I can't laugh. The cameras are rolling. Yes,
you can. From the dungeons of Morningstar, my
name is Clint. And I'm Stretch. And this is Prevailing
Strange. Welcome back, guys, to our week in review,
a segment of Prevailing Strange where we get
to talk about something that we've checked out
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ones. Appreciate this. What have we checked out
this week, buddy? The movie of the week is one
that I wanted to watch for a while. Good luck,
have fun, don't die. Mm -hmm. We watched the
trailer and I instantly thought it was going
to be an absolutely cracking film. Sam Rockwell,
I honestly don't think there's anything he does
that's bad. It made me want to watch another
movie of his that I haven't watched called The
Moon. I'll be watching that on my own because
it is a bit old. But this movie was sensational,
dude. I loved it. There was some hard -hitting
themes in it. There were some bits where you,
like, choked up a little bit, but then there's
some bits where you're like, holy Christ, what
the absolute F. But, yeah, it was a good film,
dude. 100%. Really good. So the synopsis? A man
claiming to be from the future takes patrons
from an iconic Los Angeles diner hostage in search
of an unlikely recruits in a quest to save the
world. I think this is the most amazing plot
for a movie. The fact that he's been there 117
times and he's just been getting different combinations
of people to see if he can save the world. Now
that's not really spoiler heavy at the moment.
Not at all. We're going to get into it though.
But yeah, Sam Rockwell just. He's such a good
actor. He's so much fun. And, like, he doesn't
really take on big, big roles. I think they're
all, like, passion projects. Yeah. Like he has
that Wild Horse 9 or something that's coming
out soon. I haven't seen the trailer. We watched
the trailer last week, yeah, with John Malkovich.
Yeah. Yes! Yeah. With the CIA agents. Yeah. Well,
we think that's what they are. Yeah, because
this was a $20 million budget. Wow. Yeah. Look
at the cast too. You've got Zazie Beetz. You've
got… Junot Temple. Junot Temple. I'll make it
a Marvel, Advent Man. Michael Pena. Pena. And
Sam Rockwell. And Sam Rockwell. Half decent cast,
yeah. Yeah, man. Like I said, I watched it last
night and I'll watch it again today. I'll watch
it again and again because it was such a romp,
man. It was. It was so good. It was a very enjoyable
movie. And you're scratching your head too, like
what's going on? Is this real? Is it not? What's
happening? Is he a time traveller? Is he not
a time traveller? What does each of these members
of this crew bring to his group? I still have
questions about the ending. We'll talk about
that a little bit later. Me too. 100%. 100%.
So directed by Gore Verbinski. who is responsible
for Cure for Wilderness, was his latest movie
before this. He did The Lone Ranger with... Armie
Hammer. Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp. And Armie Hammer,
yes. Armie? Armie. Armie Hammer, yep. He did
Rango. He did the first three Pirates of the
Caribbean. He also did The Weatherman with...
Truman Show. The Mask. That's his name. Jim Carrey.
That's the one. And he did The Ring. I've never
doubted us doing a podcast together until right
this moment. I doubt you because of that shit.
Legit, you just forgot Jim Carrey's name. I'm
tired, man. No excuse. So, yeah. So the story
follows a regular bloke played by Sam Rockwell.
You never really know his name, but he's tangled
up in a situation involving time loops and second
chances. What starts off feeling a bit quirky
and almost lighthearted quickly turns into something
a bit deeper. And it'd be like, what would you
change if you could go back in time just a little
bit? The whole thing is so well done. How many
times would it take to get it right and all that
sort of shit? And what happens when fixing things,
when everything makes it more complicated? I
cannot talk more about Sam Rockwell's performance
in this movie, dude. I didn't know he'd won an
Oscar before, but he has. For another bit movie,
three billboards outside of Ebbing. Yep. Missouri.
Yeah, good. Yeah, he won an Oscar for that. Right.
But, yeah, he absolutely carries this film. He
was legit had. So much to do with his, like he
ad -libbed so many of his lines in this. And
it just comes off so natural, dude. Yep. Like
he's just sitting there talking about shit. Yeah.
