Sign up up. What's going on, everybody? It's the end of the
world. Just kidding, it's the end of the year. How's everybody doing.
We have a pretty short show planned, but a fun one. I've
got an actual list of things I want to discuss tonight. Let's make sure
you hang around for the entire show. We don't have a ton of announcements
to go over, but there's a lot of topics that come out over the
year that don't really fit either shows. Tonight is where we air all of
those grievances that most of them are not grievances, but we're going to discuss
and I'm hoping you in the chat will be incredibly active. And with that,
I am going to make sure that I share this, make sure you
get that like button on the stream, and be active in the chat,
say hello and hang out. I did say that I was going to not
have a guest tonight. However, with the way that we have been all
leading up to this random Shelf Shock Rewind Awards that we've been planning for the
whole second half of the year, I figured what better way to end the
year than going over somebody that always goes over the announcements with me. We're
going to bring in Stephen Billings of Chasing Labels and he is muted. Go
ahead, unmute yourself. There, I am there you How do I sound?
Now I can hear myself. Now that's great. It's having some tech
issues, right, but leading like thirty seconds and now I got it.
Now I can perfect timing. Steven. What's been going on? Oh,
you know, just you know, making a little break, you know,
Chasing Labels didn't have an episode last week and we won't have another one this
weekend, and uh, you know, just just you know, trying to
chill, trying to you know. I watched a few new movies this week.
You know, I really don't get a lot of chances to watch films
that came out the year, you know, in the year. So this
week I've watched I think four new movies. It's amazing. Wat Uh The
Fableman's I watched last night. I watched I watched the Nolan Ryan documentary because
I'm a big baseball fan. I love baseball, and I watched the Nolan
Ryan documentary called Facing h Facing Nolan. It's when I think HBO Max.
I watched banshees of ear shoaring sharing love that. That was great. I
love that. And then I was something else I watched but I'm forgetting it.
But I, oh god, what did I watch last week with my
wife? Never mind? That's how quickly my mind leaves the movies sometimes just
leave right. But yeah, you know, it's just been good, just
kind of not getting putting the pressure on myself to watch things for the show,
which I love. I love the curation that the labels do for me.
It really keeps me on my toes and it keeps me discovering new things.
But it's good to take a break from it for a minute and just
watch you. You do all the work still so well, hopefully there's not
too much work tonight. I think we only got like fifteen announcements this entire
week, and even that's kind of stretching it a little bit. That's kind
of why I take this time, because I know that usually the labels take
a break too, so I kind of use this last couple weeks of the
year to just be like, you know, this is the best time.
We won't get two behind when we come back. So Steven listed some recent
watches and I am home this week without work and my kids are off,
which means my watching time is cut drastically down to nothing because I can't watch
anything during the day that is over or maybe a really light PG thirteen,
And in most cases it's got to be PG because my kids are crazy.
But the one thing I watched this week is very kid friendly, and I'm
gonna rave about it for a quick second. I just want everybody to check
it out. I loved Incanto when I got released, I think that was
twenty twenty one, and I attached to it very quickly. I thought the
animation was great, the music was incredible. Just in the last couple of
days they released on Disney Plus the live Hollywood Bowl performance of the Encanto songs
where they got the original voice cast come in and perform, had this incredible
set, and I gotta admit it was impressive as hell. Absolutely loved it.
I hope people will go watch it because it's it's fantastic. Not something
that we would normally talk about on this channel, but my gosh, I
was thrilled to see it. Yeah, I'm a big pick I love Pixar.
I've always loved Pixar, but I'm honestly a little behind. I think
I've missed the last couple. Like I don't. I haven't seen Turning Red
yet. I know people a lot of people like that one, and conto,
I don't. I don't believe i've watched yet. I think the last
one I watched was what's the one where the you had the jazz the jazz
player they got, Yeah, I watched. I think that's the last one
I've seen his soul. So yeah, it's you know, you say what
you will. You know, like some people might say that they've fallen off
a little bit, but god damn it, if if they didn't have the
best streak of great films. Uh yeah, And and so you know,
they're in a period. You know, they went through a period where they
did a lot of sequels, you know, and and I you know,
you understand, it's Disney, They're they're it's all about sustaining the Disney name.
But you know they've taken some some interesting swings lately, I think,
and and uh, that's all you can ask for. And and it's yeah,
I mean, I'll I'll be excited to eventually get around to it.
I got Disney. Plus I'll eventually get around into the best part. It's
only forty five minutes. Oh damn, Well, there you go. Yeah.
It was an immediate watch solely based on that. I normally go over
pickups and I haven't had too much recently to really share, but one that
I think people have been feeling a lot because we got a few delays on
one title. I got this random super old order in from Diabolic because Dragons
Forever four K had been delayed maybe nineteen twenty four times something like that.
So this is finally here. But the greatest thing is it came with a
bunch of releases that I was dying to see, and they have been held
up on the same order because I'm patient and I didn't email to get it
to get sent in. So I finally got a release from Chameleon. This
is breaking news. And I got in the four K from Blue Underground from
earlier this year God told me to. And then rounding out that stack of
super old orders, I finally got in Doctor Lamb and I can watch what
everybody else watched like seven or eight months ago, and I'm stoked on that.
Other other things I wanted to share. It was the weeknd Christmas.
So I got a handful of things from family and I wanted to share.
Since my sister is on the stream, I will share. She sent me
She's the Man, Gotta love Amanda Bines. And she sent me The Craft
Legacy that I still have not seen yet. I've heard it's not great,
but gotta have it. Yeah, glad my wife didn't make me what Yeah
I wasna say. I glad my wife did make me see that movie.
She loves the original. I'm glad I love the original too. Yeah,
yeah, I do too. My kids went through my Amazon wish list and
one of them picked out Greg the Bunny, The Passion of Greg the Bunny
Volume two. Don't have Volume one yet, but friend of both of our
channels, Sean Baker is the creator of Greg the Bunny, so that's why
it was in my wish list. And then Little Music, Blu Ray alter
Bridge Live at Wembley. Love me some alter Bridge. And then some books.
My wife got me Fright Fest Guide, Ghost Movies, and uh my
sister in law bought me Satanic Panic edited by Killa Janese. Yeah, I
just saw that that book. Just got some restocks into Orbit DVD, and
of course it's you know, for me on my end of course, you
know, speaking of books. In Kyla Janese, I got my you know,
House of Psychotic Women book, and so, uh, I can't wait
to start going through this because I hear there's there's like just every page you
get, you know, new movies that you've never heard of that you're just
like, Okay, I gotta look into this. So that's that's my bread
and butter when it comes to you know, I just like to overwhelm myself
with movies that I will never will have to wait years to watch. So
you know, but yeah, I got that in and I'm I'm I'm really
excited. We'll get into that. So last couple from my wife. She
got me the Patton Oswalt film book Silver Screen Fiend, and uh one that
friend of the channel. Kat Ellinger wrote the original Daughters of Darkness, her
her first book that she did by herself. And uh then but some little
nice things to show off. I got a beetlejuice enamel pin and a little
trick or treat ornament type thing to hang in the movie room. And then
random but Friday the thirteenth dice. Nice. Yeah, that's it, except
for this fancy Oh it's the other way, fancy new light behind me.
You can't make out on this recording because it's so small, but it says
recording and the disconnected. I thought it was pretty pretty posy. I was
gonna say, I noticed on the videos you recently did you'd shifted to a
corner. Yeah. Yeah, the plan is I like it. It looks
good. The plan has been to move for a little while so that I
don't have the exact same thing. But the coolest thing is random light up
movie poster. I get to switch out every once in a while and make
it feel fresh. And I'm going to check the comment real quick. Josephine
is here, friend of both of our channels. Going back to New York
first time watches. I wanted to shout out that thing you do is fricking
incredible. I love that movie The Day Trippers too. I love music.
That's the biggest thing. See we got stan Geezy in the chat. What's
going on? Bruiser haven't been able to make a live in a long time.
What's up? Antoine? And Dustin Terry's here? I think Cam signed
in from twitch and YouTube. What's going on? Ken and Zach from They
Live by Film. Hello, Anthony saying hi to my dog Asuda. What's
going on? Everybody? Brent is here? Eric Dave Jones, what's up?
John Peters? Finally got Shotscope volume two. Have you started to dive
into that yet? Uh? God, I'm not, Brett. No.
I did a little bit. I did a little bit in a kind of
a weird way because before I had, you know, submitted my you know
votes for for shelf Shock rewind. I wanted to look into that set,
and I'd gotten it pretty early because Orbit had gotten some in so I snagged
one and started watching some of the features in that. So I've watched some
features on that, but none of the movies. Right, what's going up?
Rubin and Dead Sea Life? Hey? Hey, Brian is here?
Live? What's going on? Brian? Paul? My friend? And then
Blake is here? What's up? Is this the festivut episode of Reconnected that
I think was last week by the Seinfeld calendar? Either way, Thank you
for being here, Anthony, John Peters, what's going on? Sardis is
back? Thought out and ready to watch. He had a pipe burst in
Texas. Hope everything's go well? There, here's my sister, what's going
on? Let's see, let's I want to show my kids Prince of Egypt
and mouse Hunt. I watched mouse Hunt with my kids last year. I
think amazing movie, amazing. Yeah, I love mouse Hunt. It's it's
yeah, it's God, it's one of them underrated children. IM. That's
gonna be definitely an early watch for my for my daughter. It's so so
sick, it's so slapstick. Nathan Lane is just amazing. Nathan Lane in
that time, he was really just underrated, you know, Birdcage and and
of course his voice worked, you know with Lion King and things like that.
I mean he's yeah, love Nathan Lyne. We need we need a
good release of bird Cage for sure. Oh yeah, hell yeah yeah.
Bruiser. God told me to goes so hard. I can't wait to see
that four K that's one of my I swear it's gotta be top three.
Larry Cohen for me. Uh Stan. I thought Luca from last year was
wonderful and Turning Red was terrific. Lucas great. I love how much they
highlighted the Italian culture there. Brian, what's going on? John is amazed
that the family vice presence and not gift cards. Uh, let's see,
Greg, the bunny looks like a Spencer pick. It absolutely was. Uh,
let's see. Josephine wants to know o their bunnies around where we live?
Absolutely here? Uh yeah, I think there's rabbits everywhere. I mean,
hopefully not like the one that's on the cover. But yeah, I
mean I don't want any demonic rabbits, you know, but I mean yeah,
I mean we got them sometimes. Uh, let's see. Josie says,
what, what's your favorite fictional band in a movie? Favorite fictional band
in the movie. You know, it's hard for me not to say,
you know, Still Water from Almost Famous. Yeah, because it's one of
my favorite films. I will say that I really love because I'm a big
fan of Joe Joe Carney's what I like to call the Love and Music Trilogy.
I made that up. I coin that, which is Once begin Again
and then sing Street, which I love the band Sing Street in that film.
So a lot of great ones, of course, but that's just a
personal favorite of mine. But Still Waters probably the number one for me.
I'm curious if it even counts now because they've toured as a real band and
played lots of shows, but I have to go to spinal Tap. I
was gonna say, I think that's where you're going. I adore spinal Tap.
That's the exact type of comedy I was raised on, so it's it's
certainly my favorite. Yeah, let's see Terry wants to meet the Feebles on
Blue Please Hello from my mom? What's going on? Mom? H John
says he showed his dead, old, daughtered terrified to Jesus Christ. Did
you did wait, wait a second, did you show her terrifier one first
though, because that's that's you. Don't mess it up, don't don't show
the man enough. You're you're I'm more worried about that you showed it out
of order than than you messed up here. She probably saw that the day
came out. Yeah, all right, we are going to get into the
announcements tonight. Steven's gonna hang out for that. But first we wanted to
talk about some shelf shock rewind stuff while we got the biggest glood of people.
We are just about the halfway point on voting, and we wanted to
just remind everybody that it's out there. We have had the ballot up and
running for uh Today is exactly two weeks. I totally forgot the day that
you were here. Last was the the launch date, So it's been exactly
two weeks. In that time, we have received literally multiple hundreds of responses.
We have multiple hundreds of ballots filled out. It's not a staggering thousands
and thousands like I would love it to be, but it is a great
amount and it's nice to see the community engage the The overall results have not
been looked at yet, which I am. I'm dying to cheat, and
I've almost cheated like four times, but I've made myself hold back. The
link to vote is being posted in the chat, so make sure if you
get some free time that you click on that and vote. By January fifteenth,
Steven, you voted very quickly. Any of your picks that you want
you want to throw a ring in the hat or a hat in the ring
for a ring in the hat? You mean, any picks I want to
take back now that I've bought some more. No, no, yeah,
of course there are some things that I could have maybe waited on, but
I felt pretty strongly about my picks, and I mean, we know from
the last time I was on the out of the Blue is obviously, I
mean I want that to win everything. But you know, I mean a
lot of good stuff. You know. I've been watching the votes coming in
and when you're asking me, would I one of my picks for something?
