I forgot how we make the intro for a second.
Jeez Louise.
What is up bro?
This is the All Bros Podcast.
I'm Caleb.
And I'm the one that should be messing this up, but apparently it's Caleb.
I'm Jonathan.
We are a couple of aspiring filmmakers that love to watch and critique movies, but also
enjoy a lot of bit of the nerd life.
This week on the podcast we have a couple things to discuss in Funko Focus.
We actually got a really decent selection of pop figures to choose from this week.
In 4K Spotlight we have a new movie coming out, a new animated family film for you all.
And then for our Through the Wall segment we are going to discuss a new trailer that
came out that I am super hyped for.
And then Rose is going to update us on some video game chat.
And then for our headliner of the evening we are going to be breaking down the 2020
Russell Crowe movie Unhinged.
So without further ado, let's get into it.
Let's do it.
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Alrighty, first up in Funko Focus.
Um, we had the Funko Virtual Con happen and this was a pretty decent con.
Um, a lot of decent figures that were coming out.
Let me try and get like a view of what came out.
Probably should have had this image up already.
I mean I did, but...
You were just killing it this episode.
Yeah.
I know right?
This is so interesting hearing me scroll through shit.
Um, so we had a few DC figures come out.
Um, some new Hanna Barbera-esque figures.
Uh, Alice in Wonderland, Marvel, the boys, uh, some Pokemon, some Disney figures.
Uh, a pretty wide selection of everything I'd say.
Yeah, I agree.
Yeah.
Um, but for my Funko Focus this week, um, I am going to be focusing on a figure that
actually wasn't part of Funko Virtual Con.
It's actually a...
I don't even know.
Like, this is something completely different.
This is a, uh, what do they say this was?
Shield of the Year?
Or a Year in Shield or something like that?
Yeah, Year of the Shield figure that's coming out and this is an Amazon exclusive Winter
Soldier with Captain America's shield.
She's a beauty.
Which is, oh, so freaking dope.
Um, so this is, this is kind of like the iconic Winter Soldier moment.
I wouldn't say, actually not THE iconic Winter Soldier moment.
Um, from Captain America, the Winter Soldier, where he is fighting without his visor or
so whatever the glasses are, the goggles.
Yeah.
Um, he doesn't have the goggles and he's carrying the Captain America shield in his, uh, in
his arm and it looks freaking dope.
It does.
I mean, I love the original but this one's incredible and especially since a lot of people
weren't able to get the original Winter Soldier, this is a perfect updated version.
Hell yeah.
Honestly, this might be one that I pick up.
I love it that much.
That doesn't surprise me.
Like in the slightest.
Yeah.
I'm excited for these Year of the Shield.
Son of a bitch.
It's temporarily out of stock.
Are you shitting me?
Yeah, I'm sorry Caleb.
That sucks.
I'm sure it will come back in the stock.
Um, yeah, so it's an Amazon exclusive like we said.
Um, super dope.
I'm a kind of, I'm really excited to see what the Year of the Shield is gonna be.
Yeah, me too.
Cause, yeah, like, I'm wondering if we're just gonna get a bunch of figures where it's
people carrying Captain America's shield or, like, or what it's, I just want to know what
it is cause I love the Captain America shield and if there's a bunch of figures that are
gonna come out where people are carrying the shield, I'm probably gonna end up buying a
lot of figures.
Since they're doing an updated version of the Winter Soldier holding it, I want them
to do an updated version of Black Widow holding it for Major Voltron.
Yes.
That's actually the Black Widow figure I want.
Oh yeah, cause I remember you were having a hard time cause it was a GameStop exclusive.
Yeah, it freaking sucked.
Like it was super difficult to find and now it's like impossible to find for like a decent
rate.
Ain't that bad a bitch.
Yeah.
But gosh, such a cool figure.
It is gorgeous.
We'll be posting pictures of this and all the figures that we talk about on our social
media so you guys can head over to Instagram and Twitter and Facebook to check those out.
We'll even be posting which stores we'll be getting the certain pops for VirtualCom.
So yes.
Makes it a lot easier for you guys.
So anyway, Rose, what is your Funko Focus this week?
So my Funko Focus is not, it's kind of a weird one, cause it's not because of the actual
show cause I never watched the show growing up, but so they are doing an original underdog
from the original, it's Hanna Barbera right?
Is it an underdog, Hanna Barbera?
I don't know.
It might be.
If it's not, I suck.
But anyway, the only reason I chose this cause it looks awesome, but it just got me thinking
about the live action Jason Lee underdog movie and as much as everybody hates that movie,
I still enjoy the hell out of it because who doesn't love Peter Dinklage playing, what
is it like, Doc, ah shit, what's his name?
I don't even know dude.
Wait one sec.
I gotta remember his name.
Damn this show came out in 1964.
Shit.
Damn that's old as hell.
You know what I find crazy is that underdog is on Netflix and Disney plus right now.
How can it be on two streaming services?
The movie?
Yeah.
Maybe it's like, is it like one of those weird situations like with Ant-Man and the Wasp
where it like shows up?
No you can actually play it on Disney plus.
It doesn't say oh coming at this certain date due to existing streaming, whatever it's called,
existing streaming, not allegations.
I forget the damn word.
Rights?
Yeah there we go.
Shut up.
That's the word.
Smartass.
Dude if we ever get a sponsor for the show we need someone to sponsor us that makes like
a thesaurus or a dictionary or just something along those lines like could you imagine being
sponsored by like Hooked on Phonics?
That would be pretty cool.
Dude that would be hilarious.
Dr. Simon Barsinister, that would be very funny.
That's his name.
Dr. Simon Barsinister.
Yeah that took you a really long time to find.
