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Welcome everybody to the Polarized Podcast. This is a

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podcast about polarizing movies, polarizing movies in the sense

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of Rotten Tomato scores. You know, the movies we discussed on this,

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sometimes critics love it, and audiences hate it, or vice versa.

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And yeah, that's that's what we cover on this pod. Today in

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particular, that polarizing movie is the 2006 sequel, Underworld

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Evolution. It has a critic score of 17% and an audience score of

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72%. Quite polarizing today on the pod, this is going to be a

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pretty special episode. I'm taking it from Couchside. I might

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pace around as I just contemplate my life and how I

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feel about movies like this and this movie in particular. Yeah,

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that's where we're at. I am not going to be the only one though,

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talking about this. I'm sure those returning will understand

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and know this is a this is what they call in the movie business

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is two hander. And I'm sure they probably call it the same in the

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podcasting business. I would like to introduce my guest forever

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guest in particular. And my forever guest and always host.

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Yes. Mr. James Lindsay, how's it going?

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Forever guests always host. I like the my guest forever. That

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had some sort of romantic longing to it.

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Yeah, well, I'm gonna kiss you.

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Franta just get me. Oh, I kiss you. I kiss you. This is an

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amiable relationship.

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Yeah. This is getting spicy already.

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I mean, you're already on the couch.

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It's a sexy movie. And you know what, it's already getting kind

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of sexy in here.

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God damn it. It is sexy. They are really steaming up in this

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movie. Those those

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even up in this film. I would actually though things have

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evolved. This podcast has evolved.

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Starting from the desk, move to the couch.

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Now,

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started from the desk, move to the couch, started from the

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desk.

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Oh, now we're getting up. We're getting up. Where are we going?

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Brandon?

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Where are we going?

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Brandon? I'm already conservatively. What would I

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say? Two seconds for me to get so hella jazzed to be on this

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podcast with my good buddy talking about a movie I think

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is okay. Yeah, I'm already I'm already standing up. But before

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we get into the pod, proper or get in the movie proper is what

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I should say. Let's do a little check in.

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This is just the two of us today.

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We have a little opportunity to check in, you know, not try to

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get people in here so we can talk with them. We're gonna just

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talk us a little bit.

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Very intimate this this episode.

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Yeah, it's sexy.

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James, I have a question for you.

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What? What have you been watching?

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What have I been watching? What have I been watching? Um, well,

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I'm so glad you asked brandini. I have been watching again. I've

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been trying to get through. I started it but didn't finish it

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last time. So I want to try again. Neon Genesis, Evangelion.

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tribe that multiple times. I'm hopefully stick with it because

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it's not bad.

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I'm halfway through it. Yeah, I just hit hit. It's a 26 episode.

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At least the portion that's there on Netflix and I know

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there's other side stuff that I'll get the calls after that.

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And I hit the half point and right at that point, there's a

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whole episode that's an entire flashback to the first half of

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the season. So anything that you miss is just like, here's what

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happened in the first 13 episodes. Classic anime. So I

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mean, especially if you're watching it on TV at the time,

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that must must have been real nice of like, oh, okay, like I

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I missed some of those other part portions. So this is a nice

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little way to to get into it before the second second half

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begins. So that's so I feel like I can power through to the end

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and I'm I'm ready to go. It reminded me a lot of underworld

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underworld evolution.

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You must have loved that. Just little little voiceover after

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little different. It was a little different in this one. I don't

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No, it was perfect. Yeah, no, it was perfect. Yeah, you just

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like, shake the camera around a bit make it really fuzzy do a

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lot of like, filters, processing bullshit to make it be like,

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this is like a memory in your mind because that's what it

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looks like on the screen. That's how memories look in your mind.

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Yes. What else have I been watching? Yeah, I've been going

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through the David Lynch stuff. We watched Mulholland Drive

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together. That was that was fun.

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categorizing among the masterpiece. I think it's I'm

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so glad you feel that way. I wasn't really wasn't sure how

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you're going to feel about that movie.

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so much of it, I can coming out of it immediately. I was like,

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wow, that didn't make a lot of sense. But it just again, like

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the beauty of a David Lynch movie is that it's when you stop

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trying to make sense when you stop making sense.

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Oh, another David. Another David.

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Okay, David. Another David.

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It just is. It's just such like.

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and I appreciated it a lot more.

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I know not that because really, I felt like I watched it for the

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first time. I just appreciate that of the movie that.

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It I love the idea of it forcing you to relinquish your preconceived

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notions or your want and desire to make sense of something and

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to just let it be its thing and just accept it on its own terms.

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Because I think that's such a wonderful mental exercise for

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everybody to do as a person. And I just love the ethos of a David

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Lynch movie in that regard is that it is like not it doesn't

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behoove you to try to figure it out. It behooves you to just sit

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with it and enjoy it and just take it for what it is and not

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need to, you know, apply all this meaning to something that,

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you know, your own perspective, your own conclusions to it and

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just accept it for what it is. And that's such a great message

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to put out in the world that like I'm OK with being a weirdo

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person and only caring about the things that I think are

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interesting. And you don't have to watch this movie. You it's not

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a requirement in life, even though I think it should be.

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There might be a quiz. I don't know. There might be a quiz on

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it later, folks. So be ready for that.

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Be ready.

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Yeah, like the entirety of life will be summed up and all right.

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Did you watch my Holland Drive? Here's that quiz.

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Oh, my God. That just makes me think of I just got to the point

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in Silent Hill 2 remake where I just got done. That's another

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fun section. What do you bleed?

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What do you play in the hospital section where I am now in the

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underworld, but now I'm leaving the hospital and.

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game that hospital. Holy shit.

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That's a big, big section.

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you over on the intercom, there's

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here is the questions and the answers.

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You're going to be asked later.

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You're not being asked now.

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I'm not saying like, tell me what is the street that you take

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to get to this place.

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Here are the potential answers.

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It gives you a B and C.

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I want to say, and then you just.

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because it puts an emphasis too on like, if you don't remember

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this and fuck up the the answer when these questions are asked,

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it's going to hurt you.

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Specifically emphasizes you are going to be in pain if you

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answer this incorrectly.

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And it was just so interesting to be presented with questions

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and answers, but then not need to answer them now.

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You don't need to try to get to an answer.

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You can't answer it.

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You're not going to be able to answer it.

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So you're going to get to the answer now.

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future contest or quiz that you're going to have.

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There's there's game.

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I mean, that's an awesome concept and a,

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is puzzles within video games and that game coupled with yeah Resident Evil the the remakes I've been going through of that and

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and also seven and eight the newer ones have like

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invigorated a love for puzzles in me, especially in silent to or like

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Gearing up for that now. I don't know like the last couple of times. I've had puzzles in that game

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I feel like I'm looking forward to it when I see a new puzzle that I'm gonna have to figure out like

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It's almost excited where it would be very much frustration before of seeing a puzzle

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You don't understand at first. I mean like how the fuck am I gonna finish that figure that this out and finish this out

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However many however amount of time is going to make complete sense to me and that's kind of exciting to be like

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I'm gonna hit that point, you know relatively soon with how this pace the pace of this game has been going already

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where I'm gonna figure it's out and this isn't this is gonna make complete sense and

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it is worth running around this hellscape to find all these clues and

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but that's I'm glad I really like you brought that up because that's a conversation that

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Of this podcast who have both have experienced the game both together

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I remember I had watched like the videos of that game

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But never played it and I watched you play it played a bit

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but now yeah playing the

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The remake and and going through that both of us kind of at the same time has been very satisfying after

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that's thinking that like

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the good parts of that movie

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Really are the best parts of the of the game and and and there are so many

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so many good portions and good aspects of the idea of Silent Hill that

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Mahalan dry sort of thing, which I think makes the mystery that much sweeter

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Sloth and misery often and this video game not only told that through text but

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So just recently in order to get out of the hospital. There was a box that was connected to four different locks. Two of them were chains that go into

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Places where you had to follow them and unlock the like disable the chain, essentially. And then there's two like actual locks like one one is like a stereotypical like locker lock where you have to like there's four numbers on it or whatever.

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A piece of paper and note that they left and it just says like I was here for this long in, you know, and I just recognize this thing.

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And then I was taking forcibly being taken this thing and all of those are quantities of something and then those quantities add up to the combination for the love that stuff. And you're just like quick little simple math like and then

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Yeah, I mean,

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Like, oh, I remember I do that.

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Yeah, I mean, we're talking about a combination that's like

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1622

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It's just the matter of the secret of it. Yeah. It's the matter of the secret of it. And there's a room where, you know, you have to count.

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How many dark time like

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You have to count when a light flashes. How many time a light flashes and that's part of the combination.

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And right. Yes. So cool. How do they do that? Of like, you know, I was scared of the darkness.

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I'm stuck in this room. And then here's the paper that goes the combination is me counting the darkness taking these pills being in this prison for so long. And then you're like, wow. So through this whole story of somebody who existed in the space, I am now coming up with the combination of like 1922 and that is just

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Awesome. Yeah, it's, it's

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morose as well. It's very, very dark. But then it's interesting to have those satisfying elements attached to it when it's such a such a horror show to

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Oh, absolutely. And like the sense of urgency is so nice. Like,

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there's so many games where I'll be in a lot a lot of games will be like, we're going to put you in a lush landscape of an open world where

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you know, birds are chirping and everything feels like alive and beautiful and then

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you to give that same dedicated treatment to appear nightmare is a different appreciation that I've come to in some horror games.

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Yeah, well, just like horror game horror movies as well like that. We've been into is to the dedication that it takes into constructing a nightmare is a is something that doesn't come naturally to me. I'm not sure if that'd be the first thing that I would

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know. I don't know. I get the merit in it. Definitely. But like, yeah, just like, yeah, just just to

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I recognize what you're saying. Yeah.

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Yeah, totally. And so like running around and seeing how the puzzles how well the puzzles are thought out and how well constructed the world is, even though the world is in itself very rusty and dank and dirty and bloody horrific and bubbling and trash and beeping and stuff.

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Yeah, the sound effects and everything is like just being here.

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It's not enjoyable like in the sense that it's like, but then as you know, your role playing and as the character in the game as you're playing it's a role playing game. You're like, I need to get the fuck out of here.

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You know, which is adds a real sense of humor to the game.

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And playing this one and a few other horror ones like Resident Evil, like I said, or Dead Space was a big one for me. I just blew through that one. Once I finally blew through that one too.

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It's not so long of a game, but it's just such like a tight experience and it feels cinematic in its way and truly terrifying where I almost feel like if you spend too long in there, you will get burnt out and you won't finish the story so quickly.

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It's not so long of a game, but it's just such like a tight experience and it feels cinematic in its way and truly terrifying where I almost feel like if you spend too long in there, you will get burnt out and you won't finish the story.

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So I think it behooves these kind of games to have like a somewhat tight play time, but it's also a real, real genre that I've come to appreciate later on. I'm not as much of a scaredy baby, but maybe, you know, I still have that side of myself too.

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I still kind of like walking into those rooms in Silent Hill, man.

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And then like just, yeah, because it's like the way the way something you have to like go, you have to touch the door.

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There's not, there's plenty of action games where it's like you stand a little bit away from it and you press A or X or whatever.

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And then you open the door with Silent Hill. You just like run into the door and then the door is going to open up with you entering into the room.

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And it's just, it looks silly from a visual standpoint, but it really does.

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It's the feel of it, which is really interesting because a part of the game too, which is really fun to see people talking on Reddit about the remake, because I was curious on the Silent Hill.

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Because again, like we're talking about a remake of a legendary, like it's for people who aren't video gamers, like Silent Hill 2 is a monumental video game.

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It defined a genre. It introduced concepts like we're talking about the new one, like iterating on, but like communicated dark, dark concepts of human psyche and existence into a video game, which is typically like, I mean, God, most people leave into the state.

