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Hey, Dallas.

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Yes.

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Bro, we had those episodes. I had Temple

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of Doom. I had Yeah. Suburban Command. Where

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where are they? Like, all the They're they're

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in the database server. No. All the all

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the databases.

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But Like, seriously, all all we have like,

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everything from BloodSport to now is gone. What

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the crap? Something's eating

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What's up the window, John? It's like it's

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like a giant spaceship, is it? Affix itself

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space station.

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What is that? Why is it crawling through

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the ship?

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Move. Get out the way. What is happening?

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Do we does the federation

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not pay for exterminators?

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I don't know what's happening here. There's gotta

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be a let me go check the files.

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There's Glix, you cheap garbage.

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What? I found something. It's a in case

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of emergency from Kevin. It's a movie? Here,

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hold this box for me. It says, in

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case of emergency of something eating your files,

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feed it this. What?

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You know? Prevail yourself to discover a world

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of terrible movies.

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High above the planet Geekery, a group of

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intrepid explorers

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hover over the dangerous planet in their fabulous

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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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Okay. Okay.

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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 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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Hello, movie lovers and movieators. Welcome to the

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bottom shelf, a place where every movie has

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a place on

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the shelf. My name is Dallas. I'm so

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glad to have you guys with us. This

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is an extension of Geek Devotion on the

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show from Motor Geeks. Our devoting to let

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you know you're loved. If you wanna watch

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Pass the Boat knows this, we love you.

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We care about you. There is a plan

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and purpose for your life. And ladies and

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gentlemen,

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there is a giant

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creature sucking the life out of everything I

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love.

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Dallas, my name is John. Just stop. Oh,

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I'm sorry. Hey, John. How's it going? Alright.

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There you go.

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John? We have a problem. Yeah. We do.

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We have to watch this movie. Yeah. So,

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apparently, it's this creature's eating the data out

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of our computers, and we have to feed

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it some sort of movie. What is this

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movie, John? What does the box say? It's

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War of the Worlds. This can't be bad.

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It's War of the Worlds. Well, I it's

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not Here. Let me read the box. Give

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this here. Give me give me the box.

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It said you're having a coughing fit.

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I'm sorry. It's just it smells like doo

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doo.

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Oh, man. Oh, why is it sticky? Alright.

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The back of the box says,

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a colossal

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invasion of Earth is coming

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in this

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off kilter take on the legendary

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novel of the same name

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filled with present day themes

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of technology,

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government surveillance, and privacy. Did chat GBT write

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this? What is happening? I mean,

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no. Because then that would be chat GBT

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writing

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about itself.

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I don't know. What And no one would

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be foolish enough to make AI self aware.

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Right? No. Never. Pick up the database and

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tell us what this movie is really about.

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Okay.

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Once upon a time in the project in

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the projects room

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project room

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of Rich Lee,

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he found himself pushing the weight of

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the COVID era. He thought it might be

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a good I yeah. Let's try this again

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because words are hard.

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He thought it would be a good day

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to say hello to the cinema world with

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a remake of the classic HG Wells property,

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War of the Worlds.

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It was no summer vacation

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as he brought in Ice Cube who wished

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he had taken his mother advice and go

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to church rather than work with Ava Longoria

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and

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the color blind Clark Gregg in this Zoom

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inspired film that made

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$100

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bill, y'all. Though

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it was going to be

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a great CIA deep state commentary,

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instead,

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it didn't say it didn't stay true to

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the game

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and was a wicked rendition of a sci

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fi classic leaving audiences going. Thank god it's

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over. Bro, did you intentionally slip in a

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bunch of ice cube references through that?

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I'm sitting here catching I'm sitting here catching

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all these ice cube song titles and while

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I'm reading this, for those y'all in listener

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land, Dallas wrote that intro movie intro to

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the movie, and this is my first time

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reading it, or if you couldn't tell.

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And Ice Cube's, like, one of my favorite

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rappers. And I'm sitting here seeing all these

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references, and I'm like, I'm not sure if

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this is intentional. I don't know if ice

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if Dallas knows Ice Cube like that.

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I don't. I had a window open with

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all the songs listed. Oh, okay.

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I wanted to do that for you because

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I knew you would appreciate it. Hey. Well,

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I did. I caught all of that. I

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was actually pretty impressed with throwing in Wicked

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in there because that's, that's a little bit

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more of a deep cut.

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Oh my gosh. Alright. So we're reviewing a

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movie, as you guys can tell. It's not

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gonna be pretty, apparently.

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John, do we have any trivia on this

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this film?

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I mean,

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we have some in the database, but some

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some of these read more like excuses than

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they do trivia. But let's let's

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let's try, shall we? Alright.

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Okay. Says here first mentioned in 2020

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as an untitled

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bro, how do you say dude's name?

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Beckmama Tov

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feature starring Ice Cube for Universal.

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It resurfaced

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in July 2025 when it was released straight

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as a free movie on Amazon Prime. It

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was not even screened for critics.

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Universal were sold on the movie by a

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pitch from Beck Mametov,

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who had acted as producer on successful films

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in this format

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where he explained it would allow them to

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sell it as a high budget science fiction

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movie, but produce it for the cost of

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a cheap TV thriller.

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The character of William Radford was originally written

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to be a paraplegic to fit the with

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the themes of COVID and people being glued

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to their screens,

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but the director was impressed by the intensity

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of ice cubes chair throwing that he rewrote

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the character

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Hollywood, you can change a script. So

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Tom Cruise in every single Mission Impossible movie?

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chairs, he, you know, he hasn't gone without

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a paycheck. I'm just saying. That's true. Filmed

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in the 2020

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nineteen protocols.

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That that that I'm not sure if that's

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a selling point, guys.

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finally,

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one of the names

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of Williams' teams plays

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Horson g Wells,

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an homage to Orson Wells and HG Wells

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because I don't know how to spell that.

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I yeah. I don't. I don't.

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Alright. Well, through the magic of podcasting, we

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have community outreach, and we had one person

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reach out and say this.

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Oh, boy.

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I saw the trailer and fearfully ran away.

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You guys ran towards it

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like firefighters to an inferno. You have my

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eternal gratitude.

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Jayus Earls. It is a thankless job, sir,

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but we do this for the community.

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We do this for you guys.

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Alright.

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John,

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what are your expectations

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for this film? To be honest,

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when I first heard about this, I first

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I didn't even know this movie was a

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thing. You know? Time I even heard about

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this movie was when I pulled up YouTube

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one day, and

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I saw the poster on some reactors

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channel

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talking about this movie, and it said ice

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cube, war of the worlds. And I kinda

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chortled to myself because that combination didn't make

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posting stuff about it. So I watched one

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of the reactors, and I said Oh. Oh.

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So I don't have high expectations for this.

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Like, I was hearing reactions to it long

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before I I mean, that like, the reactions

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I've been hearing towards it were my first

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indication that this movie even existed. So Wow.

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My expectations Yeah. How about you? Well, first

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off, please note, I'm a fan, the IP

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of War of the Worlds.

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I read the book

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years ago when I was a wee lad.

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the original the audio drama

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is,

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to me, a historical

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phenomenon.

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It is fascinating what took place

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when the audio drama hit the airwaves and

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the

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the panic that ensued as the story was

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unfolded. And if you go back and listen

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to the actual audio drama, which you can

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find in places like YouTube and whatnot, it's

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fascinating. It really is fascinating to listen to.

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of a person that age when they're, like,

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they're just flipping on the radio, and they're

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listening to it, and they're missing the constant

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announcement saying, this is a fictional story. You

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can get the vibe of why this was

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crazy for people. I like the movie, the

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from the sixties or not sixties, like, the

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fifties, whatever it was. That was cool. There

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hasn't been a lot of things done wrecked

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with this in the future. But when I

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saw it, I was like, okay. Cool. I

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wanna watch this. I wanna watch this. And

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I think Celeste was recording an episode of

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We Read Allegedly when I saw it. And

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I almost watched it, and I was like,

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no. I'm gonna wait for Celeste.

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waited for her. Oh, yeah. Well, here's the

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because cards on the table before the I

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watched it. So my expectations this round is

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not much better than after I watched it

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the first time. Yeah.

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Alright. Those are my expectations.

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So

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yeah. So those are our expectations. Wanna hear

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from you guys if you're listening.

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So bleak, bro. I'm not gonna lie.

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Wanna know what your expectations are, audience,

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about this film. The of I would love

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to have the experience take place. Pause this

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podcast.

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Go watch this. It's on Amazon Prime. It

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may be on YouTube somewhere. I don't know.

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But I know it's on Amazon Prime. Come

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back. For God's sakes, don't spend money to

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watch it. No. Make sure you have Prime

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membership. But pause this. Send us a message.

