning, in the non spoiler part.

797
00:29:44,575 --> 00:29:46,355
Like, it looks good.

798
00:29:47,855 --> 00:29:49,634
The, you know, the story

799
00:29:49,934 --> 00:29:50,434
was

800
00:29:50,894 --> 00:29:51,394
intentional.

801
00:29:51,695 --> 00:29:52,755
It was intentionally

802
00:29:53,055 --> 00:29:55,234
trying to be a story rather than

803
00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:58,180
a sermon with a narrative wrapped around it,

804
00:29:58,180 --> 00:29:59,480
you know, stuff like that.

805
00:29:59,940 --> 00:30:01,433
But I mean, the actual story in this

806
00:30:01,433 --> 00:30:02,039
movie, it's it's

807
00:30:03,380 --> 00:30:04,680
it's just a revision,

808
00:30:05,140 --> 00:30:06,039
history revision,

809
00:30:06,660 --> 00:30:07,240
a revisionist

810
00:30:07,539 --> 00:30:08,519
history fiction.

811
00:30:09,105 --> 00:30:09,605
Right.

812
00:30:10,545 --> 00:30:12,884
Yeah. But I mean, you know, it's Assassin's

813
00:30:12,944 --> 00:30:14,565
Creed, man. What are you going to do?

814
00:30:14,704 --> 00:30:15,684
It's all like

815
00:30:16,785 --> 00:30:18,464
that. I mean, you got it. You got

816
00:30:18,464 --> 00:30:20,545
to you're turning a windmill into a band

817
00:30:20,545 --> 00:30:22,545
of graph generator so you can blow up

818
00:30:22,545 --> 00:30:23,765
the city of Philadelphia.

819
00:30:24,630 --> 00:30:25,130
Right.

820
00:30:25,829 --> 00:30:27,990
That's really like, that's what the story was.

821
00:30:27,990 --> 00:30:29,190
You know, you have a guy who was,

822
00:30:29,190 --> 00:30:31,269
again, the terror of the East India Trading

823
00:30:31,269 --> 00:30:32,170
Company, and,

824
00:30:33,109 --> 00:30:33,930
he's betrayed.

825
00:30:34,549 --> 00:30:35,049
And,

826
00:30:36,309 --> 00:30:38,150
and his escape, he takes on identity of

827
00:30:38,150 --> 00:30:39,644
a vicar, falls in love with a chick,

828
00:30:39,724 --> 00:30:42,205
finds out the chick is the niece to

829
00:30:42,205 --> 00:30:43,644
the guy who was trying to kill him.

830
00:30:43,644 --> 00:30:45,484
And so he runs off to America, and

831
00:30:45,484 --> 00:30:47,005
he's trying to redeem his name. That's the

832
00:30:47,005 --> 00:30:49,404
running theme of the whole thing is redeeming

833
00:30:49,404 --> 00:30:50,865
his name. I

834
00:30:51,565 --> 00:30:52,865
this movie is 100%

835
00:30:53,329 --> 00:30:55,589
Connor from Assassin's Creed versus,

836
00:30:56,450 --> 00:30:59,730
a Bond villain. Yeah. Yeah. So Oh, can

837
00:30:59,730 --> 00:31:01,650
we can we talk about Jonathan Rice Davies?

838
00:31:01,650 --> 00:31:03,970
I'm I I am shocked that his name

839
00:31:03,970 --> 00:31:06,470
has not come up since we hit record

840
00:31:06,529 --> 00:31:08,575
so far. Like, we were talking about him

841
00:31:08,575 --> 00:31:10,174
all before we were recording, and all of

842
00:31:10,174 --> 00:31:12,255
a sudden we hit record and we forgot

843
00:31:12,255 --> 00:31:14,255
Gimli was in this movie. To be fair,

844
00:31:14,255 --> 00:31:15,855
I did say the dude from Slider showed

845
00:31:15,855 --> 00:31:17,454
up, so I did talk about him a

846
00:31:17,454 --> 00:31:20,194
little bit. But holy cow, people.

847
00:31:21,599 --> 00:31:23,200
Okay. So you are He may be the

848
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,179
biggest actor in this film. He is. And

849
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,220
boy did boy was that evident.

850
00:31:29,519 --> 00:31:31,759
Like, he are you're not supposed to root

851
00:31:31,759 --> 00:31:33,359
for the bad guy, but when the bad

852
00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:35,839
guy's turning in the best performance, it's hard

853
00:31:35,839 --> 00:31:37,835
not to. His acting was on point the

854
00:31:37,835 --> 00:31:40,394
entire time. But he again, he he is

855
00:31:40,394 --> 00:31:41,855
a he is a professional,

856
00:31:42,235 --> 00:31:44,015
he does this well,

857
00:31:44,394 --> 00:31:44,894
and,

858
00:31:45,275 --> 00:31:47,195
like, he commands a scene when he walks

859
00:31:47,195 --> 00:31:50,289
in. It's like watching people, like, it's like

860
00:31:50,289 --> 00:31:52,950
watching people on screen with Anthony Hopkins.

861
00:31:53,330 --> 00:31:55,490
Anthony Hopkins does this too. Like, he will

862
00:31:55,490 --> 00:31:58,369
chew scenery like no one's business Mhmm. Or

863
00:31:58,369 --> 00:32:00,609
or it's like when people get Eminem to

864
00:32:00,609 --> 00:32:02,355
feature on one of their tracks. It's like

865
00:32:02,355 --> 00:32:03,875
you gotta come with your a game, or

866
00:32:03,875 --> 00:32:05,974
he'll body you on your own track.

867
00:32:06,355 --> 00:32:08,914
Right. So and this isn't his first like,

868
00:32:08,914 --> 00:32:10,615
he's been in a lot of Christian movies.

869
00:32:11,794 --> 00:32:13,315
But I would say this. What was your

870
00:32:13,394 --> 00:32:15,809
what's your earliest memory of him? Well, here's

871
00:32:15,809 --> 00:32:17,890
the problem with John with him as an

872
00:32:17,890 --> 00:32:20,369
actor Mhmm. Is he's one of those actors

873
00:32:20,369 --> 00:32:21,269
who are chameleons.

874
00:32:21,970 --> 00:32:24,529
Mhmm. Like, I don't recognize him from movie

875
00:32:24,529 --> 00:32:27,329
to movie. I only basically, I recognize his

876
00:32:27,329 --> 00:32:29,990
eyes and his nose, and everything else changes

877
00:32:30,210 --> 00:32:33,205
in everything. Right. And so, like, you look

878
00:32:33,205 --> 00:32:34,644
at him in this movie, and then you

879
00:32:34,644 --> 00:32:37,205
can kinda see that he's Gimli or vice

880
00:32:37,205 --> 00:32:37,705
versa.

881
00:32:38,164 --> 00:32:39,464
And so it's just like

882
00:32:40,404 --> 00:32:40,904
so,

883
00:32:41,445 --> 00:32:44,025
you know, the earliest one I can remember

884
00:32:44,085 --> 00:32:46,079
is Lord of the Rings. Oh.

885
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:46,980
However,

886
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:49,279
I know he's been in in a whole

887
00:32:49,279 --> 00:32:50,880
lot more than that, and I also know

888
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,279
that as a one of those type of

889
00:32:53,279 --> 00:32:53,779
chameleon

890
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,019
stylized character actors

891
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,960
Right. I've probably seen him in places prior

892
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:00,585
to that and not realized it.

