From the Dungeons of Morningstar, I'm Clint.
And I'm Stretch, and this is Prevailing Strange.
Welcome back guys to our week in review, where
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you. What have you checked out this week? Mate,
I've watched so much shit. Okay. I have watched,
I don't know whether you've seen it, Untamed.
We spoke about it on Monday. Very well done show.
I enjoyed it. Was a tad predictive. Okay. So
without spoiling, but I just want to know personal
curiosity, is it a supernatural thing? No, which
I was so upset about. Because it leant towards
it in the trailer? I was like, hmm. I'm like,
oh. So the thing that got me thinking about it
is the appellation of it all. Like I thought,
oh, this could be leaning into that sort of mystical
sort of shit or there could be some cryptids
in the mountains that are disappearing people.
Wrong side of the country. Yeah, wrong side of
the country. Completely down the, you know. Serial
killer -ish? No. It does delve into, because
it's set in Yosemite. Yep. So it's set in Yosemite,
and the thing with it, there's a part in the
Yellowstone National Park which is very close
to this, which has no jurisdiction. We've seen
it in Yellowstone. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. There is
a place where there's no jurisdiction. There
is no courts. There's no police. There's no due
process. There's no nothing. Yeah. So I believe
it's in between two areas where there is, because
if you tried for anything. It's three. Three.
Yeah. Yeah. If you're convicted of a crime there,
you need to be judged by a court of your peers,
but nobody lives in this area. Yeah. So there's
a loophole that, you know, if you were ever caught,
you couldn't be fucking tried anyway. Exactly.
The thing with this movie is it really shows
the vastness of Yosemite National Park, how the
fact that there could be so many, so many murders
that happen there and no one's going to know.
Oh, yeah. The thing that pisses me off about
this show, this movie, a series. It's a short
series. I think there's six episodes or something.
When they go missing, so there's – Based around
three people, two of them are investigators in
this national park. They're part of the rangers,
the park rangers essentially. But they're federal
police because it's that big. Yep. The thing
that really pisses me off, this thing spans as
much as it is. And I'm going to tell you how
big the Yosemite National Park is right now.
Based on top of a… Active volcano for anybody
listening at home. The Yosemite National Park
spans 759 ,620 square acres. Quite a big parcel
of land. 1 ,000, sorry, 3 ,074 square kilometres.
Now, there's parts in this series where one person
goes looking for something. Gets himself into
a spot of bother. Phones don't work out there.
And they're about to die. Struggling. Yep. Then
all of a sudden someone shows up. Bullshit. Bullshit.
Yep. And it happens multiple times. Just takes
you out of the whole show. You know what I'm
saying? Like, that should be 101. If you're going
into that wilderness and... you're in 3 ,000
square kilometres, how are you going to be found
just by screaming? Yeah, it doesn't make sense.
No, and a lot of these places where they are,
they're not even on the path. They're nowhere
near the path. Yeah, so that really bothered
me. It's so beautiful, shot so well. So the first
time I saw the trailer, it was on a small screen,
a smallish screen. It was here. I'm looking into
the light. But then I watched it again later
on. It looked like some of it was computer generated.
What's it like in the TV show? You don't see
that. Okay. You don't know. There's no hints
of any – there's no real CG in it. There's a
part in the first episode where you blink and
you'll miss it. I think that's the only sort
of CG element of the whole show. Okay, cool.
Really. It made me want to go and see shit like
that because it was just, yeah, insane. I've
been there. Fuck off. Piece of shit. What about
you? Okay, so I finished off the Southern Reach
series, the fourth book. You finished that last
week. No, no, that was the third in the original
trilogy. Okay. So there was a fourth book. So
we get no real answers. Yeah, thanks. I enjoyed
it for the speculative fiction of the whole thing.