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And to this day, you think of video games as being like Mario and Minecraft and Fortnite and things like that, where it's always like action, colorful, you know, shooting and you know, whatever games and or platforming games.

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And Silent Hill is all about like the journey into madness. Yeah, somebody could go down through extreme situations in their life and how they react to them and whatnot.

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Because not only is it your main character going through, working through something as you start to realize through playing it, it's like working through something, you know, I mean, I guess you could surmise that from the get go, but it really starts to like make sense to you as the player and the viewer.

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Everybody here is working through something. Yeah, that's that's everybody here has something, a secret.

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There's something that they did. They have this guilt. They have this like, yeah, I don't know, a determination for reconciling something that they just haven't been able to reconcile in their own life.

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And it's scary and unsettling. And video games typically aren't like that.

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Even with Resident Evil, like they arguably were quick to abandon the psychological element of it and lean more into the action of it all. Yeah, for sure.

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And Silent Hills, the franchise has never done that. There's definitely been varying degrees of like competency in making the game. But as a series, nonetheless, like it still remains a standard bearer of psychological horror video games.

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And that's a really niche thing that I think at times has the potential just like with horror movies to broader films like, you know, horror and and yeah, just is important.

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And I think that's something both of us have talked at length about coming to recognize more and more, especially through doing this podcast as we watch more and more horror movies is this like idea of at first being like, oh, the you know, I don't like being scared.

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I don't see the merit of that. I also recognize that most of them are like cheaply made and don't have a lot of artistic integrity.

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But then as we've just gotten more and more into the genre, it's like, but they're also telling great stories and they're also making unique stories on smaller budgets and they're getting greenlit more easily.

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So they're able to there's just more of a larger plethora or a larger swath of ideas being allowed to be made and heard in that genre as opposed to a lot of other genres.

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And I yeah, I've just come to love horror in the place that it holds in art.

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Well said, man. Yeah, it's that.

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That is so cool to think that it could open up other mediums of art as well, just that appreciation. And I think there is has always been a curiosity with like, yeah, the profoundly sad and sort of lonely sort of side of things and dark side of stuff and music and dramas and stuff like that.

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But not only, yeah, and then not only finding the really dark, gritty horror stuff, but also the campy fun horror stuff as well.

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And yeah, even all the all the stuff you're talking about with video game logic and what video games are usually really reminded me of the movie that we were going to talk about today.

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When I was watching this movie, I was like, yeah, this is like an excellent video game plot as well.

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Just if this exact plot was in the video game and each step along the way, you're like, oh, you got to go to the safe house, get your weapons, take a little tutorial, learn how to learn how to do your thing.

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Like this is what this is. OK, and now this is in your hybrid. OK, let's move in on and doing a little checklist of the of what this the structure of this movie just felt so like vague and and video game logic is this sort of sort of ways of going about things.

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I was going to ask you back. What are you watching as well, though, because I know you very politely asked me, but if there's anything else you want to highlight that you've been watching, because I love the whole side because I'm really, again, really glad that we revisited Silent Hill after talking about the movie in the past.

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And now I'm much more familiar with it, which is cool. But yeah, anything else you'd want to you want to highlight that you've been watching?

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I mean, nonetheless, yeah, but I'm glad that you are playing Silent Hill, too, because it's it's one of those things where it's like.

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It's kind of hard now to recommend the original when the remake.

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For better or for worse, I guess, I don't know if you want to be that critical about it.

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Probably people out there. Yeah, you like.

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Sure, it isn't as opaque, like I feel like a lot of the criticisms of it are like the original was very opaque.

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And that adds to the mythos and adds to the lore of it. And this one's a little bit more like handholdy on stuff rails on the rails and shit like that.

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But nonetheless, I'm so glad that you're playing it and also to the I mean, it's just been blast getting to like kind of kind of simultaneously together as friends discover Resident Evil, because like.

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That's kind of a recent thing for me, too.

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It's really crazy to think about how much video gaming I've done in my life.

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But again, weirdly, with horror, just like with movies, like even with video games, I was like, No, I don't care about the horror, you know, video game genre.

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And I adore adore as like video games that are required playing for anybody that is alive like Resident Evil is.

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I'm trying to think of which one I would put. I'd probably put two like if I were to pick one to like.

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Is my favorite and it's most representative of everything, but like nonetheless, this franchise.

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It's just so wonderful because that is it's just so cool. The puzzling, the being scared, the adventure, the fear of being scared.

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That is it's just so cool. The puzzling, the being scared, the adventure of it all.

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And so to this movie, like.

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All of this is existing in this, I guess, like all of this, this idea of sexy vampire shooting guns and creating a lore and mythos for these.

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Yeah, it's like public domain ideas now. That's why the lake is.

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I don't know. They're.

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I guess I'm just saying that I recognize and appreciate that a movie like this exists, just like with Resident Evil, because the combination of gore or action storytelling by the lower is really.

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I don't know. It's cool. It's fine. Yeah, like I dig it. I fucking dig it.

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I want it's kind of weird to say this off the top because it kind of just overall sets the mood a little bit too much, but I can't help myself.

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But saying like, I really, really enjoy the cold opening of this movie more than a majority of the movie beyond it.

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OK. And the reason being is because not only does it have Bill Nye in it, which I'm just like, man, listen.

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Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Really missing him.

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This movie. Luckily, we get a little bit, but as opposed to Michael Sheen, but we get a little bit of nine at least.

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Totally. And that's kind of my problem by and large, too. But not to get too far ahead of myself is like, I really dug the cold open of this movie because it's got Bill Nye like putting his whole body into it.

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You're like talking with this like intensity with his mouth, then he's just moving around and he's just and it's wonderful.

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I just I love it. And it got and it also reminded me of Resident Evil Village 2. Yeah, not two, but as well as well.

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This like God, I love a resident village to well, I guess it's kind of what nine is going to be, I guess.

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I would assume. I would assume. Continue. That's a whole conversation.

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You didn't even say what you what you've been watching, but it's OK. We'll keep we'll keep moving.

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No, I want to move on because I mean, the big thing that I was watching that that I expressed was I watched Mulholland Drive with my best friend.

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Hell, yeah. I and I enjoyed it. That was a combo answer. I love it.

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So, yeah, I've already we should get into the movie for sure, though.

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I also I also dug this cold opening. Bill Nye is a big plus.

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And then what he's wearing as well, all of their fucking dope as armor.

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And it's like period piece and shit, you know, like what the next one's going to be.

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The next one's going to be, I'm excited. What's that? The chain crossbows. Oh, where they have to shoot the chain crossbows into

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Williams. Yeah, into William, the Lycan brother, and they have to keep the chain into him.

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And then they wrap it around the tree and put the sword into it.

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Yes, yes, yes. Into that a lot.

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Yes. And you can see it's it's the one flashback in the movie that's not like, oh, it's all like blurry and shaky and everything.

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And you can't tell what's happening. And it's like in very forcefully jammed in exposition through somebody's mind hole instead of just like showing it face value.

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This is what happened. And you get some action off the start. And it's just classic vampires. The Lycans were wolves.

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Classic vampires, V Lycans.

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It's like we also we also we also got the text crawl. But yeah, I just what new information does that give us?

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I'm trying to remember exactly the new information because there's a lot of repeated stuff, which isn't terrible.

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It's also like, that's kind of nice, but also it's so like forcefully jammed in and it gets very annoying at one point.

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But I'm trying to remember. Yeah. What if they give you any new information off the bat or if it's kind of like.

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Yeah, no, no, I do. The cold open talks about how Corvinus, the older gentleman, gentleman, he's a famous British actor. I'm forgetting his name.

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Derek Jacobi. Something.

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Something. Yeah, yeah. He's the father. Yeah, he's in Gladiator.

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Oh, that's what an uninitiated American like myself states. I'm just like, oh, gladiator.

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The crawl is that Corvinus was the had two sons. One was bitten by a bat and one was bitten by.

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OK, thank you. And they are the first of their kind, but he Corvinus is also a vampire because he's, you know, in this movie and still around.

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And he's looked forever. I appreciate that. I'm sorry, folks, if it's going to be like, do you remember this or do you remember that?

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But that is a big detail and also it's a big detail. One of my biggest questions of like the father, the father's deal.

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Yeah, because the father's deal is totally what's his deal. It's mentioned in the first one, but.

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Is a huge plot point in this one because right like.

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But a big mystery for the first act to two, because there's just like such who is this guy? Why is he like so interested in all of all of these dealings?

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And then they finally sit down and talk about it very late in the movie. And that mystery was one of my one of my issues.

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I feel like we're like, do we really need to hide this? What is the reveal really serving that it would have been fine to just know this is the father and we can introduce him face value, give you that information and have these other mysteries at bay?

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Because there's so much other convoluted kind of stuff and to convolute the reveal of somebody who's a main factor in this movie only to kill him off later, I thought was just a waste of time in that way.

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But he performed it well and with a lot of subtext.

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But I was just curious the whole the whole time because he had that.

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I'm glad we're going into the Lord of him right now because we're going to do more. My big questions because like he has he has the ring and does that represent that like represents the humans that were supporting the vampire cause.

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Correct. Yeah, because like the but he's not the first vampire. He's the father of the first vampire.

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Correct. But he is a vampire himself. He's like an immortal. It's like this. It's like this idea of like his son got bit by a werewolf essentially.

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But they talk about it a little bit in the first one and then they kind of this movie fails in a lot of ways.

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But anyways, the like what they're in the intent that I got of it is is that he is the Corvinus is the first immortal.

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You wouldn't call him a vampire necessarily. He's just a mortal and then his sons who are mortals got bit by a wolf and a bat which then bifurcated them into these two subsections.

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Yeah, I like that. I like that. I like it.

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I like it. So, you know, and that is slightly communicated in the first one because in my mind, unfortunately, there's this overarching subplot with Corbin with speed men where he is a descendant of Corvinus.

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Right, which is why he was allowed to be both transformed into both because he had the Corvinus.

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Got it. Got it. Got it. That helps me a lot. And that explains why they had such a broad scope even from the first movie because they had they kind of had this all locked in this.

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I told these ideas and I love it. I love it for that. That's the thing I really love about these movies so far.

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Totally. No, I have other stuff that's rough, very rough, but that idea is just fun and cool. And it's so awesome that in the sequel, it's like, oh, this information was laid out.

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Yeah. Oh, for sure. Yeah, I know. Totally.

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Even though they convoluted it was all hell, but you know, it's it's it's there. Well, they just don't lay it out for you and dealt in a delicate sort of fashion because the exposition dumps are real.

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Yes. And so, OK, so after the cold open, so that establishes that there's two brothers, one is a Lycan and one is a bat. And the Lycan brother is I love that he's the white Lycan.

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I feel like that's so if you're going to make like the original or the alpha of something, it should be like the big white one. Right.

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And I know you're like an albino sort of like like, yeah, right. It's like, yeah, like an albino rhino or something like you're like, oh, this is the one that's like the big deal.

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The effects on him in particular really worked for me. It's safe for like a couple shots here and there of the CG stuff.

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The CG stuff is the problem. There's a plenty of sketch sketch stuff. Yeah. But like that final set piece with that albino like and that's some cool, cool looking shit.

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You know what I'm talking about, bro?

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Oh, drum. OK, so the white Lycan, William. So it is. Bill Nye's character.

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So, OK, I'm going to really get into the lore of it because there's some kind of this this. Yeah. And we're doing a series, so you kind of have to. Right.

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So the whole thing is like Corvinus is an immortal, so he's a bourgeoisie. He's a ruling class of society.

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And so he is ultimately like Bill Nye's character is.

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Is like the first generation vampire that is going to kind of wants to maintain the same power that the immortals have.

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But his whole thing is is like in order to do that, we have to subjugate the Lycans.

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We can't work together with them because they are uncontrollable if we give them leash to be, you know, pun intended.