893
00:33:01,125 --> 00:33:03,445
Sort of like Ralph Fiennes. He's like in

894
00:33:03,445 --> 00:33:06,245
everything. Yeah. But you don't ever recognize him

895
00:33:06,245 --> 00:33:08,005
in anything. Like, no one ever goes like,

896
00:33:08,005 --> 00:33:09,945
Hey, let's go check out that Ralph Fiennes

897
00:33:10,164 --> 00:33:12,184
new joint. What's wrong?

898
00:33:13,819 --> 00:33:15,339
Yeah. No. Most people most people would be

899
00:33:15,339 --> 00:33:16,480
like, who's Ralph Fiennes?

900
00:33:16,779 --> 00:33:18,700
I think my earliest I remember seeing him

901
00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:20,940
is it has to be Indiana Jones in

902
00:33:20,940 --> 00:33:22,700
The Last Crusade. Oh, yeah. He was in

903
00:33:22,700 --> 00:33:24,319
that, too, wasn't he? Yeah.

904
00:33:24,859 --> 00:33:26,240
That or Bloodsport

905
00:33:26,539 --> 00:33:27,039
3.

906
00:33:27,805 --> 00:33:29,644
But the the part that sticks out the

907
00:33:29,644 --> 00:33:32,525
most to me visually is his part in

908
00:33:32,525 --> 00:33:33,025
sliders

909
00:33:33,644 --> 00:33:34,045
and,

910
00:33:34,525 --> 00:33:36,525
vocally, it's his part in,

911
00:33:36,924 --> 00:33:37,424
gargoyles.

912
00:33:38,045 --> 00:33:40,045
You and your gargoyles, man. What does that

913
00:33:40,045 --> 00:33:41,904
mean me by gargoyles? What does that mean?

914
00:33:42,045 --> 00:33:43,720
Bro, it's, like, okay.

915
00:33:44,019 --> 00:33:45,779
So we're we're we're we're stepping outside of

916
00:33:45,779 --> 00:33:47,299
the bottom shelf for a little bit here.

917
00:33:47,299 --> 00:33:48,680
Let me me my Gargoyles.

918
00:33:49,059 --> 00:33:51,299
We're we're we're we're we're going into hey,

919
00:33:51,299 --> 00:33:52,980
let's take a look at John and Dallas's

920
00:33:52,980 --> 00:33:54,119
friendship for a second.

921
00:33:54,500 --> 00:33:55,320
Like, 100%.

922
00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:57,984
Like, Dallas and I didn't really know each

923
00:33:57,984 --> 00:33:59,525
other until about 2,001.

924
00:34:00,224 --> 00:34:00,724
Right.

925
00:34:01,105 --> 00:34:01,605
And

926
00:34:02,065 --> 00:34:05,105
prior to 2,001, all Gargoyles was to me

927
00:34:05,105 --> 00:34:06,244
was an afterthought

928
00:34:06,945 --> 00:34:08,085
from my childhood.

929
00:34:08,909 --> 00:34:12,449
A minor blip, a failed toy production.

930
00:34:14,190 --> 00:34:17,630
Failed toy production. I have heard more about

931
00:34:17,630 --> 00:34:18,130
Gargoyle's

932
00:34:18,670 --> 00:34:19,170
history

933
00:34:20,190 --> 00:34:21,089
and cartoons

934
00:34:21,549 --> 00:34:22,369
and comics

935
00:34:23,255 --> 00:34:25,815
since being friends with Dallas that I even

936
00:34:25,815 --> 00:34:26,795
knew existed

937
00:34:27,335 --> 00:34:28,235
from experiencing

938
00:34:28,535 --> 00:34:29,835
it in my own life.

939
00:34:30,375 --> 00:34:33,094
Oh my gosh. So, yes, you and your

940
00:34:33,094 --> 00:34:33,594
gargoyles,

941
00:34:34,055 --> 00:34:36,295
sir, because I certainly did not bring them

942
00:34:36,295 --> 00:34:37,275
to this relationship.

943
00:34:38,469 --> 00:34:40,150
Look, man. It was a great show. We

944
00:34:40,150 --> 00:34:41,289
had 3 seasons.

945
00:34:42,150 --> 00:34:43,510
It had a video game that was hard

946
00:34:43,510 --> 00:34:44,570
as heck to beat.

947
00:34:45,190 --> 00:34:46,710
I didn't even know about the comics until

948
00:34:46,710 --> 00:34:47,210
later.

949
00:34:50,405 --> 00:34:51,625
Oh my gosh. Gargoyles

950
00:34:51,925 --> 00:34:52,425
and,

951
00:34:52,885 --> 00:34:55,684
mighty ducks and the mortal kombat cartoon live

952
00:34:55,684 --> 00:34:57,784
in the same time frame in my head.

953
00:34:57,844 --> 00:34:59,605
It's cool, man. I get it. I mean,

954
00:34:59,605 --> 00:35:01,445
I I dig that. There's things like that

955
00:35:01,445 --> 00:35:03,464
with me too, but it's just like, wow.

956
00:35:04,005 --> 00:35:06,039
But, you know, you go back a few

957
00:35:06,039 --> 00:35:07,719
more years and I'm gonna be pulling out

958
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,760
some one hit wonder cartoons myself or I'm

959
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,920
or I'm about that, like, Jason, the wheeled

960
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:13,420
warriors.

961
00:35:14,039 --> 00:35:15,960
If you don't know, go look it up.

962
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:17,019
I'm telling you.

963
00:35:18,815 --> 00:35:21,454
Oh my gosh. Well, back to this. Yes.

964
00:35:21,454 --> 00:35:24,014
Back to the thing we actually watched. Yeah.

965
00:35:24,014 --> 00:35:26,094
So but, yeah, he that dude, he, man,

966
00:35:26,094 --> 00:35:28,974
he commands scenes like nobody's business, and I

967
00:35:28,974 --> 00:35:30,654
kinda felt bad for the other actors at

968
00:35:30,654 --> 00:35:32,034
times because he's

969
00:35:32,335 --> 00:35:33,154
he's so

970
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,539
controlling of a scene in a good way.

971
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,679
And, like, even the main actor, like, he's

972
00:35:38,679 --> 00:35:40,440
trying. Like, you can tell, like, he's he's

973
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,679
put work into it. They're not phoning in

974
00:35:42,679 --> 00:35:44,599
the stuff. No. But no. No. Then that's

975
00:35:44,599 --> 00:35:47,115
just it. Nobody, like, he he made everybody

976
00:35:47,175 --> 00:35:49,175
rise to his standard, not the other way

977
00:35:49,175 --> 00:35:51,675
around. So I think his presence there definitely

978
00:35:51,815 --> 00:35:53,735
would help. You could definitely tell he was

979
00:35:53,735 --> 00:35:55,335
the person there who knew the most about

980
00:35:55,335 --> 00:35:56,875
what they were doing. Right.

981
00:35:57,739 --> 00:36:00,219
But I don't necessarily think that anybody else

982
00:36:00,219 --> 00:36:01,839
was what I would think was

983
00:36:02,139 --> 00:36:05,039
terrible with the exception of one person. Right.

984
00:36:06,139 --> 00:36:07,920
There's a scene in this movie.

