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Hello, kitties.

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It's your old pal John Kaseer, the voice

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of the Cryptkeeper

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and you're listening to

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the bottom shelf.

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John, why are you wearing black pajamas?

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It's the middle of the day. I you

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can't see me. I'm literally looking at you,

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John. No. I'm invisible. You can't see me.

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John? No. John, we've had this conversation. Watch

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this. I'm gonna see if you just turn

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the lights on. Where did you come from?

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Where did you come from? Guys, I've been

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here since last episode. I just haven't said

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anything to me. What?

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Yeah. Yeah. I stopped by because I needed

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some advice on a taco machine, and y'all

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were doing your thing. And I was, like,

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waving, and I guess y'all didn't see me

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or something. But to be fair, I was

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in the shadows a lot. That's how you

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do it, John.

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Prepare yourself to discover a world of terrible

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movies.

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High above the planet Geekery, a group of

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intrepid explorers

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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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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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Good evening, movie lovers and movie haters. It

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is I, your dark lord,

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John Harju, and I have come to tell

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you about the dark arts of the ninja.

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And with me this week, I have Bam

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and Dallas

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hanging out. John Hey, guys. John, I've told

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you this before. Just because you wear

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all black clothes doesn't mean you're a trained

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ninja. It worked for me.

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I just just would throw that out there.

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Brent's What? You're not helping.

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If I try doing what you did, I

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just come off looking like Chris Farley. Alright.

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That was a timely reference.

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And hello to everybody else out there.

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We have Bam on the show with us

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this week. We have this last time too.

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Oh, but if it I'm sure he probably

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intentionally

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chose not to watch that last movie. To

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be fair,

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he might have been here, but we were

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just so comatose from watching whatever that was

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that We were too busy staring at the

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screen trying to look at what they were

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looking at. You mean the green screen they

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were looking at? Mhmm.

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Yeah. Yeah. Word of the worlds, you made

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me angry.

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Alright. Ranting aside, what are we doing this

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week, guys?

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That's a great question. Let's check the box

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here. And since coming out of the shadows,

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ladies and gentlemen, we have

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an is that like a an, a knockoff

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Wasn't there an Assassin's Creed game in Japan?

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I meant, like, one that was based in

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Japan. We don't talk about that game.

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believe I believe that game was called Ghost

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of Yotei. Yeah.

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If you wanna know more about Ghost of

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Yotei, check out Calm Talk by Geek Devotions

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where John and I gave our thoughts on

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it. Anyways podcast dedicated

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to letting you know that you are loved,

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you are cared for, and that there is

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a purpose for your life. Click, like, and

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Oh my goodness. Alright. Ninja Assassin, I believe,

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is what we're gonna watch today, gentlemen, since

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John's wearing his PJs.

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You're just jealous because I'm comfortable.

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I am. You're correct. I am jealous that

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you're comfortable.

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Although, I feel like you're a little too

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comfortable. There's no reason for you to have

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a flap on the back of your pants,

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especially have it open like that, John. Bro.

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And suddenly, I understand why you haven't been

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able to fade into the background.

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Yo. I've been in outer space for two

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years now. How much sunlight do you think

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I've seen?

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That's why the flap's open, sir.

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I'm trying to have rosy cheeks by Christmas.

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Lord Jesus, help us. Alright. Let's jump into

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it. Here, Branson. Why don't you read the

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back of the box for us? Okay. I

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will do it in my

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ninja voice. Oh, don't get it. Oh, lord.

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Let's not do that. I don't wanna be

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a part of the trade federation in the

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beginning of the Star Wars saga shit. I

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Ninja Turtles. Nope. Nope. He you sounded like

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a catfish alien Oh. Doing the trade federation.

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Yep. Oh, okay. Episode one right there. Alright.

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There's smoke all over the place tonight, everybody.

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The filmmakers of the matrix and v for

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vendetta bring a new blood, lots of it,

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to martial arts movies and ninja assassin.

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Korean pop star Rain from Speed Racer stars

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as heroic deadly

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Raizo,

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trained for childhood in the way of the

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Ozuna clan ninja.

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He is stalked by fellow warriors for breaking

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free of them and their iron willed dojo

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patriarch, martial arts legend Shou Kasugi,

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and is on the run with a Europol

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agent, Naomi Harris,

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who has proof of the clan sell who

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has proof the clan sells assassination services to

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governments.

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The action

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is start to finish fast, fierce, filled with

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weaponry,

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chain swords, staffs, shurikens,

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and awesome athleticism.

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Fear not the weapon, but the hand that

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wields it. I don't feel like we need

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to watch the movie anymore. My guy. Bam

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just destroyed my mind. Oh, yeah? I did.

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Oh, yeah. I'm a great character real quick.

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I didn't realize that was Shokasugi.

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Yes. Yes. It is. I am

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awestruck, and everything makes sense now. Really? Oh,

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Shou Kasugi.

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Am I seriously the only person who knows

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who Shou Kasugi is amongst the three of

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us? Maybe. I don't know. Hold on. Potentially.

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Who is Shou Kasugi? I'm peeking over Dallas's

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shoulder here. Let's see. Okay. Let's put a

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let's put a pin in this thought. Let's

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put a pin in this thought. We'll come

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back to it after you two have seen

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after we have watched this. Okay. Because I

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have conversations that need to be had

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about Shokasugi

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in the spoiler free section.

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Sounds good. Hold on. I'm having a moment

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because I just saw something. Nope. That's what

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I'm looking for. Sorry. I'm now on a

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tangent because of what he said. And, I'm

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like, what's going on here? I'm Googling this

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guy. No. Are you kidding me? Shh. Shh.

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Save it till we watch. Oh.

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Remember, we put a pin in this. Pin.

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It's in my eye now. Alright. So I

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think we should have used a nail.

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I am sorry, but you can't drop that

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name on me out of nowhere and make

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me realize okay. Anyway, alright. So let's What,

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please. Alright. Pull it out. Intro to the

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movie for information.

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In the early two thousands, Matthew Sand had

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a dream. A bloody one full of leather,

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martial arts, and action. After watching The Matrix

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and V from Vendetta

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back to back, he reached out to James

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to help him bring his dream alive with

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Ninja Assassin.

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Sadly, halfway through production, he realized the script

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wasn't so great, so he called in Babylon

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five writer, J. Michael Storzczynski,

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can't mispronounce that, I apologize, to help fix

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the script. After fixing the script, they needed

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someone with some athleticism and fierceness to play

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the mythological ninja that would bring fear to

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everyone. Someone who was brave and could face

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danger. So after watching Speed Racer, they hired

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a k pop star named Rain

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to be their fierce pretty boy warrior.

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After breaking after barely breaking even the box

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office, this high action bloody blood filled film

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drifted off into memory movie of the shadows.

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Alright. So with all that being said, you

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got any kind of trivia for us there,

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buddy? I do

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Oh. On this movie. The weapon Raizo favors

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throughout the movie is called a,

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oh, lord, I stumble on this in Ghost

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of Yotei two, Arigama,

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which is notoriously

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difficult weapon to master,

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which is awesome if you've ever played Ghost

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of Yotei, and I'm excited to see it

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in action. I'm gonna play it after we

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record this podcast. Right. After Raizo is captured

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by Interpol and chained to the wall, one

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of the agents looks at him and says,

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he looks like he should be in a

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boy band. Rain started his career

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in the boy band fan club, so he

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is actually a boy band member.

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Yes. Korean pop star Rain had no martial

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arts experience prior to filming. He trained extensively

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for six months in martial arts and weapons

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handling

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with stunt action choreographers

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Chad Stalas, Peng Zhang,

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and John Valera and Jonathan

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Sabio,

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as well as weights and cardiovascular

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workouts with personal trainers. He also went on

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a diet of chicken breasts and vegetables.

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Wow. Can you imagine, like, just hanging out

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martial arts trainers just every day and your

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job is just to become, like, some martial

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arts guru? Just That'd be crazy. That would

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be nice.

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And to bookend

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my this little list o trivia,

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Lee Joon, who plays teenage Raizo in the

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movie, was a member of South Korean boy

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band, MBLAQ.

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The band has the band was created and

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mentored by Rain himself.

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So this movie is just

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nonstop boy band fanfic. Interesting. It's interesting the

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number of Koreans on this movie about Japanese

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warriors.

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Just saying. Is that all your trivia?

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That's all I got in front of me

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at the moment. Alright. Let's pull up, please,

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gentlemen, some community conversation.

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We reached out to folks over on TikTok,

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and Discord, and the Facebook's coming out from

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our Discord. First off, we got Mikasi. What's

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up, homie? My fellow Gundam

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fan. He says, I enjoyed the movie. I

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went expecting just an action flick, and I

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got something deeper, but much would be willing

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to rewatch.

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Alright. Then we got C. K.

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Caesar.

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Three four five. All I'm gonna say is

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for a person

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who is not Naruto,

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I absolutely love this movie. One of the

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best I've seen, definitely worth the watch and

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rewatch.

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Nice. Awesome. I don't get this I don't

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get that response, my guy, because it's it

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literally pops up as a 35 on the

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Metacritic score. It's a what? This movie comes

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up as a metric as a 35 on

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the Metacritic.

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Yeah. I just don't understand why it's rewatch.

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It it it's not jiving with, like, why

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are we watching this if it is so

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great. So far, we have two peoples that

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said yes. We need to rewatch this. That's

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what I'm saying. Alright. Read the next one,

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bud.

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Some fella

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says, I just remember that at a certain

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point of the movie, the main character suddenly

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had Wolverine style healing,

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and his deep wounds were all closed up.

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Alright. Charles Bell For alert. Charles Bell, who

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is one of our good friends, Finn, friend

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of the show. He runs game warriors, gaming

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for a cause, which does fundraisers for nonprofits.

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He says, I enjoyed it enough to add

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it to my collection.

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Oh, I'm next.

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Nathan j norm I'm also astounded by the

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feedback we got by the community. I think

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this has only been out for, what,

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two hours?

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Yeah. Yep. By the way, Nathan j Norman

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is commander Cody from our intro. Yeah. Nathan

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j Norman says, I watched it because J

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Michael

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oh, you're gonna make me say it now.

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J Michael

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Straczynski

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was brought in to fix the script.

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Oh, there's a vote of confidence.

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Aaron's Huey says, I own it. Not the

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best ninja movie, but I'll watch it once

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in a while. Now I wanna DC's League

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of Shadows. Oh. Oh. Which would actually be

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really good. I'd be I would watch that.

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Yeah. Like, even as a TV can you

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imagine that as a TV show, like, on

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on one of the streaming stations? Just League

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of Shadows. That would be lit. That would

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be nice. Pretty cool. There's a t there's

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a Netflix that was called House of Ninjas

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that was really good. I'm into it. Alright.

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Chris Forte, the movie is the movie assassin

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was severely underrated.

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When I when it first dropped, that was

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one of my favorite movies I watched. One

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of my favorite movies I watched. Can't

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believe I forgot about it till just now.

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Thank you. I will be getting me a

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copy soon because I want to watch it

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again.

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Wow. I'm just blown away by this community

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feedback. Like I know. Right? Are we sure

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you read the score correctly? I double checked

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it. 35.

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Wow. Okay.

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Alright. Let's keep on moving. Richard Bone

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has the best name that I've oh, wait.

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That's not what we're here for. Richard Bone,

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how many ninja stars did they go through?

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Seems one guy had millions just had one

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guy had millions just throwing them. That's fair.

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Rev Baum says, I saw it in theaters

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and bought it on DVD when it came

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out. So much CGI blood. Alright.

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That's our community outreach.

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Let's almost give our expectations,

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mister Harju,

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stealth assassin.

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Alright. So

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this was one of those other movies that

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kind of inspired the creation of this podcast

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for me. And the reason why is because

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I watched it when it first came out

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on DVD. I didn't see it in the

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theater. Rev Bomb did. However,

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I I did check it out on the

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DVD from Blockbuster. No. Hastings.

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Rip Hastings.

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Moment of silence.

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Okay. But I did check it out from

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Hastings, and I I watched it, and I

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enjoyed it quite a bit. Now I this

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is before I'd got really gotten involved with

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really trying to break down movies. I just

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sat down and watched it and said, hey,

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I really liked that.

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And I was talking with my buddy who

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is really into the movie snob community, which

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is what I refer to people who super

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deep dive into movies and pick them apart

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and really go into

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the nuance of filmmaking,

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greater so than I even do now. And

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he was just teasing me one side and

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the other because, apparently, it was common knowledge

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amongst the the movie critic community

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community that this movie was trash.

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I never saw the movie again after seeing

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it that first time, albeit

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I do remember I enjoyed it quite a

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bit, and I couldn't understand why everybody thought

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it was trash. So I'm excited to read

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this. Yeah. Yeah. Cool.

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B? I actually did see it in theaters

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when this came out. Wow. Yeah. My my

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wife was working at the time at a

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hospital, and she would always have the the

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late night shift. And I saw it, and

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it looked like one of those kinda like

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The Expendables movies. It doesn't pretend to be

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anything other than what it is, and you

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know what you're going to see. And so

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I was like, I can stand for just

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some mindless violence and gore for a while.

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Sure. Why not? So I went I got

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a buddy of mine to go with me,

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and I actually enjoyed it. I thought it

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was a lot of fun. Yeah. It's like

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John. I never went back and saw it

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again.

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I didn't have any friends that hated on

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it, but the only friend I spoke about

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it with was the guy that went and

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saw it with me, and he enjoyed it

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enough. But, I don't remember it being terrible.

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So I guess the assumption is it just

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didn't do well in the box office, and

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that's why it has the rating it has.

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But I don't remember hating it. Now critical

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critically speaking, the critics did dump on this

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movie, so it was not critically well received.

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Really? Yep. I genuinely enjoyed watching it when

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I saw it. It. It's been fifteen years,

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but Can I before you jump before you

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do yours, Dallas, can I put a little

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addendum on my expectations here? Please do. I

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am genuinely terrified. I'm about to have a

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guy virtue moment going into this movie.

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I've not been back for one episode.

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If you aren't gonna bring that, pour salt

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back into that wound. He's having a good

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time to do that. Here's the deal, Bam.

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I'm not even trying to pour salt into

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that wound. Right now

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now I'm just, like, legitimately concerned. Like, I'm

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remembering a movie that I enjoyed when I

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was younger, and I'm afraid this is gonna

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end up being dog water when we walk

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into it. And then I completely like this.

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Sympathize with you. I'm there with you. If

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it comes to that, I'm here for you.

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I'll help you I'll help you through it.

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I'm here for you, man. There you go.

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My expectations are I like ninjas and,

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a lot.

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I saw this movie years ago when it

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first came out in DVD. I'm trying to

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remember my timelines.

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And

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I don't think I was working for Hollywood

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Video at the time when it came out,

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but I remember renting it. And I think,

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dude, when I got this, I got it

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on Netflix

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on DVD.

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Hey. The mail in Netflix. I've old say

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what you want about old school Netflix. I

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preferred old school Netflix.

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Having everything immediately available took the The magic

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away.

