From the dungeons of Morningstar, my name's Stretch.
And I'm Clint, and this is Prevailing Strange.
Welcome to our week in review, a segment of Prevailing
Strange where we get to share our thoughts on
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exercise. Hogan, show us. What have you checked
out this week, buddy? Mate, I'd hope you know.
I re -watched The Eternals. Okay. You're right.
It's far better than most people give you credit
for. Far better than everybody should re -watch
The Eternals. It's a good movie, dude. I liked
it. I think the fact that it was - I want a fucking
sequel. Yeah. I want a part two. I want to see
what's happening with ML with Arishem. I want
to know what the fuck they're doing out there.
The fact that it was wedged in between like 70
blockbusters. Dude. Yeah, it let it down. They
should have waited for the calm to kind of. You
think it's a long time ago that movie was released.
It's not. It was after Endgame. Yeah. I need
more. I want to see more of that shit. Yeah.
Fucking oath. I thought it was good. It set up
so much. Oh, yeah. Like. Explore the cosmic side
of things. Yeah. Some more big players in the
Marvel Universe. Yep. Well, yeah, there's more
Eternals that are showing up from out there into
the nether and I want to see more of this celestial
shit. Like I want to see what Ariston's doing
with the Eternals now because he plucked the
ones that were on Earth. He's plucked them off
and took them off to give them judgment and shit,
whatever. But, dude, yeah, it holds up. Yeah.
Go watch it again. Everybody go and watch Eternals
again with fresh eyes, man. It was good. I enjoyed
it. Yeah. I fucking thoroughly enjoyed it. So
I did that for you. Thank you. You should give
Aquaman another chance. Just saying. If I have
to. What have you watched? Wednesday, the third
episode of Alien Earth. Mm -hmm. Watched it.
You watched it? I'm up to date. Okay. What do
you think? Okay, so I watched all three episodes
this week. I watched the third one last night.
Spoilers if you haven't seen it. Oh, yeah, please.
I won't mention episode three because it only
dropped yesterday. Yeah. Look down in the – I've
been putting the skip ahead things in the comments.
So if you want to miss this. First episode, holy
shit. Fucking sensational, right? It was dead
set ripped off the screen from Alien Man. It
was so well done. I loved it. Beautiful. The
dialogue was perfect. You got a really good grasp
of what all them characters are going to be doing
and it was really well written. I liked it. Yeah,
that cassette punk. Yeah, and the letters are
popping up on the screen and shit. But I do like
that they said that it was an 80 -year round
trip for them. Yep. So that ship obviously has
older tech compared to what's on Earth. Yeah.
So, you know, you can kind of understand why
some ships out there in the universe, because
this takes place two years prior to Alien, why
there's older ships out there. Yeah. Because
you're always going to have that in space travel,
older ships, newer ships. Yeah, 100%. Because
the distances take forever and whatever. So,
yeah, very cool little callback. And then they
jump forward with the tech. Has a similar feel
but isn't quite as retro looking. Yeah. Well,
and that was the thing with when they get to
Earthman and they crash that ship, that's a graphic
thing to look at. Like the scale of that ship
as it hits the Earth was just wow. It looked
so good. They did a similar thing in Star Trek,
Into the Darkness, at the end when Khan crashes
that ship into Earth. The scale didn't really
hit. In this, it hits, man. Like just the size
of this thing and the speed at which something
falls from fucking orbit is ridiculous. And I
like that the first kind of couple episodes are
based in the aftermath. We see a lot of fucking
damage. Yeah. In case you haven't seen, the second
episode is just a search and rescue squad just
searching the wreckage. And then seeing like.
The way the xenomorph moves around and it looks
so natural. It doesn't look computer generated
at all. It doesn't look like a puppet. It doesn't
look puppety. No, it looks like it's actually
tangible. Oh, man, for a TV show, I think it
looks sensational considering the amount of,
like, bright light it spent. Like in the old
movies, you know, there were people in suits
and there was a lot of darkness. A lot of darkness,
yeah. So it hit a lot of inconsistencies and
stuff like that. I think it looks fantastic.
You're right, you know, it is quite a bright
TV show. It's not a dark and dingy alien movie.
