hello there it's been a while hasn't it i've
been busy quite complicated really and none of
your business anyway i'm just popping in to let
you know that the bumbling idiot rob hadn't planned
his guess the intro segment ahead of time So
contrary to anything you may, or in this case
may not hear in this episode, the following,
guess the intro, is another Connections special.
Now isn't that exciting? Guess the clips, guess
the connection, win... well, win fuck all, really.
Okay, that's enough of me. I've got an appointment
with the new boy. What's his name? James or something.
I don't really give a fuck. But HR has me on
blast thanks to the last Christmas party. I tell
you, you grab one chipmunk's arse, and the next
thing you know you're labelled a danger to the
women in the office. I tell you, the world's
gone mad. You know, people like you are the reason
I was afraid to go to school as a child. You
talk like a leader, but the strongest leads.
I am Balthazar Flake, and you are my apprentice.
Be grateful Black Bolt doesn't engage you in
conversation. This strange is even more arrogant
than ours. They don't have vampires. What the
hell are they? Ooh, uh, maybe they're, uh, Ninja
Turtles. Luxor, Nixor, burst and burn! What is
she doing? Just a goose. Have a nice day. Okay,
hello. Hello. Welcome to the Untitled Sunrise
Show. It's late. You've been here a little while
already. It's all a little bit of a mess. But
that's all the charm of this show, isn't it?
Oh, 100%. You okay? I'm okay, mate. Just stressed
and tired with work. Yeah, let's get on with
it, shall we? Let's bang it out. Enter authorization
code. Together. I'm going to link them together.
I was kind of a bit like, he said a joke. I need
to say that's what she said, but I'm not going
to be quick enough. Again, that's what she said.
That's what she said. Well, not to me. Not quick
enough is not something I've heard. Okay. Guess
the intro. I'm trying to work out what the cat's
looking at at the moment. I don't know if it's
on a little manic kind of drug thing. She's like
staring at the window to the garden. There could
be a fly there. Yeah. We've got loads of fruit
flies in the house. Ah, that's what it is then.
Driving me nuts. Yeah. So she could be looking
at that or there could be a daddy long legs on
the other side. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She spotted
something. For those who can't see it, she just
dipped her head like something was there. Oh,
no, no. You're watching me. A bit of a lick.
Yeah. Pretending I haven't. Right. Okay. Guess
the intro. Nobody gave me all the correct answers.
One person did their best. They got one completely
wrong. They know who they are. Again, we don't
say names. Do we? Don't we? No. And they never
came back to me with other ones. Anyway, here
we go. Number one. Oh, such an idiot. This is
how it's going to go. It's muted. Is it recording?
I hope so. It is. My name is Kino Loy. Okay.
I haven't seen this. I've only seen social media
posts about that character. I think it's Andor.
You're right, it's Andor. I haven't seen it either,
so I don't know who that character was, don't
know anything about it. I know it's meant to
be very good. We've watched episode one of season
one is all we've watched. Right, okay. And if
he was in that episode, I don't remember it.
I've not watched any of the episodes of any of
the TV series, mainly because when everyone started
watching it, there was then that weird Star Wars.
vespa scene that came out of whatever it was
the mandalorian where they're all driving around
on what looks like space versions of vespa motorbikes
and this is like uh this is this looks terrible
mandalorian was good season one and two i enjoyed
season three i haven't seen um i haven't seen
acolyte i haven't seen there's another one that's
got jude law in it i've not seen i haven't seen
any andor i do really want to see andor because
it's meant to be brilliant You know, we both
liked Rogue One. Yeah, that's true. What else?
There's loads of Star Wars I haven't seen. Oh,
yeah, they look like they're on. Yeah. I think
that must be season two. Yeah, I saw that. No.
Multicoloured mopeds. Yeah, and I just think
Disney are really ruining a lot of stuff at the
moment. It's because they've got hold of the
licenses and Disney don't care. I'm giving an
opinion to a show I haven't watched, so that's
unfair. But I have heard Andor's very good. I
do intend to watch it eventually, but Disney
stuff is really quite low down on my list of
things to watch. Like Marvel. Yeah. Again, they're
that new Marvel series, not series, so that film,
Thunderbolts, whatever it's called. Oh, yeah.
Asterisk, New Avengers. And it's meant to be
brilliant. I've watched 30 minutes of it and
I was bored. What's the word? I haven't got any
good faith in them. I've got no confidence that
they're going to be making good stuff. Well,
it's not even that. I'm bored of the genre. There's
been too much in such a short period of time.
I don't care anymore. I don't care about Marvel.
I don't care about any of the universe anymore.
You literally hammered it so hard, I'm sick of
it. But I'm really looking forward to seeing
Superman. I haven't seen it yet. And I'm super
excited for the Batman 2. So whether or not people
agree with me, I don't really care on this. Superman
was a breath of fresh air because they did something
new with it. Yeah. And that's just unheard of
at the moment, especially with Disney. Oh, let's
just kind of money for old ropes, which just
keep it going and going and going. This is what
the people want. And it isn't. Anyway, sorry.
Next track. Next one. Now this is a tricky one.
It is. Is that Arnold Schwarzenegger? It is an
approximation of Arnold Schwarzenegger. I think
it's a bad impression. Oh, right. Okay. I'd have
to look at the credits. I'd have to look at the
credits of... Who actually plays him. Because
I don't think it sounds like him. Obviously it's
meant to be him. And it is meant to be him when
you actually watch it. It says that. That's who
it is. What era are we talking? I'm a bit concerned
to tell you that. And when you find out the title,
you'll know why. Let me just write it in here
and I'll tell you what year it was made. Okay.
Isn't it called that? Is it that? Where is it?
I just can't even think about it. So, a film
to do with Southern California rare earthquakes.
Okay, it came out in 2009. 2009, okay. It got
5 .8. John Cusack is the lead. Oh, is it not
Volcano? It's the End of the World one. Yeah,
it is. I watched it quite recently and I don't
mind it. But the ending's so depressing and horrible.
I can't pronounce how Thandie Newton wants you
to say her name anymore. Right, okay. Thandwee?
Thandwee? I can't remember how she asked people.
2012? 2012, that's right. Yeah, okay. And yeah,
2012, where I'm a horrible divorcee who my wife
hates me because, my ex -wife hates me because
of everything. But don't worry, when her husband...
New husband dies in front of me, saving the children.
She'll fall back in love with me and we'll be
married on this final arc that floats off to...
Yes, you're right, because he was governor at
the time and it's like... Yeah. Allegedly him,
isn't it? It doesn't sound enough like him. It's
like a comic version of him, isn't it? It's a
caricature of him. Yeah. Starfleet does not do
assassination. Just tell me what it is so we
can move away from him. Him it. What? Just tell
me what that one is so we can just not have to
talk about it. It's Star Trek. Is it not Strange
New World? No. Is it one of the films? Yeah.