985
00:36:08,219 --> 00:36:09,659
I have to talk about it because you

986
00:36:09,659 --> 00:36:11,795
just reminded me. Because I was trying to

987
00:36:11,795 --> 00:36:13,815
remember there was one one scene in particular

988
00:36:13,954 --> 00:36:15,174
I wanted to talk about

989
00:36:15,634 --> 00:36:16,134
where

990
00:36:16,434 --> 00:36:18,275
the people who work for the East India

991
00:36:18,275 --> 00:36:19,174
Trading Company

992
00:36:19,634 --> 00:36:22,614
attack the house of this family of Patriot

993
00:36:22,674 --> 00:36:25,154
sympathizers. Right? Right. And they bring them all

994
00:36:25,154 --> 00:36:26,134
out in the front.

995
00:36:27,150 --> 00:36:29,710
And the guy the lead guy from not

996
00:36:29,710 --> 00:36:31,949
the lead guy, but the guy who's heading

997
00:36:31,949 --> 00:36:33,170
up this band of,

998
00:36:34,349 --> 00:36:34,849
of,

999
00:36:35,710 --> 00:36:36,210
loyalists

1000
00:36:36,989 --> 00:36:38,849
to the East India Trading Company

1001
00:36:39,195 --> 00:36:41,355
has a mask over his face, and he's

1002
00:36:41,355 --> 00:36:43,434
just like, we're and they're about getting ready

1003
00:36:43,434 --> 00:36:45,035
to tar and feather this guy in the

1004
00:36:45,035 --> 00:36:47,994
street. Right. And then the main character who

1005
00:36:47,994 --> 00:36:49,675
also has a mask on comes in and

1006
00:36:49,675 --> 00:36:51,755
is like, no. Blah blah blah blah. And

1007
00:36:51,755 --> 00:36:52,255
then

1008
00:36:53,010 --> 00:36:55,170
action happens. The guy gets his mask ripped

1009
00:36:55,170 --> 00:36:57,250
off, and he's refusing to be caught. So

1010
00:36:57,250 --> 00:36:59,890
he's just like, I'll not be caught. Give

1011
00:36:59,890 --> 00:37:00,710
me the baby.

1012
00:37:01,010 --> 00:37:02,070
And he he

1013
00:37:03,489 --> 00:37:04,550
he says it in

1014
00:37:05,744 --> 00:37:06,885
the most hilarious,

1015
00:37:07,505 --> 00:37:10,385
worst acted way ever. Like the guy who

1016
00:37:10,385 --> 00:37:12,625
played this guy. And seriously, if you go

1017
00:37:12,625 --> 00:37:14,545
back to watch it, if you watch all

1018
00:37:14,545 --> 00:37:16,545
his scenes in this movie, it's like they

1019
00:37:16,545 --> 00:37:19,125
got everybody who could cut, who could mostly

1020
00:37:19,184 --> 00:37:21,119
hold up to a scene with Jonathan Rhys

1021
00:37:21,119 --> 00:37:23,359
Davies. Right? Right. And then they got this

1022
00:37:23,359 --> 00:37:23,859
guy

1023
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,799
who I can only assume was on set

1024
00:37:26,799 --> 00:37:29,440
because he was, like, a huge contributor to

1025
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,279
the production funds. Like, he was, like, the

1026
00:37:31,279 --> 00:37:34,275
head pastor of some church somewhere that was

1027
00:37:34,275 --> 00:37:36,594
backing the production. So he's, I think, in

1028
00:37:36,594 --> 00:37:38,375
the movie, give me the baby.

1029
00:37:40,034 --> 00:37:41,734
It felt like he felt like,

1030
00:37:42,114 --> 00:37:43,954
like the ADR was bad. Like, they're like,

1031
00:37:43,954 --> 00:37:45,474
oh, we gotta reschedule that. He went to

1032
00:37:45,474 --> 00:37:47,500
the studio. And did you did you catch

1033
00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:48,779
that part too then when I went and

1034
00:37:48,779 --> 00:37:51,179
talked to him? Like, he's so bad. He

1035
00:37:51,179 --> 00:37:52,619
was so bad. I won't get caught. Give

1036
00:37:52,619 --> 00:37:53,440
me the baby.

1037
00:37:54,619 --> 00:37:55,359
Was it

1038
00:37:55,659 --> 00:37:57,099
I'm trying to figure out what character he

1039
00:37:57,099 --> 00:37:58,779
was because he was a he was a

1040
00:37:58,779 --> 00:38:00,859
main character sort of in the back row.

1041
00:38:00,859 --> 00:38:02,394
He he was a mid character like he

1042
00:38:02,394 --> 00:38:05,194
was. Doctor. Harrow? No. The doctor. The doctor

1043
00:38:05,194 --> 00:38:06,894
was the scientist. Yeah.

1044
00:38:08,474 --> 00:38:10,554
Man. Doctor. Harrow sounds like it would be

1045
00:38:10,554 --> 00:38:12,654
the name of a Final Fantasy character.

1046
00:38:14,154 --> 00:38:15,289
Does that mean? Oh,

1047
00:38:16,710 --> 00:38:18,070
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

1048
00:38:18,070 --> 00:38:20,390
It sounds like a character from, Mobile Suit

1049
00:38:20,390 --> 00:38:23,530
Gundam. Yeah. Well, Harrow is the little robot

1050
00:38:23,670 --> 00:38:24,410
thing. Yeah.

1051
00:38:24,789 --> 00:38:25,289
Harrow.

1052
00:38:25,590 --> 00:38:26,489
So which

1053
00:38:26,789 --> 00:38:28,570
we're not that sure. Never mind. So

1054
00:38:31,535 --> 00:38:33,055
here's the problem we're running into right now.

1055
00:38:33,055 --> 00:38:35,295
Like, we we're both we're talking about the

1056
00:38:35,295 --> 00:38:36,655
movie, and you're, like, this is a good

1057
00:38:36,655 --> 00:38:38,015
movie, but we spent a lot of time

1058
00:38:38,015 --> 00:38:39,875
talking about everything else.

1059
00:38:40,175 --> 00:38:42,494
Well, here here's here's the thing, and and

1060
00:38:42,494 --> 00:38:43,555
this is the reason

1061
00:38:44,175 --> 00:38:46,489
I I don't think I'm projecting. I don't

1062
00:38:46,489 --> 00:38:48,409
think I'm revealing too much to say that

1063
00:38:48,409 --> 00:38:49,949
I enjoyed this movie.

1064
00:38:51,130 --> 00:38:52,730
And for me, that's kinda what a good

1065
00:38:52,730 --> 00:38:54,269
movie is is you're entertained,

1066
00:38:54,730 --> 00:38:56,650
you know? You know, it doesn't necessarily have

1067
00:38:56,650 --> 00:38:58,250
to be life moving, but you walk away

1068
00:38:58,250 --> 00:38:59,690
with a smile on your face and you're

1069
00:38:59,690 --> 00:39:01,655
chatting with your friends and poking fun. You

1070
00:39:01,655 --> 00:39:03,335
know, it's like that moment when you walk

1071
00:39:03,335 --> 00:39:05,675
out of the theater. Not everything's gonna be

1072
00:39:05,894 --> 00:39:08,775
Schindler's List, you know? Sometimes you sometimes you

1073
00:39:08,775 --> 00:39:10,635
just need a Joe Dirt in your life.

1074
00:39:11,655 --> 00:39:13,655
Alright. So I found the actor, and his

1075
00:39:13,655 --> 00:39:15,195
name is Steve Blackwood.