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Hit us up in the Geek Devotions Discord

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or on the bottom shelf social media platforms.

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We're on Facebook, and we're on Instagram. And

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let us know your expectations before you watch

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it, and then come back and enjoy the

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experience with us as we review it. John,

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are you ready

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for this

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hair raising,

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exciting

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adventure we're about to go on? I mean,

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are we ever ready for anything ever? I'm

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gonna have toms.

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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

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is unknown.

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You have been warned.

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So that was a movie.

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You remember in

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Ghostbuster

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not Ghostbusters. In Super Mario Brothers three

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when you would go to the toad house,

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and

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it was basically like a giant random number

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generator.

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Yeah. And, you know, you'd have to hit

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the box and whatever

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you hit, like, you got, but it was,

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like, constantly just cycling through different things. Yes.

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That's how I feel about this movie right

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now.

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Does that make

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sense? Like, I it's like at any given

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moment,

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I feel something different about this movie. I

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understand that. Well, ladies and gentlemen, if you're

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new to the show, you're joining us as

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we relaunch the show. Typically, what we do

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is we give our spoil free thoughts,

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and then we have a little moment, and

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we give our spoiled thoughts. So here in

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a second, we're about to explain to you

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some things about the that we like, didn't

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like. John just told you one thought. John,

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I wanna share this with you. I busted

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this out today. This is the birthday gift

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my sister gave me, which was a binder

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that you can't see on screen. Not a

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binder. It's a literal

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logbook for watching TV and films.

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And so I have a whole section of

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notes,

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opinions, all kinds of stuff. So,

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shout out to Demara for helping me stay

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focused with the bottom shelf today. John, what

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are your spoil free thoughts

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on the film?

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Stock footage.

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Holy crap. First thing I have listed down

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here is, are they using Istock videos?

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Stock footage. This is like stock footage the

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movie.

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Like, for reals, like,

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are were they trying to get a sponsorship

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from one of those other stock video places

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out there? I don't know. I made I

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made a comment to you when we were

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watching this movie, and I I I had

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said, like, this is like, I had the

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biggest thought. Like, this was supposed to be

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a war of the world's remake

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or reenvisioning,

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but, honestly, it watches a lot more like

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a remake or a modern retelling of plan

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nine from outer space.

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That is an accurate description.

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Because there's a whole lot of react to

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this thing off camera,

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and then show stock footage.

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One of the worst things about this film

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is the entire time, again, it's through for

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context, when you're watching this film, guys,

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Ice Cube

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is basically

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watching

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his monitor,

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and it's on team viewer,

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Zoom, and

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something else, Microsoft

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Teams.

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And

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at one he's wearing glasses. At one point

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in time, he's reacting something terrifying in one

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of the windows on a screen, and you

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the reflection of the green screen is still

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in his eyeglasses.

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I mean,

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you know,

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for me, Ice Cube's the GOAT. Right? Like,

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he's he he's a rap legend in my

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book. Always has been, always will be. Totally

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respect him. And it's it it it's because

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it's Ice Cube

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that I can't see him as a computer

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hacker

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extraordinaire.

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Like, I'm sorry, Cube. I it's nothing on

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you, man. I think you're a smart guy.

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I've listened to a lot of your lyrics.

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I've gotten a lot of wisdom from them,

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but

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there was some hacker doo doo that fell

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out of your mouth in this movie, bro.

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And

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it you're It's not his he was playing

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the script that was given to him. I

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know. But, like, he he put it out

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in the most unbelievable way too. Like, a

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lot of the lines that were a lot

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of the lines felt like they were ADR

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and delivered flat, I mean, if I'm being

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honest. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. Now let's be fair

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with that.

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As we said, this was COVID years following

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COVID restrictions, meaning

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there was no acting with other people. It

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was all

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spliced together. I mean that. Like, I was

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a I was a voice actor in Supersonic

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Pod comics, and

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if anybody was a part of that experience

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when that happened, he voice acted together in

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that either. That was all pieced together outside

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of that. So, like, I I can under

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I have a special appreciation for how this

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movie was probably pieced together.

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Mhmm. But I think it could have been

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done better because well, like, there and, maybe

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I'm tipping my hand a little bit here,

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but there is a lot of stuff that

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I think that the supersonic crew probably could

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have done

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better.

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Yeah. Yeah. You're not wrong there, John. Speaking

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of the acting, there was a inconsistency in

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things as far as tone throughout the entirety

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of the film. Like, there were moments where

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it's like like, they were trying to be

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funny, and then they weren't. And then

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and just and then, like, timing timing was

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thrown off throughout the entirety of the film.

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There are moments that, like, they're giving you

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so much information. Like, there's no way this

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is real time. Because, like, for like, the

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film is meant to be real time. Mhmm.

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But then they're giving you things. I'm like,

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there's this isn't real time. Like, there's no

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way that

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major military operations are rolling out this quickly

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or it's I'd had the same thought. Like,

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there were stuff that was happening that that

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that was supposed to be, like, twenty minutes

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apart, and there's other stuff that is just

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like this like, a couple hours later, and

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it's just like like, the concept of time

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goes out. Like, time is an abstract concept

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in this movie. Yeah. Yeah. And we'll get

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into some of that here in a little

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bit, but it was just

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the timing was bad. It was written by

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it was written by a dog who was

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homesick for their owner.

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That's a great way to put it.

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That is legitimately a great way to put

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it.

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Oh my gosh, dude.

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I have thoughts,

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and I have one thought that's spoil free,

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but I'm gonna save it for my review

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at the end. Okay. I don't know if

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I could talk much more about this film

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and not be spoiler.

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So do you have anything else you wanna

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add? I mean, nothing that I couldn't probably

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say on the spoiler side of things to

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free things up for conversation.

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Let's let's jump over there. Alright.

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Ladies and gents,

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the spoiler section.

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Every time I hear that bumper, I expect

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Celeste to start singing It Had to Be

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You.

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Buddy.

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Oh, man. Alright. So

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laying out the spoiler side of things, throughout

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the entirety of film, ISQ plays a CIA

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operative

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who's in charge of, like, this supercomputer.

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And, basically, if you are you familiar with

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purchase of interest, John? Yeah. It's basically that,

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where, basically, he has access to everybody's digital

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devices, and he's tracking people, he's cataloging people.

499
00:18:02,619 --> 00:18:05,195
Yeah. It's it's Watch Dogs, the movie. Yeah.

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And so he's doing all this.

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And at the same time, there is this

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subplot about this super hacker who's trying to

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get information they're trying to lock down.

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And there's this whole thing, and it's a

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myth, but we're real active in trying to

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catch this guy who's after a myth about

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a super high-tech intelligence source that is out

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there this hacker's trying to get. So that's

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a subplot that happens.

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At the same time, Ice Cube is

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playing the grieving

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absent near absentee

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hyper focused father. It's weird. He's in both

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at the same time. Like like, he's hyper

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focused and, like, monitoring his children all the

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time to, like, creepy thing. Like, he's looking

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at his daughter's refrigerator

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through her Samsung camera. He's a he's a

519
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helicopter deadbeat.

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Yeah. That's a great way to put it.

521
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A helicopter deadbeat. Like, black hawk down, crashed,

522
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and got back up and limped along. Like,

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that's what he's doing here. And

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just the again, the tone of things that

525
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they they're hand pissing this, like, super, like,

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oh, he's a hurt father, and, like, they're

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trying to rebuild the relationship, while they're also,

528
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like, plugging in a lot

529
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a lot of, like, government conspiracy stuff in

530
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there that doesn't even make sense to a

531
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conspiracy theorist. Like, that's the entirety of the

532
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film. You sound mad, bro. You need a

533
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hug? A taco is what I mean. Well,

534
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who doesn't?

535
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I know. Right?

536
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So I don't know, man. It's just so,

537
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like, this past summer, I had our students

538
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at my church do we did a film

539
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school with students, and I had them do

540
00:19:32,845 --> 00:19:34,205
a challenge where they had to make a

541
00:19:34,205 --> 00:19:34,785
a miniseries.

542
00:19:35,565 --> 00:19:38,045
And and they we spawned, like, this wheel

543
00:19:38,045 --> 00:19:39,884
of genres, and they end up having to

544
00:19:39,884 --> 00:19:41,644
create this is what the wheel came gave

545
00:19:41,644 --> 00:19:44,009
them, a post apocalyptic

546
00:19:44,630 --> 00:19:45,130
zombie

547
00:19:45,910 --> 00:19:46,890
office style

548
00:19:47,670 --> 00:19:48,890
show. Okay.

549
00:19:49,190 --> 00:19:51,930
And they did it. And it was again,

550
00:19:52,150 --> 00:19:52,890
these are

551
00:19:53,190 --> 00:19:55,750
13 the youngest person was 12, the oldest

552
00:19:55,750 --> 00:19:56,730
person was 15.