But it doesn't tell you shit. Not really. There's
no closure on, you know, oh, it's an invasive
alien species or it's a rip in the time fucking
space continuum or it's this or it's that. It's
just a what if of it all, basically. So the fourth
book comes in. basically explores the lead up
to everything. It starts decades earlier. So
I told you about this last week, about how these
- Ten years earlier. Yeah, they find these fucking
rabbits from the original book that had gone
in with cameras, like I'm assuming GoPros or
something like that. And so this early team of
biologists goes into the Forgotten Coast is what
it's called at the time in Florida before Area
X has - even become a thing. There's weird shit
going on and they encounter that. It's the first
kind of documented encounter of weird shit on
the coast. They find these rabbits. They start
watching the videos on these cameras. And the
first thing that I think about is how do they
know how to watch these cameras? It looks like
just a black box. These haven't been invented
yet. What the fuck are you doing? Assumedly.
There's no talk of telephones like mobile phones
or anything like that. It's pretty fucking old
school. So a micro SD card. Somehow they're watching
these videos and they're seeing their own death
and every time they watch the video it's something
different and it gets fucking weird in a cool
way. Okay. It's a three -part, this book. It
starts off with this team. They're hearing like
piano music out in the middle of the Everglades
and fucking some weird shit happens. It's pretty
cool. Anyway, so that's told from the perspective
of this one fella reading the reports of it.
And then it goes to the second part. It's a little
bit later on and he's retired but then he's brought
back into the fold and he's going to investigate
this area that he's only ever read about in these
documents. Right. The Forgotten Coast and this
town nearby where the lighthouse is and all that
shit. So he's going in there and he's got this
whole cover story of why he's in there and he's
meeting some of the people that fucking go in
and are lost. In the earlier books. Right. So
you're getting little bits of hints of them and
pretty much what the agency that's overseeing
the whole thing is doing in that area. And you
get some answers to that or what they were doing
at least. Then it goes on into the third part
and it's told that from the perspective of a
dude on... Amphetamines? Amphetamines, yes. Just
off his guts. Fucking going in, he's in the first
expedition into. Is this the writer? Oh, man.
It sounds like he's on the meth. Potentially,
potentially. And basically because so you hear
about him in the other two books about he's the
only one to come back, he's the only one to survive
from the first expedition. Right. He's the cautionary
tale. He's how they learnt how to go in there
in the, you know, previous expeditions. And he
ends up being like a head honcho in the people
that are kind of overseeing the whole thing.
But just to see him go in and kind of have no
fucking idea what he's doing and go batshit crazy
in there because he's coming down off the drugs.
Fucking hell. Don't read these books if you want
answers. Just go along for the ride. Is it hard
to follow? No. Okay. No, no. It's constantly
overlapping. Right. Revealing layers of the onion.
You just never get to the middle. You never get
a fucking answer. Do I wish I didn't read it?
No. Okay. Do I wish I could answer? Yes. Right,
okay. Speculatively, they say it's aliens and
they're saying that Area X is not on our world.
It's a pocket. You go through this pocket and
it's another world you're on. Even though it's
very similar to ours, but some weird shit's going
on. Oh, man. How's it expanding? Yeah. I don't
know. I don't know. It just is. They don't tell
you that. No. They don't tell you how there's
doppelgangers of everyone that goes in, comes
back out, and how some of them have come back
fucking weird. Some of them came back with cancer
and died. Some of them came back and knew that
they were doppelgangers in the end. Natalie Portman
from the movie. She goes in. That original one
dies. The one that comes out is a doppelganger.
She knows she's a doppelganger and she's kind
of trying to navigate the world knowing she's
a copy, which is pretty interesting. Dude, this
gives me a fucking headache. It took me a while
to read because I was like, I'll just put that
down and I don't know if I'll pick that back
up again. But then I did. It wasn't compelling
enough to keep me in the story. Right. Because
the narrative wasn't so compelling, but it was
worth it in the end. Really? I'd give it a solid
three and a half stars. Out of ten. Okay, fair.
So I'm just going to finger blast you with some
shit that I've watched. Oh, finger blast away.