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I think. And so Bill Nye's character, Victor, was killed in the first one because of the realization by Celine,

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Kate Beckinsale's character, that he. Doesn't necessarily want like he doesn't want Lycans to like have a place in this world or like have their own like, you know, kind of autonomy and whatever,

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which was what Michael Sheen was fighting for in the first one is he's like, I'm sick of being a second class citizen to these vampires.

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I want Lycans to rise up. We're actually more powerful. And that's the game he's playing with Kraven,

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who is the current generation leader of the coven of Victor and Marcus and William.

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00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:28,320
And that is why a lot of this movie is or the first portion of this movie is just really lame in the sense that it's just why do we care about Kraven anymore?

392
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:42,320
And then who cares? Because he just dies immediately anyways. But they're still just you had to reconcile in the beginning of this movie of like Kraven was trying to work with Michael Sheen to overthrow Victor

393
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because Victor's whole thing is that the Lycans are, you know, beasts and they should be subjugated and whatnot.

394
00:41:49,320 --> 00:42:03,320
But I like that whole little coup that they were trying to set up in the first one. My only complaint was that it it should have been more amicable between them in a way rather than then like immediately they do dispatch each other.

395
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:07,320
Dispatch. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Which, you know, yeah, happens in this movie, too.

396
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:20,320
Like I'm the point that I'm making with Kraven is like he's immediately dispatched in this movie. Like there isn't any real shit that I'm surprised he came back for that.

397
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:24,320
I mean, the picture must have been pretty fucking nice. I love it. I don't know. Same with Bill Nye.

398
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:31,320
It's like, oh, man, you came back for these flashbacks and put on put on all that armor got on a horse. Good for you, dude.

399
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:37,320
Like we needed that. I don't like pretty game for shit. Makes me so happy.

400
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:44,320
I make me happy, too, because he's like British actors with such good acting chops, just like leaning into camp.

401
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:54,320
It makes me very happy. And he like elevates the material like just, you know, for what it's worth to do that.

402
00:42:54,320 --> 00:43:08,320
And I think that's the thing about this movie. I think that's the thing about this movie. I think that the people that love movies recognize that immediately Bill Nye makes this movie better.

403
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:21,320
And when he's, you know, since his lack of involvement in the rest of this movie sucks, like I would like a lot more Bill Nye because I'm not really like Marcus is whatever.

404
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:29,320
I liked his his his abilities were defined and not overdone like where he could do anything like that.

405
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:36,320
You just immediately throw a new power out at you. He'd be like, oh, I can do this and this and also this and be like, well, why don't you do that first thing the whole time?

406
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:45,320
Because that first thing was overpowered and you can just do that. But he just had these like wings that would come out and then claw you and grab you and bring you in.

407
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:52,320
And then he could suck your blood for the truth and for your memories. And those were his powers.

408
00:43:52,320 --> 00:44:05,320
And I have some qualms with the blood memory stuff, of course, but I like that they found creative ways to continue to use the hooks that he had.

409
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:06,320
Oh, for sure.

410
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:23,320
And yeah, like the it was it was interesting because I liked it, but I also really liked him as an actor. So it was an interesting back and forth where like a lot of his transformed form at the beginning and then like in the middle he was he got the opportunity to sit.

411
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,320
And that's when I liked it more.

412
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:39,320
It like made it even better when he came full fucking Hulk mode and I'm coming back to lift this stone door instead of swimming underneath. Right. He's just totally just bad. If he was strong enough, he wouldn't need the space.

413
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:46,320
He could just like lift it straight from the ground. The fact that they put it under the rock under the rock. I was like, oh, he's going to swim underneath.

414
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:58,320
I was like, no, I just need a little bit of ledge to put my fingers underneath. It's like, dude, if you're that strong, you can lift it just from, you know, you probably blast through that shit.

415
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:00,320
Just blast through it.

416
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:21,320
No, I did. There's something that is so charming about these effects where like I get every now and then I get real. I'm like, okay, you're going a little too much every now and then. But for the most part, it makes me so happy to see the combination of practical and like some shitty CG.

417
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:34,320
But there is still some practical to substitute to the practical concepts and everything. And the concepts are pretty cool. And there are set pieces that facilitate the goofy stuff that happens.

418
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,320
But I'm giving a little ahead of myself.

419
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:53,320
It's like, but it's just, it's, it's such a great homage to classic filmmaking where there it's almost like you're on a like a ride at an amusement park. Sure. And this movie at times where a, a like, a lichen will get wheeled out.

420
00:45:53,320 --> 00:46:10,320
And then it's just like flashing lights and cobwebs. And then you're just like, oh, it's a lichen, you know, and it's like a real fucking thing that people are reacting to. It reminds me like the like the mummy in like Van Helsing movie. I forget the guy who does those movies.

421
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:23,320
Yeah. Just, when she's like realizing all the guys are turning into lichens, ah, it's such a fun, like that's like a haunted house sort of thing. Like, oh, this guy's trapped in the net and he's like trying to get out.

422
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:33,320
Getting ahead of myself because I really like that final set piece in the castle, I guess. But we shouldn't, we shouldn't go back because you were playing down some real good ideas about the lore.

423
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:48,320
And at least this first section, we'll get through them going to the safe house. They reload. Oh, I do. I do like some of like, you know, the equipment that these guys use is always cool to see like a restock and everything.

424
00:46:48,320 --> 00:47:04,320
But you had so, so this beginning, it just is just kind of like set up and like the whole craven getting dispatched so early with a head explosion was setting the stage for everything in a big way.

425
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:15,320
The head explosion is pretty cool. Cool. And I do like how it just picks up immediately after the first one. Just to set that too. It's a real quantum of silache.

426
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:30,320
Yeah. It should. But then it gets into the problem. I think really I have the largest problem I have with this movie, which is the love story between the two main actors. It sucks to me.

427
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:45,320
It's really shitty because like there is zero time spent on reconciling any type of life or or past life of Michael Corbin.

428
00:47:45,320 --> 00:48:03,320
He is just the most generic milk toasty guy that I don't even really feel that much chemistry between like Keith Beckinsale is bringing 80% to that relationship and the like sexual like the sexuality of it in my mind.

429
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:17,320
Like Michael Corbin is just like there and I really have had such a hard time like caring at all about what's going on with him.

430
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:38,320
And I think that's really no continue. It came to a head for me where this idea of her story gets back story.

431
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:56,320
And it makes me care more about her intentions. But none of that are in the need for a relationship with him. And the fact that this movie has so much of like her needing to be okay with him to just love him for who he is.

432
00:48:56,320 --> 00:49:08,320
This is sucks. Like I don't know. There's nothing there's nothing that like them getting together, I guess does nothing to the story and for me.

433
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:27,320
Like there's not a whole like I'm so glad they're together now feeling you know like wow I you know it's the changing of the guard it's the new era like they're together now and they've you know fought all odds to get here like there's none of that with them.

434
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:31,320
It is so

435
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:47,320
like you know this movie starts from right like you said, which I enjoy that picks up right where we left off, even though it in a movie that's the second, it has to recap after that I know dude that's a whole nother issue.

436
00:49:47,320 --> 00:50:03,320
It's mad but like it's like go back here like we before we get to the flashback thing like the whole issue about Scott speedman I just wanted to chime in on as well because I feel like it extenuates one of my bigger issues with this movie as well, is I know that we're not

437
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:23,320
talking about the ones of his, his acting and his performance which you know is its own separate issue on top of everything, but in for somebody who watched the first one recently hasn't seen this one has only seen rise of the Likens which is my first movie of the

438
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:35,320
old franchise. I mean, isn't it funny though I'm on a chronological stretch right now Brandon isn't that great I'm going chronologically I'm a true, true fan.

439
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,320
Before you even know it.

440
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:55,320
The big okay so the big cliffhangers at the end of the first one were, you got a fucking hybrid. That's huge, and then you get you get the blood going into fucking Marcus right yes Marcus going in like you know that Marcus is going to come alive, or the

441
00:50:55,320 --> 00:51:11,320
vampires. I am. There is not enough hybrid stuff in this fucking underworld evolution movie. It blew my mind how it's like not really getting into the idea of a vampire werewolf fucking hybrid.

442
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:25,320
I mean, I've got nearly enough shit going on there if anything like, it's really got to dig into his whole deal. And like, I feel like there's way too much time even given to like Marcus like you know he's a big bad.

443
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:43,320
He's coming, you know you can like sprinkle and little things, but like they really like give him all the space, and then, you know, add all this other backstory to Derek Jacobi, which I like, I don't know if that's necessary at this time in the movie is that

444
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:57,320
like this time in the series to have a care like there's so much of his care Derek and I love his performance Corvinus Corvinus Corvinus whatever. Like, it's constantly going to him like oh he knows all this is happening.

445
00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:05,320
You would see everything happen to be like oh he also knows this is happening. We don't know who he is, and the fact that he knows it doesn't mean a lot to us.

446
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:24,320
And so, why don't we just really face head on the fact that there's a hybrid fucking vampire werewolf and the biggest thing that happens is that he goes eat some potatoes and gets really sick gives us the idea that there were probably somewhere in Transylvania or something.

447
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:38,320
And, and then he realizes he needs the that meets back on the menu and he needs man flesh baby but like, I just man flesh.

448
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:58,320
And I just I just kind of blew my mind through this experience where I did not hate this movie, but I was really bummed or like just annoyed of like that's such like, it almost seemed like they were so excited and preoccupied with the fact that they had a sequel,

449
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:12,320
that they could explore these other elements that they've always wanted to do that they didn't get to do in the first one that they knew they had waiting on deck that they just sprinkled in like surface like level, all of the things that they've always wanted to do rather than

450
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:36,320
like, pick one or a couple and get into those. And it was a hitch on the pacing and on the entire like lore experience as well and it catered more towards having big exposition dumps and having mysteries that didn't need to be mysteries as much.

451
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:51,320
But the what was the biggest payoff of him being a hybrid in this movie, he tears off fucking jaws, you get a you get Chekhov's jaw rip edge, and then he pays you off at the end.

452
00:53:51,320 --> 00:54:08,320
Yeah, you're so right, like the only payout for him being a hybrid is that he's able to physically handle Williams, who we've been communicated through the tank crossbow cold open that he's a very strong monster.

453
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:22,320
So like, the only true payoff for court and Corbin being a hybrid is he has the physical prowess to be able to fight William, and he does that sure that's true.

454
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:41,320
But that's not interesting enough. Yeah, like, yeah, this movie would be, it's so funny because I have a couple podcasts that movie podcast I listened to have just expressed that it's like a taboo to

455
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:45,320
talk about how movies should have done something different.

456
00:54:45,320 --> 00:55:06,320
But I'm going to continue to do that on this, I'm just saying like to your point, like, what is interesting about Corbin is that he is the next iteration of a legacy that has been corrupted by power that has made poor choices in its pursuit of power,

457
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:20,320
and he represents the new generation that is going to combine forces to like to, and even so much in the movie it kind of gets into this a little bit of like the sins of our father, right.

458
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:36,320
Yeah, like our ancestors have made these sins and maybe have done things wrong. And we're not going to take it anymore we're going to, you know, take them down we're going to restructure things so that it is.

459
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:50,320
We are, you know, like Corbin as being a hybrid is the epitome of this war ending and becoming something different right.

460
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:55,320
And none of that is in this movie. No.

461
00:55:55,320 --> 00:56:03,320
It's like zero of that ideas in this movie, because the victim the majority of the time.

462
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:11,320
Sure, and we're all a victim of the sins of our father and the wars of futures of the future staff that's all different.

463
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:26,320
The wars of the past like I just would have been a place to play Kate not to permanently do that but play Kate Kate Beckinsale just for one movie and have him really rise into his hybrid, you know, maybe this is him.