553
00:19:57,214 --> 00:19:59,775
And they were they're barely learning how to

554
00:19:59,775 --> 00:20:01,775
use camerawork and stuff like that, and what

555
00:20:01,775 --> 00:20:04,095
they produced was better than this. As far

556
00:20:04,095 --> 00:20:04,835
as storytelling

557
00:20:05,214 --> 00:20:06,755
and tone Okay.

558
00:20:07,535 --> 00:20:10,460
You sound mad, bro. It's just frustrating because

559
00:20:10,460 --> 00:20:12,460
I'm like, why why did we resurface this

560
00:20:12,460 --> 00:20:13,819
in 2025?

561
00:20:13,819 --> 00:20:16,319
Well, here's here's the thing. Yeah. I mean,

562
00:20:16,779 --> 00:20:19,019
when I was watching this movie, I started

563
00:20:19,019 --> 00:20:21,919
kinda follow you down that dark rabbit trail.

564
00:20:22,224 --> 00:20:24,065
I put on my plan nine from outer

565
00:20:24,065 --> 00:20:25,044
space goggles

566
00:20:25,664 --> 00:20:28,004
watching this movie, and this movie

567
00:20:28,784 --> 00:20:31,204
has the potential to be a new

568
00:20:31,744 --> 00:20:33,845
so bad it's good cult classic.

569
00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:35,759
Like, my predict like, I I said it.

570
00:20:35,759 --> 00:20:37,380
I don't remember if I was on

571
00:20:37,839 --> 00:20:39,440
mic when we had set when I had

572
00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:40,799
set it earlier, but I have a feeling

573
00:20:40,799 --> 00:20:42,960
this move is gonna sweep the Razzies this

574
00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,519
year. And I wish the Razzies were televised

575
00:20:45,519 --> 00:20:46,724
because I'd love to watch

576
00:20:48,325 --> 00:20:49,605
that. I don't know. I'm just not sure

577
00:20:49,605 --> 00:20:51,125
that I'm not sure this is gonna make

578
00:20:51,125 --> 00:20:52,644
that that level. You don't think you don't

579
00:20:52,644 --> 00:20:54,404
think it swings back around again to so

580
00:20:54,404 --> 00:20:56,325
bad it's good? It would have to be

581
00:20:56,325 --> 00:20:58,005
a group experience type of movie for it

582
00:20:58,005 --> 00:21:00,190
to be that way. Like, I don't the

583
00:21:00,190 --> 00:21:02,029
concept of here's the thing that really ticks

584
00:21:02,029 --> 00:21:04,029
me off. The concept of it, of all

585
00:21:04,029 --> 00:21:05,170
these pieces coming together,

586
00:21:05,470 --> 00:21:07,170
it's actually not a bad concept.

587
00:21:07,630 --> 00:21:10,670
And what frustrates me the most is I

588
00:21:10,670 --> 00:21:13,065
was going to do this. I had this

589
00:21:13,365 --> 00:21:15,445
in my head already of doing something like

590
00:21:15,445 --> 00:21:17,845
this several years ago. It was a project

591
00:21:17,845 --> 00:21:18,725
I had back in my head I was

592
00:21:18,725 --> 00:21:20,565
gonna do, and I never did it. And

593
00:21:20,565 --> 00:21:22,965
I'm seeing it in out like this. I'm

594
00:21:22,965 --> 00:21:25,045
going, this could have been better. And, again,

595
00:21:25,045 --> 00:21:26,325
some of it's just I have a lot

596
00:21:26,325 --> 00:21:28,380
of love for the property of HG Wells

597
00:21:28,380 --> 00:21:30,960
of War of the Worlds in the execution

598
00:21:31,180 --> 00:21:32,880
of it. Like, in War of the Worlds,

599
00:21:33,259 --> 00:21:35,980
it's an expansive thing. This is the sixth

600
00:21:35,980 --> 00:21:36,480
time,

601
00:21:36,859 --> 00:21:38,480
and there's this whole thing where

602
00:21:38,779 --> 00:21:40,720
the aliens, they succumb to

603
00:21:41,035 --> 00:21:43,535
the natural habitat of Earth. They can't survive

604
00:21:43,595 --> 00:21:45,194
in our planet. And it's following a guy

605
00:21:45,194 --> 00:21:47,694
who's surviving this, and he's experiencing humanity

606
00:21:48,154 --> 00:21:50,315
in a different way. He's growing as he

607
00:21:50,315 --> 00:21:52,494
encounters different people as humanity survives.

608
00:21:52,890 --> 00:21:55,630
Mhmm. This movie literally is framed within

609
00:21:56,089 --> 00:21:57,390
an hour and a half,

610
00:21:57,690 --> 00:21:59,309
but not at the same time.

611
00:21:59,690 --> 00:22:00,190
And

612
00:22:00,570 --> 00:22:01,630
there's the gravitas

613
00:22:02,009 --> 00:22:04,650
just isn't there, and it frustrates me that

614
00:22:04,650 --> 00:22:06,970
they took a wonderful piece of fiction that

615
00:22:06,970 --> 00:22:07,365
was,

616
00:22:07,845 --> 00:22:10,085
like, it genuinely shook people at one point

617
00:22:10,085 --> 00:22:12,744
in time. Mhmm. And then they did this.

618
00:22:13,125 --> 00:22:14,804
Like, Tom Cruise did better than this. Let

619
00:22:14,804 --> 00:22:16,984
me ask you this, Dallas. Being as we're

620
00:22:17,125 --> 00:22:18,825
being as we're into opinions

621
00:22:19,285 --> 00:22:20,069
and really

622
00:22:20,789 --> 00:22:21,289
hypotheticals

623
00:22:22,069 --> 00:22:24,549
Mhmm. Do you even think that War of

624
00:22:24,549 --> 00:22:26,649
the Worlds can be redone

625
00:22:27,109 --> 00:22:30,009
at this point in history in any meaningful

626
00:22:30,309 --> 00:22:31,769
kind of way that can

627
00:22:32,069 --> 00:22:33,289
resonate with people

628
00:22:33,829 --> 00:22:35,529
on a on a fresh level?

629
00:22:35,954 --> 00:22:38,115
Or is it just too familiar of a

630
00:22:38,115 --> 00:22:40,775
story to even really be done well anymore?

631
00:22:41,075 --> 00:22:42,755
Because, you know, there's some there's some there's

632
00:22:42,755 --> 00:22:45,414
some stories that are out there. Like, another

633
00:22:45,634 --> 00:22:47,794
another good one would be invasion of the

634
00:22:47,794 --> 00:22:48,869
body sn snatchers

635
00:22:49,323 --> 00:22:49,776
Mhmm.

636
00:22:50,230 --> 00:22:52,710
Where the story's been done so many times

637
00:22:52,710 --> 00:22:55,990
that you know the story beats, and it

638
00:22:55,990 --> 00:22:58,070
it is it even possible to make it

639
00:22:58,070 --> 00:23:01,109
feel fresh at this point? Right. And I'm

640
00:23:01,109 --> 00:23:03,525
with you on that conversation point Now the

641
00:23:03,525 --> 00:23:05,144
fact that it has been done a lot.

642
00:23:05,285 --> 00:23:06,825
I know that beats the story.

643
00:23:07,205 --> 00:23:08,265
But if

644
00:23:09,045 --> 00:23:11,365
how to put this? You bring somebody fresh

645
00:23:11,365 --> 00:23:13,525
who's never seen has no idea about that

646
00:23:13,525 --> 00:23:14,025
property,

647
00:23:14,404 --> 00:23:16,005
I'm not sure they could rock with this.

648
00:23:16,005 --> 00:23:17,845
The fact that it sits at a 2.5

649
00:23:17,845 --> 00:23:18,585
on IMDb.

650
00:23:19,049 --> 00:23:20,890
Like, it has a six on the, on

651
00:23:20,890 --> 00:23:21,390
Metacritic.

652
00:23:21,850 --> 00:23:24,110
Like, these these are some low numbers, bro.

653
00:23:24,170 --> 00:23:25,529
And for the people who are out there

654
00:23:25,529 --> 00:23:27,390
who aren't as familiar with Metacritic,

655
00:23:27,769 --> 00:23:28,269
six,

656
00:23:28,730 --> 00:23:31,130
that's six on a scale of one to

657
00:23:31,130 --> 00:23:33,210
a 100. That's that's not six out of

658
00:23:33,210 --> 00:23:35,154
10. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If it was six

659
00:23:35,154 --> 00:23:36,434
out of 10, that's a whole another car.