So I watched Tomb Raider with Angelina Jolie.
Still holds up. Still a great film. It's the
best she's ever looked, by the way. Ted Lasso,
again, re -watched. Sorry, happens every week.
Just get over it. Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise movie.
Dude, that still holds up. And yeah, I know,
he doesn't look like Jack Reacher from the books,
but he gives a fuck. It was a great movie. That
scene where he blends in with the baseball cap,
pretty funny. Nailed it. Because let's face it,
Alan Richardson ain't going to blend in like
that motherfucker does. Italian Job, directed
by F. Gary Gray. Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton.
Such a great cast. Great film. The minis. Yeah.
Perfect. So well done. A movie that I've never
seen. All right, we're getting on to some new
stuff then. No, no, no. It's old. Like, okay.
Blue Mountain State, The Rise of Thad Land. What?
Fucking watch that movie, dude. If you like Van
Waller, Party Liaison, this movie, holy shit.
It's just, it's. Is that the second one? Yeah.
I haven't seen the first one. Okay. Don't worry
about the first one. Just watch Thad Land. Basically,
it's. Alan Richardson as Thad, he's gone off
and he's become this famous footballer, but he
misses being in college, high school, and he's
like, it's a whole, what do they call them, a
frat house. The dean wants to sell it, doesn't
want it to be a party house anymore, so they're
like, oh, we need to put our money together and
buy it. Oh, we're all broke. We can't afford
to buy it. What are we going to do? Oh, Thad
was part of this. Let's go and ask him for the
money. He's a multimillionaire now and again.
The only way I'd ever come back is if you made
Thad land. He's like, what's Thad land? And so
Thad hands over a diary, and it's essentially
what Thad's utopia would be, where it snows,
but it snows all year round, but the snow is
actually cocaine. There's chicks with cocaine.
It's just fucking bonkers and hilarious from
start to finish. And The Martian. I was having
a really stressful day the last couple of days
at work, The Martian just re -centers and away
you go. Heals you. It does. I've got more that
I'm going to delve into, but, yeah, that was
my finger blast quick action. Okay. You finger
blasted me. Now give me your second thing. Okay.
There's a new series on Netflix called WWE Unreal.
Yep. Now I've fallen out of the WWE cycle probably
about five, six years ago, seven years ago. I
haven't really paid attention to it. So when
this popped up, I was like, oh, do I really want
to watch this? You know, I think of Dummy Dash
with the WWE. It was just shit, boring. It's
not like Attitude Era back in the day. It was
Stone Cold, The Rock and all that. And this new
show, it's, dude, I think this is the best show
that's ever been put out about the WWE. It is
absolutely phenomenal. Can't say I've seen too
many. Shows about wrestling. Well, there's like
Beyond the Mat and Beyond the Mat 2. Then you
have the Vincent Mann documentary that came out
last year. And then you've got, you know, just
all the stuff that comes out about, especially
around big events like Survivor Series, WrestleMania
and all that. They always come out with a little
attachment DVD. This one is six episodes, four
episodes, maybe six episodes. And it's just really
well written, well done. It takes you back. stage
of like a year of WWE dates, how they come up
with the storylines, the talent, the way that
they interact with their talent, how the talent
works, them trying to get billed for a show,
the heartache of an injury, how close everyone
is backstage and how much they take care of each
other and never, ever want to see each other
hurt. You know what I mean? Yeah. Some accidents
that happened in the ring, some accidents that
happened outside the ring. So it's just, I thoroughly
recommend it. It is a good show. Yeah, okay.
Even if you're not a wrestling fan, you could
watch it. It's that good. Okay. And it's got
Ree Ripley in it for about an hour and a half.
Ah, see the attraction. Everybody would see the
attraction. But yeah, I thoroughly recommend
watching it. It's called WWE Unreal on Netflix.
Okay. So I finally got around to watching Nosferatu.
