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Through the wall, we got our first...
Actually, is this the first?
So what we initially got was a teaser.
So this is like our first trailer.
Okay, so we got a huge first trailer that we got to talk about, which actually dropped
this morning that we are recording this.
So on December 13th, so we'll be talking about that.
And then we will be moving on to our headliner of the evening, which will be our breakdown
of Violent Night starring David Harbour.
So Caleb, what do you say we get started?
I say let's do this.
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All right, so jumping straight into it for Through the Wall, we got our first official
full trailer for Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse.
And oh my god.
That's all I can say is just oh my god.
I don't know, like just because I was like frickin like in awe of everything that was
happening on the screen watching this trailer that like literally the Internet had to help
me see every single frickin reference that was in one of the shots as they're traveling
through the Spider-Verse because holy shit, so many Spider-Mans to pay attention to.
Dude, holy crap.
I don't even know what to say about this trailer.
It was frickin awesome.
Yeah, it was so like honestly, I love that we start with Miles having we start with Miles
starting to have that talk with his mom and that's how it ends.
And I love how she points out that you're growing up, you're leaving this little boy
behind, but I still want you to keep that little boy alive.
Can you do that for me?
And such a sweet moment.
Oh my gosh, it frickin hits you right in the feels, dude.
It really does.
And God, what is it the line that Spidey or Gwen Stacy says?
Was it we're supposed to be the good guys?
Yeah, who is she?
I can't remember who she's talking to.
And I think she's talking to Miles.
That's okay.
At least that's what I understood from it.
She could have been talking to anyone for all we know, because we never really saw her
say it.
True.
That is a very good point.
But this movie seems like it's going to be a little bit wild.
Oh yeah, this looks like it's balls to the walls.
Yeah, like I have a feeling that there's some time travel aspect to this movie and future
Miles or alternate reality Miles is jacking shit up for the Spider-verse and it's pissing
all the other Spider-men off.
That would make a lot of sense.
Yeah, because it's like, why else would they all frickin just attack him?
Yeah, straight up.
Like what the hell did Miles ever do to you guys, except for the point that you brought
up?
Yeah, and did you see the dude who looked like that was like future Miles?
It did, yeah.
So if they go that route, that's going to be frickin insane, dude.
Yeah, all I know is I gotta start preparing my eyes for this visual masterpiece.
Even if this isn't, I just feel this is going to be a superior sequel.
I'm just calling it right now.
That is a very bold statement.
Oh, I know.
But even if I'm wrong, and it doesn't live up to the original, at least we can say that
the visuals were just as good because even from this trailer, you can tell that, I don't
know, even just like remembering the first one, you can just tell that they cranked up
the visuals just a little bit.
They look even better.
They look incredible.
So I'm very happy with what we're seeing.
Dude, his swinging especially.
Oh my god.
Dude, he looks so good.
The animation in this is crisp as hell.
Yeah, oh my god, it's so beautiful.
I feel like this movie just proves that 2D animation is not dead.
Yeah.
There is a desire for it in the public world.
Dude, this just like going to see this in the theaters is going to, I mean, I get this experience
every single time I get to see a 2D animated film in the theaters because this was the
way with Bob's Burgers movie.
I just had this just a smile on my face when the first frame opens and you just see beautifully
hand drawn animation.
It just makes you smile.
I freaking love it.
There's just something about that feel.
I know that it's not true 2D animation, but it feels like it.
Yeah, it's pretty damn close.
It gives you enough of it.
Like obviously, I think it's just made it more crisp, like the 2D because 2D, it was
kind of a guessing game on what characters looked like at different angles.
So like the animators had to just, like I said, had to guess, like guess what that character
looks like from like this angle or that angle or whatever it may be.
With this, you kind of don't have that issue.
And it just, like I said, gives you a cleaner feel for the movie.
And then with that, you can go a lot more stylized than you could with a three dimensional
world.
Exactly.
So I'm beyond excited for this movie to come out.
Even if my guess is wrong and it's not like future Miles jacking everything up, what we
saw has me hyped enough to go see this day frickin one in IMAX.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I will be there Thursday night, CineMark XD.
Yep.
Absa frickin' Lutely.
Like there is no frickin' doubt about that whatsoever.
So I think it kind of goes without saying we're sitting at a very solid 10 on our excitement
level.
Oh, yeah.
There's no changing that.
Honestly, even before this trailer came out, I was at a 10.
Yeah, I think that just goes to show how good we thought the first one was.
Yeah, dude.
The first one is such a...
I consider the first one a masterpiece and there's a reason why it won for best animated
film at the Oscars the year it came out.
Absolutely deserved it.
If it didn't win, I was going to be so pissed off because I mean, I forgot what it was against,
but yeah, it deserved to win hands down.
What year did that movie come out?
2018 or was it 19?
I think it was 29.
No, I think it was 2018 because it came out in December, right?
Let's see.
2018.
Okay.
The Oscars 2018 film nominations.
Oh wait, technically that would have been 2019, right?
Oh, yeah.
Good point.
Yeah, it was going up against shit.
It was going up against The Incredibles 2.
Which was such a disappointment.
I wouldn't say such a disappointment.
It was decent, but I mean, the animation was fine.
Not at the same level as freaking Into the Spider-Verse though.
And it just wasn't as good as the first.
Yeah.
Then it was going up against Isle of Dogs.
That was a really good one.
I really enjoyed that movie.
Yeah, but like Spider-Verse level.
Okay, not as good.
Yeah.
And then another animated film called Mirai.
I have never heard of that.
It kind of has like a Studio Ghibli feel to it.
Okay.
Interesting.
So I kind of like that animation style.
So that's actually one I might check out.
So I have not seen it.
So I'm not going to make any judgment calls on that one.
So if it was better than Into the Spider-Verse, we're sorry, I guess.
Yeah.
But then the last one, like the last nomination that it was going up against, that I honestly
will say did not deserve to be on this list.
Self-Breaks the Internet.
Oh yeah, I absolutely agree.
Yeah.
I can't argue that.
So yeah, Into the Spider-Verse, with the caveat that Mirai is an adequate film, absolutely
deserved this win.
Yes.
Well, so as we said, we are at a 10 for Across the Spider-Verse.
Can't wait for this to come out.
It's coming out in May, right?
Yes.
Okay, cool.
So that covers us for Through the Wall.
So Caleb, what do you say we move on to our headliner?
I say let's do it.
All right.
So this week's headliner will be Breaking Down, David Harbour's Violent Night.
This movie, what, just came out like a couple, like what, like two weeks ago?
Yeah, so it came out December 2nd, if I'm not mistaken.
You are absolutely right.
Hell yeah, that doesn't happen very often.
God, give yourself some credit.
Dude, I'm horrible with dates.
I wouldn't say you're horrible.
I mean, I feel you remember like the most important ones.
Yeah, like ones that are personal to me and then ones for movies that I'm super excited
about.
See, that's all you need to know.
That's all that matters.
Yeah, but it's like, for me, it's like the next movie I'm excited about.
It's not like every single movie, like you could, I couldn't tell you the release dates
of like the next Marvel movies.
All I know is the next one comes out February 17th, which just so happens to be Iris's
birthday.
So I'm going to have to make a very hard decision.
And
Oh, God, imagine, imagine Iris, older listens to this episode and she's just like, hmm,
see where your bond was that dad.
I love you too.
I feel by the time that she's actually listening to this, she'll have had a couple more birthdays
that coincide with Marvel release dates and she'll know.
She'll understand one day.
She'll understand.
Yeah, I'm just gonna but no, like all jokes aside, I am going to try and get a tickets
for that Thursday night because her birthday is on a Friday.
Yeah, that's a good call.
I think let me, let me just double check.
Yeah, her birthday is on a Friday.
So I'm probably going to go try and see it the 16th.
What actually I can go to a later viewing if I if I need to, because I will absolutely
be taking Iris's birthday off.
I think I think Braille would kill you if you didn't.
I think she would too.
And Braille is not a violent person, but I feel that's that's kind of a strong assumption
of yours.
Apparently, I didn't know Braille as well as I thought.
Anywho, yeah, well, like I don't know what you're waiting for.
I'm not taking that back.
No, I know you're not.
Oh, I know you're not.
I'm just going to find I'm just going to laugh my ass off if she, you know, like while you're
editing this and she hears that part, she just busts through the door.
What?
Yeah, I know.
Gotta be careful.
Like it kind of feels like that.
Key and peel sketch.
Oh my god.
Yes.
You know the one I'm talking about.
Oh, yeah.
Well, before we say anything else that Braille might overhear.
Caleb, you want to let people know how we break down movies on this podcast?
I would love to.
If you are new to our breakdown system, we have split movies into eight different categories
that we individually score to come to a final All Bros letter grade.
And the eight categories that we score are story, writing, acting, character development,
effects, music, costumes, and then we give it our own personal score at the very end.
All of these numbers get magically added up and spit through our algorithm and give us
a letter grade to compare this movie to others of a similar score as well as a percentage
just for shits and giggles just so we can have like an official ranking.
Yeah.
I forgot, usually the next line comes from you when you're just like, so if you haven't
seen Violent Night, Rose is about to spoil the entire time.
I guess I can do that.
Well, I kind of cut you off.
Sorry.
No, you're good.
Yeah.
So if you have not seen Violent Night, we highly recommend you go check this out and
yeah, just go check it out.
It's a freaking spoiler alert, really good movie.
Yeah, it really is.
It's such a fun Christmas movie.
So yeah, so if you've not seen it, you have been properly warned.
And if you listen past this point, Rose is going to spoil the whole thing for you.
So listen at your own, what's the word, discretion?