660
00:23:36,434 --> 00:23:38,195
We talk we've done six out of tens,

661
00:23:38,195 --> 00:23:40,115
and we're like, oh, man. Like, we could

662
00:23:40,115 --> 00:23:43,255
rock with it. Yeah. But just the execution

663
00:23:43,475 --> 00:23:45,555
was rough all the way through. The way

664
00:23:45,555 --> 00:23:47,174
that the even, like, the inconsistency

665
00:23:47,555 --> 00:23:48,215
in the way

666
00:23:48,595 --> 00:23:51,240
of the, the camera work. That was frustrating

667
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,399
me also. You have this moment, like, they're

668
00:23:53,399 --> 00:23:55,799
running back and forth, and, like, the aliens

669
00:23:55,799 --> 00:23:57,720
are, like they're dropping stuff and everything like

670
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,200
that. And there's this one field agent, and

671
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,355
she's she has her camera up, and she's

672
00:24:02,355 --> 00:24:03,954
like, look at this. And, again, it was

673
00:24:03,954 --> 00:24:05,394
already choppy the way she was going back

674
00:24:05,394 --> 00:24:07,095
and forth, flipping the camera back and forth.

675
00:24:07,154 --> 00:24:09,494
But then as things are hitting the fan,

676
00:24:09,795 --> 00:24:12,355
it just flips back to her going, oh,

677
00:24:12,355 --> 00:24:14,295
crap, and it flips back to the thing.

678
00:24:14,515 --> 00:24:18,149
Like like, that's a the that shot going

679
00:24:18,149 --> 00:24:19,750
back and forth is an intentional thing you

680
00:24:19,750 --> 00:24:22,230
would normally do with a normal setup when

681
00:24:22,230 --> 00:24:24,089
you're trying to do a third person situation,

682
00:24:24,549 --> 00:24:26,789
but that breaks the world of what they're

683
00:24:26,789 --> 00:24:29,369
doing of we're filming this on personal devices.

684
00:24:29,845 --> 00:24:31,365
And, again, that's part of my frustration of

685
00:24:31,365 --> 00:24:33,284
it is that you're trying to frame a

686
00:24:33,284 --> 00:24:35,125
world. You're trying to frame a mindset. That's

687
00:24:35,125 --> 00:24:37,684
a very cool concept, actually, of going through

688
00:24:37,684 --> 00:24:41,125
everyone's personal devices using Zoom, using TeamViewer, which,

689
00:24:41,125 --> 00:24:43,339
again, you can't use any of these devices

690
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,820
on any of these software on government facility

691
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,859
devices, but you can use WhatsApp. And, the

692
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:50,859
that's a joke for people.

693
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:51,480
The

694
00:24:52,279 --> 00:24:54,599
and, again, so you had this idea, but

695
00:24:54,599 --> 00:24:55,880
the way they did the camera work is,

696
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:57,160
like, they couldn't make up their mind if

697
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:58,815
they wanted to do it. I'm like, just

698
00:24:58,815 --> 00:25:00,595
commit to it if they're gonna do it.

699
00:25:00,734 --> 00:25:01,234
Yeah.

700
00:25:01,855 --> 00:25:02,355
Really,

701
00:25:03,054 --> 00:25:05,214
they they they set out to try to

702
00:25:05,214 --> 00:25:06,115
make Cloverfield.

703
00:25:07,214 --> 00:25:07,714
Yes.

704
00:25:08,335 --> 00:25:10,841
And what we ended up getting was a

705
00:25:10,841 --> 00:25:11,054
made for TV Amazon Prime infomercial. Yes. That

706
00:25:11,134 --> 00:25:11,634
yeah.

707
00:25:14,490 --> 00:25:15,230
Amazon Prime

708
00:25:15,529 --> 00:25:16,890
infomercial. Yes. That

709
00:25:17,609 --> 00:25:18,190
it was

710
00:25:18,809 --> 00:25:20,890
literally, they saved the world by ordering a

711
00:25:20,890 --> 00:25:22,750
USB on Amazon Prime.

712
00:25:23,369 --> 00:25:24,990
Literally, that's how they said the world.

713
00:25:25,369 --> 00:25:27,404
Jeff Bezos saves the world with his

714
00:25:27,805 --> 00:25:28,945
air delivery.

715
00:25:29,644 --> 00:25:31,265
That they no longer offer.

716
00:25:33,724 --> 00:25:35,904
It just didn't make sense, John.

717
00:25:36,285 --> 00:25:39,085
His product placement, my guy. There were shots

718
00:25:39,085 --> 00:25:41,460
on the news where if you're to the

719
00:25:41,460 --> 00:25:43,779
funny the the funniest part like, you can

720
00:25:43,779 --> 00:25:46,019
tell a movie's cheap when you when this

721
00:25:46,019 --> 00:25:48,019
happens, but most people will never notice because

722
00:25:48,019 --> 00:25:49,799
you look where you're supposed to.

723
00:25:50,339 --> 00:25:51,720
In the action sequences,

724
00:25:52,660 --> 00:25:54,039
when you're watching things

725
00:25:54,345 --> 00:25:56,984
in this movie or especially, like, when you're

726
00:25:56,984 --> 00:26:00,184
seeing, like, action sequence being shown on news

727
00:26:00,184 --> 00:26:01,724
feeds. Right? Mhmm.

728
00:26:03,065 --> 00:26:04,684
What they do is they render

729
00:26:05,065 --> 00:26:07,005
the main objects of action

730
00:26:07,639 --> 00:26:09,019
with a lot of detail.

731
00:26:09,319 --> 00:26:11,880
Like, say, for for instance, a fighter jet

732
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:12,779
and an alien

733
00:26:13,159 --> 00:26:14,700
spacecraft in this movie.

734
00:26:15,079 --> 00:26:16,919
Right. But if you pay attention to the

735
00:26:16,919 --> 00:26:19,179
stuff that's happening around it, like the buildings

736
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,419
that are going past it or

737
00:26:22,365 --> 00:26:24,065
just things like that,

738
00:26:24,365 --> 00:26:27,244
you'll notice that they ended up showing up

739
00:26:27,244 --> 00:26:27,744
without

740
00:26:28,125 --> 00:26:29,585
enough motion blur.

741
00:26:31,325 --> 00:26:34,525
And if you looked directly at them, they

742
00:26:34,525 --> 00:26:37,289
looked very much much like a computer rendering

743
00:26:37,350 --> 00:26:39,110
of the side of a building from a

744
00:26:39,110 --> 00:26:42,150
PS two game. Like, for real, there was

745
00:26:42,150 --> 00:26:44,630
a couple times where the building's moving past

746
00:26:44,630 --> 00:26:45,369
the camera

747
00:26:45,910 --> 00:26:48,295
truly reminded me of the building at the

748
00:26:48,295 --> 00:26:50,615
end of Batman 89 where that they dropped

749
00:26:50,615 --> 00:26:53,015
the Joker from. I have a literal note

750
00:26:53,015 --> 00:26:54,394
in this book that says,

751
00:26:54,775 --> 00:26:56,615
why does my PS one game look better

752
00:26:56,615 --> 00:26:58,695
than some of these scenes? Like, it it

753
00:26:58,775 --> 00:27:00,775
the the special effects in this movie are

754
00:27:00,775 --> 00:27:01,674
so inconsistent.

755
00:27:02,509 --> 00:27:04,750
Like, there's there's times where it's passable, and

756
00:27:04,750 --> 00:27:06,990
then there's times where it's just like, what's

757
00:27:07,149 --> 00:27:08,450
did I set a high score?

758
00:27:08,829 --> 00:27:11,409
Yeah. Again, this was such a great concept,

759
00:27:11,789 --> 00:27:13,230
and I won't put that out there. This

760
00:27:13,230 --> 00:27:15,409
was a great concept, but the execution

761
00:27:15,950 --> 00:27:17,009
was so sloppy.

762
00:27:17,524 --> 00:27:20,164
The like you said, like, the graphics were

763
00:27:20,164 --> 00:27:22,164
so inconsistent throughout the entirety of the film.