Okay. And the last Robert Eggers movie that is
out so far. And that's got Skarsgård in that.
I'll read you the cast. Lily Rose Depp. Okay.
Nicholas Holt. Oh, yes. Bill Skarsgård. Yeah.
William Defoe. Willem Defoe. Fuck. Aaron Taylor
-Johnson. Holy shit. Ralph Ineson. No idea. Galactus.
Holy fuck. Yeah. Wow. And that's a movie. Man,
I am a big fan of this dude now. After watching
the last four movies, big fan. Robert Eggers. Robert
Eggers. I cannot wait to see what he does with
his werewolf film that's coming out soon. Yeah,
right. That's the werewolf. Yes. Man, it looks
fantastic. It's funny. Like, it's the best Willem
Dafoe has ever been, I reckon, in these movies.
I've seen him get a head job. I know what you're
into, but, like, watching this dude, like. I've
got a gif on my phone where he's dancing across
the screen like this and it looks like he's got
three legs. Like, the dialogue in this, in all
Robert Edgar's movies, lean into the era -specific...
Right. Like, thys and thous and, like, very kind
of proper kind of talking. And, like, to see
the way that Willem Dafoe just fucking plays
these roles with... What he is fucking conveying
in these words that isn't natural to us. Yeah.
Fantastic, man. Yeah, right. It's like almost
Shakespearean if I was to like Shakespeare. Yeah.
I don't like Shakespeare. Fuck that shit. No
one does. But, oh, man, he kills it in every
one of these movies. He's in all four. Really?
No, sorry, he's not in The Witch. The Witch with
two Vs. He's not in that. But. Well, it should
be called a double V, not a double U. The vvitch
like projecting and he's speaking in this like
old style English and it's like, oh. Yeah, right.
It's not like grating but like impressive when
he's talking. It's like, whoa, man, that's fucking
wild. So there's scenes in Nosferatu where it
kind of nods its head to the old movies, a lot
of shadow play. Nice. And like he's. Like in
Bram Stoker. Yeah, and he's reaching out and
his shadow is reaching out over certain Germany
somewhere. And as the shadow reaches, his hand
reaches out over Germany, the plague follows.
Oh, yeah, right. People are screaming in the
night and, man, it's pure cinema. Yeah, right.
He's doing some great shit. See, and that's another
thing why I loved Werewolf by Night. It looked
so good. Yeah. Just a small budget one shot.
It was fantastic. And that's the thing with Werewolf
by Night and The Lighthouse, they were black
and white. Yeah. And the contrast ratio. Fantastic.
So he does this thing, like it's a colour movie.
Oh, Nosferatu is? Nosferatu is, yeah. Oh, right,
okay. But he does these things where it's like
the night time scenes. There's blues in it, but
it's contrast right up to look like a black and
white film. So there's a lot of scenes where
it's like nighttime. It looks almost black and
white, but there's some blues in that black,
and they boost the contrast, so they're using
heavy shadows and shit like that. The cinematography
that this dude pulls in some of the scenes, the
rotating camera shots, and I could not. recommend
these movies more so. Fuck yeah. Yeah, and like
it's gruesome in parts. You don't need to watch
these in an order, do you? They're not connected
at all. No, definitely not connected at all.
Okay, cool. But this Nosferatu one is a universals
movie, so like universal monsters. Universal
monsters. I don't know if it's going to connect
or anything else or not, but yeah, you can watch
these out of order any time. Yeah, fuck yes.
But yeah. Bill Skarsgård plays Dracula, doesn't
he? Orlok, Count Orlok, who is Nosferatu. And
very kind of different take on vampires. Yeah,
right. Yeah, like I'm not going to give anything
away. Motherfucker. You know how in a lot of
movies vampires are very perfect looking. But
then you had Nosferatu where he's a kind of decrepit
looking kind of cunt. Kind of leads into that.
You know my ultimate vampire? Have you ever watched?