Well okay you know what it's kind of hard to find the IMDB for underdog because it's
a very forgotten movie so shut up.
Anyway super cool figure I mean Godman is classic like arms raised ready to take flight
and it's an awesome Funko pop I loved it or I love it.
The only shitty side to this is it's going to the Funko shop so I can kiss any chances
of getting this goodbye.
Yeah that kind of sucks.
It blows when it goes to the freaking Funko shop.
Someone posted in a comment said they should call exclusive to the Funko shop exclusive
to eBay.
They're not wrong.
Freaking freaking petty but I love it.
Alright next up we got 4k spotlights of Rose would you like to guide us through this one?
I would love to.
So we are finally getting a new release when it comes to 4k and blu ray a movie that was
out a couple months ago in theaters and that is The Crudes a new age the sequel to the
first Crudes that came out I believe in like 2012 2013.
Anyway heard this was a decent sequel haven't checked it out yet definitely want to check
it out eventually or actually no I'm probably going to check it out very soon because you
know me I got I got to own all the new movies.
Anyway this is not getting any exclusives unfortunately all it is getting is a bare
bones blu ray release a 4k release and then they are doing a combo pack that comes with
the first Crudes as well as this one.
Nice and that's all folks.
The Crudes is actually a really good movie I think it's one of the more underrated movies.
I absolutely agree yeah it is a very underrated Dreamworks movie.
So if you guys haven't checked it out definitely go and do that.
Seems like they are releasing a couple of wait no okay never mind that doesn't make
sense scratch what I just said keep going.
So we are going to move on to Through the Wall and Rose you want to start us off?
Yes so for my bit of Through the Wall news okay I got a little story time here because
I feel really dumb for this.
So a couple of weeks ago Square Enix announced that the Hawkeye DLC for Future Imperfect
and they said that what was Tuesday's date?
This past Tuesday if my calendar wants to come up the 16th so they announced like oh
you know like for some reason I read it as oh we will be talking about Hawkeye the 16th
he will be coming the 16th and I took that as oh that's when the DLC for Hawkeye is going
to be dropped for Marvel's Avengers and so I'm like oh hell yeah you know I'm freaking
hyped but there was like literally no teasing for it really they weren't advertising it
that much on their Facebook page or any social media so that kind of like threw me through
a loop.
So when the date actually arrived they actually only did like the war table discussion that
they do where it's like 10 minutes of like what the game or what the DLC actually entitles
and then like a small little trailer after that and so I feel really dumb for not realizing
that that's all we were going to get but nonetheless it was a great trailer it was a great war
table experience they dived into a lot of the differences between Clint and Kate and
how they will be able to play a couple examples that instead of being able to like kind of
like vanish into thin air and then reappear like Kate is able to do Clint will have grappling
arrows to get to higher areas it seems like he's going to be able to fire arrows a lot
more rapidly and more at the same time than Kate.
What else?
There's that okay yeah so there's that they talked about Caleb what's another version
of Hulk is like Maestro?
Yeah.
It's like the future evil Hulk.
So they talked about that and I guess him and Clint are going to have a little bit of
a what's the word a clash because they are actually taking some bits and pieces from
not only My Life as a Weapon that comic book series but also Old Man Hawkeye so yeah that's
gonna be super super cool so I'm freaking stoked for this DLC I am honestly counting
down the days I just need to finish Kate Bishop's storyline because I gotta finish that before
I can finish or I can start Clint's but Clint goes live on March 18th so people if you have
Marvel's Avengers please start playing it again.
That means you Caleb?
I know I know I need to but it's just like ehh.
What the hell is that?
It's like I've said I think I said this in our breakdown of it it's so hard to find the
motivation to go back because the game gives you nothing to work with.
See my motivation is there of course because you know it's I'm getting two Hawkeyes so
I'm freaking over the moon so there's my push to come back.
Yeah that's fair and I do hear that the biggest thing that I loved about this game was the
story so knowing that we're getting a new story with new characters kind of is a drop
like is kind of like a lure to get me back in but I don't know why I'm just so hesitant
it's just maybe the game kind of left a bad taste in my mouth.
That's understandable.
And I'm like hesitant to get back into it.
I can understand that I understand but just give it a chance man just give it a chance.
Yeah I'll get back into it I just need to A. find the time and B. just kind of get over
my negative feelings towards it.
I mean especially considering you spent more on the game than I did.
Yeah and it's already gone like gotten super cheap at Walmart.
It seems like it's 30 bucks every other week on sale.
Yeah dude I found the a copy at Walmart that comes with the six exclusive patches for $30.
That's gotta hurt.
Yep it did not feel super great especially for someone that dropped 80 on it.
Yeah that's sogged.
Anyway so moving on before I get sad my through the wall news is the trailer for the new Mortal
Kombat movie and this looks so dope.
It really does this movie looks like a blast from hopefully start to finish.
Yeah I don't think that this is gonna be a movie I hope it is I hope I think it's not
gonna have like a whole lot of substance but I do think that we're gonna get a decent action
movie out of this.
I think this is gonna be like a shut your brain off movie.
I feel that's uh isn't that kind of how Mortal Kombat should be.
Oh yeah I think that's the only way that it can be.
I hope they do right by it like if they get anywhere near Sonic the Hedgehog that would
be awesome.
Yeah that's just perfection.
Yeah but I'm excited I think that there's a lot of stuff in that trailer I haven't actually
played any of the games.
I haven't either actually.
Yeah so it's kind of hard it was a little difficult to tell who's who I think the only
real characters that I know were Scorpion and Sub-Zero.
Yeah that's all I knew.
And yeah I freaking loved it.
Oh dude that beginning where he froze that guy's arm off holy shit.