Is there something that you want to throw your weight behind to get people to
vote with you? God, I already did out of the Blue? What
else should I do? So let me see you and you put me on
the spot. I'll answer while you think then, because I've been putting out
some best of videos already. Okay, I think I've put out two today.
It might have been three and one yesterday, and I've got more already
scheduled to go up tomorrow on the next day. But going through everything again
and watching some comments come in today, I was reminded while I was making
the video how great the packaging is for this Wolf of Wall Street release,
and the whole wallet aesthetic and the cocaine on the inside and the cards that
come out. This is really unique, Like not a lot of companies would
have gone so far as to print up credit cards with references to the movie
that come out of the packaging. That I imagine that actually costs quite a
bit for Arrow to put in the packaging and not like trying to side with
the label to say, oh my god, they should be voted for because
they spent a couple of pennies more. But over you know, over a
couple thousand releases of that film, I imagine that choice was probably a little
expensive and something that they had to debate around a table somewhere for a little
while. Very curious to see people's feedback on that. Unfortunately it's not on
the ballot because more people nominated some other titles. But I might write that
one in I really fell in love with it. And I still haven't voted
yet. I'm waiting for a few more days. I've got some other stuff
I'm trying to get in through the end of my vacation. But yeah,
that one. Love the packaging on that, Yeah, oh yeah, definitely
definitely they did do they do went a little extra on that one. You
know, it's tough. I was just thinking about what what what release didn't
did it not really get as much love as that. I would say.
One thing is I would like to see something from Indicator. Make sure Indicator
wins something, because I don't feel like it got as much love as as
you know, they had a I know their year was a little you know,
they had to push back some things and so it kind of affected their
year overall, but you know, they still had some great releases. I
would say the one of the main ones I'd like. It's the whole release
overall isn't necessarily the most attractive release, but I really love the swimmer and
the film and and there's a really great commentary on there. And I know
there's other great commentaries, maybe even ones that I liked more than this one,
but I believe it's Scott Harrison did the did the commentary, and it's
fantastic. I might be wrong, I'm sorry if I am, but it's
a really great commentary. I really love that movie, and I love that
release, and uh, that would be one that I would maybe champion a
little bit. So yeah, I mean but really out of the Blue,
just yeah, whenever Chester, just comment to the ordered out of the Blue
based on your recommendation, Oh fantastic, man, great, it's going on
wave. Glad to have you. John Peters tried to vote again, but
it did not let him. Sounds I built that in, Uh, the
big thing from Indicator is is two points. One, I really loved their
release of Mad Dog Morgan, and that was a little early in the year,
and I feel like people kind of forget that it was twenty twenty two.
The other thing, I feel like if the Santo set had released,
even I know that they had some delays with the the Joseph Michael J.
Murphy Michael J. Murphy set, I know that that caused him some mighty
delays from them, and you just had them on the podcast and they were
fantastic. But if that Santo set had released, and even if Michael J.
Murphy had still been delayed, I think Santo would have gotten a lot
of love on this. Yeah, it's that was definitely you know, we
just had the Vinegar Syndrome Santo doctor debt was it Doctor versus Doctor death release?
So the Santo is on the Brain and I yeah, I think there
definitely could have been a chance that any one of them, you know,
last couple releases could have been more And you know, you know, the
other one was the Pemi Organization one was another one that I really loved.
They have some really interesting releases, but they just weren't so flashy this year.
So but yeah, I mean, I wish Indicator would have gotten a
little bit more love in the in the voting, but you know, there's
always next year. Yeah, that's that's what I feel like. That is
true, and we can we can certainly see this grow a year over year,
and as long as we get a lot of people to show up for
the awards and start sharing this around over the next couple of months, I
feel like it still has a chance to be pretty big for the community.
If you ever see us post from our socials or from shelf Shock, or
you happen upon somebody talking about it on Reddit or Twitter or something like that,
do us a favor and share that post. It does help quite a
bit. And one of the ways that we are looking to highlight some of
that engagement is to get all of you involved. So one of the things
that we are going to be doing is launching the very next shelf Shock rewind
giveaway right now. So we are going to give until the end of voting,
so that way we get this hitting hard. You have the next two
weeks to do this. Give us a video, post it on some social
network, whether that's Twitter, whether that's Facebook, Instagram, whatever, give
it the hashtag shelf Shock giveaway and give us a thirty second or less video
with you standing in front of your collection or with some of your collections something
like that and explaining why you love physical media. Now here's what is at
stake. The top five videos are going to be a part of the live
award show. You will get to see your face broadcast to the entire world,
and then out of those five, the top winner will also receive a
fifty dollars gift certificate to Grindhouse Video. So it's absolutely worth it. It
takes thirty seconds to make video and upload it and make sure you put that
hashtag on there, and we will see it, and we will internally get
some people to look at these and make a choice for us five and get
you involved in the show. Get somebody some more physical media to add to
that collection. Yeah, fifty dude, fifty dollars. I mean I get
you. That get you, that could get you a couple good you know,
single releases, that could get you a nice box set, that could
get you you know, like dude, I mean that's I mean, that's
a that's a that's a gift, right, That's a real gift and at
Grindhouse, that's halfway to your free shipping. Ah, you had another fifty
bucks out of your own pocket. You got free shipping on top of that,
exactly. And we got to thank Mic over there for for donating.
He was gracious, gracious enough to give us some and there's more he's got.
He gave us three of these things, so there's gonna be more giveaways.
So just but this one. Focus on this one, guys. We
want to get a lot of good a lot of good love going for physical
media. This is a chance for us to to really, you know,
spread the love about you know, say why you love it. You know,
we we we show off for collections, we take pictures. This is
where you get to speak in your own words. Tell us why tell you
g get emotional. I want to see someone. I want to see some
tears. So so please please be as unique as you want to be.
But get get the collection in there, get you know, give us,
give us something interesting. I can't wait to see these. I agree.
There's a lot of reasons why people love social media. Hell, I've I've
put out multiple videos talking about why I still collect physical media. So just
anything anything that means something to you about physical media, whether you want to
take a video in front of your favorite label section in your collection, whatever
you want to do, make a nice, make it pretty, and uh,
let's see if we can get this a part of the show. Anything
else about shelf Shock you want to you want to share with everybody? Oh,
you know, so we're you know, we're we're like he said,
we we got it. We got it a couple a few hundred you know,
votes in. But you know we need to we need to make sure
we're sharing it around the link around as much as possible. Now, look,
we don't want to be annoying, so we're not sharing it in all
these groups. You could help us share and share it in these groups,
these other groups where some people maybe don't follow us on the social media as
yet. So please, if you can share it in some of the these
private groups things like that, that would help a lot. You know,
I don't want you to get kicked out of the groups, but you know
that that's another avenue. But but yeah, we got a lot more.
We got other other contests and giveaways and things that we're gonna do. Another
thing. I think we brought it up on another on the one of the
other episodes, I was on that there is gonna be another way to get
involved with the show itself where we might uh do a kind of a behind
the scenes where somebody can win an ability to do the nominations, uh to
to to to present an award. So that's another thing to be looking out
for. But we got some other giveaways, some other uh we got blu
rays to give away. You know, I we already gave away one.
I gave away a four K of a bird with crystal plumage right out of
my collection. I just was like, fuck this and I just pulled it
off the shelfles and I'm gonna give this a way. So you know we're
doing that, and uh so just look out for that. The more you
guys get involved, the more this can be fun and we can do more
of this, because the bigger this is, the more this can happen again
and we can we can keep getting more availability to to donations and things and
get everybody. Everybody's gonna get some. You know, it's gonna be fun.
Just do it. Not to mention. Sharing it around adds to the
legitimacy. And we have a lot of people that we are reaching out to.
And I've already been talking to and and obviously Stephen and myself have already
talked to a lot of these labels and people in the industry, so,
uh, they know us. A lot of them are already you know,
happy to be involved. But if they see that this is like a ground
swell of support, they're more likely to go, well, well, damn,
Like I kind of want to be associated with this just to show that
I'm a part of the community. So it's a good thing to do to
add to that. Yeah, so some of the labels are sharing our stuff
and you know, that's nice, that's great, Let's keep let's keep that
going, Let's get let's reach some of the other labels that haven't gotten on
board yet. So so yeah, it's you know, we're you know,
behind the scenes, we're getting uh, we're getting closer and closer, and
I start to think more and more about how much more work we got to
do and scares the shit out of me. But no, I'm excited.
I'm excited We're getting things together, speaking and getting things together and giveaways.
I do want to kind of tease. One other thing is make sure you
stay around for the whole show. I have another giveaway tonight that is not
shelf shock related, and if you like physical media, you're gonna want this
one, So stay around until later. But Steven, who is also a
master of the announcements like myself, we are going to go over the week's
announcements and let's get into that finally. First, this isn't a real announcement.
I just want to remind everybody that if you are into the premiums,
the crazy Steal books, the media books from Germany and all that, make
sure you're following the Disconnected premiums also on Instagram rather than just Disconnected. Didn't
want to clog everybody's feed with both of them and get a whole bunch of
releases you're not interested in. So yeah, give that a follow if you
are into it. First up, you guys talked about some John Barrymore on
the podcast recently. This is Counselor at Law coming from Keno Lorber from nineteen
thirty three. What do you want? What do you want to share about
this one? Well, I can I can see already the TI. I
mean, John Barrymore is a great actor of you know, and I it's
definitely a selling point, but honestly, the other name below that in smaller
writing is actually the one selling point for me, William Wyler. That's that's
why I will be buying this right away, because he's he's what I would
say, he's one of my favorite filmmakers of that time. You know,
films like Missus Miniver and and you know, Best Years of our Lives.
You know, just he's just such fantastic filmmaker that I don't feel like gets
gets. I mean he gets the love but between cenophiles, but not not
necessarily amongst greatest of all times. So I think he's just a very just
you know why. You know, he did it for so long and he's
got so many hits in there, and I believe he did one of his
last films is a great film. I believe Indicator put it out and it
was one with Terrence Stamp in it and he played like a a killer and
it's a good move. I'm blanking on the name of it, but it's
it's a good one. So yeah, I mean, that's that's what's special
about this one is I is William Wyler for me, and we'll be picking
that up quick obviously John barrymore part of a dynasty as well. And oh
yeah, this is just on top of all that. In nineteen thirty three,
really important time for film as we were, you know, getting our
footing and all that. So this this definitely sounds good. We got a
new audio commentary with Daniel Kramer and Katherine Wyler and yeah, I bet this
is gonna be a great release, and I clicked away. Of course.
This last week I posted an interview with Jerry Chandler of Synapse and this is
one that a lot of people have been asking for for a long time when
I started doing some of these interviews, and Jerry is a character. This
was first off. I had to reschedule this a couple of times. Jerry.
It can be a little hard to track down sometimes because how busy they
are. The conversation was wild. We talked about we really seeing some of
the old Synaps related DVDs on Blu Ray. We talked about, uh,
why the steel book releases from Synaps cost so much, and somehow this ended
with Jerry teaching us about safe words to use in BDSM. So this is
this is a wild interview conversation for you, very physical media related. Yeah,
give it a listen. Let's start the deeper announcements here. More Keino
lorber as always Uh. I forer Icarus from nineteen seventy nine got announced and
they are they are standing deep in some of these foreign releases over the next
couple months, Like France has been giving so much, We're getting so many
Truffau and uh, there's a couple of collections coming from around that time.
Crazy couple months for Qino. Yeah, I'm with you. I don't know
nothing about this one, but you know, the dude's holding a gun,
so I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I'm gonna look into it. Good enough
reason right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did it again again.
Yeah, that people don't love. I wanted to shout out Mill Creek
because the best thing is Mill Creek gives us some budget releases of some decent
films. These usually on release are like eight or nine bucks. Nothing crazy,
But they are giving us three more from their retro VHS collection. They're
giving us Fear from nineteen ninety six with the thespian Mark Wahlberg, then The
Fan from nineteen ninety six as well with Wesley Snipes, the Great Economist and
Problem Child from nineteen ninety is getting its like twenty seventh Blu Ray release,
and this will be probably the exact same studio disc that we always get from
them. Unfortunately, Mill Creek doesn't usually get to do their own scans or
anything. But they're they're fun releases at least. Yeah, I mean,
dude, you know, I'm yeah, I'm with I'm with a lot of
people. They're not they're not. They don't, you know, blow my
hair back. But I mean sometimes there's something that they put out You're like,
Okay, I'm just gonna get that because it's cheap and why not.
For instance, uh, one movie that I wanted to get for a while
that had they put out and it was like nobody else is putting it out?