764
00:27:22,164 --> 00:27:24,404
Their moms were like, okay. Alright. We can

765
00:27:24,404 --> 00:27:25,605
rock with this. And in their own times,

766
00:27:25,605 --> 00:27:27,684
I'm like, what are we doing? And I

767
00:27:27,684 --> 00:27:29,684
and I think, like like I said, it

768
00:27:29,765 --> 00:27:31,365
it's kind of a little Easter egg for

769
00:27:31,365 --> 00:27:32,690
people to go back and listen to the

770
00:27:32,690 --> 00:27:35,089
episode again when I had mentioned in the

771
00:27:35,089 --> 00:27:37,250
trivia that Mhmm. Some of the points of

772
00:27:37,250 --> 00:27:40,470
trivia really felt like, hey. Let me explain

773
00:27:40,849 --> 00:27:41,670
rather than

774
00:27:42,130 --> 00:27:43,829
bits of trivia. More specifically,

775
00:27:44,130 --> 00:27:46,289
the the one where it said universal were

776
00:27:46,289 --> 00:27:47,509
sold on this movie

777
00:27:48,105 --> 00:27:50,105
where the guy had explained that it would

778
00:27:50,105 --> 00:27:51,785
allow them to sell this as a high

779
00:27:51,785 --> 00:27:54,664
budget science fiction movie, but produce it for

780
00:27:54,664 --> 00:27:57,144
the cost of a cheap TV thriller. And

781
00:27:57,144 --> 00:27:58,765
it's just like, bro,

782
00:27:59,224 --> 00:28:01,244
you get what you pay for, my guy.

783
00:28:01,785 --> 00:28:02,285
Exactly.

784
00:28:02,744 --> 00:28:03,244
Exactly.

785
00:28:03,545 --> 00:28:05,650
So So I mean, if if you learn

786
00:28:05,650 --> 00:28:06,150
anything

787
00:28:06,529 --> 00:28:08,930
when you first get out of college, it's

788
00:28:08,930 --> 00:28:11,009
that you pick and choose what you're gonna

789
00:28:11,170 --> 00:28:13,490
what you're going to pinch your pennies on.

790
00:28:13,490 --> 00:28:14,390
You know? Mhmm.

791
00:28:14,690 --> 00:28:17,250
I mean, you save money on you you

792
00:28:17,250 --> 00:28:19,750
you buy cheap food. You don't buy cheap

793
00:28:19,865 --> 00:28:22,125
toilet paper. You know what I mean? Exactly.

794
00:28:23,865 --> 00:28:25,164
Oh my gosh, dude.

795
00:28:26,265 --> 00:28:28,765
Alright. Any other spoil filled stuff?

796
00:28:29,065 --> 00:28:31,785
I mean Was there anything redemptive about the

797
00:28:31,785 --> 00:28:34,125
stuff? I get I've said that the storyline

798
00:28:34,184 --> 00:28:34,650
was

799
00:28:35,210 --> 00:28:37,769
conceptually cool. Well, I mean, it depends on

800
00:28:37,769 --> 00:28:40,009
what you how how far you wanna take

801
00:28:40,009 --> 00:28:42,170
it with redemptive. Like like I said, once

802
00:28:42,170 --> 00:28:44,490
I started to appreciate it for how bad

803
00:28:44,490 --> 00:28:45,150
it was,

804
00:28:45,450 --> 00:28:48,285
I learned to enjoy it on that level.

805
00:28:48,424 --> 00:28:50,825
But I will say there is this movie

806
00:28:50,825 --> 00:28:54,445
does have one did produce one very

807
00:28:55,625 --> 00:28:56,125
immersive

808
00:28:56,505 --> 00:28:59,005
effect for me after it was over with

809
00:28:59,305 --> 00:28:59,805
that

810
00:29:00,265 --> 00:29:03,299
I thought was really neat, although I don't

811
00:29:03,299 --> 00:29:06,339
necessarily think it was intentional on the movie

812
00:29:06,339 --> 00:29:08,819
maker's part. In that, as soon as I

813
00:29:08,819 --> 00:29:10,740
was done with this movie, like, I was

814
00:29:10,740 --> 00:29:12,899
having a hard time remembering it. Like, the

815
00:29:12,899 --> 00:29:15,299
aliens were sucking the information out of my

816
00:29:15,299 --> 00:29:15,799
brain.

817
00:29:19,275 --> 00:29:19,775
Alright.

818
00:29:21,355 --> 00:29:23,835
Like, for real no. Let let me show

819
00:29:23,835 --> 00:29:26,255
you Dallas. Do you remember specific scenes

820
00:29:26,555 --> 00:29:28,154
in this movie? Like, if I was to

821
00:29:28,154 --> 00:29:30,875
say, hey. Tell me about a specific scene

822
00:29:30,875 --> 00:29:32,500
in this movie. How many of those can

823
00:29:32,500 --> 00:29:33,159
you do?

824
00:29:33,539 --> 00:29:36,019
Probably three or four, but parts because they

825
00:29:36,019 --> 00:29:37,079
just ran together.

826
00:29:37,460 --> 00:29:38,740
I think that's the other part. There was

827
00:29:38,740 --> 00:29:42,099
no there was really no distinguishing between acts.

828
00:29:42,099 --> 00:29:44,355
It just Now ran together. Now

829
00:29:44,994 --> 00:29:47,554
I'm gonna ruin this one step further in

830
00:29:47,554 --> 00:29:50,134
the most awesome way for you, Dallas. Okay.

831
00:29:50,355 --> 00:29:51,734
If they were to program

832
00:29:52,194 --> 00:29:52,855
this movie

833
00:29:53,394 --> 00:29:55,255
to with to to show subtitles

834
00:29:56,115 --> 00:29:57,174
and just play

835
00:29:57,779 --> 00:30:00,019
midi music over the top of it so

836
00:30:00,019 --> 00:30:01,480
you can't hear the voices

837
00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:03,539
and it were to pause at the end

838
00:30:03,539 --> 00:30:04,680
of each line,

839
00:30:05,059 --> 00:30:07,480
this would instantly turn into one of those

840
00:30:07,619 --> 00:30:10,259
anime visual novels you can buy for, like,

841
00:30:10,259 --> 00:30:11,799
$3 on your PlayStation

842
00:30:13,615 --> 00:30:16,174
because it's constantly the same character just sitting

843
00:30:16,174 --> 00:30:18,894
there staring directly into the camera saying their

844
00:30:18,894 --> 00:30:19,394
line.

845
00:30:20,015 --> 00:30:21,555
It's all the cuts in there.

846
00:30:22,894 --> 00:30:24,275
Press a to continue.

847
00:30:24,974 --> 00:30:26,595
Turn the page after the beep.

848
00:30:27,430 --> 00:30:29,589
I'm telling you, man. It's it's it it

849
00:30:29,589 --> 00:30:32,470
it literally is a video game visual novel

850
00:30:32,470 --> 00:30:33,936
is what it is. I mean, this is

851
00:30:34,309 --> 00:30:36,089
wrong. Oh my gosh.

852
00:30:36,470 --> 00:30:38,250
Yep. Yep. That's a thing.

853
00:30:38,549 --> 00:30:40,250
Oh, I know. Like, literally

854
00:30:40,575 --> 00:30:42,654
literally, if you think about it, you could

855
00:30:42,654 --> 00:30:44,974
take the parts where it where it's him

856
00:30:44,974 --> 00:30:46,674
working through his computer

857
00:30:47,134 --> 00:30:49,714
desktop screen, make those the interactive

858
00:30:50,015 --> 00:30:52,194
portions of the game itself,

859
00:30:52,734 --> 00:30:54,994
and just leave everything else like an FMV.

860
00:30:56,259 --> 00:30:58,339
And you could it would be 100%

861
00:30:58,339 --> 00:31:01,640
an easy transfer into an FMV video game.

862
00:31:01,859 --> 00:31:03,480
Yeah. You're not wrong.

863
00:31:03,859 --> 00:31:06,339
Amazon, that's I'll I'll charge you only $60

864
00:31:06,339 --> 00:31:08,515
for a consulting fee for that idea. I

865
00:31:08,515 --> 00:31:10,595
mean, for real. Give them a call. Come

866
00:31:10,595 --> 00:31:12,295
on, Amazon. Come on, Bezos.

867
00:31:12,674 --> 00:31:14,115
Alright. I'm not sure I have anything else

868
00:31:14,115 --> 00:31:15,575
I can add to this conversation.

869
00:31:16,115 --> 00:31:18,115
It's alright. The like like I said, this

870
00:31:18,115 --> 00:31:20,994
this movie is quickly being drained from my

871
00:31:20,994 --> 00:31:23,919
brain. Hopefully, we'll detach this thing from our

872
00:31:23,919 --> 00:31:25,679
ship here in a second. I'm gonna go

873
00:31:25,679 --> 00:31:27,919
on to watch good bad movies. You know,

874
00:31:27,919 --> 00:31:30,079
I'm still on the fence on whether or

875
00:31:30,079 --> 00:31:31,460
not this movie's enjoyable

876
00:31:31,759 --> 00:31:32,980
as a bad movie.

877
00:31:35,355 --> 00:31:37,434
I I I can't explain this. Like, this

878
00:31:37,434 --> 00:31:39,835
is the most uncomfortable I've been with. Do

879
00:31:39,835 --> 00:31:41,994
I like this, or do I absolutely hate

880
00:31:41,994 --> 00:31:43,214
this? I can't tell.

