WEBVTT 00:00:03.620 --> 00:00:05.219 You know what that sound means? It's another 00:00:05.219 --> 00:00:07.540 episode of Game for a Movie where we ask, are 00:00:07.540 --> 00:00:09.720 you game for a movie? My name is Mike. I will 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:13.140 be your host this evening. I am very excited 00:00:13.140 --> 00:00:17.359 to bring a very special bad movie near and dear 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:19.960 to my heart to you guys. It's one that not a 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:23.579 lot of people know about, but it's one that for 00:00:23.579 --> 00:00:25.940 a lot of reasons I've had on my list for a long 00:00:25.940 --> 00:00:29.100 time. And I want to present it to you. You do 00:00:29.100 --> 00:00:31.960 not have to see this movie. I'm actually encouraging 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:34.899 you not to. So I'm going to tell you all about 00:00:34.899 --> 00:00:37.820 it just so you don't have to go through the same 00:00:37.820 --> 00:00:40.740 pain I did. But of course, first, I've got to 00:00:40.740 --> 00:00:43.719 tell you about what I am drinking. This is the 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:46.880 Changemaker. It comes from Sugar Creek Brewing, 00:00:46.899 --> 00:00:49.079 which is a very good brewery. They have the Big 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:52.359 O, which is a blood orange IPA. This is the Changemaker. 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:59.009 It is a 7 % IPA. can. It got my attention at 00:00:59.009 --> 00:01:01.710 the Harris Teeter, or the Teet, as we like to 00:01:01.710 --> 00:01:04.849 call it. And yeah, it is a very good beer. I'm 00:01:04.849 --> 00:01:06.909 actually really lucky I stumbled upon it. It 00:01:06.909 --> 00:01:09.409 is definitely one I will have in the house again. 00:01:10.109 --> 00:01:12.310 We always have a beer on the show, or at least 00:01:12.310 --> 00:01:14.349 something to drink, because obviously we watch 00:01:14.349 --> 00:01:18.090 bad movies, and especially this one. It hurt 00:01:18.090 --> 00:01:22.010 because I was pretty sober to watch this movie 00:01:22.010 --> 00:01:25.609 that I'm talking about, and it was kind of a 00:01:25.609 --> 00:01:29.230 choice. to be sober for this one. A lot of times, 00:01:29.230 --> 00:01:32.310 sometimes it's just I got to watch a movie and 00:01:32.310 --> 00:01:34.370 I don't have time to drink or anything like that. 00:01:34.670 --> 00:01:38.310 This one was a choice because I wanted to see 00:01:38.310 --> 00:01:41.269 what it would be like sober. And I wanted to 00:01:41.269 --> 00:01:42.969 point out things that I definitely needed to 00:01:42.969 --> 00:01:46.950 have a keen eye for. So a fun fact about me, 00:01:46.989 --> 00:01:48.489 I don't know if this is actually a fun fact or 00:01:48.489 --> 00:01:50.870 not, but I am from a small town called Downers 00:01:50.870 --> 00:01:53.980 Grove, Illinois. Why is that important? You might 00:01:53.980 --> 00:01:56.239 be asking yourself. Well, they made a book called 00:01:56.239 --> 00:02:00.219 Downer's Grove and it became a movie. That is 00:02:00.219 --> 00:02:02.000 the movie in question that we are talking about. 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:06.379 It is The Curse of Downer's Grove. The Curse 00:02:06.379 --> 00:02:09.199 of Downer's Grove was released in 2015. It is 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:11.159 about an hour and a half and it is a mystery 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:13.800 thriller slash horror movie. Perfect to get us 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:16.500 started for spooky season or spoopy season, whatever 00:02:16.500 --> 00:02:20.409 you like to call it. It is an 8 % Critics score 00:02:20.409 --> 00:02:25.530 and a 12 % audience score. I can't say it deserves 00:02:25.530 --> 00:02:28.289 much better than that. So here's my thing about 00:02:28.289 --> 00:02:29.810 The Curse of Downers Grove, and obviously I'm 00:02:29.810 --> 00:02:31.370 going to get into details, tell you all about 00:02:31.370 --> 00:02:33.250 the movie, especially because I don't want you 00:02:33.250 --> 00:02:36.370 to watch this one. I want to make that abundantly 00:02:36.370 --> 00:02:38.610 clear. Obviously do it if you want, if you like 00:02:38.610 --> 00:02:42.229 to suffer like I do, but truthfully what the 00:02:42.229 --> 00:02:44.189 problem is with this movie is the first three 00:02:44.189 --> 00:02:46.250 quarters of the movie was okay, and then the 00:02:46.250 --> 00:02:48.250 end just completely shot itself in the foot. 00:02:48.669 --> 00:02:50.969 And that's what I'm going to talk about as I 00:02:50.969 --> 00:02:53.469 go through the details of this movie. One of 00:02:53.469 --> 00:02:57.169 the critics' reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, which 00:02:57.169 --> 00:03:00.509 again, it got an 8 % from critics' reviews, basically 00:03:00.509 --> 00:03:03.430 describes it perfectly. A messy hash of teen 00:03:03.430 --> 00:03:06.669 soap opera, stalker thriller, and whatnot, whose 00:03:06.669 --> 00:03:09.889 titular, possibly supernatural aspect is basically 00:03:09.889 --> 00:03:15.150 irrelevant. That kind of fits. That's kind of 00:03:15.150 --> 00:03:18.840 perfect in the aspect of that. So what do you 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:20.960 say let's get started talking about this movie, 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:22.919 about my hometown of Downers Grove, Illinois, 00:03:23.139 --> 00:03:25.780 that takes place nowhere near Downers Grove, 00:03:25.939 --> 00:03:28.740 Illinois. The first thing I wanted to point out 00:03:28.740 --> 00:03:31.259 that the director, his name is Derek Martini, 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:35.099 and that feels about right for this movie. I 00:03:35.099 --> 00:03:38.080 don't know anything about Mr. Martini. All I 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:41.360 know is that he makes a mean cocktail and that 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:44.000 I should have had a couple watching this movie. 00:03:44.810 --> 00:03:47.349 From the very beginning, it's obvious this town 00:03:47.349 --> 00:03:50.889 is a southern town. Like it is not anywhere near 00:03:50.889 --> 00:03:55.110 Chicagoland area. And this film was partially 00:03:55.110 --> 00:03:58.189 filmed in New Orleans. So it does make sense 00:03:58.189 --> 00:04:00.550 for a lot of that in the houses you see and everything 00:04:00.550 --> 00:04:03.909 like that. And you got to remember that I grew 00:04:03.909 --> 00:04:06.210 up about 40 minutes from Chicago. We are very 00:04:06.210 --> 00:04:10.020 much like an affluent. suburb of chicago we have 00:04:10.020 --> 00:04:13.000 a pretty decent population not nearly as much 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:14.879 as our neighbors naperville if you've heard of 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:18.160 that but very much the same kind of people except 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:20.220 for naperville's a little more snooty is that 00:04:20.220 --> 00:04:23.779 what i would say so it's very it stands out immediately 00:04:23.779 --> 00:04:27.339 that these houses are like this southern charm 00:04:27.339 --> 00:04:30.519 kind of houses One of the first quotes is whoever 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:32.819 named this town Downers Grove has a sick sense 00:04:32.819 --> 00:04:35.000 of humor. That is because it is named after a 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.459 founder, Pierce Downer. Just so you know, it's 00:04:38.459 --> 00:04:40.339 not actually somebody who's just like, wow, this 00:04:40.339 --> 00:04:42.040 place sucks. I'm going to call it Downers Grove. 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:45.980 It is four days to graduation and is also in 00:04:45.980 --> 00:04:48.240 black and white. So obviously this is a flashback. 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.579 This kid is climbing the water tower and then 00:04:51.579 --> 00:04:54.420 all of a sudden falls to his death. That's all 00:04:54.420 --> 00:04:57.199 we need at this part of it. It is a year before 00:04:57.199 --> 00:04:59.540 our action takes place, but it just shows this 00:04:59.540 --> 00:05:01.759 kid climbing the water tower and falling to his 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:04.160 death. It also talks about how Downers Grove 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:07.019 is on an ancient burial ground, which is not 00:05:07.019 --> 00:05:10.439 true. But, you know, ancient burial ground causes 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:14.040 curses, I guess. And it also has like this farmland, 00:05:14.180 --> 00:05:17.120 like rows and rows of farmland that we don't 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:19.959 have either. And then we get the news position. 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:23.060 News position, if you've never heard me talk 00:05:23.060 --> 00:05:26.339 about it before, news position is when a character 00:05:26.339 --> 00:05:29.459 is like watching the news or it's like a news 00:05:29.459 --> 00:05:32.800 report that kind of says, oh, this killer is 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:36.100 free. And you get all of the setup of the exposition 00:05:36.100 --> 00:05:38.600 of the story. This is kind of done that same 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:40.779 way except for its Google searches. And then 00:05:40.779 --> 00:05:44.379 I've called it Facebook position. Facebook position, 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:47.319 there's a lot of like it shows the people who 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:49.560 died and just like. people commenting saying 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:52.779 like, oh, I miss you so much, everything like 00:05:52.779 --> 00:05:58.319 that. And we learn through a monologue that the 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:01.379 curse of Downers Grove is basically every year 00:06:01.379 --> 00:06:04.680 before graduation, a senior of the high school 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:07.939 class dies somehow, some way. And it's always 00:06:07.939 --> 00:06:11.000 right before graduation. And the monologue itself 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:14.240 is done by our main character, Chrissy. Who questions 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:16.600 if the curse is actually real or not. Or if it's 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:20.220 just dumb kids being dumb. It also doesn't go 00:06:20.220 --> 00:06:23.740 and say how far back it goes. It only seems like 00:06:23.740 --> 00:06:25.920 there's four or five people. So it could be very 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:29.500 well that it is just dumb kids being dumb. Happens 00:06:29.500 --> 00:06:32.680 to be the same time four years in a row. So there 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:36.180 is a question. Is this curse actually real or 00:06:36.180 --> 00:06:38.879 not? This is where we meet our main characters. 