464
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:31,320
Yeah, she's got to teach him is more of it what it's about sorry and interjected.

465
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:58,320
No, no, no, you're no but you're right on the money on that as well of like, she should be the vehicle because the movie is at its strongest to when it is talking about how her family and her existence has been the result of this chess game that these, you know, powers

466
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:20,320
that are B have been playing, and she is evolving and rising above and going like, fuck Marcus fuck William fuck Victor, like all of these people have killed people are not good, you know, they're just their intentions aren't about the necessarily the

467
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:39,320
just preservation of life. Therefore the very cynical and very self interested presentation, like preservation of this group, not of life in general of their people in general, really just about preservation of themselves and

468
00:57:39,320 --> 00:58:01,320
Kate Beckinsale is a byproduct of that being like, you know, her, the, the bourgeoisie vampires hired her dad to build a crypt and a mechanism to keep William alive, but not able to escape and go out in the world.

469
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:21,320
And once that was done, Victor, you know, essentially had her family killed. And now she has been living this life in service of Victor, because she was told that the light guns are the problem the light guns are the reason that her family doesn't exist

470
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:40,320
anymore. But then we find out an evolution that know her family was killed by craving, and her family was killed because the vampires didn't want anybody else to know where William was, or because if people knew where William was then he would escape, and then

471
00:58:40,320 --> 00:59:02,320
turn people into like ends. And then the like ends are realistically the only power at be that could overthrow the vampires. And I love all that I just yeah I'm just wondering if there was a yeah a place in mind to think that they would have other movies or other times to tell that story and then tell the

472
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:17,320
hybrid story as well because I feel like this would have been the time to, but I don't know I don't know how you how you and yeah and that's where like the taboo of structuring in your own way and making the movie that you want to see in your own mind doesn't fully pan out.

473
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:36,320
But yeah I love Kate Beckinsale's sort of backstory and the fact that when she gets that little talisman that she knows where it goes to and that she she knows what her father's design was, but that was like hastened and very rushed into the into the end of it.

474
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:47,320
I feel like yeah, absolutely. No totally because the movie was more interested in the combat that was happening in the present day situation.

475
00:59:47,320 --> 01:00:06,320
Because if anything my overall feeling about this movie was the definitely heightened the the action. The action got bigger in this movie that's for danger. Yeah, there's like shit blowing up and like all of these places that have like fights and stuff and a lot of guns and shit.

476
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:34,320
The action got ratcheted up as well. Yeah, they so they go to the safe house and then they go to the I mean I feel like it's pretty close after they go to the place where he gets some potatoes and some some meat that meanwhile, while that's happening is Corvinus is sending his team out to collect the from Victor's body

477
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:53,320
in his chest. Yes, which I was, which I thought was very funny. This idea that at some point, I want to see that process. Yeah. Yeah. Well, God, and we did have some of that in this movie, let last the CGI inner body stuff that was in the first one. Do you remember that? Yeah.

478
01:00:53,320 --> 01:01:16,320
It's in this a little bit this idea of like, the camera goes inside the muscles and yeah, it was unintelligible what some of that was it was like, Oh, look what's happening. I'm like, I can't tell what that means. What are you trying to show me? It just looks like microscopic image that I wouldn't know if you zoom down until you zoom down.

479
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:37,320
Yeah, like we're so while that's happening because yes, Celine is on the run because Marcus is hunting her down because her blood has the memories of where the location of Williams coffin is and so Marcus now alive because of the blood of who died in that room.

480
01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:44,320
Somebody died in the room where, you know, in the first movie we got that great. Yeah, I forget what that is.

481
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:50,320
Yeah, there's like, yeah, the the heads of the vampire.

482
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:53,320
Coven are in.

483
01:01:53,320 --> 01:02:00,320
Tooms that have little initials on them.

484
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:05,320
You gotta twist them to get into their little little capsule.

485
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:14,320
And then turns out he's burrowed underneath the ground and he's going to pop up from underneath the blood. We're still in the first scene. I love this.

486
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:21,320
The blood is something a battle happened in the first movie the blood, because that's where we left off in the end of the first movie. Yeah, right off right at the end. Yeah.

487
01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:35,320
Dripping down into Marcus's coffin and then some Marcus is alive. Marcus is the first vampire. So a lot of that kind of lore stuff gets a little bit convoluted where like.

488
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:44,320
Marcus is controlled by Victor, but he's also the like original vampire.

489
01:02:44,320 --> 01:03:00,320
He's the original vampire and he's yeah and he's the son of the mortal and the mortal Derek Jacobi the Corvinius and the brother of the first Lycan. It's all very mythological and how they present it.

490
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:15,320
And I like that he wants to release his brother from prison, but that goal is not set is not made aware to the audience until later, which I find that mystery.

491
01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:19,320
Confusing why we need to have that hidden at any point.

492
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:30,320
Because this is the portion like, yeah, we should probably move a little bit, but like the portion at the beginning here, like I am wondering what everyone is trying to do here.

493
01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:38,320
Like what are we trying to accomplish? Like what are we where are we trying to go? Because it's really just like that. I get that like Scott, Sweden, Kate Beckinsale.

494
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:49,320
Like it were right after what just happened. You just killed the leader of the vampires like you just got to fucking go. And then like there's people that are chasing them like I kind of like I get that.

495
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:51,320
But also like.

496
01:03:51,320 --> 01:04:00,320
And I Marcus is trying to get them, but there's not a clear goal in mind with him of just like what his allegiance is off the bat.

497
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:12,320
I just wish they would hasten that a bit of just I want to release my brother. I wanted that information quicker. Like I just don't understand why like they feel like they need to be withholding on some of this stuff.

498
01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:33,320
Like there can be good versions of divvying out the information slowly that the reveals mean something, but I just wanted his wants and what he was trying to do with the whole aim of his of his goals a little clear more quickly because he was just seemed like chaos.

499
01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:48,320
He was just like going after them. And then when he finally gets me starts trying to get Kate Beckinsale's memory blood and gets relinquished. But I think this would be a good time. What do you think of the memory blood?

500
01:04:48,320 --> 01:05:12,320
Yeah, not a fan. It's not a great plot device. It's not a it's not a very good plot device to try to divvy out information is have the villain just be able to vaguely and inextricably just suck out the important information from somebody in a physical way.

501
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:29,320
Like it's already one thing of like having I don't know you can have like a lie detector or something like that. And that's already a little bit you know have you have to get that whole see I'm gonna sit somebody down in the lie detector and get all the information out of them and then that's going to solve all my issues.

502
01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:44,320
It's like it just even skips that step. And it's a it's a funny little physical internal expression of divvying out information that hinges this whole movie like that's what he does.

503
01:05:44,320 --> 01:06:12,320
And that's his main way of furthering his plot which isn't made clear until exposition man Tannis comes around. And that's when you reach the person who has the most information in the whole movie and his blood is definitely the most important because you can suck all of it out and get everything because he's got all those books that are in his brain in that blood and that sweet sweet memory blood juice.

504
01:06:12,320 --> 01:06:37,320
I mean but the problem would be is that he might have syphilis or something because his exile is very cool. Oh yeah. That was like the stuff I was looking for in the first one I'm like man this looks like this whole mansion of vampires they must just have like the room where you yeah where you just say Fidelio and you put on a mask and Tom Cruise is there and it's in for you with a sexy vampire.

505
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:40,320
Yeah, I'm sure Tom Cruise has memory blood.

506
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:44,320
I mean by the logic of this movie I guess we all do.

507
01:06:44,320 --> 01:07:03,320
Yeah, which is but then like I guess that's just some that's one of his powers that's the thing where I guess where I'm like arguing against myself where now I mean it's it is just a couple of hours it's it's wings that are hooks and it's truth blood and and that's it but that's just that's such a big power.

508
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:06,320
It was also part of the first one.

509
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:17,320
Have memory blood. Yep. I don't I guess, but they just, I guess they just hinge a lot on on this movie for that mechanic.

510
01:07:17,320 --> 01:07:44,320
Yeah, this movie in particular. So in the first one, there's a lot of the memory blood because Victor drinks is given blood by somebody then understands those memories and then then seeks out somebody else and gets their memories through their blood. So it exists in the first one but you're right about how this movie plot wise hinges so much on the memory blood because the plot of this is we need to find where Williams tomb is.

511
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:54,320
And in order to do that we need to suck out the blood of certain individuals who were responsible for the imprisonment of William.

512
01:07:54,320 --> 01:08:21,320
And that's where the true MacGuffin of it all comes into light way too late into the movie in my opinion where you feel like there is a MacGuffin at the middle of this that isn't made clear and you're not really sure why well there's all these parties that are just like circling each other but there's no central object or thing that they're all trying to get to or have the structure of the movie own itself to and that MacGuffin is Kate Beckinsale's memory blood.

513
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:33,320
Yeah, I mean again to your original point about the idea of memory blood I just don't care for because I've been just burned by it with a bond franchise is the idea that your blood I was thinking the same thing.

514
01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:50,320
Yeah, it can hold this information and it just seems so stupid to me that like, yeah, people's blood is the capability of doing that as a plot device for an action movie but yeah like again what do you think would happen if a vampire sucked out the nano blood.

515
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:55,320
Oh my god just like how much information would you have so much information.

516
01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:59,320
Right, maybe the memories would just be coming in a little more clear.

517
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:09,320
Oh yeah, like perfect 1080 4k 4k 4k memories if you get those memories.

518
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:19,320
Oh god. Well yeah yeah I feel like we're barreling through this I know there's like the truck chase scene that was like all shot and like, boy.

519
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:27,320
Yeah, everything is just so fucking blue at points where is is kind of a bummer.

520
01:09:27,320 --> 01:09:42,320
And then like you get the reveal of who Derek Jacob II is. That's a pretty big scene but I feel like I'm just like barreling towards the final set piece that was that was just my favorite.

521
01:09:42,320 --> 01:09:48,320
Yeah, there's got to be a lot before that but I'm, is there anything that you would like to mention.

522
01:09:48,320 --> 01:09:54,320
It's tough. It's tough to like dig too much into the specifics.

523
01:09:54,320 --> 01:10:01,320
The corvinius plotline.

524
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:22,320
Because yeah again like that's yeah overall like the corvinius plotline is a big part of this movie, because there's this whole thing about, again, the sins of our father, where the sons of Lycans and vampires came from that guy who now is in the second movie because

525
01:10:22,320 --> 01:10:31,320
it's about a brother trying to free, you know, his brother.

526
01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:37,320
But again we've already talked about how it's this.

527
01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:52,320
This movie really fails in, in its ability to better communicate the relationship that the sons had with their father previously. And so then there, you know you go to his like yacht.

528
01:10:52,320 --> 01:11:07,320
And he has a yacht that's this whole like Jeff Bezos style super yacht that's got like a helicopter landing pad that is like special task force team.

529
01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:19,320
Like a statue figure in that control room and everything it's, yeah, as a control room, all of this stuff about, like, yeah, because that's kind of like Illuminati I feel like or something like that.

530
01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:39,320
This movie thinks it's smarter than it really is and that is one thing I'm sure if you were to ask the director, like what the intention was that is that you know, oh, vampires could, mortals could actually be kind of real and this is what they look like.

531
01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:44,320
They're super wealthy individuals on a yacht, yada yada yada.

532
01:11:44,320 --> 01:11:49,320
Yada yada yada.

533
01:11:49,320 --> 01:12:02,320
But again, like, all that is happening with Corvinus is he is looking for the key to the key to the other MacGuffin I guess is the key.

534
01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:14,320
The key because we have the first portion of it because it's two pieces. It's one of those situations just like with a Silent Hill or Resident Evil. So you got to find pieces of a key and put it together in order to open the box.

535
01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:18,320
Or Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning or is it Dead Reckoning? Yeah.

536
01:12:18,320 --> 01:12:22,320
Yeah, Dead Reckoning 2, the two keys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.