881
00:31:43,595 --> 00:31:44,095
Wow.

882
00:31:44,474 --> 00:31:46,474
Wow. Okay. Well, here we're gonna leave it.

883
00:31:46,474 --> 00:31:48,394
Let's go and jump into our rating system.

884
00:31:48,394 --> 00:31:50,174
Okay. Guys, if you're new to our show

885
00:31:50,470 --> 00:31:51,830
or maybe it's been a while and you've

886
00:31:51,830 --> 00:31:53,590
forgotten, the way we rate things is very

887
00:31:53,590 --> 00:31:55,590
simple. We got top shelf, which is this

888
00:31:55,590 --> 00:31:57,350
is I need to own this movie. I

889
00:31:57,350 --> 00:32:00,170
want to physically own this thing. Middle shelf,

890
00:32:00,230 --> 00:32:02,870
maybe if it's streaming, I'll watch it. Bottom

891
00:32:02,870 --> 00:32:05,610
shelf, probably won't watch it ever again.

892
00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:08,184
Dumpster fire is our final level.

893
00:32:08,485 --> 00:32:10,404
I will actively try to keep people from

894
00:32:10,404 --> 00:32:12,805
watching this movie. It is thrown into the

895
00:32:12,805 --> 00:32:14,805
dumpster fire and burned from existence. And to

896
00:32:14,805 --> 00:32:17,225
our knowledge, no film has ever

897
00:32:17,684 --> 00:32:18,745
made it into this.

898
00:32:19,205 --> 00:32:20,825
There are rumors of a

899
00:32:21,210 --> 00:32:23,210
Avatar last Airbender movie at one point in

900
00:32:23,210 --> 00:32:24,650
time, but I think that guy just lost

901
00:32:24,650 --> 00:32:25,849
a production. I don't think I ever made

902
00:32:25,849 --> 00:32:27,849
it. I don't think that's a thing, my

903
00:32:27,849 --> 00:32:30,009
guy. Yeah. I think they were talking about

904
00:32:30,009 --> 00:32:31,929
the TV show that they did on That's

905
00:32:31,929 --> 00:32:33,769
might be it. Yeah. Yeah. Back in their,

906
00:32:33,769 --> 00:32:35,230
like, 2008 era.

907
00:32:36,505 --> 00:32:38,684
Alright, John. Since you're on the fence

908
00:32:39,065 --> 00:32:40,605
Mhmm. I would love to hear

909
00:32:41,065 --> 00:32:43,544
you talk through your rating. What are you

910
00:32:43,544 --> 00:32:45,304
gonna get? Actually, while you were talking through

911
00:32:45,304 --> 00:32:47,065
the rating system, I think I think I

912
00:32:47,065 --> 00:32:49,000
know how to rate it. I don't know

913
00:32:49,079 --> 00:32:51,559
necessarily know if I'm off the fence yet,

914
00:32:51,559 --> 00:32:53,500
but I know how I'm gonna rate it.

915
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:54,140
Okay.

916
00:32:54,759 --> 00:32:57,099
Just going purely based off of

917
00:32:57,559 --> 00:32:58,059
logic,

918
00:32:58,679 --> 00:33:01,660
like, like, almost like a logic diagram,

919
00:33:02,234 --> 00:33:02,974
the descriptions

920
00:33:03,434 --> 00:33:06,234
of the actual rating system, I would feel

921
00:33:06,234 --> 00:33:08,315
the most appropriate rating I could give. This

922
00:33:08,315 --> 00:33:10,575
would be a middle shell. And the reason

923
00:33:10,875 --> 00:33:11,855
the reason why

924
00:33:12,234 --> 00:33:13,055
is because

925
00:33:13,674 --> 00:33:15,115
there is a part of me that wants

926
00:33:15,115 --> 00:33:16,335
to watch this again

927
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,900
with a group of guys on a couch

928
00:33:19,519 --> 00:33:20,019
and

929
00:33:20,559 --> 00:33:21,059
a

930
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,980
bevy of junk food in front of us.

931
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,259
Like, get you, me, Bam, and Kevin

932
00:33:28,559 --> 00:33:29,620
with a bunch of

933
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:31,299
sugary caffeinated

934
00:33:32,365 --> 00:33:32,865
snacks

935
00:33:33,404 --> 00:33:35,644
and watch this movie, I think it could

936
00:33:35,644 --> 00:33:36,865
be a very

937
00:33:37,484 --> 00:33:39,484
good time. But I could also see it

938
00:33:39,484 --> 00:33:40,944
going sideways and being

939
00:33:42,204 --> 00:33:44,384
having the the what's it called?

940
00:33:44,845 --> 00:33:46,799
The opposite effect. There's a medical term for

941
00:33:46,799 --> 00:33:48,740
it, but it's escaping me where

942
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,180
the inclusion of that many more people,

943
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,160
the include the inclusion of that many more

944
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,240
people might make it that much more worse.

945
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:56,740
So

946
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,920
yeah. But I it's a it's it's an

947
00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:01,460
experience. I would be

948
00:34:01,904 --> 00:34:03,744
curious to see how it panned out. So

949
00:34:03,744 --> 00:34:05,424
the best I the lowest I could get

950
00:34:05,424 --> 00:34:07,365
it is a middle shelf, like, legitimately.

951
00:34:07,825 --> 00:34:09,525
Like, there are circumstances

952
00:34:09,905 --> 00:34:12,385
by which I'm like, if those circumstances are

953
00:34:12,385 --> 00:34:14,224
met, I'm going to watch this again just

954
00:34:14,224 --> 00:34:16,380
to see what happened. Okay. Alright. So you're

955
00:34:16,380 --> 00:34:18,639
given a middle shelf. Middle one. Middle shelf.

956
00:34:18,699 --> 00:34:20,480
Low middle shelf. This is where I'm at.

957
00:34:20,539 --> 00:34:23,099
It's a good movie Oh, no. At all.

958
00:34:23,099 --> 00:34:25,579
Oh, no. That said, let me tell you

959
00:34:25,579 --> 00:34:26,864
how this movie could be saved.

960
00:34:27,425 --> 00:34:29,905
One It accepts Jesus as his lord and

961
00:34:29,905 --> 00:34:30,405
savior?

962
00:34:30,784 --> 00:34:31,025
Miss

963
00:34:32,224 --> 00:34:34,164
Mystery Science Theater 3,000

964
00:34:34,224 --> 00:34:35,284
could save this film.

965
00:34:36,625 --> 00:34:37,125
And

966
00:34:37,585 --> 00:34:39,284
if this had been a

967
00:34:39,744 --> 00:34:40,565
web series,

968
00:34:40,889 --> 00:34:43,609
if they had chopped this up into a

969
00:34:43,609 --> 00:34:45,069
fascinating web series,

970
00:34:45,529 --> 00:34:48,589
you get ten minutes here, ten minutes there,

971
00:34:49,130 --> 00:34:51,929
break it up, create some sort of extra

972
00:34:51,929 --> 00:34:52,664
lore behind

973
00:34:53,465 --> 00:34:56,204
it. This that could save this movie. Mhmm.

974
00:34:56,344 --> 00:34:58,184
If it wasn't for the fact that we

975
00:34:58,184 --> 00:35:00,445
experienced an hour and a half film

976
00:35:00,985 --> 00:35:02,684
in pseudo real time.

977
00:35:02,985 --> 00:35:04,505
Like, I would've been okay with some of

978
00:35:04,505 --> 00:35:07,039
this if I was watching a web series

979
00:35:07,039 --> 00:35:09,539
and there was a break between certain things.

980
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,840
Because mentally, I'm going I'm watching this two

981
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,280
days later. It makes sense for so much

982
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:14,820
things to take place in this

983
00:35:15,119 --> 00:35:17,539
span of two minutes. Mhmm. However,

984
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,619
we don't have it in that format.

985
00:35:19,934 --> 00:35:22,515
But you bring up an interesting proposal of

986
00:35:22,974 --> 00:35:25,715
the middle shelf if you have a crew.

987
00:35:25,855 --> 00:35:28,515
So here is my proposal, John. Okay.

988
00:35:28,815 --> 00:35:30,594
Let's give this a

989
00:35:31,215 --> 00:35:31,715
tentative

990
00:35:32,255 --> 00:35:35,329
middle shelf. Okay. And the next time we

991
00:35:35,329 --> 00:35:36,550
have the opportunity

992
00:35:36,930 --> 00:35:39,670
to have a group viewing, you, me,

993
00:35:40,050 --> 00:35:42,450
Branson, whoever else, next time in because you're

994
00:35:42,450 --> 00:35:43,750
coming in a couple months

995
00:35:44,050 --> 00:35:44,950
to Tentatively.