Very kind of manic type of character. Yeah. But
without coming off as crazy. Like. Yeah. Yeah.
High energy. Just looks like a homeless bum.
Oh, yeah. The whole thing. Pretty funny. I like
what he was wearing. It was weird enough to be
like the whole future. You don't know what it's
going to be like. Do you know what it reminded
me of? 12 Monkeys. Yeah. Very 12 Monkeys. They're
like their time -travelling suits. So this got
83 % from 213 critics on Rotten Tomatoes. I know
you don't like this, but this is just a baseline
for people that haven't seen the movies that
we watch. 7 .1 out of 10 on IMDb and 3 .4 out
of 5 on Letterboxd. I like the Letterboxd one
because it's more people that are watching it,
not critics. It's like, oh, my God, the coloured
palette in the seventh minute was disgusting.
Well, that's why I go from critics to people.
But I did love that it wasn't a massive blockbuster.
It felt really tight. And the way it was filmed,
it really did make you think, hang on a minute.
Is he a time traveller? Is the AI going to take
over the world? Is this all things going to happen
or is it just some dude who's made a plastic
bag suit and he's come to start some shit? What
I liked about it was it's like very big themes
but in a very small movie, very kind of Terminator
1 -esque, like big themes. It's literally a few
blocks of a town. Yeah. So much so you could
draw it all on one piece of paper. On an A4 piece
of paper. And enough shit goes down between.
there in his location that he needs to go to.
I love that how instead of blowing all the budget
on special effects and crazy shit like that,
it focuses more on grounded storytelling, like
clever editing, and then letting the actors do
all the heavy lifting. It works so well, man.
I really, really loved it. But it sort of gave
me a lot of looper feels and edge of tomorrow
sort of thing. Yeah. The fact that it's quite
an original movie too is really fun. I really
enjoy it. Sorry for this, Wes. I'm always a sucker
for time travel movies. Oh, yeah. And the whole
paradoxes and that, the way that the one kind
of idea can be, you can come at it from heaps
of different angles and leave you scratching
your brain about, oh, would that work? Because
there's always seems to be rules, but then sometimes
there isn't. And yeah, it's a very cool concept.
Yeah, dude. I enjoy it. The thing that got me,
man, was the emotional depth of this film. Like
it sneaks up on you, dude. Like there's some
bits where you're having a good old chuckle and
then you're like, oh, wow, holy crap. Dude, you
wouldn't think of it from just the way it is.
Yep. But it is a really smart movie without actually
being pretentious and hitting you over the head
with a whole heap of science as well. No, 100%.
And it is funny. It's a romp. You've got some
laugh out loud moments in it. Some ridiculous
moments in it too, especially towards the end.
Yeah. Yeah. The ending sort of divided me a little
bit, but we'll talk about that more later on.
But the whole, the linear storytelling of it,
but how they were. It'd pull out the characters
and tell you what they were doing leading up
to this day. Yep. Was really well done. I did
think that they could have staggered those a
bit more. Okay. You get the flashbacks pretty
much at the start of the movie. One in particular
that kind of was a little bit of a moment that
you got from the start. Which one was that? Juno
Temple. Okay. Her character. Yeah. Oh, dude.
Yeah. So if they could have put that towards
the end because it made you wonder why she was
there to begin with, kind of question her character
a little bit more and then give you that kind
of, oh, hang on. I think you're right. I think
if that scene was moved closer to the end where
he discovers that she's talking to somebody else,
I think that would have been the perfect time
to go. and tell us her story. Yeah, her side
of it. Yeah, and who she's talking to, why she's
talking to them and that sort of thing. Give
you that potential, oh, well, hang on, and then,
oh, okay, that's why. I think it would have led
on a lot more as more mystery as to how she knew
about the trapdoor. Yeah. Again, there's parts
where it's not explained how he knew about the
trapdoor. It's not explained about how he knows
things. Mm -hmm. That. It was a bit of an issue.
I honestly thought about when she got given the
hard drive at that big mansion. That couple that
were just having fun with it. The worst part
was when they go, four. This is our fourth time.