Yeah, discretion sounds better.
Yeah.
So if it's spoiled for you after now, it's your own fault.
Yep.
You've been given the proper heads up.
Alright, so on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus drinks at a Bristol pub and laments that children
have become increasingly materialistic in a world unaware he actually exists.
Flying off with his reindeer and sleigh, he accidentally bump into something.
This is like, this was the perfect way to introduce the title card because the way that
the bar lady just looks up and oh, she's like, oh my God, it's really Santa Claus.
It just gets covered in bark.
Dude, this set the tone flawlessly.
It really did.
Oh my God.
Oh, I freaking loved it.
It was freaking disgusting because it was like chunky or had like rice flicking shit
in it.
That was so gross.
And of course, you know, since she's out in the cold, you can see like the steam coming
off of it because it was, oh, dude, that made it worse.
That made it worse.
Yeah, it did.
Alright, before we accidentally hurl.
You good?
Yep.
Okay.
In Greenwich, Connecticut, Jason Lightstone, his estranged wife, Linda, and their daughter
Trudy visit his mother Gertrude's mansion to celebrate Christmas with his alcoholic
sister Alva, her new boyfriend and wannabe action star Morgan Steele, and Alva's online
streamer son Bertrude.
Finding an old walkie talkie for Trudy to talk to Santa, Jason and Linda overhear her
only wish to become a family again.
Drunkenly delivering gifts, Santa arrives at the Lightstone estate where the caterers
reveal themselves to be mercenaries with Christmas themed code names.
Led by Mr. Scrooge, they slaughter the staff and take the family hostage.
Santa is discovered by one of the henchmen whose gunfire scares away the reindeer and
they fight until Santa knocks him out of a window to his death.
Stranded, Santa decides to save Trudy and her family from Scrooge who demands the 300
million in cash from the mansion's vault.
Santa kills another henchman and takes his radio coming across Trudy's channel and finds
the mercenaries on his magical naughty list.
Yeah, can we just talk about how freaking badass that was?
Like when he's talking about a certain person or a nice list.
Just he literally pulls it up and there's the person that he's talking about and showcases
that they're naughty or nice and just yeah.
And what they've done to be on that.
Yeah, so badass.
I freaking love that.
I love people's interpretation of how Santa works.
Right?
And the fact that like in this movie, even he doesn't understand fully how his magic
works.
I loved that part that they touched upon that.
Yeah, like it's it was actually kind of refreshing as opposed to like some other Santa.
Theories or ideas that we've seen like for one I'm thinking.
What is it like the Santa Claus movies, the ones with Tim Allen and like they never really
explain it, but they've started to get into a little bit more detail about what happens
where it's like interdimensional travel.
And that's how he's able to get from city to city super freaking fast as well as like
time displacement and.
Like all that crazy stuff.
So it's like he puts the world on pause while he goes and goes freaking nuts.
And then Christmas Chronicles.
I don't know if you've seen those ones.
I still haven't.
Yeah, they kind of have a similar thing, but he's able to like that Santa is able to like
move very quickly.
He turns himself into what's called coal dust.
And that's how he like travels into people's homes and drops off the gift.
So he's just like really fast and his sled is all like constantly like he doesn't land
on rooftops very often.
He just like the sleigh just kind of like floats midair and kind of follows him around.
And so when he's ready to hop in and go to the next city, like he just like does his
weird magic and gets into the sled and like takes off.
But this kind of has like a more.
Classic feel for how he delivers gifts.
Where it's it's not like anything super crazy.
Like he has like the.
The tapping his nose and turning into dust to travel up the.
Yeah, which is awesome.
Yeah, I've always really liked that.
That method.
But a freaking yeah love what they've done to to Santa and this same here.
When Trudy's walkie talkies discovered Jason tells their captors that she is simply playing
make believe and declares that Santa is not real, causing her to run and hide in the attic.
Santa reassures Trudy over the radio, revealing that he was once Nickamond the Red, a bloodthirsty
Viking warrior and finds comfort in his 1100 years of marriage to Mrs. Claus.
One of the henchmen Krampus forces the family to present their gifts to Gertrude who was
surprised by a car from Jason.
Wounded, Santa is captured by Scrooge who bears a childhood grudge against Christmas.
His knowledge of their real identities convinces henchmen Gingerbread and Candy Cane that he
is real and he uses his magic to escape through the chimney.
Gertrude's private kill squad arrives, led by Commander Thorpe, but are in league with
Scrooge and Killmorgan when he tries to escape.
Finding.
Finding the vault empty, Scrooge threatens Linda and Jason confesses that he stole the
money and was planning to flee with his wife and daughter, which he explained in his car
to his mother.
He reveals the money hidden in a nativity scene outside and Gertrude forgives his treachery
as a lightstone rite of passage.
Retreating to his shed, Santa finds a sledgehammer and brutally slaughters the kill squad.
Trudy creates traps inspired by Home Alone, resulting in Gingerbread's death and Candy
Cane prepares to shoot her but is killed by Santa.
Scrooge gives the orders to kill the hostages but Alva, Linda, and Bert manage to kill Krampus
instead.
Scrooge and Thorpe flee into the woods with the money and a captive Gertrude pursued by
Santa.
Linda kills the last mercenary and Trudy sees her parents reunite with a kiss.
Lured by Scrooge, Santa crashes into a cabin and Scrooge finds himself on the naughty list
and acknowledges Santa is real but is determined to kill him and end Christmas.
They fight and Scrooge gains the upper hand but Santa uses his magic to drag him up the
cabin's chimney, crushing and eviscerating Scrooge.
Dude, the visceral reaction that I had to that, that will haunt my nightmares for years.
You know what, fair enough man, fair enough.
That was so freaking brutal.
Yeah, yeah, that was very disturbing.
I'm not gonna lie.
We'll get into it a little bit more but I had to say something there.
That was just...
Santa is fatally shot by Thorpe who is killed by Gertrude and Jason burns some of the money
to keep him warm but Santa succumbs to his wounds.
Trudy inspires her family to all declare their belief in Santa and he is revived admitting
that he still does not really understand how Christmas magic works.
His reindeer return and Santa bids goodbye to Trudy before flying off to finish delivering
gifts his faith in Christmas renewed.
And Caleb, I apologize, I lied to you.
In a mid-credits scene...
No, I did see that one.
Oh, I didn't see this.
In a mid-credits scene, Bert records a video with Thorpe's corpse boasting that Santa is
real.
Hold up, you didn't even stay for the full credits?
No, uh-uh.
And you...
You son of a bitch.
Okay, I have a defense here.
I think I have a defense.
Okay, so I went to see this...
Okay, so I went to see Violent Night with my buddy Ryan and we wanted to grab... because
I wanted to take him to try Zaxby's but we had to make sure that we had enough time to
do that so he could make it home in time to make bedtime for his daughter.
So...
Dude, you know what you say then?
You know what you say then?
I don't know, Caleb.
I didn't stay for the full credits.
I regret nothing.
Dude, I was getting up and walking out and then I realized that I forgot my drink and
so I walked back and then I saw that mid-credits scene and I'm like, that asshole.
Son of a bitch!
And so then I sat back down and googled and I'm like, okay, is there anything else?
And luckily it said no, it's just the mid-credits scene and I'm like, good, and I got up and
left.
So now you know to never trust me when it comes to asking.
I know, next time I'm going to be like, hey, any end credit?
No.
Did you sit through the entire credits?
No.
Then your opinion is not valid.
I know, dude.
I always try to hit you up like anytime I know that I'm going to see a movie before you.
Yeah.
Like I always try to freaking hit you up and be like, oh yeah.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, you freaking should, dude.
I'm sorry.
Like I freaking mess up my bladder because of shit like that.
Hey, you know what?
There's a huge fix for that.
Don't buy a drink.
How about you don't tell me how to live my life, Rose?
How about you don't give me shit when...
All right, I got nothing.
I can't justify anything of what I said.
Yeah, not getting a drink.
You're freaking nuts.
All I'm going to say is, dad was able to make it home to give his daughter a good night
hug and that's all that matters.
Fair enough.
Anywho, story.
I was actually really surprised at how well this story worked.
Dude, right?
Same.
It had a really decent flow.
It built up enough of a story that made sense.
It was a good time.
It was.
I have a question though.
Did you feel that it was too long at all or do you feel like it was perfectly paced?
When me and Ryan went to Zaxby's, we were talking about this and we were both talking
about how we both enjoyed it.
I said, for some reason, I feel like they could have cut it down a little bit, but I
don't know exactly where.
That's the problem.
So I can't back up my claim.
That's really tough.
I completely understand where you're coming from with that.
Yes, there were definitely times where I'm like, all right, like freaking pick it up.
I can't recall where.
I can't think of anywhere that they've been like, oh, you can cut this down.
You definitely don't want them to cut down any of the violence because holy shit, like
Santa, the last 30 minutes of this movie, especially, Santa comes to freaking play and
it is amazing.
Don't even get me started on the home alone traps that Trudy sets because I was laughing
my ass off when they see them.
They're just like, wow.
Yeah, kid, you're supposed to hide this stuff when you try to home alone us.
Dude, that was so violent.
It was so great.
Oh my God.
I lost it.
Yeah.
I felt bad because I'm like, oh my gosh, she gave away her position.
This isn't going to end well.
I figured the girl would be fine.
I'm like, but this is going to be a tough one to get out of.
And then when they pan down and show the freaking one step that was jacked up, I was like, oh,
no.
Oh, he's screwed.
Yeah.
And then he freaking.
Oh, dude, same.
Yeah.
When that that nail went through his chin, I'm like, oh, I know, dude, it's the same
way I feel about shit going through people's hands.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Like in Ready or Not.