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:41.800 Our main characters is Chrissy. Who's played 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:44.660 by Bella Heathcote. I'm hoping I'm saying that 00:06:44.660 --> 00:06:46.540 right. I'm going to say a lot of names, and as 00:06:46.540 --> 00:06:48.600 always, I'm probably going to say them wrong. 00:06:49.060 --> 00:06:51.699 Bella Heathcote is from Melbourne, Australia. 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:54.639 She's actually been in a lot of stuff. She was 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:56.939 in The Neon Demon. She's been in Dark Shadows, 00:06:57.060 --> 00:07:00.019 Pride and Prejudice, and Zombies, and In Time, 00:07:00.139 --> 00:07:03.439 that Justin Timberlake movie with the currency 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:05.639 being time left of life and everything like that. 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:09.519 She has a little brother, David. David is played 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:12.079 by, this is going to be an interesting one, Martin 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:16.860 Spaniards. Spaniards, maybe? Martin Spaniards 00:07:16.860 --> 00:07:19.519 has been in a couple episodes of True Blood, 00:07:19.660 --> 00:07:21.980 but the main thing that you may know him from 00:07:21.980 --> 00:07:24.480 is he was in Eight Simple Rules, the TV show. 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:29.180 He was in 76 episodes of that. So the people 00:07:29.180 --> 00:07:31.779 in this movie are actually pretty decent. You 00:07:31.779 --> 00:07:35.139 might know them from something else. Obviously... 00:07:35.850 --> 00:07:38.370 This is one of those early stops in their career. 00:07:38.509 --> 00:07:43.629 This is 2015, mind you. And we also meet their 00:07:43.629 --> 00:07:46.149 mother. Their mother is not a big deal in this 00:07:46.149 --> 00:07:49.910 movie at all because she is single and she is 00:07:49.910 --> 00:07:53.209 dating an astronaut. This astronaut has come 00:07:53.209 --> 00:07:56.490 to pick her up and they are going to go to Vegas 00:07:56.490 --> 00:07:59.949 for the weekend. It is five days until graduation 00:07:59.949 --> 00:08:04.449 and basically she's just leaving. Chrissy and 00:08:04.449 --> 00:08:08.230 David on their own. She acknowledges the curse. 00:08:08.829 --> 00:08:11.350 And it's mostly because Chrissy is talking about 00:08:11.350 --> 00:08:15.149 it. And she kind of says, don't worry, it will 00:08:15.149 --> 00:08:19.189 be fine. I will also say at this point, it's 00:08:19.189 --> 00:08:22.110 very obvious to me, Chrissy is not in high school, 00:08:22.149 --> 00:08:24.990 this actress. She actually looks 30 in this. 00:08:25.110 --> 00:08:26.930 I think it's just because of the way she dresses 00:08:26.930 --> 00:08:29.329 or whatever, that kind of thing. It doesn't matter. 00:08:29.769 --> 00:08:32.029 That's just kind of what it is. But I will say, 00:08:32.110 --> 00:08:34.120 one of the things I think they got right, She 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:36.440 was reading Catcher in the Rye, and we definitely 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:38.259 read that in high school, so I think that was 00:08:38.259 --> 00:08:41.240 a good attention to detail there, at least, for 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:45.139 one positive thing about this movie. Chrissy's 00:08:45.139 --> 00:08:49.899 friend is Tracy. She comes over, and David is 00:08:49.899 --> 00:08:52.539 interested in Tracy. David really wants to get 00:08:52.539 --> 00:08:54.419 with Tracy, who is played by Penelope Mitchell. 00:08:55.220 --> 00:08:57.919 Penelope Mitchell, another person from Australia. 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:01.220 She was in the latest Hellboy. She's been in 00:09:01.220 --> 00:09:04.379 Star Trek Picard. She was in 13 episodes of Hemlock 00:09:04.379 --> 00:09:06.879 Grove. Again, these are people that have been 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:11.080 in things. May not be like everything on their 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:13.379 list may not be great, but they have been in 00:09:13.379 --> 00:09:17.440 things. Which is good to know that this hasn't 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:20.740 killed all of their careers. But yeah, so David 00:09:20.740 --> 00:09:23.399 is interested in Tracy. Tracy kind of flirts 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:25.879 with him a little bit. even though he's supposed 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:28.360 to be 15 in this movie and she is definitely 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:32.679 supposed to be like 17, 18. You know, it works. 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:35.480 Whatever. It's fine. David also seems like he 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:37.000 has a little bit of a little brother syndrome 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:39.259 where he's just going to be annoying in this 00:09:39.259 --> 00:09:41.820 movie is what I thought originally. I am happy 00:09:41.820 --> 00:09:44.299 to say that David is actually kind of one of 00:09:44.299 --> 00:09:46.860 the better little brothers in a movie like this 00:09:46.860 --> 00:09:49.720 that I've seen before. Chrissy goes inside to 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:52.059 get something and they're about ready to go to 00:09:52.059 --> 00:09:55.899 school. Tracy asked David if Chrissy has seen 00:09:55.899 --> 00:10:00.259 the Facebook page yet. And David says, no, I 00:10:00.259 --> 00:10:01.639 don't think so because she hasn't brought it 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:04.720 up. I don't know what they're talking about with 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:07.200 the Facebook page, but it's obviously something. 00:10:07.580 --> 00:10:11.480 So Tracy and Chrissy are getting back to school 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:15.799 and they drive past the local auto body shop. 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:18.080 And inside the auto body is the young mechanic, 00:10:18.259 --> 00:10:21.009 Bobby. And Bobby is played by Lucas Till, probably 00:10:21.009 --> 00:10:23.690 the most famous of this whole thing. Lucas Till 00:10:23.690 --> 00:10:26.649 was in Monster Trucks. He's been in the X -Men 00:10:26.649 --> 00:10:30.350 movies as Alex Summers. He also was in he was 00:10:30.350 --> 00:10:32.830 MacGyver in the MacGyver reboot. That is the 00:10:32.830 --> 00:10:35.409 important thing. He is a guy you'd recognize. 00:10:35.649 --> 00:10:38.350 And of course, I'm skipping this one, but he 00:10:38.350 --> 00:10:40.370 was Travis Brody in the Hannah Montana movie. 00:10:40.509 --> 00:10:44.269 So obviously a big deal. Bobby kind of sees the 00:10:44.269 --> 00:10:46.830 girls looking at him and he kind of gives a little 00:10:46.830 --> 00:10:50.919 wave and. Chrissy kind of admits that she's kind 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:54.360 of been talking to him. So Tracy is just like, 00:10:54.419 --> 00:10:58.179 you slut. Oh, my God. I can't believe this. You 00:10:58.179 --> 00:11:00.120 probably slept with him already, you slut. Like 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:02.299 that kind of stuff. You know, normal girl talk 00:11:02.299 --> 00:11:04.919 and everything like that. But it's very apparent 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:08.899 Chrissy has a crush on Bobby the Mechanic. And 00:11:08.899 --> 00:11:11.340 looking at Lucas Till, I'll admit it, I might 00:11:11.340 --> 00:11:14.399 too, you know. Chrissy and Tracy get together 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:19.960 with their girl group at the diner in town. There's 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:22.059 like four other girls and it really doesn't matter. 00:11:22.139 --> 00:11:24.899 They're not important to the story because they 00:11:24.899 --> 00:11:27.159 have the one conversation and then they leave. 00:11:27.740 --> 00:11:29.919 But they're talking all about the curse and they're 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:32.620 trying to figure out who is it going to be this 00:11:32.620 --> 00:11:37.539 year. And Chrissy basically then admits that 00:11:37.539 --> 00:11:40.039 she's skeptical of the whole thing. And Tracy 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:42.179 is just like, you can't be skeptical. Like this 00:11:42.179 --> 00:11:44.279 is totally true. And it's probably going to be 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:46.240 somebody of this group because we're the popular 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.100 ones. We're the popular girls, everything like 00:11:48.100 --> 00:11:50.820 that. They're talking about how last year, though, 00:11:50.980 --> 00:11:53.940 basically Chrissy was saying last year's accident 00:11:53.940 --> 00:11:56.659 was blamed on him being a meth head. Basically, 00:11:56.659 --> 00:11:58.659 that's enough proof for her. She's just like, 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:00.919 well, he did meth, so it obviously was just an 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:03.559 accident, that kind of thing. And they're saying, 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:06.360 no, God has this curse set out for people and 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:08.980 everything like that. She admits that she doesn't 00:12:08.980 --> 00:12:11.899 really believe in God because her dad was addicted 00:12:11.899 --> 00:12:15.240 to meth, left them, and her cousin has bone cancer 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:18.039 and all of this stuff. Basically, the four girls 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:19.940 that don't really matter to the story anymore 00:12:19.940 --> 00:12:22.480 are just like so depressed by the statement and 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:24.919 they just leave. While they're at the diner, 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:27.039 one of these guys is just staring at Chrissy 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:30.120 and just kind of looking at her. And it is these 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:33.799 three guys from Willow Creek. I'm laughing at 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:36.940 this because there's a town not far from Downers 00:12:36.940 --> 00:12:39.059 Grove called Willowbrook, and they decided to 00:12:39.059 --> 00:12:41.360 protect that town and call it Willow Creek instead. 