WEBVTT 00:00:02.120 --> 00:00:03.580 You know what that sound means? It's another 00:00:03.580 --> 00:00:05.900 episode of Game for a Movie, where we ask, are 00:00:05.900 --> 00:00:08.080 you game for a movie? My name is Mike. Welcome 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:11.580 to week two of spoopy season, as we call it. 00:00:11.619 --> 00:00:14.400 Week one featured The Curse of Downers Grove, 00:00:14.539 --> 00:00:17.440 which is about my hometown, actually, surprisingly. 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:20.399 This week is a little different, but of course, 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:23.100 we're going to talk about that after we get into 00:00:23.100 --> 00:00:26.960 talking about what we are drinking. Today we 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:29.300 are drinking Lightning Drops from Resident Culture 00:00:29.300 --> 00:00:32.259 Brewing right here in Charlotte. It is a fantastic 00:00:32.259 --> 00:00:35.240 IPA. Obviously, you know this by now if you've 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:36.880 listened to the show a couple of times. I am 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:39.539 definitely an IPA guy. I actually really love 00:00:39.539 --> 00:00:42.320 their can design. It is a black can. It feels 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:45.000 really like textured and everything like that. 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:48.320 Plus, it's just a cool looking can. I mean, it's 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:50.659 called Lightning Drops. It has to be some kind 00:00:50.659 --> 00:00:53.240 of cool can, right? You can find this pretty 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:56.079 much anywhere over Charlotte because, truthfully, 00:00:56.179 --> 00:00:58.240 it's one of those beers that everybody kind of 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:01.759 loves if you like IPAs. So let's jump into the 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:04.180 bad movie. This is our second bad horror movie 00:01:04.180 --> 00:01:06.319 for the month of October, what I call spoopy 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:09.379 season. What everybody pretty much calls it spoopy 00:01:09.379 --> 00:01:11.719 season at this point. But usually during this 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:13.620 time, I try to get as many horror movies as I 00:01:13.620 --> 00:01:16.980 can down. This one was supposed to be recorded 00:01:16.980 --> 00:01:21.150 and released last week. Things happen. And wouldn't 00:01:21.150 --> 00:01:23.829 you know it that my son decided he wanted to 00:01:23.829 --> 00:01:27.469 be born into this earth when I was supposed to 00:01:27.469 --> 00:01:29.650 be recording and sending it and everything like 00:01:29.650 --> 00:01:33.689 that. So very good reasoning for why this episode 00:01:33.689 --> 00:01:37.430 is late. I have a beautiful baby boy. My wife 00:01:37.430 --> 00:01:40.290 is doing quite well and so is our son. So we 00:01:40.290 --> 00:01:42.930 are very happy getting into the swing of things 00:01:42.930 --> 00:01:44.530 and everything like that. I'm a little tired. 00:01:44.590 --> 00:01:46.890 I'm not going to lie. So sometimes you may hear 00:01:46.890 --> 00:01:50.739 me. Trying to think of that correct word. It's 00:01:50.739 --> 00:01:52.700 just what's going to happen. Sorry, because I 00:01:52.700 --> 00:01:55.260 am just dealing with it. Obviously, if you've 00:01:55.260 --> 00:01:57.260 had a newborn before, you know what I'm going 00:01:57.260 --> 00:01:59.939 through. But I'm still going to try to give you 00:01:59.939 --> 00:02:02.500 the best show I can with the limited sleep I've 00:02:02.500 --> 00:02:05.120 had. And of course, because my son was born, 00:02:05.260 --> 00:02:08.000 we need to do something like the movie Godsend. 00:02:08.460 --> 00:02:10.699 God Send, just to give you a brief synopsis of 00:02:10.699 --> 00:02:13.340 why this ties in like this, is about an eight 00:02:13.340 --> 00:02:16.620 -year -old boy who dies, and then a doctor promises 00:02:16.620 --> 00:02:19.819 the parents he can clone him and basically give 00:02:19.819 --> 00:02:22.080 him his whole life over again. So he would be 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:25.460 born again, and he would live, and hopefully 00:02:25.460 --> 00:02:29.080 this time, not die. So that is a brief synopsis 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:30.699 of God Send. Obviously, I'm going to get into 00:02:30.699 --> 00:02:32.979 more details, but a couple things before we get 00:02:32.979 --> 00:02:35.939 started. It was directed by Frank Callow and 00:02:35.939 --> 00:02:40.259 Nick Hamm. pretty much have directed nothing 00:02:40.259 --> 00:02:43.539 else since. Nick Hamm's got a couple projects 00:02:43.539 --> 00:02:46.360 here or there, but nothing too crazy. And Frank 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:49.020 Callow's more of a producer and writer now, not 00:02:49.020 --> 00:02:52.139 really as much of a director. It was written 00:02:52.139 --> 00:02:55.620 by Mark Bomback. Mark Bomback is probably the 00:02:55.620 --> 00:02:58.520 most successful of these. He has 16 writing credits 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:03.199 to his name, some of which are, he's got, obviously 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:06.400 we start with Godsend. He has Live Free or Die 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.530 Hard. He has Race to Witch Mountain and Unstoppable, 00:03:09.810 --> 00:03:13.949 the Total Recall remake, The Wolverine, Dawn 00:03:13.949 --> 00:03:15.770 of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet 00:03:15.770 --> 00:03:19.050 of the Apes. He did the Divergent series Insurgent 00:03:19.050 --> 00:03:22.250 and The Art of Racing in the Rain. He also wrote 00:03:22.250 --> 00:03:25.150 all eight episodes of Defending Jacob, the TV 00:03:25.150 --> 00:03:28.330 miniseries that was on Apple Plus. So luckily, 00:03:28.409 --> 00:03:33.490 this guy didn't get stopped by this movie, Godsend. 00:03:34.569 --> 00:03:38.270 This movie was released April 30th, 2004. It 00:03:38.270 --> 00:03:41.789 is mystery thriller slash horror. It is PG -13. 00:03:42.050 --> 00:03:45.530 It's about an hour and 42 minutes long. And The 00:03:45.530 --> 00:03:49.069 Tomato Meter. So it is a 4 % critic score, a 00:03:49.069 --> 00:03:52.409 20 % audience score. Highly rated as one of the 00:03:52.409 --> 00:03:55.449 worst horror movies of all time. Thus why we 00:03:55.449 --> 00:03:58.909 had to do it, of course. So that is a little 00:03:58.909 --> 00:04:01.530 bit of the background of Godsend. A couple fun 00:04:01.530 --> 00:04:04.750 trivia facts about this movie. Before the release 00:04:04.750 --> 00:04:07.490 of this movie, Lionsgate Films set up two official 00:04:07.490 --> 00:04:09.990 websites. One was the conventional site with 00:04:09.990 --> 00:04:11.729 the movie information, everything like that. 00:04:11.849 --> 00:04:15.030 And one was an email address and a phone number 00:04:15.030 --> 00:04:17.670 for the Godsend Institute, which is the cloning 00:04:17.670 --> 00:04:20.790 facility in this movie. And basically, if you 00:04:20.790 --> 00:04:22.769 were to call it, it had a recorded message giving 00:04:22.769 --> 00:04:25.050 the Institute's office hours, that kind of thing. 00:04:26.110 --> 00:04:30.000 A few parents who lost kids. actually called 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:32.339 this number trying to see if it was a real thing. 00:04:32.620 --> 00:04:37.920 I feel so bad for them. Luckily, the studio started 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:39.839 responding to them explaining that it was a movie 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:42.240 tie -in, so they didn't get their hopes too far 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:45.920 up, hopefully. But yeah, that's a little rough, 00:04:46.019 --> 00:04:49.100 not going to lie. And then one other fun fact 00:04:49.100 --> 00:04:51.939 about this, Robert De Niro stars in this movie, 00:04:51.980 --> 00:04:54.100 and he had originally planned on merely providing 00:04:54.100 --> 00:04:58.199 a brief cameo. However, the director, Nick Hamm, 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:00.699 heard that De Niro wanted to be in the project, 00:05:00.899 --> 00:05:03.300 so he asked De Niro to participate in a few more 00:05:03.300 --> 00:05:06.019 scenes. These were all filmed within a week. 00:05:07.019 --> 00:05:09.500 Yeah, so that's all of De Niro's part is done 00:05:09.500 --> 00:05:12.120 within a week, the entire shoot of the movie. 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:16.540 And De Niro later regretted this because his 00:05:16.540 --> 00:05:18.920 name was splashed all over the advertisements. 