Yeah.
Did I just bring back some trauma?
Yep.
Just a little bit.
You're well.
Oh my gosh, dude.
Like there's some things that I absolutely feel like with that home alone scene that
were ridiculous.
Like the way that what's his face was holding the nail up above his head, like like he was
studying the nail.
And then it then it like goes up to like the bowling balls that are coming down and like
knocking this this girl over and she like grabs one and like flings it down the stairs
and it hits.
I think the pacing there was a little off because it's like because it's like he picks
it up, goes to look at like picks the nail up, like looks at it above his head, which
already is like a horrible decision.
Yeah, true.
Yeah.
Like I the way that I personally would have gone about that is have him stand up, pull
the nail out, turn around so his back's to the the ladder.
And then he's like looking at the nail and then have the bowling ball hit him in the
back of the head and like frickin Joker smash him into the nail.
Yes.
All right.
Yeah, I would have loved that.
Yeah.
Then you like same effect like you frickin have him.
Like I think they just wanted him to fall back on those.
The frickin floor mat.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, absolutely agree.
So I like like I said, personally would have done that a little bit different.
Like maybe have him get knocked out by the bowling ball and then like face plant into
the mat.
Yeah, there you go.
Or just something along those lines.
I think him lifting the nail over his head was a tad ridiculous.
Yeah, I can definitely agree with that.
Yeah, but I mean, that was like I said, I can't tell where the pacing was off.
Like I know that there it was like like you said, like it was noticeably a little long.
But I don't know where it felt that way.
Yeah.
Like, because how long was this movie?
It's like an hour.
Okay, hour 50.
Okay, so it was definitely almost close to two hours.
Yeah.
So I'm sure you could have cut 10 minutes somewhere, but I just don't know where I bet
you probably could have cut it around maybe where Santa's just kind of meandering around
in the mansion, like where he falls asleep in the massage chair.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Like you probably could have cut it there.
And like all of his shenanigans there.
Because I think that's probably where it was a bit slow.
Oh and then definitely some of the stuff with like the parents, I think like they just needed
a kiss and like move on.
Like I think the action needed to happen more immediate, where they didn't have to have
like that weird level of the conversation between the two of them.
And then it's like, oh, almost kiss and then boom, you have to fight this bad guy.
And then back to like romantic moment and then you get back to Santa.
Like I think you probably could have cut the weird conversation.
Yeah, I can definitely agree with that.
I'm trying to think like anything else that probably would have improved the pacing, but
I mean story wise, like I said, like it had a decent flow.
It was just noticeably long.
It's just hard to pinpoint.
But I mean the story overall was fairly good.
I mean it's not like top tier or anything.
No, but I mean when you decide, oh hey, you know, like let's turn Santa into a bloody
murderer because his actions are justified.
But just seeing like a violent bloody Santa, but for like the right reasons, that just
screams a good time to me.
Oh yeah.
This movie did a really solid job at like motivations and everything and like even explain
why or how Santa knew how to fight, like making him a Viking warrior, which was kind of badass.
Yeah, that was a nice touch.
And it didn't feel like honestly out of place at all because I feel that they kind of lead
up to that with like when he's like bandaging his wound once and you know, like yes, you
know, take off his shirt and everything.
And so you see all those tattoos.
So you're wondering like, hmm, like I wonder where those come from, why he has those.
And they explain that when he's talking about his days as a Viking.
Yeah, like I freaking loved that aspect.
Like it made Santa like, oh, he's been through some shit.
Yeah.
But I think honestly all it did for me was make me want like an origin, like okay, how
the hell did Christmas magic come into play then?
Dude, I'll take a spin off of this movie with David Harbour.
Yeah.
I would literally, I would watch any movie with David Harbour just because I have such
a great time watching him and anything he's in.
Yeah I'm trying to see.
So I know that like Christmas is like a pagan holiday, right?
As far as I know, yes.
Okay.
So let's see what Vikings practice.
Okay so Vikings practiced an old Norse religion or Norse paganism.
Huh.
Okay.
Interesting.
Kind of cool.
Gosh, I want an origin story for this Santa.
Dude, I honestly hope we get a sequel out of this.
This was so well done.
I do too.
Such a fun movie.
It was so much fun.
But like I said, I think story, it is very much above average for me.
I would absolutely agree with that.
It's honestly, and I know that they made references to both of these movies a ton.
They had very Die Hard vibes.
Yeah it did.
Did you, I forget where he said it, but Bruce Willis recently came out and said, everyone
needs to listen to me, okay?
Die Hard is not a Christmas movie.
Now you guys can move on with your lives.
Please don't be interested in that.
Yes it freaking is.
Don't lie, Bruce Willis.
I've never seen Die Hard so I can't say anything.
I've seen it like once, but it is absolutely a Christmas movie whether he likes it or not.
So sorry Bruce Willis, but you're wrong.
Where are you sitting with the story?
Like I said, it's not that I had a problem with the pacing entirely.
Like I said, it felt like it could have been cut in some parts.
You pointed out a part that it could definitely be cut in, but I'm sure that, I have a feeling
that when I watch this a second time, when it comes to Blu-ray, I'll probably be able
to point out, okay you could have cut that down a little more, you could have cut that
down a little more.
I'll be able to truly point out where they could have cut it, probably like 10 minutes.
But overall, it's such a fun, interesting story and it kept my attention the whole time.
I don't really have a lot of problems with the story.
It definitely does what it sets out to do.
It's called Violent Night, so you get a violent story with Santa Claus.
But like I said, his actions are justified.
So story-wise, I'm going to go an 81.
That is actually right around where I was at.
I might be a little higher than you, so I'm probably at like an 83.
Very nice.
I had a freaking blast with this and it was like I said, an 83 is exactly where I would
put Die Hard.
And most above average action movies.
It's not like top tier or anything.
It's exactly what it needs to be, but it's still offering a decent amount of value other
than just freaking blood and gore.
Very true.
I feel a lot of action movies can suffer through issues like that where it just feels like
oh, this was just gory for gore's sake.
This felt like it needed to be that way.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
So yeah, like I said, sitting at an 83 for me.
Moving on over to writing.
There is a lot of cheese in this.
There definitely was.
I feel that there's...
They definitely wrote it to where like, oh, you're supposed to like this side of the family
and then you're supposed to not like this side of the family.
Especially his sister side, you're made out to hate these characters up until when the
Scrooge and his team bust in and they actually kind of start towards the end, at least I
feel, trying to become a family again, which in some instances it didn't really feel earned.
Because honestly, I feel like at the end you don't really...what's his name?
Joshua?
The main guy?
Jason.
Jason, sorry, thank you.
I feel him and his sister, their relationship still feels like the exact same to me at the
end of the movie.
It feels like nothing changed from what they went through on Christmas Eve.
It definitely had a lot of classic, oh, you're supposed to love this character, you're supposed
to hate this character writing stereotypes.
Yeah.
It was hard for me to focus at all with the Lightstones.
I feel like my main focus was Santa and his story.
Oh yeah, that's what you come to this movie for.
It did feel very cheesy dialogue where, I don't know, where it was just very competitive
and talking like, oh, or where his sister goes like, I'm out to get you.
Like, okay, fricking shut up.
Yeah.
Like, we can tell.
You can just be a kiss ass and give him dirty looks and whatnot.
You don't have to announce it to the world.
Like, oh, I'm out to get you and all the family sucks.
Oh, I have this fricking douchebag of a son.
Dude, there's nothing I hate more than fricking portrayals of social media influencers.
Dude, I will admit though, the joke when they're just like, you named your son Bertrude because
we named our daughter Gertrude.
That's not even a real name.
That didn't give me a good chuckle.
That was funny.
Yeah.
Don't get me wrong.
There was definitely some good laughs, but I feel like there was a lot of weird dialogue,
especially the one that is the highlight for me was Krampus.
The dude was just over the top weird.
He was, but I loved it.
I liked it to a point and then it just felt too much.
I can definitely agree with that.
I feel like when it was actually like really funny to me is when, I mean, it's kind of
like a dark situation is when he's like, when he's having like all the family members like
open the gifts because they're not going to be around in the morning to open them and
he's like, calm seem like, Oh, you know, grandmother didn't like her present.
Who's next?
That was, I liked that scene, but I feel when it came to when Scrooge says to execute, execute
all the, all of the hostages, he got a little way too extra at that.
It just, I don't know.
He was a little too much for me.
I get it.
You're psycho, you're, you're, you're having fun in a really F'ed up way.
Um, but, uh, yeah, we'll dial it down a little bit.
I thought it was so freaking weird when screw, I think one thing you probably could have
cut out was the whole nutcracker thing.
Like the one where it's where like the little nutcracker where it like, she busts up his
hand or his finger.
Like that was jacked up.
Yeah, that was fine.
But do we really have to bring it back with the big one?
Oh yeah.
Let's really make it a nutcracker.
Yeah.
And then he, that was such a stupid joke.
It was ridiculous.
And then everyone, like, I think that's where it could have been cropped.
I'm not touching his balls.
Like I'm not, I'm not touching his junk and then Krampus is like, I'll do it.
Freaking creep.
Yeah.
Seriously.
Like the only way that I feel that, um, that that scene would have worked is if Scrooge
would have been like, okay, now like you made it weird.
Yeah, that would have been funny.
And then just like gone straight into like violent mode and like gotten to his head or
whatever.
Yeah.
Like just something along those lines.
But I think as soon as like Krampus like joined in, it just like, okay, this seems excessive.
Yeah I agree.
Did you actually like remember all of their code names?
Cause I sure as hell didn't.