537
01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:24,320
The second one's coming out soon.

538
01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:29,320
That's gonna be lit. That's gonna be the Tom Cruise one too.

539
01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:36,320
I believe it. Is that what they're, is that what's lined up? Yeah, they said it's much.

540
01:12:36,320 --> 01:12:41,320
They've had so many people on the team. I mean, yeah, he fits somebody. Oh, for sure. Yeah.

541
01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:47,320
Tom Cruise said that he would like Glenn Powell to take over the, take the lead.

542
01:12:47,320 --> 01:12:49,320
Oh, I can see that.

543
01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:51,320
Yeah, me too.

544
01:12:51,320 --> 01:13:20,320
But yeah, like instead of spending time either with how the ruling class that is Corvinius truly affected the working class that was Celine's family or the backstory with actual moments of emotionality between Corvinius and his sons prior to them getting bitten is missing from this movie.

545
01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:31,320
So all Corvinius is function as in the plot of this movie is the guy who got one of the pieces together and then made the sons that are the villains.

546
01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:39,320
And it just operates on a simple base level of that. He occupies a lot of screen time though too. Yeah.

547
01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:47,320
Because he's like a legendary British actor. Yeah, for sure. But the character itself, you know, I like, I like his performance.

548
01:13:47,320 --> 01:14:01,320
Yeah, no, totally. Like he's, yeah, his performance is fine, especially because he is given some neat a little bit to have that moment where he's like, what would you do? I love my sons. I don't want them to be heard.

549
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:14,320
You know, I tried to protect them. And that's why, you know, I allowed these, you know, atrocities to happen because like, would you kill your kid? I mean, you know, that kind of stuff. And it's just, it's so fucking.

550
01:14:14,320 --> 01:14:27,320
Yeah, but Brandon, you're going to be drowning in lichens. If you do this, you're going to be fucking drowning in lichens. You idiot.

551
01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:29,320
It's this movie.

552
01:14:29,320 --> 01:14:36,320
Because that's his whole thing, right? Like he agrees. So like putting William away, right? Isn't that the whole idea?

553
01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:44,320
He puts it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because putting him away doesn't mean his death.

554
01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:50,320
Right. That's the whole thing is like, they're not killing William. They're just keeping him alive.

555
01:14:50,320 --> 01:14:56,320
And, you know, the father had to choose between the two and he chose many.

556
01:14:56,320 --> 01:15:06,320
Then he gets fucking patricide. Instead of him getting killed.

557
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:09,320
Like over it. I'm like, God damn it movie.

558
01:15:09,320 --> 01:15:27,320
No, I like this is it's it's another thing to regurgitate and recycle it all in our brain and relay it in in the plot way to everybody. But it's so funny that there is so much that we're talking about. There is so much that we're relaying. Yeah, there is more that I want.

559
01:15:27,320 --> 01:15:41,320
And I think that like is a good thing and it's in its own way. And there's definitely like big fat problems with this movie. And especially when like the main character, arguably, I don't know. I get it is Kate Beckinsale. But like there's a world where it should be.

560
01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:55,320
Scott Speedman. I don't want it to be. I think Kate Beckinsale's onscreen presence is undeniable. And you have to accept that. I'm watching. No, she's going to drive the franchise, which she does. But she looks like a marble statue.

561
01:15:55,320 --> 01:16:05,320
God, and the blue eyes look so cute. She looks like if the statue of Nike had a head. That's what she should look like.

562
01:16:05,320 --> 01:16:13,320
Those shoes that she's there's like a close up of like her shoes that she's jumping around. I was like, how is she doing that? That's amazing.

563
01:16:13,320 --> 01:16:25,320
Oh, boy. Yeah, there was no time for her to relax in this. Oh, wait. No, there is. They have a they have a lovemaking scene. But then she's just like she they got a barrel through with the truck and she gets burned a little bit.

564
01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:36,320
It's kind of like the mummy return situation where you got to outrun the sun and get into a dark space and then he just starts pouring paint on the window.

565
01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:46,320
That was a really funny scene. I'm not always paper. Fuck the paint brush. I'm going to take 10 cans of paint and just throw it.

566
01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:54,320
Wow. It's so light in here. I'm just a big ball of emotion.

567
01:16:54,320 --> 01:17:03,320
And then like when he's done, it just goes cuts back away. And all of a sudden, every little inch of the fucking torn apart warehouse is fully enclosed.

568
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:09,320
Those kind of things are just oh, there's tons of stuff with him that are so funny. Like the idea.

569
01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:20,320
So thematically, the idea that's happening in this movie is Scott Speedman is still not on board with the idea of drinking blood as food.

570
01:17:20,320 --> 01:17:26,320
So he now not having Celine there to like force him to do it.

571
01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:44,320
He's like, I'm not going to drink this bag of blood that I've been left with while she's going off and doing stuff. I'm going to go to the local bar or whatever and eat food and Transylvania and puberty.

572
01:17:44,320 --> 01:17:57,320
But to me, it's just so stupid that after everything that happened in the first movie, he's not on board with what's going on because like that's something that would happen when he was like transforming in the first one, for example, right?

573
01:17:57,320 --> 01:18:04,320
I like this idea of him transitioning into like or accepting who he is now in this new form.

574
01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:15,320
When the second movie and we're having this whole scene of him being like, I don't want to drink blood. I want to eat potato soup. And then he goes out and then he eats it.

575
01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:30,320
And then he's like, oh, now I'm sick. And then he just like, it's and then like Corvinius is on the Jason Bourne control room where he's listening into every single radio conversation all over the world somehow to know exactly where.

576
01:18:30,320 --> 01:18:45,320
Right. Because he's been around since time and then, yeah, it's like it's all of that stuff is really silly and doesn't work enough in this movie where I think the first movie benefits from not getting into certain specifics.

577
01:18:45,320 --> 01:19:00,320
And even though it does to a degree, like we I think we are, you know, talk plenty about how like some of the stuff is still stupid and silly in the first one. But this one like digs into the lore, which is a benefit.

578
01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:14,320
But then it also like shoots itself in the foot because then you're like, well, you presented these ideas and now you have no interest in following up on them or digging, you know, like really showing them on screen and caring about them.

579
01:19:14,320 --> 01:19:21,320
You just like it's kind of like a second movie problem where.

580
01:19:21,320 --> 01:19:28,320
It's made more so for money than it is for.

581
01:19:28,320 --> 01:19:44,320
Like maintaining the world's integrity that is built up in the first one. And then it falls so flat because it doesn't know what to do fully with the things that it posited.

582
01:19:44,320 --> 01:20:02,320
It's like attempts to to to expand upon concepts of the world building that it had in the first one, but then doesn't do it well in certain situations. But yeah, I mean.

583
01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:14,320
At the same time, like I did have I did enjoy this movie. I don't know. Yeah, closer to the end, like and we're going to continue to watch these and I'm like excited to watch more of these. Honestly, it's weird.

584
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:37,320
Like it's weird how that works for me, where I'm trying to reconcile like there's a lot of this movie that's not good. Yeah. But then just like I probably communicated clearly on this pod recording already is like, but then I this lore and like where people are and you know what they mean and all that stuff.

585
01:20:37,320 --> 01:20:52,320
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I'm engaging with it. Like I feel like it's more the side of things that it's like frustrating to be you catch your I catch myself like spending time within the movie on certain aspects or certain action scenes.

586
01:20:52,320 --> 01:21:21,320
And I'm like, man, there's so much cool stuff just lying on under the surface of what you guys are doing that I just am craving more of. Yeah, I'm craving the vampire ring more of really those elements and done in like a meaty sort of way that isn't just like feels like it's just passing right by it and doing it just as quickly as it can before it moves on to the next action scene.

587
01:21:21,320 --> 01:21:36,320
Yeah. But at the same time, yeah, it's like, it's, it's fun to think about it and it has me questioning the lore, which is has a lot going for it rather than me just like blowing it off and being like, this is stupid.

588
01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:50,320
It's, it's got some weird to it that it doesn't. It's got what it's got some juice. It's got some juice. Yeah. And then I, I mean, I feel like we'll get to this this final action scene.

589
01:21:50,320 --> 01:22:05,320
I just wanted to, I'm gonna spend like a moment on of like how cool it was to have the have Marcus bring down the helicopter into the middle of the castle.

590
01:22:05,320 --> 01:22:06,320
Yeah.

591
01:22:06,320 --> 01:22:09,320
And have the blade still going the whole time.

592
01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:11,320
That was the coolest.

593
01:22:11,320 --> 01:22:13,320
Coolest. I love that.

594
01:22:13,320 --> 01:22:30,320
Oh my God. And it's like this big well cavernous area, and they were like shooting from the helicopter into the hole. And then there's these multiple levels and then core Corbin and William are fighting on the bottom level.

595
01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:41,320
And then Marcus and Celine are fighting on the top level. And then there's like, I don't know, I was so interested. Like, this is the stuff. Oh man.

596
01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:58,320
It really again, I don't think I can reiterate enough that here in 2024 as a movie fan watching movies that came out 20 years before whatever the physical set design stuff.

597
01:22:58,320 --> 01:22:59,320
Yeah.

598
01:22:59,320 --> 01:23:01,320
Rips. Yeah, dude.

599
01:23:01,320 --> 01:23:13,320
It rips and yeah, just have a place that's all CGI green screen. It is going to look like shit and no one is going to care about it in 20 years.

600
01:23:13,320 --> 01:23:40,320
It's not going to happen for a movie like Underworld Evolution, which like we've talked at this point to some maybe an agnostic, but like the adventure roller coaster, horror, like house, big action stuff that is all like a car driving on a road and a thing blowing up in a town with

601
01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:57,320
fire on their roofs and these lichens that pop out of caves and scare people and the scene of them fighting on this bridge that has a helicopter in it and stuff is it's cool. It's cool. I enjoy it.

602
01:23:57,320 --> 01:24:13,320
Big set pieces. Yeah, man. And big sets and then that helicopter comes down. It's still spinning and then it just stays there. And then you have the rest of the action take place where you know that the blade that's still spinning is going to take part in some way.

603
01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:20,320
You get off the first you get the jaw. Rippage and then you get his hand getting cut off by the blade.

604
01:24:20,320 --> 01:24:43,320
He stabs her with the wing blade. She pulls. She cuts it off, pulls the wing blade out and just bam through the skull pushes them to like, oh man, I sound like Spartan kicks them in like an eight year old kid act describing like yeah, and then he throws it in the helicopter blade and fucking just gets to see the great.

605
01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:55,320
It's so cool. But that final shot of like the looking at all of the carnage and looking at the helicopter in the middle and Cape against the own Scott Speedman standing there.

606
01:24:55,320 --> 01:25:11,320
This looks so cool like to know this is a set that they are all standing in right now. And it just looks like I could see a stunt spectacular take place right there I could walk through a haunted house or something and and see the lichens pop out and see the helicopter and

607
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:30,320
I'm just saying it like I just there's something that's doesn't matter at that point whatever has led me to here is is all good and just so happens that I do kind of care about these characters and I'm kind of interested in what's going on with them to a fault because

608
01:25:30,320 --> 01:25:44,320
the movie, unfortunately doesn't give me everything I want, but it like, I don't know. It does at least the bare minimum in this kind of wackadoo sort of sort of plot that it's it's putting out.

609
01:25:44,320 --> 01:25:51,320
And that's, that's something that I will take home.

610
01:25:51,320 --> 01:25:53,320
Hard agree man.

611
01:25:53,320 --> 01:26:12,320
It's weird, especially with this movie in particular more so than the first one this idea of like, am I giving this movie too much credit, am I like,

612
01:26:12,320 --> 01:26:34,320
drinking the Kool-Aid on this movie, because yeah, I can't yeah, it's presenting me with plenty to go like, you don't care about these things, why should I or diverging from

613
01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:53,320
something interesting that is to something just to be exciting or, you know, whatever. And yeah, I don't know I don't I honestly man I'm, I feel like that's the thing I'm going to work through with this series.