00:05:19.060 --> 00:05:21.540 And I'm not even joking if you look at the poster 00:05:21.540 --> 00:05:23.670 and everything like that. Obviously, like the 00:05:23.670 --> 00:05:26.470 kid's face is a big chunk of it because it is 00:05:26.470 --> 00:05:28.750 about the kid being cloned, everything like that. 00:05:29.730 --> 00:05:32.209 But then the second biggest face on this thing 00:05:32.209 --> 00:05:36.790 has to be De Niro's. And he he definitely is 00:05:36.790 --> 00:05:40.629 marked as like the and Robert De Niro, you know, 00:05:40.629 --> 00:05:45.470 so it's it's definitely very abundant that Robert 00:05:45.470 --> 00:05:49.029 De Niro's was used to sell this movie. It also 00:05:49.029 --> 00:05:51.790 stars Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn Stamos, 00:05:51.970 --> 00:05:54.209 who is Rebecca Romijn now, but she was Rebecca 00:05:54.209 --> 00:05:56.870 Romijn Stamos at this point, and Cameron Bright 00:05:56.870 --> 00:05:59.709 plays the son. You've probably seen him in some 00:05:59.709 --> 00:06:02.269 things, I don't know, maybe here or there, but 00:06:02.269 --> 00:06:05.290 definitely this cast, you'd probably recognize 00:06:05.290 --> 00:06:09.089 those other three in a lot of other things. Alright, 00:06:09.209 --> 00:06:12.069 let's talk about the details of this movie. So, 00:06:12.129 --> 00:06:15.050 Greg Kinnear plays Paul Duncan, and in the very 00:06:15.050 --> 00:06:16.990 beginning, he is running late for a birthday 00:06:16.990 --> 00:06:21.160 party. As he is running late, he decides to cut 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:23.420 down an alley and he gets held at knife point 00:06:23.420 --> 00:06:26.860 by one of his former students. But the guy recognizes 00:06:26.860 --> 00:06:29.620 him and lets him go. So we learned that Paul 00:06:29.620 --> 00:06:33.860 is a teacher and that he's apparently a good 00:06:33.860 --> 00:06:35.939 teacher. Like, you know, everybody kind of likes 00:06:35.939 --> 00:06:39.060 him, even the ones that haven't gone down a good 00:06:39.060 --> 00:06:42.259 path at this point, especially since he gets 00:06:42.259 --> 00:06:45.819 held at knife point down an alley. And this never 00:06:45.819 --> 00:06:48.040 comes back, by the way. This is just to introduce 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:49.939 the character and show that, like, oh, yeah, 00:06:50.019 --> 00:06:52.480 he's a teacher, and he's a good teacher. Good 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:55.759 for him. You know, that's all that happens in 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:59.040 this part. So he gets home, and his wife has 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:01.920 been waiting for him. Her name is Jessie, and 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.800 it's for their son, Adam. It is his eighth birthday 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:08.180 party. Adam is played by Cameron Bright, as I 00:07:08.180 --> 00:07:11.180 said before, and Rebecca Romaine Stamos is Jessie. 00:07:12.060 --> 00:07:14.000 So to apologize for being late and everything 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:18.500 like that, Paul gives Adam his present. And basically, 00:07:18.540 --> 00:07:21.040 it's a red and white Letterman jacket that he 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:25.779 got for his eighth birthday. I don't know. Even 00:07:25.779 --> 00:07:28.319 in 2004, that felt a little weird to me that 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:30.339 you got a Letterman jacket at eight years old. 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:34.019 But, you know, whatever, I guess. That's the 00:07:34.019 --> 00:07:36.339 first scene is his birthday and that kind of 00:07:36.339 --> 00:07:38.680 thing and setting the stage about it is his eighth 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:42.120 birthday and he's got this letterman jacket and 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:45.000 everything like that. We also learned that the 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.519 family has a job offer on the table. There's 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:50.540 a chance for them to move out of the city and 00:07:50.540 --> 00:07:54.019 go to the suburbs because basically they have 00:07:54.019 --> 00:07:56.779 offered Paul this teaching position in the suburbs. 00:07:57.019 --> 00:08:00.110 And Jesse is a photographer. So she can take 00:08:00.110 --> 00:08:02.430 it wherever she wants to go. They're kind of 00:08:02.430 --> 00:08:05.649 hemming and hawing about it. But the point of 00:08:05.649 --> 00:08:08.930 it is that Paul likes living in the city. That's 00:08:08.930 --> 00:08:10.689 what we learn is he likes living in the city. 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:13.579 So it's the next day and Jesse agrees to take 00:08:13.579 --> 00:08:16.620 Adam to get a new pair of shoes. These are the 00:08:16.620 --> 00:08:19.420 Nike pumps. I love that we got some Nike pumps 00:08:19.420 --> 00:08:22.079 in this movie. Like it's obvious Nike pumps and 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:24.480 everything like that. He also gets a basketball. 00:08:24.660 --> 00:08:26.259 That's a pretty cool basketball. It's like a 00:08:26.259 --> 00:08:28.939 black basketball. So, you know, I actually think 00:08:28.939 --> 00:08:31.660 these are these are two things as an eight year 00:08:31.660 --> 00:08:34.480 old. I would want those. I don't think I'd want 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:36.519 a Letterman jacket. I would like the Nike pumps 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:39.259 in a basketball. But he also has his Letterman 00:08:39.259 --> 00:08:41.779 jacket as well that he's been wearing. So he 00:08:41.779 --> 00:08:43.980 goes outside to test him out while Jesse pays. 00:08:44.259 --> 00:08:46.720 The basketball rolls into the street and Adam 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:49.379 goes to retrieve it. And wouldn't you know it, 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:57.559 a car loses control, hits a median, and lands 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:05.100 straight onto Adam. He gone! See ya, Adam! So, 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:08.970 eight -year -old Adam, he's dead. Jesse is taking 00:09:08.970 --> 00:09:13.370 it so hard, obviously, because, I mean, wouldn't 00:09:13.370 --> 00:09:15.549 you? You just lost your eight -year -old son 00:09:15.549 --> 00:09:19.570 because of your negligence, pretty much. You 00:09:19.570 --> 00:09:21.570 just let him walk out in the streets, in the 00:09:21.570 --> 00:09:24.649 busy streets of New York. You let him walk out 00:09:24.649 --> 00:09:26.870 there and play with a basketball on the street. 00:09:27.529 --> 00:09:31.120 That sounds like a you problem, kind of. So it's 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:33.139 been a couple days and they've been putting together 00:09:33.139 --> 00:09:36.059 the funeral arrangements. And as they're walking 00:09:36.059 --> 00:09:40.360 out, you can tell Jessie, she's like barely able 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:42.820 to stand at this point. Paul is doing everything 00:09:42.820 --> 00:09:45.659 he can to keep her mobile to get through this 00:09:45.659 --> 00:09:48.320 because she is just so heartbroken right now. 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:51.539 And they are approached by Dr. Richard Wells. 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:55.679 That is Robert De Niro's character. and he taught 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:58.120 Jesse in undergrad, so they do have a little 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:00.039 bit of a history going back and everything like 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:04.080 that. Well, Dr. Wells, he basically says, hey, 00:10:04.259 --> 00:10:06.899 I know a place down the road. Why don't we talk? 00:10:07.139 --> 00:10:10.139 I have a proposition for you. And even though 00:10:10.139 --> 00:10:12.779 they're both pretty distraught, they say, okay, 00:10:12.899 --> 00:10:15.620 we'll go listen to him. Why not? Because it is 00:10:15.620 --> 00:10:19.120 somebody that does have a past with Jesse, so 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:22.919 why not? Dr. Wells specializes in fertility. 