The shit one. There's so many shit ones. The
really recent one that's shit. Oh. Section 31.
Yeah, thank you. Move on. That was in there for
you, that one. Planet of the Apes. The original
Charleston Heston one. No, no. The Mark Wahlberg
one. It's the one that's got Franco in it, James
Franco. Oh, yeah, good one then. Okay, not the
Mark Wahlberg one. No, no, the first of the kind
of new age of those eight films. Yeah, which
was pretty good. I'm not going to get into it
because I know you love monkey talk, but we can
spank the monkey on this one and just say no,
we're done. Let's go. Okay, I made that one long.
It sounded like Tuvok. Yeah, no, it's Tom Hanks.
I have not seen this film at all. So I did not
know what to actually pick as the quote. Not
Finch? No, I tell you what, it came out the same
year as the title of the film that was on earlier.
So it came out in 2012. Oh, really? Okay. And
I kind of remember it being a little bit slated,
but it looks like here it's actually got pretty
good. What genre is it? It's got Tom Hanks in
it, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving, Jim
Broadbent. Who else do I think we know? Ben Winshaw,
it's got Keith David in it. That's an all -star
cast. If David was saying something, I'd watch
the other one. Yeah, Keith David's in Nope. What
am I talking about? What's he in? He's in Nope.
I honestly have no idea what that could be. It
is... Oh, Susan Sarandon's in it. Cloud Atlas.
Never seen it. Never seen it. I think it's kind
of like two people always connecting over timelines
and then when one dies and the other one dies
and they both then they both get reborn. I've
got a kind of feeling that's what it might be
about. Right, okay, yeah, no, it's not one that's
ever, ever vaguely attracted me to it. In fact,
I couldn't tell you. You've told me more than
I could even have told you about it. I mean,
someone who's seen it might be able to correct
me on that, but I've got a funny feeling that's
what it is about. Yeah, okay. Oh. Yeah, honestly,
never, never seen it. I couldn't even picture
the trailer for this, and you know how I am with
trailers, so. Yeah, big cast. Big cast. Right,
last one. The Chinese station's about 100 miles.
Just a little Sunday drive. This is a flipping
brilliant film. Yeah, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant
film. Oh, I can picture his bloody face. Play
it again, if you can. Hang on, it'll take a little
bit of a... Close the file. It's about 100 miles,
just a little... Hang on, this isn't easy to
do. The Chinese station's about 100 miles, just
a little... George Clooney, Gravity. Yay, got
it, good job. You know what, George Clooney,
you're starting to sound a bit like Tim Allen.
Maybe. To infinity and beyond! It's all that
coffee he drinks is probably doing his throat
in, isn't it? Great film, isn't it? Sandra Bullock
as well. Oh, God. Sandra Bullock in that weird
white vest thing when she gets out of her space
suit. Yeah, I remember seeing it at the cinema.
I really enjoyed Gravity. No more monkey films.
Really, really, really, Teddy, really, Teddy.
What have you been doing? Fuck all. No, large
amounts of work. So, really, I'm really delayed
on Alien Earth, which is pissing me off. So I
still haven't got past where we are. I've got
one episode to watch. I've still only seen up
to the point where we've got poor old lung in
a tube. I haven't got past that yet. Okay, it
is worth it when you get time. Yeah, I'm looking
forward to it. It's just really not getting time.
But I've caught up a bit on Star Trek. So I can
actually tell you the ones I've watched now.
I won't remember them, but go on. Oh, I think
you will. Because actually, you know what? They've
been brilliant. This is Strange New Worlds. It's
overtaken... Right, actually, I've got a few
bits to sort. So I'm going to go in reverse.
Sorry, let me just... It's overtaken Lower Decks
in my opinion. Oh, 100%. 100 % for me. Everyone
knows how much we liked Lower Decks. I haven't
watched the last season still. Nor have I, unfortunately.
The sellout who ate its tail. Brilliant episode.
We get Kirk's first day in command on the Farragut.
Yes. We get the weird, creepy ship that I can
guarantee 90 % of the people go, it's the Borg.
It's the origin of the Borg. This is where the
Borg come from. And it turns out they're just
humans that were years and years and years in
the past. I thought it was going to be that race
from Lower Decks. Oh, yeah. Oh, shit. And I kind
of thought it was a little bit of an homage to
it. Yeah. Well, obviously that's from the original
series though, right? I'm trying to say Sontarans
and that's Doctor Who. Yeah, but Lower Decks
was taking the mick out of a race from the...
TNG. Oh, from the... Yeah, TNG. They steal Geordie.
Oh, yeah, of course. You make us strong. I remember
the episode now, yeah. You make me strong in
the bed. I would have loved to have seen Strange
New World's take on that. Yeah. Because they
are comical. I mean, the design of the ship was
brilliant. Loved it. Absolutely great. Yeah,
what a good idea. The spacesuit designs were
really good. And then that image of them all
stood in the black astronaut spacesuits looking
kind of vaguely like NASA ones, but not. Yeah.
Really nice take. Really enjoyed that episode.
Loved seeing Kirk. I loved the fact that they
kind of ripped the piss out of Kirk in an earlier
episode as well when they've got the whole...
fake star trek original series as i speak like
this and this is how we'll get to that episode
in a minute okay so that's the whole that's the
holodeck episode uh through the lens of time
was the other one i've caught up on which where
they go to the planet and they go in and the
little orbs have trapped things it turns out
it's it's a prison more another very very good
episode again started making my brain thinking
okay so captain patel suddenly goes all uh lizard
person versus Mr. I've got no eyes anymore. Yes,
yes. Almost like it's, are they linked? So she's
still got a, shit, what are they called? She's
still got Gorn in her, which we knew, but there
is Gorn controlling her, which means, can we
trust Ortega? I think when you, there's a balloon
on your feet, so I was trying to move it. I think
the more, are you completely up to date with
it? No, no, no, no. I've still, I've got four
more bloody episodes. No. Yeah, not really. It
throws it out. I think it's, yeah. I think they
threw it in there to make people think that.
It's PTSD. Or people like me to think like that.
It's PTSD. And I've got a feeling, this isn't
spoiling a thing, the episode I just watched
that had her in it heavily. Yeah. Ends that.
Puts a kind of end on that little storyline.
And it's a very good one. A whole episode based
around her. You like it. Oh, okay. That's cool.
So yeah, through the lens of time, interesting
episode. I've decided as fit as Chapel is, I
can't stand her. No, I think she's a wanker.