Right?
That was insane.
Oh my gosh yeah so this is the Red Band trailer that we watched and shit got wild.
So I'm pretty sure this is going to be just a crazily insanely choreographed movie.
This is the definition of a bloody good time I feel.
An R rated bloody good time.
Hell yeah and this is supposed to get released in April?
I think so.
Yeah I think they said April 26th.
And it's coming to theaters and on HBO Max.
So you know for damn sure we're going to be breaking that movie down.
Even though we know jack shit about the games.
We're still going to have a blast breaking this thing down.
We're going to try and get some people on to discuss this movie with us.
I feel if we can it's definitely going to be a lot more enjoyable because they could
actually like school us on what is actually in these games.
Yeah I think I'm going to do something that I haven't really done before.
Especially with this movie.
Because I'm not familiar with the backstory and history of Mortal Kombat.
I think I'm going to try and find a video of a compilation of the story.
And maybe like or like a history like kind of maybe listen to some podcasts about the
history and of the characters.
I mean or you could watch the original you could also watch the original movie.
Yeah I think that's another thing I'm going to do.
Because I think that that's something I need to understand the characters first.
Because I want to say that they're releasing a steelbook of Mortal Kombat.
I want to say that is coming with yeah so it comes with holy shit that's a good deal.
So it comes with both of the previous Mortal Kombat movies and releases it looks like March
30th only 15 bucks on steelbook.
Okay I hear that those movies are garbage so I think that might be a deal where you're
losing money.
Yeah but you're you got nothing but gain to get considering you'll be getting the digital
code for free.
So fair enough.
But yeah I think I'm going to go and watch a bunch of videos just to kind of learn what's
what so I can be I want to like build the hype up for myself a little bit.
Like with I like I did the same thing kind of with with Sonic kind of built up the hype
a little bit.
I went and played some of his games learned a little bit more about the character and
just kind of built it up a little bit but I was already excited to watch a Sonic movie.
And I think the yeah I think I think I need some history lesson on this.
So going back to that's that's Sonic thing.
Just please tell me it was not Sonic Unleashed or Sonic 06 that you played or went back and
looked at.
No I played whichever one that you play as like the future Sonic and the past Sonic.
Oh that's Sonic Generations.
Yes OK.
I never actually played that one but I heard it was a blast.
I I forgot how much I hate Sonic games.
Well fine.
I can't just do like a run through of a game like it is so difficult for me to like go
through a game and not collect everything as I go.
There's like watching why people do speed runs.
This is like no I feel this is a reason why we both still enjoy Lego games because we
both enjoy that hell out of collecting literally every single gosh damn stud there is in those
games.
Yeah and I'm freaking anal about that dude.
Like I'll go through.
So like the way that I play is I collect as many characters as I can to accomplish certain
tasks and then I'll go back and I won't continue the game until I've like collected everything
up until that point.
So when I when I beat the game it's typically at 100 percent.
Like I said I'm freaking anal about that shit.
Dude but that's awesome because I have literally not gotten 800 percent on a Lego game since
probably Lego Star Wars 2 the original trilogy.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
Dude I can't I can't put down a Lego game until I've reached 100 percent.
Shit.
OK.
I mean I applaud you.
I applaud you man.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
But Mortal Kombat super freaking excited for it.
Same even though I've never played a game.
I kind of want to now.
Me too.
Like and they're not that expensive honestly.
So I might like blind buy one of the twenty dollar ones.
We'll see.
Yeah I might too.
Just to like I said familiarize myself with the characters a little bit.
Yeah.
Because I think that there's a lot of a lot of people that showed up in this trailer that
got people hyped that are familiar with the games that like people like us didn't quite
catch.
Like really the only two that I was excited for was Scorpion and Sub Zero.
Oh same.
Like I wish I knew the guy's name with like the four arms.
Yeah.
Because he wore the dude with the big hat and the lightning.
Oh yeah.
He looked familiar.
I just I just don't know the name.
Yeah me either.
So super excited for the movie.
Personally I'm sitting about maybe a really strong seven.
Same absolute same.
Yeah I think that there's just a lot of like I said history and stuff that I'm missing.
So yeah.
Once I figure that shit out I'll I'll get back to you guys.
All right but I think that's everything we got for Through the Wall.
Unless Rose you got anything else to add?
No I got nothing.
Alrighty then let's get into this week's headliner.
Let's do it.
All righty.
Breakdown time.
Yeah boy.
That's the first time you've ever said that.
I know because I was going to say something else but I forgot and I'm like I need to say
something.
Were you thinking it's turbo time?
A little bit.
Okay.
I think that's yeah.
Okay.
Anyway good.
We unfortunately did not ask a question of the week this week because we suck.
Yeah we do.
We apologize.
We're sorry.
Yeah.
But.
Or so getting into that like just the breakdown.
If you are not familiar with our breakdown system we have split the split movies into
eight different categories that we individually grade to give the movie that we talk about
a letter grade.
Like a schoolhouse letter grade with a percentage and everything.
And the eight categories that we grade are story, writing, acting, character development,
effects, music, costumes and then give it our own personal grade at the very end.
And then all of that gives us our math that gives us our letter grade.
I love that gives us our math.
I need to write something down because I just freaking I freestyle it like every single
week and I feel like it just slowly gets worse.
Oh man.
Anyway so starting off with story if you have not seen this movie definitely go check this
one out.
If you like thriller movies you're going to enjoy the hell out of this one.
You're going to have a good time.
Yeah.
So if you continue to listen past this point Rose is about to spoil the entire movie for
you because he's going to read us a little synopsis.
So get prepared for reading with Rose with two E's.
He always has to have that.