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:43.740 It's very obvious what it's supposed to be, but 00:12:43.740 --> 00:12:45.840 it just makes me laugh that they wanted to protect 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:48.019 Willowbrook and not Downers Grove. They're just 00:12:48.019 --> 00:12:49.980 like, yeah, Downers Grove's perfect for this 00:12:49.980 --> 00:12:53.100 kind of movie. These three guys play for the 00:12:53.100 --> 00:12:56.919 football team. One of them is Chuck. He is one 00:12:56.919 --> 00:12:58.820 of the main guys we're going to care about. There 00:12:58.820 --> 00:13:03.179 also is Guy. He's one of the guys. And then there's 00:13:03.179 --> 00:13:05.980 Ezra. Ezra doesn't really get introduced at all, 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:10.259 but Ezra is there as well. So they get invited 00:13:10.259 --> 00:13:13.100 to this party and Tracy and Chrissy both agree 00:13:13.100 --> 00:13:14.679 that they're going to go to this Willow Creek 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:19.399 party. And so it's a big high school party. And 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:22.500 remember, this is a high school party. I will 00:13:22.500 --> 00:13:24.120 also say this is something that never happened 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:26.340 in Downers. As far as I know, we didn't have 00:13:26.340 --> 00:13:28.580 big, like extravagant high school parties that 00:13:28.580 --> 00:13:32.389 were. all the rage or maybe i just wasn't popular 00:13:32.389 --> 00:13:35.149 enough for them it felt like it was always like 00:13:35.149 --> 00:13:37.350 a group of people that got together hung out 00:13:37.350 --> 00:13:40.570 in a basement and drank their dad's like vodka 00:13:40.570 --> 00:13:44.250 they found this is like a full -blown party like 00:13:44.250 --> 00:13:46.350 where people are hanging out outside the house 00:13:46.350 --> 00:13:49.210 in front of in like the front yard openly drinking 00:13:49.210 --> 00:13:51.169 it's obvious they're high schoolers and everything 00:13:51.169 --> 00:13:54.529 like that i also love at this point that as they're 00:13:54.529 --> 00:13:57.750 walking into the party all of the liquor is labelless, 00:13:57.750 --> 00:13:59.750 like there's nothing on it because obviously 00:13:59.750 --> 00:14:01.330 they didn't get the rights to it or whatever 00:14:01.330 --> 00:14:04.009 it was. Just labelless liquor, but it's very 00:14:04.009 --> 00:14:07.009 obvious bottles like, hey, who wants some rum? 00:14:07.110 --> 00:14:09.350 And it's very obvious like a Captain Morgan bottle, 00:14:09.450 --> 00:14:13.250 but there's no label on it. So that definitely 00:14:13.250 --> 00:14:18.889 made me laugh. Chuck, the quarterback for the 00:14:18.889 --> 00:14:21.230 Willow Creek football team, he's played by Kevin 00:14:21.230 --> 00:14:25.049 Zagers. Kevin Zagers. Again, another person that 00:14:25.049 --> 00:14:27.970 you'd recognize from some other things. He was 00:14:27.970 --> 00:14:31.669 in 10 episodes of Gossip Girl as Damien. He was 00:14:31.669 --> 00:14:35.629 in the 2004 Dawn of the Dead. He has been in 00:14:35.629 --> 00:14:38.809 22 episodes of The Rookie Feds and then three 00:14:38.809 --> 00:14:41.629 episodes of The Rookie, you know, just because 00:14:41.629 --> 00:14:44.450 The Rookie Feds got. canceled and everything 00:14:44.450 --> 00:14:46.769 like that he was in six episodes of fear the 00:14:46.769 --> 00:14:49.289 walking dead again he's been in a bunch of stuff 00:14:49.289 --> 00:14:51.129 that you're just like okay i may recognize him 00:14:51.129 --> 00:14:53.029 from something and he was also in i forgot about 00:14:53.029 --> 00:14:55.350 this one uh the mortal instrument city of bones 00:14:55.350 --> 00:14:57.850 that's probably one of the more well -known things 00:14:57.850 --> 00:15:00.129 besides like gossip girl and stuff like that 00:15:00.129 --> 00:15:03.370 so he plays chuck he's the quarterback and he 00:15:03.370 --> 00:15:07.169 is doing like 14 lines of cocaine like they keep 00:15:07.169 --> 00:15:09.929 showing him They keep showing the interspersed 00:15:09.929 --> 00:15:12.870 shots of the girls slamming some shots and Chuck 00:15:12.870 --> 00:15:15.570 doing like lines of coke. Like every shot was 00:15:15.570 --> 00:15:19.409 a line of coke. It was like one for one. I'll 00:15:19.409 --> 00:15:23.029 also say that Chuck looked 40 compared to some 00:15:23.029 --> 00:15:25.889 of the other like extras. It seems like the extras 00:15:25.889 --> 00:15:28.090 they actually got looked like high schoolers. 00:15:28.090 --> 00:15:31.309 And then our main characters are not high schoolers. 00:15:31.309 --> 00:15:33.710 So they just look older by comparison in this 00:15:33.710 --> 00:15:37.210 situation. It's not that Chuck looks 40 on his 00:15:37.210 --> 00:15:40.440 own. Chuck looks 40 compared to these high schoolers 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:42.940 that I think they got as extras, which they also 00:15:42.940 --> 00:15:45.759 probably only had like 15 extras because I think 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:47.779 it's the same five people that you see every 00:15:47.779 --> 00:15:51.659 now and then. So Chrissy tells Tracy because 00:15:51.659 --> 00:15:53.799 Tracy is about to go get more drinks. Chrissy's 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:55.960 just like, I'm going to go to the bathroom. Well, 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:57.879 coming out of the bathroom at the same time is 00:15:57.879 --> 00:16:01.259 Chuck. And Chuck kind of like feels this electricity 00:16:01.259 --> 00:16:04.340 and starts making out with her immediately. And 00:16:04.340 --> 00:16:06.879 she's kind of like, OK with it. They also have 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:10.019 like these shots of like it's like cross shot 00:16:10.019 --> 00:16:12.720 thoughts kind of thing. I don't know exactly 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:14.940 what happens, but it feels like she's like seeing 00:16:14.940 --> 00:16:17.139 the future or something or seeing the past. Like 00:16:17.139 --> 00:16:19.720 it's a little bit of everything. Like all of 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:21.779 a sudden she just starts doing it. And then Chuck 00:16:21.779 --> 00:16:25.600 starts getting really handsy. And so Chrissy 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:27.340 is trying to get away because she's like, stop, 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:32.519 stop, stop. And finally, Chuck. basically is 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:35.759 trying to force himself on her and she's like 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:39.220 stop and finally she sticks her thumb in his 00:16:39.220 --> 00:16:43.519 eye and blinds him and like pushes through and 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:46.980 just absolutely blinds his one eye and as he's 00:16:46.980 --> 00:16:49.399 howling in pain she runs away she calls tracy 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:51.899 to get out of there and luckily tracy listens 00:16:51.899 --> 00:16:56.149 and picks her up in the car and Tracy says, you're 00:16:56.149 --> 00:17:00.629 fine. And she goes, I just poked some guy's fucking 00:17:00.629 --> 00:17:04.849 eye out. It's far from fine. So that was just 00:17:04.849 --> 00:17:06.329 a line I thought was pretty funny because it's 00:17:06.329 --> 00:17:08.269 not a very good read. All these lines are very 00:17:08.269 --> 00:17:11.109 melodramatic reads and everything like that. 00:17:11.210 --> 00:17:13.990 I think it's just, I don't think it's the actors. 00:17:14.109 --> 00:17:16.549 I really don't because, like I said, all these 00:17:16.549 --> 00:17:21.240 people have been in a ton of other stuff. But 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:25.920 because this writing is so ham -fisted, I feel 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:28.259 like the lines are kind of red, like a little 00:17:28.259 --> 00:17:31.880 wooden. And it's just more so because the lines 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:35.480 are written poorly, not because the actual acting 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:39.380 is bad. So they begin getting chased by the Willow 00:17:39.380 --> 00:17:41.000 Creek Boys, like they're trying to catch up with 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:43.740 them. And Chrissy chucks something outside the 00:17:43.740 --> 00:17:45.839 window at their car to run them off the road, 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:49.019 and they can get away. The next scene, Chuck... 