I've said this before. So she's basically put
that entire mission at risk by just... wiggling
her little titties at Spock, going, oh, go on,
Spock. Trust goes both ways. Then promptly walks
up to an alien control panel and just puts her
hand under it. How did she know it was just going
to come down and go, little prick, rather than
just smash its way through her head? She's the
only fucking prick in that scene. I like, if
I'm going to be my chauvinistic me, which I am,
everybody, from behind the curtain, I am a sexist
pig. I like Neenah Singh best. Leon's really
quite taken on that quite a lot now. If you tied
me up and I had to pick one, leave me tied up
and send her in. Yeah, she's going to come and
do a security investigation. Oh, yes. What's
that? You don't want a cavity? No, no, no, no.
I think you need to be thorough. I think you
should be thorough. I have a dribble. It's hidden
on me somewhere. Can you find it? I've got three.
Three triples. I want to know where you're hiding
three of them. Put on your Leon. I'll show you.
No, she's got really nice eyes. Yeah, sure. And
then we've got Space Adventure Hour. Yeah. Which
is the whole piss take Star Trek bit. i'm not
sure i'm not sold on the episode i love the idea
of it i love the fact that they've written it
in that holodecks exist and then we're just going
to say it's not a good idea for ships out at
the moment i just think it's that too too advanced
still at that point yeah i i get that i but every
good star trek season needs a holodeck episode
and i think by putting it as like a testing thing
i think they could have made the holodeck a bit
jankier well exactly the fact that like original
vr and it looked like a tng thing is like no
i don't like that it should have been a much
smaller room it should have looked yeah it shouldn't
have looked anything like the tng one because
what we're saying then is holodeck technology
hasn't changed the black and yellow lined box
room since basically pike then yeah So I would
have liked it to look a little bit more retro,
maybe, as you say, a bit more janky. I mean,
I love the fact that it basically kills the ship
and takes up too much power. Absolutely brilliant
idea. And I love the fact that Scotty says, well,
it needs its own independent power source with
its own little engine room in the future. Brilliant.
Love it. I just felt too advanced for this era
of Star Trek. Now, if they'd said, we've made
friends with an alien race who want to come on
board with the Federation and one of their gifts
to us is this and this is what we're testing.
Yeah, yeah. That could have worked. That for
me would have been more believable. Especially
as I think there's an Enterprise episode with
Archer where they visit an alien race who has
their form of holodeck. So that would have made
more sense to me to do it like that and then
them say, accept them into the Federation, but
we're not going to take this yet. And what it
could have been is it would have been the classic,
if it had been an older Star Trek, it would have
been the alien race purposely breaking it. It's
a trap. But I mean, this is 100 % a take on the
TNG episode where basically you've got... Oh,
no. It's not Crusher. Who's the other Doctor?
Doctor... She's the Doctor I like, actually.
I prefer her to bloody Beverly. I know what you
mean, don't worry. But basically she's like,
no, you don't do anything original, Dave. You
just knew the answer because... You know all
the stories. If we gave you a true problem, you
wouldn't be able to solve it. And that's exactly
what they do. They say, Holodeck, create us a
Sherlock Holmes story. Oh, sorry, a story and
a puzzle in the ilk of Sherlock Holmes that Dazer
doesn't know and would be a trouble for him.
Yeah. And that's exactly what they've done in
Stranger. Don't mind throwbacks. Obviously, Lower
Decks have done it. But yeah, it's just that
modern side. I would have liked to do a bit more
janky. I like the idea that they had to use the
transport buffers, for example, to actually make
the people. So everyone within it is just the
characters. That was a nice touch, yeah. But
can I just throw in there, if they wanted to
put in some proper... I mean, bloody Pike going,
I'm really got a small voice as I'm walking around
like this. It's like, okay, is that your real
voice? Do you put on Pike? I'd love to know.
No, his voices look like Pike's. Okay, so satin
and sexy. I follow him on X and Blue Sky and
stuff. I bet you do follow him. I'm an OnlyFans
fan. What is it, just his hair? Yeah, it's just
him with hair products. Dog. Only hair. That
just sounds really bad, doesn't it? That's a
bit gross. I'm not subscribing to that. Dog!
I'm just saying they could have done a really
good bit of comedy there where they could have
just had the crew that had used it and then just
some weird random alien raised with two heads
or completely blue just walking around as a background
character because that's all they've had from
their transporter logs. Here's an interesting
thing. So if you do get put in the transporter
buffer, is it you naked? Or does it remember
your clothes and stuff? Because he's having his
hair done. It's going to be products and stuff
in his hair. So when he teleports out the other
side... Teleports, I said it. Yeah. It remembers
how his hair product was and how his hair was.
It remembers everything about you, yes. And I
think there was a Lower Decks episode where...
In fact, there's a TNG episode. Oh, no, was that
a Q episode? Oh, no, I think Q puts... Picard
back on the bridge naked. Um, but I'm sure there's
been episodes where the transport has gone wrong
and codes have gone missing or the clothes are
wrong. Yeah. So yeah, it's, it's purely what
the transporter remembers. Well, I really like,
I need you to, obviously I need to wait for you
to catch all the way up, but I love how the Scotty
is getting a lot and they are really like you
really showing how fucking good he is. I like
the character. They've got the, the actor playing
Scotty's brilliant. Yeah. I love the, That was
a bit... Again, I know that they're doing things
to make it kind of fun and trying... I mean,
I'm noting there's a lot of it at the moment,
a lot of Hollywood stuff, like Alien Earth, making
Ice Age canon for fucking Alien. Yeah. The Atari
2600 is canon in Star Trek because she used to
play on it in the 80s. I think that's fine, though,
because it is meant to be our future. Yeah, and
kind of... The copper wire phones. It just, why
did she have them? There's no replicator on board,
remember? No, but you've seen her quarters, though.
Yeah, it's just full of all the old stuff from
all her lives. The more her characters in it,
I actually am starting to dislike her. She grates
on me a little bit. There's an episode where
she specifically is the comedy character, and
she's not funny. Right, okay. And it's just a
bit like... Stop forcing this character to be
like that. She's eccentric, not the butt of the
joke. See, I'm liking the interactions that they've
built between her and Scotty. I think that's
really good. No, that's good, yeah. I'm loving
Uhura because, again, it feels really like the
Uhura we grew up with with TOS. And even Spock,
to some extent. Although, again... I do enjoy
Spock. I like Spock. Yeah, but we're getting
this whole... Okay, fancy chapel, fine. Now getting
with Lian. Okay, hang on a moment. Let's rewind
a little bit, shall we? Is he going through Pomfava
or something at the moment? It just feels like
you're starting to make him kind of the go -to
action guy. You're trying to make him the Tom
Paris of Voyager. Spock's getting all the tail
now. I'm not sure. That works. Well, they're
kind of short of that male character because
Kirk... Pike is with Patel. Yeah. And they're
not going to do Scotty because that's not how
his character would work. And then you've just
got him. Although I think it would be quite funny
having the women chasing after Scotty and him
just being like... oh shit, what do I do? And
just running away. Yeah, you should put him on
a sex planet. And he'd be like, what? For him
and Kirk on a sex planet. And then he's going
to be like, what? And Kirk's going to be like,
yes! Of course, because you've got George Kirk
as well, haven't you? Yeah. Oh yeah, but he's
not been in it this season. No, he's just disappeared
off. Yeah, you're right. There aren't really
any male characters you can do it. I just feel...