996
00:35:45,625 --> 00:35:46,125
Tentatively.

997
00:35:46,664 --> 00:35:48,425
Next time we have opportunity to do this

998
00:35:48,425 --> 00:35:48,925
together,

999
00:35:49,385 --> 00:35:51,085
let's put that to the test.

1000
00:35:51,545 --> 00:35:53,864
Let's have a movie night where we watch

1001
00:35:53,864 --> 00:35:55,565
this dog water film,

1002
00:35:56,025 --> 00:35:56,525
and

1003
00:35:57,144 --> 00:35:59,164
let's see if it redeems itself.

1004
00:35:59,519 --> 00:36:00,500
And if not,

1005
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,019
I say dumpster fire. Okay. So a tentative

1006
00:36:04,079 --> 00:36:05,539
middle shelf. Okay.

1007
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,140
So I'm just going to reach up here

1008
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:10,659
and tie

1009
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:11,780
this.

1010
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,424
And here. There we go. So I have

1011
00:36:14,424 --> 00:36:15,565
the movie hanging

1012
00:36:16,184 --> 00:36:18,264
about the level of where the middle shelf

1013
00:36:18,264 --> 00:36:20,905
would be just above the dumpster fire, so

1014
00:36:20,905 --> 00:36:21,405
it's

1015
00:36:21,864 --> 00:36:23,885
easy just to cut that string.

1016
00:36:24,264 --> 00:36:26,824
The flames are licking the plastic as we

1017
00:36:26,824 --> 00:36:29,559
speak. Yeah. Smell it smells like the fog

1018
00:36:29,559 --> 00:36:30,059
remake.

1019
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,359
That is to my day this day, my

1020
00:36:34,359 --> 00:36:35,179
favorite video

1021
00:36:35,559 --> 00:36:37,320
that the dapper man ever put out was

1022
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,980
him lighting that stupid fog movie on fire.

1023
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,474
Oh, man. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it is

1024
00:36:43,474 --> 00:36:45,795
a tentative middle shelf for us here at

1025
00:36:45,795 --> 00:36:48,135
the bottom shelf. We want your thoughts

1026
00:36:48,594 --> 00:36:50,515
subject to change. We want your thoughts on

1027
00:36:50,515 --> 00:36:52,275
it. Reach out to us. Hit us up

1028
00:36:52,275 --> 00:36:53,875
in the Discord. Hit us up on social

1029
00:36:53,875 --> 00:36:55,175
media, Facebook, and Instagram.

1030
00:36:55,590 --> 00:36:58,150
That being said, ladies and gentlemen, it is

1031
00:36:58,150 --> 00:36:59,450
now time for

1032
00:36:59,989 --> 00:37:01,930
This is a weak connection.

1033
00:37:03,269 --> 00:37:05,590
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the weak connection.

1034
00:37:05,590 --> 00:37:06,869
This is the part where we take a

1035
00:37:06,869 --> 00:37:09,590
look at these terrible films and find something

1036
00:37:09,590 --> 00:37:10,090
redemptive

1037
00:37:10,535 --> 00:37:11,894
to point you back to the hope of

1038
00:37:11,894 --> 00:37:13,675
love and Jesus of Jesus Christ.

1039
00:37:14,055 --> 00:37:15,994
John, do you have a weak connection?

1040
00:37:16,454 --> 00:37:18,375
I do, but I'm kind of shooting from

1041
00:37:18,375 --> 00:37:19,914
the hip right now, Dallas.

1042
00:37:20,295 --> 00:37:23,015
Okay. Because it just kinda came to me

1043
00:37:23,015 --> 00:37:25,175
while you were just talking right this second.

1044
00:37:25,175 --> 00:37:27,400
So it's not so much a weak con

1045
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,500
connection as an exhortation

1046
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:31,179
I can pull from

1047
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:32,460
this movie

1048
00:37:33,079 --> 00:37:35,640
and a piece of scripture that I, like,

1049
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:37,400
literally, I'm just pulling out of the air,

1050
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,880
and I can't remember the address. So maybe

1051
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,739
if you could help me, pastor Dallas.

1052
00:37:42,174 --> 00:37:44,734
What's the scripture? Do things as unto the

1053
00:37:44,974 --> 00:37:47,234
do all things as unto the Lord.

1054
00:37:48,255 --> 00:37:49,375
I know what you're talking about. I know

1055
00:37:49,375 --> 00:37:50,594
what you're talking about. It is

1056
00:37:51,454 --> 00:37:51,954
Colossians

1057
00:37:52,815 --> 00:37:55,295
three twenty three through 24. Whatever you do,

1058
00:37:55,295 --> 00:37:57,214
work hardly as unto the Lord, not and

1059
00:37:57,214 --> 00:37:58,650
not for men knowing for

1060
00:37:59,429 --> 00:38:02,010
knowing that from the Lord, you will receive

1061
00:38:02,070 --> 00:38:03,769
the inheritance of your reward.

1062
00:38:04,070 --> 00:38:06,010
You are serving the Lord Christ.

1063
00:38:06,309 --> 00:38:07,289
Alright. So

1064
00:38:07,670 --> 00:38:10,034
I made a joke earlier when Dallas said,

1065
00:38:10,594 --> 00:38:12,114
I know what could have saved this movie.

1066
00:38:12,114 --> 00:38:14,034
And I said, it accepts Jesus as its

1067
00:38:14,034 --> 00:38:16,674
lord and savior. And that was funny. But

1068
00:38:16,674 --> 00:38:19,315
in the same sense, as Christians, we are

1069
00:38:19,315 --> 00:38:21,234
called to live to a higher standard, and

1070
00:38:21,234 --> 00:38:23,010
everything we do needs to be done to

1071
00:38:23,010 --> 00:38:24,230
the glory of God.

1072
00:38:24,690 --> 00:38:27,510
Now I'm not here to say that anybody

1073
00:38:28,289 --> 00:38:30,610
who made this movie is or is not

1074
00:38:30,610 --> 00:38:32,449
a Christian. That's none of my business. I

1075
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don't know them. What I can say is

1076
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that,

1077
00:38:36,295 --> 00:38:37,034
you know,

1078
00:38:37,414 --> 00:38:39,835
if somebody were to say that, hey.

1079
00:38:40,215 --> 00:38:42,295
I put I worked so hard on this

1080
00:38:42,295 --> 00:38:44,954
movie for the glory of God. I'd say,

1081
00:38:45,494 --> 00:38:48,135
I would inspect my relationship with God if

1082
00:38:48,135 --> 00:38:51,514
that was your intended intention to bring glory

1083
00:38:51,989 --> 00:38:54,070
because that seemed more like I did what

1084
00:38:54,070 --> 00:38:55,909
I felt was good enough to get this

1085
00:38:55,909 --> 00:38:56,730
out the door.

1086
00:38:57,110 --> 00:39:00,230
So if I can encourage anybody with this

1087
00:39:00,230 --> 00:39:02,550
movie, it would be do all things for

1088
00:39:02,550 --> 00:39:03,449
God's glorification

1089
00:39:03,909 --> 00:39:05,849
because we are the his representation

1090
00:39:06,230 --> 00:39:08,485
in this world. Don't put out a war

1091
00:39:08,485 --> 00:39:09,224
of the worlds.

1092
00:39:11,844 --> 00:39:14,085
Yeah. Don't do that, guys. Do things with

1093
00:39:14,085 --> 00:39:15,765
excellence. Doesn't have to be perfect, but do

1094
00:39:15,765 --> 00:39:18,025
things with excellence. Excellence? Yes.

1095
00:39:18,405 --> 00:39:21,369
Yes. I like it. Well, pastor Dallas, now

1096
00:39:21,369 --> 00:39:23,550
that we caught my shooting from the hip.

1097
00:39:23,610 --> 00:39:25,050
Yeah. So mine is coming from there was

1098
00:39:25,050 --> 00:39:27,050
a moment in the film where Ice Cube

1099
00:39:27,050 --> 00:39:29,690
was talking to his daughter, and he's basically

1100
00:39:29,690 --> 00:39:32,650
trying to apologize for being an absentee helicopter

1101
00:39:32,650 --> 00:39:35,014
parent. And, and she goes, the problem is

1102
00:39:35,014 --> 00:39:36,855
you think you can do everything. And she

1103
00:39:36,855 --> 00:39:39,335
goes, you can't. And that is the thing

1104
00:39:39,335 --> 00:39:40,875
where people we have this mindset

1105
00:39:41,335 --> 00:39:43,414
that everything we do, we've gotta do it

1106
00:39:43,414 --> 00:39:45,414
all. Like, whatever the process is in our

1107
00:39:45,414 --> 00:39:47,255
life, we gotta make sure that we're doing

1108
00:39:47,255 --> 00:39:50,079
everything because otherwise, it's not gonna get done.