00:17:49.609 --> 00:17:53.470 is seeing his dad and his dad is played by tom 00:17:53.470 --> 00:17:56.930 arnold and i'm not joking it's that tom arnold 00:17:56.930 --> 00:18:03.690 like and i i was kind of oh god i can't stand 00:18:03.690 --> 00:18:06.450 tom arnold i he is definitely one of those actors 00:18:06.450 --> 00:18:08.349 and i think a lot of people would actually agree 00:18:08.349 --> 00:18:12.630 with me on this um i can't stand tom arnold i 00:18:12.630 --> 00:18:15.130 think everything he does is kind of just hokey 00:18:15.130 --> 00:18:18.529 and bad and everything like that well Luckily 00:18:18.529 --> 00:18:20.009 in this movie, you don't have to deal with him 00:18:20.009 --> 00:18:22.190 much, but he's Chuck's dad and he's just the 00:18:22.190 --> 00:18:24.890 essential football dad. Like he's, you ruined 00:18:24.890 --> 00:18:26.630 your whole career. Now you're never getting out 00:18:26.630 --> 00:18:30.890 of this crappy town. You know, and instead of 00:18:30.890 --> 00:18:34.170 helping Chuck, whose eye is bleeding profusely, 00:18:34.170 --> 00:18:38.109 he just starts beating up on him because he's 00:18:38.109 --> 00:18:40.730 a dumbass that ruined his whole career for one 00:18:40.730 --> 00:18:45.630 night of pussy. That's. Essentially what he said. 00:18:45.690 --> 00:18:48.009 I don't remember the exact quote, but I do remember 00:18:48.009 --> 00:18:50.890 it being something to that effect. So Chrissy 00:18:50.890 --> 00:18:53.950 is now sleeping and she starts dreaming of the 00:18:53.950 --> 00:18:56.569 Native Americans because Downers Grove was built 00:18:56.569 --> 00:18:59.470 on stolen land and everything like that. And 00:18:59.470 --> 00:19:03.750 David knows this and is a decent brother and 00:19:03.750 --> 00:19:06.970 is there to help her out. I thought this was 00:19:06.970 --> 00:19:11.170 still going to be that trope of like the. annoying 00:19:11.170 --> 00:19:13.309 little brother and everything like that i think 00:19:13.309 --> 00:19:17.730 david again was a decent brother in this film 00:19:17.730 --> 00:19:20.289 i don't think he was the i don't think he was 00:19:20.289 --> 00:19:24.130 the little brother trope that is in so many of 00:19:24.130 --> 00:19:27.970 these movies so it's the next day at school and 00:19:27.970 --> 00:19:31.490 chrissy is talking with her friend ian ian has 00:19:31.490 --> 00:19:33.930 been friends with her since kindergarten definitely 00:19:33.930 --> 00:19:35.829 has a crush on her you can kind of feel that 00:19:35.829 --> 00:19:39.799 and they went to prom together as friends And 00:19:39.799 --> 00:19:43.339 she got drunk and kissed him. So there's a little 00:19:43.339 --> 00:19:46.299 unrequited love there. But they're like talking 00:19:46.299 --> 00:19:48.500 about what happened. And Ian's trying to make 00:19:48.500 --> 00:19:52.440 her feel better. He also laughs like Jonah Hill 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:56.599 from War Dogs. So he's an interesting character. 00:19:56.700 --> 00:19:59.460 He's a very weird character. He's played by Mark 00:19:59.460 --> 00:20:02.759 L. Young. Mark L. Young has been in Sex Drive, 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:07.259 We're the Millers, Movie 43. Two of those three, 00:20:07.380 --> 00:20:11.339 meh. One of those three pretty damn good. So, 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:14.779 you know, that's that's him. That's Ian. So Chuck 00:20:14.779 --> 00:20:16.720 shows up to the school and he's wearing an eye 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:19.819 patch. And Chrissy says to Ian that she's going 00:20:19.819 --> 00:20:22.380 to handle it. And David also sees what's happening 00:20:22.380 --> 00:20:25.599 and comes up and joins Ian to like kind of keep 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:29.059 an eye on the whole situation. Basically, Chuck 00:20:29.059 --> 00:20:31.799 blames her for everything. She ruined his life, 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:34.039 everything like that. And Chrissy's just like, 00:20:34.099 --> 00:20:36.819 you tried to rape me. And he goes, I didn't try 00:20:36.819 --> 00:20:38.980 to rape you. I remember it completely differently. 00:20:39.619 --> 00:20:44.099 Well, David steps in between, asks for a ride 00:20:44.099 --> 00:20:47.779 from Ian. And David's basically just trying to 00:20:47.779 --> 00:20:49.259 get Chrissy out of that situation, everything 00:20:49.259 --> 00:20:53.000 like that. Chuck calls him David and knows he's 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:56.180 David. And then also to add insult to injury, 00:20:56.259 --> 00:20:59.500 apologizes about their father being a meth head 00:20:59.500 --> 00:21:01.869 and walking out on them. So he's learned a lot 00:21:01.869 --> 00:21:03.869 about this family. So it gets a little creepy. 00:21:04.009 --> 00:21:06.690 Like he's done his research and knows a lot about 00:21:06.690 --> 00:21:09.450 them. This is enough that David's just like, 00:21:09.450 --> 00:21:11.609 no, we're getting out of here. So they leave, 00:21:12.029 --> 00:21:18.369 they get a ride, and basically somehow Chrissy 00:21:18.369 --> 00:21:21.670 ends up at the auto body shop. And she actually 00:21:21.670 --> 00:21:24.250 knows Bobby a lot better than we originally thought 00:21:24.250 --> 00:21:26.829 because she goes over to tell him what happened 00:21:26.829 --> 00:21:29.670 in the whole situation. And we get we find out 00:21:29.670 --> 00:21:32.109 they've been talking for months. But Bobby is 00:21:32.109 --> 00:21:33.970 just kind of like, well, why did you go to this 00:21:33.970 --> 00:21:35.829 party if we've been talking for months? And she's 00:21:35.829 --> 00:21:38.650 like, well, you never asked me out. So I didn't 00:21:38.650 --> 00:21:42.210 feel like I was off the market. That's the end 00:21:42.210 --> 00:21:44.029 of that scene. That was the important stuff for 00:21:44.029 --> 00:21:46.609 that scene. There was more to the situation talking 00:21:46.609 --> 00:21:48.170 and everything like that because they have been 00:21:48.170 --> 00:21:50.309 talking. They've been having intimate conversations. 00:21:50.609 --> 00:21:52.150 But that's the only thing you really need to 00:21:52.150 --> 00:21:55.200 know. He's never asked her out out. With that 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:58.019 scene done, we go to Chuck, who is doing steroids, 00:21:58.299 --> 00:22:00.559 because of course he is. He injects himself and 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:03.200 then immediately starts lifting. It works immediately. 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:05.380 It gets your whole body going. This is going 00:22:05.380 --> 00:22:08.200 to work right away. And it's just to show that 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:11.339 he's very unhinged. And him and his boys, they 00:22:11.339 --> 00:22:16.140 end up going and jumping Ian, the friend. Chrissy 00:22:16.140 --> 00:22:19.700 is so sorry for Ian and just saying how she didn't 00:22:19.700 --> 00:22:21.720 want him to get involved, but it's just because 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:25.509 he was there to protect Chrissy. When Chuck showed 00:22:25.509 --> 00:22:29.369 up at their school. After Chrissy is done like 00:22:29.369 --> 00:22:32.329 mending Ian or making him feel better, at least 00:22:32.329 --> 00:22:35.029 she goes back home. And guess who's there? Tracy. 00:22:35.509 --> 00:22:39.089 Tracy is there with David. Yep. They're hooking 00:22:39.089 --> 00:22:43.430 up now because Tracy is into David. And he also 00:22:43.430 --> 00:22:46.329 is kind of like a little pot dealer. So they 00:22:46.329 --> 00:22:48.990 also smoke a ton of weed from this point on. 00:22:50.029 --> 00:22:52.490 And this is the part where she finally shows 00:22:52.490 --> 00:22:56.119 Chrissy the Facebook. Because what did this movie 00:22:56.119 --> 00:22:59.099 need? We're teen drama. Of course we need to 00:22:59.099 --> 00:23:01.740 have a party at their house. There's no parents, 00:23:01.759 --> 00:23:04.420 and there's only a curse that they're all dealing 00:23:04.420 --> 00:23:06.180 with that's barely a part of this movie. But, 00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:09.359 you know, there's a curse. And Chrissy loses 00:23:09.359 --> 00:23:12.279 it. She's so mad. She's just like, no, we can't 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:14.240 have this party, especially not with this whole 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:16.680 Chuck thing. Cancel the party. Make sure it's 00:23:16.680 --> 00:23:19.079 canceled. Don't let this happen. Everything like 00:23:19.079 --> 00:23:21.500 that. So David and Tracy are like, we'll try. 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:25.759 Then the doorbell rings after that. And who's 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:29.220 at the door? It's Bobby. Bobby shows up after 00:23:29.220 --> 00:23:31.180 this big announcement of the party and finally 00:23:31.180 --> 00:23:34.779 asks Chrissy out. Great. This is awesome. So 00:23:34.779 --> 00:23:37.579 they're going to go on a date. So for their date, 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:41.059 they go to basically the team cliche of like 00:23:41.059 --> 00:23:43.690 a lookout point. That's like on a mountain above 00:23:43.690 --> 00:23:45.589 the city looking out and everything like that. 00:23:45.630 --> 00:23:48.750 There's a big CGI star sky, and they're talking 00:23:48.750 --> 00:23:50.970 about the curse and everything like that. One 00:23:50.970 --> 00:23:52.970 of the things I wanted to get into on this was 00:23:52.970 --> 00:23:55.410 that there's really nowhere in Illinois that's 00:23:55.410 --> 00:23:58.589 like that. The second tallest point in the state 00:23:58.589 --> 00:24:00.630 of Illinois, and I wish I was joking about this, 00:24:00.710 --> 00:24:02.970 and it may have changed since I've been there, 00:24:03.049 --> 00:24:04.950 but for the longest time, it was a trash dump. 00:24:05.369 --> 00:24:07.910 The highest point was Sears slash Willis Tower. 00:24:08.130 --> 00:24:10.549 The second highest is a trash dump. We don't 00:24:10.549 --> 00:24:13.269 have these like mountains that overlook everything 00:24:13.269 --> 00:24:17.789 and that kind of thing. It is very flat so that 00:24:17.789 --> 00:24:19.430 they have this lookout point and that they're 00:24:19.430 --> 00:24:22.369 hanging out with this CGI star sky. You know, 00:24:22.390 --> 00:24:26.069 it's just teenage cliche kind of thing. They're 00:24:26.069 --> 00:24:28.049 talking about the curse and everything like that. 00:24:28.150 --> 00:24:31.029 And Bobby is just kind of like, I don't really 00:24:31.029 --> 00:24:34.349 believe in it. And Chrissy and him kind of like. 00:24:34.910 --> 00:24:38.309 You know, they're they're vibing over this fact. 00:24:38.410 --> 00:24:41.410 And this is enough that they start making out. 00:24:42.009 --> 00:24:45.789 And Bobby is actually very like he's not trying 00:24:45.789 --> 00:24:47.470 to take it too far. That kind of thing, because 00:24:47.470 --> 00:24:49.269 he knows what just happened with Chrissy and 00:24:49.269 --> 00:24:52.049 Chuck. We can't just have a makeout session, 00:24:52.109 --> 00:24:55.890 though. Now Chuck shows up. How does he always 00:24:55.890 --> 00:25:00.250 know where Chrissy is? There was no clue even 00:25:00.250 --> 00:25:02.809 that Bobby was in the picture, let alone. that 00:25:02.809 --> 00:25:04.630 he was taking her out on a date, but somehow 00:25:04.630 --> 00:25:08.309 Chuck knows exactly where they are. Chuck wants 00:25:08.309 --> 00:25:12.650 to talk to Chrissy, and Chrissy agrees to talk 00:25:12.650 --> 00:25:14.490 to Chuck, but mostly just to figure out what 00:25:14.490 --> 00:25:17.390 happened to Ian. Chuck claims he didn't do anything 00:25:17.390 --> 00:25:20.289 to Ian or anything like that, and also claims 00:25:20.289 --> 00:25:22.789 that he's had this dream, and he sees Chrissy 00:25:22.789 --> 00:25:25.849 in it, and that she is the one for him, and that 00:25:25.849 --> 00:25:29.089 she's supposed to be with him, and that they're 00:25:29.089 --> 00:25:31.049 supposed to be together and everything like that. 00:25:31.639 --> 00:25:34.039 Basically, Chrissy tells him to stay away, hops 00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:37.099 into Bobby's car, they drive away. And they go 00:25:37.099 --> 00:25:39.279 to the police to try to report him for the rape, 00:25:39.319 --> 00:25:44.079 also that he is following them. Problem is, they 00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:46.640 aren't going to do anything about it. And you're 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:50.000 probably thinking to yourself, why? Well, because 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:53.799 Chuck's dad, Tom Arnold, is Charlie Whitmore, 00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:57.349 a cop. And not only just a cop, like a famous 00:25:57.349 --> 00:25:59.950 cop, like he is one of the be -all end -alls. 00:25:59.990 --> 00:26:01.690 And so they're going to watch out for their own. 00:26:01.750 --> 00:26:03.650 So they really can't do anything because it's 00:26:03.650 --> 00:26:06.849 a he said, she said situation. And because they 00:26:06.849 --> 00:26:09.950 don't want to press charges against a cop's son. 00:26:10.789 --> 00:26:12.970 By the way, that sheriff is played by Stephen 00:26:12.970 --> 00:26:16.049 Martini, who I'm going to guess, I haven't looked 00:26:16.049 --> 00:26:18.730 it up and I don't really want to. I'm guessing 00:26:18.730 --> 00:26:20.750 he's related to Derek Martini, the director. 