It is, as much of it is following the canon of
Star Trek really well. I'm really enjoying it.
Just little bits like that. Spock wouldn't do
this. Yeah, because they've got to be careful
not to progress his character too far because
of where he is in the original series. He's not
that far gone because it's Kirk that's supposed
to do all this. In the original series, he's
considerably more stern and... fully kind of
logical and fully following the rules. Unless
something happens to him. Which is what I'm wondering.
When they finally wrap this up and maybe the
ship goes all its own, all the people go their
own ways before it comes back to being Kirk.
Maybe he ends up going back to Vulcan. Maybe
he undertakes meditation on the planet and returns
to Vulcan to try and find his Vulcan self because
he feels he's become too human. I don't know.
I think the season will end in tragedy. obviously
because we know it kind of does and maybe the
way they'll do it is he blames himself for not
being able to save because he knows he knows
what pike knows because they they spoke about
in the first season yeah and don't forget in
the original series spock is the one that breaks
all the rules to take pike back to the planet
in the episode called the cage yeah which is
what we get as the first episode of the tos or
us watching video footage of uh the records with
uh pike just going beep for yes and beep beep
for no yeah so um i think so spot broke the rules
because of his friendship with pike so it makes
you wonder yeah maybe you're right i think they
can retcon that a little bit i think that because
it's so developed so far now i think pike doesn't
need to be going beep beep beep i think that
aspect of it they can probably make him a bit
more um stephen hawking then Then Davros. Do
you know what I mean? So when that series comes
around, if Valentino disappears from Eleven Labs
and it suddenly starts being Valentino, it's
like, hmm. Strange new world. Now everyone knows
where Valentino comes from. Yeah, I said this
privately to you, or maybe to Karen as well,
that I think... I would really love a reimagining
of the original series with these new actors.
Oh, 100%. Kirk, Scotty, Spock. Those three, and
then obviously Phil, the rest of the cast, and
Hura. I think it would work. They could all do
it. They'd all be great. And, you know, the guy
who plays Kirk, he's done, you know, he's headed
a series himself anyway. It was Vampire Diaries
or whatever it was, that vampire thing. Oh, yes,
yes. So, you know, he can definitely... Well,
I think he works really well. He's great. He's
one of my favourite characters. He's a great
actor. Yeah. We've seen how well he works in
it, especially with that episode where they end
up in the past in Canada, which is a phenomenal
episode. Yeah, great episode. No, I think absolutely
it would work. I think you could really, really
have fun with that. Recasting the original cast
for the ones we haven't got so Sulu check of.
Yep, yep. It'd be interesting to see where we
go. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. You've just pressed
stop record without... Was that all the sci -fi
stuff I'd done? Wait, have you gone for 15 minutes?
Yeah, okay, it was all the sci -fi stuff I'd
done. Yeah, I kind of got that. It felt like
that was the end. You've kind of pretty much
said everything that I've kind of watched too,
except that I have also been... Oh, hang on a
moment. I just need to press pause. Where's pause?
I do this every fucking time. All right, sorry
about that. Yeah, so I don't think I've watched...
We're obviously caught up with Alien Earth after
the newest episode that just came out. We are
caught up on all of the Star Treks, which I'm
not going to talk about. We just spoke about
Star Trek for ages. What I have been doing, I
have been playing a game on the Xbox called Roadcraft.
You saw it a little bit earlier. Essentially,
you're loads of construction vehicles and you
just do construction stuff. Yeah, it confused
me when you said Roadcraft because in the UK
we call Roadcraft the police driver training.
so if you do blue light training and response
driver training you tend to learn from the police
road craft manual yeah so you're you're you own
this construction company in i think it's meant
to be in africa and the first level is like you've
got to prepare for a like some kind of hurricane
or storm that's coming so You've got to drive
your little scout vehicle, which is a 4x4, over
to one area to unlock it and then set up a route
for transport. And then you've got to get your
crane and move those concrete blocks and steel
bars onto the back of your truck and move your
truck and then use your big digger thing to get
debris out of the way. Lots of stuff. It's very
slow -paced. It's very much like you can just
sit there and not really think about it. I have
put it on quite easy. I've taken damage off.
I've taken fuel off. I've made it so you just
get given whenever a new vehicle's available,
it just gives you the lowest one rather than
you needing to buy it. Because I don't want to
have to deal with any of that. It's a company
that seems to understand that some people just
want to have fun with the game. but also give
people the opportunity to properly graft as well.
Yeah. And it's one of those sims. And in one
regard, the sim is really good, how you have
to do physically move stuff and do this and do
this. You've got your vehicles. You can kind
of turn on and off the 4x4 mode, turn on and
off the low gears for going up steep hills, turn
on and off the differential so one wheel isn't
spinning. And you can turn all three of those
on or whatever. And your scout vehicle can do
all of them. Some of them can't do all of that
unless you buy the better versions of it. And
that's all with just in -game gold. You do missions,
you get gold, and that's it. There's no like...
as far as I can see, some other thing. There's
DLC for it, for like skins for the trucks, but
who fucking cares? They get covered in mud. It's
like, who really cares? It wouldn't surprise
me if there'll be things like license. You can
have a JCB or Volvo. Yeah, I mean, you've got
to be really into it for that. But yeah, it's
cool. I mean, it's on Game Pass. It's multiplayer,
cross -platform as well, which is like... Unheard
of in AAA games, isn't it? And I've been having
a lot of fun with it last few nights. I think
we were talking about this earlier when you were
showing me it, and I think it is true that simulations
are slowly coming back now, and now the fact
that games can look so realistic and so good,
simulations are really taking advantage of that.
I mean, don't get me wrong, the old simulations
I used to play, things like SimTower, the original
SimCity, SimCity 2000, 3000. I still go back
and play all of those because they've got the
most amazing game mechanics and playability.
But now we've got games that look like they do
and play how they play and the fact that you
can have these proper physics engines now. I
really foresee simulations are really going to
take off again. Yeah. As I said to you earlier,
there's only so many Call of Duties I can play.
These sim games like that police one we were
playing and now this, they're kind of... they're
scratching little itch of me wanting to play
a game but i don't know what i want to play i've
been playing so many different like finding different
retro games like listening to james and the super
haters ed kind of made me like you know what
i'm gonna go and find some games on these older
consoles that i've never played before 100 and
just play them And just see whether I like them
or not. And I've had some... I can't remember
off the top of my head now because I'm not remembering
the names of the games. But I've been playing
Bomberman on Mega Drive. I haven't played in
years. Bomberman's one of those games, isn't
it? It's just phenomenal. I've been having a
lot of fun with those. I quite like retro racing
games. I quite like. Yeah. But I do also... I
don't go too far back with them. But I did really
enjoy Micro Machines on the Mega Drive. Micro
Machines V3 by any chance? Yeah, it was, yeah.