00:10:23.659 --> 00:10:26.879 And he offers them a chance to clone and rebirth 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:33.240 Adam. Basically take the DNA, replace it into 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:37.440 Jesse, and she would be able to rebirth him and 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:43.299 have Adam all over again. And one of the quotes 00:10:43.299 --> 00:10:45.799 I put was, I've never done this before, but I 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:48.940 know I can do it. Jesse is kind of on board because 00:10:48.940 --> 00:10:51.379 she just misses Adam so much and wants to bring 00:10:51.379 --> 00:10:55.000 him back. Paul, however, is like, I don't know 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:57.759 about this. And especially because Dr. Wells 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:00.460 explains this process is illegal. But if they 00:11:00.460 --> 00:11:03.139 agree to do it, basically, he's going to move 00:11:03.139 --> 00:11:05.919 them 300 miles away and they need to sever all 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:09.419 ties with their family. Because if anybody finds 00:11:09.419 --> 00:11:11.860 out about this, they find out that Adam's still 00:11:11.860 --> 00:11:17.580 alive. That is going to get them all like all 00:11:17.580 --> 00:11:20.950 of them are going to be are going to. be recognized 00:11:20.950 --> 00:11:23.490 as, hey, you broke the law, you did this illegal 00:11:23.490 --> 00:11:26.830 thing, and you're all going to jail. So he needs 00:11:26.830 --> 00:11:31.850 them to move 300 miles away. However, Dr. Wells 00:11:31.850 --> 00:11:34.590 is going to pay for it all. Not only is he going 00:11:34.590 --> 00:11:36.309 to pay for it all, but basically he's going to 00:11:36.309 --> 00:11:38.769 buy them a house. He's going to get Paul a job 00:11:38.769 --> 00:11:40.929 at the local school. He's going to hook Jesse 00:11:40.929 --> 00:11:44.169 up with a dark room for photography. All of these 00:11:44.169 --> 00:11:46.330 things Dr. Wells is going to do, all they have 00:11:46.330 --> 00:11:49.139 to do is just agree. Paul is still definitely 00:11:49.139 --> 00:11:54.279 against it. Jesse wants them to do it. And one 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:56.139 of the things I pointed out was that Paul didn't 00:11:56.139 --> 00:11:58.240 even want to move to the suburbs for a new job, 00:11:58.299 --> 00:12:01.059 let alone move 300 miles away from the city. 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:04.580 But Jesse, of course, is feeling guilt. She wants 00:12:04.580 --> 00:12:06.840 Adam back. And even though Paul is suggested 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:09.620 for trying for another child, they both agree 00:12:09.620 --> 00:12:12.580 that it was hard enough the first time to get 00:12:12.580 --> 00:12:15.710 pregnant, everything like that. With this, this 00:12:15.710 --> 00:12:18.289 is a little bit more artificial insemination, 00:12:18.309 --> 00:12:20.889 that kind of thing. So there's a little bit easier 00:12:20.889 --> 00:12:24.149 a time to make it happen and make it stick and 00:12:24.149 --> 00:12:26.269 everything like that. And especially because 00:12:26.269 --> 00:12:29.490 Jesse wants Adam back. She doesn't want a new 00:12:29.490 --> 00:12:33.049 baby. She wants Adam back. Paul decides that 00:12:33.049 --> 00:12:37.610 he's going to look into it. And he finds out 00:12:37.610 --> 00:12:40.070 that the institute that Dr. Wells works for is 00:12:40.070 --> 00:12:43.009 the Godsend Institute. I wonder why they call 00:12:43.009 --> 00:12:46.580 this movie Godsend. And he uses SearchSite .web 00:12:46.580 --> 00:12:51.220 to take a look at the Godsend Institute. I just, 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:55.360 I love fake websites. So when in a movie there's 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:57.220 a fake website or a fake phone number or something 00:12:57.220 --> 00:12:59.299 like that, it always takes me out of the movie. 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:03.000 Like always because I love it so much. SearchSite 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:07.679 .web or something like 555 -555 -555, you know, 00:13:07.700 --> 00:13:11.139 like that kind of stuff that always... gets me 00:13:11.139 --> 00:13:13.639 where i'm just like that's so good so of course 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:16.419 i had to make a note about search site .web and 00:13:16.419 --> 00:13:21.299 then paul calls his buddy sam sam they needed 00:13:21.299 --> 00:13:23.480 to talk about something else first i don't exactly 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:25.500 remember what but then they get on the topic 00:13:25.500 --> 00:13:29.279 about the uh dr wells because sam had heard of 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:32.600 dr wells and thinks he's a genius so paul after 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:36.139 some convincing from sam even though sam doesn't 00:13:36.139 --> 00:13:40.019 know what they were doing paul basically says 00:13:40.019 --> 00:13:44.799 all right fine i'll do it so they go to the godsend 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:48.559 institute and then they also get shown their 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:55.100 new house that's this huge big house and like 00:13:56.149 --> 00:13:58.970 It's gigantic. It's this huge property on this 00:13:58.970 --> 00:14:01.570 huge piece of land. And I'm just sitting here 00:14:01.570 --> 00:14:03.649 going, where is like the kind doctor who will 00:14:03.649 --> 00:14:06.090 pay for a huge house in a new place to live for 00:14:06.090 --> 00:14:08.730 like us? Because I would love this. This would 00:14:08.730 --> 00:14:12.730 be amazing. I don't need a new child to be or 00:14:12.730 --> 00:14:15.809 I don't need my child to be reborn. But if it 00:14:15.809 --> 00:14:18.929 means that I could have this huge house in this 00:14:18.929 --> 00:14:22.549 big piece of land, I'd consider it. Flash forward, 00:14:22.669 --> 00:14:26.710 we go to an unnecessary childbirth scene. And 00:14:26.710 --> 00:14:29.809 to watch this a couple of days before I lived 00:14:29.809 --> 00:14:33.009 it in real life, this was surreal to me. Like 00:14:33.009 --> 00:14:34.769 this whole thing was surreal to me. There was 00:14:34.769 --> 00:14:37.870 no need for this scene except to show that baby 00:14:37.870 --> 00:14:40.450 Adam struggled at first to breathe and then cries. 00:14:40.669 --> 00:14:43.730 And Jesse realizes that's the same thing Adam 00:14:43.730 --> 00:14:47.250 did the first time. So she's already like, oh 00:14:47.250 --> 00:14:49.490 my God, it worked because it's already been, 00:14:49.549 --> 00:14:51.809 it was like 40 seconds where he struggled to 00:14:51.809 --> 00:14:54.970 breathe and then he cried. All right, so after 00:14:54.970 --> 00:14:57.450 that unnecessary birth scene, we flash forward 00:14:57.450 --> 00:15:01.289 eight years now, and it is Adam's eighth birthday 00:15:01.289 --> 00:15:04.429 again. And Dr. Richard is a part of their lives. 00:15:04.470 --> 00:15:08.269 He comes over. He has a gift for Adam. It turns 00:15:08.269 --> 00:15:12.009 out to be a kite. And basically, he asks if Dr. 00:15:12.210 --> 00:15:17.470 Richard would fly it with him. So Adam goes out 00:15:17.470 --> 00:15:20.159 and flies the kite with Dr. Richard. Basically, 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:22.779 all of Adam's friends are about to leave the 00:15:22.779 --> 00:15:25.759 party. So Paul calls Adam to say goodbye to his 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:30.360 friends. And Adam looks at Dr. Richard and then 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:32.679 looks back at Paul and doesn't go in. And it's 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:36.740 like very obvious, like, I'm sorry, you definitely 00:15:36.740 --> 00:15:39.139 heard me. You definitely know what's going on. 00:15:39.620 --> 00:15:45.419 Yet you're ignoring me for some reason. So it's 00:15:45.419 --> 00:15:48.200 already getting a little weird. Something's not 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.019 quite right. and then there's this whole conversation 00:15:52.019 --> 00:15:55.840 a couple minutes later in the movie. Dad, I've 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:58.500 been thinking. I don't think I like you so much 00:15:58.500 --> 00:16:01.440 anymore. And then he looks at him and goes, Gotcha! 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:06.379 It was a trick. But it's... A, I don't know why 00:16:06.379 --> 00:16:08.580 you'd say something like that. Just being a creepy 00:16:08.580 --> 00:16:11.860 kid, just to be a creepy kid, I guess. But it 00:16:11.860 --> 00:16:16.320 shows that something is changing inside Adam. 00:16:16.620 --> 00:16:20.190 So assuming that night... Adam starts dreaming. 