00:26:21.900 --> 00:26:23.940 I'm not going to look it up. I don't really care 00:26:23.940 --> 00:26:26.700 enough, but I'm just going to guess so. Well, 00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:30.920 Tracy agrees to stay over and watch over Chrissy, 00:26:31.059 --> 00:26:33.579 and so does Bobby if she wants him to be there. 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:39.259 Bobby does have to work late, but Bobby will 00:26:39.259 --> 00:26:42.319 come back. After work and everything like that, 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:45.980 Bobby comes back, and Bobby and Chrissy, they 00:26:45.980 --> 00:26:48.559 stay in the same bed, and they have the stipulation, 00:26:48.660 --> 00:26:53.529 no sex. And I just wrote that down for some reason. 00:26:53.589 --> 00:26:54.829 It really doesn't make that big a difference 00:26:54.829 --> 00:26:57.450 because truthfully nothing happens. So the next 00:26:57.450 --> 00:26:59.369 day when Chrissy goes to school, she's walking 00:26:59.369 --> 00:27:02.890 up to her locker and she sees that it's just 00:27:02.890 --> 00:27:05.329 been blown to smithereens. Like there's nothing 00:27:05.329 --> 00:27:08.750 in it. It is just absolutely a crater blown up. 00:27:09.650 --> 00:27:14.809 And so she's kind of starting to believe that 00:27:14.809 --> 00:27:18.980 maybe she's the one. That is going to be the 00:27:18.980 --> 00:27:21.619 victim of the curse. It's starting to feel that 00:27:21.619 --> 00:27:23.759 way. Where there's these signs and everything 00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:26.319 like that. So she's starting to think that. At 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:28.640 this point I guess though. I said that I think 00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:30.619 it's going to be a curve ball. I think this whole 00:27:30.619 --> 00:27:32.680 movie has been trying to get us to focus on Chrissy. 00:27:32.940 --> 00:27:34.519 And then all of a sudden it's going to be like 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:37.440 Tracy. Or it's going to be Bobby. Or somebody 00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:40.079 else. I don't feel like it's going to be Chrissy 00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:42.920 at this point. Who knows? I don't know if I'm 00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:47.220 right or wrong. But that's just what it is. because 00:27:47.220 --> 00:27:50.380 she's still a little shaken she asks ian to drive 00:27:50.380 --> 00:27:53.720 her home and this is the second time he's kind 00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:55.740 of mentioned that he's known her since kindergarten 00:27:55.740 --> 00:27:58.299 like it just feels like come on i've known you 00:27:58.299 --> 00:28:01.539 since kindergarten and like it's just he keeps 00:28:01.539 --> 00:28:04.160 bringing up he knows her since kindergarten and 00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:06.900 like it's just again that unrequited love puppy 00:28:06.900 --> 00:28:09.140 of just like bringing up oh we've known each 00:28:09.140 --> 00:28:12.859 other for so long obviously we can date now that 00:28:12.859 --> 00:28:18.819 kind of idea Well, she finally starts like she 00:28:18.819 --> 00:28:21.859 basically is just like, Bobby, we we started 00:28:21.859 --> 00:28:25.079 dating and the rest on my mind is the rest is 00:28:25.079 --> 00:28:28.519 PMS and just walks into the house and away from 00:28:28.519 --> 00:28:31.380 Ian. So after this whole ordeal, talking with 00:28:31.380 --> 00:28:34.440 Ian and everything like that, Chrissy is talking 00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:38.299 with Bobby and Bobby basically convinces her 00:28:38.299 --> 00:28:42.950 that they should have the party. and it's mostly 00:28:42.950 --> 00:28:45.349 because there's going to be witnesses like they'll 00:28:45.349 --> 00:28:49.609 stay sober but they feel like if chuck does something 00:28:49.609 --> 00:28:52.490 he'll probably do it at the party if he knows 00:28:52.490 --> 00:28:54.710 the party's happening and there will be people 00:28:54.710 --> 00:28:59.430 to see it and then they can handle him and get 00:28:59.430 --> 00:29:03.369 the police there david is like happy about it 00:29:03.369 --> 00:29:06.089 and was talking about and basically this sets 00:29:06.089 --> 00:29:08.630 up one of my favorite exchanges in the whole 00:29:08.630 --> 00:29:11.730 movie and i don't know what exactly it was but 00:29:11.730 --> 00:29:15.170 bobby does something to chrissy that like makes 00:29:15.170 --> 00:29:18.089 david really like him and david goes your your 00:29:18.089 --> 00:29:20.549 boyfriend is rad chrissy goes your girlfriend's 00:29:20.549 --> 00:29:23.950 a slut i don't know why that's funny but it just 00:29:23.950 --> 00:29:27.730 makes me laugh uh bobby that night because it's 00:29:27.730 --> 00:29:29.650 it's before the party still it's a different 00:29:29.650 --> 00:29:32.710 night bobby is working at 3 a .m at the garage 00:29:32.710 --> 00:29:36.150 which what garage is open that late whatever 00:29:36.859 --> 00:29:40.819 So she's alone besides Tracy and David and they 00:29:40.819 --> 00:29:43.099 all get woken up in the middle of the night by 00:29:43.099 --> 00:29:46.059 dog barks. So they're worried about their dog. 00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:48.920 They go outside and their dog is fine. And he 00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:50.940 like comes in immediately and everything like 00:29:50.940 --> 00:29:54.420 that. But like every other dog that's in the 00:29:54.420 --> 00:29:58.460 neighborhood is dead on their lawn. Like there's, 00:29:58.460 --> 00:30:00.859 there's eight or nine dogs in this neighborhood 00:30:00.859 --> 00:30:05.279 that are just dead. And again, it feels like. 00:30:06.250 --> 00:30:09.990 To Chrissy that maybe this curse is real. Maybe 00:30:09.990 --> 00:30:14.190 this is a sign, everything like that. So I feel 00:30:14.190 --> 00:30:18.710 like dead dogs is a perfect spot to take a break. 00:30:18.809 --> 00:30:21.250 Not a perfect spot, but you know, the best spot 00:30:21.250 --> 00:30:26.769 I can do. So I'm going to give a shout out to 00:30:26.769 --> 00:30:31.089 our friends that got it correctly. So the people 00:30:31.089 --> 00:30:34.309 that got this correct is. our friends X radio 00:30:34.309 --> 00:30:37.990 X, the music podcast. Uh, they have one before 00:30:37.990 --> 00:30:40.210 on the show. If you've not checked them out yet, 00:30:40.230 --> 00:30:43.089 why haven't you come on, get on it. Uh, you can 00:30:43.089 --> 00:30:45.990 find them on Twitter slash X slash whatever the 00:30:45.990 --> 00:30:49.430 fuck we're calling it at X radio X one. Basically 00:30:49.430 --> 00:30:51.950 they want to know, or they want you to know that 00:30:51.950 --> 00:30:53.930 they are radio nerds who talk about all things, 00:30:54.049 --> 00:30:57.369 music and radio. It is Jason, Matt. Um, they 00:30:57.369 --> 00:31:03.099 are great guys and we are absolutely, um, Very 00:31:03.099 --> 00:31:05.640 happy that they were able to guess it again. 00:31:05.900 --> 00:31:09.059 So Jason Matt from the X Radio X podcast, creators 00:31:09.059 --> 00:31:11.900 of Radio X News, The Show, and former hosts of 00:31:11.900 --> 00:31:13.940 All Requests Saturday Night, Thrash and Trash 00:31:13.940 --> 00:31:17.019 Tuesdays, and more. You can find them, as I said 00:31:17.019 --> 00:31:22.160 before, at X Radio X1 on X. That's funny enough 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:24.500 that that's what it is. So literally putting 00:31:24.500 --> 00:31:28.200 the X in X. X Radio X podcast, Jason Matt. Thank 00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:30.839 you guys very much for playing. Matt always is 00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:33.079 guessing along with this one, and he was the 00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:34.880 first one to guess The Curse of Downers Grove, 00:31:35.079 --> 00:31:37.359 which I'm actually kind of surprised that anybody 00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:39.660 guessed this one. Like I said, this is important 00:31:39.660 --> 00:31:42.339 to me. It's not important to a lot of other people 00:31:42.339 --> 00:31:46.960 because it's just not that big a movie. After 00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:49.660 the whole dead dogs thing, yes, that is still 00:31:49.660 --> 00:31:54.079 a thing that happened, Chuck and his boys wearing 00:31:54.079 --> 00:31:59.329 balaclavas show up and... And basically they 00:31:59.329 --> 00:32:02.990 are there to threaten Bobby. And Bobby is definitely 00:32:02.990 --> 00:32:05.089 like a force to be reckoned with. He's definitely 00:32:05.089 --> 00:32:08.549 the most in shape out of these guys besides maybe 00:32:08.549 --> 00:32:10.930 Chuck. Chuck and him, it's a little bit more 00:32:10.930 --> 00:32:16.069 fair. And Bobby's just kind of like, stay away 00:32:16.069 --> 00:32:18.890 from Chrissy. This is not okay. Like you've taken 00:32:18.890 --> 00:32:22.789 it too far. Chuck is just like, she's the one 00:32:22.789 --> 00:32:24.609 who took it too far. She's the one who ruined 00:32:24.609 --> 00:32:26.700 my life. And the entire time he's wearing