Same kid. Some of the themes in this. America,
do better. Yeah, we range from. technology to
gun. School shootings and gun violence. Gun violence
and those types of issues and the desensitisation.
Oh, my God. Yeah. When she's sitting, oh, it's
your first. Yes. Like fucking what the Stepford
wives come in and like, what do you mean it's
your first? Come to the shop with us. Oh, my
God. Yeah, we'll go to the morning Dodds trip.
Dodge the traffic. We're going to get more spoiler
in here because we're going to start talking
about some things that happened in this movie.
Hang on now. I've got some more. Okay. Sorry.
Yeah. Are we going to jump straight into the
ending and talk about that first or you want
to talk about some stuff leading up to the ending
first? Fluid, whatever you want to talk about.
So when we meet Juno Temple's character, she's
in a car, completely devastated. But before that,
the couple that are the teachers and the whole
way that that school shooting takes place and
they're like, in a safe room and that, and these
kids are just dead set nightmares, man. And then
the siren goes off and they're like, okay, kids,
back to class. The shooting's finished. Yeah.
What's that? Oh, it's a shooting. Oh. Oh. Okay.
Move along. Shuffle to where? Yeah. Oh, my Lord.
It makes you wonder. Like, if I didn't talk to
people. From America. I wonder if America was
real. Yeah. Yeah. They think we're not real because
kangaroos jump down a street. Yeah. I don't think
it's real because kids are getting shot at school.
And they don't seem to care. They don't care.
And that is shown to you front and centre in
this movie. Obviously an exaggeration. Highly
exaggerated. It's, yeah. There's no time travel
either. Yeah. Don't have time travel yet. So,
yeah, it's satirical, but it makes you think
and it really wants you to ask a question of,
hey, hang on a minute. Is this what we want best
for our kids? Yeah. And no, it's not. But there's
a part where there's these three mothers and
they're at the school and they say, oh, this
is your first time. Oh, this is my fourth. And
I'm like, she's like, four kids? And she goes,
oh, no, no, same kid. And then it's not explained.
But then when she goes to the shop and it's actually
a shop where they're cloning their kids. Very
Apple -esque but dark inside instead of white.
So much so. But that dude, the salesman guy,
that was probably one of the most realistic things
I've ever seen. He was like an insurance salesman.
He didn't really care. Did not give a shit. He
just wanted to make the sale. Yeah. Dude, this
movie blew me away with the whole, there was
times where I'm sitting there scratching my head
going, is this a documentary? But there was other
parts where I'm like, this is so hilarious. Yeah,
there was, some of the themes were funny and
it was, and I'd seen that it was inspired by
Akira and you could tell that a lot, especially
towards the end. No, but this was good. Akira's
great. Yeah, okay, some of the questions I'll
have about this movie is when he says he always
gets to the house and then something happens.
Yes. Is he in? Did he put, when he put the metal
glasses on and then the bunker was blown up,
was it from then? Is it from then he's been in
there the entire time? That's what I was thinking
too. Yeah, because just the fact that we've got
the. But the same thing when she, when the princess
was in the house and her boyfriend left and he
left his headset there and she picks it up but
then she smashes it. Yeah. It's like, did she
smash it? Yeah, it's, I think they're purposely
not answered questions. Because even at the end,
and I'm going to jump to the end a bit here,
where. The kid arrives, he has another barcode
on his neck and he's like, mum, I've missed you
so much. How did you get here, kid? Who are you?
And she's like, and then all the little lines
keep getting overlaid like the AI will show you
everything you've ever wanted but it's all going
to be a lie. It's like are all these people in
the same virtual reality ready player one style
and this AI is just having the time of its life
just showing you all these lies. I think the
biggest thing, That makes me think that the entire
thing is just a game in their heads and it's
just playing it over and over again is either
the centaur kitty with the fucking pendulous
penis. And cumming glitter everywhere. He's like,
oh, my God, it's snowing. So the fact that that
happened before they went into the house? Yep.
And the whole loop about the AI creating itself.