00:16:20.809 --> 00:16:24.769 And the scene of him dreaming and having this 00:16:24.769 --> 00:16:27.789 awful nightmare is also interspersed with a sex 00:16:27.789 --> 00:16:31.169 scene between Paul and Jesse. It's very strange 00:16:31.169 --> 00:16:33.529 because you're supposed to be focused on the 00:16:33.529 --> 00:16:35.669 things that Adam's seen and everything like that. 00:16:35.769 --> 00:16:38.049 But then it goes back to them having sex. And 00:16:38.049 --> 00:16:39.889 it's just like back and forth, back and forth, 00:16:39.929 --> 00:16:43.289 back and forth. Adam is seeing his old self in 00:16:43.289 --> 00:16:48.340 the window. It looks like a... school classrooms 00:16:48.340 --> 00:16:51.019 and everything like that and he also sees these 00:16:51.019 --> 00:16:53.340 kids locked in these classrooms that look to 00:16:53.340 --> 00:16:59.179 be on fire and so he starts like walking because 00:16:59.179 --> 00:17:01.580 of these dreams and everything and then he collapses 00:17:01.580 --> 00:17:06.019 paul and jesse see him collapse and they're worried 00:17:06.019 --> 00:17:10.079 about him and they talk to dr richard and basically 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:14.529 dr richard goes well he may be different now 00:17:14.529 --> 00:17:16.529 that he's crossed the age he died at you know 00:17:16.529 --> 00:17:19.670 we don't know we've had this whole time scripted 00:17:19.670 --> 00:17:23.069 because you know what it's like year zero to 00:17:23.069 --> 00:17:26.210 eight years old now he might be different because 00:17:26.210 --> 00:17:28.549 we don't know we're in uncharted territory and 00:17:28.549 --> 00:17:31.430 everything so that's a good enough answer for 00:17:31.430 --> 00:17:34.369 at least jesse and a little bit paul too i mean 00:17:34.369 --> 00:17:37.529 he's at least happy with it and everything one 00:17:37.529 --> 00:17:39.509 of the other things adam saw in his nightmare 00:17:39.509 --> 00:17:42.509 was this drawing And it's like a really creepy 00:17:42.509 --> 00:17:45.730 drawing and he recreates it when he's out of 00:17:45.730 --> 00:17:49.910 the nightmare. The next day, Adam is biking home 00:17:49.910 --> 00:17:55.970 and basically cuts in front of Paul's car. And 00:17:55.970 --> 00:18:01.230 Paul gets like really mad at him because he just 00:18:01.230 --> 00:18:03.789 didn't want to get him run over again. And especially 00:18:03.789 --> 00:18:05.970 if it was him that did it, he just needs to be 00:18:05.970 --> 00:18:09.839 more careful and that kind of thing. And this 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:12.839 kind of like triggers Adam and he starts booking 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.099 it away from Paul and he goes into the woods 00:18:15.099 --> 00:18:17.839 near their house and he finds this abandoned 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:22.599 shed. And basically he's in the shed in the middle 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:25.039 of the woods reaching out towards something and 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:28.240 he's sleepwalking again like this. This is sleepwalking 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:32.700 again. It's not really. him doing this he's just 00:18:32.700 --> 00:18:34.720 kind of going through the motions that kind of 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:37.299 thing and the thing he was reaching for because 00:18:37.299 --> 00:18:39.980 paul catches him and was like able to pick him 00:18:39.980 --> 00:18:43.000 up and take him back to the house uh the thing 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:47.119 that he was reaching for was an axe so paul is 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:49.680 like okay we need to take him to a specialist 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.440 we we need to do something something's not right 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:54.880 here something's screwy everything like that 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:57.960 but dr richard's just like it's nothing we're 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:02.680 good um Dr. Richard's office is some kind of 00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:05.319 like evil lair office. He has like a wood desk, 00:19:05.500 --> 00:19:07.940 files everywhere, dark red curtains. He sits 00:19:07.940 --> 00:19:11.319 in the dark and he like keeps clicking these 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:13.980 like metal balls in his hand. He just kind of 00:19:13.980 --> 00:19:20.079 keeps turning them like that kind of thing. And 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:24.180 while we see this, we also have a scene of Paul 00:19:24.180 --> 00:19:28.680 at school teaching the kids about DNA. And he 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:31.799 has an epiphany about how certain genes are on 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:34.180 and on or off, even though they are present. 00:19:34.259 --> 00:19:38.400 So like these, everybody has these genes and 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:42.900 basically came to the conclusion, well, what 00:19:42.900 --> 00:19:45.779 if some of these genes are on, some of these 00:19:45.779 --> 00:19:50.019 genes are off? So he has that idea. and basically 00:19:50.019 --> 00:19:53.619 tells the kids to read chapters 4 through 100 00:19:53.619 --> 00:19:56.480 or whatever he says before he runs out. And, 00:19:56.500 --> 00:19:58.539 you know, as all movies go, he just leaves his 00:19:58.539 --> 00:20:01.059 class with no repercussions. Nobody actually 00:20:01.059 --> 00:20:03.720 cares that the teacher just up and leaves. And 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:05.759 Paul drives to the Institute to talk to Richard. 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:10.019 And Richard's basically like, yes, that's how 00:20:10.019 --> 00:20:12.680 we got Adam in the first place, is we turned 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:16.619 on certain genes so that they were specific to 00:20:16.619 --> 00:20:20.769 Adam. Basically, Richard's saying, this is what 00:20:20.769 --> 00:20:22.930 we planned to. This is what we had. This is no 00:20:22.930 --> 00:20:25.230 big deal because this is what we always wanted. 00:20:25.309 --> 00:20:28.170 We turned on these certain things because this 00:20:28.170 --> 00:20:31.990 is what we wanted Adam to be. Paul just kind 00:20:31.990 --> 00:20:36.549 of drives home. He's not happy with that answer, 00:20:36.630 --> 00:20:38.789 but at the same time, he doesn't know what else 00:20:38.789 --> 00:20:40.829 to do at this point because he thought he had 00:20:40.829 --> 00:20:43.869 this answer figured out. And that he could turn 00:20:43.869 --> 00:20:46.809 off, maybe with the help of Dr. Richard, turn 00:20:46.809 --> 00:20:51.490 off the sleepwalking one and the stuff he's seen 00:20:51.490 --> 00:20:56.089 and everything. When Paul gets home, Adam is 00:20:56.089 --> 00:20:58.750 kind of like not listening to him again. So Paul 00:20:58.750 --> 00:21:01.529 gets mad, screams at him and grabs him like really 00:21:01.529 --> 00:21:04.490 hard. And Jesse starts getting a little nervous 00:21:04.490 --> 00:21:07.549 about Paul. Like everything's a little screwy 00:21:07.549 --> 00:21:11.710 now where she just doesn't. trust him the same, 00:21:11.769 --> 00:21:14.630 or at least she's a little weary of him. Paul 00:21:14.630 --> 00:21:17.210 is trying to convince Jesse to get a sleep expert, 00:21:17.269 --> 00:21:20.829 and he has been talking to Sam about a potential 00:21:20.829 --> 00:21:23.589 sleep expert. You know, Sam, the guy that told 00:21:23.589 --> 00:21:26.309 him earlier that Dr. Wells, Dr. Richard is a 00:21:26.309 --> 00:21:28.369 genius, that they should do this and everything 00:21:28.369 --> 00:21:32.410 like that. And Jesse's kind of like, wait, you 00:21:32.410 --> 00:21:35.089 talked to Sam? Why'd you talk to Sam? We were 00:21:35.089 --> 00:21:36.829 supposed to sever all ties. Nobody's supposed 00:21:36.829 --> 00:21:39.680 to know we're here. This is not supposed to be 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:44.339 what we do, anything like that. And he was just 00:21:44.339 --> 00:21:46.420 kind of like, well, I just needed to find somebody 00:21:46.420 --> 00:21:48.960 to try to help. And I found the sleep expert. 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:52.180 Well, Jesse doesn't want to talk to the sleep 00:21:52.180 --> 00:21:54.460 expert because she just assumes that Dr. Richard 00:21:54.460 --> 00:21:58.599 is handling all of their problems. So Adam is 00:21:58.599 --> 00:22:01.819 now taking a bath and he keeps hearing noises, 00:22:01.900 --> 00:22:04.400 including the door opening. So he keeps looking 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:07.380 outside the shower curtain because he doesn't. 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:10.579 taking the bath he has the shower curtain pulled 00:22:10.579 --> 00:22:14.059 versus having it open so he keeps like pulling 00:22:14.059 --> 00:22:16.400 the curtain looking behind to see if the doors 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:20.380 open that kind of thing and finally at one point 00:22:20.380 --> 00:22:24.319 the shower curtain pulls down and is stuck over 00:22:24.319 --> 00:22:27.180 him and he's just kind of like freaking out and 00:22:27.180 --> 00:22:30.599 then paul like gets in and the curtains magically 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:35.759 back up and adam is fine also adam saw somebody 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:38.259 under the curtain He doesn't know who exactly, 00:22:38.420 --> 00:22:40.599 but he saw someone under the curtain. And so 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:42.819 like Paul is trying to calm him down. And Adam 00:22:42.819 --> 00:22:44.759 says to him, something bad is going to happen. 