I think Krampus is the only one that I actually remembered.
Besides Scrooge, of course.
I saw the only reason I even remember remembered Krampus was because I have the IMDB up with
the list.
So, no, I didn't remember like all of theirs.
The ones that they have is, they have Krampus is like the big one.
Gingerbread and Candy Cane were the two that were running around closely with Scrooge.
And then they have Sugarplum, which was the hacker.
Oh, okay.
And then everyone else, like they have a couple others, but I think they were just throw away.
I gotta give them credit, you know, interesting code names.
I like that they were getting into the Christmas spirit with that.
Yeah.
It was hard because it's like a lot of cheesy lines from everyone like that felt unnecessary.
I will say there were definitely some smart ones thrown in.
Like, I was actually surprised when Scrooge came in and he's like, I'm just going to start
blowing people away unless they tell me where the money is.
And then, freaking Bertrude hits him with like, well, if you just start shooting randomly,
like what happens if you accidentally shoot the person that knows where the money is?
It's like, wow, the kid actually has a brain.
No, he's just like, he like pauses and he's like, F you guys.
Yeah.
Because I'm like, oh, that's like a really good point.
Ah, that was so freaking solid.
I'm trying to think of like, what are you stuff?
Like of like something and I don't know if he had a lot, but like of like the funny,
like play on Christmas saying Santa had like when he's like, it's time for some seasons
beatings or no shit like that.
That's shit that I feel you need in an action movie like this.
So I wasn't too upset about it.
Yeah, good point.
Like I feel, I think this just goes to show how good of an actor David Harbor is because
he pulled it off.
Amazing.
Yeah, he sold that shit.
No, do he even sold the freaking ho ho ho like laugh?
Yeah, he did.
Like I don't think that there's very many Santas that can pull that off.
Like Tim Allen has pulled it off.
And like, as far as I'm aware, he's the only like real one that's pulled off like legitimate
like ho ho ho and make it sound like a laugh.
Yeah, I would absolutely agree with that actually.
Like I just recently rewatched Christmas Chronicles and Kurt Russell attempts to do some ho ho
ho's, but it comes off like really forced.
Then I'm thinking through other like Christmas movies.
Arthur Christmas I watched recently.
That one like the same thing.
It's just a little like, like a little over the top, like just too much.
But I think David Harbor sold it as like a genuine laugh.
Yeah, I would absolutely agree.
Yeah, so really appreciated his his ho ho ho's and then the like the just the one liners
like Santa Claus is coming to town like, oh yeah.
Like I was I was here for it.
Fair enough, man.
Fair enough.
I'll agree with that.
And I freaking loved it.
I freaking love the.
I love like the conversations he was having with the reindeer.
Like that shit was so funny.
And who did he call out for shitting on the roof?
Was it Blitzen?
Yeah.
OK.
And then like as he's going in the house, like Rudolph wouldn't do this shit.
Freaking loved that.
Dude, I will say if there is any underrepresented reindeer, it's freaking Rudolph.
Like yes, Rudolph has an animated movie and what not all about him, but we never see Rudolph.
I think it's because they mostly try to stick with hasn't.
I don't know.
Maybe it's just me, but like I was always told that like Rudolph is like not an actual
like Santa's reindeer, like he's like the make believe reindeer.
Like it's it's the core.
There's eight.
There's eight reindeer.
Right.
Like that's always the core eight.
Like Rudolph kind of exists in his own universe.
Dude, that is bullshit.
That is absolute garbage.
Like no, you.
Society made Rudolph a staple in the reindeer gang.
Like you can't just freaking throw him away like that.
And they obviously address that Rudolph.
Exists in this.
That is true.
So it's like why?
Why not?
Like it just feels like I feel like a lot of movies are freaking addressed.
Rudolph.
Like.
Gosh, I want to.
How do you look up Rudolph references?
I don't know.
Maybe like on IMDb there might be a character of him and you can.
It might be on the trivia of.
Oh, OK.
Here.
Films and live action.
So he is.
Right.
A referenced in Elf.
He is.
Yeah, apparently.
Wait, is this talking about Rudolph?
Yeah.
I don't remember that.
Rudolph appears in Fred Claus.
I don't remember that because I just barely watched Fred Claus a couple of days ago.
Yeah.
Well, he's not depicted with a red nose and he does and his nose doesn't glow.
So it's kind of like a bullshit reference.
Yeah.
How the hell is he Rudolph then?
What the shit?
During the opening title sequence of the twenty twenty one film Black Widow.
A brief clip of a brief clip of Rudolph being or helping Santa delivering presents.
Oh, from the nineteen from the forty eight adaptation.
Yeah.
OK, that that doesn't count.
Freaking stupid.
And then animated.
What the shit?
He's referenced in Monsters Inc.
No freaking way.
Yeah, it says the Yeti, Mike and Sully meet after they've been exiled by water noose is
based on the abominable snow monster from the TV special.
Oh, that doesn't freaking count either.
Yeah, no, that's not Rudolph.
He's in Polar Express to Rudolph.
What?
OK, the point I'm trying to make here, Rudolph is a staple in Santa's reindeer and we don't
see him nearly as much as we need.
He has his own freaking Christmas song.
Yeah, he has his own Christmas song, his own Christmas special.
You know who we don't give a real rat's ass about?
Freaking Vixen.
I like to talk about justice for Vixen.
Do you?
Like there are so many like.
There is maybe a couple reindeer that we actually like give a shit about.
Dan has always been my favorite.
Of course he freaking has Rose.
The hell is that supposed to be an asshole?
Well, what that means.
All right.
So the ones that I'm like.
That are like the staples in like the Santa's reindeer for me, like when I think Santa's
reindeer, the first three that come to mind are Rudolph, Blitzen and Comet.
I feel the one that like, yeah, I mean, what about Dasher?
He introduces song.
Well, you know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and you know.
Yes, like OK, I'll give you Dasher kind of, but I'm thinking like the adaptations that
I've seen of like the reindeer, it's always like Blitzen, Rudolph and Comet and Comet
only because of the Santa Claus movies with Tim Allen because Comet's like the favorite.
Yeah.
And then Blitzen I feel is just kind of like he's always been like the head reindeer.
I think we're forgetting about the most important reindeer, though.
Olive, the other reindeer.
Dude, I will punch you in the throat.
I'm sorry I had to make the joke.
Please tell me you've seen the special.
I have seen the special.
You got to give the person credit, though, for who came up with the story.
Like, yeah, if you're like if you hear it differently, yeah, you can hear it say instead
of all of the other end here, it says it sounds like Olive, the other reindeer.
You got to give them credit like that's not a bad idea.
Stupid.
I'm just saying like I can't be bad at the person who came up with the idea because I
I can't say, well, that's just stupid.
Who would think that they're saying all of the other reindeer and not all of the other
reindeer?
No, if you how funny would it be to see a live action Santa adaptation where there's
a dog named Olive attached to the reins?
I'd lose my shit, dude.
That would be the funniest thing on the planet.
I would be able to die happy at that moment.
Absolutely agree.
But like I said, anyway, what I'm getting at, Rudolph deserves a little bit more love.
Hashtag justice for Rudolph.
Dude, that should be like the real test of like who's the popular reindeer?
Like name off the reindeer, but don't sing the song.
Who, me?
Yeah, like, oh, I thought you were like, no.
So OK, how about this?
Well, you actually you just said, well, let's see if you can do it.
OK, starting with Blitzen, starting with Blitzen.
Oh, you son of a bitch.
I can't say it.
I hate you.
Starting with Blitzen, name the the dog or the.
Actually hold on, let me see.
I want I just want to check something real quick.
OK, it doesn't have to be perfect.
OK, but alphabetically, I hate you.
Oh, I got to name.
Do that.
Yeah, exactly.
You want to know why, because without the song, you wouldn't know any of the other freaking
reindeer.
So.
Yeah, just, you know, with the song, you're just like Dasher Dancer, Prancer Vixen, Cupid
Donner Blitzen.
Yeah, yeah.
You I bet you couldn't do it out of order.
Oh, hell no.
So f that up.
I'm also just thinking of a freaking police amusing jingle all the way.
With.
Schwarzenegger.
Yeah.
That's the one with the.
Turbo man.
Yes, yes, yes.
OK, yeah, I've seen that one.
I'm just remembering when they're when they're like running to the the radio station because
they need to like name off all of Santa's eight reindeer and like he's like running
ahead of the mailman.
He's just like saying them off.
He's just like, come and keep it down.
Let's come and keep it down.
Oh, my God.
I love that movie.
I'm the reason I read it.
It's not great, but it's it's a really good Christmas movie.
Yeah, that's a really good one.
Yeah.
Dude, that is freaking hilarious.
Screw you for having me start.
Who did you say to start with comment and then do an alphabetical order?
No, start with Blitzen and go in alphabetical order.
Yeah, screw.
I'll even give you I'll even give you the letters in order if you want to try it that
way.
I don't think I could do it.
Like I really don't.
I'm my boy.
It's too late for my brain to try to do shit like that.
I know it's only eight thirty and where I'm at, but still, it's too late for this shit.
Can you do it?
No, that's the point I'm trying to make.
Of course, I can't do it.
No one can do it.
Bet.
I'm just kidding.
Dude, if you can find someone that can do that without singing the song.
Like that would be just a feat.
I'm just going to go around at work tomorrow and just being like, hey, weird question,
but can you name all of Santa's eight reindeer starting with you said Blitzen, right?
Starting with Blitzen, starting with Blitzen and alphabetical order and go doesn't have
to be perfect.
Just has to be like the starting letter because there's a couple of bees.