this 00:32:26.700 --> 00:32:28.980 eye patch and just, I keep thinking pirate Chuck, 00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:36.220 but Chuck wants to fight Bobby, uh, like, like 00:32:36.220 --> 00:32:39.279 men do where it's no weapons or anything like 00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:42.759 that. And it's just the two of them. And Bobby 00:32:42.759 --> 00:32:46.460 really has the upper hand. Like he is, he is 00:32:46.460 --> 00:32:49.579 crushing Chuck, but all of a sudden it is also. 00:32:50.419 --> 00:32:53.500 an incredibly dumb fight like it's a lot of holding 00:32:53.500 --> 00:32:58.359 and he throws him down and he's just it's like 00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:00.900 they they got the choreography and they're still 00:33:00.900 --> 00:33:03.200 testing it out like they're still kind of working 00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:05.519 through it like okay and this part is where i 00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:07.519 punch you and that kind of thing like it seems 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:10.759 like a slow dance in a fight scenario where they're 00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:13.000 working on this choreography together and it's 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:15.200 one of the dumbest fights i think i've seen in 00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:18.819 a movie because it just doesn't work but chuck 00:33:19.740 --> 00:33:23.660 cheats and gets the upper hand on Bobby and breaks 00:33:23.660 --> 00:33:26.660 a couple of his ribs. And then his boys start 00:33:26.660 --> 00:33:29.519 kicking him too. So one of the biggest allies 00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:32.400 for Chrissy is going to be dealing with broken 00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:36.940 bones now. And then it goes to Chuck and his 00:33:36.940 --> 00:33:40.119 boys. They got back and now they're snorting 00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:42.920 a bunch of cocaine and they are ready. Basically 00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:46.859 Chuck makes this decision because Chrissy took 00:33:46.859 --> 00:33:50.759 his life. Chuck's going to take hers. And, like, 00:33:50.819 --> 00:33:52.819 the boys are, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and 00:33:52.819 --> 00:33:54.019 everything like that. And one of them's just 00:33:54.019 --> 00:33:56.220 like, I'm going to fuck her friend and her faggot 00:33:56.220 --> 00:34:00.099 brother, too. Wait, what? What'd you just say? 00:34:01.299 --> 00:34:03.940 I have that as an exact quote, too. This is not 00:34:03.940 --> 00:34:06.079 words that I made up or anything like that. This 00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:08.300 is exactly what he said. I'm going to fuck her 00:34:08.300 --> 00:34:12.139 friend and her faggot brother, too. This is a 00:34:12.139 --> 00:34:14.559 weird way to find out your bi, dude. Like, this 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:18.909 is really weird, but okay, whatever. And so after 00:34:18.909 --> 00:34:22.090 sniffing cocaine and are snorting cocaine and 00:34:22.090 --> 00:34:25.230 deciding that they're going to do this, they 00:34:25.230 --> 00:34:28.730 also confront Dave and Tracy at the store. Downers 00:34:28.730 --> 00:34:31.590 Grove is not a big town, but it's also not a 00:34:31.590 --> 00:34:34.489 very small town. Like there's two sides to it. 00:34:34.550 --> 00:34:35.989 There's two different high schools, everything 00:34:35.989 --> 00:34:37.909 like that. Obviously, in this movie, they've 00:34:37.909 --> 00:34:40.630 made it so it's just one high school and that 00:34:40.630 --> 00:34:42.670 it seems like this small ass town and everything 00:34:42.670 --> 00:34:49.570 like that. Dave is really like. Or Dave. Chuck 00:34:49.570 --> 00:34:54.590 is easily able to find these people wherever 00:34:54.590 --> 00:34:56.949 they are at all times of the day and everything 00:34:56.949 --> 00:34:59.809 like that. So they confront David and Tracy. 00:35:00.550 --> 00:35:03.650 And David's just like, Tracy, get in the car 00:35:03.650 --> 00:35:06.710 and lock yourself in the car and don't open the 00:35:06.710 --> 00:35:09.389 door. Do not open the door. Basically, they're 00:35:09.389 --> 00:35:12.070 yelling at Tracy while they all hold David down 00:35:12.070 --> 00:35:15.019 and they break his arm. This is. This is the 00:35:15.019 --> 00:35:18.260 part where I say that I like David. And usually 00:35:18.260 --> 00:35:20.719 I hate little brothers. But in this movie, he 00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:24.099 didn't give up Chrissy. He protected Tracy. And 00:35:24.099 --> 00:35:27.320 he's still throwing a fucking party. Even though 00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:29.420 there's a curse and this stupid guy following 00:35:29.420 --> 00:35:32.139 his sister. Like this dude. Okay, he's got a 00:35:32.139 --> 00:35:35.300 good head on his shoulders. Look at him. So David 00:35:35.300 --> 00:35:39.860 now has a broken arm. The cops who are in the 00:35:39.860 --> 00:35:42.039 hospital with him. By the way, nobody called 00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:44.739 the parents or anything like that. Whatever the 00:35:44.739 --> 00:35:47.900 cops who are inside the room and even though 00:35:47.900 --> 00:35:50.880 David can identify them still aren't going to 00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:54.000 do anything about it because he can't tell exactly 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:56.139 who they were because they were all wearing masks. 00:35:56.440 --> 00:35:59.860 But Chuck took his mask off to make sure that 00:35:59.860 --> 00:36:02.219 he knew this was coming from Chuck. Like you. 00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:07.360 Even if it was that you can't identify them because 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:09.500 they were wearing masks and you can't prove it 00:36:09.500 --> 00:36:13.360 was them, whatever you can still prove. It was 00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:17.360 Chuck. Like, that is the only one that you can 00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:20.119 definitely prove. And that one is probably the 00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:22.820 big one because once you take care of him, the 00:36:22.820 --> 00:36:25.719 rest of these guys, they don't seem like they 00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:28.340 lead themselves. They follow the quarterback, 00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:34.500 Chuck. So why don't we try to arrest Chuck and 00:36:34.500 --> 00:36:39.900 stop this big issue? I don't know. I guess that's 00:36:39.900 --> 00:36:42.960 what... They're not going to do it because Chuck 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:47.940 is dad of cop. I don't get it, but whatever. 00:36:48.619 --> 00:36:52.599 Well, Chrissy and David are in the hospital and 00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:54.320 they're basically like, we need to take this 00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:57.719 into our own hands. And David goes, you remember 00:36:57.719 --> 00:37:01.179 when dad taught us how to shoot with the shotgun? 00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:04.280 And she's like, yeah, like, yeah, I remember 00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:07.340 everything like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. David's 00:37:07.340 --> 00:37:09.699 like, I still have the shotgun under my bed. 00:37:11.990 --> 00:37:16.630 perfect they've got a shotgun now and so it's 00:37:16.630 --> 00:37:19.909 a montage of chrissy messing with the dad's shotgun 00:37:19.909 --> 00:37:22.849 and learning how to shoot it right even though 00:37:22.849 --> 00:37:25.010 she was taught by her dad so it didn't take much 00:37:25.010 --> 00:37:29.750 to work on that and everything so chrissy is 00:37:29.750 --> 00:37:33.929 now prepared with this shotgun we are one day 00:37:33.929 --> 00:37:36.869 to graduation so somebody is gonna die for this 00:37:36.869 --> 00:37:39.659 curse Plus, there's going to be a big old showdown 00:37:39.659 --> 00:37:43.159 at this party they're having. So Chrissy goes 00:37:43.159 --> 00:37:45.579 to Chuck's and throws a brick through the window. 00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:50.260 The way she threw it, either it was going to 00:37:50.260 --> 00:37:52.760 go way over the target or it was just going to 00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:54.639 bounce off because it wasn't thrown with very 00:37:54.639 --> 00:37:58.300 much force and it was thrown very high. But that's 00:37:58.300 --> 00:38:01.820 beside the point. Essentially, the brick has 00:38:01.820 --> 00:38:04.400 a note that says, come get me, motherfucker, 00:38:04.699 --> 00:38:07.780 essentially. Obviously, it doesn't say that, 00:38:07.820 --> 00:38:09.980 but I'm going to make Chrissy more of a badass 00:38:09.980 --> 00:38:12.239 that they tried to make her be, even though she 00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:16.880 definitely wasn't. So Chuck and his boys, they 00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:18.739 get ready, and they're going to go to this party, 00:38:18.820 --> 00:38:21.840 and they're going to take Chrissy's life. That's 00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:26.679 what they're going to do. So they're once again 00:38:26.679 --> 00:38:30.579 wearing their balaclavas, and Chuck shows up 00:38:30.579 --> 00:38:34.019 to the back door. Where he's immediately tased 00:38:34.019 --> 00:38:36.599 and beaten down by David. And that has to feel 00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:39.559 good. So he's like tasing, holding Chuck down 00:38:39.559 --> 00:38:41.760 and everything. And then one of the other boys 00:38:41.760 --> 00:38:45.219 cold cocks David right in the face. And David 00:38:45.219 --> 00:38:49.619 is knocked out. Chuck, after getting past getting 00:38:49.619 --> 00:38:52.900 tased, fires two shots in the air with his pistol. 00:38:53.019 --> 00:38:56.280 And the party goers all leave. They all disperse. 00:38:56.440 --> 00:38:58.300 Remember, those were going to be your witnesses. 