Yes I do.
Anyway so Tom Cooper a mentally unstable man feeling powerless and invisible to the world
breaks into the home of his ex-wife and kills her and her boyfriend with a hammer before
setting the house on fire.
He drives away as the house explodes.
Yeah that was one hell of an opening.
I'm like holy shit.
Dude right.
Like hot damn okay.
You got me.
I'm invested.
Yes starting off strong.
Attention like yeah you have received my attention.
Rachel Flynn a newly divorced single mother living in New Orleans drives her 15 year old
son Kyle to school in a rush hour traffic.
She is running late to work and honks at a pickup truck that has failed to go through
a green light.
The owner of the truck Tom soon catches up to Rachel and after apologizing to her asks
for an apology back.
The exchange escalates when Rachel tells him that she has nothing to apologize for.
A small chase ensues before Rachel loses Tom and is able to drop Kyle off.
Soon Rachel finds herself and everyone she loves the target of Tom a man who feels he
has nothing left to lose.
Tom tracks Rachel to a gas station and switches his phone out with hers while she is inside.
Rachel gets help from a customer who accompanies her back to her car and gets Tom's license
plate number but Tom rams him with his truck.
Tom aggressively pursues Rachel when Rachel tries to contact her friend Andy a divorce
lawyer for help she finds that Tom used the daily planner in her phone to locate Andy.
Who has a daily planner anymore or is that just me?
Right?
I thought once they got rid of those devices that were specific for those things that those
just went away automatically.
I mean is this me?
What I think ended up happening is that maybe I thought like the way that I viewed it was
that Andy sent like a notification or sent something to her like an event reminder or
something like that.
And so maybe that's what he was saying maybe because she seemed way too disorganized for
a daily planner.
Yeah dude like for real though.
Which speaking of which I am very much so unorganized too unorganized for a daily planner.
A daily planner would actually probably serve me really well.
I would probably actually remember to do all my work duties.
Yeah me too.
Alright before she can tell Andy that he is dangerous Tom casually stabs him in the diner
where Rachel was supposed to meet Andy.
That was something.
Russell Crowe was freaking ruthless in this movie like damn.
Yeah for real.
But can we talk a second of how much shit they both I'm talking about Tom and oh shit
what's her name?
Rachel.
Yeah can we talk about like how much bullshit they were both able to get away with without
running into cops.
Oh for real though.
Like for one Rachel driving down a one way street or Tom freaking doing some crazy shit
in the road.
Like what?
Like I'm surprised it took him as long as it did to find a cop.
I guess things are different in New Orleans.
Yeah it kind of felt like the cops were like just relying on calls.
That's what it seemed like.
Oh shit it really did.
Like I don't feel like they were like hunting at all.
No not one bit.
We'll get into this one like down the road but I have some more bitching about this movie.
Alright Tom continues to stalk Rachel.
He goes to her brother Fred's house and kills his fiance Mary.
Tom then sets Fred on fire just as police arrive at the house.
The officer who stumbles in manages to shoot Tom in the shoulder but he still escapes.
Tom soon catches up with Rachel again on a highway after she picked up Kyle from school
in a state of fear that Tom would find him.
Tom then chases them in a minivan.
He causes massive car crashes after ramming a cop car as he tries to catch up to Rachel.
Tom pursues Rachel to her mother's house where Kyle hides inside.
Tom attacks Rachel in the driveway and seemingly knocks her out.
He goes into the house to find Kyle.
As he is about to walk back outside Kyle makes a noise and wants to smack the shit out of
that kid.
Oh my gosh.
And you know what really sucks is did you recognize the kid?
No.
He played Andy Barkley in the remake of Child's Play.
Oh shit.
Okay.
So the fact that he made smart decisions in that movie as a kid, why is he making dumbass
decisions in this movie?
Honestly, I'm just thankful that he didn't fall for the cop thing.
Oh you and me both man.
Dude, like when he was doing that I'm like there's no way he is stupid enough to fall
for that.
And luckily he wasn't.
Yeah thank goodness.
It's like come on man you took out an AI robot doll.
Seriously that's going to bring you down buddy.
Yeah.
Oh where is it?
So as he is about to walk outside Kyle makes a noise alerting him upstairs.
Rachel comes in and tries to comfort Kyle but Tom drags her into the bedroom starting
a final struggle as they throw each other all over the room.
Kyle comes in and Tom tries to choke him to death with a cord.
Rachel picks up a pair of scissors and stabs Tom in the eye before kicking it deeper into
his eye socket finally killing him.
That was a pretty cool death.
Like I'm not going to lie.
That was so good.
So for a little bit of backstory when she initially honks at Tom and he pulls up next
to them and starts like chatting he was saying that he was upset that she didn't even offer
him a courtesy tap and showed what a courtesy tap is and it's just a beep beep beep like
a really quick honk just kind of like a reminder.
It's light it's friendly just like you're trying to get someone's attention.
And so when she stabs him in the eye and he like collapses he starts waking up and like
coming up from whatever the hell she right before she kicks it in she's like here's your
courtesy tap and kicks the pair of scissors deeper into his head.
I laughed my ass off.
I know it sounds stupid but like it works.
Like if some asshole like that was chasing me like that I feel I deserve that like gimpy
ass line at the end before I kill him.
Dude straight up.
That was easily the best line of the damn movie.
Absolutely.
I loved it.
But yeah this was a really solid movie.
There's actually still a little more.
Oh okay.
Yeah sorry.
No you're good man.
So after the cops show up Rachel and Kyle find out that Fred had survived the attack
and was sent to the hospital earlier.
After providing statements to the police about the crazy day they have experienced Rachel
and Kyle leave to go and see Fred.