00:22:44.819 --> 00:22:46.440 And Paul's like, I won't let anything bad happen 00:22:46.440 --> 00:22:50.740 to you. And Adam goes, not to me. Remember earlier 00:22:50.740 --> 00:22:53.539 how like Adam kind of said to his dad, like, 00:22:53.559 --> 00:22:56.000 I don't know if I like you anymore. This is starting 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:00.279 to get a little like, okay. Something feels like 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:02.119 it's going to happen to the parents. You know, 00:23:02.220 --> 00:23:06.579 something's going to go weird. But so far, we 00:23:06.579 --> 00:23:08.180 don't know what's happening. We don't know if 00:23:08.180 --> 00:23:10.019 it's actually real, if it's just something that's 00:23:10.019 --> 00:23:13.559 happening in Adam's head, or if Adam is literally 00:23:13.559 --> 00:23:18.500 suffering a psychotic break. So because Paul 00:23:18.500 --> 00:23:24.819 talked to Sam, Jesse goes over to talk to Dr. 00:23:25.339 --> 00:23:29.039 Richard, and basically they convene over lunch 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:39.009 and wine. dr richard's house this is again interspersed 00:23:39.009 --> 00:23:41.670 with another scene and it's adam getting into 00:23:41.670 --> 00:23:44.390 a swinging contest with his bully roy because 00:23:44.390 --> 00:23:47.390 you know that's what all kids do when he starts 00:23:47.390 --> 00:23:50.789 swinging basically he gets really high and he 00:23:50.789 --> 00:23:55.349 starts spitting on the boys and a teacher sees 00:23:55.349 --> 00:23:58.069 this tries to stop him she like takes him off 00:23:58.069 --> 00:24:00.210 the swing and is just like what are you doing 00:24:00.210 --> 00:24:07.089 why are He gets in trouble with the principal 00:24:07.089 --> 00:24:10.390 because he's spitting now. And everybody knows 00:24:10.390 --> 00:24:12.569 he's such a good boy and everything like that. 00:24:12.650 --> 00:24:15.950 He really hasn't shown anything too crazy at 00:24:15.950 --> 00:24:18.069 school or anything like that. But all of a sudden 00:24:18.069 --> 00:24:20.670 it's like he's spitting on kids and it's just 00:24:20.670 --> 00:24:23.049 a little weird. This is all interspersed why 00:24:23.049 --> 00:24:25.930 Dr. Richard is having Jesse at his house making 00:24:25.930 --> 00:24:30.450 her lunch and having some wine. And I put, I'm 00:24:30.450 --> 00:24:32.569 calling it now, Dr. Richard is trying something 00:24:32.569 --> 00:24:35.200 with Jesse. I don't know what. but something. 00:24:36.859 --> 00:24:39.279 He's also trying to convince Jesse to make sure 00:24:39.279 --> 00:24:41.720 that Paul doesn't leave because this is still 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:43.460 illegal, everything they've done and everything 00:24:43.460 --> 00:24:45.519 like that. So if Paul starts getting cold feet 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:48.500 and wants to go talk to people and somebody finds 00:24:48.500 --> 00:24:51.220 out it is still illegal, they could still get 00:24:51.220 --> 00:24:53.819 in huge trouble and go to jail. So after this 00:24:53.819 --> 00:24:58.059 whole thing, Paul convinces Jesse that they should 00:24:58.059 --> 00:25:00.740 take Adam to a second opinion. So they take him 00:25:00.740 --> 00:25:04.940 to Dr. Lieber and Dr. Lieber. kind of is like 00:25:04.940 --> 00:25:07.819 a child psychologist, that kind of thing. And 00:25:07.819 --> 00:25:12.059 we learn about Zachary through Dr. Lieber. Zachary 00:25:12.059 --> 00:25:15.440 is the boy who lives in Adam's dreams. And not 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:18.339 only that, Zachary wears a red jacket with white 00:25:18.339 --> 00:25:21.579 sleeves. It turns out to be the Letterman jacket. 00:25:22.500 --> 00:25:25.940 So we learn a little bit about it. Not exactly 00:25:25.940 --> 00:25:29.440 everything. And so they're driving back from 00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:31.799 Dr. Lieber. They now know about Zachary and everything 00:25:31.799 --> 00:25:35.460 like that. And Adam starts having another terror 00:25:35.460 --> 00:25:38.019 while they're driving home. And Paul pulls over 00:25:38.019 --> 00:25:41.039 and is like pushing him for information because 00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:43.619 he just wants to try to get him through it. If 00:25:43.619 --> 00:25:46.500 he pushes him for information, basically Adam's 00:25:46.500 --> 00:25:49.019 going to find out the end of this and he's going 00:25:49.019 --> 00:25:51.579 to be able to get away from these night terrors. 00:25:52.259 --> 00:25:57.880 One of the things that Adam says is he sees this 00:25:57.880 --> 00:26:02.819 woman getting hit by a hammer by Zachary. And 00:26:02.819 --> 00:26:06.180 then at the end, because Zachary turns around 00:26:06.180 --> 00:26:09.339 and you see his face in the night tear, Adam 00:26:09.339 --> 00:26:13.740 asks, did I die? And he might be starting to 00:26:13.740 --> 00:26:16.720 see his first life in his dreams. And Paul is 00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:19.819 very convinced of that. Jesse strongly disagrees. 00:26:20.900 --> 00:26:24.740 So it's the next day in class. Adam is doing 00:26:24.740 --> 00:26:27.319 the assignments, his teacher says. And the teacher 00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:29.380 asks them to draw their house and their family. 00:26:29.819 --> 00:26:33.140 which Adam again draws the house on fire, and 00:26:33.140 --> 00:26:37.279 he signs it Zachary. A nice little inter -scene 00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:40.759 basically to show, well, Zachary might be getting 00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:44.740 a hold of Adam now. After that day, he's going 00:26:44.740 --> 00:26:47.599 home, and he passes by the stream, and he sees 00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:50.940 Roy, his bully, and all the other boys that started 00:26:50.940 --> 00:26:54.269 bullying him, trying to cross a stream. And basically 00:26:54.269 --> 00:26:56.890 Roy is like, come on, you pussies, like come 00:26:56.890 --> 00:26:59.390 cross the stream, blah, blah, blah. Come do it. 00:26:59.410 --> 00:27:02.009 Come on, you pussies. What are you doing? And 00:27:02.009 --> 00:27:06.369 nobody wants to go with him. So Roy keeps going 00:27:06.369 --> 00:27:10.470 further up the stream, but the other boys are 00:27:10.470 --> 00:27:13.869 no longer there. Paul is driving home and he 00:27:13.869 --> 00:27:16.210 just so happens to drive past the stream and 00:27:16.210 --> 00:27:18.809 he sees Adam's bike, but he doesn't see anybody. 00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:22.819 and then we see Roy he's looking at something 00:27:22.819 --> 00:27:24.940 in the stream and he gets hit by something we 00:27:24.940 --> 00:27:27.019 have no clue what but he gets hit by something 00:27:27.019 --> 00:27:31.339 meanwhile at home in her dark room all of Jesse's 00:27:31.339 --> 00:27:34.160 pictures are torn and messed up including several 00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:37.680 with Adam's eyes cut out so all of these pictures 00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:40.640 she has hanging are of the new Adam but she has 00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:44.099 a box in the corner that's like a safe and that 00:27:44.099 --> 00:27:47.549 safe has pictures of the first Adam, and those 00:27:47.549 --> 00:27:50.569 are untouched. So she's happy about it because 00:27:50.569 --> 00:27:54.710 at least new Adam doesn't know there was an Adam 00:27:54.710 --> 00:27:58.069 beforehand. And she does get kind of startled 00:27:58.069 --> 00:28:01.569 about the phone ringing. It's Roy's mom who is 00:28:01.569 --> 00:28:03.910 calling and said he still hasn't gotten home 00:28:03.910 --> 00:28:07.130 from school. Has anybody seen him? Of course 00:28:07.130 --> 00:28:10.950 they haven't seen him. Paul... Doesn't think 00:28:10.950 --> 00:28:13.509 anything of it. He didn't realize anything at 00:28:13.509 --> 00:28:15.730 this point because he just saw Adam's bike by 00:28:15.730 --> 00:28:19.990 the stream. He doesn't know that Roy was also 00:28:19.990 --> 00:28:24.049 there. Adam has another night tear and they're 00:28:24.049 --> 00:28:25.829 just like, OK, we need to bring him in for testing. 