00:38:59.670 --> 00:39:01.650 So now all they've done right now is they've 00:39:01.650 --> 00:39:06.309 seen Chuck and they've seen him fire. The other 00:39:06.309 --> 00:39:08.110 another two guys are coming in from the front 00:39:08.110 --> 00:39:10.610 way and Bobby is taking on two of the others 00:39:10.610 --> 00:39:14.050 while Chuck holds Chrissy at gunpoint because 00:39:14.050 --> 00:39:17.230 she doesn't have the shotgun at this point. So 00:39:17.230 --> 00:39:22.309 Chrissy is talking to Chuck and basically says, 00:39:22.449 --> 00:39:25.670 I see it now. I see your dream. I know where 00:39:25.670 --> 00:39:29.440 I'm supposed to be now. I know where. I need 00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:32.420 to be I need to be with you Chuck I'm so sorry 00:39:32.420 --> 00:39:34.280 that I put you through this everything like that 00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:37.320 and Chuck is just like yeah you definitely did 00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:41.280 and puts the gun down and or like puts the gun 00:39:41.280 --> 00:39:43.340 to his side and everything and then of course 00:39:43.340 --> 00:39:45.800 she knees him straight in the balls and runs 00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:49.840 off and then she grabs the shotgun so one of 00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:52.860 these guys is on top of Tracy Chrissy is able 00:39:52.860 --> 00:39:56.139 to take care of him with the shotgun he done 00:39:57.039 --> 00:39:59.199 So Chuck kind of gets the drop on Chrissy, but 00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:01.280 she's able to get to the bathroom and slam his 00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:03.840 arm in the door. So she like slams his arm in 00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:05.719 the door. He's like dispatched for a second. 00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:08.099 There's another door she's able to get through. 00:40:08.500 --> 00:40:10.739 Bobby is being held down by two of these thugs 00:40:10.739 --> 00:40:13.760 and Chrissy drops them both. And he's just like, 00:40:13.820 --> 00:40:15.800 who taught you how to shoot like that? And then 00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:19.380 Chuck turns the corner. She realizes she's out 00:40:19.380 --> 00:40:22.099 of bullets, but he also dropped the gun because 00:40:22.099 --> 00:40:24.639 his arm was slammed in the door. So he doesn't 00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:27.150 have anything either. He's unarmed. What does 00:40:27.150 --> 00:40:30.590 she do? She just nails him with the gun and then 00:40:30.590 --> 00:40:34.150 keeps beating him over and over and over. Just. 00:40:37.070 --> 00:40:42.309 And. That's it. They're all dispatched. This 00:40:42.309 --> 00:40:47.510 is this is like five minute scene of five people 00:40:47.510 --> 00:40:51.510 getting just taken out by one shotgun, one girl 00:40:51.510 --> 00:40:55.500 and. Two guys that are kind of fighting, kind 00:40:55.500 --> 00:40:58.179 of not, and Tracy, who definitely was the damsel 00:40:58.179 --> 00:41:00.900 in distress. This is also another reason why 00:41:00.900 --> 00:41:03.960 I thought, oh, Tracy's going to get accidentally 00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:06.340 shot in the crossfire or something like that. 00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:09.260 I'm still thinking Tracy is going to be the one 00:41:09.260 --> 00:41:11.559 that falls to this curse, but nope, she's fine 00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:14.360 too. The police show up, and now they can actually 00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:17.900 do something. Because guess what? The cop's son, 00:41:18.059 --> 00:41:22.119 he dead. He gone. So they can actually do something 00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:25.309 now. Which is nothing. Because all these guys 00:41:25.309 --> 00:41:30.550 are dead. And so. After the whole party. And 00:41:30.550 --> 00:41:33.750 everything like that. Ian and Chrissy. Ian the 00:41:33.750 --> 00:41:35.590 friend. That's known her since kindergarten. 00:41:35.730 --> 00:41:40.289 Remember. Ian and Chrissy are on the swings outside. 00:41:41.110 --> 00:41:45.050 Just talking about. Really they're talking about 00:41:45.050 --> 00:41:46.769 the curse. And saying like. Are any of these 00:41:46.769 --> 00:41:49.090 guys from Downers Grove. Because maybe the curse 00:41:49.090 --> 00:41:52.849 is over. Because one of them. is from diners 00:41:52.849 --> 00:41:55.610 grove and is dead now no all of them are from 00:41:55.610 --> 00:41:58.389 willow creek and she also talks about the fact 00:41:58.389 --> 00:42:00.469 that she basically got away with all this because 00:42:00.469 --> 00:42:05.889 it was self -defense good for you so this is 00:42:05.889 --> 00:42:08.369 where the movie loses me and mind you i didn't 00:42:08.369 --> 00:42:11.170 think this was this good a movie the entire time 00:42:11.170 --> 00:42:15.909 but this is where it literally went so far downhill 00:42:15.909 --> 00:42:20.329 that it absolutely may have killed my soul a 00:42:20.329 --> 00:42:22.719 little bit Ian thinks that's his opportunity 00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:26.260 to make a move on Chrissy and tries to kiss her 00:42:26.260 --> 00:42:31.099 but basically she's like no I'm into Bobby like 00:42:31.099 --> 00:42:33.260 we're dating everything like that and Ian's just 00:42:33.260 --> 00:42:38.900 like no you don't understand I love you and she's 00:42:38.900 --> 00:42:41.699 like Ian go away I'm into Bobby and then he goes 00:42:41.699 --> 00:42:45.480 and snaps her neck and it's like a second not 00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:49.079 even she just is alive talking about she's into 00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:54.900 Bobby and then she dead and it shows us that 00:42:54.900 --> 00:42:57.460 ian is the one that blew up her locker ian is 00:42:57.460 --> 00:42:59.579 the one that killed all these dogs and left it 00:42:59.579 --> 00:43:05.480 on her front yard because he wanted to make it 00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:07.719 seem like bobby was the one that was going to 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:11.579 kill her and that the curse was real and the 00:43:11.579 --> 00:43:15.079 closing monologue by the way he was able to run 00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:18.880 away and even though the police are on site dealing 00:43:18.880 --> 00:43:21.099 with the aftermath. There's still police sirens 00:43:21.099 --> 00:43:25.380 and everything. He's able to walk away just fine 00:43:25.380 --> 00:43:31.559 because nobody's looking at him. And so the closing 00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:33.719 monologue is just like, I guess the curse is 00:43:33.719 --> 00:43:39.900 real. What? What? And that's the end of the movie. 00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:41.940 And then they tease it like a sequel is coming, 00:43:42.019 --> 00:43:45.320 like what's going to happen next year? I'm in 00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:52.980 pain from this movie. It is not as bad as a lot 00:43:52.980 --> 00:43:55.539 of other movies I've watched. The last one especially, 00:43:55.780 --> 00:43:57.420 The Crow Wicked Prayer, is definitely like the 00:43:57.420 --> 00:44:02.340 worst movie I've seen. This one was just okay. 00:44:02.500 --> 00:44:04.960 It was like mediocre. It was bad, but it was 00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:08.780 like okay bad. And then completely out of nowhere. 00:44:08.940 --> 00:44:12.280 It never deserved this twist. It never set up 00:44:12.280 --> 00:44:15.920 for it. Ian is on screen for maybe five minutes 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:18.900 total of this entire hour and a half movie. And 00:44:18.900 --> 00:44:23.340 all of a sudden he's just dispatches our heroine 00:44:23.340 --> 00:44:27.400 because he loves her. And if like, I can't have 00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:29.320 you, no one will like that's, that's the reasoning. 00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:33.389 That's what it is. And that's not a curse. Because, 00:44:33.449 --> 00:44:35.929 like, the curse before was all these people, 00:44:36.090 --> 00:44:38.510 I mean, like, the one kid crawling on the top 00:44:38.510 --> 00:44:40.730 of the water tower and falling off, yeah, that's 00:44:40.730 --> 00:44:43.309 dumb, but it's an accident, and that's what a 00:44:43.309 --> 00:44:46.869 curse is. It's not like a person getting killed 00:44:46.869 --> 00:44:52.250 by another person is a curse. If he was taken 00:44:52.250 --> 00:44:55.070 over, maybe, okay, if that's your argument, but 00:44:55.070 --> 00:44:57.170 he wasn't taken over by anything. This was a, 00:44:57.309 --> 00:45:01.809 I won't say sane man, but this is a person who 00:45:01.809 --> 00:45:04.460 decided, That if I can't have you, no one will. 00:45:04.539 --> 00:45:07.480 And I killed you. And now he can just blame it 00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:10.739 on the curse. While all these cops are there, 00:45:10.860 --> 00:45:14.440 there's got to be some kind of DNA evidence because 00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:16.980 it's not like he was wearing gloves or anything. 00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:20.920 He had his fingers on her and like twisted her 00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:23.719 neck, snapped it quickly. And we see her funeral 00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:27.139 and he's there, not in handcuffs. He's obviously 00:45:27.139 --> 00:45:31.320 like still free. I just don't get that. I don't 00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:36.519 get that. That is not a curse in my mind. And 00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:38.639 that is a lot of what goes wrong with this movie 00:45:38.639 --> 00:45:42.420 for the most part. It is not a curse movie. It 00:45:42.420 --> 00:45:46.940 is a teenage drama home invasion movie. I think 00:45:46.940 --> 00:45:52.119 that is more so what it is. And the fact that 00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:54.139 you call it a curse just because you think it's 00:45:54.139 --> 00:45:57.840 a curse like this, that's not a curse. It's not. 00:46:00.809 --> 00:46:05.630 That would be like saying somebody like Jeffrey 00:46:05.630 --> 00:46:11.210 Dahmer is a curse. I get it if you say something 00:46:11.210 --> 00:46:13.349 like he was possessed or something like that. 00:46:13.389 --> 00:46:15.349 He was possessed by the curse. Okay, yeah, that's 00:46:15.349 --> 00:46:18.329 something. No, they never even alluded to that. 00:46:18.409 --> 00:46:21.230 This is just a man who decided to kill this girl 00:46:21.230 --> 00:46:24.929 for no reason. And then they just chalk it up 00:46:24.929 --> 00:46:29.739 to, well, it's the curse of Downers Grove. So 00:46:29.739 --> 00:46:32.480 all that work that Chrissy had to go through, 00:46:32.599 --> 00:46:36.280 all of the people she had to take out, and she 00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:39.059 dies at the hand of a guy she knew since kindergarten 00:46:39.059 --> 00:46:42.659 because he couldn't handle his unrequited love. 00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:46.199 Like I said, this movie was okay bad. It's not 00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:48.239 a good movie. I'm not asking anybody to watch 00:46:48.239 --> 00:46:50.380 this movie. I actually encourage you not to watch 00:46:50.380 --> 00:46:54.500 this movie. But that ending that they just tacked 00:46:54.500 --> 00:47:00.920 on at the end. I would have been happier. I really 00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:02.780 mean this. I would have been happier if all of 00:47:02.780 --> 00:47:04.579 a sudden she's walking away from the carnage 00:47:04.579 --> 00:47:07.800 and then her mom and the astronaut come home 00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:10.039 from Vegas and run her over accidentally because 00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:13.480 they didn't see her in the road. I would have 00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:15.059 much rather had that because that's a curse. 