I thought it might be. I do love Sega Rally on
the Saturn. Sega Rally, again, top game. One
that I really want to have a go with playing
again because I haven't played it for years and
I loved it. Destruction Derby 1 and 2. Yeah,
I was playing those two. They are just such a
good game. Daytona USA, but that's got to be
in the arcade. The console games versions, as
good as they are, never scratch the itch. Yeah,
no, I agree. There's another one. Again, I played
that. It's like an era for graphic -wise for
car games, like Top Gear on the N64. I just love
how it handles. We've spoken about this off microphone.
My first experience of Top Gear was not good.
So my friend Luke got an N64 or saved his money.
I can't remember. It was a... Yeah, he saved
his paper and money, sold his Saturn and got
an N64. Then his birthday came around, which
had just been September, and he asked for Top
Gear and the N64 steering wheel. And I remember
he unwrapped them, we got them, and we played
it after school, and he put Top Gear in, we plugged
the steering wheel in, and it was... unplayable
a little millimeter to the left and the car was
doing a full -on u -turn yeah and there was just
nothing you could do about it now i've replayed
it recently on the um legion go with kind of
retro arch and all of that and using just the
analog stick is like Actually, this is quite
a good fun game. You've got to do a lot of drifting.
A lot of drifting, but there's lots of shortcuts.
Like the first track you get, you can literally
cut across the beach rather than going on the
road and save yourself like 10 seconds. I actually
really enjoyed it. So my first experience killed
it for me for, oh God, nearly 25, nearly, yeah,
over 25 years. And Ridge Racer on the, I can't
remember if it's the PSP or the Vita. Which one
of those two came out first, the PSP or the Vita?
PSP came out first. Yeah, so Ridge Racer on the
PSP is another really good one, like drifting,
and that's quite fun because you have to drift
to get your boost up and then use your boost
as a fun one. Yeah, so normally I wouldn't say
I like racing games, but I like retro racing
games. Enjoy those. One that I really, really
need to play again, we had it on my brother's
PlayStation, Need for Speed 3 Hot Pursuit. Yeah,
the ESP games are great. That was brilliant.
It was the first game that we kind of played
that had a beautiful 3D environment. You had
the police chases in there. You could eventually
unlock. I think it was the Jaguar XJ you unlocked
as the final car. And it was just brilliant.
It played nice. It felt fast. The environment.
And I just have very fond memories. Except for
having a cheap game memory card, which kept on
wiping, which meant all my unlocks went with
it every couple of days. Oh, that shit. I've
got really good memories of playing. One of the
Need for Speeds with Mark on his brother's Saturn.
I can't remember which one it was, but I was
always the Ferrari and he was always the Lamborghini.
And there's a level where you start and it's
just a straight line. And then you're at the
top of the hill and the hill just goes. And we
used to see how fast we could go to see who could
go the furthest on a jump. Yeah, fair enough.
I've never quite been able to find which one
it was to play it again. That was on Saturn.
I'm sure it was on the Sega Saturn, yeah. I'll
have to look that one up and tell you, but I
think my greatest one that I probably spent the
most money on, so excluding Daytona USA, because
I think I actually outspent, even Daytona USA
didn't get as much spent, Cruising USA on the
N64. It used to be in the St. Albans Maltings
Arcade. It was a pound for three credits, and
I played the fuck out of that game. and i still
love it to this day and i played it through on
the n64 and okay it's very close to the arcade
original because from what i've been led to believe
the cruising usa arcade machine was basically
an n64 with a few added extra bits kind of soldered
on but uh yeah love it so that's it really for
me uh but there is one other thing that we've
both been doing and that is watch a particular
film and we'll talk about it now Accessing library
computer data. Right. The said film is a lovely
little film. Between lovely and masterpiece there.
What was the guy's name again? Jordan Peele.
Jordan Peele wrote, directed and produced it.
Yep. So Jordan Peele, you'll know from his other
film was Get Out, which I've not seen. This was
Nope. So he's done lots of stuff. So he's done
Get Out. He's done Us. which is really, really
good too. Other things as well, other than being
in, you know, part of Key and Peele as well.
Of course. But yeah, nope. Which, looking at
IMDb, seven for us, it got 6 .8. I don't think
that's fair. I've got to say, maybe it's because
I just came off of watching fucking War of the
Worlds to then watch this. But to me, this film
was a breath of fresh air. An absolute breath
of fresh air. So I saw this at the cinema when
it came out. I was really intrigued by the idea
of it. I hadn't seen the trailer for it. I just
heard it was kind of a weird take on a UFO film.
And I remember sitting in the cinema and now
you've watched it, you can finally hopefully,
especially as you've got the sound system in
the house, when they're in the house and it's
raining blood on them. And the sound. Well, I
didn't get to. I was using my headphones on the
computer. Oh. Yeah, so I'm going to watch it
again. So all of that weird screaming. Well,
it's great. These are great headphones. Yeah,
that's true. So I did get to enjoy that. But,
oh, my God, is that just sound design that's
terrifying. And hearing it in the cinema coming
from all around you and hearing the visceral
splatter of blood and guts and chunks literally
raining down on you 360 degrees around. Made
me so uncomfortable that I did really, really
consider I might go to the toilet at this point
and come back when this bit's over because I'm
not enjoying it. It's more I'm actually starting
to tense up. It's that freaky. Sorry about that.
Pausing again. Interruptions. Yeah, the sound
design. Amazing. Obviously, spoilers. This is
a massive spoiler because by telling some of
the things about this film completely ruins it.
But when you find out the noises it's making
are the screams of the people it's digesting,
that moment when you finally clock that, you're
like, shit. Because the noise before is horses
screaming. And you don't... I've not ever heard
a horse scream. And even the guy, the main character,
the horses are making really odd noises. He's
not kind of connecting the dots either. No, so
I mean, I think if my mind serves me right on
this one, we have three distinct story arcs going
on in this. So we have our main characters trying
to keep their horse ranch afloat after their
father dies in unexplained circumstances. Yep,
yep. We have our childhood Hollywood star who
had a nasty situation happen growing up and thinks
he's basically a chosen one. I guess you kind
of say the mentality he has from there. Yeah.
And then we have the, well, actually four story
arcs. And actually we have the film producer.
trying to take a picture the documentary man
angle of this all and then the fourth overarching
story which kind of covers everything is jean
jacket as the nickname goes is the ufo that they
think is hiding behind a cloud or is it a cloud
or we don't know yeah so those are the kind of
the main stories that are going on and there's
a lot to unpack and honestly if you're going
to give it a six point whatever on on imdb i
guess I can understand to an extent, because
if you think about it, really, did you need the
chimpanzee storyline? No. The honest, unless
you're basically setting him up to basically
be, he's crazy because this thing happened. He
now thinks he is this chosen one who can't die.