There's a C. There's a P and a V. Yeah.
All right.
I'm going to find someone.
Good frickin luck.
That would be a that would be a super frickin funny tick tock.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
Oh, all right.
Anyway, I would just I would just have to make sure, you know, of course we do it like
what we're off the clock after work and we're not showcasing our work uniforms because we
get in trouble for that shit.
Pull a whole billy on the street.
Exactly.
Anyway, getting back to writing, I think overall.
The cheesiness kind of brings the score down a lot.
I would agree.
Like the over the top, everything like there's some shit that I'm like.
No, like.
Let's see.
Oh, so after the whole Santa Claus and Scrooge fight, after Scrooge gets completely wrecked,
the commander Thorp frickin pops a couple of shots at Santa like Santa dies and he like
is threatening to shoot Santa, but then Gertrude comes with a gun and frickin sits there and
is like, I don't think so.
And then she sits there for a second and then frickin blows Commander Thorpe away.
And I'm like, that is such bullshit.
Yeah, seriously.
He just stood there frozen.
No frickin way.
Yeah.
No way.
The training that he had.
Hell no.
Yeah.
Like the top, like.
The fact that she was able to even like get the gun that close to him.
Dude, straight up.
The biggest of red flags.
Yes.
Like, no.
Like if you wanted to pull like, hey, she was like.
Like super far behind him and frickin bloat like shoots him through the head or whatever.
Like sure, I'll buy that.
Like taking him by surprise.
Like sure.
Like.
Yeah.
Announcing that you're about to frickin shoot him.
No.
Not someone that that well trained.
Yeah, I don't buy that for one frickin minute.
Or someone that you claim is that well trained.
Yes, exactly.
Frickin stupid.
Aye, aye, aye.
So I'm not sure where that puts me with writing.
I'm.
Honestly, don't.
I'm at like a seventy five.
That's a drastic drop for me.
Honestly, I'm not that far off from you.
I might be a little bit higher because I mean what was good was really good.
Oh yeah, I can definitely agree with that.
But it was just this frickin cheesiness that just kept trying its heart.
It was like weighing it down like a frickin fifty pound weight.
Dude, straight up.
I think I'm going to be a little bit nicer.
I'm going to go seventy seven.
OK.
I'm moving on over to acting.
We have David Harbor, who plays Santa Claus, John Leguizamo, who plays Scrooge, Alex Hassel,
who plays Jason Lightstone, Alexis Louder, who plays Linda, Cam Gigandet, who plays Morgan
Steele, Edie Patterson, who plays Alva Lightstone, Beverly DeAngelo, who plays Gertrude Lightstone,
Daya Brady, who plays Trudy Lightstone, and Alexander Elliott, who plays Bertrude.
Such a stupid name.
I mean you could just say, just call him, well do they call him Bert?
Yeah, they call him Bert.
Alright, I mean it's not a horrible name.
Yeah, but frickin his dad calls him Bertrude whenever Gertrude's around.
Yeah, true.
He's like, let's go Bertrude.
We all know that that kid is changing his, is legally changing his name the minute he
turns eighteen.
I don't know, that dude's a frickin tool.
Yeah, true that.
Nothing makes me cringe more than someone who's just, like the whole hashtag blessed.
Yeah, oh my god.
Yeah, whenever I see shit like that I'm just like, shut up please, like no.
It's the worst because you know there's people like that out in the world.
Yeah.
Anyway, gosh I don't think this is going to be very hard.
What's your top three look like?
What is the grandmother's name again?
Gertrude.
Gertrude, so what's the actress' name?
Sorry.
Beverly DeAngelo.
I would actually give her number three because she did such a good job playing a bitch.
I loved her every minute she was on screen.
When she would tell Jason's sister or her husband to stop being a suck up or shit like
that.
I love the part when they're planning on standing right in front as a family, the sister and
her family for when the mom eventually comes in and then I forget what happens but they
move to the back where the Christmas tree is and she comes in and she's like, why the
hell are you all the way back there?
You're supposed to be right up front.
I'm trying to see what else she's from.
Let's see.
Oh, she was, she played the wife in the vacation movies.
No shit, that's her?
Yep, Ellen Griswold.
Oh my god, no wonder I love her.
I freaking love her in those movies.
Oh, that's so awesome.
Oh yeah, that even more so clarifies that she's my number three.
There she is.
She's freaking awesome.
Number two, I would definitely give to John Leguizamo.
He was fantastic.
He was such an asshole, but like in the best way possible.
Dude, he plays such a good bad guy.
He does.
He needs to do it more often.
I absolutely agree.
Dude, honestly, this might be a hot take.
I think he should have come back for Luigi.
Okay, you know what?
As much as I love Charlie Day and I'm very excited that he's the voice of Luigi, I can
accept that just because Bob Hoskins, Rest In Peace, and John Leguizamo were not the problems
with Super Mario Bros. movie.
No, the fact that they tried to...
This is going to be a really fun one, so spoiler alert for future episodes.
We are going to be breaking down the first Super Mario Bros. the week before we talk
about the new Super Mario Bros.
Okay, dude, I feel that we have to just set it in stone that we have to watch that on
VR together.
Oh, absolutely.
We have to watch that together.
Okay, that has to happen.
What the frickin'... DJ, I know you're listening to this right now.
If you do not have a VR headset by that time, we're going to have problems because we need
to have a Super Mario Bros. VR movie night.
We'll call it the Super Mario Bros. Bros. movie night.
There we go.
There has to be another way to say that.
That just rolls off the tongue.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know how else to say it.
I'm trying to think, but it's not a great way.
It has to happen.
Yes.
But yeah, John Leguizamo absolutely frickin' killed it in this movie.
I frickin' loved every minute that he was on screen.
But of course, David Harbour is number one because he has officially joined, honestly,
my top three list of my favorite Santa Clauses in Christmas movies.
I absolutely loved his performance in this movie.
He is fantastic.
He just gives off the warmth and the loving care of Santa Claus when he needs to.
He's a violent badass when he needs to be.
He's just so great.
You can tell that he's having such a good time playing Santa Claus.
I would love to see him return as this character.
Like we were talking about earlier, I would love to see a spinoff with the mythology of
Santa Claus.
That would just be amazing.
Just because I really want to see David Harbour back in this role.
I know, this is one of those things that's like, hey, you set up, you set this origin
up to be told, I want to see this frickin' movie.
Considering how well this movie has done in theaters, like, I mean, budget 20 million,
box office 43 million, it's done very well so far.
And I'm sure it's going to do even better once it hits streaming.
Apparently from what I've seen, Universal is going to drop this on streaming for the
expensive price of like 30 bucks or 25 or 30 bucks.
But they're dropping it like, I think December 23rd.
So like days before Christmas, it's perfect.
It's going to get, I feel so much more attention even during that time.
So I feel that this movie will definitely get some more box office.
And I feel for how popular it's going to be on streaming that I feel that if they did
want to do a prequel spinoff for that kind of stuff, I feel that they could justify it
with this box office.
That would be frickin' sick.
It's already made its money back globally.
Yeah.
Like it's at 43 million right now globally.
Like it didn't, I don't think it's performed super well within the US, but yeah, I think
this is going to find its stride on streaming.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
This is going to be a new yearly watch for me.
Oh, same here.
Just like this joined Krampus as the, and this isn't even a horror movie, but like the
not like other Christmas movie movies that have joined my list of what I set out to watch
every single year.
Yeah, dude.
Like I love movies like this where it's not like the typical Christmas story.
Like don't get me wrong.
There's a place in my heart for like the cheesy Hallmark movies, but there's just something
about Santa Claus movies or just other like Christmas tales in general.
Like this has easily entered my top 10 Christmas movies.
I seriously need to reevaluate mine because I'm sure it has too for mine, but like honestly
I haven't put my list together in years, so I really need to.
Yeah.
How about we make that like a homework assignment next week?
Obviously like we'll be posting the day after Christmas, but I will be recording.
Actually we'll be recording before Christmas, right?
Yeah, we'll be recording before Christmas, but releasing it after.
So maybe it just has like a quick little bonus episode, we'll release our top 10 Christmas
movies.
I love this plan.
Okay, so by next episode.
Yeah, next episode have your top 10 made up.
Got it.
Sounds good to me.
But yeah, this is easily entered top 10.
And honestly, I think I'm with you.
I'll say this, I'm not sure if he's cracked top three, but he's definitely topped or cracked
top five live action Santas.
You know, honestly, I might, I would actually agree with you on that.
Maybe like three is overstepping because I feel I haven't, I feel with also that I need
to reevaluate my Santa Claus ratings.
Tim Allen's number one and he always will be, but I definitely need to look back at everyone
else that has played a really good Santa Claus.
So maybe we should do that too.
So okay.
So our homework.
Yeah, for it's, it'll be like a little bonus episode that we do.
Cause so we'll do like our normal breakdown, which next week we'll be breaking down.
Oh shit, what did we say we were going to break down?
Oh, a Christmas story Christmas.
Yes.
So since that's what we're breaking down next week, we'll do like a bonus episode on Christmas
talking about our top 10 Christmas movies and our top five Santas.
I love it.
So okay.
With those Santas live action Santas or just in general Santas.
I would feel Santas in general.
Okay.
Cause there might be an animated one in my top five.
I feel the same way.
So yeah, let's do Santa.
No any Santa.
Okay.
Gosh, this next week is going to be a blast.
Yeah, really?
Yeah.
Oh, I'm really looking forward to next week.
Anyway, honestly, I am going to absolutely agree with you on that, that top three.
Really?
Okay.
For this, for this movie.
I loved Gertrude and just how like horrible she was.
She was fantastic.