614
01:26:53,320 --> 01:27:14,320
Why is it I don't know. Yeah, maybe maybe we should start having this towards the end of each of our discussions here on out is like, yeah, I don't know this idea of why, why is this hitting so well for such an arguably stupid movie that I think

615
01:27:14,320 --> 01:27:36,320
we're going to be with our age I'm sure like growing up at this time. Yeah, like in other cases I feel like I wouldn't be so forgiving or whatever to this but yeah these movies yeah it's hard not to just be like, I love when a Lycan jumps on the side of a car and pushes it over.

616
01:27:36,320 --> 01:27:58,320
It's looking vampires versus werewolf versus likens like I don't know like, what do you think about it at the at its core essence of what it's trying to be. It succeeds on that. And then it has all this other fucking Lord on top of it that like, how am I like, how am I that invested in this I agree like I'm questioning myself as well.

617
01:27:58,320 --> 01:28:22,320
It's it's not done necessarily well and it doesn't hold up all, all together. But I just love to that yeah there's a guy in a vampire outfit, a Lycan rubber outfit that's just like, and then keep back in sale looks like she's facing down a true demon of the night.

618
01:28:22,320 --> 01:28:33,320
Which she is so much conviction as an actor and then she fucking dual wields and just like, ba ba ba ba ba. And then like reloads and five different cool.

619
01:28:33,320 --> 01:28:57,320
Like points to things with her gun to there's this moment in the movie where the guy who's on in exile is like showing them a book. Yeah, and she likes it from turning the page with her gun. And I was like, Oh, yeah, do you think that's actually reads a book she like has her gun out and she like licks the tip of the gun.

620
01:28:57,320 --> 01:29:06,320
She just turns it. I love it. She turns the page on its own.

621
01:29:06,320 --> 01:29:11,320
Yeah.

622
01:29:11,320 --> 01:29:29,320
The exposition dump guy was not my favorite because I just wanted it. I wanted to like sprinkle a little bit more. I just wanted to be Paul Bentley so bad. Oh, or Paul Bentley. The guy from night sale. Is that what I'm thinking of. Yeah. Oh yeah.

623
01:29:29,320 --> 01:29:45,320
Paul Bentley. Yeah, sorry. Yes. That's a great choice. Absolutely. I want to pull that either. Just like, yeah, I was just like, Oh, this is where we're going to get the lower. It's like, I don't. Yeah, I just wanted more lower, more lower throughout.

624
01:29:45,320 --> 01:30:03,320
Instead of just like, okay, now we're really going to reveal everything to you here. It's exciting because our next movie is a war movie. Essentially, that's the thing is like, I did not hate this movie. Like I hadn't when I remember seeing and we'll talk about it next time.

625
01:30:03,320 --> 01:30:18,320
I remember seeing that movie and having a good time in theaters and not knowing jack shit about, you know, anything else besides just like, dude, it's vampires. Werewolves like fucking cares. Like, yeah, we get Michael Sheen and Bill Nye back next time.

626
01:30:18,320 --> 01:30:20,320
That's what I'm so excited.

627
01:30:20,320 --> 01:30:35,320
Yeah, because I think by and large a big negative for me on this movie is that we didn't get these great, great character actors in this movie. We got and it's all in medieval times kind of. It's so cool. That sounds so cool. Okay.

628
01:30:35,320 --> 01:30:51,320
Castles and shit. You get to go back to that castle when it's fully constructed. Yeah, because like, yeah, the construction. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'll look through my notes here before we go on to final reviews and thoughts.

629
01:30:51,320 --> 01:30:57,320
Lots of face eating in the cold open. Remember that there's a lot of faces getting eaten.

630
01:30:57,320 --> 01:31:13,320
I wrote like, because they're powerless without their heads. Yeah, just rip that job. Oh, there's a lot of head stuff. There's a lot of head stuff in this movie. There's a lot of just like, you just got to rip their heads off. Like, you can't come back from that.

631
01:31:13,320 --> 01:31:34,320
I love like silver bullets like UV bullet. Who gives a shit? Like just rip their heads off. They have to come up with all this technology and said, I'm just like, you know, if you sever their heads from their bodies,

632
01:31:34,320 --> 01:31:47,320
like chainsaw blades, shoot out or a gun, sever their just humans are not too dissimilar. If you just completely remove their heads, they die.

633
01:31:47,320 --> 01:32:04,320
That is not Michael Sheen is what I put because in the in the morgue of his, of his yacht, he's got a morgue in his yacht. You just see the chest of this of what's supposed to be Michael Sheen, and they shoot him from the top of the head down. And it's not it's not him.

634
01:32:04,320 --> 01:32:20,320
He did not. He did not decide to come back for a day of dead body. And he just appears on flashbacks. No, no new stuff. But yeah, really missing him. I love when Marcus wakes back up as his full vampire self.

635
01:32:20,320 --> 01:32:38,320
He starts like looking at the computers and he starts typing with his long nails. I was like, when did he go to sleep? Like, I guess, like the computers are all put in. He's like, okay, cool. Computers are all good. I T guys all set. All right. I'm going to go down there into my Marcus shaped.

636
01:32:38,320 --> 01:32:41,320
I go to sleep.

637
01:32:41,320 --> 01:32:53,320
He just knows computers after so long. That's part of your blood. That's what I would like to believe. He tasted Craven's blood. He's like, I know. I know kung fu.

638
01:32:53,320 --> 01:33:12,320
He just pops on Twitter. I want that movie where like vampires is going around sucking the blood of people that he wants their talents and skills and memories. I love that idea. God, let's write a fucking TV show for that.

639
01:33:12,320 --> 01:33:28,320
I got exile looks like fun. I said that on the beat. He's like, wow. So you get to just not work and fuck kicks and do whatever you want to do. As long as it's in this giant house.

640
01:33:28,320 --> 01:33:34,320
I guess people have been coming after him because he's got this all this this guard rail set up and everything.

641
01:33:34,320 --> 01:33:48,320
Likens that was like, yeah, he's got like insecurity and yeah, we're given to him there and she asked him, slainess. I'm she's like, or somebody asked him. He's like, well, how'd you get the Liken guards in there? Like you, they were given to me.

642
01:33:48,320 --> 01:34:05,320
Because that's the intro into Likens as slaves. Right. And yeah. Why was he in? We're so far into this. That's a very vague thing to where it's like, I was the one who put him there. Then you find out later it was actually, I mean, it was like Victor and her, I guess.

643
01:34:05,320 --> 01:34:25,320
But it was kind of vague. Yeah. I just don't remember. I don't know. Straight up. Don't remember. There's so much. Yeah. So Jackie, brain jacket. It gives the ship. I have notes like not a fan of flashbacks to explain minor detail.

644
01:34:25,320 --> 01:34:41,320
Dude, there I mean, there would be flashbacks to what literally just fucking happened. Like that was mine. It was like there's flashback to what just happened. Question mark. Exclamation point. Like there'd be a scene and it'd be like, yeah, remember that just happened a second ago. Like crazy. Like, yeah, no, I know. I was here.

645
01:34:41,320 --> 01:34:43,320
I was watching the movie.

646
01:34:43,320 --> 01:35:06,320
I've been here this whole time. I know Marcus is realizing that, but I've known this whole time or like, yeah, even like when she would be walking through the castle off the end and being like, yes, I remember this. Oh yes. I remember that. It's like you could show her face and she's such a good actor that you would understand just in her facial facial expression that she's like, I, I've known this place before. I recognize it. But no, it's like,

647
01:35:06,320 --> 01:35:15,320
but shaking you being like she remembers it from the specific time.

648
01:35:15,320 --> 01:35:19,320
She drew that. She drew that mural as a child.

649
01:35:19,320 --> 01:35:39,320
Oh my God. Yeah. That was my other note. This whole castle is disintegrating into water into the earth and what remains is a child's drawing just above the water's edge. It's perfectly intact. It looks like.

650
01:35:39,320 --> 01:35:55,320
And that was in a situation where I was like, wow, this would be a great opportunity to have the cross section of like, what is she seeing is what's real or a memory where it's like she can see the drawing, but the other guys can't. I thought that's what they were going to do. That would have been real smart.

651
01:35:55,320 --> 01:36:14,320
Been like, oh, I remember seeing this drawing because I drew it and then they're like, what are you looking at? And then it goes to their purview and it's not there. Right. Right. Yeah. And then it's just like, they're just like, yeah, that's weird that there's a kid's drawing right there. Isn't that funny?

652
01:36:14,320 --> 01:36:32,320
Also, you're already in the underground palace. Like, of course you're already in the right area. You don't need the child's drawing to know that. No, this is the right place. She's had like five other flashbacks getting up to this point and it's like, oh, yeah.

653
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:43,320
Can you say what will I become after this line? Yeah. Quickly. Now, before there is no legacy left in my veins.

654
01:36:43,320 --> 01:36:46,320
Before I will come.

655
01:36:46,320 --> 01:36:50,320
The future.

656
01:36:50,320 --> 01:36:53,320
You said before I will come.

657
01:36:53,320 --> 01:36:55,320
What will I become?

658
01:36:55,320 --> 01:36:58,320
Is what I wanted you to be like before I was.

659
01:36:58,320 --> 01:37:00,320
Okay.

660
01:37:00,320 --> 01:37:04,320
I like that. I like that telling as well. We'll just we'll stick with that.

661
01:37:04,320 --> 01:37:12,320
Before I will come the future.

662
01:37:12,320 --> 01:37:24,320
Yeah. And then my last two notes were how the fuck is that kid's wrong still there and not enough hybrid shit. So, yeah, I was under world evolution.

663
01:37:24,320 --> 01:37:26,320
Yes, underworld evolution.

664
01:37:26,320 --> 01:37:36,320
This has been quite a discussion of the lore of Likens V where. Oh, could you imagine.

665
01:37:36,320 --> 01:37:47,320
I is that what the future is if I'm sure that's what they say is there's factions against there's the it's all right now. It's not just like in ZV vampires.

666
01:37:47,320 --> 01:37:53,320
It's you know, I'd imagine whatever the movie after rise the Likens will be something like that.

667
01:37:53,320 --> 01:37:58,320
But we'll see for now. This has been underworld evolution.

668
01:37:58,320 --> 01:38:04,320
I'm going to read some reviews or do you want to take a little break? See? No, no. Go for it. All right.

669
01:38:04,320 --> 01:38:11,320
So let's check out what the people have to say. What do people have to say?

670
01:38:11,320 --> 01:38:18,320
What do people say? Part of the episode we find out what people have to say.

671
01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:21,320
Let's go to the critics first.

672
01:38:21,320 --> 01:38:31,320
They give it a 17 percent one seven percent. Very, very bad.

673
01:38:31,320 --> 01:38:36,320
It's like real bad. It's very bad. Yeah.

674
01:38:36,320 --> 01:38:40,320
There will be some negative opinions here.

675
01:38:40,320 --> 01:38:43,320
Let's start with Derek Adams from Time Out.

676
01:38:43,320 --> 01:38:50,320
I can't even begin to divulge the storyline because it's mostly unfathomable unfathomable.

677
01:38:50,320 --> 01:38:54,320
It's more than it's unlikeable.

678
01:38:54,320 --> 01:39:04,320
Oh, no, he did it. James Dyer, Empire magazine, James Dyer from Empire.

679
01:39:04,320 --> 01:39:15,320
Evolution's action sequences are as horribly bungled as its plot, resulting in a string of repetitive, repetitive, repetitive, repetitive, repetitive confrontations.

680
01:39:15,320 --> 01:39:20,320
I feel toothless even by the last movie standards. One out of five. Repetitive.