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Yeah. I felt like I actually watched more

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movies getting the DVD Yeah. Than having them

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because I guess it was the idea of

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I've invested time waiting for this to show

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up Right. Before I send it back. I

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need to actually watch it. Definitely. Yeah. Yeah.

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I think I've watched more movies when we

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had the physical disc than when we had

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it streaming. I can vibe with that. But

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I remember watching it late at night and,

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going, this is cool. Now it was like

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two o'clock in the morning,

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but this would be an amazing 02:00 in

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the morning. I'm sorry. I'm ahead of my

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throat. Go ahead. 02:00 in the morning, bowl

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ramen, just vibing.

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I remember having fun with this movie, legitimately

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having fun.

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Now, to be fair, I'm a fan of

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those cheesy

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Japanese movies with exaggerated blood. I see the

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blind swordsman and all those other ones. Those

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were great movies.

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And so I was like, yeah, let's go.

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And so my expectations is that just have

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fun

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and here in our community outreach, it sounds

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like everyone

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is just vibing with this movie. I'm excited.

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Yeah. Yeah. Alrighty then. Everything is has been

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said.

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We're gonna go and watch the movie. If

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you are listening

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to the podcast,

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pause it and go watch this movie. At

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the viewing of this, I don't know where

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you can find it.

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Yeah. I had I have the Blu ray

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myself. So Oh.

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I watched it on Google. Ranson saw it

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on Tubi, just barely. It was on Tubi,

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and now it's not. It may come back.

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Alright, guys. We're gonna go watch the movie.

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Dear listeners,

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this is your opportunity to escape.

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Our crew has just entered into the media

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projection chamber.

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What horrors and madness that they consume are

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unknown.

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Their mental state upon their return is

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unknown.

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You have been warned.

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You ever walk out of a movie feeling

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like you're covered with marinara and ground beef?

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I am sorry. Okay? I was trying to

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balance everything, and my shoelace was untied.

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And it just it happened. Okay?

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I just don't know why you had that

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on your popcorn.

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Look. All I can say is don't knock

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it till you tried it. This is why

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we don't talk to you, Branson.

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Oh my gosh. Alright. This is our spoiler

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free discussion time frame.

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Alright. Shokosuga.

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Yes. Let's see. I'm sorry. I have been

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holding this like a pee on a road

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trip, sir. This is gonna happen right now.

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You tell me your brain explosion, I'll tell

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you mine. Okay. Shokasuga

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is

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one of the key proponents

531
00:19:50,769 --> 00:19:51,750
of the nineteen

532
00:19:52,049 --> 00:19:52,549
eighties

533
00:19:53,089 --> 00:19:54,150
ninja movie

534
00:19:54,450 --> 00:19:57,515
explosion that had happened during that time period.

535
00:19:57,734 --> 00:20:01,015
He is most notably known for the what's

536
00:20:01,015 --> 00:20:02,634
called the Ninja trilogy,

537
00:20:03,255 --> 00:20:04,955
which was Enter the Ninja,

538
00:20:05,335 --> 00:20:07,654
Revenge of the Ninja, and then Ninja three,

539
00:20:07,654 --> 00:20:08,315
The Domination,

540
00:20:09,029 --> 00:20:11,130
as well as being in

541
00:20:11,830 --> 00:20:14,250
one of the most famous VHS

542
00:20:14,630 --> 00:20:15,130
cover

543
00:20:15,670 --> 00:20:18,250
movies of all VHS rental

544
00:20:18,950 --> 00:20:20,950
rental companies of all time, which was the

545
00:20:20,950 --> 00:20:25,085
ninja movie called Pray for Death. Wow. Wow.

546
00:20:25,305 --> 00:20:26,125
That actually

547
00:20:26,904 --> 00:20:28,424
clarifies a lot of what I had to

548
00:20:28,424 --> 00:20:31,065
say about this movie now. That's pretty lit.

549
00:20:31,065 --> 00:20:32,585
Knowing that that makes a lot of sense.

550
00:20:32,585 --> 00:20:35,429
There's some ninja heritage here. Yeah. So if

551
00:20:35,429 --> 00:20:37,049
you take that into consideration

552
00:20:37,349 --> 00:20:39,429
of what we just watched and you think

553
00:20:39,429 --> 00:20:40,569
about all the

554
00:20:41,109 --> 00:20:45,130
hackney nineteen eighties ninja movies that Shou Kasuga

555
00:20:45,349 --> 00:20:47,029
was in, and then you think about the

556
00:20:47,029 --> 00:20:49,429
movie we just watched, everything should fall in

557
00:20:49,429 --> 00:20:51,884
line free. Yes, it does. This makes me

558
00:20:52,044 --> 00:20:52,865
so my

559
00:20:53,325 --> 00:20:55,105
astounding thing, Joe

560
00:20:55,565 --> 00:20:57,505
Shou played Ricky Maru

561
00:20:57,884 --> 00:20:59,804
in this game or in this in the

562
00:20:59,804 --> 00:21:02,684
games, Tenshu stuff assassin. You play the Japanese

563
00:21:02,684 --> 00:21:05,230
voice. And for those who know me, I

564
00:21:05,230 --> 00:21:06,529
have been advocating

565
00:21:07,069 --> 00:21:09,809
for years. We need a return of Tenshu

566
00:21:10,349 --> 00:21:12,990
stealth assassin games for ages. I had a

567
00:21:12,990 --> 00:21:14,829
revelation the other day, John, and the reason

568
00:21:14,829 --> 00:21:15,730
that I play

569
00:21:16,109 --> 00:21:17,730
Ghost of Yosei, Ghost of Tsushima

570
00:21:18,269 --> 00:21:19,549
the way I do and the why I

571
00:21:19,549 --> 00:21:21,755
love it is because it is the closest

572
00:21:21,894 --> 00:21:23,815
to Tenchu that I can get right now

573
00:21:23,815 --> 00:21:26,455
in modern gaming. Yeah. It was it is

574
00:21:26,455 --> 00:21:28,154
my opinion, one of the best

575
00:21:28,615 --> 00:21:31,595
game ninja games out there. And hear me,

576
00:21:31,894 --> 00:21:34,855
video game people, get me Tenchu because it's

577
00:21:34,855 --> 00:21:36,309
so great. And, but he was the voice

578
00:21:36,309 --> 00:21:37,910
of Ricky Mario the entire time. I was

579
00:21:37,910 --> 00:21:39,750
like, holy crap. So side note, he was

580
00:21:39,750 --> 00:21:42,410
also the voice of a power ranger apparently,

581
00:21:42,630 --> 00:21:43,130
or

582
00:21:43,509 --> 00:21:44,809
a character in power Rangers.

583
00:21:45,190 --> 00:21:47,850
Oh, really? Ninja. Sentai core ranger.

584
00:21:48,355 --> 00:21:50,514
He played some character named He was really

585
00:21:50,514 --> 00:21:51,014
repulsive.

586
00:21:54,115 --> 00:21:55,554
This dude was liking it up. I mean,

587
00:21:55,554 --> 00:21:57,954
nothing but ninja movies. Oh, for sure. No.

588
00:21:57,954 --> 00:21:59,654
He he this like, Shokasuga

589
00:22:00,115 --> 00:22:01,894
is ninja movie royalty.

590
00:22:02,549 --> 00:22:04,549
Like, the moment that Bam said that he

591
00:22:04,549 --> 00:22:07,190
was in this, my head blew up. Because

592
00:22:07,190 --> 00:22:08,250
I don't know him.

593
00:22:08,549 --> 00:22:10,309
I don't know his work well enough to

594
00:22:10,309 --> 00:22:12,630
be able to identify him on a movie

595
00:22:12,630 --> 00:22:13,130
screen,

596
00:22:13,430 --> 00:22:15,190
which is the reason why I didn't know

597
00:22:15,190 --> 00:22:17,269
that going into this. I didn't check I

598
00:22:17,269 --> 00:22:18,765
don't I never checked the credits of the

599
00:22:18,765 --> 00:22:20,705
movies going into these things. So

600
00:22:21,244 --> 00:22:22,845
it to not know his work well enough

601
00:22:22,845 --> 00:22:24,525
to be able to identify him by seeing

602
00:22:24,525 --> 00:22:27,904
him on screen, but mostly knowing his legacy,

603
00:22:28,525 --> 00:22:30,684
that just makes me even more excited to

604
00:22:30,684 --> 00:22:32,445
have seen this movie now because I'm like,

605
00:22:32,445 --> 00:22:34,065
okay. Now I'm a part of something.

606
00:22:34,420 --> 00:22:36,420
Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. It actually

607
00:22:36,900 --> 00:22:38,740
oh, go ahead. No. Go ahead. I was

608
00:22:38,740 --> 00:22:40,420
just saying the fact that you said that

609
00:22:40,420 --> 00:22:41,700
makes a lot of sense because one of

610
00:22:41,700 --> 00:22:43,000
the things I wrote down

611
00:22:43,539 --> 00:22:45,559
is the overall feel of this movie.

612
00:22:46,019 --> 00:22:49,424
It leans into what we all expected ninjas

613
00:22:49,424 --> 00:22:51,985
to be in the nineties. Oh, totally. Like,

614
00:22:51,985 --> 00:22:54,644
they had actually made the ninja this scary

615
00:22:54,785 --> 00:22:56,005
force of the night.

616
00:22:56,465 --> 00:22:56,965
And

617
00:22:57,345 --> 00:22:58,465
and and I wrote down in my notes.

618
00:22:58,465 --> 00:23:00,785
I was like, whoever wrote this movie grew

619
00:23:00,785 --> 00:23:03,059
up watching ninja movies in the nineties because

620
00:23:03,059 --> 00:23:04,660
they're like, this is what we expect in

621
00:23:04,660 --> 00:23:06,259
ninjas to be. When we heard there was

622
00:23:06,259 --> 00:23:08,259
gonna be a ninja in a movie. Nineties

623
00:23:08,259 --> 00:23:10,359
and eighties. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely.

624
00:23:10,660 --> 00:23:13,059
Go ahead. Phil filmology wise, like, you could

625
00:23:13,059 --> 00:23:14,819
tell this is a European film. There's a

626
00:23:14,819 --> 00:23:16,595
there is a specific vibe

627
00:23:17,855 --> 00:23:20,275
in ingrained to European films,

628
00:23:20,734 --> 00:23:23,214
and you can almost taste the pal, the

629
00:23:23,214 --> 00:23:25,794
way that the pals the formatting in Europe.

630
00:23:26,015 --> 00:23:28,654
It you can feel it, but it wasn't

631
00:23:28,654 --> 00:23:29,154
distracting.

632
00:23:29,710 --> 00:23:31,549
Sometimes European films, they come off distracting me.

633
00:23:31,549 --> 00:23:32,430
I don't know if that's the same way

634
00:23:32,430 --> 00:23:33,869
for you guys watching European films. I don't

635
00:23:33,869 --> 00:23:35,390
know if it's the way they do. I

636
00:23:35,390 --> 00:23:37,070
didn't realize that until you pointed it out,

637
00:23:37,070 --> 00:23:38,430
so I didn't even it didn't it wasn't

638
00:23:38,430 --> 00:23:41,009
even something that Yeah. Was obvious to me.

639
00:23:41,070 --> 00:23:43,634
Okay. Okay. I'm just dumb. Alright. No, dude.

640
00:23:43,634 --> 00:23:44,995
You're not dumb. It's just I just it's

641
00:23:44,995 --> 00:23:46,515
so I see. But it's one of those

642
00:23:46,515 --> 00:23:47,795
things that but to me, it was good,

643
00:23:47,795 --> 00:23:49,634
though. Like, it was really well done. The

644
00:23:49,634 --> 00:23:52,295
estimated budget was only $40,000,000.

645
00:23:52,995 --> 00:23:53,495
Only.

646
00:23:54,115 --> 00:23:57,390
Only. That's in 2000 that's in 2009. And

647
00:23:57,390 --> 00:23:59,009
gross wise, it only made

648
00:23:59,390 --> 00:24:00,670
$61,000,000.

649
00:24:00,670 --> 00:24:03,230
So it barely made its money back. But

650
00:24:03,230 --> 00:24:04,829
that being said, like, you could tell the

651
00:24:04,829 --> 00:24:07,309
budget wasn't the greatest, but what they did

652
00:24:07,309 --> 00:24:08,849
with it was amazing.

653
00:24:09,230 --> 00:24:12,025
Mhmm. Like, graphics were really well done.

654
00:24:12,484 --> 00:24:14,244
And what it is, they lean to My

655
00:24:14,244 --> 00:24:16,484
money says my money says that budget went

656
00:24:16,484 --> 00:24:18,105
to training. More than likely.

657
00:24:18,404 --> 00:24:20,484
But the what it is though, what makes

658
00:24:20,484 --> 00:24:21,945
it for me is

659
00:24:22,390 --> 00:24:23,529
they leaned into

660
00:24:24,069 --> 00:24:25,849
the eighties, nineties, stylized

661
00:24:26,150 --> 00:24:28,950
martial arts. Yeah. They lean into that heavily

662
00:24:28,950 --> 00:24:30,890
for the graphics from like the chain

663
00:24:31,269 --> 00:24:33,269
spins and the way they did all the

664
00:24:33,269 --> 00:24:34,009
fight scenes.

665
00:24:34,315 --> 00:24:35,795
And I'm gonna get into specifics about some

666
00:24:35,795 --> 00:24:37,755
of those fight scenes later, because that's where

667
00:24:37,755 --> 00:24:39,215
I put my all my notes at.

668
00:24:40,715 --> 00:24:43,115
But I think it was just really well

669
00:24:43,115 --> 00:24:44,795
done with what they had and the way

670
00:24:44,795 --> 00:24:46,015
things were done back then.

671
00:24:46,710 --> 00:24:47,609
Yeah. Choreography

672
00:24:47,990 --> 00:24:50,390
in this and the training that Rain had

673
00:24:50,390 --> 00:24:52,470
to have for this, taking it back to

674
00:24:52,470 --> 00:24:54,169
the point I was saying. And I

675
00:24:54,470 --> 00:24:56,150
that's where the money had to have gone

676
00:24:56,150 --> 00:24:56,970
with this because

677
00:24:57,269 --> 00:24:59,349
Oh, man. And maybe it's just because I

678
00:24:59,349 --> 00:25:01,544
don't think digital effects are quite there yet

679
00:25:01,544 --> 00:25:04,024
when this movie came out because the digital

680
00:25:04,024 --> 00:25:06,024
effects do stick out a little bit in

681
00:25:06,024 --> 00:25:08,265
the same way that the digital effects suck

682
00:25:08,265 --> 00:25:10,744
out in the second blade movie where people's

683
00:25:10,744 --> 00:25:13,519
bodies get a little bit rubber band or

684
00:25:13,820 --> 00:25:15,820
at Gumby as we used to refer to

685
00:25:15,820 --> 00:25:17,599
it back in the day. Yeah.

