From the Dungeons of Morningstar, my name's Stretch,
and I'm Clint, and this is Prevailing Strange.
Welcome back guys to our week in review, a segment
of Prevailing Strange where we talk about some
of the content that we've checked out this week.
If you like what we're doing here guys, like,
comment, subscribe, let us know what you're watching,
what you're playing, all that fun stuff. Gives
us stuff to talk about next week. What have you
checked out this week, buddy? Dude, I have been
just a consuming slut. So I watched Welcome to
Derry, episode three and four. I didn't watch
four this week. Oh. Well, I did. A little bit
of payback. What about three? What did you think
of three? Forget about four. I liked it. I liked.
Getting more of Dick Halloran's The Shine. A
lot more Dick Halloran stuff. Him on the plane
was pretty cool, especially at the end, like
how he's looming over the back of that lady.
It was a tad creepy. Yeah. I do like that he's
like – it's been a week since I watched it. He's
talking about the fact that it saw him. He didn't
see it. It saw him. where in the past the shrine
has never been a two -way thing. It's always
been like the person with the shrine has seen
things. Yeah. So that obviously alludes to the
fact that Pennywise is something different. Otherworldly.
Otherworldly, something he's not usually up against.
Have you noticed all the turtle Easter eggs yet?
Turtle? No, I haven't. So Pennywise. You've read
the book, haven't you? Yeah. So he's an alien
creature. He's a force from beyond our world.
So the 12 spokes are the kind of multidimensional
wheel that all universes... Stephen King's wheel.
Stephen King. So the guardian of the spoke that
this world is on is a turtle. Oh, right. So you'll
often see whenever in... In the IT movies and
stuff too, turtles, whether they be toys, whatever,
it's the turtle playing its part in kind of protecting.
Yeah, right. Yeah. I haven't even realised. Looking
out for them. We're seeing a lot more and more
of red balloons and alluring to this creepy -ass
nature that's going on and that there's something
wrong with dairy. Oh, I can't talk about episode
four. Yeah, no. God dang. Okay, I'll just move
on from that then. Well, a couple more things
on episode three. The fact that the military
knows about it is pretty crazy. Changes up a
whole lot of different things. The first appearance
when you flash back into the general's past when
he meets the Indian girl in the woods there,
the old dude, and he comes running up. Yeah,
that was a pretty cool scene. I thought that
was creepy as shit. Yeah. Yeah, you see. Oh,
Derek. Shut up. Okay, moving on. I've watched
up to episode nine of Murderbot. Right, okay.
Dude, if people are sleeping on this show, it's
so, dude, you can't help but like this character.
Yeah. Charming as shit. It could honestly, it's,
you adore it the way you adore Alan Tudyk. Right,
yep. He's just funny, witty and very quippy and
shit and just comes up with some off -the -cuff
type shit and it's hilarious. And extremely graphic.
Yeah, okay. So graphic. There you go. But, yeah,
hilarious. Give Murder What Your Time. Me, sir.
The only television I've watched this week will
be the end of Black Rabbit. Okay. Final three
episodes of Black Rabbit. It's good, man. Well
worth your time in checking out the season. It's
only 10 episodes. Yeah, it's good. And the way
they kind of twist it and turn it, it's a pair
to pair of brothers and their kind of turbulent
relationship. And how you can go from rooting
for one to rooting for the other and then it
kind of comes back around. Like the bear. Kind
of. I mean, yeah, not quite. No, it's different,
but like... No, you're always rooting for a fact.
Yeah. It's dark in points, very funny, like only
in the way that Jason Bateman can be in those
kind of characters, very sarcastic and dry at
times for an American kind of comedic fucking
value. But, yeah, well worth checking out. Sweet.
I don't mind. It's Jude Law as well, isn't it?
Jude Law as well. He's your brother, yeah. Yeah,
I don't mind them too. I don't know if we've
seen anything together, but I like them. But,
of course, I watch Blade Runner 2049 because
I'm just a whore for that. Ready Player One,
always. After we talked about it last week. Fucking
solid watch. I watch it all the time, dude. At
least once a week. Fucking hell. Yeah, I love
that movie. The Meg. Oh, dude. Never watched
it. Such smart. Such a good movie. A movie that
I enjoyed, The Mummy, with Tom Cruise and Russell
Crowe. I didn't hate it. I liked it. Yeah. I
really liked it. I was upset that. didn't carry
on. Oh, man, it had something. It was going somewhere.