Like how did it become a clone? Yep. Well, the
whole thing of that is when that kid was a clone,
the AI was in the shopping centre where they
were building the kids and the AI put the consciousness
of him in that kid to then create a more advanced
AI and Rockwell had the USB stick to put like
fences in place so that the AI couldn't. keep
going and destroy the world. I think I need to
watch it again to pick up on some things that
I may have missed. There was a lot of holes in
it though. There was a few holes in this that
were not explained at all, which was I think
we really do need to watch it again. But there's
even parts of it where I was like, dude, they're
so well done. Like when they were all. Getting
a bit antsy about him actually being a time traveller.
And then he even says to Scott, 37 cents, Scott,
it's in your left pocket. And then he's like,
pulls in, he's like, oh, shit. It's like, okay,
is he a time traveller or are they in virtual
reality? I do not know. Yeah, I don't know. There's
definitely some moments. I like when they referenced
Grand Hog Day being old mate's favourite movie.
Just little hints of things like that. The whole
Akira thing, did you watch, you didn't watch
Akira to the end, did you? I watched Akira to
the end. You did? Yeah. So the wires and the
big heap of wires, that was obviously very kind
of reminiscent of Akira and the little toys and
the, like in Akira, the same as that. I thought
that was cool. Reminded me of a lot of, what
was that? Ryan Reynolds, Scarlett Johansson movie,
Lucy. Remember that? Similar to that too, I thought,
the ending, where she's in that big white room
and she becomes a computer. Yeah, that would
be true. Yeah. I like it at the end, the little
kid does the guitar before it resets. That's
pretty funny. What I really like, it's like,
is he just wearing this? Is it meant to be the
height of fashion where he's from or whatever?
It just didn't make sense. But then when he presses
the button and you get that. Inside view, the
little dynamos going and the connected lights.
All the fluids and shit going through the hoses.
Yeah, you get shot through. I thought that was
pretty cool. Yeah. It actually served a purpose.
We got to see it serve a purpose. Yeah, the whole
thing that makes me think that it is virtual
reality as well. Can you remember when her boyfriend
goes, I'm going to put myself in and it'll be
permanent, so my body will die and I'll be permanently
there? And he arrives at the end, he goes, I'm
back, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. Yeah. It just
makes me believe that they're all in virtual
reality. Yeah, well. They're all on a sabbatical.
Well, so, yeah, she had that view in when she's
trying to plug the thing in. Yeah. Yeah, there's
levels to it, and you don't know where the threshold
is and when they're crossing over and when they're
coming back. It's very kind of confusing. Oh,
the sauce bottle. Points to her. Another thing,
dude. Mm -hmm. The handbrake in the Malibu. Yeah.
When it goes. Yeah. Who's doing that? I have
seen handbrakes click themselves off before.
Yeah, but it was, you actually seen the, because
it was thrown in the tree, it goes. Into reverse.
I did? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Sorry, not in reverse,
into neutral. Mm -hmm. Yeah. But there was, yeah,
the source bottle. And then right at the end,
he catches the source bottle. So he knew it was
going to happen. But who knocked down and spun
it in the first place? That's not explained anywhere.
Is it the fact that her son is another version
of the AI and they're competing? And then when
he plugs that USB stick in and it does nothing,
what is the whole purpose of it? It doesn't explain
it well. No, it doesn't. It doesn't take away
from the fact that it's an ad. It's good, yeah.
I don't think it's meant to be explained, but
like you said. So could it be her son that's
spinning the bottle and saying, hey, you have
to bring her in? Is it her son that's doing the
car thing? I don't know. And this is questions
that I had even on the second watching. It didn't
explain it. Doesn't really take away from the
movie, though. At all. I will be watching this
again, man. It was such an enjoyable flick. It
was just fun too. So much fun. Even to all of
us, she goes, I just wanted pie. It's like fucking
Jesus. Oh, mate. Bob. Keeps putting his hand
up. Put your hand down. Gerald, you are the worst
thing that ever happened to our group. Put your
hand down. You are the most useless bloke in
this diner. Gerald on the roof with a machete.