This is a pretty bright and, when I say bright,
it's not poppy or anything, but everything's
out in the open for you to see. And then in the
second episode we kind of get the lost boys sent
out. Yeah. It's an interesting concept, a bunch
of kids in adult bodies. In adult bodies, yeah.
that were for all rights and purposes going to
be dead by now. But there's even a scene which
I thought was just so alien, for lack of a better
word, when it's the, I forget her name, Wendy.
Wendy, yep. And someone else is coming into a
door and then there's that statue in the background
and then you see the xenomorph untangling itself
and then just goes. You're nuts, man. Full slasher.
I have never seen carnage like that in an alien
movie, dude. Yeah. So much carnage. I was thinking
about that with the alien lore and stuff like
that. So you've got like the aliens that are
like the hunter, the kind of the soldier ones.
Then you've got like the ones that will kind
of are more like about the brood and shit. So
there's different types, different classes to
them. Yeah, this one, it's just out there fucking
slashing. Dude, and that tail gets you, and it's
literally like a whip. It's ripping people apart.
It was good, man. When they were in the eat the
rich scene, as people have been calling it. Wow.
Yeah, it's crawling around. Just no legs. It's
just over there. It's sneaking around the top
floor. Yeah. Yeah. Man, it does look pretty good.
We are here for a dinner party. All right, dickhead.
Yeah. Wendy is – it's funny watching these people
try and play kids, the Lost Boys and Wendy and
stuff like that. Sometimes it's all right. Sometimes
it's a little – I'm waiting until this whole
thing finishes to – kind of have my thought on
what the lost kids are like. Right. But, yeah,
they're playing around dude and bro. Yeah, very
kiddish. That makes them a kid. Yeah. Yeah, I
don't know. But then Wendy was only kind of a
couple of weeks older than them. And she seemed
more mature. In this whole adjustment type thing.
Yeah, she seems more mature. Yeah. But leading
into the third episode, there's something going
on with Wendy. and her connection to the aliens.
You think so? Yeah. Well, so she's hearing the
eggs. Nobody else can hear them. Is that what
that is? Yeah. So when the eggs are calling out,
so the eggs are in trouble, they set out a distress
signal. Right. And that's what that is, and I
think that's what calls the xenomorph back to
protect or do whatever. And, yeah, fucking. Something's
going on there and the fact that the xenomorph
kind of didn't attack the brother the way it
would like decimated like a bunch of people in
the hallway but then kind of playing with them.
Interesting. I don't know what's going on there
but I'm hoping we get a payoff for it. Yeah,
me too. I do like, what was the redheaded woman's
name? Nibs, is it Nibs? Yeah. The one that was
attacked by the eye alien, which looked pretty
fucking cool. Eye -ocky. She's going through
some kind of situation. Be interested to see
her kind of, whether she gets violent, whether
she can't handle being in a fake body. Kills
everybody else. Maybe. There's quite the potential
there for them to go psychotic if they don't
have their human forms. You know, what am I?
Yeah, well, it's already been brought up in the
second episode. Like, if I'm not human, what
am I? Well, you look at the Moor, is it Moor,
the cyborg? What's his name? That worked for
Yutani. No, not Timothy Oliphant. No, no, no.
The black fella with the clear arm. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. And, like, he's been alive so long because
he's half human, half machine. And, you know,
when is a machine? no longer a machine and all
that kind of. Well, that was a question brought
up as well. Yeah, he's very conflicted and, like,
that obviously is doing something to his mental
state, what's going to happen to kids in this
position. Yeah. Yeah, it's looking pretty good
though. I'm very intrigued. Yeah. I'm liking
it. I'm liking, like, what I'm seeing in special
effects and production. Yeah. Yeah, I'll rate
it. Little glimpses of the world that we haven't
seen before. I'm going to finish it. I'll keep
watching it. Yeah, definitely. It hasn't let
me down yet. No. What else have you watched?
So I've watched Alison Brie and Dave Franco's
Together. You went to the movies? No. Is it on
digital already? You can get it on digital, yeah.
Jesus Christ. Okay. It's not bad. Really? It's
pretty good, yeah. It's plagiarised to death.
Well, I don't know. I haven't seen the other
one. Yeah, right. And so I can't compare. I did
try and find the other one. I couldn't find it.
Yeah, a little indie thing. So I don't know.