As they drive away a car cuts across Rachel and she almost honks her horn at the driver
but decides against it after what they have been through to which Kyle simply responds
good choice they drive away.
Like yeah.
Got a point.
Another well written line.
And that is unhinged folks.
Hell yeah.
So getting into this breakdown.
So we graded the story 80.
I was a little bit higher than Rose in this grading.
And the reason I think I was a little bit higher was I just thought well actually I
want to hear your thoughts.
Why did you go where you were at?
I think like the movie never really lost me because if you're like really thinking about
this realistically there are some people like this that just the slightest thing if they're
having a bad day it's going to piss them the hell off and they're going to freak the flip
out.
And the way that they were able to take road rage to like this next level was honestly
really impressive.
And I really loved the story that they told.
But I don't know to me like it wasn't like an amazing story.
And there were like some parts that like maybe I could have like maybe done without like
I know it made sense in the movie but like the part where he like kills her brother's
was it girlfriend or fiance?
Fiance.
I don't know for some reason like that felt like it maybe like didn't need to I don't
know did you feel that needed to be in there?
Not particularly.
Like what if it was just mentioned?
I don't know if they could have gotten away with just mentioning it.
Okay good point.
But it was just I think there was one okay one thing that I think kind of led nowhere.
She so Tom was on her phone had her phone and said that he was going to teach her a
lesson if this is like right after he killed Andy and told her to pick a name of someone
on her contacts list.
She called or she was like very she was very hesitant about choosing a name but she eventually
chose a name and it was of a client that had just recently fired her.
Yes I won't.
And no you're good.
What were you about to say?
When I was going to say I 100% agree where you're going with this.
Yeah so she chooses this name and he looks up her information gets it and she's just
like okay yeah.
And so he hangs up and she continues on with her day whatever.
But she and then later it shows the cops approaching this house and this woman coming out of her
home and it's kind of like they ask her name she says yes and then it cuts.
There's nothing else about that.
In on no follow up no story it's just like okay what was the purpose of that.
And also I felt that you know you're good.
I was just going to say I felt that scene came into play a little too late because at
that point you would think that Tom had already gone and killed her.
Yeah you would almost think.
But it's just like it like I said it didn't go anywhere.
Like why I maybe he was using her as a distraction maybe because like if that was the case why
couldn't he just select a name.
That's true.
Like he could be like oh who's this and then like and then it wouldn't have put her in
such a compromising position.
Yeah.
Because I felt like that it just felt out of place because I feel like there was no
real follow up to that.
No no because there was like after that there was no mention of Deborah or of the woman
that she chose.
There was no mention of her whatsoever.
No.
So like and then like the cops were there too.
Like what happened with that.
Yeah for real though.
Like who who called the cops.
Did he call the cops.
You got me buddy.
Like it's just it's odd.
And then he like ends up going to her house and whatever killed or kills the fiance almost
kills the brother.
Okay speaking of the brother do you feel it would have been more of an impact if he actually
did die after being engulfed in flames.
This is where I this is the reason I actually went a little bit higher.
Okay.
I know that Tom had the full intention of killing his her brother.
Yeah.
He kept good on his promise.
Like think about this.
What was his ultimate goal.
To show her what a bad day really is.
And to and to what.
Make her.
Wasn't it just to make her learn.
I don't remember.
Wasn't it just to make her learn.
Yes make her learn.
That's like that's that's the whole thing.
His goal was to teach her.
Yeah.
A. Teach her what a bad day truly is.
Teach her how to be more mindful of people's feelings or of the effects that she has like
that her actions have consequences.
Right.
Yeah.
So with that when he went to attack her brother he was saying that he that no one else had
to die if he did what she said.
So her brother didn't die.
That like and I think it was kind of like when it was really her brother.
Like as long as he was like saying as long as everyone listens no one else is going to
get hurt.
But he.
But the brother wasn't listening.
Yeah.
He wasn't doing what Tom was saying.
And so that kind of led to the fiance getting killed.
And then he was trying to make it like.
Oh the only reason I'm here is because your sister honked at me.
And so this is her fault.
And so kind of put it trying to put the blame on her.
And then.
Yeah.
Basically doing all that.
But then he ended up being.
For lack of a better term fine like living.
Yeah.
So after that when because after that she started listening to him.
And doing everything that she that he said.
So he.
Basically did everything that he was he set out to do.
He taught her that lesson.
He made her more mindful of people's feelings and it showed that in the the final moment
where someone.
Frickin cuts her off and she's about to talk but she chooses not to.
Gosh damn it man.
Yeah right.
Right.
Your brain is going to Frickin explode.
Like maybe I'm just digging for knows that weren't there but.
I think you're hitting it right on the ball.
So if in that case I really do not have.
I really don't have any problem.
OK the problems I have are like nitty gritty.
The way you just put it.
So yeah.
Yeah I was just thinking about like most of yesterday and a lot of today I was just sitting
there and I'm just like holy shit did he do what he accomplished like what set out to
do.
I'm sure I'm thinking about everything that he say.
No he was he said well I don't think he was he was like ready to he was ready to die.
Like he said suicide by cop doesn't sound that bad to me.
Oh yeah he did say that.
So it was kind of he was on a death mission like a death mission.
Frickin stupid.
A suicide mission.
Yeah.
Like he knew that that he was going to die one way or another.
But first he was going to teach her this lesson and he did.
And that is like that's wrecked me.
But I was just thinking about that so much today.
I'm just like what.
So that's actually why the I gave it so much higher than you did.
I think since now because I was thinking through all that I'm just like whoa.
So anyway like we said we gave story 80.
For writing we gave writing a seventy seven point five.
So a little bit lower than the story.