00:47:15.219 --> 00:47:17.380 That's an accident. That's something that happened 00:47:17.380 --> 00:47:20.519 that was a freak thing that is part of the curse 00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:25.340 of Downer's Grove. Did I just create a better 00:47:25.340 --> 00:47:27.780 ending to this movie? Like legitimately, did 00:47:27.780 --> 00:47:29.400 I just create a better ending to this movie? 00:47:30.300 --> 00:47:32.260 I don't know what to say at this point. Like, 00:47:32.260 --> 00:47:36.079 I don't know what to say about it. Like I said, 00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:38.880 the acting was mediocre, but I think it's more 00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:41.519 so a script issue, not an acting issue. Because 00:47:41.519 --> 00:47:46.219 I think when you have to read these lines, it's 00:47:46.219 --> 00:47:48.420 not great. When it comes to things like CGI, 00:47:48.619 --> 00:47:52.320 they had that really CGI, like starry sky, which 00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:55.909 I didn't even talk about that. We're so close 00:47:55.909 --> 00:47:58.210 to Chicago that we never had a night like that 00:47:58.210 --> 00:48:00.070 where you can see all the stars in the sky and 00:48:00.070 --> 00:48:02.269 everything like that. If you saw three bright 00:48:02.269 --> 00:48:05.210 stars, that was a good night for stargazing. 00:48:05.329 --> 00:48:07.650 And especially somebody like me who likes to 00:48:07.650 --> 00:48:11.369 do that kind of stuff. I never saw very many 00:48:11.369 --> 00:48:15.110 stars. I had a telescope and would look for hours 00:48:15.110 --> 00:48:17.190 and all that light pollution and everything from 00:48:17.190 --> 00:48:20.369 Chicago being only 40 minutes away. You didn't 00:48:20.369 --> 00:48:25.010 see shit up in the sky like that. that was so 00:48:25.010 --> 00:48:29.190 fake and you know it's just it's part of the 00:48:29.190 --> 00:48:31.429 hometown charm it's supposed to be like a small 00:48:31.429 --> 00:48:34.570 town that kind of thing they did all these small 00:48:34.570 --> 00:48:38.190 town tropes that just drove me insane because 00:48:38.190 --> 00:48:41.469 it's not my small town and truthfully we're not 00:48:41.469 --> 00:48:45.309 that small a town so it's even worse to see these 00:48:45.309 --> 00:48:48.090 things we don't have just like a one stoplight 00:48:48.090 --> 00:48:51.389 town it's not like that that's definitely the 00:48:51.389 --> 00:48:52.809 part of the reason why i wanted to watch this 00:48:53.130 --> 00:48:55.170 When you have a movie about your hometown, you 00:48:55.170 --> 00:48:59.230 kind of have to, just by nature. So I was very 00:48:59.230 --> 00:49:01.449 willing to watch this one. I've had it on my 00:49:01.449 --> 00:49:04.190 list for a long time because it is about my hometown, 00:49:04.389 --> 00:49:07.849 even though it was filmed nowhere near it. And 00:49:07.849 --> 00:49:10.250 even though I've heard the book about Downers 00:49:10.250 --> 00:49:12.929 Grove, the book that was created that spurred 00:49:12.929 --> 00:49:17.610 this story, wasn't very good either. So, you 00:49:17.610 --> 00:49:21.409 know, I mean, it's just what it is. That is The 00:49:21.409 --> 00:49:24.070 Curse of Downers Grove. Which is not a real curse. 00:49:24.210 --> 00:49:28.889 I don't think I ever knew a senior that died 00:49:28.889 --> 00:49:32.389 once a year in my classes. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe 00:49:32.389 --> 00:49:35.090 it's the other class. I don't know. Because there 00:49:35.090 --> 00:49:37.610 was another high school in that town. So maybe 00:49:37.610 --> 00:49:41.070 it was the Northside High School. What to give 00:49:41.070 --> 00:49:43.809 this movie? That is the question. What to give 00:49:43.809 --> 00:49:47.409 this movie? Because truthfully, like I said, 00:49:47.469 --> 00:49:51.510 it was okay bad. I think I want to give it out 00:49:51.510 --> 00:49:57.110 of five. A .75. I want to give it a little more 00:49:57.110 --> 00:50:01.449 than half a star because for the most part, it 00:50:01.449 --> 00:50:03.969 didn't keep me entertained, but it didn't lose 00:50:03.969 --> 00:50:11.530 my attention is what I'll say. So .75 cursed 00:50:11.530 --> 00:50:17.610 Facebook posts out of five. .75 Facebook posts. 00:50:17.650 --> 00:50:20.210 That's interesting. They gave up three quarters 00:50:20.210 --> 00:50:23.000 of the way through on this post. Just overall, 00:50:23.119 --> 00:50:27.699 because I can't stand that it's my town, but 00:50:27.699 --> 00:50:29.699 it's really not my town and all the things they 00:50:29.699 --> 00:50:32.820 did to change it. We're not a farming town. We're 00:50:32.820 --> 00:50:35.780 not really a we don't look like the southern 00:50:35.780 --> 00:50:37.820 town that was definitely used as inspiration 00:50:37.820 --> 00:50:42.019 for the filming. And we don't have big old parties 00:50:42.019 --> 00:50:44.739 like that. It was a lot more basement things 00:50:44.739 --> 00:50:46.780 where you just like stole a bottle of vodka from 00:50:46.780 --> 00:50:49.239 your parents and just drink it all together and 00:50:49.239 --> 00:50:51.860 passed out. you know, or threw up and then passed 00:50:51.860 --> 00:50:58.039 out. So as far as I know, again, I wasn't, I 00:50:58.039 --> 00:51:00.119 guess I wasn't popular enough for the popular 00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:03.340 parties. So maybe that is what it was like with 00:51:03.340 --> 00:51:05.860 the popular kids and everything like that. I 00:51:05.860 --> 00:51:09.659 was popular enough and I didn't drink. So I don't 00:51:09.659 --> 00:51:13.000 think I missed any parties that were like, oh, 00:51:13.059 --> 00:51:15.079 we're going to party outside, out front drinking 00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:18.719 in front of cops and it'd be just fine. That 00:51:18.719 --> 00:51:21.659 is the Curse of Downers Grove. It is the first 00:51:21.659 --> 00:51:24.539 episode of our spoopy season, spooky season, 00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:27.460 whatever you want to call it. I am trying to 00:51:27.460 --> 00:51:29.320 get because there's five weeks this October. 00:51:29.420 --> 00:51:33.199 I'm trying to get five done. Obviously, there 00:51:33.199 --> 00:51:36.019 are going to be some hiccups along the way. So 00:51:36.019 --> 00:51:38.820 if you don't know anything about me, if this 00:51:38.820 --> 00:51:41.860 is your first time tuning in, whatever. My wife 00:51:41.860 --> 00:51:43.860 and I are pregnant and we are expecting our first 00:51:43.860 --> 00:51:46.989 kid. This week as this episode is getting dropped. 00:51:47.389 --> 00:51:49.849 And that's another thing why I wanted to release 00:51:49.849 --> 00:51:52.309 this this week. It is a hometown episode. It 00:51:52.309 --> 00:51:56.170 is. I'm just in my feelings about getting our 00:51:56.170 --> 00:51:58.769 first kid and everything like that. So I'm going 00:51:58.769 --> 00:52:00.869 to be a very tired parents in the next couple 00:52:00.869 --> 00:52:03.349 of weeks. I'm trying to get ahead of it ahead 00:52:03.349 --> 00:52:07.050 of time so that I can release these. I'm going 00:52:07.050 --> 00:52:10.349 to try for five bad horror movies. There's a 00:52:10.349 --> 00:52:12.809 million and a half. So during October, especially. 00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:16.099 I like this where I try to get as many as I can 00:52:16.099 --> 00:52:19.719 get done during the month of October. So I'm 00:52:19.719 --> 00:52:24.480 trying to get that done. I have some well -known 00:52:24.480 --> 00:52:27.619 ones on the list that are ready to go that are 00:52:27.619 --> 00:52:30.820 bad, bad horror movies, including I've already 00:52:30.820 --> 00:52:33.079 watched two of the other ones. So I'm going to 00:52:33.079 --> 00:52:35.980 try to record those two and get those done so 00:52:35.980 --> 00:52:38.960 that you can enjoy five bad horror movie episodes 00:52:38.960 --> 00:52:43.119 during the month of October. this is the first 00:52:43.119 --> 00:52:45.559 one this is the curse of downers grove which 00:52:45.559 --> 00:52:48.059 is not a real curse but you know tried to be 00:52:48.059 --> 00:52:50.119 a curse movie that's not a curse movie that's 00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:54.079 a home invasion teen drama yeah so curse of downers 00:52:54.079 --> 00:52:57.460 grove i'm glad that this curse didn't hurt any 00:52:57.460 --> 00:52:59.539 of the actors or actresses in this movie they 00:52:59.539 --> 00:53:03.019 all got work it seems like after this so good 00:53:03.019 --> 00:53:06.619 for them they all escaped downers grove without 00:53:06.619 --> 00:53:10.230 uh without being curse affected so This has been 00:53:10.230 --> 00:53:11.909 Game for a Movie Podcast. I've been your host, 00:53:11.989 --> 00:53:13.750 Mike, from beautiful Downers Grove, Illinois. 00:53:14.150 --> 00:53:15.889 I will see you guys next time on the Game for 00:53:15.889 --> 00:53:17.969 a Movie Podcast. We have another bad horror movie 00:53:17.969 --> 00:53:21.309 coming out next week. I hope you enjoy that as 00:53:21.309 --> 00:53:23.190 well. And thank you guys very much for tuning 00:53:23.190 --> 00:53:25.070 in to Game for a Movie where we ask, are you 00:53:25.070 --> 00:53:26.849 game for a movie? I'll see you next time.