But, oh, man, there were some scenes in that
that had me gagging. Oh, shit, really? The body
horror is real in that, yeah. The eye got me
where they were kissing eyes. Yeah. See, that
didn't worry me at all. Yeah, right. I don't
want to ruin it, but there's a specific thing
that I do not like as a person in reality. What
don't you like? Fucking hair. Yeah, I don't know.
Have you seen your face recently? Especially
when it's not attached to a person. I don't know.
It's fucking weird. In water and shit. I don't
know. Yeah, it's quite contradictory. But yeah.
Quite. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, right. Gives
me the ick. So eyes joining together had nothing
for you, but some hair in a drain. Oh, my God.
Yeah. No, it doesn't scare me, but it's like,
yuck. So that's all I've got. Dude, that's so
lame. I'll tell you a scene. Fuck you. So he
wakes up in the middle of the night, and she's
like, they're in bed together, and she's like,
what are you doing? And then she turns the light
on, and it's him just fucking convulsing. And
it's her hair all the way down his throat and
he's just choking. And I don't know, just the
idea of having that much hair in your throat
is fucked, man. I don't know. Yeah. Was the hair
still attached to her? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh,
okay. Yeah, yeah. It was all the hair in his
mouth like he's choking on it. So you women just
don't know the struggle. You just don't know
the struggle. It's like Rachel said to me the
other night. She goes, oh, I'm thinking about
shaving my head again. I'm like, fucking do it.
I love it. I like the way that you shaved it.
Plus hair doesn't get in my eyes. Yeah, pretty
solid movie. Pretty interesting premise and the
ending, you think it's going one way and it changes
it up a little bit. Yeah, worth a watch. Nice.
Definitely worth a watch. Honestly, I haven't
watched anything else. Really? Watched Alien
Earth. Yeah. All three episodes, which was three
and a half hours. Yeah, they're pretty long episodes.
It's good. And then I watched Eternals. That's
it. That's it? You haven't listened to any books?
No. Nothing? No. Oh, hang on. No. Oh, I watched
Ted Lasso yesterday. Of course you did. We'll
just assume that from now on that Clint has watched
Ted Lasso. And I started. We watched Fallout
again, finished Fallout because it's coming out
at the end of the year so I wanted to refresh.
That's it. Dude. Wow. Oh, and I've watched the
opening to Peacemaker several times. Not the
new one because it's a new song and dance this
time around. Yeah. Well, the new one coming out
today. I'm not watching it. You're going to wait.
I think I will. I think I will. No, I can't.
No, you can't. It's too good. You haven't even
watched one episode yet, have you? No. I might
give that a go this week. You should, dude. You
need to watch the first season of Peacemaker
before this comes out. Oh, yeah, I'll definitely
watch the first season first. Dude, it's such
a good show. So, Steph and I finished season
three of The Bear. Don't fucking do it. It is
a good TV show. It is a great TV show. It has
a great cast, and it's about cooking. Let me
have a drink before I prattle on. Honestly, man,
it's a great show. It has a great cast, and the
interaction between these characters is sensational.
Based in Chicago, everybody kind of knows each
other, so they all have these interactions. They
feel like family, man. The third season was kind
of... A little weird. Because he had gone, so
first season starts off, he returns home, takes
over the shop. Second season is, okay, we're
going to turn this into a proper restaurant.
So it was a hole in the wall kind of sandwich
shop basically. Was it failing as a sandwich
shop? It was a Chicago institution and it wasn't
necessarily failing, but it wasn't, you know,
making bank. They were kind of, everybody loved
it, but like they were never getting in front.
Right. So the whole plan was to make it this
fucking flash restaurant. So in the second one,
that's them demoing inside their whole setting
up and what they're going to do. It sounds kind
of boring, but then talking about menu and the
whole kind of drama of, you know, these people
are line cooks to begin with and they're becoming
like chefs. Oh, right, so they kept the same
staff and everything. A lot of the same staff,
yeah. Yeah, right. And like the guys that were
like. The handyman, which is played by Matty
Matheson, is hanging around. He becomes one of
the people out on the floor handing out food
and stuff like that. Yeah, right. Everyone's
kind of straightening up for this job and trying
to impress Kami, who is the one that's come back,
Jeremy Allen White, to kind of do this thing.