And it's all happening for a reason. And that's
why, as we then later find out that he's basically.
worked out a way to have the UFO come to his
site by basically just offering people up and
the horses up. Yeah, I think the angle is that,
obviously, so he's feeding it horses, and I think
he's trying to get back on top, because he's
a washout. You can see, like... Yeah, he's a
washout. He's in the middle of fucking nowhere
with that cowboy place. Yeah, so he's kind of
got a theme park, which isn't very successful.
It's more successful than our main character's
horse ranch. Yeah, than the Haywood. But it's
still, yeah, he's not on top like he was when
he was a kid in Hollywood. But there's two things
I noticed. He surrounds himself with money, that
guy, because I noticed it when he's made that
kind of mini amphitheater thing. Brand new, it's
very wasteful. They've got that slushy machine.
It made a point to look at the slushy machine
in this blazing heat to have this four kind of
bodied... slashing machine. And the, if anyone's
familiar with when you go, I don't know if they
do it in this country, when you're in queues
in hot countries, they spray you with water,
like a mist. Yeah, they don't do that here. And
they had that over the whole thing. So wasteful,
ridiculous and wasteful. It just, and everything
about him felt like that. He felt like washed
out child star who's kind of looking for the
next big thing to bring him to be. He thinks
he's amazing and he's surrounded himself with
people that think he's amazing or at least he's
trying to make them think that. I don't think
our main Hayward guy thinks that at all. He's
just using him because he needs money. And if
you know the storyline and if you haven't watched
it, you do need to go and watch it to understand.
But the whole idea of him being under this chosen
person, he survived and therefore that's why
he's so big to this day and that he can carry
on doing this. He didn't, did he? He isn't. And
that's kind of part of the thing they're trying
to get across. It's like, yeah, the monkey didn't
kill you and beat you to a bloody pulp like the
rest of the cast did. It got shot before it did
that. Yeah. Just because it's reaching its hand
out. So he obviously said, oh, no, I had a moment.
We made the connection. It saved me. No. it was
just everyone else sees that the monkey was actually
killed before it did anything to you whereas
he he truly thinks he doesn't see it like that
it's no i had a connection we had a connection
it was protecting me from everyone else for those
who haven't seen it the um the character was
a child star in a sitcom with a monkey imagine
elf but it's a real chimpanzee full house with
a monkey yeah and the monkey kills everybody
on set, or at least brutally maims the woman.
Does a bloom pop and it triggers it, doesn't
it? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and it goes on and kills
a load of the audience, all of the cast. Well,
one of the cast members survives, doesn't she?
Well, yes, but she's mutilated, face -missing
sort of mutilation. That's Stephen Yeun's character,
who's great in it, by the way. Yes. And... I
made a note. I'm going to try and find it and
see if I can articulate it better in my brain.
So what I think about Jordan Peele and all of
his films that I've seen, he's really good at
building characters. A lot of his films have
got quite slow build -ups. Pacing, yes. But that's
one, you might say, where some directors go,
well, that's just boring. You're like, oh, I
don't really care about this character. You care
in some way about every single character. And
I don't think... I might have found the AV guy
a little bit annoying and a bit stereotypical.
Oh, Angel, yeah. But at the same time, his character
fitted in. It was required. Yeah, it was required.
And I don't think there's any character... I
think that you could modify Stephen Yeun's...
Is he called Stephen Yeun? I literally just said
his name. Yeah, character. But I think you do
kind of still need him because that's, you know,
it's almost like he's... offering up to the to
the alien to as like a sacrifice yeah but you
could always just argue that you you didn't need
the whole tragic backstory it could just be that
he is just a washed out he's uh yeah he's a washed
out business entrepreneur who made one too many
deals and finally got made a bad deal which is
why he's ended up with this shit theme park yeah
it didn't need this kind of weird backstory with
with such tragic undertaking because it kind
of felt like it was lost in the rest of the story.
Could you think that maybe it would be a bit
tropey to have it that way and by doing this
just added a bit of other odd flavour? Well,
no, it is about exposition. It's about giving
the characters some sort of proper backstory
because otherwise what are you going to do? You're
just going to have a boring backstory of, oh,
I was a businessman and I made this deal and
this deal and I made millions on oil and I was
the one that helped. virgin atlantic takeoff
that sort of shit like that you could throw in
there but then you've actually got to go with
kind of real life things whereas actually going
with tv now i can see why they did it it is giving
a good good storyline to the character it's giving
them something that's required um just ultimately
with the length of the film as well it's something
you could have cut out would it made it more
enjoyable i just i don't know is the answer in
my head i enjoyed it but I could have also maybe
enjoyed it without some of those bits being in
it. Yeah. Emmy, M, the sister. Yeah. Possibly
another reason why the film gets a little bit
of a lackluster score is because she is so well
written. She is the absolute embodiment of main
character syndrome. Yeah. everything's got to
be about her. Yeah. And she plays it beyond perfectly
in this, to the point that actually I hated her
on screen because I just thought she's such a
cunt. Is it Kiki Palmer who plays her? Oh. Yeah,
I found her quite annoying, but I think that's
the point. Yeah, Kiki Palmer. But you had to.
She's quite annoying. You had to have her annoying.
You couldn't not have her annoying because then
you wouldn't get... The change in the story pace
when she's suddenly excited about, oh, is this
going to now make me famous? Because we've got
this documentary person on. Then finally discovering
the love for the brother and the father who had
died and the ranch and what was actually going
on. And we get one of very few characters that
show growth in the film. Yeah. And she grows
from being that horrible main character syndrome.
all about her to actually someone by the end
of it i loved her character so and i yeah it
was an amazing bit of writing for her and it
was amazingly portrayed on screen that's the
thing and she's the polar opposite of her brother
yeah 100 but i feel if you only watched half
the film and thought oh it's a bit slow can i
be bothered to watch the rest of it and if you
stop there you would judge it harshly on her
and the pacing. And you've got to watch the whole
thing. And I fully accept it's slow. I found
in the cinema, it's slightly different. On the
big screen, time kind of played tricks on me.
It didn't feel as long. But going back and watching
on the smaller screen, when I've got time to,
it did feel long. I'm not going to lie. It felt,
it is a bit of a... oh my bum's starting to go
a bit numb sort of thing but you've got to watch
all of it for it to make sense and when you've
watched all of it you realize how clever it all
is and how well it's all interwoven with itself
and as i say the character progression um i mean
we haven't even got into what jean jacket is
yet yeah and normally i'd go what the fuck have
you done there what the fuck is that and for
once it's like that's really cool what a clever
idea to have The alien ship be the alien. Yeah.