If people give that a chance, that was going
somewhere special. That was the first one that
had Russell Crowe and Tom Cruise in it. Well,
second one. So it was tied to Dracula Untold.
Was it? Mm -hmm. So it would have been good if
they allured to that in that movie. Yeah, well,
at the end of Dracula Untold, he's in the present
day. Right. It flashes forward to him in the
present day. And then, yeah. They were meant
to tie him into, and Russell Crowe's Dr. Jekyll
was meant to kind of recruit. Fuck yeah. Man,
they should have given that a chance. Even just
for the stars that they had in it, they should
have fucking given it a chance. Yes, dude. That
would have carried it a long way. Yeah. They
just didn't fucking hate this shit. I really
enjoyed Mr. Hyde. Yeah. That kind of reflect,
it was like not one of the first times, but one
of the first times in a while they'd done that,
the reflective lens in his eyes and like his
face in shadow despite the fact that he's in
light, kind of like what they did with The Void
almost, but yeah, very cool visual. I thought
it was fucking sick. Oh, yeah, dude. I liked
that. I really enjoyed that movie, dude. I thought
it was good. An old one. Brendan Lee and Dolph
Lundgren. Showdown in Little Tokyo. Right. Classic.
Yeah, it is. Classic. It's that much of a classic.
I haven't seen it for a long time. Boobs. Really?
I might have to rewatch it. Boobs. Tia Carrera's
boobs. Yeah, right. Dolph Lundgren's boobs. Yeah.
The Dolph. Mm -hmm. The One. The One. Yes. I
watched that. Yes. It's been, in case you haven't
noticed, it's been Kung Fu Week in the shot.
Good movie. The one. Great movie. Yeah. I thought
it was sensational. That ending with Blood Brothers.
Fucking he's fighting on the pyramid. Yeah. Fucking
multiple versions of himself. Hell yeah. Sick.
I thought it was such a good movie. Romeo Must
Die. Yep. Yep. I've got the DVD at home. It's
been a while since I watched it. The Leo. Fucking.
Great movie. Have you got any more? No. Only
the movie that we watched. Yeah, no. It was fucking
lame. I was trying to build a new studio. Fucking
Kung Fu Panda. Kung Fu Panda was on the list.
Fuck yeah, it was. And yeah, don't you fucking
dare start talking about that, you piece of shit.
You're in trouble. You're on my shit list. Okay.
And everybody should know why later on. The betrayal
is real. Ninja Assassin. Ninja Assassin. Yeah.
Dude. Who's in that? A dude named Rain. That's
it. It's all I've got for you. Okay. Let me just
look it up because I don't. Dude, one of the
most. That's like quintessential kind of cover
I remember from Video Easy back in the day. Hell,
yeah. Yeah. Great movie. Yeah, okay. I've never
watched it, no. Oh, dude, give it your time.
Right. Kung Fu Hustle. Kung Fu Hustle. Is that
what they do with the fucking big afro on the
front? No? No. Kung Fu Hustle is possibly one
of the funniest and - Okay. Yeah, I've seen plenty
of stills from it. I've never actually watched
it. Okay. Brilliant. Brilliant cinema. Kung Pao.
Possibly one of the funniest concepts of a film
that I've ever seen. So were you just going for
funny Kung Fu or slapstick Kung Fu or just any
Kung Fu movies? Just Kung Fu, mate. You didn't
watch fucking Hidden Tiger? It's on the list.
It's on the list? It's on the list. We've still
got a day at work, mate. Calm down. John Wick
and Bloodsport. Nice. Pretty solid list. Oh,
dude, you should see this list. It's grand, epic.
And a movie called Cargo. Yes. So I forgot to
choose the movie last week, so sorry to the tens
of people that watched this. Of like maybe half
of them that might have watched it. Tens of people
from around the world. Yeah, we decided to watch
Cargo. It came across my feed or letterboxd or
something like that, and I was like, oh, fuck.
I remember when that first came out, I wanted
to actually watch it and never got around to
it. I think I might have been turned off by the
fact it was an Australian movie, but. Mate, look,
let's, I'm not even going to let that be an issue
with this movie. Holy shit, dude. Yeah, absolutely
not. So Cargo came out in. 2000. 2000, was it?
And 17. 17, there we go, yeah. Yeah, so you said
it was based on a short. I didn't realise that.
Yeah, it was based on a short that was released
by, so the lady that directed this, Yolanda Remke.