Yeah.
I was trying to think of like anyone else, like Trudy, like she was decent.
Like she, she might be a really close number four for me.
And I don't know, I feel like my only issue with her is that she felt a lot older than
she was acting.
That is fair.
That is, that is absolutely fair.
So I think, like I said, that was my only issue with her.
So that's probably why she didn't crack top three, but like absolutely agree.
Gertrude or Beverly D'Angelo, John Leguizamo, and then David Harbor number one, because
David Harbour's the fricking bomb.
He is, I swear that man can do no wrong.
Like even if it's like an absolute garbage pile of a movie, he's always like the silver
lining of it.
Absolutely.
Like people that fricking hate on Hellboy, he was not the reason that movie was bad.
Still need to watch it.
Or do I?
I bought it, so like I kind of should watch it.
If you, if you own it, don't go out of your way to watch it.
Okay.
But if you have bought it, I think it's worth a watch.
Alright, fair enough.
It's like, if I was going based off our recommendation rating, I'd say it's like dead center between
nothing better to do and stream it.
Like it could be a coin flip.
Okay.
So yeah.
Anyway, what would you give acting?
I feel that some of the, like you pointed out, I think like we have pointed out throughout
the episode, like some of the extras do bring it down a little bit, especially some of the
henchmen.
So, but like I feel like those three like save this movie when it comes to acting.
So I'm just, I'm going to go slightly above my story and I'm going to go an 82.
Yeah, I think that's a pretty decent area to be.
I think I'm going to match it with the story.
I think it was just like perfectly level.
The main cast bring it up a lot.
It's just the extras, extras are what ruin it.
Yeah.
Like if the extras would have kept their mouths shut for a majority of the film, I think it
would have been a lot higher.
Agreed.
But yeah, so I'm going to set it an 83 with that one.
Alright, next up we got character development.
So obviously we got to do Santa with this one.
Really, really good.
Honestly, I love that you start out with him at the bar and just talking about how no one
really appreciates him anymore and the people that the kids that actually really do believe
in him.
Well, not okay, not the kids that like actually believe in him, but like most of the kids
nowadays they ask for like the newest technology.
They're asking for the newest video game, the newest iPad.
There's even a scene where when he's fighting one of Scrooge's henchmen and he's trying
to pull out like a weapon from his sack and he keeps pulling out a video game.
He's just like, seriously, no one asked for like a bat or some shit like that.
That was also a really good joke.
I really liked that one.
I loved that one.
One thing that they did a really good job of was showing that it's not like he just
stopped caring.
It's just the majority of kids were bringing it down for him.
Then you saw that situation where he was in the apartment with the dad who was drunk off
his ass in front of the TV and then the little baby who was in the same room as them with
in her crib asleep.
He felt for her, went and gently placed down a present next to her and then slapped down
a thing of coal for the dad.
That was great.
I loved that.
If there's also a thing that gets underrepresented within Christmas movies, it's the use of
coal.
Yeah, I feel the one that does this so well though is the freaking Santa Claus 2.
Little Santa is so keen on making sure every single child gets a lump of coal.
Yeah, but we don't get to see Santa actually delivering coal.
That is true.
That is very true.
I think coal was used as like a, oh no, ruining Christmas kind of situation, but we never
see Santa actually do that.
So I think seeing Santa deliver coal just kind of...
My question with that is, okay, because Krampus comes when you're like, been like... What
is it?
Okay, I'm sorry.
I'm going to start over here.
So you get coal when you've been bad.
You land up on the naughty list, right?
Right.
So is this, he comes when you've just lost the Christmas spirit, you don't believe in
Santa Claus anymore, or Christmas in general, or is it kind of like the same thing?
Do you have to be so bad that Santa's just like, okay, yeah, coal isn't even going to
help this kid?
Krampus, you want to take this one?
I always wondered that.
I'm going to Google that real quick.
Because honestly, I had no idea, and I was never taught about Krampus growing up, but
I didn't know who Krampus was until the movie came out.
I'm like, who the hell is this guy?
All right, let's see here.
Have you ever wondered... Yes.
By the 16th century, the beast-like Krampus was created as a counterpart to Saint Nick
to punish naughty girls and boys, sometimes by leaving coal in their stockings.
So that's something Krampus used to do, it seems like.
Huh.
So Santa was the one.
Yeah, so it's not Santa that leaves the coal.
It's Krampus that leaves the coal.
Interesting.
So yeah, and then they just change it because they didn't want people believing in Krampus.
So they're just like, no, if you're naughty, Santa delivers coal.
But it's not Santa.
Santa delivers the gifts to the good boys and girls, and Krampus delivers coal to the
naughty ones.
But at what point does he kidnap them and beat them?
Dude, straight up.
I like that in the movie, he takes your family away and then you're left with the bell.
I don't know.
I like that a lot better.
He leaves you just so you know that you messed up, kid.
You messed up.
Yeah, gosh, we need more Krampus content.
Dude, have you heard, I never watched it, but have you seen the freaking Santa Claus
versus Krampus movie that they made a couple years ago?
No.
Yeah, they actually made one.
It was like a direct-to-DVD thing.
But I don't know what it is.
I don't, since like, so the way that Krampus looks in the movie, that's how to me Krampus
should look.
I love that he looks like Santa Claus in the face, but you can still see the hooves and
everything.
So I absolutely love that design.
So whenever I see a different design, I'm like, oh, I don't like that.
That's not Krampus to me.
That's my favorite iteration of Krampus.
I think that iteration is just so great.
I love how he looks.
And so whenever I see like how, you know, like in Norse mythology, he looks or like,
you know, other stuff, I'm like, I don't love that as much as the movie design.
So you're talking about like the 2015 movie or the...
Yes, yeah.
No, no, the 2015 movie.
Okay.
Yeah.
I freaking love that design of him too.
Gosh, Krampus is so cool though.
He is.
Just God, yeah.
And I love the idea of like, yeah, like instead of leaving a lump of coal, you leave a bell
that has his name on it.
Like I don't know, like that's just so much more traumatizing than a piece of coal.
A little bit.
But then like then him freaking kidnapping you and whooping you with sticks is also kind
of horrifying.
True.
Very true.
There was a wood carving that I saw last Christmas on Etsy and it had like the classic picture
of you had like Krampus like stuffing one kid into a sack and then another kid running
away and then it said like, was it Grosse von Krampus, I think is how you say it.
And not gonna lie, I was very tempted to buy it and I would hang that up every single Christmas.
Dude, I still want that Krampus pop figure.
Do I have a Krampus pop figure?
I don't know if you ended up buying it before you like lost interest in pops.
If I did, cause I'm so like dead serious, I'm actually starting to sell off my collection
in January.
I'm starting that my New Year's resolution to literally have honestly only Hawkeye Funko
Pops left.
So if I find a Krampus, he's all yours and I'll send them off to you.
Oh hell yeah.
But only if it's the one where like the kid is in his bag.
Okay deal.
I don't know what about Krampus just tickles me silly, but I love it.
And they think I'm the effed up one.
I know it's just between the two of us.
What the hell?
I know it's like, I kind of want my kids to believe in Krampus as well as Santa.
Oh my God.
Like I'm going to tell them that like if they're acting naughty, I'm like, oh Krampus is going
to come whoop your ass.
See I would say, oh, you know, when Iris is, you know, like old enough to, you know, like
really understand, you know, difference between like Santa Claus and Krampus, I would totally
send her a Krampus bell, but like I want to stay her favorite uncle.
I don't want to do anything to jeopardize that.
Maybe that's like an older teen gift.
Okay.
Like she, if she maintains like the interest that she currently has as like, I think she
has them, like what I assume she's going to grow up to like, like she kind of has an affinity
for the creepy stuff.
Like she's loves spooky stuff.
Like we went to like this Halloween, like scary walkway where this dude went and bought
like a shit ton of like spirit of Halloween displays and she was loving it.
Like she loved all of them, like all the creepy ones, all of like the clowns too.
So I think as she gets older, if she keeps that same interest, I think she'll, she'll
like Krampus.
Dude like I'm, I don't know why, but like I'm almost tearing up over here because you
saying that I'm just like, I know we ain't blood, but like she really is my niece.
She's into that shit.
Dude, she freaking loves it.
Like oh my God, dude.
Like I was trying to, so Brielle was trying to freaking like traumatize her with that
shit.
Like, so, okay, fun story here.
So there was a display.
It was like, um, kind of like a Cujo dog house thing where if you got too close to it, like
a, a dog head would kind of like pop out and like, right?
And Brielle kept trying to bring Iris near it.
I'm just like, no, like you're going to freaking traumatize her.
And then she's not going to like this stuff anymore.
Like she's just going to associate it with fear.
Yeah I, I, I can see where it come from.
Yeah, definitely with dogs.
You don't want to do that.
Yeah.
Well, not, not even that.
It's just like Halloween in general.
Oh, okay.
Like, cause it was, it didn't look like exactly like a dog.
It was just like a creepy looking image.
Just, it's like kind of like a demon dog.
We don't introduce her to child's play though, until she's a teen.
Let's not room dolls for her just yet.
Yeah, that one's a little far off, Rose.
But like, Mark my words, I will buy, I will, uh, I'll buy her a good guy doll.
Uh, when she, when she's a teenager.
I just need to establish like movies are fake.
Yes.
Um, but no, like my whole thing, like I do want to, like, I want to introduce her to
like all of these different things, but they can be traumatizing in a way.
Like I did the same thing with fishing.
Like I didn't, when she, when we went fishing that one time, I didn't make her hold her
fish.
I had her hold the fishing line and take a picture and she was fine with that until it
started moving.