00:28:26.009 --> 00:28:28.789 So they bring him to Dr. Richard. And while he 00:28:28.789 --> 00:28:31.390 is dreaming, he admits the name Zachary Clark 00:28:31.390 --> 00:28:34.970 at St. Pius and that all the other kids think 00:28:34.970 --> 00:28:38.710 that Adam is Zachary. To try to get him to snap 00:28:38.710 --> 00:28:43.210 out of it, Paul is yelling Adam, Adam. Adam, 00:28:43.250 --> 00:28:48.269 Adam. He's yelling Adam at the boy. And finally, 00:28:48.269 --> 00:28:50.750 to get him to snap out of it, Dr. Richards says, 00:28:50.789 --> 00:28:54.930 Zachary Clark. And Adam just kind of comes to. 00:28:56.769 --> 00:28:59.759 Basically, he thinks that. Dr. Richard is hiding 00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:02.759 something. So to get him to admit it, Paul threatens 00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:05.480 to tell the world what he has done, like what 00:29:05.480 --> 00:29:07.819 he has been doing at the Godsend Institute and 00:29:07.819 --> 00:29:10.660 everything like that. And Dr. Richard looks at 00:29:10.660 --> 00:29:14.680 him and goes, what we've done, Paul. Realizing 00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:17.079 that he's kind of beat at this point, Paul gets 00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:19.700 his family and they start driving back. They 00:29:19.700 --> 00:29:22.019 start driving past the stream. And as they're 00:29:22.019 --> 00:29:25.099 driving past, the police are pulling Roy's dead 00:29:25.099 --> 00:29:30.000 body out of the water. Paul's now convinced that 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:32.420 because he saw Adam's bike at the stream the 00:29:32.420 --> 00:29:35.460 other day and because Roy disappeared and Roy 00:29:35.460 --> 00:29:39.980 is like one of his bullies, he's like, oh, Adam 00:29:39.980 --> 00:29:44.619 did this. And the only reason he got away with 00:29:44.619 --> 00:29:48.099 it is because the other boys saw Roy by the stream 00:29:48.099 --> 00:29:51.519 showing off and they just think he fell in, you 00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:53.279 know, hit his head or something like that. They 00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:58.880 don't think anybody did anything. Adam gets away 00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:01.640 with it scot -free. All right, we're going to 00:30:01.640 --> 00:30:03.500 take a quick break. And by taking a quick break, 00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:05.339 we're going to give a shout out to our friend 00:30:05.339 --> 00:30:09.279 Josh from Your Next Favorite Movie. So he's not 00:30:09.279 --> 00:30:11.440 been podcasting as much as he used to in the 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:14.779 past, but his podcast was Your Next Favorite 00:30:14.779 --> 00:30:17.400 Movie. You can follow him on X slash Twitter 00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:20.819 slash whatever the fuck we're calling it at YNF 00:30:20.819 --> 00:30:25.180 Movie Pod. That's YNF Movie Pod or Your Next 00:30:25.180 --> 00:30:28.900 Favorite Movie Pod. And Josh still plays around, 00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:31.299 even though he hasn't been podcasting as much 00:30:31.299 --> 00:30:33.539 lately, still plays around, guesses on the guessing 00:30:33.539 --> 00:30:35.960 game. And we're always happy to give him a shout 00:30:35.960 --> 00:30:38.619 out because he's such a good dude. And so there 00:30:38.619 --> 00:30:40.539 you go, Josh. Congratulations on getting it. 00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:42.619 I know you haven't seen the movie, but you figured 00:30:42.619 --> 00:30:45.299 it out anyway. So congratulations. Here's your 00:30:45.299 --> 00:30:48.599 shout out for the movie Godsend. So congratulations, 00:30:48.819 --> 00:30:51.779 Josh. So now that Paul is convinced that Adam 00:30:51.779 --> 00:30:56.079 has killed a kid now, he needs to go to the city. 00:30:56.519 --> 00:30:59.480 and figure out more about Zachary Clark because 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:02.299 all of his answers are in the city. It definitely 00:31:02.299 --> 00:31:05.980 is in the city. And so he drives to St. Pius, 00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:09.619 which is the school. It has been closed for a 00:31:09.619 --> 00:31:13.500 while, and Paul breaks into the school. Essentially, 00:31:13.539 --> 00:31:16.059 what Paul discovers is that the reason the school 00:31:16.059 --> 00:31:18.359 closed was there was a fire there that occurred, 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:21.500 and it's just like in Adam slash Zachary's picture 00:31:21.500 --> 00:31:24.140 that he's been drawing and his vision that he's 00:31:24.140 --> 00:31:28.420 been having. including there is a perfect copy 00:31:28.420 --> 00:31:30.480 of that drawing hanging on the wall in the school 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.059 that just so happened to not burn down. So he's 00:31:33.059 --> 00:31:36.140 able to see this picture that his son has been 00:31:36.140 --> 00:31:39.359 drawing, that he's been recreating from his vision. 00:31:39.859 --> 00:31:42.660 So now he's figured out that St. Pius has been 00:31:42.660 --> 00:31:45.079 burnt down and everything like that. So he decides, 00:31:45.259 --> 00:31:48.140 okay, maybe I'll get more answers at Zachary 00:31:48.140 --> 00:31:52.119 Clark's house. What he finds at the house was 00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:55.259 that it was burnt down and it now has new owners 00:31:55.259 --> 00:31:58.680 that rebuilt it. Now, the new owners don't really 00:31:58.680 --> 00:32:01.500 know anything about the Clark family, especially 00:32:01.500 --> 00:32:05.099 Zachary, but they do know that there was a nanny 00:32:05.099 --> 00:32:07.019 who used to work there before it burned down. 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:10.220 Her name's Cora Williams, and Paul is able to 00:32:10.220 --> 00:32:14.180 find her and go ask her some questions. So when 00:32:14.180 --> 00:32:16.259 he's talking to Cora, she was talking about how 00:32:16.259 --> 00:32:18.619 Zachary would be bullied all the time and he 00:32:18.619 --> 00:32:21.819 would start acting up. And then he started the 00:32:21.819 --> 00:32:27.440 fire. After the fire, Cora kind of sensed that 00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:30.059 this kid, something was not right with him and 00:32:30.059 --> 00:32:33.200 that Cora knew she had to do something. So she 00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:35.400 tried to strangle him with the shower curtain 00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:39.599 and couldn't do it. Like she couldn't, she couldn't 00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:43.640 kill the kid. And I mean, yeah. totally understand 00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:46.839 that thought uh i wouldn't be able to do it either 00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:50.380 but zachary didn't say anything about it so cora 00:32:50.380 --> 00:32:52.619 and zachary just had this secret but she just 00:32:52.619 --> 00:32:57.720 stopped kind of working for them so she didn't 00:32:57.720 --> 00:33:01.640 come in the next day that next day zachary killed 00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:04.900 her uh his mother with a hammer and then set 00:33:04.900 --> 00:33:07.859 a fire in the house to hide any evidence and 00:33:07.859 --> 00:33:11.769 he ended up dying in that fire and basically, 00:33:11.829 --> 00:33:14.150 like, what about the father? Like, where was 00:33:14.150 --> 00:33:16.910 the father? And she goes, he was at the hospital, 00:33:17.049 --> 00:33:20.470 like always. And Paul's like, he was a doctor? 00:33:20.809 --> 00:33:24.210 And Cora goes, yes, but seemed more like a scientist 00:33:24.210 --> 00:33:27.329 to me. And this is when Tubi decided to take 00:33:27.329 --> 00:33:29.829 a commercial break. They had just broken the 00:33:29.829 --> 00:33:32.970 case, essentially. They now know that the father 00:33:32.970 --> 00:33:37.829 was a doctor or a scientist and wasn't there. 00:33:38.490 --> 00:33:40.690 When the mother was killed with the hammer. And 00:33:40.690 --> 00:33:44.430 when Zachary died in the fire. Paul is driving 00:33:44.430 --> 00:33:46.410 back from the city. And he leaves a message for 00:33:46.410 --> 00:33:51.549 Jesse. Basically saying. Get away from Adam. 00:33:52.069 --> 00:33:54.950 Something's about to happen. Find Dr. Richard. 00:33:56.150 --> 00:33:59.130 But Jesse can't answer the phone. Because she 00:33:59.130 --> 00:34:01.529 is in the dark room. Where she found new Adam. 00:34:01.809 --> 00:34:06.490 Who has the pictures of first Adam. He was able 00:34:06.490 --> 00:34:12.909 to open the safe. And now is kind of like scaring 00:34:12.909 --> 00:34:17.690 Jesse. So she freaks out and she smashes the 00:34:17.690 --> 00:34:20.110 one light bulb in the room. So it's just in the 00:34:20.110 --> 00:34:22.349 dark while he's like having to talk with her. 00:34:22.929 --> 00:34:25.389 And we now learn that Zachary kind of has taken 00:34:25.389 --> 00:34:27.849 over. There's no more Adam. This is Zachary. 00:34:29.409 --> 00:34:32.130 Paul knows exactly where to find Dr. Richard, 00:34:32.230 --> 00:34:34.530 apparently, and drives to the funeral for the 00:34:34.530 --> 00:34:38.309 boy, Roy. Basically, Dr. Richard was there because 00:34:38.309 --> 00:34:42.429 he was trying to get the family to try to recreate 00:34:42.429 --> 00:34:45.429 Roy and use the Godsend Institute and everything 00:34:45.429 --> 00:34:50.090 like that. Paul starts yelling at Dr. Richard 00:34:50.090 --> 00:34:54.329 and Dr. Richard admits that he messed with the 00:34:54.329 --> 00:34:57.150 genes to try to bring Zachary back. And now he 00:34:57.150 --> 00:35:00.630 is reverting to Zachary. And this is all because 00:35:00.630 --> 00:35:04.639 Dr. Richard is the father. who wasn't there when 00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:09.119 Zachary killed his wife slash his mother slash 00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:13.860 Zachary's mother. And now he's trying to bring 00:35:13.860 --> 00:35:16.960 Zachary back. Paul says he's going to the police. 