That is a clever idea. And it's eating stuff,
like sucking it up and then spitting out the
bits it doesn't want. That's what kills the dad.
Yeah, because it's been there since the dad died.
Yeah. It's been around for longer than that,
I think they kind of aim at. And yeah, the fact
is, it's just, they realise, they look up at
the sky and it's like, that cloud doesn't move
and it's there all the time. And it's like...
That's really creepy, actually. It's such a good
idea that it disguises itself. It is the cloud.
And then when it's in this kind of hunter mode,
it's kind of just what you would call a traditional
UFO, a flying saucer. But when it's finally exposed,
it's this kind of... It is Lovecraftian. It's
this Lovecraftian kind of... mass of it looks
like a big moth shapes and moth and yeah um concentric
kind of shapes it's it's something really different
made of silk as well so like it felt like as
particularly right near the end when it was starting
to unfurl it just looked like it's made of fabric
or a very thin skin yes like really waving you
could start seeing it kind of look a bit pumpkin
shaped almost you know with the kind of bridges
around it rather than being this smooth disc
with a hole underneath well yeah so it kind of
kind of expands out it kind of looks like it's
a lattice almost yeah yeah it kind of just it
keeps on expanding out and then it's uh as i
said concentric geometric all these different
shapes that it kind of just expands into and
then it's just really clever and it's actually
you know what this is it's beautiful to look
at but it's something so different it worked
yeah that's the thing we didn't need Oh, well,
actually, what it is, it's just the greys. We
didn't need War of the Worlds -esque. It just
shoves it in and it munches it up and that's
it. Yeah. We get something very different. It
was quite believable, to be fair, because of
it. Well, it's a predator. Yeah. We don't know
how many there are. Is this the only one on Earth?
But it's here. And it hunts and it eats and it's
top of the food chain on our planet. Yeah. And
that's what makes it even creepier because it's
like, yeah, okay, that works. There's no need
for it to be manned by little grey men or whatever.
It is the next thing up in the food chain. It's
just turned up. We don't know where it's come
from, but it's here now. And they don't need
to explain it. No. They don't need to do any
more than that. It's here. This is it. Nope.
exactly and like peter griffin would have been
loving it because he does say it quite a few
times yeah when like he's in the car and he kind
of opens the door a bit and looks up and it's
above him just because he goes nope or when like
he has the uh steven yun's kids are pretending
to be the aliens which was fucking me up and
i thought yeah they were the aliens i thought
okay that was a brilliantly done scene because
they those kids acted it so well the floppy arms
and the one that goes around the door with an
arm flopping down i was like looking back now
you know full well of course it was them being
like yeah kids mucking about but when you first
see it see it it's like shit, is this real? Is
this what this is? Yeah, and his fight or flight
response, Hayward's, is not fight or flight.
It's just accept it's happening and get your
phone out and record it. Because that's what
he does. He just kind of steps back a bit, gets
his phone out, and then when all three of them
appear and they kind of waddle, then he goes,
nope. Again, he goes, nope. But that's what people
would do, isn't it? Most people would judge it.
I was like, right, okay, we've got weird green
alien, grey alien in front of me. Half my size.
I can probably take that. Three of them? Nope.
Yeah, I can't really praise this film enough.
I didn't find it long, but then again, I watched
it over two nights because it's just the way
timing worked for me. No, of course. I've thoroughly
enjoyed it. I do want to watch it on my actual
big TV all the way through, lights off, sound
is up as loud as I can get it. Genuinely, you
have to because it is a treat. The sound design,
incredible. I think, for my opinion, it's another
masterpiece from him. I really like his stuff.
And the fact that... He knows how to do fucked
up. It's beautifully limited in scenes as well.
If you think, you could probably count them,
couldn't you? So we have film set, ranch. The
other ranch. Documentary person's house. AV room.
Yeah, the supermarket Dixon's version of whatever
America has. Yeah. There's a cafe or restaurant
or something. They go in briefly. Yep. But that's
it. Yeah. So it's a beautifully simple film.
You're not trying to keep track of where everything
is. It's just everything's there that you need
to know. Small cast, not grand scale, personal.
All three of his films, very personal. Yeah.
Okay, all right. Us does turn into a grand scheme
thing, but it's still focused around a family.
But you come away feeling like you know everyone
in the film as well. So you know Angel's basically
just, he's just this unhappy virgin who's doing
his best to try and find a woman. He is an AV
nerd trope. Oh, absolutely. But that fits for
that purpose. Yeah. Because you needed that character.
And then, like we've already said, M's growth
by the end of it. Even his... Is it OJ? OJ, yeah.
Yeah, OJ's growth by the end of it as well. He's
gone from being this stammering, quiet person
who can't fill his father's boots to, no, we
are doing this. We're going to make this happen
and this is what we're doing now and leading
the way. Even Angel grows, doesn't he? Yeah.
The documentary person as well. brilliantly cast,
brilliant ideas with him. And he knew what was
going to happen because he's so used to wild
animals as well. That was the thing. He knew
that the thing was going to, was pretending to
run away and was going to come back. That's why
he ran away from everything. So it's like, it
kind of leaves you thinking like, did the film
survive? Well, this is it, isn't it? You're kind
of left with the idea as well at the end of it.
Did they survive? I know you see them in the
dust at the end. Is that them surviving? Is that
just... Well, I'm not sure OJ's alive. Well,
this is it. We don't know. It's just like, is
one of them dead? And this is just kind of the
remnants we're seeing? I think OJ's dead and
it's just his silhouette there. Because he doesn't
move. Nope. It's just him standing there and
eventually the sand kind of dissipates and he's
not moving. And I think it's just her being like,
you know, my brother. And the ending. What a
way to kill it. really clever completely out
of the box idea just no i had no idea that that's
what they would do giant balloon it tries to
digest it and it ends up blowing itself up because
it tries to compress all the air yeah it's all
the helium in the balloon i guess it just ends
up in its intestines and stomach them it's interesting
because really so dupe is steven yun's character
he his demise isn't even his fault. He's been
feeding that thing a horse at 6 .30 every day.
Yes. The reason the thing's pissed off is because
she nicked one of his fake horses and fed it
to it. Yes, exactly. And it's pissed off that
it got fed a metal once. It got fed a metal with
the bunting hanging. So from his perspective,
the alien's perspective is like, they tried to
kill me. So now he's probably... thought that
it was the guy who's been feeding me horses this
whole time yeah so he's getting revenge he takes
you now he takes everyone out all they know his
kids would have gone the wife would have gone
all of the people all those people there and
then you see them in what i was calling this
the alien vagina like they're all getting crushed
in this really claustrophobic it's horrible isn't
it really uncomfortable and like and you don't
at first you think oh they're just when it shows
you one it follows one woman getting sucked inside
it doesn't it and you see her kind of getting
contractile vacuole up and yeah and they're kind
of sucking so you don't know what you don't you
can't tell until she gets to the skeleton of
a horse no but it's done really nicely as well
so i mean yeah you could look at it you can go
right basically just waving some curtains around
them on the on the film set i don't know if it
was practical or what whatever they did though
worked because as you say as she progresses up
and then there's just like the skeleton and then
you realize everything is starting to go a bit
okay and they're basically getting crushed to
death slowly while it digests them that is fucked
up and yeah again as soon as you realize that
the noises that the alien makes are their screams
barking hell. And it can also control it because
it goes and sits above the house, doesn't it?