And then once she was just like, eh, I don't like that.
Then like put a stop to it.
And it was like the same thing.
Like Brielle was trying to like pull her towards all this scary shit, like all of the displays
that jump out towards you.
And we're just like, no, like we're going to do it at a distance.
I'm going to tell her, oh my gosh, like these are so silly.
Like look, it's, ooh, spooky.
Like I was doing that.
And then she was like, oh yeah, it's just, it's just spooky.
And so we got closer and closer until she was like all for it.
And then we saw, and then like the clowns, like they had one that was like messed up,
like even for me, where it was like these two clowns holding this tiny little clown
and it was like lurching back and forth.
Like they were like pulling on this clown and the clown would like in the middle would
like shake and scream.
And like super creepy, right?
Oh yeah.
Iris freaking turned it into a game where she, where I was holding one of her hands
and then Brielle was holding her other hand.
And then I'd like pull on her and like kind of like lurch her, like pull her into me.
And then Brielle would pull her into her.
And then it just turned into like a my babe, like baby tug of war.
Oh my God, that's so cute.
Yeah.
And she was like all for it and she thought the clowns were like the funniest thing.
Oh my God.
Dude that just, you say that just reminds me of what, remember when we took Iris to
Spirit Halloween before?
Yeah, she had very different thoughts about that.
Yeah, she did.
I don't think that, I don't think that was anything that she saw.
I don't think that was any of that, those issues.
I think she was tired and she-
Yeah, no, I think you're absolutely right.
Yeah, so that was the issue there.
But dude, oh my God.
I just became an even more proud uncle.
Oh my God.
So let me know when I can get her a Michael Myers plushie, a Chucky plushie, a Freddy
Chucky, a Jason plushie.
As long as they're like cute.
I'm just, dude I'm totally kidding.
I know, well I'm not.
If they're, if they could be considered cute, then sure go ahead.
Yes, you have no idea what door you just opened.
I am fully aware of who you are.
All I'm saying is, Brielle, this better not come back to bite me in the ass with Brielle
and her birthday rolls around in-
I'll take the bullet for that if I have to.
Anyway, getting back to character development and the whole like delivering Cole thing.
Like he still had the, like I would say he still had the desire to be Santa.
It's just he was losing motivation based off of what everyone was wanting.
Yes.
Like, and you could see it in him.
Like there were some kids that he was just like, like he had a soft spot for and it was
like the younger kids of course.
And then it was like the older ones that were just like, I want cash, cash, cash, video
game.
And he was just like pissed off at that, which understandable.
But he kind of regained his love and appreciation, like not even for Christmas, just like his
history as like the Viking warrior.
So it kind of like reignited a bunch of things within him, which was really nice to see.
So I'm not exactly sure where I sit with character development.
I might need a minute.
You got any other like thoughts on-
Not really.
Just like I was honestly shocked of like how solid it like character development it was
for being a Santa Claus movie.
It definitely had some twists and turns when it came to character development and they
were well thought out.
They were very well executed and yeah, overall I say it was pretty solid.
So I would say I'm going to go an 80.
I'm actually going to match you there.
Hell yeah.
I think it was, like I said, a little bit above average, nothing like awe inspiring or anything,
but it was good.
Next up where this movie absolutely shined, the effects and holy shit.
My only problem with effects is maybe the bleeding was a tad excessive.
And what I mean is like when someone got stabbed it was like gushing blood, but the blood seemed
like really thick.
That is fair.
Other than that, zero issues.
Dude, yeah seriously.
Oh my god.
Just literally the scene in the frickin' garage where David Harbour is just going to town
on all of those henchmen with a sledgehammer.
He's frickin' using like ice skates.
Oh my god it was so awesome.
I frickin' loved every minute of it.
Dude, just complete brutality.
And hell those weren't even so, like I love that they try to keep most if not all of the
kills somewhat Christmas related.
They did.
Like I think like a couple of my favorite kills, one was the frickin' fight with, what's
his face, Frosty, where he shoves the frickin' star in his eye.
Yes.
And of course the cherry on top he plugs it in.
Yeah plugs it in and the dude's head catches on fire.
Just like yes.
Chef's kiss.
Dude like that, oh my gosh.
Like when he shoved that I was like okay like that was a frickin' violent kill and then
he gets up and I'm like oh no.
And then when I see him like look over I'm like is he gonna plug the star in?
And then once he did that I was like this movie's frickin' awesome.
Like I frickin' love that.
I also really love the, when he's fighting that one dude who is like on the computers
and he's like running away and pulls like a grenade out and he just shoves it into his
pants and then walks off and he's like I gotta see this turns around the dude blows up and
he's like oh shit and then just walks off laughing.
Yeah oh my god that was so fantastic.
Dude that is exactly how I frickin' felt.
I was just like oh shit.
So good.
Dude even one of the first kills, I think this is the first kill that Santa has when
the guy is pushed out the window and dies by the icicle.
Like I frickin' love that.
There were a lot of like I feel impalements done by icicles in this movie and I frickin'
loved it and just reminds you like how frickin' sharp that shit can be.
And no joke.
And dude I love that they frickin' addressed that you can turn candy canes into lethal
weapons.
Yes.
That was great.
That was, like I know that we saw it in the trailer where he's like stabbing people with
the frickin' candy cane but holy shit dude.
Like seeing it in action it's just like yes this is just kind of what everyone imagines
would happen if you decided to go crazy on someone with a frickin' candy cane.
Yeah exactly.
Loved it so much.
Yeah that was a great one.
Oh I got some 2019 Child's Play vibes with the mulcher.
Yes although I feel this one was done better.
It was done so much better.
Yeah.
Love that one.
So much more bloody and I frickin' loved it.
Trying to think of some like other decent kills.
Oh frickin' Scrooge.
His death was horrifying.
That caught me off guard.
I was not.
I'm like the fuck did I just witness?
Dude that was rough to watch.
It really was.
Especially when Santa is sitting there laughing and throws what remains of his body over.
Like yeah right.
Like oh no.
That's gross.
Yeah that was.
Oh man.
That was just brutal.
Just like I said pure frickin' brutality.
So so great.
I love how it wasn't even like something where it was like super dramatic that he was doing
it.
It was just something like they're wrestling more or less and then he grabs him.
Like he turns around grabs Scrooge and then taps his nose and then he started turning
into like the dust to go up the chimney and I was like oh no.
And oh my gosh.
I think what got me was him getting stuck.
Yeah that was.
Like he's like screaming he's like no and then he gets like caught and then I'm like
okay like this is gonna mess him up and then he's like just rips him through the frickin'
chimney like oh my hell.
God I'm playing it back again in my head and I hate it.
Dude that I will say was hard for me to watch.
Yeah like you said it's gonna.
I'm so glad I was in the theater by myself because I like out loud went oh.
Dude I love it.
Dude I forget what scene it was.
No yeah I think it's at the beginning when like.
I think like when Santa's just like oh yeah you know I need this many drinks to like actually
get me through this holiday or some shit like that.
I heard someone in the back of.
Yeah same Santa.
Like it's not even in the frickin movie and I'm already laughing.
Oh man dude this movie was so frickin good.
Like this is exactly what I wanted from this movie in like almost every single way.
So the only thing that I'm gonna dock for effects wise is maybe the reindeer.
The reindeer looked super fake.
I can definitely agree with you on that one.
And I think that's just an issue with Christmas movies in general.
Most of the reindeer look really really fake.
It's true it was very true.
But yeah I'm not gonna dock it a ton because the reindeer weren't like a huge part of this
movie.
So they left his ass.
Yeah.
Let's see.
Yeah so I think I think I'm gonna be at like a 92 for it with the effects.
I think it earned it.
Yeah you know I'm gonna match it.
I absolutely agree with you.
Alright next up we got music.
I'm trying to think of like what Christmas songs were in this movie.
They played a decent variety of Christmas songs.
That's what I thought but for some reason like I can't remember any of them.
Yeah like this is where I feel like the music worked for the scenes but didn't quite stand
out.
Oh yeah I don't remember them having a holiday song.
Oh yeah I guess that was a starting song.
A Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives.
I feel like that's just a classic staple Christmas song.
So that's like this is really tough because it's like it's Christmas music so it's like
very much above average but it's just it worked well with the scene but it's not anything
like you'd remember super well.
I feel the one that like definitely is very it worked so well was the Don't De Santa Claus
by Tony Sante and that's I think it's when he was fighting the one that he stabs the
star into his eye.
That's right.
Yeah that's like definitely like the one that I do remember specifically that song and like
I'm like okay you know what I like this pick for this scene.
It definitely works.
I like it.
Yeah I don't remember that one nearly as well as I remember the one that was playing when
they were fighting in the barn.
Yeah that one was Christmas Time by Bryan Adams.
Yeah like good songs but it's just I think they were just overshadowed by what was happening
in the scene so it just didn't quite stick very well.
Yeah that's fair.
This one's tough.
It's in between like a seven and an eight and an eight strictly because it's Christmas
music.
I don't know just because like they didn't like exactly like really stick out that much
except for that one song like I'm more so at like a seven.
I can definitely go seven.
I could have been talked to either way and so if you're going seven I'm going seven.
Okay cool.
All right next up we got costumes.
So the only like real big costume was David Harbor as Santa.
I thought it looked great.
His suit looked great.
His suit looked good.
His beard though.
That is I see where you're coming from with that.
His beard was was a little rough for me.
I will say it was kind of it was definitely interesting seeing a Santa wear a leather
outfit.
That definitely took me by surprise but I thought that was a very nice different iteration.
You're definitely used to them wearing you know like the classic like what do you say
shirt?