Is a crossroads? Uh you know with Ralph Ralph uh Mary Machi,
I was best said Mariachi. That was a little bit racist. I don't
know why I was best saying, but uh so, yeah, I mean
they put that out. I was like, I love that movie. You
know, I got I hadn't seen it since I was a kid. I
was like, they put that out. I was like, shit, I
gotta get that. I don't care about the VHS box. But but yeah,
you know, it's a good movie. And uh but yeah, these
three I've seen Fear I've I've seen all three of these. I've seen Fear
so movie. I watched tons when I was growing up. For some reason.
It's sleazy, but it's fun. Yeah, it's sleazy, but it's
you know, it's it's you know, a break from the crazy girlfriend.
It's the crazy boyfriend that just fucking stalks you and you know, won't let
leave you alone and tries to kill everybody. And Mark Wahlberg's he's scary in
the movie. He really is. And then the fan yeah, and then
the fan you know is you know, it's it's fun. I mean,
it's essentially the you know, what's the movie Ship, what's the Scorsese movie
that he the remake? Oh yeah, uh wow, I was just talking
about scores yesterday with somebody, Yeah, which is the film he did that
was a remake and it was great, And it's Kate Fear. It's kind
of got a cake fair iness to it, you know. Yeah, but
it's good. Yeah, I mean it's you know, Wesley Snipes in the
nineties, you know, and you know de Naro man, he's He's like,
he's an all time great. So and then the last one was the
last one, Problem Child. Oh dude, yeah, that's ship. I
saw that movie like a thousand times growing up. Actually talk with Larry Carey.
You had Larry on the podcast. Yeah, and he you know,
he hated talking about that movie. Uh when when I brought it up,
I was like, I'm a fan of Problem Child. He's like, everybody's
a fucking fan of Problem Child. So I don't know why everybody wants to
talk about that Dan movie. And I'm like, because I grew up with
him. Sorry, I'm sorry, Larry, I'm young. If I remember,
right, yeah, if I remember, he did bring up that there
was a while they were trying to get a Child's play and Problem Child crossover
called Problem Child's Play, and that sounded incredible. I was like, dude,
why didn't that Why are you still trying to do that? I mean
to do that next year on sci Fi. I mean, Chile's Play is
still going strong, do it, man? I mean, but yeah,
Larry's great, Larry's one of them got he was one of them guys that
just like he really wanted he didn't even want to talk about himself. He
wanted to talk Blu Rays, and I was like, he is supportive as
hell. Yeah, definitely, Yeah, let's go to the next one.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's putting out Indo Chine from nineteen ninety two with Catherine Deneuve.
Again, just going with these foreign films. We got a lot of
these coming in right now. Sony Pictures Classics obviously just put out a remarkable
box set in twenty twenty two, and this is just another one of their
great releases, and it's coming in Blu Ray, not a four K release,
but it's a decent film. From everything I read this week, I
don't know a lot about this one. I never got to see this.
I I was a little young at the time, but it's one that I'm
certainly interested in now. Definitely move in right along. I had been talking
to somebody about this the other day because Nicholas Holt is in this and wanted
to share that the great The Hulo Sorry Hulu Show is getting a Blu Ray
release for season one and season two, which I just wanted to highlight this
because it's rare that any of these streaming services put any of their TV shows
out on Blu Ray, and it is nice to see these still coming.
I've not seen the show, but I like El Fanning and Nicholas Holt's pretty
great at what he does. Yeah, I've seen the show. I love
it. God, it's amazing. The writing is amazing, the comedy,
the comedy writing is in. Nicholas Holt is the best asshole ever in this
movie. He is the best asshole in almost a likable way. Though it's
like he's so he's so terrible, but he's so good at it. And
El Fanning just plays off of him so well and becomes, you know,
very empowered through the story. I don't give away story points, but you
know, she's just remark that they're both just everything about the show's remarkably really
is one of the best comedy series I think out there right now. And
I'm excited for the next season. So yeah, all right, that sounds
pretty pretty damn good. Actually going to the next one. This is really
damn exciting. I'm so glad that you heard just talk about this one too,
because I know that you're excited about this one like me. If you
look at the background, there might be a face that you recognize Keta Larber
putting out Face Off on four K. This is this is amazing. This
was the greatest Christmas gift I've had in a long time. Yeah. I've
been talking about getting this damn movie, like you know, and I knew
there was a chance that Keno could begin putting this out with the deal they
made with Paramount. I was like, right, is this coming? Is
they gonna finally put face I've been saying it, you know, but yeah,
this is this took. This took, This took the day. I
didn't care about anything else on Christmas sept for this Face Off on four K
with a brand new HDR and Dolby Vision Master. This is getting a four
K scan of the OCN I. It's hard to ask about anything else because
it's a John Wu film, It's a Nicholas Cage film. And to get
first of all, a release of any John Wu film, which we are
getting too. We just talked about Wu coming from Criterion, But to get
this, I am shocked that Paramount didn't keep this for themselves, first of
all. But second of all, this is such a landmark film for the
late nineties and for action and for just like Bonker's weird, how did this
get made? Cinema that I cannot weight to own this? So I can
see, Okay, they actually went through with this, because I'm still,
like still worried that this might get canceled at some point, because this is
one of those films that we've all been dying to see again. Yeah,
what I need? And now you know, we don't know what. I
don't know that we know what features are on this yet, if there's any
new features, we don't know anything. But in my fantasy world, what
I'd love to see is a Travolted and Caged commentary and then they do commentary
as the other characters. Yeah yeah, yeah, so then Travoltas playing Cage
and the and that god. That would be amazing. I can't imagine how
much money that would cost him twenty twenty two, twenty million dollars to get
them both in the room. That's just to get them in the room.
Oh man. So Zach's excited about this one, says nick Age and four
K always a win we got. Terry says kind of stuned that Paramount shipped
this one out to Keno. Completely agree. Bruisers still have this DVD my
dad bought me a best Buy back in the day. Amazing. One can
dream that John Wo's output eventually gets a four K. I mean, we
have to get the two big ones from him at some point. There's the
old crappy Blu ray that was like barely released for a little while. Here,
they're embarrassing quality. They're not great at all. But it seems like
if this is any indication there might be some trickling down some Moon films.
Well, we just got the John Wu from Criterion, right, so yeah,
maybe more John Wo's coming. Anthony looking for Broken Arrow on the Horizon.
I would love to see that. And then yeah, Hard Boiled in
The Killer four K. Yes please, this is this is exciting for sure.
Next up one that is super interesting. I had no idea about this
film, but Keino Lorber is putting out the Quester tapes from nineteen seventy four
on Blu ray, this brand new HD master from a two K scan of
the Inner Positive. This was a TV movie And the big deal is this
is done by Gene Roddenberry. He did the teleplay. Somebody else directed it,
but he was involved quite a bit and obviously a big name like Geene
Roddenberry. That's that's pretty damn cool and a nice Carrio piece. More of
these TV films on Blu Ray please, Oh yeah yeah, and Keno's big
on that. You know, they've been doing a lot of good TV TV
films, so yeah, yeah, keep them coming. Dave wants two John
Wu box sets, one for his Hong Kong work and one for his Hollywood
work. That would be amazing. This probably will not happen, but yeah,
Dave actually remembers question nice says it was pretty good. Next up another
Keno title, March fourteenth, We were getting Double Crossbones from nineteen fifty one.
The new commentary on this is done by Lee Gambon, who was just
on my channel, and actor film historian Gary Frank joins him on that commentary.
How do you feel about these old swashbuckling films? Swashbucklers they you know,
they're they're hit and miss for me. I mean, you know,
you get some that are just maybe they they're a little bit long in the
tooth. They're like two hours and forty five minutes. You're like, I
don't know if I need to watch this to but I do like pirate films.
I like this this looks like a pirate film, and you know,
it's one of them genres that basically got the Pirates of the Caribean took that
genre over. But you don't really I wish we would get more pirate movies
that are not that. It seems like we've gotten pirate stuff in TV.
But yeah, I mean, it's it's a genre I always I always like
to give a chance, but sometimes they get long in the tooth for me
when it comes to like all the stuff between the action, right, So,
I mean, you know, stuff like the Seahawk. I believe that
one archive put that out of stuff with with what's his name, uh,
missal Aero Flynn. Yeah, so a bunch of Aeroflynn's stuff you know that
fits in there is it's stuff that some of that stuff I like, some
of it don't. It's we'll see. This might be when I have to
try to check out before I buy it. That's why this one's exciting because
first of all, it's seventy six minutes, which means they had to make
it lean. And the description here talks about hilarious mishaps, and for a
nineteen fifties pirates film with hilarious mishaps. I love some of the old slapstick
stuff from the fifties and around that time. So yeah, I'm curious about
this one. We just talked about this a couple of weeks ago, but
Zach wants to remind everybody that Black Sales is perfect and you should watch that
show. All right, Fine, whenever I get a chance. This one
I wanted to really highlight because of the names associated with this. February twenty
first from Lionsgate. We are getting the price we pay. This is from
twenty twenty two. First off, has anybody in the chat seen this yet?
Because I have not heard of anybody that has seen this film. But
the big thing a Meal Hirsh is in this. Stephen Dorf is in this,
and it comes from a filmmaker that I adored one of his big films,
and that is a name that I'm most likely gonna butcher here ryu Hey
kidda Mura, I think is how you say it. But he's the one
that did Midnight mea Tring. Did you ever see men Ring? Oh?
Yeah, with a dude from six Gone in sixty seconds, big guy.
Yeah, that movie's cool. I like that movie. Yeah, Bradley Cooper.
I mean, that's that's a yeah deal. Yeah, well I like
both of these actors. So you know, the dude Steve Dort's got my
name, I mean, of course named Stephen. You know I'm all in
all Steven's side. Okay, Yeah, so it takes for me, Steven
Spilberg, Steven Soderbergh. With a lot of great Stevens out there. I'm
waiting for somebody to chat to name one that's awful. I'm sure there is.
There's sure there's a serial killer named Stephen. I'm sure that. I'm
not thinking about next up another TV show getting a Blu Ray release that we
don't hear about all too often and really want to highlight those. With all
the changes going on in streaming world lately, Warner Brothers putting out Along My
on Blu Ray, which this one is almost an accomplishment in itself because it
was canceled and then Netflix put picked it up and they're putting out the entire
series, which means Netflix is on board. They're actually coming in and getting
the entire series run put out on Blu Ray, which is great. I'm
stoked that they are doing this. I've never seen long Meyer I'm cautiously interested
in checking it out. I like a couple of the names associated with it,
but it's not a super interesting genre for myself. What about you,
Yeah, I've seen, I've seen long Meyer. It's it's the you know,
it's not it's not like you said, it's you know, Westerns,
especially modern westerns, are you know, some can be a little bit overly
melodramatic, so sometimes they're not as interesting for me. But this one's this
one's kind of got an old school fill to it, you know, small
town sheriff and you know, the main actor, I don't know his name,
but he's he plays it off really well. And Katie Sakoff is also
in the show, and she's really great. So yeah, I mean it's
more. I would say it's just a more dramatized version of Walker, Texas
Stranger if you like NOSK. Not necessarily, but it's a decent show.
I think it kind of played itself out near the end, but it's still
a decent show that makes sense. Wave wants to highlight the commentaries on these
new releases. Keep them coming because they add so much of these films one
hundred percent agree. Paul says, Midnight meterin sounds like a vinegar syndrome Pikorama
release, says the Big Clige Barker Finn Justin. We were talking about that
last release. If they would have invested twenty dollars on the poster, that
movie probably would have done better, and it was not great. I fully
agree. Sounds like a great porn title. And Sarta says, if Netflix
makes some money, maybe they will release some more interesting series they've shown.
I wish that were the fact. They absolutely have a lot of stuff that
people would love to own without actually getting Netflix. Oh boy, this story.
Speaking of printing, Disney thinks that they can just print all of the
money. Ever, and they are releasing a line of Disney one hundred releases
in twenty twenty three. For those that don't know, twenty twenty three is
the one hundred year anniversary of the opening of Disney Studios, and to commemorate
it, they are releasing a series of these steel books that look like the
tins that they did for the animation releases, you know, fifteen, sixteen
years ago or whatever. And I don't know what it is. It might
just be me. These don't seem to be very appealing to the eye.
The inside of the steal books look great, but the steel books themselves,
I'm a little worried about. You gotta comment. God, Yeah, first
of all, like you said, what the fuck are they doing? Why
do we need why do we need to do another one of these damn releases.