00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:20.699 And there's just, if he gets arrested, fine, 00:35:20.980 --> 00:35:25.500 whatever. But Dr. Richard is able to hit him 00:35:25.500 --> 00:35:27.920 with a large object and leaves him to die in 00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:32.840 the church because he set it on fire. And mind 00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:35.780 you, this church was just filled with mourners. 00:35:36.059 --> 00:35:39.579 Like there was just up 40 people at least that 00:35:39.579 --> 00:35:42.559 were in this church. They didn't have this conversation 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:46.940 just alone after everybody had left the church. 00:35:47.579 --> 00:35:49.320 Basically, there was still a bunch of people 00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:51.079 in there and they were having this conversation. 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.559 Yet it's now empty and it's on fire and Paul 00:35:55.559 --> 00:35:59.380 is now left for dead while Dr. Richard kind of 00:35:59.380 --> 00:36:03.360 gets away with it. Adam slash Zachary now has 00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:06.699 run out of the dark room and just runs to the 00:36:06.699 --> 00:36:09.739 woods. Jesse is trying to follow him and she 00:36:09.739 --> 00:36:12.039 just keeps yelling out Adam in like this really 00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:15.119 cheesy way. But she finds the shed and she goes 00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:20.340 in. It's essentially a shot for shot of the vision 00:36:20.340 --> 00:36:26.800 and Jesse in the shed where basically. she turns 00:36:26.800 --> 00:36:30.599 around to see Zachary slash Adam with a hammer 00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:34.900 about to kill her. Although this time Adam has 00:36:34.900 --> 00:36:39.139 an ax instead of a hammer. So we think that Jesse 00:36:39.139 --> 00:36:41.860 is going to die, but somehow Paul was able to 00:36:41.860 --> 00:36:44.559 regain consciousness and get all the way to the 00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:47.500 shed to catch the ax before Adam swings on Jesse. 00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:51.519 Catching the ax was able to like break Adam out 00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:53.739 of his trance as Zachary. Now he was able to 00:36:53.739 --> 00:36:56.260 take control again. And then it just goes to 00:36:56.260 --> 00:36:59.820 six months later. There's news position, news 00:36:59.820 --> 00:37:03.360 exposition of the Dr. Richard escaping and disappearing. 00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:07.820 The family is moving to a new house because they 00:37:07.820 --> 00:37:09.900 don't want to live in that town anymore. And 00:37:09.900 --> 00:37:12.960 because, I mean, let's face it, the only way 00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:14.719 they could afford it was because of Dr. Richard 00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:16.900 and everything like that. So they're moving to 00:37:16.900 --> 00:37:20.099 a new house. Adam is working with some new doctors 00:37:20.099 --> 00:37:25.360 who say this change will be good for him. They 00:37:25.360 --> 00:37:28.840 also admit that he seems depressed, like he seems 00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:32.239 depressed, but he's not like this might be good 00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:34.059 for him. He might be able to snap out of it, 00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:37.880 make new friends, start all over as Adam with 00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:42.119 no more Zachary. So Adam's in his room kind of 00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:44.260 like exploring and everything like that. And 00:37:44.260 --> 00:37:48.159 all of a sudden he hears the closet. There's 00:37:48.159 --> 00:37:52.800 something in the closet. And so he walks that 00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:57.289 way. And he opens it up, and there's nothing 00:37:57.289 --> 00:38:01.869 there. Cool. We're good. Adam has control again. 00:38:03.210 --> 00:38:08.309 And then he turns around, and you see the red 00:38:08.309 --> 00:38:11.010 and white letterman jacket pull him into the 00:38:11.010 --> 00:38:14.590 closet and close the door. I thought that was 00:38:14.590 --> 00:38:16.309 the end of the movie. I thought that was it. 00:38:16.650 --> 00:38:22.679 But no, whoever walks out, walks out. And we're 00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:25.260 left to question if it's Adam or Zachary in control 00:38:25.260 --> 00:38:29.760 now. And that's it. That is Godsend. Overall, 00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:34.699 this movie's... I mean, it's not good, obviously. 00:38:36.099 --> 00:38:40.940 Especially with a 4 % and a 20%. It's a lot of 00:38:40.940 --> 00:38:44.880 ham -fisted dialogue. I think that's my main 00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:48.849 problem with it. It's just like... When everybody 00:38:48.849 --> 00:38:51.050 has these feelings, they just say what they're 00:38:51.050 --> 00:38:53.590 feeling instead of just doing it and everything 00:38:53.590 --> 00:38:55.690 like that. There's no acting. There's all this 00:38:55.690 --> 00:38:59.070 speaking about it and then acting. So you know 00:38:59.070 --> 00:39:00.829 exactly what everybody's thinking and everything 00:39:00.829 --> 00:39:03.670 like that. That's my biggest problem with it. 00:39:03.889 --> 00:39:09.690 The acting is wooden. Nobody does a good job 00:39:09.690 --> 00:39:13.809 acting in this movie. It's tough because a lot 00:39:13.809 --> 00:39:15.630 of these guys, especially somebody like Greg 00:39:15.630 --> 00:39:17.690 Kinnear, I actually really like as an actor. 00:39:17.809 --> 00:39:20.070 So it's tough to see him in this. I think he's 00:39:20.070 --> 00:39:23.469 trying, but it just comes across as so wooden 00:39:23.469 --> 00:39:26.170 because it's so melodramatic, his character, 00:39:26.170 --> 00:39:28.710 the whole time. Every time there's something 00:39:28.710 --> 00:39:34.730 with him, it's so dramatic. There's no playing. 00:39:35.389 --> 00:39:39.309 He always has something happen and he's just 00:39:39.309 --> 00:39:43.579 like, oh. god adam's adam's fucked up oh this 00:39:43.579 --> 00:39:45.780 is so bad this is so bad i gotta do something 00:39:45.780 --> 00:39:47.980 about this i gotta do this i gotta do that i 00:39:47.980 --> 00:39:50.760 gotta go talk to richard i gotta go go to the 00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:53.039 city i gotta go figure out who the zachary kid 00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:57.480 is there's always something where it's like it's 00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:00.400 just one note he's always the dramatic melodrama 00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:03.059 guy and everything like that and maybe that's 00:40:03.059 --> 00:40:08.460 it for all these characters kind of um The only 00:40:08.460 --> 00:40:10.460 one who probably has a little bit of depth is 00:40:10.460 --> 00:40:13.360 Adam, more so because we see scenes of him having 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:16.300 fun and then we see scenes of him struggling 00:40:16.300 --> 00:40:19.360 with the fact that Zachary is taking over. So 00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:23.139 it's tough because all of these characters are 00:40:23.139 --> 00:40:28.940 kind of like one note. Jesse is either just depressed 00:40:28.940 --> 00:40:36.860 or she's skeptical or... She's scared like those. 00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:39.300 And that's the thing. It's all base level stuff 00:40:39.300 --> 00:40:42.079 with that. It's all base level emotions. There's 00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:46.900 no depth to these characters. And that's. Now, 00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:48.460 I keep saying that's what the problem is and 00:40:48.460 --> 00:40:49.940 everything like that, but that's truly what it 00:40:49.940 --> 00:40:52.840 is. It's I think that's why this movie fails. 00:40:53.019 --> 00:40:57.119 I honestly think the idea is kind of fun. It's 00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:00.179 not like it's something we've seen before. It's 00:41:00.179 --> 00:41:03.539 something we'll probably constantly see. But. 00:41:04.170 --> 00:41:09.130 I think it's a decent idea of a movie. That's 00:41:09.130 --> 00:41:11.530 another thing that works against it in this case 00:41:11.530 --> 00:41:17.530 is the fact that it is a little basic. Like, 00:41:17.530 --> 00:41:20.610 you know what's kind of going to happen. None 00:41:20.610 --> 00:41:25.110 of this felt surprising. The big reveal was supposed 00:41:25.110 --> 00:41:27.989 to be that the father of Zachary was Dr. Richard. 