Here we go. Have you ever watched Renfield? No,
I haven't. I want to watch it. Nicholas Cage.
Nicholas holds us in that too. Nicholas Cage
as Count Dracula. Yep. Fucking sensational. I've
been meaning to watch that. I watched it every
day in the shop here for a week straight. It
became a running joke. He'd say, Hammy, what
do you want to watch? Put on Renfield. So he'd
put on Renfield. Nice. So good. And Nicholas
Holt. Yeah, Nicholas Holt. Bam. Dude, do yourself
a favour and watch these four movies, but don't
just put them on in the shop. Right, so give
it my undivided attention. Oh, dude, yeah. Put
yourself in that fucking position. Lighthouse.
Northman. Northman. The Witch. And there's another
one coming out, isn't it? Yeah, The Werewolf.
The Werewolf. The Werewolf. Yeah. All right.
Sweet. Okay. I might actually watch one of them
tonight. Which one would you watch first? I'd
start from the start just because The Witch.
Okay, perfect. The Witch, sorry. Yeah, The Witch.
All right, sweet. Number one. And it's good.
And, like, how many times you will realise that,
oh, that was kind of referenced in pop culture.
Yeah, right. On the internet, memes, fucking
all that kind of shit. How long ago were these
fucking written? The Witch, I think, was 2014.
Oh, so they're not old. Not a whole lot old,
no. They're fucking new. The movies are new or
the books are new? I don't think they're based.
They're not based on books. He wrote all these
by himself. Did he? He wrote and directed them,
yeah. Oh, okay. Even better. And like, yeah,
he leans into the culture and the kind of. the
dialogue of the time that it's set in and, like,
so Nosferatu is kind of got that gothic but,
like, industrial age kind of feel about it. The
Northmen is, it's a different feel but then,
like, because they're talking about, you know,
they've got their pagan gods and shit. Yep. There's
a lot of kind of. dream sequences basically and
how they see Valhalla and, and shit. And then,
uh, the lighthouse is the aspect ratio is a perfect
fucking square. It's fucking weird to watch,
but then it's all black and white. And then there's
a lot of scenes that are just famous paintings,
like the way that they're framed of like, and
it's sick, man. And the witch is like, One of
the most colourful grey movies you've ever seen,
you know, when you think of, like, that time
period that they portray. I think because it's
such a new movie. But, like, everything's just
fucking grey and fucking bleak. But at the same
time, it's so kind of rich at the same time.
Fucking Jesus. All right, okay. And then, man,
he is. jarring in his compositions at times and
the sound. You've really got to be in to watch
these movies. So you reckon don't watch it on
a shitty TV either? Don't watch it on a shitty
TV. Watch it on a half TV. You want a decent
TV. You want a decent TV and you want to be invested
in the movie. Not even that. You can watch it
with fucking, I watched most of them with headphones
and stuff, but you want to be kind of invested.
You don't want to be fucking tattooing because
you're going to miss some shit. Right. So that's
like when we watched, we'd done a marathon of
all the, holy shit, Planet of the Apes movies,
the new ones. And Ali said, you've got to turn
that off. And I'm like, why? And she goes, because
just listening to it, it's a whole heap of fucking
monkeys screaming for 12 hours. That's true.
Fair enough. Not much speaking in their movies.
Yeah. All right. I took. Rachel and Logan to
see How I Train Your Drag. Okay. What did you
think? Didn't hate it. Oh, really? No. I didn't
hate it. It is a shot for shot of the animated
movie. Basically. It's a little bit longer. There's
more in it. Shot for shot. Okay. So when I went
and seen it, I thought that - It was good. It
was good. It was good. It was good. The comedy
fell short compared to the animated. Agreed.
But the emotion hit harder, in my opinion. You
reckon? Yep. I just don't think we need it. Probably
not. Even the sound cues were the same, bro.
Yeah. But the dragons look fucking sick. They
looked exactly the same. They did not. They looked
exactly the same. They did not. Even like, what's
the one that lights itself on fire? It looked
more menacing. The nightmare. then it's fucking
Tim Burton lookalike in the fucking animated.