I'm getting so sick of anniversary releases, so sick of like Platinum,
they're going through every damn you know, fucking stone you can think of as
the name for the next like, guys, let the release breathe for a
while, like let it be a thing. But like you said, and
also the aesthetics, like, I agree with you, God, these look
ugly. These are damn The worst part. These are not even like brand
new releases that we know of. These are the same four K discs that
they put out just in another new collection. And the titles that they're leading
out with are Frozen and Kanto Mowana Toy Story. I mean, for look
at how terrible that is. The Lion King and Coco. Now, nothing
against those films, those are genuinely all great films. I did not love
the look of the old tens, but even those looked better than these that
you're trying to commemorate with Yeah, this is not a great move. I
do like that they're putting stuff out to commemorate the anniversary, but do something
different with the releases. At least these will most likely be best by exclusive
four case deal books, and they just will keep churning them out if people
keep buying them. I'm sure Disney's only interested in propelling propelling more the same
stuff, Like they just want to make sure that you remember that they're still
there, and we do because you're fucking everywhere. Yeah, you literally own
everything everything. Yes. Another thing that is there's no previews yet for the
actual boxes, but it appears as if they are going to be releasing the
original Star Wars trilogy in four K steel books in the US, and they
are not going to be the original version, so don't start jumping up and
down for that. But they are likely going to be the exact same steel
books from the UK that were released like two and a half years ago and
everybody's had them for years. That's giant steel book collectors. They look good,
but oh my gosh, like, come on, they must have found
them in a warehouse somewhere. They were like, shit, we're just putting
shits back out. Yeah, yeah, I like this, Brian says,
put them back in the Disney vault and keep it there. I can't.
I can't agree more. Let's go on to the next one before we all
just get bitter Keno keeping it coming. From nineteen thirty eight, we are
getting Thanks for the Memory with a little known actor named Bob Hope. This
gets a new commentary by filmmaker and historian Michael Schleschinger. Again black and white,
seventy five minutes long, and romance and a good old fashioned love song
can save the day in this witty, charming romp through the minefield of marriage.
I know nothing about it, but Bob Hope is pretty damn funny.
Yeah, you know, he's a he's a blind spot for me. They've
they've been putting out a lot of Bob Hope lately and makes me want to
kind of start looking into it. And you know, this one's about marriage.
I'm always I'm a sucker for either usually depressing marriage movies. For some
reason, I'm into that. I don't know why. I like the I
like a marriage story. I like you know, the Before trilogy. I
love movies that well that the Last Before. I love the Last Before movie
for some reason, seeing that marriage just get torn down at the end,
I love it. So I'm a sucker forum. So maybe this will be
a funny version of that. I don't know, time will tell lots of
hijinks in the old thirties and forties and fifties films about marriage. Another set
of steel books that are coming as best by exclusive four K releases. These
are the Rocky series, and again we don't have even super high quality images
yet, but these look to be just really not great looking photoshop jobs on
these. The fourth one here because it's the original poster, looks pretty decent,
but the first three, man, I don't know. I I've never
even been a huge Rocky fan, but if I was, I would be
not very happy with the imagery that they're going with here. Yeah it's you
know, it's it's it's pretty simple. It's a little too, it's a
little it's a little it's a little generic for me. But yeah, I
mean I would say I'm a pretty pretty big Rocky fan. I've always really
liked that. I grew up in the films my dad in in dated to
me with Rocky. My whole life and funny enough, I've never really owned
these movies, probably because I've watched them so many times, right, I
think. I think as a family we owned a set, but once I
moved out, my dad kept a set, and I've never rebotten because I've
seen them probably all at least fucking thirty or forty times. So I'm interested
in getting these in four K, but I don't know about this. I
might wait until they re release it again, somebody re releases it again in
better packaging, or just maybe a set, Like I don't need single additions
of this, even though I don't love five or I don't really even love
six that much, I'd still like them in a set, so you know,
maybe that'll come later. It is Warner Brothers, so it's very possible
that even when these come out, they also put out just a four pack
of the first four. But also why only the first four? It's really
odd, I think because I think amongst people that I think it's generally thought
that that that nobody likes the fifth movie. Well yeah still, and so
you know, to put it out by itself and they're like, well,
nobody's gonna buy that ship. So that's probably why but you know, if
there is a set, I would I would it would break it for it
would. I wouldn't buy it if it didn't have everything, because it's part
of the legacy. It's part of the story. Even if I don't love
it all, there's still things about them movies I like. I mean,
I like the cheesy workout scene in Rocky Balboa is terrible, but I like
watching it because it makes me feel better about myself. But uh, and
then Rocky five, you know, you get you know, you get to
see the Rocky hit Don King at the end and he was like, you
know, I'll see you and he's like, sue me for what and he
hits them he knocks him in the car. And then that's you know,
Tommy Gunn And there's some things about that that's fun. And I'll say Creed
is great. I genuinely like Creed so much. I'm sure they won't even
connect them. You know, if there's a set, they won't even connect
My wife's popped in the hot room. Hey hey wife, But uh,
there's no they won't connect them. Them movies are gonna be totally separated.
I think if they ever put out a set for them, plus, of
course, the new the third film's coming out, so whenever that gets released,
I wonder if there's gonna be a kind of an ending to the Is
this gonna be a trilogy or are they going to continue past three f I
don't want to get a soft tangent, but on a tangent. But yeah,
I'm excited to get these movies, but not these additions, So I
would agree there fully, and uh yeah, more of these, more of
these old timeless films. I'm four k a big fan of that. Uh.
Speaking of timeless, this is one that shocked the absolute hell out of
me. Uh. So many pictures is putting out ring a Ding Rhythm from
nineteen sixty two, and anybody that has followed, like film History and some
of the other production companies, might recognize this as its trad Dad, which
was the first film released by Amicist Productions way back in nineteen sixty two.
Like, how is this getting a release in twenty forty two. I'm not
complaining in any way, but oh my god, that's amazing. Yeah,
I mean, I don't know anything about this, man, you have to
talk to me. I know that I saw this at least once when I
was younger. It's mostly let's see their copy is pretty good. Richard Lester
directs the singular British Musical Extravaganza, which is why I loved it. I
always loved the musical shows. The pop Culture Explosion reveals a generation gap and
a small English town when the mayor forces a teenage hangout to stop using its
TV set and jukebox. A pair of crafty local teens, Helen and Craig,
counterattack by trying to put together a festival that will demonstrate the merits of
traditional jazz and rock and roll. While trying to enlist disc jockeys. With
the Jazz Show, they hear such talents as Del Shannon, the Dukes of
Dixieland, Gary Bonds, the Inimitable Chucky or Sorry, Chubby Checker, Jeane
Vincent, and many others. And it's just a big celebration. I love
it. Yet it sounds cool. I mean, I don't have to check
this out. More zombies ate my arm can't believe I've seen this one.
TCM has aired it nice. We are already almost at the end of this.
Keena Lover are putting out Tomahawk from nineteen fifty one. This is another
classic that they're bringing another new commentary with Lee Gambin. Like I mentioned earlier
with film historian and actress Rutanya Alda. This is eighty two minutes long and
yet another one that I have not seen, unfortunately me either. I'm hoping
this is the prequel to Bone Tomahawk, which is a great movie. I
don't know, I'm just fine. I don't think Van Heflin is getting eviscerated
and torn in half in this film, so sadly well probably not. And
the last thing is talking about tonight. So that's it. That's literally all
of the announcements. A lot of the labels they take these last couple weeks
of the year off, and it shows there's a lot of great films getting
announced here. We get a lot of those starting in the first couple weeks
of January, so we're gonna be hitting those pretty hard. Also, there's
not a lot of releases that come out around this time anyways, because like
the Tuesday a couple days ago, was not super heavy. The biggest title
with Halloween Ends, I will share just in case you've missed them, what
is coming out next week, which again not all that much. We got
the Adventures of Baron Munchausen from Criterion that is getting released, The Big Warner
Brothers smash hit Black Adam is coming out next Tuesday. Pray for the Devil
on four K is coming out next week. Sergeant Reiker from Keno Armageddon Time,
the Anthony Hopkins and Anne Hathaway joint is coming out, and then Memories
of My Father from Cohen Media is the last one that seems to be a
title that would be of interest for this group. Well, I mean,
I haven't seen it yet, but I do want to see Armaged in Time.
I know that's direct I believe that's directed by James Gray. He's a
director I think is pretty underrated. So I'd like to check that one out.
But other than that, Yeah, Black Adam. Uh, I watched
that crap. Yeah, it's god. I haven't seen it yet. John
says he liked it. I I'm sadly very behind on the DCU, which
now it looks like the DCEU is is done with anyways, So it's a
shit show over there. But I you know, I hope, I hope
they can get it figured out. I mean, and you know, I
mean, I'm not like super like not that I hate comic book movies.
But but it's just I got so it used to be like the center of
my attention, and then I I got so tired of it. So I've
kind of like, I preferably pay attention to it, but not not full
front anymore. But I hope, you know, I hope that that Flash
movie comes out. It sounds like it'll be fun and and you get to
see Keaton come back as Batman and things like that, and uh but yeah,
you know, I you know, James Gun's taking every d see maybe
that'll be good. I don't know, we'll see. I like James Gunn.
I think I love James Gunn. Yeah, yeah, but it mean
it, you know, is the every movie going to be snarky like what
you know? Or is it going to be what is it going to be?
Like? Who knows his direction? For what he thinks DC should the
world should be like? See. Well that's all I got for Steven.
I know Steven's got a head out and go to bed. So thanks Steven
for hanging out tonight. It has been a blast to do everything we have
over the last four or five months or whatever, and more to come.
Everybody make sure you're following Chasing Labels. They do incredible stuff all the time,
and obviously the big big thing to hit is shelf Shock Rewind. Make
sure you enter that giveaway and make sure that you are following those socials as
well. Steven, until next time, thanks for hanging out, Thank you
guys, Thank you guys for thank you Ryan for letting come back on.
And yes, shelf Shock Rewind, get on it and get out there and
vote when you're ready. You still got a couple weeks and yeah, I'll
be round. Maybe I'll be back soon. Who knows, there'll be another
giveaway. Maybe I'll pop back in here on another show and everybody have a
geta night Stephen. Maybe hanging out in the chat anyways, because there's another
giveaway tonight. So don't forget. I shouldn't win. I should never win
it. I was gonna say, can I can I be a part of
it? No? No, I don't need you guys. You guys get
you get whatever it is for you, guys. I got enough here.
I don't have no more room for blu rays that I win from other people.
Have a good night, Steven, A good one, Have a good
night, guys, all right, Uh, nobody leave just yet. We
have a lot more stuff to go over. That was. That was our
time with Steven, and he's amazing now that he's not here, and it
won't be awkward. Genuinely, Please make sure you are following chasing labels him
and Andrew. First off, Andrew somehow watches every film that's ever made,
like the day it gets announced. He watches like nine films, it seems
like. And they they discuss as many as they can every week on their
podcast. They get some great guests, they do a lot of interviews,
and they're just amazing. Now the fun part, I've got a lot of
stuff to discuss. As I said, there's a lot of things that are
not easy to sort of shoehorn into other episodes. So what I had been
doing is keeping a list of things that I wanted to run down at the
end of the year. And I'm looking for a lot of engagement in the
chat. Make sure you're hanging out, make sure you're giving a lot of
comments, make sure you're making your opinion heard. I'm curious to see what
you all think about a lot of these topics. So the first one,
I wanted to make sure that we were leading off with some respect on some
name. Obviously, a lot of us woke up today to the news that
Riguiro Diadado has passed away. A couple of people that were close to Riggueiro
had been posting that it was not looking great, that it looked like a
very serious condition going on over the last couple of days, and it started
to get a little somber, and unfortunately he is gone. Obviously, he
is known for Cannibal Holocaust, but he he is a maestro, and not
just for that film. There is a lot that Rigueiro did that really should
be recognized, and he's gotten a lot of respect from some of these labels
over the last few years especially, But I wanted to highlight a handful of
titles that if you've never watched Riguiro Diadado, you absolutely should be leading off
with Raiders of Atlantis, one of his one of his most fun films.
And then, obviously I mentioned Cannibal Holocaust, but if you have not seen
it yet, anybody that is in this hobby or at least tangentially involved or
inspired by this, please make sure that you have seen it at least once.
I obviously I understand the issues with the animal cruelty, and I don't
like a lot of what he did. However, it is important and a
a genuinely great, great film and one that you should see at least once.
Next I would absolutely highlight Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man,
really great film. His older film Jungle Holocaust is one that absolutely deserves
some love. And then the one that came out way later than some of
these classics that people just forget that he did, and I think it was
shameless put out. I think it was a DVD years ago. Seek Out
The Washing Machine, Like, how do we not have a US Blu ray
release of the Washing Machine? I don't get that one. He killed it
on body Count. The Barbarians is a great film. He has a segment
on the Profane Exhibit that Unearthed Films has been working on for the last few
years, and I can't wait to see that release here soon. But the
big one for me, my favorite film from Rigguieiro is one that has recently
gotten some love, and I really hope people give some respect to House on
the Edge of the Park. The film is genue only creepy. It is
a film that is very well made. It is a film that has some
some faces in it that you recognize if you've been a part of genre films
for quite some time. But this is this is one of the big names.