681
01:39:20,320 --> 01:39:27,320
Repetitive.

682
01:39:27,320 --> 01:39:30,320
Paul Arendt BBC.com.

683
01:39:30,320 --> 01:39:39,320
So dedicated to its ludicrously convoluted plot that it takes half an hour to explain what the hell is going on.

684
01:39:39,320 --> 01:39:43,320
It explains what's going on right from the get go. I would actually argue the opposite.

685
01:39:43,320 --> 01:39:45,320
Over explanation.

686
01:39:45,320 --> 01:39:47,320
Over explanation is the problem.

687
01:39:47,320 --> 01:39:50,320
Stephen Metcalf Slate.

688
01:39:50,320 --> 01:40:00,320
I dare anyone to follow the plot, which manages like some ill baked meringue to be both too light on the surface and too densely clotted underneath.

689
01:40:00,320 --> 01:40:03,320
Oh, I don't know, like a meringue. That's totally right.

690
01:40:03,320 --> 01:40:06,320
Yeah. Underworld evolution is like a meringue.

691
01:40:06,320 --> 01:40:07,320
Like a meringue.

692
01:40:07,320 --> 01:40:10,320
Stephen Metcalf at Slate.

693
01:40:10,320 --> 01:40:11,320
Like a meringue.

694
01:40:11,320 --> 01:40:25,320
Jeanette Katsoulis, New York Times. With leads who strain to manage one facial expression between them and a cinematographer shooting everything through the same steel blue filter.

695
01:40:25,320 --> 01:40:34,320
Underworld evolution is a monotonous barrage of computer generated fur and fangs.

696
01:40:34,320 --> 01:40:42,320
And we'll go with one more from Nell Minow, Movie Mom. You're on top critics at Rotten Tomatoes.

697
01:40:42,320 --> 01:40:44,320
She's a movie mom.

698
01:40:44,320 --> 01:40:52,320
An incoherent mess covered in sticky goopy blood without one interesting action scene or fresh stunt.

699
01:40:52,320 --> 01:40:55,320
Yikes.

700
01:40:55,320 --> 01:40:58,320
Go straight to your room.

701
01:40:58,320 --> 01:41:07,320
And then we'll go to the audience side of things, a 72 as opposed to the 17. This really fits our podcast folks.

702
01:41:07,320 --> 01:41:14,320
This is the kind of disparity we're looking for here on the polarize pad.

703
01:41:14,320 --> 01:41:18,320
This is a successful epi-5, I've ever seen one.

704
01:41:18,320 --> 01:41:23,320
We'll start with a five stars on letterbox from Little Lactaid.

705
01:41:23,320 --> 01:41:31,320
Why would I listen to your lies when the journey to the truth is so much sweeter?

706
01:41:31,320 --> 01:41:35,320
Oh, yes, Marcus, you hideous bitch.

707
01:41:35,320 --> 01:41:42,320
I love this time capsule of the early 2000s. We were all really going through it, huh?

708
01:41:42,320 --> 01:41:44,320
What? What were we going through?

709
01:41:44,320 --> 01:41:46,320
I don't know. We were going through it.

710
01:41:46,320 --> 01:41:49,320
The Beckinsale phase.

711
01:41:49,320 --> 01:41:54,320
Five stars from Tony, just as massive as the first one.

712
01:41:54,320 --> 01:42:01,320
Whoo. It's one of those cases where you can where you can love the first film and the sequel together and apart.

713
01:42:01,320 --> 01:42:06,320
I love these movies that sometimes I don't be knowing which one to put on.

714
01:42:06,320 --> 01:42:10,320
I know it's the first one. And at times where it's this one.

715
01:42:10,320 --> 01:42:14,320
This adds on to the myth of so frickin well.

716
01:42:14,320 --> 01:42:20,320
I love how it gets more into the world of both creatures and you find out more from Serene's Pass.

717
01:42:20,320 --> 01:42:23,320
Epic action. And Kate just kills it.

718
01:42:23,320 --> 01:42:27,320
Both movies are masterpieces and some of my favorite films of all time.

719
01:42:27,320 --> 01:42:29,320
I hold these dearly.

720
01:42:29,320 --> 01:42:35,320
Can't wait to see Len Wiseman back this year or in 2025.

721
01:42:35,320 --> 01:42:38,320
Yeah, there might be a new one.

722
01:42:38,320 --> 01:42:40,320
Wow.

723
01:42:40,320 --> 01:42:42,320
Five stars or Mark of Night Rider.

724
01:42:42,320 --> 01:42:44,320
What's that?

725
01:42:44,320 --> 01:42:46,320
We're ahead of the time. Yeah, they're talking about doing a.

726
01:42:46,320 --> 01:42:50,320
I mean, this was written February 5th, 2024.

727
01:42:50,320 --> 01:42:54,320
So Tony is on it.

728
01:42:54,320 --> 01:42:56,320
That's why I like these modern, modern reviews.

729
01:42:56,320 --> 01:43:00,320
It's nice to see people still feeling it.

730
01:43:00,320 --> 01:43:02,320
Mark of Night Rider.

731
01:43:02,320 --> 01:43:07,320
Five stars. In all seriousness, Underworld Evolution is actually really awesome.

732
01:43:07,320 --> 01:43:12,320
This and Godzilla King of Monsters are my go to examples of sequels that are way better than the first movies.

733
01:43:12,320 --> 01:43:16,320
Holy shit. I am just floored.

734
01:43:16,320 --> 01:43:19,320
Also, Marcus and William are better than Thanos.

735
01:43:19,320 --> 01:43:22,320
Fight me. Yeah.

736
01:43:22,320 --> 01:43:25,320
Better than Thanos.

737
01:43:25,320 --> 01:43:29,320
Godzilla King of Monsters, another polarizing movie.

738
01:43:29,320 --> 01:43:31,320
Yeah.

739
01:43:31,320 --> 01:43:34,320
We'll do a couple more here from ZJ five stars.

740
01:43:34,320 --> 01:43:38,320
These films are making me realize things about myself.

741
01:43:38,320 --> 01:43:41,320
Yikes. Give me that juicy underworld lore.

742
01:43:41,320 --> 01:43:43,320
Oh, and Gore.

743
01:43:43,320 --> 01:43:45,320
Oh, yes.

744
01:43:45,320 --> 01:43:47,320
Though a bit of CGI mess.

745
01:43:47,320 --> 01:43:52,320
Those final two kills were amazing.

746
01:43:52,320 --> 01:43:54,320
Oh, OK.

747
01:43:54,320 --> 01:43:55,320
You know what?

748
01:43:55,320 --> 01:43:56,320
Good for you.

749
01:43:56,320 --> 01:43:59,320
You do you, man.

750
01:43:59,320 --> 01:44:05,320
But Pia five stars, I would unicorn for Scott Speedman and Kate Beckinsale if they asked me.

751
01:44:05,320 --> 01:44:08,320
Holy moly.

752
01:44:08,320 --> 01:44:10,320
Holy guacamole.

753
01:44:10,320 --> 01:44:12,320
From Cy five stars.

754
01:44:12,320 --> 01:44:14,320
You know, they get shit done in these movies.

755
01:44:14,320 --> 01:44:20,320
LMFAO. Man or monster, you are dead dead if you're killed in the underworld universe.

756
01:44:20,320 --> 01:44:22,320
No question about it.

757
01:44:22,320 --> 01:44:24,320
This franchise is all is art.

758
01:44:24,320 --> 01:44:26,320
I.D.K. I.D.K.

759
01:44:26,320 --> 01:44:29,320
It's like it was made for me.

760
01:44:29,320 --> 01:44:33,320
Tee hee.

761
01:44:33,320 --> 01:44:35,320
And then finally from Cali.

762
01:44:35,320 --> 01:44:36,320
Yep.

763
01:44:36,320 --> 01:44:39,320
Vampires, Likens, Kate Beckinsale and latex suit.

764
01:44:39,320 --> 01:44:42,320
What more to ask for five stars.

765
01:44:42,320 --> 01:44:48,320
I mean, really, at the end of the day, you know what you're getting with an underworld underworld movie.

766
01:44:48,320 --> 01:44:52,320
Vampires, Likens, Kate Beckinsale and latex suit.

767
01:44:52,320 --> 01:44:58,320
That's what you get, I assume, with every single one of these movies, except the next one, which is the odd man out.

768
01:44:58,320 --> 01:45:00,320
Very excited for that one.

769
01:45:00,320 --> 01:45:05,320
As for this one, I feel like this is the polarization of it all.

770
01:45:05,320 --> 01:45:15,320
The whole reason for this podcast to comments on that, I'd say it's really just a classic case of, you know, critics like this is a a sequel to a blockbusters.

771
01:45:15,320 --> 01:45:28,320
And that's kind of like the typical movies that critics hate are the blockbusters, not all blockbusters, but it's an easier one for the stereotypical ones are critics, a blockbuster is an audience's hate.

772
01:45:28,320 --> 01:45:32,320
Weird indie small movies are experienced on this podcast.

773
01:45:32,320 --> 01:45:36,320
This one is a sequel of a blockbuster.

774
01:45:36,320 --> 01:45:47,320
And re upping on on some of those negative parts of the first one, but also anti upping on some of the other fun stuff.

775
01:45:47,320 --> 01:45:49,320
So I don't know.

776
01:45:49,320 --> 01:45:51,320
Let's see where we land on it.

777
01:45:51,320 --> 01:45:54,320
Brandy, you want to kick us off here?

778
01:45:54,320 --> 01:46:03,320
Yeah, happy to.

779
01:46:03,320 --> 01:46:09,320
Yeah, I don't think this movie works for me as much as the first one, unfortunately.

780
01:46:09,320 --> 01:46:28,320
I do like some of the lore expansion, though I it keeps me interested in a like we've talked about kind of allows me to think about what this can be and what this could be more so than what it actually is.

781
01:46:28,320 --> 01:46:34,320
I overall enjoyed it.

782
01:46:34,320 --> 01:46:35,320
I overall enjoyed it.

783
01:46:35,320 --> 01:46:51,320
I yeah, I there's like I had mentioned, maybe we'll get to if there's something deeper in me that is allowing me to be a little bit more forgiving of this franchise for its faults.

784
01:46:51,320 --> 01:46:58,320
But yeah, it's not really a good movie.

785
01:46:58,320 --> 01:47:04,320
But it is I don't know there's there's a sweetness to it that I wouldn't mind returning to.

786
01:47:04,320 --> 01:47:14,320
Yeah, I think for me this is like since like it's 71 is where I'm at.

787
01:47:14,320 --> 01:47:15,320
Very nice.

788
01:47:15,320 --> 01:47:17,320
You know, yeah, I do.

789
01:47:17,320 --> 01:47:30,320
I totally get it, man. I'm it's it makes it easier in a way to I feel like absorb the fun side of this in the same way as you.

790
01:47:30,320 --> 01:47:41,320
And I feel like you are familiar enough with the Lord as well. We're like, even some of my questions are answered in a way that I'm like, oh, well, yeah, that actually makes sense.

791
01:47:41,320 --> 01:47:47,320
And are you actually even like it more now because of how you how you put it like that? I've been a couple of times in this conversation.

792
01:47:47,320 --> 01:47:51,320
I'm like, you know what? It makes complete sense. It makes sense.

793
01:47:51,320 --> 01:47:54,320
I don't know why I have this soft spot for this movie, too.

794
01:47:54,320 --> 01:47:59,320
This is coming from someone that didn't like grow up watching them a bunch. I remember seeing them from afar.

795
01:47:59,320 --> 01:48:02,320
I mean, like those like, yeah, those look pretty cool. I know why I haven't watched them.

796
01:48:02,320 --> 01:48:23,320
And then they just kept making them and making them. And to to jump in now, it's the frustrating things and why it's not going to get like super high score is because those things just aren't fully fleshed out and fully taken advantage of in a way that is satisfying enough to me.