1076
00:39:15,750 --> 00:39:16,409
So bad.

1077
00:39:16,789 --> 00:39:17,269
And,

1078
00:39:18,070 --> 00:39:19,829
like, every scene he was in, he was

1079
00:39:19,829 --> 00:39:20,570
so bad.

1080
00:39:21,750 --> 00:39:23,349
He was in he was in he's been

1081
00:39:23,349 --> 00:39:24,329
in several shorts.

1082
00:39:25,829 --> 00:39:27,750
He was in a video called Family Game

1083
00:39:27,750 --> 00:39:28,250
Night.

1084
00:39:29,644 --> 00:39:31,324
That sounds like it's gonna be, like, one

1085
00:39:31,324 --> 00:39:31,985
of those DVD

1086
00:39:34,045 --> 00:39:36,204
games, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah.

1087
00:39:36,204 --> 00:39:39,005
It's basically a glorified DVD menu that has,

1088
00:39:39,005 --> 00:39:40,545
like, trivia on it.

1089
00:39:40,844 --> 00:39:43,320
He's gonna be he's going he's in something

1090
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,119
called P Brain, a former soap opera actor,

1091
00:39:46,119 --> 00:39:47,500
contends with his father

1092
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:48,619
and assisted,

1093
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:50,860
living resident with alcoholic

1094
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,559
dementia and reflects on his earlier relationship with

1095
00:39:53,559 --> 00:39:56,599
him. So, basically, a soap opera actor whose

1096
00:39:56,599 --> 00:39:58,220
life becomes a soap opera.

1097
00:39:58,594 --> 00:40:00,614
Yeah. Sounds sounds like a meta comedy.

1098
00:40:03,074 --> 00:40:05,154
Yeah. So that's that's just a I mean,

1099
00:40:05,154 --> 00:40:08,034
his his his acting was soap opera level.

1100
00:40:08,034 --> 00:40:09,795
So Yeah. Well, again, I'm looking at the

1101
00:40:09,795 --> 00:40:11,714
actors. Like, the various actors and, again, there's

1102
00:40:11,714 --> 00:40:13,315
some people that they've done they've done some

1103
00:40:13,315 --> 00:40:14,940
good stuff here. But a lot of the

1104
00:40:14,940 --> 00:40:15,440
actors,

1105
00:40:15,739 --> 00:40:17,440
it's all very much this.

1106
00:40:17,980 --> 00:40:19,519
We've done some small things

1107
00:40:19,820 --> 00:40:20,320
and,

1108
00:40:21,340 --> 00:40:23,340
and and that's just it. Like, I don't

1109
00:40:23,340 --> 00:40:25,739
have an issue with small actors because everybody

1110
00:40:25,739 --> 00:40:27,585
starts somewhere. You know what I mean? Like,

1111
00:40:27,585 --> 00:40:29,585
George we saw George Clooney in attack of

1112
00:40:29,585 --> 00:40:33,025
the killer tomatoes part 2. Right. And he's

1113
00:40:33,025 --> 00:40:34,324
done great movies.

1114
00:40:35,905 --> 00:40:37,264
So I don't have an issue with small

1115
00:40:37,264 --> 00:40:38,965
actors. It's just when people

1116
00:40:39,349 --> 00:40:41,429
can't act, like, they can't deliver a line

1117
00:40:41,429 --> 00:40:44,630
in a believable way. Right. Or a serious

1118
00:40:44,630 --> 00:40:47,110
line in a non comedic way. That's all

1119
00:40:47,110 --> 00:40:48,710
I'm saying. But it it was it was

1120
00:40:48,710 --> 00:40:50,150
just a thought because I remember when I

1121
00:40:50,150 --> 00:40:52,409
remember watching it this time, like, oh, no.

1122
00:40:52,710 --> 00:40:53,210
So

1123
00:40:53,635 --> 00:40:54,135
the,

1124
00:40:54,755 --> 00:40:56,394
I don't know his last name. I don't

1125
00:40:56,394 --> 00:40:57,715
I don't know how to pronounce this man's

1126
00:40:57,715 --> 00:40:58,355
name. But,

1127
00:40:59,075 --> 00:41:00,295
the man who played,

1128
00:41:01,315 --> 00:41:02,295
Joshua Brand.

1129
00:41:03,635 --> 00:41:06,055
Okay. In in the movie, the black guy.

1130
00:41:06,114 --> 00:41:06,614
Yeah.

1131
00:41:06,914 --> 00:41:07,414
So

1132
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:09,539
he was the voice of Apocalypse

1133
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,900
in X men from the, 97.

1134
00:41:13,359 --> 00:41:14,339
Oh, hey. Cool.

1135
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:15,460
He was,

1136
00:41:17,119 --> 00:41:19,139
the voice of Isaac in Castlevania,

1137
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:20,420
the TV series.

1138
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:21,380
Okay.

1139
00:41:22,525 --> 00:41:23,965
He's done this guy's actually done quite a

1140
00:41:23,965 --> 00:41:25,905
bit. He was also in The Chosen, apparently.

1141
00:41:26,445 --> 00:41:28,125
He did voice work for Call of Duty

1142
00:41:28,125 --> 00:41:28,945
Modern Warfare.

1143
00:41:30,204 --> 00:41:32,224
So he's done a few things. Alright.

1144
00:41:32,684 --> 00:41:34,110
Has some some weight to it.

1145
00:41:34,910 --> 00:41:36,269
But then again, it's also a lot of

1146
00:41:36,269 --> 00:41:37,890
small stuff too. So

1147
00:41:38,269 --> 00:41:40,670
Now I will say this about this movie

1148
00:41:40,670 --> 00:41:42,670
as well, and that it's something else that

1149
00:41:42,670 --> 00:41:44,989
I noticed because I having seen this movie

1150
00:41:44,989 --> 00:41:46,829
before, I really wanted to dissect it because

1151
00:41:46,829 --> 00:41:48,349
I wanted to make sure I wasn't just

1152
00:41:48,349 --> 00:41:49,890
looking at it through rose colored

1153
00:41:50,295 --> 00:41:51,114
glasses. Sure.

1154
00:41:52,135 --> 00:41:53,815
Because the other thing I had remembered about

1155
00:41:53,815 --> 00:41:56,554
it was the action scenes, which were

1156
00:41:57,175 --> 00:41:59,255
more than what you would expect again from

1157
00:41:59,255 --> 00:42:00,234
a typical Christian

1158
00:42:00,694 --> 00:42:01,194
cinema.

1159
00:42:01,815 --> 00:42:03,480
I was watching the action scenes in it.

1160
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:05,480
And to be fair, the action scenes in

1161
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,519
this movie weren't that spectacular if you break

1162
00:42:08,519 --> 00:42:11,239
them down on what's being seen. Mhmm. What

1163
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,480
really made the action scenes pop in this

1164
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:14,460
was the cinematography

1165
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,940
that they applied to the action scenes.

1166
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:17,900
Mhmm. Because

1167
00:42:18,695 --> 00:42:20,775
the scenes themselves didn't have a whole lot

1168
00:42:20,775 --> 00:42:21,434
of choreography

1169
00:42:21,815 --> 00:42:22,474
to them.

1170
00:42:22,855 --> 00:42:23,355
And

1171
00:42:23,735 --> 00:42:25,335
to be fair, I mean, let's face it,

1172
00:42:25,335 --> 00:42:27,974
Andrew Rice Davies isn't exactly known as an

1173
00:42:27,974 --> 00:42:28,875
action star.