686
00:25:17,980 --> 00:25:19,980
There's stuff like that. There's moments where the

687
00:25:19,980 --> 00:25:21,359
chain on this weapon

688
00:25:22,140 --> 00:25:23,279
is very obviously

689
00:25:23,820 --> 00:25:25,519
CG because it becomes

690
00:25:26,140 --> 00:25:26,355
practically

691
00:25:33,474 --> 00:25:34,214
certain level

692
00:25:34,835 --> 00:25:37,634
of suspension of disbelief you have to come

693
00:25:37,634 --> 00:25:39,474
into the movie with in order to watch

694
00:25:39,474 --> 00:25:40,214
it appropriately.

695
00:25:40,849 --> 00:25:42,690
Right. So I think if you're willing to

696
00:25:42,690 --> 00:25:44,769
do that, I don't think any of those

697
00:25:44,849 --> 00:25:47,009
the lack in the visual effects or the

698
00:25:47,009 --> 00:25:49,750
aging of the visual effects is necessarily going

699
00:25:50,130 --> 00:25:53,585
to be prohibitive to enjoying the movie. Definitely.

700
00:25:53,585 --> 00:25:56,065
Yeah. Like, reference to I forget who said

701
00:25:56,065 --> 00:25:58,085
it about so much CGI blood.

702
00:25:58,465 --> 00:26:01,125
Mhmm. The way they did the movie, though,

703
00:26:01,265 --> 00:26:04,384
at that didn't feel out of place. Yeah.

704
00:26:04,384 --> 00:26:05,744
And one of the things I said was

705
00:26:05,744 --> 00:26:07,679
a lot of the scenes looks like, okay.

706
00:26:07,679 --> 00:26:09,919
They inserted the scene so that they could

707
00:26:09,919 --> 00:26:11,519
show off that this guy could do this

708
00:26:11,519 --> 00:26:12,960
move. Yeah. That was the point of it.

709
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,159
There was one where he does, like, a

710
00:26:14,159 --> 00:26:15,759
push up on a bed of nails. I'm

711
00:26:15,759 --> 00:26:17,279
like, they're just doing that to say, hey.

712
00:26:17,279 --> 00:26:18,559
Look. This guy can do a push up

713
00:26:18,559 --> 00:26:20,659
on a bed of nails or whatever. But

714
00:26:20,799 --> 00:26:23,235
because the whole premise of the movie is

715
00:26:23,235 --> 00:26:25,795
ninjas fighting all the time, it didn't feel

716
00:26:25,795 --> 00:26:27,875
out of place. It didn't feel hokey. It

717
00:26:27,875 --> 00:26:29,235
felt like it was part of the DNA

718
00:26:29,235 --> 00:26:31,235
of the movie, which actually made it enjoyable.

719
00:26:31,235 --> 00:26:32,375
I didn't mind the

720
00:26:32,835 --> 00:26:33,975
obvious fake

721
00:26:34,399 --> 00:26:36,720
blood or when the weapons looked like, okay.

722
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,799
That weapon's not actually there. They'd stitch that

723
00:26:38,799 --> 00:26:40,799
in after the fact, but it fit the

724
00:26:40,799 --> 00:26:42,659
vibe of the movie, and it was actually

725
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:44,019
enjoyable. Yeah.

726
00:26:44,319 --> 00:26:47,054
I'm I'm looking at the top the 2,009

727
00:26:47,054 --> 00:26:48,894
movies, action movies that came out in the

728
00:26:48,894 --> 00:26:51,134
era. And it's interesting seeing what's taking place

729
00:26:51,134 --> 00:26:53,694
here. Obviously you have Ninja Assassin. You had

730
00:26:53,694 --> 00:26:55,315
a movie called Robo Geisha.

731
00:26:55,615 --> 00:26:58,255
You had the infamous Dragon Ball Evolution, which

732
00:26:58,255 --> 00:26:59,375
we need to talk about on the show

733
00:26:59,375 --> 00:27:01,410
one day. We had Street Fighter. We had

734
00:27:01,410 --> 00:27:03,809
a movie called Ninja. We had Teenage Mutant

735
00:27:03,809 --> 00:27:04,710
Ninja Turtles Forever.

736
00:27:05,009 --> 00:27:07,970
You had District nine, you had GI Joe

737
00:27:07,970 --> 00:27:10,289
come out. You had Blood the Last Vampire,

738
00:27:10,289 --> 00:27:11,650
which is by the way, one of my

739
00:27:11,650 --> 00:27:13,029
favorite anime adaptations.

740
00:27:13,605 --> 00:27:15,684
You had the terrible Street Fighter movie that

741
00:27:15,684 --> 00:27:17,525
came out about Chun Li, and then you

742
00:27:17,525 --> 00:27:18,184
had Underworld,

743
00:27:18,565 --> 00:27:20,244
Rise of the Lycans. So this is the

744
00:27:20,244 --> 00:27:22,244
era that these things were coming out. Oh,

745
00:27:22,244 --> 00:27:23,845
also, for those of you who are into

746
00:27:23,845 --> 00:27:25,464
it, Tekken came out. Oh.

747
00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:28,359
Shout out to my man, TJ. He was

748
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,000
a extra in Tekken. And, but it seems

749
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,619
like the, like this was the era

750
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,559
for, this was a year for fighting martial

751
00:27:35,559 --> 00:27:36,460
arts style

752
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,440
stuff at the time. Like it was just,

753
00:27:38,765 --> 00:27:39,725
I don't know if it was just a

754
00:27:39,725 --> 00:27:41,565
matter of the people who grew up in

755
00:27:41,565 --> 00:27:43,245
the eighties, nineties were just now let's make

756
00:27:43,245 --> 00:27:44,845
martial arts movies or if there was something

757
00:27:44,845 --> 00:27:46,845
else going on, but it was definitely a

758
00:27:46,845 --> 00:27:48,765
thing taking place. I have a thought about

759
00:27:48,765 --> 00:27:50,525
that, but it gets kind of spoilery for

760
00:27:50,525 --> 00:27:51,783
me to say that. So I'm gonna come

761
00:27:51,783 --> 00:27:53,970
back to this, but I'm glad you pointed

762
00:27:53,970 --> 00:27:56,158
that out. Based off the movies that you

763
00:27:56,158 --> 00:27:58,618
just said out loud there, I will and

764
00:27:58,618 --> 00:28:01,079
to make a I'm gonna make so many

765
00:28:01,079 --> 00:28:03,267
people met with this, and I don't care.

766
00:28:03,267 --> 00:28:05,454
I will say given the time period that

767
00:28:05,454 --> 00:28:07,095
all those movies came out and

768
00:28:07,974 --> 00:28:09,034
the time period

769
00:28:09,575 --> 00:28:10,634
of all the

770
00:28:11,654 --> 00:28:13,835
predecessor movies that it's trying to embody,

771
00:28:14,934 --> 00:28:16,694
it's what was happening in hip hop at

772
00:28:16,694 --> 00:28:17,595
the time where

773
00:28:17,894 --> 00:28:20,390
hip hop was trying to create its new

774
00:28:20,549 --> 00:28:23,109
create its own identity. The new generation that

775
00:28:23,109 --> 00:28:24,470
hip hop was trying to create its own

776
00:28:24,470 --> 00:28:27,029
identity, and it ended up creating mumble rap.

777
00:28:27,029 --> 00:28:29,190
And though it came from a very earnest

778
00:28:29,190 --> 00:28:31,429
place, the action movie genre at the same

779
00:28:31,429 --> 00:28:33,734
time was a lesser form of its previous

780
00:28:33,794 --> 00:28:36,595
self. So I think this was more like

781
00:28:36,595 --> 00:28:37,414
the future.

782
00:28:37,875 --> 00:28:39,654
When I say future, not like

783
00:28:39,954 --> 00:28:42,595
time the forward time, but future as in

784
00:28:42,595 --> 00:28:43,255
the rapper

785
00:28:43,714 --> 00:28:46,240
of the mumble rap genre of that time

786
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:47,299
period. Whereas,

787
00:28:47,599 --> 00:28:50,319
yes, on a whole, those movies weren't super

788
00:28:50,319 --> 00:28:52,259
great, but I think this is the exemplary

789
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,119
version. I'm tipping my hand. This is the

790
00:28:55,119 --> 00:28:58,819
exemplary version of of that particular

791
00:28:59,519 --> 00:29:01,275
time period, if that makes sense.

792
00:29:01,835 --> 00:29:03,434
We're all kinda tipping our hands. So let's

793
00:29:03,434 --> 00:29:05,535
go ahead and go into our spoiler

794
00:29:05,835 --> 00:29:06,894
section of the conversation.

795
00:29:11,914 --> 00:29:12,974
Ladies and gentlemen,

796
00:29:13,674 --> 00:29:14,974
the spoiler section.

797
00:29:18,390 --> 00:29:20,630
Alright, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for us

798
00:29:20,630 --> 00:29:24,329
to spoil this movie. Going to my stuff.

799
00:29:24,630 --> 00:29:27,269
The opening fight scene where we have everything

800
00:29:27,269 --> 00:29:28,569
going going off where

801
00:29:28,884 --> 00:29:31,605
you have some yakuza looking guys in a

802
00:29:31,605 --> 00:29:32,664
bar, and they're

803
00:29:32,964 --> 00:29:35,044
tattooing one guy. And all of a sudden,

804
00:29:35,044 --> 00:29:37,444
there's a envelope with the black sands delivered,

805
00:29:37,444 --> 00:29:38,904
and all of a sudden, the ninja just

806
00:29:38,964 --> 00:29:41,125
literally steps out of the shadows. How cool

807
00:29:41,125 --> 00:29:41,944
was that moment?

808
00:29:42,325 --> 00:29:42,930
That was

809
00:29:43,490 --> 00:29:45,170
that was lit. But Can can we talk

810
00:29:45,170 --> 00:29:46,850
about Can we talk about can we talk

811
00:29:46,850 --> 00:29:49,330
about the old man doing the old school

812
00:29:49,330 --> 00:29:52,630
tattooing technique, just jamming those needles in?

813
00:29:53,170 --> 00:29:55,110
And throwing shade at the Yakuza

814
00:29:55,570 --> 00:29:58,174
gangster while he's doing it. Oh my gosh.

815
00:29:58,174 --> 00:30:00,255
Did did anybody else's knees go a little

816
00:30:00,255 --> 00:30:02,495
bit numb while they were watching those needles

817
00:30:02,495 --> 00:30:03,715
just being jammed?

818
00:30:04,735 --> 00:30:06,654
And he wasn't even being kind either. He's

819
00:30:06,654 --> 00:30:09,295
just ramming those needles and just The needle

820
00:30:09,295 --> 00:30:10,349
is doing its job.

821
00:30:10,750 --> 00:30:12,829
But that whole opening fight scene where he

822
00:30:12,829 --> 00:30:14,130
just annihilates everybody,

823
00:30:14,589 --> 00:30:16,589
literally, I wrote down, this is how I

824
00:30:16,589 --> 00:30:17,650
play Ghost of Yote.

825
00:30:18,349 --> 00:30:20,509
Like, the entire time, this is that's how

826
00:30:20,509 --> 00:30:22,509
I play Ghost of Yote the entire time,

827
00:30:22,509 --> 00:30:23,505
and I loved it.

828
00:30:23,984 --> 00:30:26,085
Dallas and I play that game very differently.

829
00:30:26,545 --> 00:30:28,325
Dallas likes to go in like

830
00:30:28,704 --> 00:30:30,944
a stealth assassin. I like to just face

831
00:30:30,944 --> 00:30:32,244
tank everybody, and

832
00:30:32,545 --> 00:30:34,785
I wanna watch them scream as I'm coming

833
00:30:34,785 --> 00:30:36,660
at them with a sword. I don't play

834
00:30:36,660 --> 00:30:39,080
Ghost of Yote, but when I played Marvel's

835
00:30:39,140 --> 00:30:41,460
Spider Man on the PS four Right. This

836
00:30:41,460 --> 00:30:43,059
was my preferred way of dealing with a

837
00:30:43,059 --> 00:30:44,740
room full of thugs was I would crawl

838
00:30:44,740 --> 00:30:47,000
on the ceiling Yeah. And then do perch

839
00:30:47,059 --> 00:30:49,484
takedowns with webbing. I'm the same way in

840
00:30:49,484 --> 00:30:51,325
Spider Man for sure. Yeah. But there's just

841
00:30:51,325 --> 00:30:53,904
something about there's just something about using these

842
00:30:54,045 --> 00:30:55,805
weapons or it's just, no. I want the

843
00:30:55,805 --> 00:30:57,585
full effect. Give me the violence.

844
00:30:58,045 --> 00:31:00,684
Oh, man. There's a stylistic difference between us.

845
00:31:00,684 --> 00:31:03,005
But for me, that's just like in this

846
00:31:03,005 --> 00:31:03,505
movie

847
00:31:03,889 --> 00:31:04,389
exemplifies

848
00:31:04,690 --> 00:31:06,849
how I play Ghost of Yotei and everything

849
00:31:06,849 --> 00:31:08,450
else. Just, this is going to be in

850
00:31:08,450 --> 00:31:10,529
John and I's follow-up episode of Ghost of

851
00:31:10,529 --> 00:31:12,369
Yotei where we actually talk about the, when

852
00:31:12,369 --> 00:31:14,369
we finished the game. But John and I

853
00:31:14,369 --> 00:31:16,950
were joking about the styles that we play

854
00:31:17,224 --> 00:31:19,144
and he uses a specific armor called the,

855
00:31:19,305 --> 00:31:21,545
the bounty hunter armor. And, the bounty hunter

856
00:31:21,545 --> 00:31:24,105
armor, it's allows you to parry like crazy.

857
00:31:24,105 --> 00:31:26,045
I'm using one called the scarlet kimono,

858
00:31:26,424 --> 00:31:28,505
which means that makes it so they almost

859
00:31:28,505 --> 00:31:30,619
just can't see you. Oh nice. And John's

860
00:31:30,619 --> 00:31:32,539
yeah but like it houses those perfect parries.

861
00:31:32,539 --> 00:31:33,980
Who needs to parry when they're already dead

862
00:31:33,980 --> 00:31:35,740
by the time you get there? That's that's

863
00:31:35,740 --> 00:31:38,140
what these ninjas did man. That opening scene

864
00:31:38,140 --> 00:31:40,299
throughout the entirety of the film. This is

865
00:31:40,299 --> 00:31:41,740
one of my notes I loved I wrote

866
00:31:41,740 --> 00:31:44,000
down. I loved how they had these ninjas

867
00:31:44,684 --> 00:31:47,244
fading in and out of the shadows Yes.

868
00:31:47,325 --> 00:31:48,384
So mysteriously,

869
00:31:48,764 --> 00:31:49,664
so mythologically.

870
00:31:50,524 --> 00:31:53,484
And, like, the fight scene in homegirl's apartment

871
00:31:53,484 --> 00:31:54,711
where she has the flashlight and all of

872
00:31:54,711 --> 00:31:56,464
a sudden they just disappear in the shadows.

873
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,640
The way they choreographed that where it's just

874
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:00,480
a flashlight going in their spot, I thought

875
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:01,779
that was genius.

876
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,579
I will say I did enjoy that, especially

877
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,259
the in and out of the shadows.