Okay. So she wrote and directed the short and
released it at Tropfest. Seven minutes short
it was, and it was incredibly well received,
so much will. This was the very first Netflix
original that was ever directed by an Australian
filmmaker. Okay. Well, the young lady in it is
a young lady from Newcastle. Simone Landis is
her name, and she played Toomey. Yeah. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. And, dude, this movie blew me away.
It was so good. Yeah, it was really good. So,
yeah, 2017, Australian post -apocalyptic thriller.
It starred Martin Freeman, Simone Landis, as
you said, Anthony Hayes, David Guppilli, among
some others. Yeah, it was, like, I don't like
many Australian movies. Yeah. I like this a lot.
So this was her feature debut. Yolanda Remke.
Yep. She wrote this as a short story and it was
an absolute smash hit on YouTube and like it
received like 30 million views before the feature
was even greenlit. Yep. As of today, it has 21
million views on Tropfest YouTube channel. Wow.
And this was her feature debut and it was co
-directed by a man named Ben Howling who made
she. knocked out of the park. And she, ah, dude,
she's doing something else. I read she was doing
something else. Hang on. So she's on a TV show
called Tropper, which is another Australian TV
show. Mm -hmm. So, yeah, the tagline, after being
infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and
with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles
to find a new home for his baby daughter. And
being a father myself. Yeah. It hit pretty hard.
Yeah. So when it opened up and, like, they're
on a houseboat and you're like, all right, this
is lovely. It's just, you know. Kind of idyllic.
Yeah. Perfect, dude. Rolling down the river and
you're on a boat. Yep. Safest houses. And you're,
like, steaming down the river and you're just
thinking, oh, that's lovely. And then you've
got that family on the side and he's like, hey.
Having a party on the riverbank. How are you
going? And then he just pulls the gun out and
he's like, oh, shit, and they just go back about
their time. You're like, okay, something's going
on. Yeah. Yeah, a bit of foreshadowing there.
Mm -hmm, mm -hmm, mm -hmm. Yeah. So the way this
kind of sets up that everything starts to fail,
the whole kind of sunken yacht in the river,
it was like it was one of those things where
you've got to suspend disbelief, like suspend
belief, like why did she go over there? Why did
she do that? Why didn't he say something? Kind
of that whole situation. It's like, fuck, that's
dumb. But, you know, the story would go nowhere
if they didn't do that. Yeah, it kind of kicks
off events. And, yeah, so it's a zombie flick.
Yeah. It's the pandemic. Very kind of different
take on zombies. The fluid was different. Yeah,
the very viscous kind of bile that they were.
Weren't only coughing up, it was coming from
their eyes and nose and ears. Yeah, it was gross.
Yeah. It looked like, oh, dude, I'm not even
going to think about it. It made me balk. Yeah,
it was very conjunctivitis -like on steroids.
I thought this guy knows he's seen what happens
to these people that are bitten and he makes.
You know, he makes his wife a promise and then
he just breaks that promise. I'm like, dude,
dude, come on now. Come on. She doesn't want
the conjunctivitis, bro. Just help her out. And
then lo and behold, she bites him anyway. Yeah.
I was quite impressed with the prop kind of contagion
kit. Yes. It felt very kind of tactile, legit.
Like even just down to the kind of. The little
card. The card and the animation, like the illustration,
sorry, was like just bad enough to be almost
believable. You know what I mean? And I'm like,
oh, hang on. Is this going to be like a suppressant?
Is it going to help them out? Is it going to
give them enough time? Yeah. No. The cattle prod
thing. No, the fucking, what is it? No country
for old men in the fucking. It's a fucking, it's
a three inch long spike that gets projected at
the end of this syringe and they go. Yeah. If
you choose to end it for yourself. In amongst
that kit, there was also a mouth guard. Yeah.
Some fucking zip tie handcuffs and a kind of
brochure on how to deal with it. And the most
important kind of part was the countdown timer.
You got 48 hours. After you've been bitten. But,
yeah, if you bleed, if you bleed out, it's sort
of. I think if you just die, you come back. You
reanimate quicker. So, yeah. Oh, Jesus. Get to
see some beautiful countryside, Australian countryside.
I thought it was a great setting for the whole
movie, man. I thought it was unreal. Taking place
on the Murray in South Australia. Yeah. I really
thought that. having that setting where it's
just desolate and there's lots of open space
and the people you come across just trying to,
you know. It kind of makes sense that in that
kind of situation you might want to go west where
there's a whole lot less people. Yeah. And I
love just the Curies out there, man, just taking
control and returning back to earth. I'm like,
yeah, that's the way. Hell yeah. It's funny that.