And who is they all calling cousin and stuff
like that because they're all kind of intertwined
as a family and shit. And they're all trying
to. do this thing together. And the third season
is them, after they've opened, they find out
that the local newspaper's been in to do the
first review of this place. And then the whole
season is basically the next few days waiting
for this review to come out. And you get like
an introspection on each character. Whilst waiting
for a review. Whilst waiting for the review.
You get backstories. You get what's driving them.
They might be going through something else while
this is all happening and shit. So it's very
kind of focused in on everyone for each episode
and you get some pretty fucking beautiful shots
and, like, moments and, like, what's the, like.
fuck, what's it called when you get like a montage,
montages. Gotta have a montage. You get some
really nice fucking moments in this season and
then the next season that's already out already
that we went to start watching but we figured
out we missed season three. Yeah. So it's after
they've found out what the reviews said and kind
of the aftermath and them figuring shit out.
But, yeah, very, very drama. How many episodes
a season are there? Eight. Right. It's good TV,
man. Is it? It's really good TV, yeah. Well,
you know what? I'll give it an episode. If that
first episode doesn't suck me in, I'm going to
burn it to the ground. Probably won't. No, it's
definitely well worth it, I think. If you enjoyed
Chef and you like John Barenthal, Jamie Lee Curtis,
there's some big names in it. Did you see Jamie
Lee Curtis in an interview the other day? Holy
Jesus Christ. With the clothes that she was wearing
in the TV show. Yeah. Everyone was talking about
her fucking tits. Jesus. I mean, I'm not surprised.
Fucking seeing what she was like in True Lies
and all that shit back in the day. Like, fucking
Jesus. She's always had bangers. I'm telling
you right now, she was on so many men's walls.
Oh, yeah. From True Lies, dude. Holy sweet Jesus.
And there's that. Show that she was in John Travolta
where she played the aerobics instructor. Have
you seen the fucking shorts of that? Perfect.
Is that what it's called? Yeah. That's what it's
called. Not far from wrong. Not wrong at all.
Jesus Christ, I would have loved to have been
her leotard. Yeah. It's fucking funny, man. Jesus
Christ. There's a campaign for thing up there.
There you go. I've been watching more of Matt
Armstrong again. Yep. It's a dude that builds
cars and that. So I watched one of his episodes
yesterday. It went for like five and a half hours.
That's a long episode. It's a long episode, dude.
And you watched it all? Yeah. No wonder you haven't
got anything to talk about this week. No, well,
that one there is I just pick and choose. Like
I'll do half hour, 40 minutes here and there
if I've got time, or I'll put it on when I go
to sleep. But that. The Eternals, if I'll go
back to that. Yeah. God, it was beautiful, man.
The shots are sensational. Dude, just the gold
-like scroll work, the spiralling and all. Oh,
my God. The golden filigree was just beautiful,
man. The kind of otherworldliness of their costumes.
Yes, where it just comes out of the wall and
it just sort of envelopes them in shit. The only
thing that I think lets it down is the CGI for
the creatures and for Bill Skarsgård's character.
From memory. I haven't watched it for a while.
No, I agree. Yeah. Now, Bill Skarsgård is the
deviant that evolves. I agree. Yeah. It looked
a bit plasticky. Yeah. Didn't quite look right.
Yeah. Considering what Thanos and the Hulk has
looked like at times, they could have done better.
Could have done way better. And the ship. Yes,
it was a big Dorito. It didn't really have any
character. No, but I do like that it calls back
to, like, UFO sightings. And it's just hovering
there and then all of a sudden it goes. There's
no sound or anything. Yeah. I did like the ship,
in my opinion. I thought it was pretty cool.
I liked the hopping through time. You know, they've
been here since day dot. Yeah. And I even liked
the callback when you got Siri at the end and
she's. Cersei, sorry, and she's got the dagger
in the very first scene and she turns that real
primitive stone blade into that gold filigree
dagger. She gives it back to the primitives.
Later on in present day, it's like in a museum
and it's actually a draw card to the museum.