878
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,940
However, I want to append that by saying

879
00:32:10,275 --> 00:32:13,234
the vampire movements they had them doing where

880
00:32:13,234 --> 00:32:15,315
they were just swishing through the light with

881
00:32:15,315 --> 00:32:17,955
just a blur. I hated that. I hated

882
00:32:17,955 --> 00:32:20,115
that so much. In fact, I will go

883
00:32:20,115 --> 00:32:22,480
as far as to say that this would

884
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,240
have been a I think that this movie

885
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,740
probably would have have rated better

886
00:32:27,119 --> 00:32:28,799
with the critics if they would have taken

887
00:32:28,799 --> 00:32:30,960
the whole and I'm I for those who

888
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,619
can't actually see me, I'm doing air quotes,

889
00:32:34,079 --> 00:32:34,579
ninja

890
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:35,460
magic

891
00:32:36,034 --> 00:32:38,434
out of this movie. And if they would

892
00:32:38,434 --> 00:32:40,375
have done it a lot more straight face

893
00:32:40,434 --> 00:32:42,914
and kinda leaned into the realism a little

894
00:32:42,914 --> 00:32:43,654
bit more

895
00:32:44,034 --> 00:32:45,794
Mhmm. I think that this would have been

896
00:32:45,794 --> 00:32:47,634
a lot more well received, and we'd be

897
00:32:47,634 --> 00:32:49,315
talking about a classic rather than something that

898
00:32:49,315 --> 00:32:53,500
was a little bit more panned as a

899
00:32:53,799 --> 00:32:56,039
CGI fantasy. I I see that. But at

900
00:32:56,039 --> 00:32:58,119
the same time, like I said earlier, this

901
00:32:58,119 --> 00:33:00,680
movie seems to take the concept of a

902
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:02,759
ninja that we had as kids growing up

903
00:33:02,759 --> 00:33:05,295
and make that a reality. We all thought

904
00:33:05,535 --> 00:33:06,035
as

905
00:33:06,494 --> 00:33:08,335
kids, we always wanted to play as ninjas

906
00:33:08,335 --> 00:33:10,255
because we thought ninjas could do stuff like

907
00:33:10,255 --> 00:33:12,174
that. They could just Yeah. Vanish into the

908
00:33:12,174 --> 00:33:15,055
shadows and you never see anything. And so

909
00:33:15,055 --> 00:33:17,295
whoever wrote this movie was like, okay. As

910
00:33:17,295 --> 00:33:18,414
a kid, this is what I thought a

911
00:33:18,414 --> 00:33:20,460
ninja could do. So let me write a

912
00:33:20,460 --> 00:33:21,359
story where

913
00:33:21,740 --> 00:33:23,980
they can actually do that and then not

914
00:33:23,980 --> 00:33:25,440
take the time to explain

915
00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:27,740
how they do it. The whole of the

916
00:33:27,740 --> 00:33:29,500
movie, for the most part, is from the

917
00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:30,880
point of view of the people

918
00:33:31,420 --> 00:33:34,664
experiencing the ninjas. Mhmm. Not just themselves.

919
00:33:35,125 --> 00:33:36,724
And so it makes it it just seem

920
00:33:36,724 --> 00:33:39,525
like a monster Yeah. Yeah. That's hiding in

921
00:33:39,525 --> 00:33:41,765
the dark. I can dig it. Like, I

922
00:33:41,765 --> 00:33:43,365
I get where you're coming from, and that's

923
00:33:43,365 --> 00:33:45,525
how I watch the movie. It's just I

924
00:33:45,525 --> 00:33:46,585
think I personally

925
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,200
would have enjoyed it better if they would

926
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,539
have leaned into the realism more than

927
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,240
the fantasy of it or the I wonder

928
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,400
if because as we know, Nathan James, Norman,

929
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:57,680
he brought it back that they brought it

930
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:58,960
home, dude, to do some rewrites so the

931
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,434
script wasn't right. I'm wondering if they had

932
00:34:01,434 --> 00:34:03,694
either just hard leaned into the mythological

933
00:34:04,234 --> 00:34:06,634
idea more. Because there were some aspects that

934
00:34:06,634 --> 00:34:08,635
were very practical, like the whole training sequence

935
00:34:08,635 --> 00:34:10,394
where he's walking across the room with the

936
00:34:10,394 --> 00:34:12,714
boards that squeak. That's a legitimate training that

937
00:34:12,714 --> 00:34:14,760
they had to do or we suspect because

938
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,280
let's let's be real. We don't know much

939
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:17,980
about the shinobi. We just have legends.

940
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,599
But the the whole aspect of doing that,

941
00:34:20,599 --> 00:34:22,440
there was this one part practical that they

942
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,699
kept showing us and the one part mythological.

943
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,360
And I wonder that's the result of the

944
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:27,785
script writers because there were two of them.

945
00:34:27,785 --> 00:34:29,305
And I'm wondering if they had leaned one

946
00:34:29,305 --> 00:34:30,425
way or the other, it would have made

947
00:34:30,425 --> 00:34:33,465
it better. Maybe. Mhmm. Maybe. I don't think

948
00:34:33,465 --> 00:34:35,805
I would have enjoyed it more

949
00:34:36,105 --> 00:34:38,025
if they would have leaned harder into the

950
00:34:38,025 --> 00:34:38,925
whole fantastical

951
00:34:40,630 --> 00:34:42,150
I think that probably would have turned me

952
00:34:42,150 --> 00:34:45,590
off. Interesting. Interesting. Oh, okay, cool. Alexa, I'd

953
00:34:45,590 --> 00:34:47,269
liked, I liked all the fight scenes. Like

954
00:34:47,269 --> 00:34:48,789
the fight scenes were great the entire time

955
00:34:48,789 --> 00:34:49,289
through

956
00:34:49,670 --> 00:34:51,989
the scene where in the last, in the

957
00:34:51,989 --> 00:34:54,255
end when they're in the warehouse and he's

958
00:34:54,554 --> 00:34:56,554
like running from 5,000,000,000

959
00:34:56,554 --> 00:34:58,635
shurgens and ninja starts are just flying out

960
00:34:58,635 --> 00:34:59,215
of nonstop.

961
00:34:59,835 --> 00:35:01,355
And it's again, this is how I could

962
00:35:01,355 --> 00:35:03,034
tell this European, because they did a whole

963
00:35:03,034 --> 00:35:05,034
parkour thing, which was super popular in two

964
00:35:05,034 --> 00:35:05,534
thousands

965
00:35:05,869 --> 00:35:07,949
of him running through that whole space. That

966
00:35:07,949 --> 00:35:09,890
fight was pretty cool looking to me. Yeah.

967
00:35:10,510 --> 00:35:12,349
The only thing that that I saw that

968
00:35:12,349 --> 00:35:14,449
really to to your point about

969
00:35:14,829 --> 00:35:17,390
the well choreographed fight scenes, that actually leads

970
00:35:17,390 --> 00:35:18,875
into the one of the few things about

971
00:35:18,875 --> 00:35:19,994
the movie that I wrote the other. I

972
00:35:19,994 --> 00:35:22,394
was like, this is kinda weird. The, the

973
00:35:22,394 --> 00:35:25,114
Europol agent that I forget the character's name

974
00:35:25,114 --> 00:35:27,295
now. The gorilla guy. The girl. Okay.

975
00:35:27,675 --> 00:35:29,375
She had plot armor

976
00:35:29,675 --> 00:35:32,139
so thick. Oh, man. There was one scene

977
00:35:32,139 --> 00:35:34,300
where she is in a room, and all

978
00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:35,920
of these heavily armed

979
00:35:36,460 --> 00:35:37,599
armored soldiers

980
00:35:37,980 --> 00:35:40,380
are getting their heads literally cut off just

981
00:35:40,380 --> 00:35:42,699
sliced and diced all over the place. She's

982
00:35:42,699 --> 00:35:44,380
in there in a leather jacket in a

983
00:35:44,380 --> 00:35:47,594
Pew Pew gun, and somehow she's dodging shurikens

984
00:35:47,594 --> 00:35:50,234
kits Yeah. Left and right. It's like she's

985
00:35:50,315 --> 00:35:52,155
he always happens to be at just the

986
00:35:52,155 --> 00:35:54,954
right spot where these highly trained assassins that

987
00:35:54,954 --> 00:35:58,394
are taking out soldiers galore just always miss

988
00:35:58,394 --> 00:36:00,474
her. Yeah. She definitely has plot armor for

989
00:36:00,474 --> 00:36:02,289
days. Yeah. This is the arm she has

990
00:36:02,289 --> 00:36:04,130
the plot armor that John uses to tank

991
00:36:04,130 --> 00:36:06,710
people in Ghost of Yote. Yeah. She

992
00:36:07,250 --> 00:36:10,369
just goes hard. Yeah. And, again, it was

993
00:36:10,369 --> 00:36:11,650
one of those things where she I think

994
00:36:11,650 --> 00:36:13,489
she was supposed to be who we experienced

995
00:36:13,489 --> 00:36:15,525
the story through for the most part is

996
00:36:15,525 --> 00:36:17,864
her as a character as a whole, which

997
00:36:18,244 --> 00:36:18,744
now

998
00:36:19,045 --> 00:36:20,885
being very practical, I thought that was the

999
00:36:20,885 --> 00:36:22,885
plot line of it, of her and the

1000
00:36:22,885 --> 00:36:23,385
guy

1001
00:36:23,844 --> 00:36:26,324
almost fell flat. And I say that so

1002
00:36:26,324 --> 00:36:28,585
one of the running conversations in the Godzilla

1003
00:36:28,644 --> 00:36:29,144
franchises

1004
00:36:29,639 --> 00:36:31,420
is the debate over

1005
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,920
the monster storyline and the human storyline. In

1006
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,099
between the movies, there's always this struggle.

1007
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,819
In this, the ninjas work the monster storyline.

1008
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,839
Yeah. And the human storyline was her figuring

1009
00:36:42,839 --> 00:36:44,839
out some stuff, and it felt very just

1010
00:36:44,839 --> 00:36:47,614
convenient and just very forced some of the

1011
00:36:47,614 --> 00:36:49,534
moments where, oh, the FBI is after you

1012
00:36:49,534 --> 00:36:50,355
all of a sudden.

1013
00:36:50,735 --> 00:36:52,574
And just certain aspects of it just were

1014
00:36:52,574 --> 00:36:54,815
like, okay. Yeah. There were there were moments

1015
00:36:54,815 --> 00:36:56,175
where it's we want to move the plot

1016
00:36:56,175 --> 00:36:57,775
along, so this is now going to work

1017
00:36:57,775 --> 00:37:00,190
because we said so. Yeah. That is one

1018
00:37:00,190 --> 00:37:01,469
thing that I did see when I was

1019
00:37:01,469 --> 00:37:02,750
trying to watch it with a bit more

1020
00:37:02,750 --> 00:37:04,110
of a critical eye is there was a

1021
00:37:04,110 --> 00:37:07,150
lot of, okay. We're just gonna accept what's

1022
00:37:07,150 --> 00:37:09,230
being presented because we need to in order

1023
00:37:09,230 --> 00:37:11,150
to get to the next point. Right. And

1024
00:37:11,150 --> 00:37:13,230
I could understand why someone with a critical

1025
00:37:13,230 --> 00:37:15,894
eye would have issue with that. However, I

1026
00:37:15,894 --> 00:37:18,054
have a tendency to watch movies from the

1027
00:37:18,054 --> 00:37:18,554
perspective

1028
00:37:19,414 --> 00:37:20,394
as intended.

1029
00:37:21,255 --> 00:37:23,194
I watch from the intended perspective

1030
00:37:23,734 --> 00:37:24,714
of the writer.

1031
00:37:25,175 --> 00:37:25,675
Meaning,

1032
00:37:26,309 --> 00:37:28,630
as long as it's not jumping the shark,

1033
00:37:28,630 --> 00:37:30,630
I can take those leaps of logic and

1034
00:37:30,630 --> 00:37:32,550
be like, okay. We're just going here for

1035
00:37:32,550 --> 00:37:34,730
the sake of the movie because

1036
00:37:35,510 --> 00:37:38,010
I'm not coming into a movie like Ninja

1037
00:37:38,070 --> 00:37:38,570
Assassin

1038
00:37:39,430 --> 00:37:42,635
looking for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. You know

1039
00:37:42,635 --> 00:37:44,235
what I mean? Right. Yeah. I I'm just

1040
00:37:44,235 --> 00:37:47,695
looking I just want I want arterial spray

1041
00:37:47,914 --> 00:37:48,655
and violence

1042
00:37:49,195 --> 00:37:49,695
Right.

1043
00:37:50,954 --> 00:37:54,474
And semi coherent plot that causes the previous

1044
00:37:54,474 --> 00:37:54,974
two

1045
00:37:55,420 --> 00:37:56,960
either articles to happen, basically.

1046
00:37:57,500 --> 00:37:58,880
Yeah. To that

1047
00:37:59,340 --> 00:38:01,019
point, one of the only other critiques I

1048
00:38:01,019 --> 00:38:02,640
had about the movie was

1049
00:38:03,099 --> 00:38:04,239
the girl

1050
00:38:04,539 --> 00:38:06,780
that was the semi love interest in the

1051
00:38:06,780 --> 00:38:10,005
ninja camp. Yeah. I don't understand how someone

1052
00:38:10,005 --> 00:38:12,804
that sweet and that tenderhearted is raised in

1053
00:38:12,804 --> 00:38:13,945
the same school

1054
00:38:14,405 --> 00:38:17,364
that everyone else is. She remains that sweet

1055
00:38:17,364 --> 00:38:18,025
and tenderhearted.

1056
00:38:18,324 --> 00:38:20,324
I think we would have benefited a little

1057
00:38:20,324 --> 00:38:21,469
bit from seeing

1058
00:38:21,929 --> 00:38:24,510
her suffer and struggle and yet retain

1059
00:38:25,050 --> 00:38:26,670
that heart because she's

1060
00:38:26,969 --> 00:38:29,449
she looks immaculate every scene. She her hair

1061
00:38:29,449 --> 00:38:31,769
is always done. She never has any blood

1062
00:38:31,769 --> 00:38:33,369
splatter on her at all. The worst she

1063
00:38:33,369 --> 00:38:35,904
ever looked was when she didn't escape and

1064
00:38:35,904 --> 00:38:37,984
they bound her up in that box and

1065
00:38:37,984 --> 00:38:39,625
wouldn't give her any water. They did scrap

1066
00:38:39,744 --> 00:38:42,065
they they cut her face first. But that

1067
00:38:42,065 --> 00:38:43,664
was in a fight, wasn't it? No. No.

1068
00:38:43,664 --> 00:38:46,644
Because she refused to mark her opponent.