797
01:48:23,320 --> 01:48:32,320
But this movie has me like still thinking about the lore and still thinking about the past, present, future of the underworld universe.

798
01:48:32,320 --> 01:48:49,320
Like, I think it's so again, I think it's so great that there is like this whole past element to this movie that all these characters are gradually finding out about within like old books and from people that are immortal and then are telling these stories word of mouth and that they're discovering things that way.

799
01:48:49,320 --> 01:49:18,320
But then there's like this new element of the hybrid and they're all coming together and cross acting. And that's a very difficult thing to provide a narrative for and in a completely intelligible way and not have, you know, some sort of convoluted elements to make it seem like, you know, there's a mystery and there's something happening within some little slice of the pie of this big, big pie of this narrative that they're trying to get into that spans whatever, however long it does.

800
01:49:18,320 --> 01:49:30,320
But for this one, it checks a lot of a lot of boxes still for me where it picks up right where the other one left off. It gives me a lot more of the same.

801
01:49:30,320 --> 01:49:42,320
And then it gives me new stuff as well as, you know, not enough of the hybrid, but I get this hybrid guy. I get this like super powerful vampire and I get the super powerful werewolf.

802
01:49:42,320 --> 01:50:05,320
And I think in that way, it's weird. It almost like limits it a little bit where there are scenes where there's like groups of people attacking each other. But the way that it devolves in the first one into like just mobs of guys going at each other was a wasn't as interesting as the final set piece of this movie.

803
01:50:05,320 --> 01:50:19,320
And that's where this movie beats the first one in a way is that you get the final set piece in a castle. You get the ultimate ultimate vampire ultimate werewolf.

804
01:50:19,320 --> 01:50:29,320
And it's I don't know. It's fucking dope. And it's like this. Yeah, this super strong albino werewolf. It's the best one that the Likens have ever that they've looked at the effects and everything.

805
01:50:29,320 --> 01:50:41,320
And all of those pieces coming together with Kate Beckinsale and the hybrid of Scott Speedman, I think is like peak underworld so far for me is the castle is the castle scene.

806
01:50:41,320 --> 01:51:03,320
It doesn't meet the heights of some of the other stuff in the first one, obviously, and in just pure enjoyment factor and Michael Sheen and Bill Nye and divvying out that backstory in that way. But that that final set piece had me had me grinning and this whole franchise I think will continue to do that.

807
01:51:03,320 --> 01:51:17,320
And yeah, I think I gave the last one like a 72. I can see you even pumping that up to like 75 or something. But for this one, you all go go down a bit.

808
01:51:17,320 --> 01:51:32,320
I'll do 65. Do 65. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Like 65 64 something something like that. Totally. I'm just so happy that these movies exist. So it's like the whole time I was thinking, even when I was like, oh, this is getting a little like up its own butt.

809
01:51:32,320 --> 01:51:54,320
I was like, like, I, there's no part of me that wishes that this shit just didn't exist or that like, why is this? Why is this happening to me? Why is this? I'm just like, this is this is they think they are so cool. And at times they really fucking are are really cool.

810
01:51:54,320 --> 01:52:06,320
So it's they succeed in that way. And I got to give them give them due credit. Very curious about this next one, as we've alluded to that will be we're still working through this polarizing series.

811
01:52:06,320 --> 01:52:22,320
The camps are set between the audiences and the critics, i.e. vampires, likens. And it's cool to have an ongoing battle and within our podcast, as well as the characters within the movie.

812
01:52:22,320 --> 01:52:36,320
So the next one will be a prequel. And the first one that I took part in, it will be saying sounds Beckinsale. Right.

813
01:52:36,320 --> 01:52:45,320
But like a look alike, not directed by lens, Len Wiseman, whatever his name is, it's a director. Yeah, I'm curious what someone else does with it.

814
01:52:45,320 --> 01:52:54,320
But we got Michael Sheen back, Rona Mitra as Sanja, Bill Nye as Victor coming back. Tannis is there.

815
01:52:54,320 --> 01:53:02,320
We get the Kevin Graveau raise the guy with the voice in the first one.

816
01:53:02,320 --> 01:53:09,320
Yeah, I'm I'm just in on this. And this is this is going to be something that like and it's it's an hour and a half.

817
01:53:09,320 --> 01:53:18,320
2009. Great. It's it's like going to fill in all those gaps of this movie that they were trying to do all those flashbacks for. It's just going to be a whole movie. Those flashbacks. Great. Awesome.

818
01:53:18,320 --> 01:53:30,320
Right. Yeah. And the review or the numbies here are a 30 percent by the critics. It goes up a little bit from the last one and a 63 percent by the audience goes down a bit.

819
01:53:30,320 --> 01:53:43,320
So it's interesting to see them meeting in the middle in some way, shape or form. And this is also the beginning of where it's these movies start to release in January.

820
01:53:43,320 --> 01:53:58,320
Oh, it's supposed to be a. It's like for the next. All right. Maybe this was the first one, but like they're like three year increments release every like January 20th, the weekend of like January 20th.

821
01:53:58,320 --> 01:54:11,320
It's it's kind of interesting. They're like they decide their their release date. Yeah. Let's see. We got Underworld Evolution January 20th, 2006 was the first one, January 20th.

822
01:54:11,320 --> 01:54:21,320
So never mind Underworld Rise of the Lichens January 23rd, 2009 and Underworld Awakening January 20th, 2012. Awakening. Are we doing that as well?

823
01:54:21,320 --> 01:54:29,320
The next one we will do be doing after Rise of the Lichens. I can find out for you. Just give me one.

824
01:54:29,320 --> 01:54:36,320
I'm not sure if it's awakening or blood wars. I think it might be awakening, which would be the next one.

825
01:54:36,320 --> 01:54:42,320
And there's oh, wow. I didn't realize there was even one more. Yeah, there's five. Yeah.

826
01:54:42,320 --> 01:54:53,320
They're all polarized. Underworld Awakening is the one we will be doing after Rise of the Lichens. And then, yeah, like the the blood world, blood wars.

827
01:54:53,320 --> 01:55:19,320
There is just rotten 2149 audience, but that can be a bonus up if we so choose. But we'll at least be getting up to Underworld Awakening just to give you guys the heads up if you want to go ahead and just work through that that series.

828
01:55:19,320 --> 01:55:32,320
Oh, wow. Wow. I just like I can't believe like I know about the underworld franchise. I just know. Yeah, I just know about some of that stuff. And yeah, if they if they ask me.

829
01:55:32,320 --> 01:55:42,320
Yeah, so there's you know, there's that one one brother bitten by a wolf, one brother bitten by a bat. You know, that's Marcus and William. It's not a big deal.

830
01:55:42,320 --> 01:55:53,320
You got your hybrid, you know, like my name's like, oh, you got your Victor. You got your William.

831
01:55:53,320 --> 01:56:04,320
Just oh, my God. Yeah, I'm stumped deep in it. I love that we're becoming fucking underworld nerds. I kind of do, too.

832
01:56:04,320 --> 01:56:18,320
If they had an underworld video game, I would have played it. I'm wondering if they if they had a good one. I feel like I would have heard about it, but it just it feel like it was dope action RPG of some kind. You just or you just choose your side. I don't know.

833
01:56:18,320 --> 01:56:23,320
I don't know. Just choose Michael Schreiner and Kate Beckinsale or some shit.

834
01:56:23,320 --> 01:56:25,320
It's an it's an MMORPG.

835
01:56:25,320 --> 01:56:39,320
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's an MMORPG. You only get two choices, though. Yeah, it's like, you know, you choose your side and then you're in this internal battle. Yeah, no big deal.

836
01:56:39,320 --> 01:56:45,320
It's no big deal. They should they should bring that back. Yeah, stop making such a big deal.

837
01:56:45,320 --> 01:57:06,320
We're doing underworld the series, and it's not a huge deal. Everyone's making such a big deal out of it, and we're just trying to just we're just trying to understand it better. And I think we are. I think through these discussions overall, we're understanding the lore of underworld better. And I think we're enjoying it quite a bit.

838
01:57:06,320 --> 01:57:22,320
It's a surprise to me and a good one at that. And I don't see myself putting these down forever. I feel like there'll be another day where I'll be like, you know what? I'm going back. I'm going back through. Yeah. Was that right?

839
01:57:22,320 --> 01:57:36,320
I'm going to do an underworld franchise fucking again. You know, who knows? Good. That's good. That's good. Everybody knows. They'll bring it back. They're going to do. They'll do a reawakening.

840
01:57:36,320 --> 01:57:38,320
We should write that movie.

841
01:57:38,320 --> 01:57:54,320
I mean, I want like just off the blood memory thing. Yeah, just like a vampire. And that's just trying to like make its way through a modern world being like, I don't understand these new talents for social media. I'm just going to suck your blood so I can obtain them.

842
01:57:54,320 --> 01:58:02,320
Oh, gotcha. So it's kind of like a like an infinite pill, but with blood.

843
01:58:02,320 --> 01:58:27,320
Yeah. And kind of like a very vain vampire that like wants recognition, but has to like somehow change their identity like every so often and become a new new star in a different field and just has to test themselves on like, but then you find out that they're like, just stealing the talents by sucking the blood of the most talented people that exist at that time.

844
01:58:27,320 --> 01:58:49,320
Now, being a TV show. Oh, I like that. Okay. Okay. Now you can just go through a piece of like, oh, he's a lawyer in the 1800s. Yes. Yes. James. Absolutely. No, you totally. Yeah, right. It's what if each season was a different time period? Yeah.

845
01:58:49,320 --> 01:59:10,320
Different profession, different like, I mean, what's the door? What? Yeah. It's a love story to get the love story. That's enough. Man. One of the weaker parts. But yeah, once you once they like bite somebody and make them immortal too, then it's gonna be like, oh no, no, no, we're stuck in this together.

846
01:59:10,320 --> 01:59:26,320
Yeah, that's where the show goes downhill. Yeah, it's a total. It's a total interview with the vampire situation. Yeah. But it's more about like, catch me if you can style.

847
01:59:26,320 --> 01:59:30,320
Okay, you walk into you walk into the pitch meeting.

848
01:59:30,320 --> 01:59:43,320
You can meet just meet meet interview with the vampire. You got it. Come on. Right. This way.

849
01:59:43,320 --> 01:59:46,320
Take my money.

850
01:59:46,320 --> 01:59:50,320
Well, that would be so funny. Okay.

851
01:59:50,320 --> 02:00:08,320
This is true, true delight will rise with the likings next time. True pledge, true pledge, as one would say, from brandy greatest, greatest host to me the forever guests, greatest host your guests forever.

852
02:00:08,320 --> 02:00:26,320
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853
02:00:26,320 --> 02:00:46,320
We stream it live every now and then send us a line and polarized the pod gmail.com rate review subscribe on Apple podcast anywhere else you get this and we appreciate you coming into our underworld home and from ours to yours.

854
02:00:46,320 --> 02:00:51,320
To our happy holiday season.

855
02:00:51,320 --> 02:01:03,320
Anything you'd like to add. I'm thankful for this pod. I'm thankful for friendship. I'm thankful for like kids and vampires being in this and locked in this internal war.

856
02:01:03,320 --> 02:01:18,320
Yeah, that's like the likens are like you you vampires just celebrate fucking Thanksgiving every year. That's not that's not how we fucking know they can't do that because they'll throw up and get the police called on. Yeah, like, don't you know we can eat turkeys.

857
02:01:18,320 --> 02:01:22,320
Unless they're alive and wriggling.

858
02:01:22,320 --> 02:01:24,320
We thank you all.

859
02:01:24,320 --> 02:01:26,320
We'll see you next time.

860
02:01:26,320 --> 02:01:28,320
Bye.

861
02:01:28,320 --> 02:01:50,320
Bye bye.