This is like an Argento passing away. Genuinely, he he had a
major impact on genre films for decades. He has continued to be involved.
He's continued to put out films for a very long time. The other thing
that I would shout out is there is a documentary that was released a couple
years ago. At this point, I believe that has been like thrown in
some media books and a handful of other releases, but it's I don't think
it's gotten a big, like standalone Blu ray release to highlight it. However,
he was a part of a release that is called The Diadado Holocaust,
and it is It is so well done. It is a documentary that really
highlights his earliest films all the way to his latest films and gives details that
we just don't get to see in a lot of the other interviews with him.
And he has always just been very well spoken and very very willing to
talk about a lot of different parts of his filmmaking. So seek out some
Diadado. If you've never spent a lot of time with him, I really
wanted to give some respect to him. It is a filmmaker that has impacted
millions literally, it's a it's a great, great legacy that he left behind.
And yeah, again, if you've never seen anything that that Diadada Holocaust,
the documentary is a really great place to start. And like I said,
it's been bundled with some other releases, so you can seek it out.
Let's see in the chat, Oh there you go. Justin says it's
a bonus disc on a seven release for House on the Edge of the Park.
I think I got it as a I think it's a bonus disc in
a media book I got somewhere. Let's see House on the Edge of the
Park is a socio commentary and classified mixed with Last House and left literally with
at least one of the actors. Ballad and Blood was awful. Yeah,
everybody's got some bad ones. It wasn't good. Let's see cut and Run.
That's another one I did not highlight. And you are absolutely correct.
Dude was so baller he was almost indicted for murder because his film was so
convincing. He literally had to take the actors to court to prove that they
were alive. That's amazing. Lots of love for Live like a cop,
Di like a man. Amazing. John says Caldron might do one of his
obscure films next year. Very nice and flickering waves. Sounds like House on
the edge of the park. Should we want to seek out seeing Canniball Holocaust
and Raiders of Atlantis nice next. I really wanted to highlight something that has
been very impactful for me this entire year, and this is a really great
time to reflect on it because it's the end of the year. It's a
natural time to reflect. I don't know how to say thank you for this,
and I don't know if you all are just amazing. I haven't really
had to do a lot of moderating, but this community has been genuinely special.
Most places on the Internet turn into a sesspool rather quickly. We have
seen that you guys leave mostly positive comments, which I'm fine with criticism,
nothing wrong there, but you guys are nice to each other. Even when
I post announcements and people are in the chat talking about Arrow, there's usually
not a lot of nothing for me. This month when are they getting back
to their horror roots or whatever. You guys are just amazing following following this
channel, following our socials, you guys have done a lot of stupendous positive
work for the community, and I really wanted to just thank you and highlight
that there is no feat as amazing as watching a part of the Internet not
devolve into racism and infighting, and it's been incredible. One of the things
that was discussed in comments on a recent video, and it was I think
it was comments on a video that was months old, so most people probably
have not seen this, but one of the things that some people wanted to
say is how with this group and with these interviews that have been on the
site and with the Patreon and everybody supporting the channel, there's a few things
that it has felt very welcoming through and one of those is that this has
given you a room to create, like a room to breathe, a room
to be human in these shared and diverse experiences that we all have together.
And it has been amazing just to see that you guys have grasped onto that,
and I wanted to truly say thank you, and I could not be
more proud to be a part of that community. Let's see what is going
on in the chat after that. Wave is happy with it. Led by
example, I mean, I just do what I like to see, So
thank you. My sister's happy with the community DC. I tried to put
on my big boy pants when I enter a public chat. I wish more
people would, that's for sure. Don't dawnplay yourself. People have incredible influence
on it. Thank you so much. Celeste, by the way, wanted
to shout out some vinegar syndrome not genuine like news this week, but there's
been some weird stuff about vinegar syndrome and we're gonna get into it on Sunday,
but I wanted to highlight Celeste is going to be my guest on Sunday
as we are live streaming the first day of Subscriber Week. We're gonna go
live at eleven thirty am Eastern and we will be live as everything goes on,
discussing the launch of Subscriber Week, the brand new titles, finding out
what DSL is going to feel like, and what that first release is going
to be, and this is amazing. One of the things that we're going
to talk about is how everybody woke up to somebody posting on Facebook and a
couple other socials not to subscribe to Vinegar Syndrome because of the translucent slipcover.
What do you even want to call it. It's not really like a real
sort of fight. It's just somebody whining. I don't know how else to
explain it. This isn't like a controversy. Somebody is trying to claim that
because they were a subscriber in twenty twenty two and they didn't get the translucent
slipcover, that they were lied to and nobody should subscribe. Oh man,
hilarious. Hilarious. And if you read all of the words that Vinegar Syndrome
used in the copy, you would find out that there is no absolute way
that they would argue that at all. I'm not going to highlight all of
the compliments because I'm awkward. My sister shout out to you. I built
this community. Thank you. Let's see, Dave, I'm so impressed by
the amount of cinema knowledge available in this and a few other groups. And
that's true. That is something that I've counted on so much over the last
eighteen months of doing this. Is everybody in this chat, if Steven and
I forget a name like you guys are immediately saying Kate fear. It is
so incredible to see everybody come together with these different shared experiences of cinema that
we can relate to, but we don't necessarily have all the same knowledge.
So it's nice to come back and just resonate with everybody around here. It's
amazing. Sister Agatha's here, what's going on? Late's of Diadado? But
didn't see any love for dial help. Guess it's just me No, not
necessarily. I just I've not gotten a chance to see it. I'm not
sure if it's great. I need to see it. Let's see, Celeste.
I'm excited to have you on on Sunday. Let's see we can use
a senior discount. Other than that, everything is copasthetic. It's literally one
dude whining and trying. Yes, it's embarrassing, absolutely embarrassing. Is this
the guy that class started the class action lawsuit against Arrow? That is the
first thing I thought of it was it screams of the exact same tiny dick
energy. Like I don't know what to say. It is just awful,
absolutely awful, dead Sea Life says, I don't think I'm resubscribing because I
just don't have the time to watch everything. There's so many titles. No,
I will not stop bypassing the nice comments. Eric says, the only
negative comment I can possibly make about the Disconnected Empire comes from my wallet,
and I apologize. We're actually gonna be talking about that in just a minute.
Let's see what was next on my notes. Oh, the positive community.
I'm still not done with that. So the giveaway, I wanted to
highlight that we have somebody that is a patron. I'm not gonna name who
because they asked that their name not be read out to everybody, but we
have a lovely patron that wanted to donate so thing to a giveaway for this
channel, and it is. It is not like a small, cheap prize
or anything like that. This is a high quality, brand new four K
sealed release of one of my favorite releases of the year. It's not this
exact release, but it's the same. This is just a different version.
You all know how much I love Robinhood and I love this release. I
think it looks great in four K. I was stoked to hear that we
had somebody offering to give this away. So I'm gonna show you a picture
of what we're offering for giveaway tonight, and this is it. This is
a picture of the release. This is the four K limited edition release of
Robinhood and the Prince of Thieves. And this is up for offer tonight to
anybody who is the first person to get my trivia question about this film tangentially
correct. Now. I love this movie, so I'm so glad that they
reached out with this. This is a film that everybody should see and look
back with a sort of nostalgia. It is such a fun movie. This
this is going tonight. Whoever wins this, you're gonna have the choice to
have the person that is giving it away have them send it directly to you.
Or if you don't want somebody else to know your address and you for
some reason trust me more, they can send it to me and I will
send it to you. But if you win this and I say that you've
won, please check the description below. You'll find my email. Email me
and I will get it sent out to you, whether it's from them or
from me, in the next few days. But here it is. Everybody
ready in the chat, this is the question for the trivia to win this.
Here we go Alan Rickman, who you see on the cover of this
right at the top, with his glorious, glorious role that he is in
this He was so unhappy with the terrible script for this film. He thought
it was terrible that he sat down with some of his friends in a pizza
hut to rewrite some of his lines. After all of that, what did
Alan Rickman go on to win for his performance in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves?
In the chat, Let's see if anybody can get this, and if
you know Alan Rickman, you might be able to pull that one easily.
What did he win for his role in this film? Somebody's got to get
it. It's not an Emmy. Oh, we actually do have a winner
already, DC, DC won Alan Rickman won a BAFTA for his performance in
this film, which is incredible for those that don't know, that's a British
award and it is genuinely prestigious and I'm glad that they gave it to him.
DC, you won. Congratulations. If you would be okay with them
sending it to you, just send me an email with your address if you'd
rather I send it to you, let me know in the email. But
yeah, in the description below you'll find my email address. It's a disc
connected media at gmail dot com. Either way, send me that over at
the address and we'll get it sent out to you in the next handful of
days. Congratulations, Thank you. That is amazing. I'm so glad that
we're gonna get that to somebody that wants it. And based on your comment,
you look pretty happy. Congrats. Now let's go on to the next
thing. Obviously, as we were going through some of those compliments, you
notice I breezed over all of the positive comments. And there's a reason I've
discussed in some of my interviews on here before, primarily with cat Ellinger.
We really hit hard this this feeling of imposter syndrome, and I've dealt with
that for a long time. I also struggle pretty mightily with pretty hardcore depression,
and I really wanted to share that just being able to come on here
week after week with all of you, it was amazing to have these to
have these moments of genuine happiness, and it is reflected by being able to
come here and just spend time with you guys. Obviously living a life where
I have a job that I don't love that is my day job, and
to have two kids with special needs and a lot of other random crap going
on. It is difficult to fight through that sometimes and to continue making videos
for you guys, to continue being a part of this community. It has
helped so much to keep me motivated, to keep me on track, and
just genuinely making me happy. And the little bit that I've been able to
help some of you that have reached out and asked questions and just made me
feel like I'm that you can count on. It has been an astonishing year
for that, and I just wanted to say thank you for being here.
The next thing I wanted to say is something to protect all of you,
because it feels like this has started to be something that we're seeing in the
community right now, and that is this idea of collecting fatigue. Now it
being the end of the year, it is very very easy to reassess everything.
So take this moment for yourself and let's discuss this collecting fatigue. Obviously,
I have too many films, I have too many releases, I have
stacks. You can't see it, because this is the pretty side of the
room. I have stacks in my window of films that I have not been
able to watch it just because life is so busy. It can be fatiguing.
I don't understand how I'm staying inspired to do this except for this community.
But one thing that you can do to fight that is to reassess everything.
The other thing I wanted to caution against with this conversation is the idea
of the classic keeping up with the Joneses. You do not have to be
a part of the game of trying to top another person's collection. You are
able to collect just what you want to collect, or not collect anything and
just still love film and please come hang out with us just because you love
film. You don't have to have any physical media to be a part of
this. Another thing that I wanted to throw out there is this unnecessary fomo
that a lot of these labels have genuinely made us feel, and it is
a marketing tactic. I'm never, not gonna, never, not gonna shoot
that down. It's a big deal. But there's two things I wanted to
throw out there to caution with. Some of this is one budgeting. Obviously,
this is the most obvious problem with this habit, and it is a
habit because it's absolut something you can get addicted to and make a big part
of your life and become a problem. But if you don't budget, it
is very easy to fall in a trap of buying every single item that's on
sale or buying every single item that is brand new. And you are like,
I hate to use this this type of word for this, but you're
you're literally gonna end up possibly killing yourself. Like there's so much that can
that can be a problem for you in a way that genuinely can negative effect,
negatively affect your life for decades over physical media. And that's obviously that's
just silly. So the thing that I'm going to suggest change it up.
It is something that I am looking to do over the next year, not
in any like major ways. I'm not getting rid of my collection. I'm
not changing up the channel entirely or anything like that. But every once in
a while, you gotta you gotta do something different. And one of those
things that you can do is simply just to reassess what you own and do
you need to own it, do you want to own it? Do you
and that's my sound like a silly question, But you own it? Do
you genuinely want to own it? If not, give it to somebody else,
sell it, do something to help your life out. The other thing,
reassess in a way that can challenge you. And that's where I wanted
to talk about challenging yourself with art. Before I dive into that, Let's
look at some of these comments because there's been a lot coming in, and
again, wanted to make sure that you guys all feel a part of this
tonight. So DC the winner tonight. I got to say, Toyd forever
starting my own channel, But the idea of sealing, the idea of dealing
with trolls just stresses me out. So my head's off to you for enduring
and putting in all this work. Honestly, it's not been so bad for
this channel. I admit a couple of the Facebook groups that are for collectors
for certain labels and buying and selling, and I try to help people through
transactions so they don't get taken advantage of. That is where the drama and
the trolls come out and it gets bad. Let's see, John, you
know the stuff I've gone through divorced, loneliness. Depression has hit me hard
lately, but Blue gets us through and in a way it absolutely can.