1069
00:38:47,025 --> 00:38:49,585
He, the sensei guy Yeah. He cut her

1070
00:38:49,585 --> 00:38:52,289
face. Okay. Yeah. I remember that. Yeah. But

1071
00:38:52,349 --> 00:38:53,949
that was the first time we saw her

1072
00:38:53,949 --> 00:38:56,530
struggle in any real way. She was literally

1073
00:38:56,589 --> 00:38:58,269
being the heart and soul of this of

1074
00:38:58,269 --> 00:39:00,269
the main character. See that. It seemed late

1075
00:39:00,269 --> 00:39:01,789
for that to take place. Yeah. And I

1076
00:39:01,789 --> 00:39:03,465
could see that because, like, you see the

1077
00:39:03,465 --> 00:39:05,385
kid, like, the boys, and they are scarred

1078
00:39:05,385 --> 00:39:07,945
up everywhere. Yeah. And you would expect that

1079
00:39:07,945 --> 00:39:10,105
she was so tenderhearted, and you would assume

1080
00:39:10,105 --> 00:39:11,385
they were pushed to do more things that

1081
00:39:11,385 --> 00:39:14,425
she would have some markings elsewhere. However, let's

1082
00:39:14,425 --> 00:39:16,585
be real. If you're doing a

1083
00:39:17,224 --> 00:39:19,679
an assassin school I'm trying not to be

1084
00:39:19,679 --> 00:39:21,440
crude here, but, you know, mark up the

1085
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,840
assassin. Up the women. Yeah. You you want

1086
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:25,440
them to look pretty for when they do

1087
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,280
their job. I guess the the to that,

1088
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,760
I would have appreciated seeing her trait her

1089
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,278
training being different. Different. Yeah. Show a scene

1090
00:39:32,278 --> 00:39:34,795
where you've got all the guys knocking each

1091
00:39:34,795 --> 00:39:35,355
other I could see that. Yeah. And she's

1092
00:39:35,355 --> 00:39:35,855
preparing

1093
00:39:36,315 --> 00:39:38,554
tea or putting on makeup or doing to

1094
00:39:38,554 --> 00:39:40,714
show that her training is different, and that's

1095
00:39:40,714 --> 00:39:41,454
why she

1096
00:39:41,835 --> 00:39:43,674
has a different outlook. And she's so much

1097
00:39:43,674 --> 00:39:45,755
different than all of her brothers and sisters

1098
00:39:45,755 --> 00:39:48,239
in school. Where I can appreciate what you're

1099
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,640
asking for for here, Bam, I will say

1100
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:51,140
that

1101
00:39:51,599 --> 00:39:55,119
they already had three different story lines that

1102
00:39:55,119 --> 00:39:57,280
they were they had three different stories they

1103
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,219
were telling throughout this movie already.

1104
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,599
I think if they were to have expanded

1105
00:40:01,599 --> 00:40:03,034
on that character anymore

1106
00:40:03,335 --> 00:40:06,454
to the point adding a fourth storyline to

1107
00:40:06,454 --> 00:40:07,194
this movie,

1108
00:40:07,574 --> 00:40:08,954
I think it would have started

1109
00:40:09,494 --> 00:40:09,994
muddying

1110
00:40:10,694 --> 00:40:11,434
the point

1111
00:40:11,894 --> 00:40:14,315
more than it probably already was in this.

1112
00:40:14,534 --> 00:40:16,900
I there, pun not intended, there are so

1113
00:40:16,900 --> 00:40:18,360
many hooks in this movie

1114
00:40:18,900 --> 00:40:19,400
where

1115
00:40:20,099 --> 00:40:22,739
I feel like this movie could have been

1116
00:40:22,739 --> 00:40:26,019
turned into a manga or an anime Oh,

1117
00:40:26,019 --> 00:40:28,974
yeah. And been fleshed out 500 times more

1118
00:40:28,974 --> 00:40:31,295
and been that much more enjoyable because there

1119
00:40:31,295 --> 00:40:33,474
is the concept of having

1120
00:40:34,335 --> 00:40:35,715
nine still existing

1121
00:40:36,175 --> 00:40:37,795
ninja clans from

1122
00:40:38,255 --> 00:40:39,614
thousands of years ago

1123
00:40:40,255 --> 00:40:40,755
Mhmm.

1124
00:40:41,489 --> 00:40:44,550
Hidden in plain sight is such a fantastic

1125
00:40:44,929 --> 00:40:46,150
idea to drive

1126
00:40:46,610 --> 00:40:49,250
such a high such a amazing it's such

1127
00:40:49,250 --> 00:40:52,929
an amazing idea for an anime that I

1128
00:40:52,929 --> 00:40:55,414
really feel like this could have been something

1129
00:40:55,414 --> 00:40:56,775
so much bigger. And I think they were

1130
00:40:56,775 --> 00:40:58,715
intending on making this a franchise.

1131
00:40:59,255 --> 00:41:01,175
It just didn't really take off from the

1132
00:41:01,175 --> 00:41:03,175
first move. Yeah. I would have liked to

1133
00:41:03,175 --> 00:41:04,635
see more about the little brother

1134
00:41:05,015 --> 00:41:07,994
storyline too. His rival in the school, like,

1135
00:41:08,135 --> 00:41:10,699
the only thing we got really was that

1136
00:41:10,699 --> 00:41:12,940
he was the one that killed the girl.

1137
00:41:12,940 --> 00:41:15,019
And then he keeps calling him little brother

1138
00:41:15,019 --> 00:41:16,460
throughout the movie, and then they had this

1139
00:41:16,460 --> 00:41:17,980
big fight at the end, and that was

1140
00:41:17,980 --> 00:41:19,179
it. I would have liked to have seen

1141
00:41:19,179 --> 00:41:21,579
that more. So I think you're right. Instead

1142
00:41:21,579 --> 00:41:23,339
of doing, like, a short two hour or

1143
00:41:23,339 --> 00:41:25,414
ninety minute movie, we could have made this

1144
00:41:25,635 --> 00:41:27,715
one made this an anime because that would

1145
00:41:27,715 --> 00:41:29,555
have been amazing. And then make it like

1146
00:41:29,555 --> 00:41:31,335
a full 13 episode

1147
00:41:31,875 --> 00:41:32,375
OVA

1148
00:41:32,675 --> 00:41:33,974
where we could actually explore

1149
00:41:34,275 --> 00:41:36,195
maybe even this a whole series where we

1150
00:41:36,195 --> 00:41:37,710
could explore all of these plot

1151
00:41:38,190 --> 00:41:40,909
hooks. Yeah, definitely. Now I will say one

1152
00:41:40,909 --> 00:41:42,750
thing that kind of fell for me plot

1153
00:41:42,750 --> 00:41:43,250
wise

1154
00:41:43,630 --> 00:41:46,690
was at the end when they are attacking

1155
00:41:46,750 --> 00:41:49,150
the dojo area. First off, how do they

1156
00:41:49,150 --> 00:41:51,230
get the trucks up the mountain? That was

1157
00:41:51,230 --> 00:41:51,730
weird.

1158
00:41:52,565 --> 00:41:55,144
Second off, where were the extra children?

1159
00:41:55,525 --> 00:41:57,944
If this was a ongoing thing,

1160
00:41:58,404 --> 00:41:59,944
why weren't there more children

1161
00:42:00,324 --> 00:42:02,324
why weren't there any children at the final

1162
00:42:02,324 --> 00:42:04,005
fight? It's like they all Because they didn't

1163
00:42:04,005 --> 00:42:06,639
wanna have violence against children in the final

1164
00:42:06,639 --> 00:42:07,699
scene of the movie.

1165
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,440
I get that, but it just felt like

1166
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,199
all of a sudden, it's like there was

1167
00:42:11,199 --> 00:42:13,199
no mention of children anywhere. That could have

1168
00:42:13,199 --> 00:42:15,039
been a whole plot a an easy plot

1169
00:42:15,039 --> 00:42:15,699
line of

1170
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,179
getting the children out of the situation.

1171
00:42:18,639 --> 00:42:20,159
I could see it, but then again, it's

1172
00:42:20,159 --> 00:42:20,744
just like

1173
00:42:21,545 --> 00:42:22,204
you start

1174
00:42:23,065 --> 00:42:24,585
blurring the lines of where do you draw

1175
00:42:24,585 --> 00:42:26,985
the line for plot bloat. That's true. I

1176
00:42:26,985 --> 00:42:29,065
made a an observation towards the end of

1177
00:42:29,065 --> 00:42:31,465
the movie talking about the last scene, and

1178
00:42:31,465 --> 00:42:33,305
I wrote something down, and I wanna float

1179
00:42:33,305 --> 00:42:34,505
it by you guys and see what you

1180
00:42:34,505 --> 00:42:37,530
think. Let's take this story, change it up

1181
00:42:37,530 --> 00:42:39,230
a little bit, change some of the names,

1182
00:42:39,289 --> 00:42:40,269
change it to where

1183
00:42:40,570 --> 00:42:41,070
the

1184
00:42:41,369 --> 00:42:41,869
brother

1185
00:42:42,650 --> 00:42:43,150
lives

1186
00:42:43,690 --> 00:42:44,829
but is scarred,

1187
00:42:45,289 --> 00:42:46,829
and change the name

1188
00:42:47,449 --> 00:42:48,910
of the clan

1189
00:42:49,449 --> 00:42:50,349
to the foot.

1190
00:42:52,275 --> 00:42:52,775
Japers.

1191
00:42:53,394 --> 00:42:54,295
And not

1192
00:42:55,234 --> 00:42:56,534
We have an origin

1193
00:42:56,835 --> 00:42:57,335
story

1194
00:42:57,875 --> 00:42:58,855
for a Motoyoshi

1195
00:42:59,795 --> 00:43:01,094
and Oroku Saki.

1196
00:43:03,394 --> 00:43:03,894
Seriously.

1197
00:43:04,674 --> 00:43:06,719
Oh. This could be like, like, as much

1198
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:09,360
as people love the last rodent and taking

1199
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,280
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and giving it a

1200
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,760
serious spin, you could make this the origin

1201
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,340
story of why Splinter and Shredder

1202
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,880
hate each other. You're not wrong. I hate

1203
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:20,739
that you're not wrong. Introducing the mutagen

1204
00:43:21,045 --> 00:43:22,425
before introducing turtles.

1205
00:43:22,885 --> 00:43:24,804
Just make it about them being raised in

1206
00:43:24,804 --> 00:43:26,484
the foot clan. I'm gonna do you one

1207
00:43:26,484 --> 00:43:28,724
further, Branson. I'm gonna make you mad that

1208
00:43:28,724 --> 00:43:29,784
this doesn't exist.

1209
00:43:30,405 --> 00:43:33,224
Your idea could literally be the

1210
00:43:33,750 --> 00:43:36,710
Gotham to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and easily

1211
00:43:36,710 --> 00:43:39,590
be made into a weekly TV show. Oh,

1212
00:43:39,590 --> 00:43:40,090
yeah.

1213
00:43:40,710 --> 00:43:41,210
Yes.

1214
00:43:41,829 --> 00:43:42,329
Exactly.

1215
00:43:42,630 --> 00:43:44,949
And you wouldn't even need the CGI to

1216
00:43:44,949 --> 00:43:45,769
make the mutated

1217
00:43:46,194 --> 00:43:47,954
animals. It would just it's just it would

1218
00:43:47,954 --> 00:43:49,714
be the cheapest thing to make, and it'll

1219
00:43:49,714 --> 00:43:52,275
never happen because it's what people want. Let

1220
00:43:52,275 --> 00:43:54,135
the whole series end

1221
00:43:54,514 --> 00:43:55,014
with

1222
00:43:55,474 --> 00:43:57,795
Raizu, who would be named Amalia, moving to

1223
00:43:57,795 --> 00:44:00,914
New York City. Have him walking through Ellis

1224
00:44:00,914 --> 00:44:01,320
Island

1225
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,480
into New York City with a bag on

1226
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:04,219
his back

1227
00:44:04,599 --> 00:44:06,920
and just have him, like, casually stop by

1228
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:07,500
a turtle,

1229
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:09,480
look at a group of turtles in a

1230
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:10,140
pet shop,

1231
00:44:10,599 --> 00:44:11,500
fade to black,

1232
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:12,860
end of series.

1233
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,800
Oh my god. Even make the brother, like,

1234
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,525
his specialty weapon, make it claws.

1235
00:44:19,224 --> 00:44:20,985
Don't ever call him shredder. Just make his

1236
00:44:20,985 --> 00:44:22,605
specialty weapon claw.

1237
00:44:22,985 --> 00:44:25,164
It would be amazing. It would be absolutely

1238
00:44:25,304 --> 00:44:27,065
amazing. I didn't go that far, but I

1239
00:44:27,065 --> 00:44:28,505
did put in here that this would have

1240
00:44:28,505 --> 00:44:29,324
been an amazing

1241
00:44:30,050 --> 00:44:33,250
modern day plot line for the Assassin's Creed

1242
00:44:33,250 --> 00:44:35,489
shadows game. I would agree with that. And

1243
00:44:35,489 --> 00:44:37,409
I will take I also wanna say that

1244
00:44:37,409 --> 00:44:39,409
I have a I don't know if I

1245
00:44:39,409 --> 00:44:40,929
can call it a fan theory because they'll

1246
00:44:40,929 --> 00:44:42,530
never make another movie, but I have a

1247
00:44:42,530 --> 00:44:44,614
fan theory about the ending of this movie

1248
00:44:44,835 --> 00:44:47,315
Mhmm. In that how he was talking about

1249
00:44:47,315 --> 00:44:48,914
that one lady who took the sword to

1250
00:44:48,914 --> 00:44:50,755
the chest, and they're like, no. Her heart's

1251
00:44:50,755 --> 00:44:52,114
over here. And he was like, she has

1252
00:44:52,114 --> 00:44:53,335
a special heart.

1253
00:44:53,635 --> 00:44:55,715
I was thinking about it. I'm like, what

1254
00:44:55,715 --> 00:44:56,934
if that was an illusion

1255
00:44:57,474 --> 00:44:59,500
at the end of the movie that dude's

1256
00:44:59,500 --> 00:45:02,940
girlfriend wasn't actually dead, but she played dead

1257
00:45:02,940 --> 00:45:04,860
because her heart was in a different spot

1258
00:45:04,860 --> 00:45:06,640
too? And that was the whole

1259
00:45:07,019 --> 00:45:09,420
point of him saying that she was all

1260
00:45:09,420 --> 00:45:11,974
hiding. And so once the clan was all

1261
00:45:11,974 --> 00:45:13,735
dead at the end, he goes and jumps

1262
00:45:13,735 --> 00:45:15,434
the wall to go look for her.

1263
00:45:15,894 --> 00:45:18,535
That I would have. Been awesome. That would

1264
00:45:18,535 --> 00:45:19,355
have been great.