00:41:28.309 --> 00:41:31.829 And you always knew Dr. Richard had something 00:41:31.829 --> 00:41:34.400 to do with this. There was always something about 00:41:34.400 --> 00:41:37.559 him. You never thought he was innocent. You always 00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:40.719 knew whatever was going to happen at the end 00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:45.619 was going to be because of his doing. Or he was 00:41:45.619 --> 00:41:49.199 going to do something sleazy. Because again, 00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:51.920 in the middle, I thought it was more so that 00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:54.900 he was going to try to make a move on Jesse. 00:41:55.840 --> 00:41:58.159 I didn't really think it was going to be, oh, 00:41:58.260 --> 00:42:03.599 I tried to recreate my kid. You always knew there 00:42:03.599 --> 00:42:07.559 was something that was going to be the moment 00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:11.460 when that happened. So that's one of the issues, 00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:16.280 too, is that it really is, okay, you're on this 00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:20.900 line of this movie, and kind of the whole line 00:42:20.900 --> 00:42:24.000 of this movie, you know where you're going. Like, 00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:29.949 it's A to Z, and by part C, you know... what's 00:42:29.949 --> 00:42:32.710 going to happen by part STU, you know, like that 00:42:32.710 --> 00:42:34.690 kind of thing. I don't know if that's a good 00:42:34.690 --> 00:42:36.309 way to explain it, but that's kind of what it 00:42:36.309 --> 00:42:39.670 felt like where I knew something was going to 00:42:39.670 --> 00:42:41.610 happen with the doctor. Maybe I didn't guess 00:42:41.610 --> 00:42:44.789 it amazingly well, but I always knew there was 00:42:44.789 --> 00:42:47.030 going to be something with the doctor. You always 00:42:47.030 --> 00:42:51.050 kind of knew that Adam was going to be fine by 00:42:51.050 --> 00:42:53.809 the end of this. And truthfully, you kind of 00:42:53.809 --> 00:42:56.690 also thought that Jesse and Paul would be okay 00:42:56.690 --> 00:43:01.809 too. At least Paul, because Paul the whole time 00:43:01.809 --> 00:43:03.989 always had something where he's like, I need 00:43:03.989 --> 00:43:05.909 to do this. I need to do that. I need to do this. 00:43:06.110 --> 00:43:08.469 So you always knew that Paul was probably going 00:43:08.469 --> 00:43:10.650 to make it through. Jesse could have gone either 00:43:10.650 --> 00:43:12.570 way, but I thought she was pretty much safe. 00:43:13.630 --> 00:43:15.389 And that's the thing. I think it was predictable. 00:43:16.150 --> 00:43:24.050 Was it bad? Yes. Was it terrible? No. It's. Exactly 00:43:24.050 --> 00:43:26.750 like how The Curse of Downers Grove was. The 00:43:26.750 --> 00:43:28.590 first three quarters of the movie were pretty 00:43:28.590 --> 00:43:32.590 decent. It had me kind of interested. This was 00:43:32.590 --> 00:43:35.449 kind of interesting. It was a decent enough idea. 00:43:35.869 --> 00:43:39.650 But the execution was just poor. And it was predictable. 00:43:39.909 --> 00:43:43.070 And that kind of made it fall a little flat. 00:43:43.489 --> 00:43:46.070 And then the performances on top of it didn't 00:43:46.070 --> 00:43:50.730 help anything. So overall, it could have been 00:43:50.730 --> 00:43:58.480 worse. I don't think it deserves a 4%. 20 % probably 00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:01.000 right around there. That's probably a little 00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:06.059 more what it deserved. Just because, like I said, 00:44:06.099 --> 00:44:09.780 it was predictable. It wasn't scary. And that's 00:44:09.780 --> 00:44:11.639 part of another issue if you're going to call 00:44:11.639 --> 00:44:14.599 it a horror movie. There's no real scares in 00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:18.739 it. The only scary thing I think was the end 00:44:18.739 --> 00:44:22.280 with the closet. And that was more so because 00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:25.699 really because I wasn't paying attention anymore. 00:44:25.820 --> 00:44:27.760 And all of a sudden that just loud noise happened. 00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:32.500 But that one was a little more out of nowhere. 00:44:32.619 --> 00:44:36.579 And I was I was OK with that. I think that was 00:44:36.579 --> 00:44:38.400 probably something that I was I was a little 00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:41.659 more for was the ending there. I think that was 00:44:41.659 --> 00:44:44.019 the best scare. But even that, like it was kind 00:44:44.019 --> 00:44:46.920 of predictable on that, too. So no real scares. 00:44:48.010 --> 00:44:51.530 Predictable story. Wooden acting. Sucks because 00:44:51.530 --> 00:44:54.269 I do like Greg Kinnear a lot. Rebecca remains 00:44:54.269 --> 00:44:57.670 fine. Robert De Niro, take him or leave him in 00:44:57.670 --> 00:45:00.230 certain movies. This one probably could have 00:45:00.230 --> 00:45:04.869 left him. And Cameron Bright as Adam slash Zachary 00:45:04.869 --> 00:45:07.590 was pretty okay. Definitely could have been a 00:45:07.590 --> 00:45:11.940 lot worse. I said 20 % Rotten Tomatoes score 00:45:11.940 --> 00:45:13.780 feels about right, so I guess that brings me 00:45:13.780 --> 00:45:21.219 to a 1 out of 5 genes turned on versus off. I 00:45:21.219 --> 00:45:23.079 guess that's fair, right? Because 1 out of 5 00:45:23.079 --> 00:45:26.239 is 20%. Yeah, that's about right on the math. 00:45:28.300 --> 00:45:32.000 It wasn't great. It wasn't awful. Just kind of 00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:35.639 one of those things where it was there. This 00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:39.210 is a movie that existed. I can definitely see 00:45:39.210 --> 00:45:41.170 why a lot of people don't know about it. I can 00:45:41.170 --> 00:45:45.130 see why it fell through the cracks. And I can 00:45:45.130 --> 00:45:47.670 see why this is not one I'm going to watch again 00:45:47.670 --> 00:45:56.510 next year during Halloween time. So, yeah, that's 00:45:56.510 --> 00:46:01.070 my thoughts on Godsend. That's my thoughts on 00:46:01.070 --> 00:46:03.269 Godsend. I'm not going to recommend anybody see 00:46:03.269 --> 00:46:09.150 it. like i said it was fine it was they set out 00:46:09.150 --> 00:46:14.449 they made this movie i wish it would have been 00:46:14.449 --> 00:46:17.150 less predictable because i do think it's a fun 00:46:17.150 --> 00:46:23.909 idea but overall predictable and and that's what 00:46:23.909 --> 00:46:26.650 hurt it and that's what's going to constantly 00:46:26.650 --> 00:46:29.829 hurt it is that it's predictable you you kind 00:46:29.829 --> 00:46:32.210 of know right away off the bat what you're gonna 00:46:32.210 --> 00:46:37.489 get so Yeah, that's week two of spoopy season 00:46:37.489 --> 00:46:41.250 for the Game for a Movie podcast. If you have 00:46:41.250 --> 00:46:43.489 some bad movies you want to send our way, find 00:46:43.489 --> 00:46:47.530 us everywhere at Game for a Movie. We are taking 00:46:47.530 --> 00:46:50.630 bad movie suggestions always because I always 00:46:50.630 --> 00:46:52.190 write them down, even if I don't get to them 00:46:52.190 --> 00:46:55.789 right away. We have another spoopy episode coming 00:46:55.789 --> 00:46:58.550 out next week or the week after. Like I said, 00:46:58.570 --> 00:47:02.719 I'm dealing with a newborn. Production is a little 00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:04.900 more slowed down. I'm trying to get back on a 00:47:04.900 --> 00:47:08.699 rhythm, but I do have at least four movies planned, 00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:12.300 even if it falls sometime into November. The 00:47:12.300 --> 00:47:16.840 next one, I got Claire to watch with me, and 00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:19.840 that's kind of something that I'm shocked by. 00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:24.659 But yeah, so she might hop on as well. We'll 00:47:24.659 --> 00:47:26.760 see. I might get her thoughts on the next one 00:47:26.760 --> 00:47:30.300 we did. I'm looking forward to that one because 00:47:30.300 --> 00:47:34.880 it... it has some fun on it so uh yeah we'll 00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:38.280 talk about that one for next week's episode but 00:47:38.280 --> 00:47:40.119 thank you guys for tuning in to listen to me 00:47:40.119 --> 00:47:42.659 talk about godsend i've been your host mike on 00:47:42.659 --> 00:47:44.619 the game for a movie podcast where we ask are 00:47:44.619 --> 00:47:46.760 you game for a movie i'll see you next time