You don't always see the culture kind of portrayed
like they do in a very positive kind of cool
way like this. Yeah, I fucking loved it. Yeah,
like you do in a lot of American, Native American
style stuff. Yeah, some kind of parallels there
in the way they kind of treat it. Yeah, very
cool how they were. I loved it, yeah. Yeah, setting
fire to the bushland to kind of burn them, which
is something that they used to do. Burn off brush
anyway and kind of, yeah, it was pretty cool.
I even loved, like, how they were, like, you
know, burying their people in the trees and shit.
Yeah. And then even, oh, dude, fuck, I did it
already. I did it already. Mm -hmm. Anyway. Yeah,
there's a few heavy moments in this. It's not
just the one. So, all right. Good to see even
after the apocalypse, wife's still nag. Oh, the
foreshadowing. At most, death was not safe, was
it? To be honest, it's a perfect place to be
during a zombie outbreak. What a predicament
to be in. Possibly the hardest decision aside
from it being the other way around. What did
this chick do in her previous life for the karma
train to reverse over her? She got bitten by
a zombie. She got turned and then a tree gets
impaled through her ribcage. It's like, come
on, sister. You need a rest. Yeah. For fuck's
sake. Well, I think she wanted the rest. It was
him that was dragging her along. Yeah. Jesus,
she deserved a rest. Yeah, he would have put
her out of her misery by then. What a douchebag.
Oh, and of course, Etta is a nice person. Cancer
found her, though. It tends to do that. Yeah.
Fucking fuck. Yeah, it does. Vixit cunt. Indeed.
And then I've got finally raining is free and
then catching up with the family on the river.
Holy Jesus. Oh, fuck. It was the mist all over
again. Yeah. Yeah, that's the exact same thing
that came to my mind was the mist. I'm like,
that's heavy. The kids are just playing in the
background, having a party, and he's just digging
a hole. Where's the treasure at, son? Yeah, look,
there is some heavy shit. And then he doesn't
bury him. No. The fuck, guy? Yeah, I don't know.
Good boy. Didn't even realise that. Well spotted,
Jeremy. Yeah. I thought the way that the landscape
was shot was sensational, especially some of
the angles. And I thought the performances of
the people they cast, I thought Etta was charming
as shit. I thought her role was cast and played
exceptionally well. Even though Martin Freeman
was probably dropping down for this role, you
know, The Hobbit. Yeah. But still doing it and
giving it his all, man. Oh, yeah. Lend some weight.
He lent some weight to this role, man. Holy shit.
And I think having something, having an actor
that has that sort of weight to them and able
to carry the weight of this movie because it
deserves it. Uplift the rest of the. Absolutely.
Yeah, definitely. I think this movie deserves
to be seen by a lot more people. Yeah, if you're
a zombie flick fan and you haven't checked this
out, it's well worth it. It's good, yeah. Yeah,
the foreshadowing in that party on the riverbank,
man, that hit me like a truck as soon as I realised
what was going on there, man. Because it was
so kind of jarring, the balloon. You're watching
it and they're floating down the riverbank. You
know what the movie's about before you watch
it. Yeah. But you're waiting for that penny to
drop or them to reveal the whole, that they are
aware of the situation. You don't know whether,
are they aware of the outbreak yet? Is it going
to hit them like a truck? Yeah. So, like, you're
not sure whether that whole birthday party or
party on the riverbanks are kind of before times
type thing. And then the gun comes out and you're
like, okay, no, that's weird. Why are they having
a party in these times? Yeah. He's trying to
give the kids one good day. Yeah. Fuck. Yeah,
that's a fucking really difficult kind of situation
to be in. Yeah. Yeah, and never kind of relish
the idea of ever having to do something like
that. Nope. Not at all. The way, because he kind
of seemed a little bit kind of whiny, bitchy
maybe, not bitchy, but like. He was out of his
depth. Yeah. Needed a bit more spine. Like, especially
when, like, he probably should have helped his
wife out way earlier than fucking what had gone
down. Absolutely. But then how far he pushed
towards the end of that. Yeah, man. It's growth
as a, you know. As a character, yeah. And the
sort of, at the start of the movie, you see,
like, he's a very sort of detached. Dad, like,
you know, the baby's crying. Here, take the baby
because she only settles for you. And all the
way through, oh, she's not going to want me anyway.