1174
00:42:29,335 --> 00:42:31,574
Like, the most action we've seen him do

1175
00:42:31,574 --> 00:42:33,175
was Gimli. And even then, all he did

1176
00:42:33,175 --> 00:42:34,110
was swing an ax

1177
00:42:34,590 --> 00:42:35,329
around. Right.

1178
00:42:37,230 --> 00:42:38,670
So and I was watching that. What they

1179
00:42:38,670 --> 00:42:40,050
did was they had,

1180
00:42:41,630 --> 00:42:44,769
slow they basically slowed down the shutter speed

1181
00:42:44,910 --> 00:42:46,050
on the camera

1182
00:42:46,494 --> 00:42:47,234
to give

1183
00:42:47,775 --> 00:42:50,014
a little bit more disjointed effect to the

1184
00:42:50,014 --> 00:42:52,494
action scenes. Right. They did a whole lot

1185
00:42:52,494 --> 00:42:53,155
of smash

1186
00:42:53,534 --> 00:42:54,514
angle editing

1187
00:42:54,974 --> 00:42:57,934
to increase the tempo of the scene in

1188
00:42:57,934 --> 00:42:59,760
and of itself. So you didn't have a

1189
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,179
whole lot of time to focus necessarily

1190
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:03,619
on the shortcomings

1191
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:05,300
of the choreography.

1192
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,760
Yeah. But sometimes that was kind of the

1193
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,160
that was the style of of action scenes

1194
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,079
back then. Oh, yeah, for sure. Like, cuts

1195
00:43:12,079 --> 00:43:13,925
in and out. For sure. Like, if you

1196
00:43:13,925 --> 00:43:15,864
watch like the Bourne Ultimatum,

1197
00:43:16,324 --> 00:43:18,085
you see it a lot in there, too.

1198
00:43:18,085 --> 00:43:20,264
But what I'm saying is in this instance,

1199
00:43:20,804 --> 00:43:23,144
taking that taking that technique

1200
00:43:23,605 --> 00:43:26,085
work towards towards their benefit instead of being

1201
00:43:26,085 --> 00:43:28,829
distracting from the action scene because I was

1202
00:43:28,829 --> 00:43:30,510
paying more attention to what the actors were

1203
00:43:30,510 --> 00:43:32,050
doing and less flashbang

1204
00:43:32,430 --> 00:43:34,510
like normal people would the first time they

1205
00:43:34,510 --> 00:43:36,510
see it. Right. And the actors weren't really

1206
00:43:36,510 --> 00:43:37,010
doing

1207
00:43:37,390 --> 00:43:39,250
that much that any

1208
00:43:39,550 --> 00:43:41,869
Joe Blow wouldn't be able to do on

1209
00:43:41,869 --> 00:43:43,410
their own. Yeah. Definitely.

1210
00:43:43,855 --> 00:43:44,355
Definitely.

1211
00:43:45,535 --> 00:43:47,135
Trying to think if there's anything else I

1212
00:43:47,135 --> 00:43:49,055
have on my notes here that are worth

1213
00:43:49,055 --> 00:43:49,875
worth mentioning.

1214
00:43:51,695 --> 00:43:54,094
I did appreciate the fact that the romance

1215
00:43:54,094 --> 00:43:55,235
that happened between

1216
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:58,799
the guy and the girl, I mean, I

1217
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,599
let's let's face it. Nobody knows their characters

1218
00:44:01,599 --> 00:44:03,139
names and nobody really cares.

1219
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,319
I I you know, there's times I wanna

1220
00:44:06,319 --> 00:44:08,179
call him the Dread Pirate Roberts,

1221
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:09,299
you know.

1222
00:44:10,319 --> 00:44:11,699
Did you get princess vibes,

1223
00:44:12,114 --> 00:44:14,195
princess bride vibes from us a little bit?

1224
00:44:14,434 --> 00:44:16,055
A little bit. A little bit.

1225
00:44:16,914 --> 00:44:18,775
Especially on the rooftop scene,

1226
00:44:19,075 --> 00:44:21,155
when he goes to visit her. Yeah. Yeah.

1227
00:44:21,155 --> 00:44:23,414
Yeah. Yeah. That that specifically gave me princess

1228
00:44:23,474 --> 00:44:24,295
bride vibes.

1229
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:26,440
Anyway, the what I'm what I'm saying though

1230
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,940
is what I appreciated about the the romance

1231
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,360
in there is that they didn't try to

1232
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,300
force it. Like, they weren't automatically,

1233
00:44:32,599 --> 00:44:33,099
oh,

1234
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,220
we're so in love and lovers and,

1235
00:44:36,864 --> 00:44:38,465
like, they they I don't think they even

1236
00:44:38,465 --> 00:44:40,864
kissed at any point in this movie. There's

1237
00:44:40,864 --> 00:44:42,065
times where they got close, but I don't

1238
00:44:42,065 --> 00:44:43,664
think they actually showed them kissing in this

1239
00:44:43,664 --> 00:44:45,364
movie. No. They did not.

1240
00:44:45,664 --> 00:44:47,105
But at the same time, like, this is

1241
00:44:47,105 --> 00:44:50,224
an interesting top cover, topic about Christian cinema

1242
00:44:50,224 --> 00:44:52,070
is the, like, how far do you go

1243
00:44:52,070 --> 00:44:53,530
with certain things and

1244
00:44:53,829 --> 00:44:57,030
whatnot. And I appreciate that there was romance

1245
00:44:57,030 --> 00:44:58,469
to it, but it wasn't to the point

1246
00:44:58,469 --> 00:44:59,769
where things got inappropriate.

1247
00:45:00,150 --> 00:45:01,910
Like, again, I have zero qualms just seeing

1248
00:45:01,910 --> 00:45:03,349
a couple of kiss on screen. I'm not

1249
00:45:03,349 --> 00:45:05,130
not in that that camp of things.

1250
00:45:05,465 --> 00:45:06,744
But there is a level of people think,

1251
00:45:06,744 --> 00:45:08,425
oh, well, you gotta have, you know, this

1252
00:45:08,425 --> 00:45:10,425
and that. Like, you really don't. Like, you

1253
00:45:10,425 --> 00:45:11,485
can tell good stories.

1254
00:45:12,664 --> 00:45:15,545
You know, a classic classic movies, they they

1255
00:45:15,545 --> 00:45:16,045
projected

1256
00:45:16,905 --> 00:45:17,644
so much,

1257
00:45:18,264 --> 00:45:20,684
that whole romance and even sensuality,

1258
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,360
And you would see, like, the man scoop

1259
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,119
up the woman and walk off screen into

1260
00:45:25,119 --> 00:45:26,840
a dark room, and, you know, the kids

1261
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:28,079
are like, what's going on? And the adults

1262
00:45:28,079 --> 00:45:30,019
would be like, I know what's happening there.

1263
00:45:30,079 --> 00:45:31,840
And it was a way of storytelling. It

1264
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,059
was without

1265
00:45:33,519 --> 00:45:34,579
showing you everything.

1266
00:45:34,914 --> 00:45:37,154
Mhmm. You know? And here here's the thing.