So just like I said, reassess and all that this might be the thing
that makes your life feel fulfilled and just coming and being a part of this
community can be something that can make you happy. And as long as you're
not hurting yourself or others with those purchases or with the films that you are
watching, there's nothing wrong with that. Enjoy your art ingest it be be
cultured, find something that you love and envelop yourself with it. My wonderful
sister, So proud of you for everything you've done this year, from this
channel to simply surviving. Love you more than you know. I appreciate you.
Love you too, Cortney Wave. I have depression too, and it's
very difficult to just live sometimes. Amen. Proud of you for saying strong
and pushing through your awesome Thanks Wave. Dave, I am too, Dave
says, I'm actually surprised I have the time to do this. I don't
know how. I genuinely just I don't sleep sometimes. DC says, truly.
The pre Black Friday Vschat was one of the best times. It really
has been this year before. Both of the sales have been great. Zach
says, thank god I'm poor and can't get fatigued. Yeah, absolutely,
Bruiser, glad to hear this is as valuable for you as it is for
all of us. Thanks for fostering such a great community. Would it be
fostered with that you all? Brian is noticing his friends going through collector fatigue
big time. Totally get it. Celeste overwhelmed, put out a video today
that's in my watch later stack that I who knows what I'm gonna watch it.
It'll be in the next couple of days, but dying to see it.
John, just collect We'll get you excited. It's okay to miss a
release. You can always get it later. Unfortunately, if you start to
get OCD about a lot of that cost more so you got to reassess it
and make sure that you don't buy into that fomo wave. I have to
limit my collecting gets out of hand. Sometimes setting a hard budget helped me.
It's hard to not want everything completely. Agree. One of the greats
DICEA k. Bepo, says, you don't have to be obligated to buy
films and you don't absolutely not listen what's going on. It's a maybe an
awkward chat to come into to talk about some depressing stuff, but there's gonna
be some good stuff's writing all this, I swear, DC says, especially
for a steel book collector, I've just seen way too large hauls for first
day releases and that's like thirty five apiece. Oh yeah, easily, absolutely,
Kubrick. I put a moratorium on my current movie buying. Sometimes you
got to do that, Celeste. I don't have the time or the money
to keep buying the way I have this year. I say this all the
time, but I'm feeling like it's time to slow down. And Celesti actually
has some great tips if you follow their channel there is You're gonna have to
remind me of chat and it's gonna be like ninety comments down and I know
that. But uh a DVD not DVD specifically, but a physical media rental
service that Celeste uses that I think they were saying, I don't want to
get this wrong. I think it was four dollars a disc, or like
three dollars a disc, something like that. I think Celeste said they get
is it eight films and they pay twenty four to twenty eight dollars a month
something like that. That's pretty good. And if you can limit yourself,
that's under thirty bucks. That's less than one of these limited editions every month
for eight physical releases. Make sure you check out that site. I'll highlight
it again. Celestial comments it. Thanks Celeste. I wish I knew it
off the top of my head. I'm sorry, Spaghetti. When it comes
to the collecting element, I love that this channel gives levity. Yes,
you do speak to the releases, but also you do these contextual interviews of
just the journey. Yes, that's been a big part of that, and
that's I want to make what I've been doing with those conversations fun and informative,
but also give meaning and like I don't want to use this word at
lightly here, but power to some of these releases, because I mean,
even this silly Robin Hood release that a lot of people they I will just
say, they flat out hate this film. It took a lot of hands
to get this release out to the masses, and I really want to highlight
those individuals because their hard work deserves some attention and sadly there's some of these
labels they don't even put all of the names like in the credits on the
release, and that that irks me. A lot of these people work very
hard on this stuff. Let's see what's next. Sartists, don't let spine
numbers be the nucleus of your collection. Exploration gives you more joy. We're
about to talk about exploration, my friend, and I think you're gonna really
like this next topic. Lisa bought four steel books at Walmart for seven fifty
each in the dump bin. They just did that. I think it started
in November. They've been putting out some great ones in there. So yeah.
Absolutely. Dave says this community has exposed me to different genres. J'allo
new to me and who knew there was non Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns out there?
Yes, tons, so many so Less says the trolls really aren't bad.
It's more to the sheer amount of work and emotional energy required to run
a channel. Absolutely, let's see the This is a lot of fun for
Stan. I like to see that. John says, I made ten thousand
more this year than last and I don't know where it went. Oh yeah,
I look at that shelf, but also it's also very expensive out there
just to be alive. And if we are a part of this community and
we are buying things, we are sort of just inherently full of privilege.
The fact that we can afford to buy five of these in a year is
a huge privilege compared to a lot of people, and that should be something
that we are are highlighting as well, because it's not every day that people
can make the choice to buy the rest of our dog Steel book or even
have a four K player. So completely get that. Paul says, I
have four hundred and fifty three films of my collection I still need to watch,
so I'm slowing down sadly. This has taken so much time for me.
I wish it was four hundred and fifty three in my collection. So
completely get that. Here's the name three D Blu ray rental. If you
go to that site, and I think it's three D Blu ray rental dot
com, it's around three fifty to four dollars per disk, depending on the
plan that you choose. So absolutely worth it, and that is incredibly incredibly
cheap. Cam says I learned real quick that you can't buy everything too true.
John's here, what's going on? John? This is the broadcast director
for the Mets. He says, it's a love fest. Thanks for all
you due. Not sure how you do it all, but I'm glad you
do. I can say the same for you, my friend. You see
way more than I can. Let's see. DC says I just ordered Mascer
high Masker at Central Hide because of me, because of interview with the head
of seven. I think you met Synapps. But yeah, that release is
incredible, absolutely amazing, amazing release. So great film. Love that film.
Kubrick says. There are people starving in thrill the world countries. I
mean not to not to like bring this conversation down. Depending on where you
live. We kind of live in a third world country in the US.
Sometimes there are a lot of zip codes that people are not getting access to
healthcare, they are not getting access to proper education. We in the Kansas
City area, we just had an entire school district lower the number of days
that the kids are going to school because they can't afford enough teachers. They're
going down to a four day school week. We have another school district that's
just on the other side of the Kansas State line that they just completely demolished
the idea of reliable transportation for some of these kids. They are gutting the
school bus line in this other school district. And I don't see how this
current generation, especially with elementary school kids, are going to feel any sort
of trust in our country, in our not even just government, but like
in their their authority figures we can't provide for them like and then on top
of that, it wasn't even stable enough for the last handful of years where
they feel like we should be able to rely on those people. We just
went through a huge pandemic. My youngest son has spent let's see, he
went He's been in school for four years of his life. Three of them
have been during a pandemic. How unstable must that feel for a kid that's
not even six and a half yet that is astonishing. It's it's hard anyways,
Oh yeah, some people start. There's people starving in America. Absolutely,
Qubrick. I work at a library and get some DVDs and blue rays
for free or cheap. Absolutely. One of the best things that people can
do is to support local libraries. And even remember that even just renting from
a library is actually a way of financially supporting them because the more things that
get rented from a library, they see it as being used, so they
give more money to that library. And that's just how it works. So
keep that in mind. Completely, completely true. Let's see America better not
be going KAD three in real life soon. Yikes. Too many people in
charge that are in it for themselves rather than the people who elected them.
Too. True, there's a lot of stuff that needs to be fixed.
Completely agree. Planet Mondo, Flint, Michigan doesn't have clean water. But
the one guy on Facebook is complaining about covers. Oh man, that is
bravo. That is a great, great comment. My gosh, all right,
let's go on. That was perfect bondo. Let's go to the next
thing. And one of the ways that I am going to suggest changing it
up for yourself and this was this was really difficult. I've been trying to
shoehorn this into some of my interviews for the last like five months, but
it just does not work when I have this whole idea in my head to
discuss it in a way. But I want to talk about challenging yourself with
these films. It is important when looking at this art and based on I
had a I filmed a conversation with Celeste that's coming out in January, and
we just talked about art and analyzing art, and I want to throw out
the conversation about engaging with art primarily on this On this channel, we talk
about films. So I am alluding to films, but really all art,
whether that be music, visual arts, attending live plays, whether that be
painting something yourself or sculpting or anything like that, you should be engaging with
arts that is challenging to yourself. It is very very simple, especially in
this hobby when we're in you know, I just brought up Facebook groups.
When you're in Facebook groups that is all about one label or that is all
about one genre. To live in this echo chamber where you hear people share
opinions about films that you you suddenly start to apply it to yourself, even
though you may not have originally felt that. And it is very important to
challenge the way that you're viewing these films. If it is films that we're
discussing, but again everything, whatever the type of art that it is,
make sure that you are branching out in a way that makes you question how
you're looking at film, how you're watching film from other countries, from where
you live, where it is applying metaphorical feelings behind some of these films that
we watch. It is very easy to find yourself only watching one genre.
And there are a lot of channels and I've done this. I'm guilty of
this as well. There are a lot of channels that will discuss things like
monthly challenges, and those are great, like October. It's very easy to
say, let's do thirty one days of horror. I've done calendars for the
last like six years where I've done it. It's fun. I get that,
But make sure it's not thirty one days of horror and then the rest
of the year is only horror as well. Make sure that when you are
watching these films, you are engaging with something where you're enveloping yourself in other
cultures, in other belief systems, in understanding your fellow human experience. And
it is something that has been brought up in my interview lately, is discussing
how the special features on these discs are genuinely like film school. And not
only is it like film school in the sense of making films but in discovering
other films around you that will be challenging to yourself. We have had,
we have had so many comments this year around things such as the site and
sound poll, where people are on complete opposite ends of the spectrum. This
is the perfect list. Genie Dealman or however you say it that I've never
seen, and I will fully admit to that right now is a challenging film,
and it should be. That's the way that it should be the very
top of this list. Everybody should get used to that. But then there's
the other side of the spectrum, that is the people that have seen those
films and are looking down onto people that have never heard of them. Neither
one of those are the right answer, and there is no real right answer.
But truly, what you can do with all of these labels, as
long as you're surrounding yourself with a multitude of perspectives, is discovering things like
Genie Dillman and discovering things like it's you know, I think this is Centipede
horror from Air four four to four. There are lots of films that many
of us will literally never see tons and no matter what you do blind buying
something or watching something on to be that you've never heard of that is completely
different than anything that you've watched ever in your life. Is the better way
for you to spend night, even not every night, obviously you don't have
to do that, but every couple of weeks, or maybe you make Saturday
night the challenging movie night in your house or something like that. The way
to broaden your perspectives in a way that will make you feel like a more
well rounded human in general, a more well rounded fan of film. And
the way that you can discuss that with these people and have those different perspectives
can actually lead to you sounding like you know what you're talking about and more
able to identify with other people around you. And it's in a way it
can be genuinely very educational. And whether you are condescending and pretentious, or
whether you are completely ignorant and only watching I don't know, childish films and
never branching out to anything that gives this other cultural perspective, the true balance
is where all of that comes together in a way that highlights the individuality of
man. And it's tough to discuss this in a way that doesn't sound pretentious
in itself. But I just want to say, make sure that you are
watching film that is not just your favorite thing that you've always watched. It
is so easy to get lost in a genre. It is so easy to
get lost in an actor. It is so easy to go back to comfort
films. I mean, that's why we call them comfort films. They're literally
comforting. But push yourself, push yourself to engage with art that is challenging.
If you are doing that and you are pushing your tastes, you don't
get as burned out with these films. It is whether you call it a
palette cleanser, whether you call it an energizing reset, whatever you want to
discuss it as it is something that can positively impact your life in ways that
you can't even comprehend until you experience something differently, maybe years down the road.
Literally just understanding somebody else's experience in life can make you a better person
because you're more empathetic to your fellow man. And it is so so important
to do that and not get lost in this that I know I could talk
about this for the next forty five minutes and still not feel like I'm getting
the point across. Purposefully I don't feel very eloquent about it right now,
but it is just so important to challenge yourself. Let me check in with
the comments. I love how much you guys are commenting right now. It's
amazing. I should probably drink some of this d s a little bit of
black humor. But that slipcover is cleaner than flints. Water's play true true,
Damien. I've been making it a point to borrow films from the library
since the pandemic. I've noticed most have turned to streaming. New releases are
often easily found, and I would say it's it's kind of fifty to fifty.
I've felt like a lot of people have returned to physical media, but
also a lot of people have turned to streaming. But the important thing there
is people when they were stuck at home, they turned to art, and
that in itself is important. It shows that when we have time, that's
free time, and we don't get to go engage in clubbing. I'm not
somebody that's clubbing. I don't know what to say here, but when you
have free time, we as humans, we turn to art, We turn
into ingesting something that can make us better people that we can revel in that
we can truly ingest in a way that makes us entertained, makes us fulfilled,
makes us just different people. I love that John says twenty twenty two
got me to sov which I previously shrugged off. There's been a lot of
SV releases. Get that, Jeremy along, my friend, what's going on?