She's always wanted a mum. Always wants a mum.
And then going on and going on and going on and
then sort of as you get towards the end and she
even says, Daddy. And I'm like, that fucking
dude. That was one of the – That was kicking
the guts, yeah. That was a lot of times, one
of the very lot of times where I cried during
this movie. Yeah. But, yeah, and then – Like
the lengths that he's going to by the end of
this thing to make sure that she gets somewhere
safe. Oh, yeah. Like when he was putting on the
cuffs, putting the mouth guard on, I'm like,
what the fuck's going on here? And he's digging
that hole. That was a weird thing about the zombies.
They all wanted to bury their head. Yeah. Which
was like an odd thing, but cool. Like in the
lore type of setup for the whole kind of world
building, just adds that extra kind of layer
that. Makes it different. But, yeah, no, they
– because, yeah, once he gunked up, his eyes
were closed. He was just following the smell.
That was pretty cool. Yeah, I don't know. She's
sort of just standing, like, steering towards
the fucking promised land. To me, he's the goat
is another one I said. Yeah, that – the actress,
she's done well, man. Done really well. This
is her first acting role. Yeah. Has she done
anything else since? Do you know? I'm not sure.
Not sure. This movie got me blubbering like a
fucking baby to zombies. And then what a fucking
ending. Yeah. Yeah. You know from the start that
he's not going to get cured. You know from the
start that he's going to perish. Still rewards
you. It still rewards the shit out of you. Yeah.
You think it's going to be this blah, blah, blah,
but when it really just kicks the goal at the
end and the thank you. Fucking sent me. Yeah.
Wow. Fuck. Here we go. But, dude, this is a movie
I could – this is probably the first one of their
watch -alongs that I could watch again. Oh, no.
Haunting in Venice. I can watch that again. Yeah.
But this is probably the first one. I liked it.
Yeah. It was good. No, I enjoyed it. Would you
give it a five? Fuck. I've cornered myself because
I give that. Oh, no, because I give 1922 three.
Three and a half? Three and a half. Three and
a half or was it three? Fuck. Three and a half
I think it was. Yeah, it was three and a half.
I'm going to fucking corner myself. I'm going
to give it a three. Solid three. Yeah, I'm going
to go three and a half. It's not worse than 1922.
It's a really, really fucking good, solid movie.
Good, solid movie. And it fucking made me feel
things for a zombie movie, dude. It was not hilarious.
It wasn't. There was funny bits. Yeah. Like when
him and Timmy are walking to the. The safe space.
Safe space. Safe place. And he's like, oh, you
know, what did you call me? He's like, the goober.
He's like, what's that? White man. White fella.
White fella. That's it. And he's like, oh, what's
friend? Yeah. And I'm like, oh, fuck off. Dickheads.
Making me feel stuff. Yeah. Alluding at the start
to the clever man. Yeah. Being able to cure.
I was like. towards the end and they're heading
that way, I'm like, I kind of don't want that
to happen. Yeah. To cheapen the whole thing.
And I'm glad that they didn't do something like
that. Just the fancies of a child kind of situation.
Yeah. And the spray of perfume. I was about to
say that, dude. I was about to say that. Yeah.
You got me. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And Timmy just puts
her hand up and then she's just like. In his
eye. Mm -hmm. It was good. Yeah. No, it was good.
And then they buried him in the tree. Yeah. Oh,
yeah. Good one. Yeah. Fucking good one. Thank
you for showing me. Thank you. Honestly, and
this is the God honest truth. God honest. Fuck
that guy. This is the truth. I had mean to watch
that because I watched the short. Mm -hmm. So
I'd been meaning to watch the feature and I'd
completely forgot about it until you mentioned
it the other day. I actually was speaking about
it to Ali and then you messaged it to me, sorry.
And I'm like, dude, I was talking about that
today. I was like, fuck yeah, let's watch it.
But yeah. Do you have a movie for next week?
No. No, I don't. If you can come up with one
before. Tomorrow. I will put it here. Yeah. Cool.
All right. And with streamers. Yeah. Thanks for
joining us, guys. Animation and stuff. I'm not
there yet, man. I'm not there yet. Okay. As much
as I'd like to do that for y 'all. Yeah. Yeah.
I've still got to work, so you get what you got.
Yeah, and you're doing a great job. Thanks, buddy.
It'd be better if you sort of let me know when
you're working on your new gaming room, you piece
of shit. Thank you again for joining us, guys.
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