What any thoughts on it.
Oh I mean every line out of Russell Crowe's mouth was wonderfully written.
The way he his character was written was so intimidating.
Like sometimes the what he was saying felt like a little Shakespeare esque.
I wouldn't disagree with that.
So I feel his writing was strong.
So was.
I should what's what's the mom's name.
Rachel Rachel.
Her writing was very good.
I mostly based it off of Russell Crowe's Tom's writing and for the for the most part I feel
it felt like they tried to mostly write it in the most realistic way they can.
There might have been like a couple lines that were just kind of like out there.
Just like OK buddy let's bring it back in here.
Let's you know let's let's calm down a little bit.
I agree.
So a lot of I feel like a lot of the extras were the ones that brought it down.
Oh yeah definitely.
But it's just there's some cheesy writing in here.
I think there are some things that were said that are just like a little over the top.
So I think it was is it was above average writing but not not super above average.
Yeah.
So just like seventy seven and a half I think is like right in the middle.
Yeah I absolutely agree.
Yeah so I don't know.
I really dug it.
No I did too.
Yeah but there were definitely those cheesy lines.
Like I think as much as I love the line the here's your courtesy tap line was definitely
it was cheesy.
I loved all the writing that stood out to me the most is when he first approaches her
after she cuts him off with that green light and just the way the writing is and this is
also what the acting will get to that.
But just how he's just like do you know what he's like talking to the sun and he's like
do you know what a curtsy tap is young man.
You know shows like it's light it's friendly.
It's like you're trying to get someone's attention.
I'm sure that's what your mom meant.
You're just like damn you sound like such a dick right now but like the writing is so
good with that.
Yeah it's is pretty good.
I don't really have much else to say about it.
Yeah I really don't either.
So like we said got a 77.5.
Moving on to acting so we had kind of the big three I would say are the big three.
We had Russell Crowe who played Tom Cooper.
Then we had whatever Karen.
Her name was Karen Pistorius and she played Rachel Hunter so the mom and then I'm assuming
you're talking about the kid for the third one right.
The third one was played or the son sorry was played by Gabriel Bateman and his character's
name was Kyle Hunter.
Yeah.
Russell Crowe easily top spot for me.
Hands down like I mean I honestly love Russell Crowe in any movie he's in.
Like have you seen the other guys with him and Ryan Gosling.
Yes.
I love that movie.
Those two together in that movie.
Phenomenal love that movie.
And so once again in this movie he he makes the movie great.
He's phenomenal and like the lady who plays Rachel she's great but like let's face it
for the most part Russell Crowe carries this movie.
He definitely does.
He absolutely does.
I actually gave him the highest score.
Then I gave it to Rachel and then I gave it to Kyle.
Same here.
But it's just it's so hard because he he went all out for this role.
Yeah it's like all out.
He is a scary man.
Yes he is.
Yeah it's just the way that he he speaks the way that he got upset like and showed his
anger.
Everything that he did was just so freaking intimidating.
And I don't think Russell Crowe is necessarily an intimidating man.
No I mean from what I've seen he seems like a really nice guy.
Yeah and so seeing him in this role I'm just like oh my gosh he terrifies me.
And I think it worked out so well.
I loved it.
Loved his performance.
Every second he was on screen just filled me with so much tension and anxiety.
I'm just like oh like this dude's nuts.
And then Rachel the mom she she was like a really good character too.
But I don't know like she was she was good but she just I think she just fell short of
like with Russell Crowe a little bit.
Not a whole ton just a few points.
And I don't think that's the actress's fault.
I think that's the way that the mom was written in this movie because I feel for the most
part she did try her best to match Russell Crowe's level of intensity when she had to.
And I feel for the most part she did succeed.
I agree.
I think she did.
It's just the contrast between the two characters I feel like she just got a little overpowered.
Yeah I can definitely agree with that.
Yeah so.
And then the kid Kyle like he was good.
He was he wasn't in it as much as Russell Crowe and the mom.
But he what he was in he was fairly good.
No I mean this kid's already proven that I feel he's a good actor in the remake of Child's
Play.
So once again I thought he was really good here even though he made some questionable
decisions in trying to hide from Russell Crowe's character.
But no overall like I really don't have a lot of problems with these three.
I have no problems with Russell Crowe.
Freaking phenomenal performance.
But with the mom and the son the problems I had are kind of like they're like nitty gritty
they're not like real like big problems that are worth bringing up.
Yeah I agree.
So like we said acting got an 83.
Not bad at all.
Yeah.
I think it's like more of the exceptional acting scores that we've given.
Yes.
But it's.
It was good.
It was it was definitely good.
Honestly I think what really brought it down was any extra character.
Yeah definitely.
Moving on to character development we scored this a 73.5.
So the character development that I graded and I think you might have as well was Rachel's.
Yes.
Yep.
Yeah.
So she started off kind of almost being uncaring.
Actually not even that.
She was just a normal person.
Yeah.
That was just having a real shit day and someone who was just making it a little worse.
And so she she threw out a little road rage and it came back to bite her in the ass so
hard.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I have nothing else to say that it's the hardest bite back in the ass I think I've ever seen.
Yeah.
I. So I gave this.
I didn't give this like a perfect.
I don't think she had a perfect character arc but I think she had a really good one.
She did.
And I think it came in on the sly.
Like this is a movie where you can tell where she how and when she learned a lesson.
Yeah.
I can't agree with that.
It was like this whole movie was just the lesson that she was learning about being more
empathetic towards people and not going straight to anger.
So I thought it was good.
It's just there wasn't a whole lot of development going on.
No.
I mean by the end like yeah she learned her lesson but you don't really see like a huge
character growth like say like in her as a mom because I feel at the beginning she honestly
was already a good mom to her kid.