1265
00:45:19,655 --> 00:45:21,015
I think that was what they were trying

1266
00:45:21,015 --> 00:45:22,535
to hint at, but they did a terrible

1267
00:45:22,535 --> 00:45:24,630
job in the execution to it. So it

1268
00:45:24,869 --> 00:45:26,949
that's my fan theory in my head on

1269
00:45:26,949 --> 00:45:29,670
how that movie actually ended. That makes me

1270
00:45:29,670 --> 00:45:31,349
like the ending that much more. I like

1271
00:45:31,349 --> 00:45:33,349
the ending already. I love the symbolism of

1272
00:45:33,349 --> 00:45:35,029
him climbing the wall that she couldn't get

1273
00:45:35,029 --> 00:45:38,549
past. Right. But adding that note to to

1274
00:45:38,949 --> 00:45:40,605
because they made such a big deal about

1275
00:45:40,605 --> 00:45:43,565
the heart throughout the do what? They brought

1276
00:45:43,565 --> 00:45:45,324
it up for two different people in the

1277
00:45:45,324 --> 00:45:47,724
movie. Yep. Even in the the trading where

1278
00:45:47,724 --> 00:45:49,485
they talked about what does your heart tell

1279
00:45:49,485 --> 00:45:51,085
you? Listen to your heart. You know? If

1280
00:45:51,085 --> 00:45:53,300
they can't touch my heart. That that would

1281
00:45:53,300 --> 00:45:55,380
have been brilliant. I wonder if they intended

1282
00:45:55,380 --> 00:45:56,980
to do that and just drop the ball

1283
00:45:56,980 --> 00:45:58,260
like you said. Or they or it was

1284
00:45:58,340 --> 00:46:00,019
they were gonna lean into it in movie

1285
00:46:00,019 --> 00:46:02,500
number two, like the Leah's your Leah's your

1286
00:46:02,500 --> 00:46:04,420
sister. Oh my I stuck my tongue in

1287
00:46:04,420 --> 00:46:05,655
my sister's mouth moment.

1288
00:46:06,775 --> 00:46:08,235
Yeah. That got weird. Yeah.

1289
00:46:09,015 --> 00:46:10,855
Gentlemen, do we wanna give a final rating

1290
00:46:10,855 --> 00:46:12,695
on this movie? I'm ready. Let's do it.

1291
00:46:12,695 --> 00:46:14,635
My body's ready. I'm here for it.

1292
00:46:15,494 --> 00:46:17,355
John, can you explain our rating system?

1293
00:46:18,215 --> 00:46:18,855
What is the

1294
00:46:19,815 --> 00:46:20,315
gentlemen,

1295
00:46:21,269 --> 00:46:23,590
Here on the bottom shelf, we have a

1296
00:46:23,590 --> 00:46:25,909
four level rating system. That is four levels

1297
00:46:25,909 --> 00:46:28,949
for your viewing pleasure. The top shelf is

1298
00:46:28,949 --> 00:46:30,869
that movie that you have to own. The

1299
00:46:30,869 --> 00:46:32,969
critics are wrong. This movie is fantastic.

1300
00:46:33,510 --> 00:46:35,574
Nobody knows what they're talking about except for

1301
00:46:35,574 --> 00:46:38,375
Yoon. The Middle Shelf is this movie was

1302
00:46:38,375 --> 00:46:39,974
pretty decent. I'd watch it if it was

1303
00:46:39,974 --> 00:46:42,215
on streaming, but I probably wouldn't own it.

1304
00:46:42,215 --> 00:46:43,815
Wouldn't hate to watch it with some friends,

1305
00:46:43,815 --> 00:46:45,114
but probably not alone.

1306
00:46:45,414 --> 00:46:47,414
The bottom shelf is, nope. This movie was

1307
00:46:47,414 --> 00:46:48,855
just as bad as they said it was.

1308
00:46:48,855 --> 00:46:50,855
Probably won't watch it again, but I wouldn't

1309
00:46:50,855 --> 00:46:52,760
have an issue if somebody else was curious.

1310
00:46:53,219 --> 00:46:55,699
And then there's the dumpster fire, which we

1311
00:46:55,699 --> 00:46:57,800
purged the movie from humanity,

1312
00:46:58,500 --> 00:47:00,180
and we will actively go out of our

1313
00:47:00,180 --> 00:47:02,180
way to make sure that nobody ever watches

1314
00:47:02,180 --> 00:47:03,074
that heap of garbage

1315
00:47:04,034 --> 00:47:06,034
again. Actively waiting to put War of the

1316
00:47:06,034 --> 00:47:08,534
Worlds in there, but somebody won't let us.

1317
00:47:08,835 --> 00:47:11,714
I'm just saying, my guy, we're waiting until

1318
00:47:11,714 --> 00:47:13,714
January when we can do a group watch

1319
00:47:13,714 --> 00:47:14,934
on that. This is

1320
00:47:15,315 --> 00:47:15,815
science,

1321
00:47:16,355 --> 00:47:18,375
sir. This is science. Science.

1322
00:47:21,089 --> 00:47:22,230
Oh my gosh.

1323
00:47:22,609 --> 00:47:23,109
John?

1324
00:47:23,409 --> 00:47:25,969
Yes, sir. Miss mister Redman? Yes. How you

1325
00:47:25,969 --> 00:47:28,929
rating this? Alright. I don't think I've really

1326
00:47:28,929 --> 00:47:30,945
hit how I feel about this movie.

1327
00:47:31,505 --> 00:47:33,184
This movie is tacky in all the good

1328
00:47:33,184 --> 00:47:36,625
ways. Is this a life changing movie? Is

1329
00:47:36,625 --> 00:47:38,565
this Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

1330
00:47:39,184 --> 00:47:40,644
where it's going to

1331
00:47:41,344 --> 00:47:43,664
redefine what a kung fu movie could be?

1332
00:47:43,664 --> 00:47:45,090
This is not a kung fu

1333
00:47:46,210 --> 00:47:48,289
Where it can or is this going to

1334
00:47:48,289 --> 00:47:50,450
be like Shogun where it's gonna show us

1335
00:47:50,450 --> 00:47:51,829
what a samurai movie

1336
00:47:52,210 --> 00:47:52,710
can

1337
00:47:53,090 --> 00:47:55,410
impact us dramatically? This is not a samurai

1338
00:47:55,410 --> 00:47:58,304
movie. Or is there going to be no.

1339
00:47:58,304 --> 00:47:59,045
This is

1340
00:47:59,664 --> 00:48:00,324
this Batman

1341
00:48:00,864 --> 00:48:03,505
89 is what the this is Batman 89

1342
00:48:03,505 --> 00:48:06,005
with blood is what this is. This is

1343
00:48:06,224 --> 00:48:06,724
popcorn

1344
00:48:07,344 --> 00:48:09,184
and oops, I sat in the splash zone.

1345
00:48:09,184 --> 00:48:10,885
Now I got blood on my jujubes.

1346
00:48:11,489 --> 00:48:12,849
This movie is not gonna change your life,

1347
00:48:12,849 --> 00:48:15,090
and it wasn't intended to. This movie was

1348
00:48:15,090 --> 00:48:17,269
supposed to be big, dumb fun.

1349
00:48:17,570 --> 00:48:19,570
This movie was the movie that Dick Tracy

1350
00:48:19,570 --> 00:48:21,429
wanted to be, in my opinion.

1351
00:48:22,050 --> 00:48:24,690
I enjoyed it. He was fantastic. And the

1352
00:48:24,690 --> 00:48:27,554
fact that show crew I can't the fact

1353
00:48:27,554 --> 00:48:28,914
that he was in it just makes us

1354
00:48:28,914 --> 00:48:32,514
even top shelf. Mandatory watch mandatory watching if

1355
00:48:32,514 --> 00:48:33,974
you're into ninja movies.

1356
00:48:34,594 --> 00:48:38,114
That's fair. That's fair. B? I I I

1357
00:48:38,114 --> 00:48:38,610
did not

1358
00:48:39,489 --> 00:48:41,329
expect to like this movie as much as

1359
00:48:41,329 --> 00:48:41,989
I did

1360
00:48:42,289 --> 00:48:44,930
the second time around. Yeah. One of the

1361
00:48:44,930 --> 00:48:45,970
things I wrote down

1362
00:48:46,450 --> 00:48:48,610
and I wanted to all alluded to this

1363
00:48:48,610 --> 00:48:51,090
earlier. I wrote down, I don't know if

1364
00:48:51,090 --> 00:48:53,010
movies in 2009

1365
00:48:53,010 --> 00:48:54,309
were that good

1366
00:48:54,735 --> 00:48:57,474
or movies now are that bad,

1367
00:48:57,855 --> 00:49:00,655
but I thoroughly enjoyed it the second time

1368
00:49:00,655 --> 00:49:02,735
around much more than the first time. The

1369
00:49:02,735 --> 00:49:04,255
first time I was like, yeah. It's okay.

1370
00:49:04,255 --> 00:49:06,255
It's what I expected it to be. Watching

1371
00:49:06,255 --> 00:49:08,175
it the second time, I kept writing down

1372
00:49:08,175 --> 00:49:10,199
why am I enjoying this so much. I

1373
00:49:10,199 --> 00:49:13,159
don't understand. This is genuinely a good movie.

1374
00:49:13,159 --> 00:49:14,679
So hearing that it came out about the

1375
00:49:14,679 --> 00:49:16,359
same time as underworld and some of these

1376
00:49:16,359 --> 00:49:18,699
other movies, maybe the market was just saturated

1377
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:19,980
for over the top action.

1378
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:21,639
And maybe I was just numb to it

1379
00:49:21,639 --> 00:49:23,434
all at the time. But

1380
00:49:23,815 --> 00:49:25,595
going back and watching it alone

1381
00:49:25,974 --> 00:49:27,035
for what it is,

1382
00:49:27,414 --> 00:49:28,635
it was genuinely

1383
00:49:28,934 --> 00:49:29,434
enjoyable.

1384
00:49:29,974 --> 00:49:31,595
I can't say that I would necessarily

1385
00:49:32,055 --> 00:49:33,894
own it, but most of that's because I

1386
00:49:33,894 --> 00:49:35,675
have children in my house. And

1387
00:49:36,135 --> 00:49:37,670
the the gore might be a little bit

1388
00:49:37,670 --> 00:49:39,829
much for them. But that is the only

1389
00:49:39,829 --> 00:49:41,849
reason, not because I didn't enjoy it.

1390
00:49:42,309 --> 00:49:45,509
So while I technically wouldn't necessarily own it

1391
00:49:45,509 --> 00:49:47,589
right now at this stage of life, I

1392
00:49:47,589 --> 00:49:49,130
still would 100%

1393
00:49:49,349 --> 00:49:50,329
watch it again.

1394
00:49:51,264 --> 00:49:53,744
If I'm actually surprised I didn't already own

1395
00:49:53,744 --> 00:49:56,625
it given how much I liked it. So

1396
00:49:56,625 --> 00:49:58,565
I gotta go top shelf for this one.

1397
00:49:58,625 --> 00:50:00,005
Don't watch it with your kids,

1398
00:50:01,105 --> 00:50:01,605
but

1399
00:50:01,905 --> 00:50:03,844
definitely top shelf. Alright.

1400
00:50:04,144 --> 00:50:04,644
Alright.

1401
00:50:04,980 --> 00:50:06,900
For me coming back into it, I will,

1402
00:50:06,980 --> 00:50:08,500
again, I was expecting to have fun with

1403
00:50:08,500 --> 00:50:10,980
it, but with the rating of it, I'm

1404
00:50:10,980 --> 00:50:11,800
going, okay.

1405
00:50:12,099 --> 00:50:14,019
It must not be that great. I was

1406
00:50:14,019 --> 00:50:17,059
expecting maybe middle shelf, but I had a

1407
00:50:17,059 --> 00:50:18,985
lot of fun. Celeste is watching it with

1408
00:50:18,985 --> 00:50:20,905
me, and she's laughing at it. We're enjoying

1409
00:50:20,905 --> 00:50:21,405
it.

1410
00:50:21,704 --> 00:50:23,724
We the over the top stuff. Again,

1411
00:50:24,105 --> 00:50:25,704
you have to have you have to be

1412
00:50:25,704 --> 00:50:27,784
a fan of the genre of the over

1413
00:50:27,784 --> 00:50:30,025
the top slider stuff. And there's a difference

1414
00:50:30,025 --> 00:50:32,010
between what they did and when it's just,

1415
00:50:32,010 --> 00:50:34,170
like, the hack and slash gory movie things

1416
00:50:34,170 --> 00:50:36,410
in my opinion. Guys, I'm gonna give this

1417
00:50:36,410 --> 00:50:38,570
a top shelf. There you have it, everybody.

1418
00:50:38,570 --> 00:50:41,309
It's rare, but these happen. We have an

1419
00:50:41,530 --> 00:50:42,030
undisputed

1420
00:50:42,650 --> 00:50:45,204
top shelf. The critics are wrong.

1421
00:50:45,585 --> 00:50:46,804
This movie is gold.

1422
00:50:47,265 --> 00:50:49,184
Go watch it. I'm gonna go to work.

1423
00:50:49,184 --> 00:50:50,324
I gotta go buy it now.

1424
00:50:51,184 --> 00:50:52,864
Bro. And the best part is and I

1425
00:50:52,864 --> 00:50:54,545
learned this when I learned this when I

1426
00:50:54,545 --> 00:50:56,940
got when I went and bought Battlefield Earth.

1427
00:50:57,260 --> 00:50:59,099
And the Battlefield Earth when I bought it

1428
00:50:59,099 --> 00:51:01,500
was, like, a new version, like, a new

1429
00:51:01,500 --> 00:51:03,579
deluxe version of the movie that they made

1430
00:51:03,579 --> 00:51:05,500
for Blu ray, and it still was, like,

1431
00:51:05,500 --> 00:51:07,420
stupid cheap because nobody wants to buy it

1432
00:51:07,420 --> 00:51:09,864
because it's known as a bad movie. Right.

1433
00:51:09,864 --> 00:51:11,465
So I have a feeling you're gonna see

1434
00:51:11,465 --> 00:51:13,485
the exact same thing with Ninja Assassin.

1435
00:51:14,025 --> 00:51:15,144
I'm trying to see if there's, like, a

1436
00:51:15,144 --> 00:51:16,905
ninja a box of a bunch of ninja

1437
00:51:16,905 --> 00:51:17,405
movies.

1438
00:51:17,785 --> 00:51:19,625
Oh, like, I don't I can't really help

1439
00:51:19,625 --> 00:51:21,465
you there, but I have a feeling you

1440
00:51:21,465 --> 00:51:23,380
can probably find a Blu ray of Ninja

1441
00:51:23,380 --> 00:51:25,800
Assassin for $5 on some place.

1442
00:51:26,099 --> 00:51:28,760
Oh, I'm sure. I remember going to Hastings

1443
00:51:28,900 --> 00:51:30,199
and seeing that in

1444
00:51:30,579 --> 00:51:32,820
the buyback bin for 99¢

1445
00:51:32,820 --> 00:51:34,280
or a buck 99

1446
00:51:34,340 --> 00:51:35,859
each one. Mhmm. And, like I feel like

1447
00:51:35,859 --> 00:51:38,234
there were I've seen at Walmart even. Yeah.

1448
00:51:38,234 --> 00:51:39,755
Like, there would be stacks of them, and

1449
00:51:39,755 --> 00:51:41,994
that's what dissuaded me from seeing it until

1450
00:51:41,994 --> 00:51:43,594
I did. And I'm like, yo, this is

1451
00:51:43,594 --> 00:51:47,434
dope. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, aside from shopping

1452
00:51:47,434 --> 00:51:49,454
online for our listeners' enjoyment,

1453
00:51:50,554 --> 00:51:52,734
you guys wanna head on over to the

1454
00:51:52,989 --> 00:51:54,210
weak connection section?