It's like, dude, I like that shit. The bloke
who plays Black Knight, such an underplayed role
in that. Well, he was never meant to take a lead
role. I think that was to come later. The ebony
blade, that corrupts, doesn't it? So when he
picks that up, it corrupts. I have no idea about
the Black Knight except for this movie. So when
he holds it, he is unkillable. He's immortal
while he holds it. Right. But it steals the soul
of anyone he kills. Ooh. Yeah. So it condemns
them to eternal damnation. Well, they shouldn't
have been a bad guy. And I think that's the thing
with him. He kind of gets a bit, not corrupted,
but there's times where he's either defending
himself or doesn't want to fight people because
of what he knows will happen to them. Right.
And like the whole judgment of how bad are they?
Do they deserve what I impart? So do you think
he should be in Eternals 2, a solo movie, or
should he be in the Blade movie? Because Blade
shows up at the end. Give me a Midnight Suns,
baby. Agreed. Yeah. I want to see that so fucking
bad. I really do. Yeah. Are you going to be sensational?
Man. Fucking Ghost Rider, Blade, The Black Knight.
Yeah. Go. Fucking hell. Wolverine. Come on. Yeah.
I would like to see Captain Britain and the whole
shenanigans around him and have The Black Knight
in it. So they're the protectors of the Nexus
Point. So it's like a physical manifestation
of the - Emergence. No, the connection between
realities. Oh, really? So the mansion that Captain
Britain protects, kind of like Doctor Strange's
place. But this is the thing too. Captain Britain's
already been teased in the Marvel MCU anyway
because his name pops up as Eraser in Iron Man
2. Does it? Yeah. Okay. So he doesn't have any
power outside of the UK. Yeah. Yeah. So his power
is. Who wrote for this guy? Yeah. Who created?
I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, his power
is tied to his homeland. And I think it's more
radius around this nexus point is how they've
kind of worked. But outside. of this certain
radius. He can't fly. He doesn't have super strength.
He's one of the most pointless superheroes I've
ever heard of. No, but. No. Man, when they start
doing some multi -universal shit, like multiverse
stuff. He's pointless. No, very cool. But he's
away from Britain. Yeah, but he knows his way
around all these different places. So you go
inside this house, it's like an M .C. Escher
painting and there's doors that lead to fucking.
Different realities and stuff. So that's the
Nexus. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I've never fucking
read that. Isn't that pretty interesting? I'm
going to have to look into it. So the last thing
I watched was Bring Her Back by the Philippine
Riders. Did you watch it? Yeah. Have you watched
it? No. Dude. They step it up in the second movie.
Really? Yeah. I'm going to watch that tonight
then. Yeah. They really know how to do that kind
of shock and awe moments. Yeah, right. Where
it goes from like a scene where it's - Just playful.
Playful. Normal horror scene to fuck you. Yeah,
100%. Like off the limiter, just fucking fucked
up shit happens. Really? Oh, man. Dude, I want
you to talk about it because I really want to
see it. In case you haven't noticed, horror movies
scare me. Oh, man. It is a heavy movie too. Heavy
movie about loss. Yeah, right. And it's a brutal
ending. Fuck. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it's fair heavy,
man. Well, I'm actually really shitty that you
said that. Why? Horror movies scare the fuck
out of me. Like to the point where I feel physically
ill sometimes. If it's a good one, I feel physically
ill. So. You know the second Saw movie, how they
ramped it up with the fucking real kind of close
-up fucking. Oh, yeah. There's some moments that
are fucking like that in this. But you get it
in a story that's fucking. Pretty neat, linear.
Yeah, like down to earth. Not down to earth.
Not as such as exaggerated as, oh, we've got
a bunch of people trapped in rooms and they've
got to fight for their life. More relatable.
Yeah, like people live in their lives and then
shit happens. Yeah, right. And like there are
moments that are kind of they creep up on you.
Yeah. And it happens. Brutal. Well, this is what
I was showing you the other day, right? So this
is what they used to do at home. Fucking lunatics,
man. That's what they started doing. And they
were banned off YouTube so many fucking times,
man, just for that shit. But, yeah, they've got
their own characters like Clickety Chicken and
shit like that and it's just so fucking wild.
But, dude, that's what they started doing, just
making YouTube and now look at them. Honestly,
some of the best Australian cinema I've ever
seen. Oh, yeah. I just hope they keep getting
to do their own thing, man, because it's fucking
special. I like it. On that note. That's us.
We'll see you Friday. Love, peace, chicken. Like,
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