It was just the dad that was being the shitty parent.
Right.
So and I know with them with other horror and I don't this isn't a horror movie.
It's a it's more it's definitely a thrill.
Yeah.
So I know with horror movies we usually go with logic on this one.
I don't think that this movie technically applies because I think that she did have
some growth as a yes.
I think she did as well.
Yeah.
So seventy three point five I think is more than a fair score.
For her.
I absolutely agree.
Like what she was able to get to.
The only thing that I think it suffered is I think it could have done a little bit more
build up of the kind of character she is because it just seemed like she was just someone trying
her best.
Yeah.
And then she got a little angry because she was having a really bad day.
Yeah.
She had just gotten fired with a client that she relied on for a lot of business dealing
with the divorce and her husband being super shitty and just other other things like that.
So it's just you understand her perspective but and it's really difficult to understand
Russell Crowe's character Tom.
It's kind of difficult to understand his perspective because there's not a whole lot of in depth
stuff on him.
Yeah.
Like I didn't even I wasn't even able to piece together that that was his ex wife and.
I didn't hear at the beginning.
I thought it was just like some rando.
Yeah I thought it was a random couple.
They just like hey you know.
Well okay no actually what I thought is that used to be his house and he got like evicted
or something and so that's why he was burning it down.
Oh that would have been a good theory.
Or like he lost it to the bank whatever.
Yeah.
Honestly I don't even I think what I thought was just because of the whole road rage thing
at the beginning and like that's another thing.
I'll get into this with effects but the opening for this movie was long.
Yeah.
Like the title sequence it was long like not the movie.
It's just the title sequence took forever.
Now but so because I had that back story I thought it was just a lot of I thought it
was just someone else that cut him off or someone else that he was like throwing road
rage at.
Yeah that is what it looks like.
Yeah I mean I guess it does kind of explain like it didn't explain the whole wife thing
until later on the news I think.
Yeah I don't think.
I think that's just something that you can quickly it was so quick I think you could
have easily missed it.
Yes.
Anyone could have easily missed it.
Yeah definitely.
Yeah.
Moving on to effects.
I had issues.
Okay let's hear them.
There was a lot of very inconsistent car damage.
Oh dude for real though.
Like I'm trying to think of one.
Oh okay here's one for example.
When they are being chased on the freeway and he's in the minivan he kind of runs this
cop off the road and the cop comes on or is on the freeway sideways and then this truck
comes and hits the cop and it totally obliterates this cop car.
And I'm like that's not how that works.
Movie magic man movie magic.
Yeah and it's just like little things like that.
Okay here's another when Tom's like finds her car parked at her mother's house she comes
from across the street and hits him and totally like flips this minivan over.
And like a dinky ass little Tesla.
Like you know how fast you would have to be going.
I mean I don't know how fast Teslas can go.
Well it's not even necessarily that.
Like you'd be going super freaking fast and also like I think the Tesla would freaking
explode before the damn minivan did.
No that's a good point.
Well yeah it like throws this minivan on its side she gets out and goes to like find Tom
but he's already out of the van.
Yeah that was some bullshit.
Okay Russell Crowe is not in the best of shape in this movie.
He's like quite the opposite.
He's a little like Chancho Libre.
I have a feeling one of us is going to bring this up during this review.
Like how in the hell did Mr. Tubbs get out of that minivan so fast?
Dude you'd be amazed at what you can do when you have adrenaline.
No that's past adrenaline.
That was just lazy ass writing.
Being like and he's already out of the van and attacks her.
Whatever I don't give a shit.
Like we start filming tomorrow this is as good as it's going to get.
Yeah like someone wrote that and just forgot to make it realistic.
Make it yeah exactly.
Like I mean come on shit.
At least try.
Imagine they're just in a meeting or like someone comes up or he asks someone next to
him they're just like hey how much is Russell Crowe or how much are they asking Russell
Crowe to weigh in this movie?
That much?
Ah no that line still works.
It's fine.
It works into the story.
Yeah there was a lot of like weight issues that I had.
And that was like one of the biggest ones.
It was like how in the actual ass did that happen?
There's no way.
Like and not even that.
Think about this.
He got shot.
That's true.
He was shot in the shoulder.
How in the ever living shit did he get out of his the van that fast?
I mean Michael Myers was shot six times and he did just fine.
Just saying.
Yeah so it was it was things like that.
It was things like the insane amount of damage that cars were taking.
And I think a lot of the the crashes they didn't look super great.
Yeah I'll give them this though.
The camera work whenever a chase is going down was super good.
I'll agree with that.
Absolutely.
But yeah I was overall I wasn't super impressed.
No I wasn't either.
I mean considering the budget for the movie kind of made sense.
What was the budget?
One second.
Because this movie was released in theaters like right like a couple months after COVID
like really hit the fan.
So it was released in August.
So the budget was around 30 million.
Okay and that kind of explains the shitty graphics.
So I feel it's like slightly above what a Blumhouse movie is.
I feel that's like slightly above what a Blumhouse movie is budgeted at.
So effects like I'm not sure if I've said this yet.
Effects we scored 75.
So it's not bad.
Fairly average.
Yeah but for the most part they worked for this movie.
Yeah all right next up we got music.
And honestly the music wasn't anything special.
I don't think there was a score that was really well done.
Not coming to my head.
It did and that's really the only positive that you can say about it.
It didn't take you out of the movie but it didn't really like add to your enjoyment of
it.
So for music we ended up giving that a 6.
So yeah.
Our average score for music and movies.
So our average score is a 5 for music.
Like that is just like the baseline there was music in this.