1109
00:39:50,140 --> 00:39:52,380
But that's not really how things work. Let

1110
00:39:52,380 --> 00:39:54,300
me put my Bible verse here real quick.

1111
00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:56,059
I've lost it. Hold on one second. Okay.

1112
00:39:56,059 --> 00:39:58,619
Here we go. Psalm one twenty seven verse

1113
00:39:58,619 --> 00:40:00,940
one. Unless the Lord builds a house, those

1114
00:40:00,940 --> 00:40:03,574
who build it labor in vain.

1115
00:40:03,954 --> 00:40:05,875
And, it's short and sweet, but points up

1116
00:40:05,875 --> 00:40:07,635
the simple thing of you could put your

1117
00:40:07,635 --> 00:40:09,394
hands on stuff, but Lord's not in it.

1118
00:40:09,394 --> 00:40:10,755
He's not leading you. He's not guiding you.

1119
00:40:10,755 --> 00:40:12,675
He's not taking part in the process. It's

1120
00:40:12,675 --> 00:40:14,594
gonna be in vain. And that that's a

1121
00:40:14,594 --> 00:40:16,114
hard truth to accept for folks. There's a

1122
00:40:16,114 --> 00:40:17,155
lot of people like, oh, I can do

1123
00:40:17,155 --> 00:40:18,839
all this stuff, and you

1124
00:40:19,219 --> 00:40:20,659
can. I can do all things through a

1125
00:40:20,659 --> 00:40:22,039
verse taken out of context.

1126
00:40:24,260 --> 00:40:26,099
Yeah. Basically. But that verse itself, I could

1127
00:40:26,099 --> 00:40:27,460
do all things through Christ who empowers me.

1128
00:40:27,460 --> 00:40:29,639
That whole thing is talking about how

1129
00:40:29,940 --> 00:40:30,839
Paul's imprisoned,

1130
00:40:31,219 --> 00:40:31,719
and

1131
00:40:32,094 --> 00:40:33,855
he's talking about he can handle whatever he

1132
00:40:33,855 --> 00:40:35,855
can handle the hard times because A better

1133
00:40:35,855 --> 00:40:39,454
translation says, I can endure all things through

1134
00:40:39,454 --> 00:40:41,715
Christ who strengthens me. Exactly.

1135
00:40:42,094 --> 00:40:44,175
And so but this is hope reliance on

1136
00:40:44,175 --> 00:40:46,800
the Lord. And, again, in the movie, Ice

1137
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,239
Cube, he's trying to do it all and

1138
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,160
to take care of his family. And, again,

1139
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:51,380
I appreciate the intentions,

1140
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,519
but he's he's stepping out on things he

1141
00:40:53,519 --> 00:40:56,320
shouldn't be stepping out into. And with whatever

1142
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:57,994
you have happen in your life, you need

1143
00:40:57,994 --> 00:40:59,115
to present it to the Lord. You need

1144
00:40:59,115 --> 00:41:00,715
to give him the opportunity to guide it.

1145
00:41:00,715 --> 00:41:02,554
And it I understand it gets frustrating because

1146
00:41:02,554 --> 00:41:04,155
you're like, well, it's not the way I

1147
00:41:04,155 --> 00:41:05,515
want it, though, or it's like it's not

1148
00:41:05,515 --> 00:41:06,414
the way you expected.

1149
00:41:06,875 --> 00:41:08,715
We earlier tonight, we had our play and

1150
00:41:08,715 --> 00:41:10,940
pray on the Twitch and YouTube channel, and

1151
00:41:10,940 --> 00:41:12,140
we were actually talking about this. And John

1152
00:41:12,140 --> 00:41:13,820
the Baptist came to Jesus, and he's like,

1153
00:41:13,820 --> 00:41:15,740
hey. Are you really the Messiah? Because he's

1154
00:41:15,740 --> 00:41:17,660
been in jail for a year, and he

1155
00:41:17,660 --> 00:41:20,300
was expecting Jesus to start overthrowing the government

1156
00:41:20,300 --> 00:41:22,940
a year ago. And Jesus is like, look

1157
00:41:22,940 --> 00:41:25,385
at what's taking place. Mhmm. And he's just

1158
00:41:25,385 --> 00:41:27,224
correcting his views. Like, it's not the way

1159
00:41:27,224 --> 00:41:29,385
you expected it to, but you have to

1160
00:41:29,385 --> 00:41:30,905
trust that I'm gonna handle it the way

1161
00:41:30,905 --> 00:41:32,025
it needs to be handled, and it will

1162
00:41:32,025 --> 00:41:34,585
be better. And so it's a hard lesson.

1163
00:41:34,585 --> 00:41:36,344
It's a hard thing to take it, and

1164
00:41:36,344 --> 00:41:37,889
it sucks at times. Because You're like, I

1165
00:41:37,889 --> 00:41:40,210
want this now, or you're like, this really

1166
00:41:40,210 --> 00:41:42,530
hurts right now. But you have to trust

1167
00:41:42,530 --> 00:41:44,069
the process that he's walking

1168
00:41:44,449 --> 00:41:46,469
all the way through.

1169
00:41:47,089 --> 00:41:48,710
That is my weak connection.

1170
00:41:49,250 --> 00:41:52,289
Alright. Alright. Well, how about you guys out

1171
00:41:52,289 --> 00:41:54,105
there in listener land? Do you have some

1172
00:41:54,105 --> 00:41:55,565
thoughts on this? Please

1173
00:41:56,105 --> 00:41:57,405
share them with us

1174
00:41:58,505 --> 00:41:59,885
at the Geek Devotions

1175
00:42:00,505 --> 00:42:02,684
Facebook group, the Devoted Geeks.

1176
00:42:03,864 --> 00:42:06,344
Show the geek life. Devoted Geek Life. I

1177
00:42:06,344 --> 00:42:08,469
apologize. I am bad at that. I'd I'm

1178
00:42:08,469 --> 00:42:09,910
not in there as much as I used

1179
00:42:09,910 --> 00:42:12,070
to be because I'm busy hanging out over

1180
00:42:12,070 --> 00:42:14,329
on the Geek Devotions Discord

1181
00:42:14,950 --> 00:42:17,849
Word. Where I am a moderator and generate

1182
00:42:17,910 --> 00:42:21,005
plenty of content. So come join us, hang

1183
00:42:21,005 --> 00:42:21,505
out,

1184
00:42:21,885 --> 00:42:23,184
talk to us about movies,

1185
00:42:23,485 --> 00:42:26,605
maybe request some movies because our time off

1186
00:42:26,605 --> 00:42:29,885
has completely derailed our previous plans for this

1187
00:42:29,885 --> 00:42:31,965
year. So right now Shot it in the

1188
00:42:31,965 --> 00:42:33,985
foot. Right now, our schedule

1189
00:42:34,285 --> 00:42:36,940
is pretty wide open. So Hey. Do you

1190
00:42:36,940 --> 00:42:38,940
wanna do Gumby? That's what Cellcast is doing

1191
00:42:38,940 --> 00:42:42,559
right now. I'm good. Cellcast can just keep

1192
00:42:42,619 --> 00:42:44,559
Gumbo over there by himself.

1193
00:42:44,860 --> 00:42:46,539
But that being said, we wanna thank you

1194
00:42:46,539 --> 00:42:47,199
so much

1195
00:42:47,660 --> 00:42:49,900
for hanging out with us. Go like, rate,

1196
00:42:49,900 --> 00:42:52,155
and subscribe on whatever platform you are listening

1197
00:42:52,155 --> 00:42:53,215
to us on.

1198
00:42:53,755 --> 00:42:56,735
Yeah. Check out geekdevotions.com.

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That is where our home on the worldwide

1200
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webs,

1201
00:43:01,434 --> 00:43:03,055
and you can find other

1202
00:43:03,594 --> 00:43:04,094
fantastic

1203
00:43:05,429 --> 00:43:06,010
and articles

1204
00:43:06,789 --> 00:43:09,349
about that geeky stuff that you like. And

1205
00:43:09,349 --> 00:43:11,670
who knows? You might find another favorite podcast

1206
00:43:11,670 --> 00:43:14,549
there as well. Did I get everything, Kevin?

1207
00:43:14,549 --> 00:43:17,385
I think so. Alright. Didn't get all. Well,

1208
00:43:17,385 --> 00:43:20,025
with that being said then, thanks everybody for

1209
00:43:20,025 --> 00:43:22,025
tuning in and hanging out. We're trying to

1210
00:43:22,025 --> 00:43:24,204
get back on schedule with this now that

1211
00:43:24,265 --> 00:43:26,445
things have settled down some. So

1212
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until next time, stay devoted.

1213
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Peace and love.