1455
00:51:54,670 --> 00:51:56,050
Let's do it. Let's go.

1456
00:51:56,590 --> 00:51:58,530
This is a weak connection.

1457
00:52:00,590 --> 00:52:02,930
Welcome, everybody, to the weak connection

1458
00:52:03,550 --> 00:52:06,130
portion of our podcast, where we

1459
00:52:06,644 --> 00:52:09,704
try to find something spiritually uplifting, something

1460
00:52:10,485 --> 00:52:14,164
edifying or morally valuable that we can pull

1461
00:52:14,164 --> 00:52:15,144
from this movie

1462
00:52:15,525 --> 00:52:19,065
and possibly use to edify yourself or proselytize

1463
00:52:19,445 --> 00:52:21,065
your friends and or family.

1464
00:52:21,739 --> 00:52:24,159
So won't you join us now as

1465
00:52:24,539 --> 00:52:26,780
pastor Dallas Mora can tell us how to

1466
00:52:26,780 --> 00:52:29,179
use this to manipulate your friends into going

1467
00:52:29,179 --> 00:52:31,819
to church with you? Wow. We're not I

1468
00:52:31,819 --> 00:52:33,260
don't really agree with the way you you

1469
00:52:33,260 --> 00:52:35,659
describe that. I play I play okay. Everybody

1470
00:52:35,659 --> 00:52:37,125
out there, that's just that's just me being

1471
00:52:37,125 --> 00:52:38,664
goofy. I I'm not actually

1472
00:52:38,965 --> 00:52:39,864
that way.

1473
00:52:40,405 --> 00:52:42,485
Oh, man. First off, a real quick poll.

1474
00:52:42,485 --> 00:52:44,085
B, do you have anything? Yes. I do.

1475
00:52:44,085 --> 00:52:45,925
Okay. John, do you have anything? Yes. I

1476
00:52:45,925 --> 00:52:48,644
do. Sweet. Alright. I'll make my quick throughout

1477
00:52:48,644 --> 00:52:51,269
the movie, you have this structure being set

1478
00:52:51,269 --> 00:52:52,950
up, the whole thing about you are my

1479
00:52:52,950 --> 00:52:54,550
children and all this other stuff. And it

1480
00:52:54,550 --> 00:52:55,930
was a very toxic

1481
00:52:56,309 --> 00:52:58,170
and controlling thing taking place.

1482
00:52:58,550 --> 00:53:00,489
But, maybe reflect on, like,

1483
00:53:00,950 --> 00:53:03,944
real life church life, real life raising disciples.

1484
00:53:03,944 --> 00:53:05,224
What does it mean to look at it?

1485
00:53:05,224 --> 00:53:06,824
Because we use that vocabulary of being a

1486
00:53:06,824 --> 00:53:09,164
church family, and that is a that's biblical

1487
00:53:09,224 --> 00:53:09,724
language.

1488
00:53:10,105 --> 00:53:13,404
And I'm taken to John chapter 13,

1489
00:53:14,025 --> 00:53:16,505
verse thirty four and thirty five, reading out

1490
00:53:16,505 --> 00:53:18,819
of the, the English Standard Version. It says

1491
00:53:18,819 --> 00:53:20,179
a new commandment I give to you. This

1492
00:53:20,179 --> 00:53:22,920
is Jesus talking that you love one another

1493
00:53:23,059 --> 00:53:25,480
just as I have loved you. You also

1494
00:53:25,699 --> 00:53:27,699
are to love one another. By this, you

1495
00:53:27,699 --> 00:53:29,619
will know that you are my disciple, that

1496
00:53:29,619 --> 00:53:32,275
I'm sorry. By this, all people will know

1497
00:53:32,275 --> 00:53:33,875
that you are my disciples if you have

1498
00:53:33,875 --> 00:53:36,434
love for one another. And we hear that

1499
00:53:36,434 --> 00:53:38,914
last phrase that you'll know by loving each

1500
00:53:38,914 --> 00:53:41,875
other. But back up again to verse 34,

1501
00:53:41,875 --> 00:53:42,695
that you love

1502
00:53:42,994 --> 00:53:45,329
each other as I have loved you. That

1503
00:53:45,329 --> 00:53:46,930
whole aspect of loving each other the way

1504
00:53:46,930 --> 00:53:49,670
Jesus does, which is a selfless love where

1505
00:53:49,809 --> 00:53:52,050
I genuinely care about John and Branson and

1506
00:53:52,050 --> 00:53:54,050
making sure that they are living the life

1507
00:53:54,050 --> 00:53:56,130
they need to do. I encourage them. I

1508
00:53:56,130 --> 00:53:57,650
challenge them where it needs to be challenged.

1509
00:53:57,650 --> 00:53:58,930
I can help call them up to a

1510
00:53:58,930 --> 00:54:01,034
better life, and they do the same thing

1511
00:54:01,034 --> 00:54:03,295
for me as brothers in Christ

1512
00:54:03,594 --> 00:54:05,755
and but there's genuine care for us. It's

1513
00:54:05,755 --> 00:54:07,034
not a matter of me trying to get

1514
00:54:07,034 --> 00:54:08,175
something out of Branson.

1515
00:54:08,554 --> 00:54:10,715
Within the structure of the movie, The Clan,

1516
00:54:10,715 --> 00:54:13,355
it was really a for me type of

1517
00:54:13,355 --> 00:54:16,190
mindset, But for us as men of God

1518
00:54:16,190 --> 00:54:17,789
and for ladies who are listening, women of

1519
00:54:17,789 --> 00:54:19,630
God, we need to be caring about each

1520
00:54:19,630 --> 00:54:21,469
other genuinely and be able to look at

1521
00:54:21,469 --> 00:54:23,230
each like, oh, hey. Look. I love you.

1522
00:54:23,230 --> 00:54:24,829
I care about you. You know, I'm championing

1523
00:54:24,829 --> 00:54:26,864
the things you're going through. And when needed

1524
00:54:26,864 --> 00:54:28,864
to be also, hey. There's some road bumps

1525
00:54:28,864 --> 00:54:30,065
or some things here that need to be

1526
00:54:30,065 --> 00:54:31,765
handled. You need to take care of this

1527
00:54:31,905 --> 00:54:34,784
in love and grace, obviously. But when we

1528
00:54:34,784 --> 00:54:37,184
do these things, that's how the world knows

1529
00:54:37,184 --> 00:54:39,265
that we are genuinely Christian. And I feel

1530
00:54:39,265 --> 00:54:40,704
like there's a lack of that in some

1531
00:54:40,704 --> 00:54:43,289
degree from one pendulum swing to the other.

1532
00:54:43,289 --> 00:54:45,230
And so that's my devotion for you guys.

1533
00:54:45,369 --> 00:54:48,190
Amen. Alright. I'm gonna go next before Branson

1534
00:54:48,250 --> 00:54:50,750
steps on mine because Dell's got close.

1535
00:54:51,210 --> 00:54:51,710
Sweet.

1536
00:54:52,889 --> 00:54:55,804
My weak connection is based off of the

1537
00:54:55,804 --> 00:54:58,045
portion of the movie. It's towards the beginning

1538
00:54:58,045 --> 00:55:00,684
where he's having a flashback towards his earlier

1539
00:55:00,684 --> 00:55:01,184
training,

1540
00:55:01,484 --> 00:55:02,304
where Shokosuga

1541
00:55:02,844 --> 00:55:04,625
is telling him as a teenager,

1542
00:55:05,164 --> 00:55:08,385
you must learn to despise weakness in others,

1543
00:55:08,900 --> 00:55:11,140
But most of all, you must but you

1544
00:55:11,140 --> 00:55:13,700
must most of all despise the c the

1545
00:55:13,700 --> 00:55:14,920
weakness in yourself.

1546
00:55:15,380 --> 00:55:17,300
And he tells him that when he's doing

1547
00:55:17,300 --> 00:55:21,059
this little tiptoe shimmy across this wood floor

1548
00:55:21,059 --> 00:55:23,235
that's got creak points in it, and you're

1549
00:55:23,555 --> 00:55:24,695
trying to learn how

1550
00:55:25,075 --> 00:55:27,974
to sneak across the creaky floor. And Shokosuga

1551
00:55:28,755 --> 00:55:30,675
smacks him on the feet real hard with

1552
00:55:30,675 --> 00:55:33,315
this bamboo that cuts grooves into hit the

1553
00:55:33,315 --> 00:55:35,075
bottomless of his feet. And so it shows

1554
00:55:35,075 --> 00:55:36,994
him later on in the evening, he's all

1555
00:55:36,994 --> 00:55:38,755
like whimpering and crying because his feet are

1556
00:55:38,755 --> 00:55:40,369
all cut up and bleeding. And

1557
00:55:40,829 --> 00:55:42,349
the girl that we were talking about comes

1558
00:55:42,349 --> 00:55:44,530
and starts applying a solve to his feet.

1559
00:55:44,670 --> 00:55:46,769
And I'm sitting there think I was ruminating

1560
00:55:47,150 --> 00:55:49,089
on that despise the weakness

1561
00:55:49,789 --> 00:55:50,289
comment,

1562
00:55:51,545 --> 00:55:52,605
And I was waiting

1563
00:55:52,985 --> 00:55:56,345
for the stereotype of reject the help that

1564
00:55:56,345 --> 00:55:58,204
this girl is giving you

1565
00:55:58,505 --> 00:56:01,224
in order to reject the weakness that's in

1566
00:56:01,224 --> 00:56:02,985
yourself, but he doesn't do that. And I

1567
00:56:02,985 --> 00:56:05,369
really started thinking about the messaging being sent

1568
00:56:05,369 --> 00:56:07,529
there, and it occurred to me kinda like

1569
00:56:07,529 --> 00:56:09,369
what they're telling you there is to accept

1570
00:56:09,369 --> 00:56:12,029
help offered by others is not weakness,

1571
00:56:12,569 --> 00:56:14,670
but to allow others to provide

1572
00:56:15,130 --> 00:56:16,750
strength in your weakness.

1573
00:56:17,494 --> 00:56:19,035
So if anything, it's

1574
00:56:19,655 --> 00:56:21,974
allowing the strength of others to be your

1575
00:56:21,974 --> 00:56:25,494
strength. And for a biblical reference, I wanna

1576
00:56:25,494 --> 00:56:27,355
take you to Ecclesiastes

1577
00:56:28,054 --> 00:56:30,300
four nine through 12.

1578
00:56:30,780 --> 00:56:32,559
And I'm reading out of the extra sanctified

1579
00:56:32,619 --> 00:56:33,119
version,

1580
00:56:33,500 --> 00:56:36,140
and it says two are better than one

1581
00:56:36,140 --> 00:56:38,460
because they have a good reward for their

1582
00:56:38,460 --> 00:56:38,960
toil.

1583
00:56:39,500 --> 00:56:41,660
For if they fall, one will lift up

1584
00:56:41,660 --> 00:56:43,655
his fellow, but woe to him who is

1585
00:56:43,655 --> 00:56:45,735
alone when he falls and has not another

1586
00:56:45,735 --> 00:56:48,135
to lift him up. Again, if two lie

1587
00:56:48,135 --> 00:56:50,215
together, they can keep warm, but how can

1588
00:56:50,215 --> 00:56:51,514
one keep warm alone?

1589
00:56:51,894 --> 00:56:54,295
And although a man might prevail against one

1590
00:56:54,295 --> 00:56:56,614
who is alone, two will withstand him, and

1591
00:56:56,614 --> 00:56:58,930
the threefold cord is not quickly

1592
00:56:59,550 --> 00:57:01,329
broken. Mhmm. So to accept

1593
00:57:01,869 --> 00:57:04,849
to accept help from others is to

1594
00:57:05,470 --> 00:57:07,489
enrich and strengthen yourself

1595
00:57:07,869 --> 00:57:08,690
and to

1596
00:57:09,070 --> 00:57:10,369
it is not to

1597
00:57:10,670 --> 00:57:12,005
be weak, but

1598
00:57:12,385 --> 00:57:13,444
to accept strength

1599
00:57:14,144 --> 00:57:15,045
for your benefit.

1600
00:57:15,344 --> 00:57:18,144
So a strong person accepts help because they

1601
00:57:18,144 --> 00:57:20,224
can accept the strength added to their own

1602
00:57:20,224 --> 00:57:23,105
strength. I dig it. K. Let me find

1603
00:57:23,105 --> 00:57:25,130
some new shoes because Joe just walked over

1604
00:57:25,130 --> 00:57:27,450
my throat. I knew I knew I knew

1605
00:57:27,450 --> 00:57:28,970
you were gonna go for that. That's why

1606
00:57:28,970 --> 00:57:30,250
I had to jump in there. I'm like,

1607
00:57:30,250 --> 00:57:32,410
oh, if I don't step in, Branson's gonna

1608
00:57:32,410 --> 00:57:34,329
eat mine. I could tell it already. No.

1609
00:57:34,329 --> 00:57:37,105
My weak connection's completely different. I'm saying I

1610
00:57:37,105 --> 00:57:39,505
was, like, super extra convicted by what you

1611
00:57:39,825 --> 00:57:41,765
Oh, shoot, bro. I'm sorry.

1612
00:57:42,305 --> 00:57:43,925
That's good. That's good.

1613
00:57:44,704 --> 00:57:47,525
No. I appreciate that. I really do. So

1614
00:57:47,664 --> 00:57:48,724
my weak connection,

1615
00:57:49,265 --> 00:57:51,204
I was I found myself watching

1616
00:57:51,780 --> 00:57:53,860
the the movie. I was very fixated on

1617
00:57:53,860 --> 00:57:54,519
the relationship

1618
00:57:54,820 --> 00:57:57,480
between the ninja father

1619
00:57:57,860 --> 00:57:59,400
and Raizo. And

1620
00:57:59,940 --> 00:58:02,579
especially when he keeps saying, you're my favorite

1621
00:58:02,579 --> 00:58:03,914
son, and I'm proud of

1622
00:58:04,474 --> 00:58:06,954
you. And he would say these loving things

1623
00:58:06,954 --> 00:58:08,894
and then beat the snot out of him

1624
00:58:09,195 --> 00:58:10,715
to get him to do what he wanted.

1625
00:58:10,715 --> 00:58:13,114
And even so far as to sit him

1626
00:58:13,114 --> 00:58:15,594
to fight that gangster in the bathroom and

1627
00:58:15,594 --> 00:58:17,670
comes out holding the gold watch. And he's

1628
00:58:17,670 --> 00:58:19,590
keep it so that every moment is a

1629
00:58:19,590 --> 00:58:22,550
gift. And it's this weird, strange dichotomy of

1630
00:58:22,550 --> 00:58:24,250
this guy saying fatherly

1631
00:58:24,550 --> 00:58:27,110
things, but they're bringing out the worst of

1632
00:58:27,110 --> 00:58:29,829
him. And it made me seriously hate that

1633
00:58:29,829 --> 00:58:30,329
character,

1634
00:58:30,724 --> 00:58:32,585
do a little dance when he finally

1635
00:58:32,885 --> 00:58:33,385
died.