I think I gave a 6 because you ended up giving it a 7.
But we round down.
And so a 6 is like the music works for the movie and I think that with the tension building
the music did its job.
Yeah absolutely.
But I think they could have put in a really killer score with this movie.
Yeah I can absolutely agree with that.
I guess we'll never know.
Unless there's Unhinged 2.
Hopefully not.
This movie filled me with way too much anxiety.
Tom turned it into a Jason Voorhees kind of guy and just comes back and it did.
That would be terrifying.
That would be very terrifying.
Alright next up we got costumes which we also scored a 6.
I mean yeah it wasn't like nothing really to write home about.
I mean Russell Crowe's jacket was cool that he wore throughout the movie.
Was he wearing a jacket?
I thought it was just the shirt.
No he was wearing a jacket.
He was wearing like a three button shirt with her.
Was it a three button?
I can't remember if it was like a full on button or a...
No it was like a full on button up shirt.
Yeah I'm pretty sure.
But it was like the costumes were nothing to write home about.
They were, they fit.
Yeah like I said they were really nothing to write home about.
Yeah it was just, it fit the characters.
Like Rachel looked like a disgruntled mom.
Yes she did.
Tom looked like some crazy ass dude.
Actually not even like, he didn't even look especially crazy.
He just looked like an average dude that you would pass on the streets.
Yeah I think that's what terrified me most about him.
I'm like oh my gosh I've seen people like him.
So I think they just tried to make him look as generic as humanly possible and they did
a good job.
They did.
So yeah costumes we ended up giving a six.
And so now we've come to the portion where we talk about our personal grade.
So Rose do you want to talk about your grade?
Yes so overall I gave this movie a 75 for my personal grade.
I was not a, honestly I was not expecting to enjoy this movie as much as I did because
this was a blind buy for me.
I had not seen this movie before I bought it and I blind bought it for like 15 bucks
just because it's Russell Crowe so I felt like I was going to enjoy it somewhat and
I was about to say walked out of this movie but I didn't see it in theaters.
When I finished the movie I was just like you know what that is honestly one of the
better blind buys that I've ever done because it keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Russell Crowe is absolutely terrifying and it's scary to think that this kind of shit
can actually happen in real life.
Maybe not to this extent but you never know.
There's some crazy ass people out there.
So overall it's a fun ass thriller from start to finish.
It had me on the edge of my seat and I just had a good time.
Absolutely.
I went a little bit higher with my personal grade.
I ended up giving it a 77.
Not bad.
So the reason I gave it a 77 were kind of exactly the same thing.
It's a I really enjoy thrillers but I think one thing about thrillers that I don't necessarily
care for is that there's always that like little that little voice in the back of your
head making you think that you're going to get scared.
That they're going to like jump scare you, startle you in some way and I think that this
movie didn't really rely on any of that.
I think that this movie built on anxiety, built on tension, making you think this could
really happen to you and that's scarier to me than is someone around the corner of this
house where it's super quiet or whatever.
That's not nearly as scary to me.
No, no it's not.
Because this whole situation, this whole thing scared the living bejesus out of me.
When she was about to honk the horn at the very end of the movie, I was at the edge of
my seat just like don't do it.
I grabbed my chest and I'm like no, no, oh phew.
And so when it didn't end up happening I'm just like oh my gosh, thank you.
Finally learned your lesson.
But this movie did a really good job of just building that tension and leaving me on the
edge of my seat just like oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
So yeah, I think I may have liked it just a little bit more than you did.
But yeah, so that averages us out to a 76 for our personal grade which concludes this
breakdown.
So the final grade for Unhinged comes to a C+.
Not too shabby at all.
Not too bad at all.
Like this is one, I think I might have, I feel like I liked it better than a C+, but
then I look back and I'm like okay I gave it a 77 so it is a C+.
Yeah, I think I'm on the same boat honestly.
Yeah, like there's none of these grades that we gave it that I disagree with in the slightest.
Yeah.
I mean after us talking, even though like you know we rounded down to the music, I definitely
would have gone with you with a 6.
Yeah, so honestly it's a fair score for this movie.
It's definitely one of the better C+, movies that we've done.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
It's just there are some things that it's lacking in.
For the biggest one, it's lacking in some character development, but it's a thriller
movie.
There's not going to be a whole lot of character development to half.
Yeah, true.
And then like we said, the next lowest grade was the effects.
The effects I feel could have been a little bit better.
They were lacking in some places.
So I watched it kind of half and half, phone and TV, and honestly I think they looked better
on my phone than they did the TV.
I mean that doesn't really, wait you said they look better on your phone than on your
TV?
Yeah.
That doesn't surprise me because like honestly it's amazing.
Like the little details you'll pick up when it's on a bigger screen.
How did I miss that?
Exactly.
But yeah, so this movie is sitting at a 76.8%.
So comparing this to some other C plus movies that we've graded, this is 1% lower than Wonder
Woman 1984.
Wow, I didn't know it would be that close.
Yeah, 1% lower than Aquaman.
Okay.
2%... 3% lower than Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
That's fair.
That is a great movie.
Yeah.
1.9% lower than Tag.
Really?
Okay.
Yeah.
2%... no 3% lower than Jexy.
Okay.
That's fair.
2% lower than Jumanji The Next Level.
Okay.
3% lower than Aladdin.
Yeah, okay.
Most of these I can understand.
Yeah, 1% lower than Spider-Man.
The OG?
The first one.
Okay.
And that's all our C plus movies.
Okay.
Not bad at all.
Yeah, definitely not bad.
I think it has a decent home.
We haven't done very many C plus movies.
No, we haven't.
We really haven't.
Yeah.
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I went a little too high at that end.
That's a tad high.