My dad and I just analyzed art tonight because I showed him my third
favorite film of the year after Sun. I'm so desperate to see that after
I heard you on Tuesday. Dead Sea Life just got into leather working,
making wallets, keychains, gonna make it satch A. Very nice. I've
actually heard a lot of great, like cathartic things about leather work. I've
considered it in the past. For sure. Hubre composes and plays me music
on his channel, play a few guitars and MIDI keyboards, independent from movies.
Very nice. That's amazing. Everybody should go subscribe to Qbrick. I
believe I'm subscribed. If not, I'm going to definitely go subscribe after this.
Celest Yes, I read some comments on an NPR article about thoughtful film
engagement earlier that really fucking depressed me. Yeah, and we're actually going to
talk about something similar to that in just a minute. That's different than what
I just talked about as well. DC. I said no to vinegar syndrome
for so long, but realized I was using a broad brush thinking there weren't
any There wasn't any variety in their label, and there is. Honestly,
Vineger Centrome might be one of the most broad labels. Actually, John says
getting into Nikatsu pink films in my life is good love that Eric says,
I learned more about the world and other people during the nineties when I was
seeing hundreds of films at the Film Center, face at stock Films. I
felt so connected. And the truth of the matter is it is I don't
want to use the word cheaper, but it is much more cost effective to
travel in that way rather than traveling the world. Obviously, it might be
more rewarding to go travel the world, but we, most of us,
are not as privileged to be able to do that. And even like I
said, this itself and film discovery is a privilege in itself. The fact
that this is something that we are worried about and able to make a challenge
for ourselves shows how privilege that is. But yeah, if you're able to
go to hundreds of films in a year like Eric was in the nineties,
that is a way to travel the world. Absolutely. John says, within
thirty one days of Horror, I went blindly into Mexican horror. Yeah.
He's been talking about that for the last four months. Love hearing about that.
Uh DC. Every time someone at work says they only watch Marvel and
DC movies, it breaks my heart. Yeah, I can see why.
Brian says, it's why blind by Kino titles. There's so much variety and
blind by Keno titles. Brian does, you are not go subscribe to all
that? As Man's YouTube channel, he puts out some of the most comical
unboxing videos you will ever see, And there's a wonderful cameo on the newest
one. It's me Eric seeing film from across the world and across the entire
time span of film mark was so enriching. I love to see that so
less degrees Keino is unbelievably good for this, and I mean, when you're
putting out like six films a week, you pretty much got to be good
at that. Cubric lover, That's what I love about Criterion. They feel
like film school, which I've only been to a few film classes, and
you know, we're talking about streaming and not buying a lot of these discs.
Potentially in certain cases, the Criterion Channel is perfect for this. They
still have a lot of engagement with filmmakers with the extra features that you can
watch on the Criterion Channel, and they still have that ever evolving, you
know, Film's command, films go, they bring stuff that's not on Criterion.
They are one of the better streaming services to be a part for sure.
Uh Dave says, my first watch and repeat watch ratio is flipping more
first watches than ever before. It is difficult for me to rewatch films at
all nowadays because time is so valuable for me. It's just difficult. My
mom, I have death. She's speaking to me, so I'm gonna read
it from the first person. I have definitely helped broaden her sheltered mind,
and I'm grateful for she is grateful for all she has learned from me.
That's amazing. She couldn't be more proud of me. Thank you, Mom.
That's great. Let's see Planet Mondo. Just watch send a peta horde.
Nice nice. That chicken scene was brutal. I still need to watch
it. I love the shirt, though, Spaghetti, the best thing I
ever did was to not watch things in just PLAYE passing by, but to
try to put thoughts to each kind of film equally, no matter what genre.
And uh, I don't want to sound loud, sound like I'm just
shouting out everybody that I know personally because I interact with this commune so much,
but I'm gonna do it. Spaghetti, I'm sorry. Blake is one
of the best people that you can follow on Letterboxed because every time Blake watches
a film, he reviews it on Letterboxed in a way that you will not
find from any other people. We're talking analytical, full length essays basically for
every single film. And if you got a letterbox account and you're not following
Spaghetti, please make sure you follow Blake. Blake, I'm gonna say it.
Put your letterbox name in the in the chat. Let people find you.
You are an incredible follow and I really hope that the amount of writing
that you're doing lately is continuing to be fulfilling for you, because I know
just reading your thoughts on a film has continued to be fulfilling to me,
so thank you for being a part of that and for posting those let's see.
Anthony says, I would never look down on someone who hasn't seen a
movie. I only look down on people who did not understand the great masterpiece
that is Halloween ends true. Paul says, I push obscure genres like wusha
and police oteshi to others to an annoying level. I do the exact same,
and that's why some of the conversations that I have I try to do
focusing on certain genres so that we can hear the passion behind the genre as
a whole, rather than like the surface level appreciation that we get from a
lot of passing conversations, because it takes a deep dive, sometimes hour long
conversation to break through some of those personal barriers that stopped you from watching some
of these films. I mean, look at how many people, I'm sure
we all know at least one that would say I don't watch foreign films because
I don't want to read the film and they don't watch subtitles. And you
know, after Bong Juneo won the Best Picture Oscar, he has like one
of the most famous quotes of all time now is that couple inches of lettering
at the bottom of the screen is keeping many people from some of the greatest
cinema ever made. And I've said it so many times that it starts to
sound fake and problematic and instance here, But every single film has been somebody's
favorite film, and if you challenge yourself, you might find your favorite film
that if you'd never challenge yourself, you never would have had the chance to
see. So it is one hundred percent worth it. DC. At the
end of the day, Site and Sound Pole is still an aggregate, just
like Rotten Tomatoes. It all comes down to which movies get added the most.
People are going to do what they want one percent. Scolder's here,
what's going on? Scolder Anthony says, the discord has helped me blind by
a lot of stuff, and I have to say I've enjoyed about all of
it, so thank you to all of you. Sardis here. Watching what
everyone else watches can lead to a rut. I think you should step out
of your comfort zone. Finding a film completely unknown to you that touches you
in some way will expand your outlook. And Stardis is another one that is
in our discord, and Sardis is not on letterbox, but when he takes
the time to watch a film and write his write up on it and puts
it, we have a channel for when we're watching something and our review on
it, just so we can share with everybody. Because of stuff like this,
Sartists will inspire you to watch a film that you've never considered that you
should watch, and he has done it to me many times. And just
recently I promised Sartis that I would get a box set the War Trilogy that
just came out from Second Run. It's not in yet, but I will
absolutely be watching it because of what Sartis has said. He has led to
so many absolute discoveries for me that I would not have broadened my horizons in
certain ways without his words of encouragement and him highlighting certain things. So it
is sometimes the most likely and sometimes the most unlikely sources that you can get
some of this inspiration from. Just make sure you're open to it. That's
basically the heart of this entire thing. Kubrick says, That's why I like
films from places like Iran. I put out a video today about my face
new label and one of them that I highlighted was def Crocodile, and one
of their releases this year did that like something that I've not seen in many,
many, many years, and that is this time bending mysteries of Sharam
Mukri. The the films in this are astonishing. I would say one of
them is like a great film that pretty much everybody would appreciate, but just
being able to discover a director because of their culture that doesn't get enough,
you know, any sort of attention. I love that some of these boutique
labels are doing that for so many of us. It is so enriching and
fulfilling as a film fan. Let's see Terry. As much as I love
certain actors and directors, I try not to take them all in at once.
One to savor the favorites, but one is to try to expand the
horizons. It doesn't always happen, but I keep trying. Completely agree,
John says, it is easy to fall into an anti contemporary mindset in this
hobby one hundred percent. I see that on Twitter a lot. People like
to shit on new releases, but there's some legitimately great movies being released in
all genres from all over the world. And I mean there are strong arguments
that we have literally some of the greatest filmmakers ever that are alive and working
right now and have put out less than ten films. And if people are
so anti current films that they won't go see anything, it is so much
that you are just lambasting with a sweep of your hand that it is insulting,
literally completely insulting. But we're actually gonna talk about that in another one
in just a minute too. Let's see Anthony says, thank you for recommending
Emily the Criminal from John Demarsco. I enjoyed it. Yes, John is
great for recommendations. Let's keep going. Planet Mondo says I'm for subscribers from
hitting one thousand. That was my goal before the end of the year.
Everybody go do that. Planet Mondo is great. He makes some great videos
again, really really thoughtful and consider it and unboxing. So please go subscribe
to Planet Mondo. He is absolutely great. Seeing around on Facebook all the
time in all the groups. Planet Mondo is amazing. Let's see Nathan's here.
What's going on? Nathan? This seems like a Nathan conversation to be
a part of tonight. Uh, DC purchased Thundercrack with my MVD. Sail
am I in for a wild ride? Oh yeah, oh yeah, let's
see. Heard you talking about the Four Flies film during the Black Friday stream
and watched for our gentle films last month. Now always something to fine learn.
You love? Deep Bread is amazing. Deep Bread is one of the
best of all time. U Kubrick Lover says, I used to have Criterion
Channel, but I got a ton of Criteria to watch. That's true,
too, absolutely true. Let's see. Stan says, my experience with physical
media goes way back to Vinyl Records and vhs and Beta Team. That's the
way to do it. I love the history that a lot of us have
with physical media. It's it's so incredible. John says After Sun is gonna
end up at number one for him this year. Damn way. Criterion Channel
and Movie Yes, I know, I think Celestis saying Criterion. Yeah,
Criterion is the best streaming service and it's not close to Movie Is is interesting
because you can feel the human, the human programming side of it, that's
not an algorithm, and it's wonderful to see. I love the fact that
both of them are out there and doing what they can. Uh, let's
see. Ruben says, I like, you know, just don't like the
art on their discs, and I get that they're a little they're a little
bland. I I do tend to really like the black spines that all match
up. I don't know why. Uh, let's see a few more.
Man lots of comments, love this all of his man said, my son
found his favorite film today and it's Ambulance. I love that Brian is sharing
good, contemporary fun filmmaking from a tour. I would absolutely argue Michael Bay's
notaw tour with his son. Uh, spaghetti, thank you for the kind
words. I just love doing my part for the community. You absolutely better
put your letterbox in the comments here somewhere. Oh there it is. Yeah,
it was Ambulance. I saw it on Twitter. Nice. Zach Bryant
wanted to shout out Fishing Cat is amazing. One of the most unique slashers
I've seen a long time, and that was in the Sharon Milk reset from
Deaf Crocodile. If you don't make sure you pick that up. And the
cool thing about that box set these genres are wildly different and it's from one
director for different films. Really great, A lot of people loving fish and
cat plana. Monto says, I'm Irani. Still have to check out that
set. Yes, all right, scolder. I like foreign films, my
favorite from the US. I brought this up in a video. I think
it was with my sister, I said, or no, it was with
my wife for a Patreon video. I said, why do we call them
for in films? Because even the US films are forward to other people,
we just call them like international films or something. Let's see spaghetti sub to
plan amando. Thank you, thank you. Ruben did as well. We
should hit that thousand right now, just to the scream. Look at that
listen might have been your thousand. Thank you guys. I love to see
stuff like that. All right, I think I'm caught up with the comments.
Let's go to the next one. That was a challenging art. I'm
gonna go back to something that I mentioned just a minute ago. But before
I do that, a really easy one. I'm not really like each reaching
the end of my wish list for guests or anything. We are not short
of people that I want to interview. I have tons of them. However,
many people that I've reached out to and interviewed because of this channel have
been from people suggesting them, primarily in the discord, but there's a couple
that have actually just cold emailed me and said, hey, you should reach
out to this person. I think they'd be great on your channel. If
you have anybody like that, or you know anybody in the industry or even
tangentially related, I would love to have this very diverse, very diverse piece
of a small community that I can reach out to and get some sort of
discussion going. If you have an idea for somebody or you know somebody,
please email me. My email is in the description below, but just in
case it is Discconnectedmedia at gmail dot com. I've tried reaching out to some
people that have never responded. I've tried reaching out to some people and they
want to do it. It's just been very busy. But if it's somebody
brand new, I do not mind asking some of these people to come on
the channel. I've got a lot of great things that are in the hopper
that are already recorded. I've got some things that I want to do and
then we are working on getting them done. But a lot of these I
just don't have an end with some people. So if you are connected to
anybody, either give them my contact info or reach out to me. Or
again, even if you're not connected, do you just know somebody that I
haven't interviewed that you think would be great send me an email. I respond
to everybody. Might take a little bit of time. I got a little
bit of business going on, but I love getting these new, diverse people
on this channel. So yeah, absolutely, let me know. Send me
an email next one. This one's gonna hurt a little bit. I wanted
to talk about another spectrum. I've mentioned a few different spectrums tonight. There
is a spectrum of toxicity that is ridiculous in this hobby. We have seen
some of the absolute worst toxic negativity that we've even discussed tonight with this whole
translucent slipcover widing bullshit. But the other side is there's a lot of toxic
positivity. And I have even been accused of that, of being too positive,
and I gotta be honest, I kind of want to laugh at that
a little bit. I have this thing where I really just want to talk
about things I like. If I don't like something, I don't really want
to do a review on it. I don't really want to share it with
a community. And there's a reason for that. I don't want to turn
you away from something that you might love. But on the other hand,
if I'm positive about something and you watch something, even if you don't like
it, I liked it, and it's something that I can share with you.