And then crushes them all at once. It literally
just rains down the remnants across the house,
which is the scene with the horrible sound. And
as I say, when you listen to it on your surround
sound system, you'll see what I mean about how
disturbing it is. It's up there with a vent horizon
when he's crawling through the circuit boards.
Yeah. And you get the screaming going 360. It's
up there with that sound design. It's just disturbed.
It's brilliant. And obviously, I mean, we haven't
even talked about the father's death at the beginning.
Yeah. Just basically hammered with loads and
loads of bits and pieces that had just been dumped
out of this alien. Basically, it takes a crap
on him. Because at first, you do kind of believe
the idea where they were saying an airplane accident
dumping cargo. Yeah. You believe it. Until that
house scene where just before the blood comes
out, loads of keys and coins and metal stuff
falling down like the it's getting rid of the
stuff it couldn't digest and now i'm going to
crush all the people i'm going to manually crush
everyone inside me and spew all of their blood
all over your house and and you know a normal
film any other scene past then would have a clean
house again because they cleaned up they never
do it It never gets cleaned. It just gets rotted
and rotted more throughout the next couple of
days that the film continues. And the reason
that I'm so glad this was kind of a Jordan Peele
film is he leaves it open -ended. We don't know
anything about this alien. We don't see... This
Hollywood kick -ass, we're going to kick the
aliens' ass, blah, blah, blah. We get a real
ragtag, we don't know if this idea is going to
work, but let's give it a try sort of thing at
the end, and thankfully it does work. But if
this had been any other Hollywood director, let's
face it, it would have been... well, no one goes
up that mountain because it's so dangerous to
get up there. Well, we're going to send an expedition
up there and they'll climb up the mountain and
you just find all the carcasses and it would
just be red up there from the blood. It's like,
oh my God, this is where it goes and obviously
Digestion just dumps it all down and then they'd
come up with some plan to destroy it and it would
just, it would not work as a Hollywood movie.
Put grenades in your pocket and get eaten and
blown up just like in World of the Worlds. It
wouldn't have worked as a Hollywood blockbuster
but as the type of film that, I know Jordan Peele
obviously is aiming for Hollywood blockbuster.
That's not the right way to say it, but it's
not an atypical Hollywood blockbuster. Let's
put it that way. And that's what makes this work.
It doesn't hold your hand. At no point did it
tell you. It gave you all the information you
needed to know about... Every aspect of it. And
then when it came to how they were figuring out
where it was in the sky by having all the flappy
waving arm tube men around their whole field
and then stole all the car batteries from all
the dead people at the ranch. And then as it
flew over, because it creates some electromagnetic
field beneath it, they would stop working so
they could track it. What an amazing idea. They
never at any point tell you that's what they're
doing until it's happening and you go. Oh, because
he's already given you all of the information
that you needed. Now, I've not got much else
to say about this, but I'm going to give you
a little bit of a surprise here. To give you
an idea of how much I think about this film and
how ingrained is it on me, I didn't watch this.
I saw it at the cinema. I've seen it twice on
my DVDs. I own it on DVD. The last time I watched
it was about six months ago. Yeah. It's so ingrained
in the story. I didn't need to rewatch it to
discuss this episode because I can picture every
moment of that film still. And for me, that tells
you how good a film is. If you can still think
six months later and think of every bit that
happens in that film, every character, every
character's name, and know what that film is.
Yeah, you knew their names then. You weren't...
No. You just knew it. No, and I haven't bothered
doing any research for this because I knew exactly
what I wanted to say about this one already because
I think it's such a good film. Yeah. Miranda
didn't want to watch it with me and I'm going
to make her watch it with me because one, I want
to watch it on the TV but also I just... I think
she would actually like it. It's a scary alien
film. Yes. Which is, again, that's a real nice
change to have a science fiction alien -based
film that's scary. But not a jump scare. Not
a jump scare. It's not something crawling around,
killing people off. It's, what the fuck is that?
Yeah. Sort of scare. It's fucked up. It's Jordan
Peele fucked up. Yes. And I told my dad, I said,
Dad, you've got to watch this. I think your mum
won't watch it. I think my dad would really enjoy
it. You know, I not enough Ramstein, but we can
get past that. But I, as I, as I said, maybe
it's just because we've just come off the back
of that terrible, terrible fucking film that
I actually thought this was brilliant, but no,
I don't think it is. I think it is just. Wonderful.
If you haven't seen it and we haven't spoiled
it too much for you, go watch it anyway. I am
definitely going to watch it again. Maybe two
more times. Maybe three more times. This is really,
really good. It is brilliant. 100 % worth watching.
And no, no, no, no, no. I was right. War of the
Worlds did use real war footage. The dirty bastards.
Yeah, wankers. Transfer complete. Okay. Next
time on the Untitled Sci -Fi Show, it is being
chosen by TJ. So come on, TJ. What are we watching?
So we have a film that we're watching that's
linked to Star Trek in some way. Okay. And the
Evil Dead. And the Evil Dead? It's linked by
the actors. So our main character of this film
is Walter Koenig. Yeah. And the second main character
is Bruce Campbell. And if you hadn't guessed
what the film is, which I'm very, very surprised
if anyone did, it's the 1988 film Moontrap. Never
heard of it. I can see a picture of a robot alien
thing here. It looks incredible. I saw this when
I was small. By small, I think I was like nine
or ten. And my cousin and I were allowed to go
and rent a couple of videos from... It might
have been Blockbuster, actually. I don't know.
And we rented this, and I remember having nightmares
watching this. For a PG, it's pretty dark. It's
a PG. I didn't even notice. It's a PG. It's not
the best of sci -fi films. I've got a very big
soft spot for it. It's fun. The sequel, however...
Oh, my God. The sequel is modern. It's atrocious.
We'll leave it at that. But, yeah, Moontrap 1988,
and it's available free on YouTube. Oh, wicked
great. You can watch the whole thing on there.
Not great quality. It's VHS quality. Oh, who
cares? That's what we like. Happy? Moontrap.
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Analingus. Analingus. Is that like analingus?
It's like rimming. I think it is actually just
rimming. It's just rimming. Didn't we talk about
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but you've got a rusty dump truck on Roadcraft
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