1267
00:45:37,154 --> 00:45:39,394
Like, even in this movie where it's not

1268
00:45:39,394 --> 00:45:42,194
even implied, like, nothing happens, you know, like,

1269
00:45:42,194 --> 00:45:45,154
nothing actually happens on or off screen. Right.

1270
00:45:45,154 --> 00:45:47,094
Even to the point where they don't kiss.

1271
00:45:47,315 --> 00:45:49,630
Right. I didn't feel like this movie was

1272
00:45:49,630 --> 00:45:52,670
lacking anything. Mhmm. Like, because the the whole

1273
00:45:52,670 --> 00:45:55,489
romance vibes were still there even without it.

1274
00:45:55,550 --> 00:45:57,630
Mhmm. So they were able so that I

1275
00:45:57,630 --> 00:45:59,150
don't know. For me, it just shows that

1276
00:45:59,150 --> 00:46:02,349
you can convey that emotion without necessarily having

1277
00:46:02,349 --> 00:46:03,010
to titillate.

1278
00:46:03,385 --> 00:46:05,224
Right. Yeah. I don't know. You got anything

1279
00:46:05,224 --> 00:46:06,364
else, Dallas?

1280
00:46:07,864 --> 00:46:09,864
No. I think we've mentioned everything. Again, it's

1281
00:46:10,025 --> 00:46:11,405
it it was a fun story.

1282
00:46:11,704 --> 00:46:13,465
There are a couple of things, like, time

1283
00:46:13,465 --> 00:46:17,385
shifting happened. Like like, it's clearly noontime when

1284
00:46:17,385 --> 00:46:18,900
William first shows up at,

1285
00:46:20,179 --> 00:46:20,679
Franklin's,

1286
00:46:21,299 --> 00:46:22,980
establishment, and he goes a street cross street

1287
00:46:22,980 --> 00:46:25,139
to the pub. And, like, within 5 minutes,

1288
00:46:25,139 --> 00:46:27,460
it's, like, night out outside all of a

1289
00:46:27,460 --> 00:46:29,380
sudden. Mhmm. And there are several of those

1290
00:46:29,380 --> 00:46:30,579
scenes right there where all of a sudden

1291
00:46:30,579 --> 00:46:31,864
it was, like, daytime,

1292
00:46:32,244 --> 00:46:34,505
nighttime, daytime, nighttime like that meme.

1293
00:46:37,605 --> 00:46:39,445
You know what I'm saying? I'm suddenly having

1294
00:46:39,445 --> 00:46:42,105
flashbacks to plan 9 from outer space.

1295
00:46:43,844 --> 00:46:45,525
So there were several times where it was

1296
00:46:45,525 --> 00:46:46,744
like that, but, like,

1297
00:46:47,090 --> 00:46:47,909
overall, man,

1298
00:46:49,010 --> 00:46:51,450
it it worked. Everything flowed together. And, like

1299
00:46:51,450 --> 00:46:53,170
I said, the action scenes, they weren't, like,

1300
00:46:53,170 --> 00:46:53,670
spectacular.

1301
00:46:53,969 --> 00:46:55,809
But, you know, the it was more than

1302
00:46:55,809 --> 00:46:57,590
what I've seen in other in other stuff

1303
00:46:57,730 --> 00:47:00,369
of not just Christian cinema, but budget wise.

1304
00:47:00,369 --> 00:47:03,295
Mhmm. Mhmm. And so, yeah, that's those were

1305
00:47:03,295 --> 00:47:05,174
my those were my my final thoughts before

1306
00:47:05,174 --> 00:47:07,155
we get into the the final rating.

1307
00:47:07,454 --> 00:47:09,554
Alright. Well, let's get into the final rating.

1308
00:47:09,775 --> 00:47:12,894
And here on the bottom shelf, we have

1309
00:47:12,894 --> 00:47:13,635
a 4,

1310
00:47:14,655 --> 00:47:16,894
shelf rating system, a 4 level rating system.

1311
00:47:16,894 --> 00:47:18,609
We'll put it like that. We have the

1312
00:47:18,609 --> 00:47:20,469
top shelf, which basically translates

1313
00:47:21,329 --> 00:47:23,989
to I need to own this movie. I

1314
00:47:24,050 --> 00:47:26,369
must I must have it. So should I

1315
00:47:26,369 --> 00:47:28,210
ever have the urge, it will always be

1316
00:47:28,210 --> 00:47:31,409
available to me. And specifically, I have it

1317
00:47:31,409 --> 00:47:32,710
in physical media.

1318
00:47:33,174 --> 00:47:35,574
So if the producers ever take it down

1319
00:47:35,574 --> 00:47:36,714
or turn the

1320
00:47:37,014 --> 00:47:38,795
handguns into walkie talkies,

1321
00:47:39,174 --> 00:47:40,855
I can have the original and they can't

1322
00:47:40,855 --> 00:47:43,194
take it away from me. Middle shelf,

1323
00:47:43,734 --> 00:47:46,135
I'd watch if a screen streaming and,

1324
00:47:46,775 --> 00:47:48,954
you know, the walkie talkies aren't bad.

1325
00:47:50,670 --> 00:47:52,510
Bottom shelf, I don't watch I don't wanna

1326
00:47:52,510 --> 00:47:54,349
watch it again. I don't wanna watch it

1327
00:47:54,349 --> 00:47:55,710
ever again. I mean, you can watch it

1328
00:47:55,710 --> 00:47:57,309
if you want, if walkie talkies are your

1329
00:47:57,309 --> 00:47:57,809
thing.

1330
00:47:58,110 --> 00:47:59,889
But, for me in my house,

1331
00:48:00,269 --> 00:48:02,355
this movie is crap. And then finally,

1332
00:48:02,735 --> 00:48:04,494
we have the dumpster fire, which is I'm

1333
00:48:04,494 --> 00:48:06,015
gonna try to keep you from watching this

1334
00:48:06,015 --> 00:48:08,894
movie, and I want it to never have

1335
00:48:08,894 --> 00:48:09,394
exist.

1336
00:48:09,855 --> 00:48:12,815
So with that being said, captain Mora, how

1337
00:48:12,815 --> 00:48:14,275
do you feel about this movie?

1338
00:48:15,300 --> 00:48:16,519
I'm trying to do this objectively.

1339
00:48:16,900 --> 00:48:17,219
And,

1340
00:48:17,940 --> 00:48:19,780
again, as a Christian, I rem I I'm

1341
00:48:19,780 --> 00:48:21,860
trying to remove myself that that aspect from

1342
00:48:21,860 --> 00:48:22,519
it because

1343
00:48:22,820 --> 00:48:24,660
I think that's that has been the downside

1344
00:48:24,660 --> 00:48:26,500
to Christian cinema is people give things a

1345
00:48:26,500 --> 00:48:28,680
pass simply because it's presenting

1346
00:48:29,295 --> 00:48:31,454
our worldview of things, and that's not always

1347
00:48:31,454 --> 00:48:33,534
appropriate either. Art is art. Is it good

1348
00:48:33,534 --> 00:48:34,034
art?

1349
00:48:34,574 --> 00:48:37,375
It's not great. This is not a a

1350
00:48:37,375 --> 00:48:38,914
blockbuster film at all.

1351
00:48:39,614 --> 00:48:40,974
It did make me wanna go back and

1352
00:48:40,974 --> 00:48:42,514
play Assassin's Creed pretty badly,

1353
00:48:45,369 --> 00:48:48,110
but I'm in the middle of playing Medgar's

1354
00:48:48,170 --> 00:48:49,150
soul 2 right now.