A velvet Santa suit so seeing him in like a leather Santa suit I feel was a nice change
and it worked well.
You said you haven't seen Christmas Chronicles right?
Yes, I have not.
Yeah.
Um look up Kurt Russell's suit in that because he wears a leather jacket in that.
Oh okay.
Um and apparently like I was watching this documentary about like the Santa Claus industry
and apparently that movie like upped the game for most Santas.
Oh yes I love that.
Yeah I think it works great.
It looks great.
Yeah right?
Yeah.
Damn I really need to watch these movies because god he looks fantastic Santa Claus.
Christmas Chronicles the first one definitely worth the watch like absolutely like just
Kurt Russell just bleeds charm and just the Santa wonder in this in that movie.
The second one definitely if you got nothing better to do.
Oh it's not it's not as good as the first?
Not nearly as good as the first.
Okay.
The only thing that like that one had was um uh Mrs Claus was in it a little bit more.
Okay.
But other than that it was no like the first the first one's good enough.
Alright have they announced that they're doing a third one at all or is it just a two and
that's it?
I hope they just leave it at the two.
Unless they have like a really solid idea for a third they which they didn't have one
for the second.
It was not good.
Like their idea for the yeah their their idea for this the second one was an elf that lost
his Christmas spirit turned human and was trying to destroy Christmas.
It is stupid.
I mean that's not the worst Christmas idea I've heard but it's not great.
Yeah it's not the least bit ideal.
The first one was really solid.
It's these kids that um that are having issues because their dad died uh stay up to catch
Santa in the act and then they like spot him and like oh my gosh this is so cool and then
they run outside see his sleigh jump in his sleigh and then just kind of get him thrown
off track and so it's like an adventure of gathering all of his magical items and shit
so he can like do Christmas over and it's good.
I'm not doing it the story justice whatsoever but it's it's good.
Okay.
Anyway um getting back to costumes.
I really dug just his overall like suit but I liked what he was wearing underneath it
too kind of had like that Viking vibe.
Yeah it was straight I mean it looked straight up like a pirate shirt to me that's what I
associated that kind of shirt with but yeah oh I absolutely loved it.
Yeah kind of like I can see what you you're meaning there with the uh the pirate vibe.
It's just like so for those of you that don't know he was wearing like just a brown tunic
underneath his his suit and then under that he was wearing like a puffy white shirt like
long sleeve shirt but a majority of the film he was wearing like he was wearing his jacket
like his nice red leather leather jacket and his hat um classic red pants boots nothing
too special there.
I really liked his gloves.
Yeah dude those were so good.
Yeah like they were classic like brown leather gloves but uh some of the fingers were were
cut off and I don't know if that was because they like something happened to them but it
seemed like that was like an intentional thing.
Yeah yeah I don't know either.
And I I didn't quite know where to fit this one in.
I wanted to bring up how his sled looked and how it looks like uh like a viking ship.
It did yeah you're right.
Yeah it has like viking runes on it and I freaking loved loved that look kind of has
like the hardwood feel like it looks like a freaking compact viking ship.
It's freaking sick.
So freaking cool.
And then the freaking whoever designed the tattoos that he had amazing.
Yes dude oh my god so good so good.
So freaking loved that.
Everyone else like they fit like decent costumes all around but Santa was definitely like the
standout.
Oh absolutely no question about it.
This one's tough because it's like the extras bring it down but Santa's really good.
I'm at an eight or a nine and I could be talked to either way.
I feel just because the extras give it I don't know just because I loved how he looked the
the way that the Santa suit looks so.
Yeah but it's like does ever did everyone else like that's true.
Yeah so I would have to say that Nate.
Yeah and a majority of that is because of freaking Santa.
Oh yeah absolutely.
Like honestly without his outfit he the movie would probably be about a six.
Yeah absolutely agree.
Like it's just I think it would be a very strong six very weak seven and the only reason
is because some of the mercenaries were dressed in like a Christmas outfit like what's her
face candy cane.
Yeah remember that.
Like she's the only reason that it would get even remotely close to a seven.
I can definitely agree with you on that one.
But yeah with Santa just solid eight.
All right last up we got our own personal score.
I'll take this one first.
I had a blast with this freaking movie.
I did not expect it to be as good as it was like I expected to like David Harbour and
enjoy some of like the the Christmas violence and and whatnot but I didn't expect to like
I was I left the theater like just with a shit eating grin on my face.
Like it was so much fun to sit there and watch how violent Santa could could get in creative
ways too.
Like I always appreciate good creative kills and I think they they exceeded every expectation
that I had and then some and just the the fact that they kept everything holiday themed
other than maybe like one or two kills was fantastic.
So for me I think I'm going to be at like an eighty nine.
That's completely fair.
No yeah honestly literally everything that you hit on just had such a blast with this
movie was not expecting to walk out of it enjoying it that much.
David Harbour just absolutely kills it as Santa Claus and John Leguizamo is also worth
talking about because he is a really great villain in this movie.
Yeah I had a great time and honestly like Caleb can't wait to watch this movie every
year.
It's definitely added to the list.
I think I'm just going to be a little bit below you.
I'm going to go at an eighty seven.
Completely fair.
All right well with that that has brought us.
All right so going through each of the scores we have we're sitting first off the story
sitting at a very solid eighty two writing dipped a pretty significant amount sitting
at a seventy six acting came back up sitting at an eighty two point five the character
development slightly above average sitting at an eighty the effects are the high talking
point of this movie sitting at a very strong ninety two music sitting at a seven costume
sitting at an eight and then our personal score averaged out to an eighty eight.
So with all of that the final all bros letter grade for violent night has come to a.
A B. Not bad.
Yeah not bad at all it.
Barely missed the mark of being a B minus.
Okay but you know it's okay.
It's on the lower end so it's sitting at an eighty three point one eight percent.
Okay.
Which again isn't horrible.
It's just not as high as.
I think most people would like.
Probably.
All right so let's see eighty three so violent night.
Is actually our second lowest B movie.
Okay interesting.
Yeah so it is so let's start off like what it's below and then we'll go the opposite
way so it is sitting below Shazam.
Which is at an eighty three point two five.
It is below Bill and Ted face the music which is at an eighty three point three two.
It is below Toy Story four which is at an eighty three point four two.
As well as child's play twenty nineteen which is at an eighty three point four three.
And then finally it is below James Gunn's Suicide Squad at an eighty three point five.
All right.
Bad.
Yeah go in the opposite direction though it is above.
Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle.
Which is at an eighty three point zero six.
Okay.
And then going into the B minus.
Range it's above the greatest showman which is at an eighty two point nine three.
As well as Mulan which is at an eighty two point six two.
It's above the hunt which is at an eighty eighty two point four seven.
And then it is above Chippendale Rescue Rangers which is at an eighty two point four three.
All right.
Not bad.
Yeah I think it has a decent home.
I would agree.
Would you agree with it being below Toy Story four.
Like I that's the one I thought you'd have issues with.
Wait that it's it's.
Wait so you said.
Yeah.
Do you have an issue with it being below Toy Story four.
Yeah.
No because I mean I know I have problems with Toy Story four but I still do enjoy it.
Yeah.
I think.
I honestly I think this Toy Story four higher than that.
Not gonna lie.
Nope and that's probably my fault.
Yeah asshole.
Just kidding.
Hey I'll take it.
Yeah.
I think I think it has a decent home overall.
Like it's all these movies that we have in like the or at least in this area are all
ones that I enjoyed better than they scored.
That's fair.
That is.
Yeah that's absolutely fair and I can definitely agree with you on that.
Yeah like I really enjoyed Shazam but I understand why it's as low as it is as well as Jumanji.
Really liked Jumanji but completely understandable why it ended up in that range.
So it makes sense.
Yeah.
So I'm not too too butthurt about it.
You know me neither.
Me neither.
So yeah that's where it's where it's sitting.
Sweet.
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Did you see that we did you see the two sales that we made in the past couple of days.
Yes.
What the hell.
One of course was for another Monster House Dreamcast.
But yeah the She-Hulk Dreamcast wasn't it for like stickers.
Yeah.
Hell yeah.
Someone bought four stickers.
Yeah.
I was like hell yeah that's awesome man.
I don't know how the hell that happened.
I don't know if we've ever sold She-Hulk before.
No it's usually always Monster House.
Yeah.
I'll take it I guess.
Yeah.
But yeah so next week we will be breaking down the I guess a lot of people would say
the true sequel to A Christmas Story A Christmas Story Christmas which you can actually check
out right now on HBO Max.
I will like I will say though like have you seen A Christmas Story 2 like the one that
came out like I think like 2013 or some shit like that.
No.
I've heard nothing but horrible things about it and I will not be watching that ever.
It's I don't know to me it's not as bad as everyone says.
I feel that the kid that they picked to play Ralphie actually does a really good job.
It's just a lot of like the supporting cast around him are not that good.
But I mean Daniel Stern is as decent as the old man.
But I mean you know it's Daniel Stern so like you really can't go wrong with him.
No you can't.
But so really quickly I remember like I think it was like when it first came out the kids
that they picked to play Flick and Schwartz I feel that they should have switched because
the other one looks a lot more like how they look opposite of how each should look in freaking
high school.
Like I don't know.
I feel that they should have switched the actors.
But anyway we're not going to talk about A Christmas Story 2.
We're going to be talking about A Christmas Story Christmas next week.
So if you guys want to check the movie out before we break it down you can find it right
now on HBO Max.
It's an HBO Max original.
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I am Jonathan and I'm Caleb and we will catch you guys next week.
So long.
I tried to do it as Caleb's deuces and it came out.
God that was just garbage.