Hey, Gerald, what's going on, man? Remember me?
And then Old Love. We've had some wild times.
You're always stabbing the back of your hand,
but how about we give it another go around? Yes.
He's just walked up and he's like. Like unassuming
lady. Yeah. You were my best soldier. Dude, such
a good film, man. I'll rate this quite highly.
I'm going to go 10 stars. You know you can use
halves to be the equivalent of a 10 -star rating.
What about 4 .75? No? I'm going to go four stars.
I'm going to go three and a half. Good, great,
enjoyable. Very. Just not the level of some of
the things that we've seen in the past. No. Yeah.
Yeah, I'll go four. And until this douchebag
gives us a 10 -star rating, it's going to get
very clustered up in that top section. Mate,
it's the same, just divisible by half. Can't
do it. You can. Can't do it. Well, when you go
to a 10 -star rating, you don't have any of them.
Yeah, I will. Because I'm a pain in the ass like
that. I know you are, so just fucking. Mr. Alan
Richardson can't ride a motorbike, this guy.
It's proven that he can't. It's not. All right,
guys, thanks for joining us. Oh, no, we've got
a movie to talk about next week. What are we
watching? We're going to watch, what's it called?
I want to get it right. Over the Garden Wall.
What is it? It's animated. For fuck's sake. Cut
that. You might like it. It's very highly rated.
I'll be the judge of this. I'm going to Google
it. It's only an hour and two minutes long. 102
minutes long. It's a TV series. It's a movie,
isn't it? No. It's on Crunchyroll. It's a full
season, you spaz. And it looks shit. It is very
highly rated, though. But it looks shit. It is
a television series. Great cast. Could you do
10 episodes? How long is each episode? What?
Approximately 11 minutes. 10 episodes, 11. I'll
watch that. Yeah, it's very highly rated, and
it's kind of like, I don't know. I've been seeing
it pop up around a bit, and yeah, I want to watch
it. I want to watch it, and I want to make you
watch something else that's animated, but you
probably won't like it. Watch it. Scavenger's
Reign. Scavenger's Reign. I've read the book.
Sensational. You've read the book? Yep. There's
a book? Yep. Really? A novel? Scavenger's Reign.
Oh, maybe it's not. No, I thought it was written
for TV. Horrible. Scavenger's Oath. Right. Nothing
like Reign at all. No. I don't think they've
even got a single same letter in it. So, Over
the Garden Wall. Okay. Well, we'll be watching
that and talking about that next week. Yes. Why
do you pick such bad movies? You don't know that.
I've picked good movies in the past. Marrowbone.
Oh, yeah. Probably one of your favourite movies
ever. It's a weird dude. Marrowbone just holds
up, dude. I can't bring myself to watch it again,
though. Dude, I was so exhausted at the end of
that. It was so beautiful, man. I talk to everybody
about that film. It still blows me away. And
I can't believe you say Marrowbone and people
are like, huh? But I was the same because I'd
never heard of it. But dude, Marabon, Marabon,
Marabon. We need to tell everybody about it.
The world needs to tell everybody about Marabon.
Marabon's great. Marabon's great. And like that's
what I went with this. I wanted something that
highly rated, I had no idea about, but a lot
of people seemed to love it. At the same time,
nobody I personally know has watched it. We haven't
watched it. Yeah, I haven't watched it. I've
never even heard of it. Yeah, and it was one
of the shows on the list that. Yeah, right. He
has on VHS. Nice. So I was like, okay, that'll
be all right because he has some good choices
on there. Absolutely. And by the way, let's give
that dude another plug. Unstable King. Unstable
King. Go and buy stuff from him, dude. Holy Christ.
He's looking at writing an RPG at the moment
too. Wow, you and him have some stuff in common.
Yeah, dude, everybody needs to get onto Unstable
King on Instagram and buy some of his stuff because
it's absolutely gorgeous. 100%. But that's all
I've got, mate. So, yes, good luck. Have fun.
Don't die. Thoroughly recommend. Yep. Well, we'll
see you next week for Over the Garden Wall. Right.
Bye. Peace.