1355
00:48:50,409 --> 00:48:50,909
So

1356
00:48:51,289 --> 00:48:53,369
I was My my wife got me the

1357
00:48:53,369 --> 00:48:56,670
Assassin's Creed mega bundle for for the Switch.

1358
00:48:56,994 --> 00:48:58,934
Yo. I'm excited for you, brother.

1359
00:48:59,394 --> 00:49:01,394
I surely did almost pull out Syndicate, though,

1360
00:49:01,394 --> 00:49:03,175
the other day, right, for watching this.

1361
00:49:04,114 --> 00:49:05,554
I'd probably watch if it was streaming. Like,

1362
00:49:05,554 --> 00:49:07,074
if it was on, you know, and we're

1363
00:49:07,074 --> 00:49:08,514
just we're chilling. I was like, oh, okay.

1364
00:49:08,514 --> 00:49:09,795
Cool. It's on the background. So I'm gonna

1365
00:49:09,795 --> 00:49:12,320
go middle shelf. Alright. That's that's acceptable.

1366
00:49:13,980 --> 00:49:15,039
This movie,

1367
00:49:15,900 --> 00:49:18,140
for me, it it it transcends you know,

1368
00:49:18,140 --> 00:49:19,760
we we've said it a few times

1369
00:49:20,140 --> 00:49:21,519
in the show. It transcends

1370
00:49:21,900 --> 00:49:23,760
typical Christian cinema on

1371
00:49:24,300 --> 00:49:25,280
a lot of levels.

1372
00:49:25,764 --> 00:49:28,485
And for me, in particular, it's in all

1373
00:49:28,485 --> 00:49:29,704
the ways that

1374
00:49:30,164 --> 00:49:32,184
hit me in the right way. Right.

1375
00:49:32,565 --> 00:49:35,125
I enjoy watching this movie every time I've

1376
00:49:35,125 --> 00:49:35,945
watched it.

1377
00:49:37,204 --> 00:49:38,905
Is it a perfect film? No.

1378
00:49:40,039 --> 00:49:42,679
In fact, there are definite flaws in this

1379
00:49:42,679 --> 00:49:43,179
movie,

1380
00:49:44,039 --> 00:49:45,659
and if you're looking

1381
00:49:46,199 --> 00:49:48,119
specifically, if you're looking to find them with

1382
00:49:48,119 --> 00:49:50,440
a critical eye, you're gonna see them. But

1383
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:52,119
if you're just gonna sit back and watch

1384
00:49:52,119 --> 00:49:53,800
a movie for entertainment, you could do a

1385
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:55,255
lot worse than this. Yeah.

1386
00:49:56,135 --> 00:49:57,114
I own it.

1387
00:49:57,974 --> 00:50:00,295
The and as such, the temptation is for

1388
00:50:00,295 --> 00:50:01,494
me to put it on the top shelf.

1389
00:50:01,494 --> 00:50:03,255
But the fact of the matter is is

1390
00:50:03,255 --> 00:50:05,014
I haven't watched this movie for a couple

1391
00:50:05,014 --> 00:50:05,914
of years, and,

1392
00:50:06,855 --> 00:50:08,880
you know, that that that says something about

1393
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,299
it, but I did enjoy watching it again.

1394
00:50:11,679 --> 00:50:13,920
And if somebody was saying, hey, you know,

1395
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:15,059
can you point me

1396
00:50:15,359 --> 00:50:17,940
in the direction of some decent Christian movies?

1397
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:20,079
This would be one of the movies I

1398
00:50:20,079 --> 00:50:22,319
would point them towards to give them a

1399
00:50:22,319 --> 00:50:24,339
better taste than say, for instance,

1400
00:50:24,984 --> 00:50:25,804
left behind.

1401
00:50:27,784 --> 00:50:29,784
So with that being said, I, you know,

1402
00:50:29,784 --> 00:50:31,545
I'm gonna put this on a very high

1403
00:50:31,545 --> 00:50:34,264
middle shelf. Alright. So I I will I

1404
00:50:34,264 --> 00:50:35,864
will agree with you. I I my temptation

1405
00:50:35,864 --> 00:50:37,065
was to put it on the top shelf,

1406
00:50:37,065 --> 00:50:38,905
but I I think that you did convince

1407
00:50:38,905 --> 00:50:40,590
me that, yeah, middle shelf is where this

1408
00:50:41,150 --> 00:50:43,869
where this goes. So That's fair. But that

1409
00:50:43,869 --> 00:50:45,950
being said, we have consensus. This is a

1410
00:50:45,950 --> 00:50:47,969
middle shelf certified film.

1411
00:50:48,349 --> 00:50:50,269
Go out and check it out should you

1412
00:50:50,269 --> 00:50:52,670
feel so inclined or if anything in this

1413
00:50:52,670 --> 00:50:53,730
review has

1414
00:50:54,164 --> 00:50:56,485
caught your attention. And with that, we move

1415
00:50:56,485 --> 00:50:58,265
on to the weak connections.

1416
00:50:59,445 --> 00:51:01,385
This is a weak connection.

1417
00:51:03,364 --> 00:51:05,224
Here on the bottom shelf, we

1418
00:51:05,765 --> 00:51:08,244
like to celebrate what we watch by trying

1419
00:51:08,244 --> 00:51:09,304
to find something

1420
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:10,340
productive,

1421
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:11,300
something

1422
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:12,660
edifying,

1423
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:13,460
something

1424
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:16,260
redemptive from the movies we watch here.

1425
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:18,340
We call it the weak connection

1426
00:51:18,720 --> 00:51:21,680
as inspired by an idea from friend of

1427
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:22,980
the show, Ben Ben

1428
00:51:23,414 --> 00:51:23,914
Avery.

1429
00:51:24,295 --> 00:51:25,835
Salute to you, good sir.

1430
00:51:26,775 --> 00:51:29,735
That being said, captain Mora, do you have

1431
00:51:29,735 --> 00:51:32,315
a weak connection for us? I do, actually.

1432
00:51:32,775 --> 00:51:34,295
For my weak connection, I'm looking at the

1433
00:51:34,295 --> 00:51:37,494
main character played by Andrew Chaney, who played

1434
00:51:37,494 --> 00:51:37,994
William.

1435
00:51:38,469 --> 00:51:38,969
And,

1436
00:51:40,309 --> 00:51:41,989
William's whole thing his whole story arc is

1437
00:51:41,989 --> 00:51:43,590
that he's trying to redeem his name. He

1438
00:51:43,590 --> 00:51:45,210
feels like he's done too much,

1439
00:51:45,750 --> 00:51:47,210
to be redeemed, and,

1440
00:51:47,910 --> 00:51:49,989
he's trying to prove himself to homegirl even

1441
00:51:49,989 --> 00:51:52,114
to the point of, like, not doing the

1442
00:51:52,114 --> 00:51:54,214
right thing for the sake of trying to

1443
00:51:54,275 --> 00:51:56,675
make himself the right thing, basically. And he's

1444
00:51:56,675 --> 00:51:57,795
just trying to work this whole thing out

1445
00:51:57,795 --> 00:51:59,474
on his own to redeem himself, and that

1446
00:51:59,474 --> 00:52:02,434
becomes a a major downfall and pitfall of

1447
00:52:02,434 --> 00:52:03,094
this ordeal.