1636
00:58:33,925 --> 00:58:37,445
But that whole concept of father and and

1637
00:58:37,445 --> 00:58:39,284
son, and when Raizo looks at him and

1638
00:58:39,284 --> 00:58:39,784
says,

1639
00:58:40,085 --> 00:58:42,085
I am not your son. You're not my

1640
00:58:42,085 --> 00:58:44,085
father. And after I kill you, when I

1641
00:58:44,085 --> 00:58:45,750
breathe, it will be the first breath of

1642
00:58:45,750 --> 00:58:46,489
my life.

1643
00:58:46,789 --> 00:58:48,949
One of the things that the movie didn't

1644
00:58:48,949 --> 00:58:51,690
camp out on is that what made

1645
00:58:52,150 --> 00:58:53,690
how do you say his name? Shou Kasuga?

1646
00:58:54,150 --> 00:58:56,170
What made his character so sinister

1647
00:58:56,710 --> 00:58:58,630
is that he is filling a need that

1648
00:58:58,630 --> 00:58:59,449
all those children

1649
00:59:00,074 --> 00:59:03,034
have. Yeah. Those children are orphans. They need

1650
00:59:03,034 --> 00:59:03,534
a

1651
00:59:03,914 --> 00:59:05,855
father. And he has stepped into that emptiness

1652
00:59:05,914 --> 00:59:08,335
and is twisting it and making it something

1653
00:59:08,795 --> 00:59:11,215
perverted that it was never meant to be.

1654
00:59:11,434 --> 00:59:12,954
And one of the things the movie does

1655
00:59:12,954 --> 00:59:15,099
not touch on at all is that even

1656
00:59:15,099 --> 00:59:16,539
though it was great that Riza was able

1657
00:59:16,539 --> 00:59:18,699
to rise above his need for that guy's

1658
00:59:18,699 --> 00:59:19,199
approval,

1659
00:59:19,579 --> 00:59:21,199
he still needs a father.

1660
00:59:21,500 --> 00:59:23,739
He can't he's not this load razer guy.

1661
00:59:23,739 --> 00:59:24,940
He can't do it over his own. He

1662
00:59:24,940 --> 00:59:26,159
still needs a father.

1663
00:59:26,539 --> 00:59:27,199
And thankfully,

1664
00:59:27,739 --> 00:59:29,434
for people who believe in the Lord, who

1665
00:59:29,434 --> 00:59:31,275
follow the Lord, we have a father. We

1666
00:59:31,275 --> 00:59:33,994
have a father in the Lord. Yeah. Romans

1667
00:59:33,994 --> 00:59:36,235
chapter eight starting in verse 12. It says,

1668
00:59:36,235 --> 00:59:37,994
so the brothers, we are debtors to the

1669
00:59:38,155 --> 00:59:39,675
not to the flesh, to live according to

1670
00:59:39,675 --> 00:59:41,510
the flesh. For if you live according to

1671
00:59:41,510 --> 00:59:42,789
the flesh, you will die. But if by

1672
00:59:42,789 --> 00:59:44,389
the spirit, you put to death the deeds

1673
00:59:44,389 --> 00:59:46,150
of the body, you will live. For all

1674
00:59:46,150 --> 00:59:47,750
who are led by the spirit of God

1675
00:59:47,750 --> 00:59:49,829
are sons of God. For you did not

1676
00:59:49,829 --> 00:59:52,070
receive the spirit of slavery to fall back

1677
00:59:52,070 --> 00:59:54,625
into fear that you have received the spirit

1678
00:59:54,625 --> 00:59:56,005
of adoption as sons

1679
00:59:56,385 --> 00:59:58,484
by whom we cry, Abba father.

1680
00:59:58,784 --> 01:00:01,025
The spirit himself bears witness with our spirit

1681
01:00:01,025 --> 01:00:02,944
that we are children of God. And if

1682
01:00:02,944 --> 01:00:05,025
children, then heirs of God and fellow heirs

1683
01:00:05,025 --> 01:00:05,764
with Christ,

1684
01:00:06,179 --> 01:00:08,179
provided we suffer with him in order that

1685
01:00:08,179 --> 01:00:10,579
we may also be glorified with him. The

1686
01:00:10,579 --> 01:00:12,179
thing the thing that stood out of me

1687
01:00:12,179 --> 01:00:14,280
was that thing about falling back into fear.

1688
01:00:14,420 --> 01:00:16,359
How did this father trade his children?

1689
01:00:16,739 --> 01:00:17,480
Do well,

1690
01:00:17,780 --> 01:00:20,179
or I will be displeased with you. Do

1691
01:00:20,179 --> 01:00:22,195
well, or I will look on you with

1692
01:00:22,195 --> 01:00:24,934
score. Do well or I will punish you.

1693
01:00:25,074 --> 01:00:27,155
It is so easy for us to see

1694
01:00:27,155 --> 01:00:27,655
God

1695
01:00:27,954 --> 01:00:30,534
in that light. God sitting in his

1696
01:00:30,914 --> 01:00:33,474
dojo with a reed ready to whack the

1697
01:00:33,474 --> 01:00:34,994
bottom of our feet if we make a

1698
01:00:34,994 --> 01:00:37,150
creaking noise. Or if we fail to kill

1699
01:00:37,150 --> 01:00:37,809
our target

1700
01:00:38,110 --> 01:00:39,789
to look at us with disdain, if we

1701
01:00:39,789 --> 01:00:41,789
dare run away from him to tie us

1702
01:00:41,789 --> 01:00:43,150
up to a stake and run a sword

1703
01:00:43,150 --> 01:00:44,670
through our heart. But what do we see

1704
01:00:44,670 --> 01:00:46,829
when we look at scripture? We don't see

1705
01:00:46,829 --> 01:00:49,170
them. We see God as a father

1706
01:00:49,715 --> 01:00:51,715
sitting on the front porch eagerly waiting for

1707
01:00:51,715 --> 01:00:53,094
his prodigal son to return.

1708
01:00:53,474 --> 01:00:56,375
We see a shepherd who leaves 99 righteous

1709
01:00:56,755 --> 01:00:59,394
to go find the one wayward sheep. We

1710
01:00:59,394 --> 01:01:01,875
see someone who are the holy spirit inside

1711
01:01:01,875 --> 01:01:03,460
of us cries

1712
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:04,659
out, Abba,

1713
01:01:05,039 --> 01:01:07,699
father. And the beautiful thing about the Lord

1714
01:01:08,079 --> 01:01:11,219
is that unlike this ninja master, we don't

1715
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:12,819
earn his favor.

1716
01:01:13,199 --> 01:01:15,679
His favor is freely given. Now because of

1717
01:01:15,679 --> 01:01:16,545
that favor,

1718
01:01:16,844 --> 01:01:19,164
we're expected to make decisions based on that.

1719
01:01:19,164 --> 01:01:21,804
We operate out of his grace, not out

1720
01:01:21,804 --> 01:01:23,905
of our sin. We're not slaves to sin.

1721
01:01:24,125 --> 01:01:25,344
We're slaves to righteousness,

1722
01:01:25,885 --> 01:01:28,445
and we're expected to live that out, but

1723
01:01:28,445 --> 01:01:30,719
we don't earn it. God's not sitting there

1724
01:01:30,719 --> 01:01:32,659
saying, I'm gonna give you my love

1725
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:34,960
if you do the right thing. He's saying,

1726
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:36,900
I have given you my love freely.

1727
01:01:37,359 --> 01:01:39,840
Now go and do the right thing. Yeah.

1728
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:41,760
And so one of the things I wanna

1729
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:44,295
encourage people is that even if you are

1730
01:01:44,295 --> 01:01:46,375
in a situation where, much like Riso, you're

1731
01:01:46,375 --> 01:01:48,534
in a situation where the father figure in

1732
01:01:48,534 --> 01:01:49,275
your life

1733
01:01:49,655 --> 01:01:51,734
was not a good person, was not a

1734
01:01:51,734 --> 01:01:54,295
good person at all. You have a good

1735
01:01:54,295 --> 01:01:54,795
father

1736
01:01:55,175 --> 01:01:57,335
in the Lord. It isn't enough to reject

1737
01:01:57,335 --> 01:01:59,429
that bad father in your life. Or need

1738
01:01:59,429 --> 01:02:03,030
to replace it with a good father who

1739
01:02:03,030 --> 01:02:05,210
is the Lord. He's a father.

1740
01:02:05,670 --> 01:02:06,170
To

1741
01:02:06,630 --> 01:02:07,130
me.

1742
01:02:08,869 --> 01:02:09,449
To me.

1743
01:02:09,989 --> 01:02:11,609
Yep. Oh, that song.

1744
01:02:13,074 --> 01:02:14,215
Fucked. I like it.

1745
01:02:14,594 --> 01:02:16,215
No. It's it's the repetition.

1746
01:02:16,594 --> 01:02:19,235
I gotcha. Cool. What did you guys think

1747
01:02:19,235 --> 01:02:21,555
about this movie out there in listener land?

1748
01:02:21,555 --> 01:02:23,074
Did you love it as much as we

1749
01:02:23,074 --> 01:02:24,594
did? Did you hate it as much as

1750
01:02:24,594 --> 01:02:27,480
the critics did? Let us know. Check us

1751
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:30,519
out on the Discords where we have our

1752
01:02:30,519 --> 01:02:31,980
own Discord community.

1753
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:34,760
Look us up on the face space in

1754
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:37,239
our devoted geeks community as well as the

1755
01:02:37,239 --> 01:02:38,215
Geek Devotions

1756
01:02:38,914 --> 01:02:41,635
Facebook page as well. We interact on all

1757
01:02:41,635 --> 01:02:43,554
those as well as the other socials that

1758
01:02:43,554 --> 01:02:46,914
we have out there. And check out geekdevotions.com

1759
01:02:46,914 --> 01:02:48,934
to check out possibly some other

1760
01:02:49,315 --> 01:02:50,054
Geek Devotions

1761
01:02:51,079 --> 01:02:51,579
podcast

1762
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:54,860
network podcasts that we have out there such

1763
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:58,619
as possibly We Read Allegedly, where we allegedly

1764
01:02:58,840 --> 01:02:59,659
read books

1765
01:02:59,960 --> 01:03:01,900
and talk about them on the podcast.

1766
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:03,179
And potentially?

1767
01:03:04,055 --> 01:03:06,055
Spider fans coming back. I just have to

1768
01:03:06,055 --> 01:03:07,994
record the episode, but it's coming back.

1769
01:03:08,614 --> 01:03:10,375
I got wrapped up in Inktober for a

1770
01:03:10,375 --> 01:03:10,875
while.

1771
01:03:11,735 --> 01:03:13,494
That ate up a lot of my free

1772
01:03:13,494 --> 01:03:15,575
time. But, yeah, I'm gonna be doing that,

1773
01:03:15,575 --> 01:03:17,755
bringing it back, gonna try some new stuff.

1774
01:03:17,974 --> 01:03:20,039
And I'm actually very excited because it this

1775
01:03:20,039 --> 01:03:21,960
is a good this is a good season

1776
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:23,480
to be a Spider Man fan because there's

1777
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:25,320
a lot of cool stuff coming out. So

1778
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:27,160
Spider Fade will have a new episode very

1779
01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:30,280
soon. And speaking of things coming back, Dallas,

1780
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:32,039
I've heard a rumor that there might be

1781
01:03:32,039 --> 01:03:32,619
a certain

1782
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:33,500
Gundam

1783
01:03:34,315 --> 01:03:35,675
podcast that might be

1784
01:03:36,315 --> 01:03:38,474
Yeah. So the gun watch may be making

1785
01:03:38,474 --> 01:03:40,735
a return with a a special guest

1786
01:03:41,035 --> 01:03:43,355
for a quick one off. We never actually

1787
01:03:43,355 --> 01:03:46,239
finished the conversation on Witch for Mercury. I

1788
01:03:46,239 --> 01:03:47,619
thought we're doing a two off.

1789
01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:49,280
Yes. So it's a it's a well, we're

1790
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:50,640
not doing like what we did beforehand. So

1791
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:52,239
we're gonna do a review of season one

1792
01:03:52,239 --> 01:03:53,780
and a review of season two

1793
01:03:54,079 --> 01:03:57,300
with special guest, John Harju. Legasp.

1794
01:03:58,079 --> 01:03:59,875
Let's let's be looking on that for that

1795
01:03:59,875 --> 01:04:01,474
next month. There's a lot of Gundam stuff

1796
01:04:01,474 --> 01:04:03,474
happening. Dude, there's a Gundam pop up store

1797
01:04:03,474 --> 01:04:05,954
happening here in The States. Seriously? Yeah. Gundam

1798
01:04:05,954 --> 01:04:07,414
base. Oh, trip.

1799
01:04:07,715 --> 01:04:09,795
Road trip. Anyways, I'm not sure when this

1800
01:04:09,795 --> 01:04:11,015
is gonna air, but

1801
01:04:11,474 --> 01:04:12,375
if it airs

1802
01:04:13,530 --> 01:04:14,890
before November

1803
01:04:14,890 --> 01:04:16,090
8,

1804
01:04:16,090 --> 01:04:17,930
which is a Saturday, next Saturday of the

1805
01:04:17,930 --> 01:04:20,010
recording of this, Celeste and I will be

1806
01:04:20,010 --> 01:04:22,730
at the Louisiana Delta Comic Con in West

1807
01:04:22,730 --> 01:04:24,170
Monroe. I wanna encourage you guys to come

1808
01:04:24,170 --> 01:04:26,110
out to our booth and say hello

1809
01:04:26,815 --> 01:04:28,355
and get one of the snazzy

1810
01:04:28,815 --> 01:04:31,074
business cards that talk about the bombshell

1811
01:04:31,534 --> 01:04:33,295
and also pick up a little comic strip

1812
01:04:33,295 --> 01:04:34,894
that Branson wrote that it makes up talks

1813
01:04:34,894 --> 01:04:35,855
about all the things we do here at

1814
01:04:35,855 --> 01:04:38,675
Geeked Divisions. Another moment of silence for Hastings.

1815
01:04:40,010 --> 01:04:42,170
Alright. With that being said, and Branson raising

1816
01:04:42,170 --> 01:04:44,670
his hand to ask nobody a question apparently.

1817
01:04:45,210 --> 01:04:45,710
Uh-huh.

1818
01:04:46,170 --> 01:04:48,730
Look. I got you don't go invisible just

1819
01:04:48,730 --> 01:04:50,569
by doing nothing. Okay? You gotta stay loose.

1820
01:04:50,569 --> 01:04:52,650
You gotta stay limber. Yes. Because I remember

1821
01:04:52,650 --> 01:04:54,644
when I was watching this ninja movie, how

1822
01:04:54,644 --> 01:04:57,704
they went invisible by flailing their arms about.

1823
01:04:57,925 --> 01:04:59,364
Don't mock it till you try it. That's

1824
01:04:59,364 --> 01:05:00,184
all I'll say.

1825
01:05:00,565 --> 01:05:02,025
That being said, everybody,

1826
01:05:02,565 --> 01:05:03,465
stay devoted.

1827
01:05:04,164 --> 01:05:05,065
Peace and love.