Same fucking thing. Not quite. The only thing
that was different, Roughnut and Toughnut were
different sizes. That was the only thing that
was different. The dragons were different sizes.
They looked different. They did. Man, when the
fucking the queen or whatever you call it at
the fucking nest came out, that was fucking impressive,
man. It had more weight than the animated. I
seen it in 2014. It had more weight this time
around. Pretty sure it would have weighed the
same. You know what I'm fucking talking about,
cunt. Honestly thought, honestly, dude. We probably
didn't need it. If we didn't have the animated
movie, that would be fucking sensational. Yeah.
That live -action one would have been great.
Yeah. I think the cast they had in the animated
one was better. I feel like they were more likeable
in the cartoon than they were in this. Yeah,
I agree. Yeah, you just didn't. They were kind
of like, meh. You had the super bad guys in.
They – so you had – what's his name? Beshamel?
Source? What? What's his name? I don't know.
Beshamel. Beshamy? No. No. Beshamel. Beshamel.
Beshamel. Actor. Why don't you just look up how
to train your dragon? Jay. Sorry. Jay. It's not
Beshamel. No. It's Jay Baruchel. All right. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. As Hiccup, yeah. Yeah. So you had
him as Hiccup and then you had Fogel. Who played
Fogel? Fuck. Jesus Christ. You had it open. I
know. Please hang on. Okay. So you had. Jay Baruchel.
Baruchel. Baruchel. I think that's how you say
his name. Buscemi. Yeah. So you had America Ferreira,
who was Astrid. Jonah Hill was Snotlout. Jonah
Hill. Kristen Wigg was Roughnut. Craig Ferguson
was Clobber. Christopher Mintz -Plaz was Fishlegs.
Was Tim Miller in it? He's not in it. TJ Miller.
TJ Miller. Was Toughnut. David Tennant was Spitlout.
So when you sit there and you go, the cast was
good. They were great, man. That was a fantastic
cast. Yeah. But, yeah, I just didn't resonate
with the live action. What did Logan think? He
loved it. He thought it was the best movie ever.
And then he went home and watched kids screaming
at Minecraft and he thought that was the best
thing ever. Kid's moronic. He's got taste in
his arse then. Exactly. Like his Uncle Stretch.
Fuck off. You know what he does like, huh? Fucking
Aquaman. We can't all be right. I know. Just
me and Logan. Just me and Logan's right. Lingy
sides with me. Lingy's got no idea. Lingy's got
every idea. No, he doesn't. He's stupid. Wow,
that's rude. He hung a dick around his neck,
dude. That was a handle. Oh, sorry. That was
handle. Sorry. Wow, that was so rude. Yeah. But
that's all I have watched this week. The last
thing I watched, I am literally halfway through
the last episode of Andor, season two. Well,
I better go home and punch out the last four
episodes then. Yeah, you better because the last
four episodes are fucking heavy. Fuck, man, I
knew they were going to get into it. I knew they
were going to get into it, considering it rolls
straight into Rogue One. So I think the last
four is the last time skip. Is it the last time?
No, there's two time skips. There's three time
skips in this entire season. I'm up to the first
one. Yeah, so I'm pretty sure you're up to, if
you've got four more to go, you've got a time
skip now, and then you've got another one before
the last two. Holy shit. Okay, well, I'm going
to watch that and say, no. No. I'm going to do
that Wednesday next week. That way it'll be nice
and fresh. Fresh. So I will ruin but not ruin.
You get K2SO for the last two episodes. Is that
it? But he's good. He's good. No. No. No. No,
because they have a seemingly longer relationship.
So this time jump must be. Significant. How many
years? One. There's a nice bonding scene at the
start of the second to last episode. No, not
that. No? Damn it. Okay. Well, that's it. That's
this week in review. That is. Thanks for joining
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