1448
00:52:03,554 --> 00:52:04,054
And,

1449
00:52:04,434 --> 00:52:06,500
I wanna kinda this has been a running

1450
00:52:06,500 --> 00:52:07,859
theme for us here at Geeked Devotions actually

1451
00:52:07,859 --> 00:52:09,699
for the last couple of weeks, on our

1452
00:52:09,699 --> 00:52:11,480
main on our main show, Geeked Devotions,

1453
00:52:11,780 --> 00:52:13,859
about redemption, where or not people can be

1454
00:52:13,859 --> 00:52:15,859
redeemed and people who feel like they can't

1455
00:52:15,859 --> 00:52:17,619
be redeemed. And there's a passage I wanna

1456
00:52:17,619 --> 00:52:20,375
point out. Romans chapter 3, starting in verse

1457
00:52:20,375 --> 00:52:21,974
23, it says this, for all have sinned

1458
00:52:21,974 --> 00:52:23,514
and fall short of the glory of God

1459
00:52:23,815 --> 00:52:24,875
and are justified

1460
00:52:25,414 --> 00:52:26,394
by his grace

1461
00:52:26,695 --> 00:52:28,795
as a gift through the redemption

1462
00:52:29,175 --> 00:52:31,195
that is in Christ Jesus.

1463
00:52:31,500 --> 00:52:33,019
And what this is saying is that every

1464
00:52:33,019 --> 00:52:35,340
one of us is messed up. Every person

1465
00:52:35,340 --> 00:52:37,820
is is flawed. Every person is away from

1466
00:52:37,820 --> 00:52:40,860
God, but salvation, that's God's gift to us.

1467
00:52:40,860 --> 00:52:42,380
We can't do anything to earn it. We

1468
00:52:42,380 --> 00:52:45,114
can't do anything to to to appease him,

1469
00:52:45,114 --> 00:52:47,594
to to get that from him. He's offering

1470
00:52:47,594 --> 00:52:49,674
it to us. Now it does require us

1471
00:52:49,674 --> 00:52:51,355
to submit our lives to Jesus, to walk

1472
00:52:51,355 --> 00:52:53,835
in that identity to be saved, but it's

1473
00:52:53,835 --> 00:52:55,355
given to us freely. And there's a lot

1474
00:52:55,355 --> 00:52:56,489
of people out there that,

1475
00:52:57,050 --> 00:52:58,570
you know, I'm gonna hit 2 camps of

1476
00:52:58,570 --> 00:53:00,090
people. You got the people who are all

1477
00:53:00,090 --> 00:53:00,590
like,

1478
00:53:01,210 --> 00:53:01,710
you,

1479
00:53:02,329 --> 00:53:04,010
have done too much, which is what Home

1480
00:53:04,010 --> 00:53:06,570
Dude was feeling like. Well, I'm sorry. You

1481
00:53:06,570 --> 00:53:08,909
were screwed up too, yet God redeemed you.

1482
00:53:08,969 --> 00:53:10,170
And at the same time, on the back

1483
00:53:10,170 --> 00:53:11,150
end of that thing,

1484
00:53:12,074 --> 00:53:13,434
there's a lot of people, again, they're they're

1485
00:53:13,434 --> 00:53:15,195
trying to earn their salvation. They're trying, like,

1486
00:53:15,195 --> 00:53:16,155
well, I gotta do the right thing. I

1487
00:53:16,155 --> 00:53:17,434
gotta do this. I gotta do this. I

1488
00:53:17,514 --> 00:53:20,155
you know? And that's just not how this

1489
00:53:20,155 --> 00:53:22,815
works. I know a lot of people who,

1490
00:53:23,755 --> 00:53:25,355
have literally said to me, I've done too

1491
00:53:25,355 --> 00:53:26,889
much for God to love me, and that's

1492
00:53:26,889 --> 00:53:27,949
just not the case.

1493
00:53:28,969 --> 00:53:30,809
You submit your lives to him. Boom. It's

1494
00:53:30,809 --> 00:53:33,610
done. You're redeemed. Period. End of discussion. And

1495
00:53:33,610 --> 00:53:34,670
so that's my my

1496
00:53:34,969 --> 00:53:37,210
weak connection for you guys is we've we've

1497
00:53:37,210 --> 00:53:39,289
all screwed up. Don't don't hold that over

1498
00:53:39,289 --> 00:53:41,704
your head and and make that your identity.

1499
00:53:41,844 --> 00:53:43,704
Walk in that any Christ has for you.

1500
00:53:44,005 --> 00:53:44,505
Cool.

1501
00:53:44,884 --> 00:53:45,625
I have

1502
00:53:46,164 --> 00:53:47,864
a single week connection

1503
00:53:48,244 --> 00:53:50,505
for both episodes that we're doing

1504
00:53:51,125 --> 00:53:52,344
this month because

1505
00:53:53,289 --> 00:53:55,369
we didn't we didn't actually plan it this

1506
00:53:55,369 --> 00:53:56,969
way because, like I said, we just picked

1507
00:53:56,969 --> 00:53:58,750
Christian movies that we liked.

1508
00:53:59,130 --> 00:54:01,769
Right. And it turns out that apparently both

1509
00:54:01,769 --> 00:54:02,750
Dallas and I,

1510
00:54:03,130 --> 00:54:04,670
where our Venn diagrams

1511
00:54:04,969 --> 00:54:07,309
overlap is we like Christian movies

1512
00:54:07,609 --> 00:54:08,109
about

1513
00:54:09,035 --> 00:54:10,735
masked Christian vigilantes.

1514
00:54:11,675 --> 00:54:13,355
Are we the ones trying to be superheroes,

1515
00:54:13,355 --> 00:54:14,095
not Branson?

1516
00:54:17,595 --> 00:54:19,675
I don't know. I'm try the point I'm

1517
00:54:19,675 --> 00:54:20,494
trying to make,

1518
00:54:21,675 --> 00:54:22,494
is that

1519
00:54:22,889 --> 00:54:24,809
there's there's a common thing between the 2

1520
00:54:24,809 --> 00:54:26,670
movies, so I'm going to save mine for

1521
00:54:26,889 --> 00:54:30,010
the next episode. So stay tuned, everybody, because

1522
00:54:30,010 --> 00:54:31,769
now you have a to be continued to

1523
00:54:31,769 --> 00:54:32,510
listen for.

1524
00:54:32,889 --> 00:54:35,210
Do do do do do do do. All

1525
00:54:35,210 --> 00:54:37,049
right. So with that being said, we want

1526
00:54:37,049 --> 00:54:39,425
to thank everybody for showing up and showing

1527
00:54:39,425 --> 00:54:41,445
out for the show. It's been a great

1528
00:54:42,144 --> 00:54:42,644
year,

1529
00:54:43,505 --> 00:54:46,065
as we are starting to wind down to

1530
00:54:46,065 --> 00:54:47,125
the end of 2025.

1531
00:54:48,304 --> 00:54:50,085
Next year, we have big plans,

1532
00:54:51,105 --> 00:54:53,125
both on the mic and elsewhere.

1533
00:54:53,869 --> 00:54:55,570
We'll talk about it on the next

1534
00:54:55,869 --> 00:54:57,410
riveting episode of

1535
00:54:57,789 --> 00:54:59,010
the bottom shelf.

1536
00:54:59,390 --> 00:55:02,289
Until next time, stay devoted. Peace and