And if you can find something that you like because somebody else said they
liked it, that's good. But turning away from art just because somebody else
didn't like it is really never a great choice. So I really kind of
wanted to throw out the idea of being wary of reviews, of criticism,
of film criticism as a whole, and not just finding somebody that you can
trust. And I'm not even me go subscribe to a myriad of people.
I would never say just listen to me, because I don't even feel like
an authority on any of this. But we do not need to have this
echo chamber of toxicity or positivity that is negative in the long run. I
mean screen Factory is a great example of this. We have talked about screen
Factory all year. They put out some great films over the years, and
in the last eighteen months or so, they have done a lot of terrible
things. They have messed up quite a few of the discs. They are
just re releasing a lot of four k's And if you are only going to
be somebody that says the nice things about them, it's not gonna feel genuine,
it's not going to feel like you're able to criticize them, it's not
going to feel like you can be trusted. But at the same time,
I don't want to be somebody that comes on here and just talks about things
that I fucking hate, Like, why would I want to come make myself
mad and feel emotionally down about things to discuss with all of you. It
is ridiculous to embrace something negative and make it your personality. I could never
do that, And based on that, I wanted to bring up the discussion
here on how the Internet has it has helped with film accessibility as a whole,
but because it has allowed everybody to have this democratized version of criticism,
it can also sort of kill the idea of criticism as a whole. So,
looking back, like the golden ages of film criticism, and I know
for some of you that have never paid attention. That might sound very weird,
but to bring up some names that you'll recognize. Twenty five years ago,
when everybody turned to Ciskel and Ebert to find out whether a movie was
good or bad, they were in that position for a reason. They had
this growth of, you know, appeal to people, foundationed by their obscure
knowledge on a lot of these films that has allowed them to speak from a
small position of authority. However, a lot of films that Ciskel and Ebert
criticized for being bad, we are buying for forty dollars and love watching now.
So even they who were the gods of film criticism for so many years,
they were fallible. And that is like the bottom line here that we
need to discuss. Every single person, every YouTuber, myself, everybody that
is out here talking about these things are fallible. And if you are making
your decisions based upon one person or even one community, it is never going
to be something that you are growing from in a way that allows you to
actually look at these pieces of art critically in a nuanced way. And that's
what can be important here. So it is important to see, you know,
this ability to parse through a film's built, the film's bones basically,
and the ideas and visual choices that they have and what purpose they have.
It is valuable to interpret that to an audience that is not able to do
that themselves. Completely valuable. But film Twitter and Facebook and people relying on
the entire world to be able to share their opinion as facts is not inherently
a great thing. It takes a lot to make somebody come out of their
comfort zone to love a film. It hardly takes anything to turn somebody away
from a piece of art. And so one of the things that I really
wanted to kind of shit on for a moment and be negative, like I
said, I'm not going to do this all the time or anything. But
we discussed this on the Tuesday Night stream with Jeremy Long a little bit.
I am absolutely embarrassed for film criticism. When an outfit like Variety posts a
worst of list for twenty twenty two, I don't care what's on the list,
Like it's hilarious to me that Bones and All is on the list,
when there are countless independent films that were made this year with a cell phone
that are not good in any semblance of the word. When all of those
exist, and we are seeing variety on Twitter get thousands of retweets on a
worst of list, and the people that were involved in making that film can
see people sharing that opinion about this film being terrible. It is so negative
and not even true film criticism that they should just not be doing it.
They should not have that ability. It is something that can negatively impact somebody's
career and therefore their life. I'm not saying that that led to this,
but the complete disarray that Warner Brothers has gone through over the last year and
a half is kind of a good example of how some of this can be
parsed through. Like people dedicated a huge chunk of their life, sacrificed money,
time with their kids, they traveled across countries to make Batgirl for Warner
Brothers, and now we will never see it because somebody decided something needed to
be shaken up. And that is ridiculous. It is completely embarrassing that somebody
can remove the life's work of some of these individuals, what they were leading
up to, what they deserve credit for, from existence. It is so
damn toxic. And I know that those are separated by a few different small
ideas. But you know, today there are so many things that people take
this personal offense when somebody says they don't like a film that they like,
and that's because this sharing of opinions as fact has grown into this thing that
people take personally, and it's beyond something that we are able to comprehend because
we're still so young in the social media age. But I don't know.
I obviously can't solve it. There's just so much surrounding it that this I
don't know. It's like this weaponization of feelings and the fact that Variety can
say that Bones and All is one of the worst films of the year.
And again I'm not defending Bones in All. It's just hilarious to me that
it would be listed on a worst of list. It's that true film criticis
in itself inherently is truly like an art form. It is something that it
takes years to learn to develop and a skill that grows in a way that
you I mean, I've never done it. I'm not a film critic.
I don't have that gift. But even I probably don't comprehend how much that
takes. You can see some of the people that used to be in that
position that legitimately they can't even hold that job anymore because social media has ruined
it for them. And not that I'm defending film critics or something like that,
just the idea of true film criticism it is sort of been trampled upon,
and something that is sad because we all have opinions and that interpretation is
a legitimate art form that we are losing more so every single day period.
I think it's time for me to dive into some of these comments because there's
been a lot and I've just and ranting. I need more water too.
Let me see alrighty Cupric Glover, I should interview disa Kate. I've tried.
I can't get him to respond to me. I gonna be honest,
let's see all that is Man says if he ever gets to do a thousand,
he'll do a face reveal. I mean, if that's not motivation to
get everybody to go subscribe to All that Is Man, please do absolutely please
do that. I mean, I gotta be honest. I've seen his face,
but it's a beautiful face that the world needs to see, so go
subscribe. He's a fantastic person. Nathan says, I'll see what I can
do. Always love seeing the different types of guests that thanks, Nathan,
that's amazing. Brian's here, Brian you are. You are fantastic. I'm
glad to see your face in here tonight. All right, plan a mondo.
I think a balance is nice. Rants are sometimes fun, but overall,
you want to be talking about things you enjoy. Otherwise it's insane.
And that's why I'm not gonna get into naming certain accounts, but there's there's
certain ones that will you know, they're like hyping up a video that they're
doing in five days, that they are actively saying, we're just gonna shoot
on this one release for this one company. Why would I want to watch
that? It's just a bunch of people being hateful together that that doesn't sound
fun. Yes, sometimes people do get happy by talking about stuff they hate.
Ruben, that doesn't make it great. Zach says, nuance and reviews
is so hard to find. Clickbait journalism is the way to bring in clicks,
so it's hard to blame them, but it's exhausting. One percent.
Cubric Lover watched Ciskel and Ebert didn't always agree with them. But I like
their discussions and they were genuinely great at that and that's why I certainly wanted
to highlight them a little bit. Tonight Wave says, I like to talk
about things that I love. If I don't like something, I don't talk
about it when I say the film isn't for me. And that's the big
one for me. I was just talking about this with my mom because we
watched it in a shutter video Sensor. Sensor came out from Vinear Syndrome and
Second Site. I think those were both twenty twenty one releases that film.
Everybody else, it seems like, besides me, loved that film, thought
it was incredible, top of the list, nominated for Faangoria, chainsaw Awards,
got tons of accolades. I didn't like it. I liked the lead
in, I didn't like the third act and I felt like it fell apart.
And I've never told somebody not to watch it. All I say is
it wasn't for me. It's something that I wanted to like, and I
went into it very hopeful. I just didn't love it. DC. Can
we discuss the toxicity of people going back and forth about transfers as if they
were all raised in an editing bay just gots is so much upheaval and many
times false information. Yeah. I could literally talk about misinformation on here for
the next hour and a half. Not sure how much I've shared this.
I know it's been in a couple guest spots I've done on other channels.
But one of the reasons I started this channel is because I was seeing misinformation
on the other big physical media YouTube channels that just straight pissed me off,
Like you can google this one piece of information that you're saying and that you're
repeating over and over again in this video many times and speaking from a place
of authority that we can all see is just wrong. And you're telling people
that are you know this video is gonna get eleven thousand views? Why are
you telling people that if you don't know what you're talking about, and not
that I know everything. I've made mistakes, and I happily own up to
them. However, I believe, through my heart of hearts that I have
made less mistakes than some of these other major physical media YouTubers that are just
kind of speaking out of their ass. A lot of them that are into
this, they are on the very surface level side, and they like movies
and that's great. I'm not taking that away from them. But when they
speak from a place of authority about things like transfers and restorations and labels and
how they work and how rights work, it's not something that is easy to
get wrong. Even it's something that a lot of those situations are very cut
and dry, so it's odd anyways, Spaghetti says value is in the constructive
nature of things completely. People should be allowed to challenge concepts rather than bash
or bandwagon. People think challenge is only negative, but the term goes both
ways. And on top of that, the bandwagoning is I think the worst
part of this because you see in places like Reddit. Reddit is the absolute
worst for this, because somebody will be scrolling by a post and downvote it
just because it was already downvoted by other people, not even reading it,
just downvote it, just blindly downvoted. And I'm not even necessarily talking about
films. It could be about any pote but that that mindset of I see
negative, I'm just gonna add a negative to it. Uh, what like,
how is that even a psychological thing that we're driven to do? It's
just to be a part of this group. But come on, I mean,
there's so much more to that. Stan says, I valued the discussion,
whether I agreed with them or not exactly completely agree. That's about Ciskel
and Ebert. Eric loved Ciskel and Ebert, and they are largely responsible for
my love of film. I mean, that's for a generation. I would
say that they would agree with that sentence. I disagreed with them frequently,
but when I knew nothing, they were a great source of information. And
they were not only a great source of information for like millions of Americans,
they were the soul source of information for years. And that's it's crazy how
much power they had for a while. But also they earned a lot of
that and I couldn't possibly take that away from them. Ciscal and Ebert would
be pissed it by movie collection. This is so true. Let's see.
Nathan says, I feel like there's too many voices hundred percent. I don't
think my voice as much. Say for me, I get sick of the
keeping up of the Joneses nice. It's important to have decent thought leaders,
and if we don't have that, and if we don't see them as decent
thought leaders. It is just a a cacophony of voices and it turns into
mush And what does that do for us? Literally nothing? When you can't
parse through the voices to discover what is good information? What good are those
voices in your life? Genuinely? Uh, John Stomp, I'm so tired
of people freaking out over small details. It's like they don't even want to
watch the movie they bought, only go over the specs. And I mean
not that I use the site frequently. I literally showed it during this stream
tonight, but the blu ray dot com forums are the absolute worst for this.
There are people that the moment I get the film, I'm going on
the computer to look at the array, I'm looking at the compression, I'm
looking at the bit rate. Just to argue with people online, My god,
like, where is the joy in that? I don't understand it.
Cubrick wanted to point out Ciskel and Ebert did the top ten worst and the
top ten best films of the year at the end of each year, and
I would argue with some of that. I mean, the fact that they
didn't watch everything. How can you possibly list the top ten worst a top
ten best I could see the argument for, but top ten worst. I
bet there's a lot smaller films that you never saw that would have been much
worse. Reuben wanted to say the Eber doc was very sad. I still
need to see that. Holland Notes is here. What's up Holland Nottes don't
know what was disgusting? But yeah, let's see Kubrick Lover. I get
sort of sick a little bit of movies outside packaging. I care more about
the movie and special features. I completely understand that Wave watched these Lenieber show
a lot back then, but always had my own opinion on everything. Never
rely on someone else to form your opinions on something. Watch it and feel
something for yourself about art, but do it in a way that educates you
yourself and can add to your perspective, and not allow your perspective to say
they're wrong because of my perspective. That's the biggest thing. And I know
that you're saying that, I'm not saying that you're wrong way Absolutely what you
said is completely true. Just want to throw out there that your perspective is
what people are not even addressing in these conversations today, and a lot of
this it leads into other topics, like it's easy to shit on politics,
and we're not going to get into that at all on this channel, but
it informs a lot of those decisions in the same way, people are making
decisions for others based on their perspectives on both ends of the political spectrum without
saying somebody else is going through something and that should also color my perspective to
allow me to choose something that is potentially better, because you are viewing your
own perspective as superior, and that's where we lose all credibility. That is
where everything fails for us as a human one hundred percent. Dave says,
I saw a YouTube video today about how the mid range budget films are being
wiped out. It's either low budget indie films or blockbusters that might have been
me. I've said that like four times in the last like six weeks.
It is something that I noticed earlier this year that has been killing me.
Yeah, I've absolutely been saying that. Chester watched Ciskel and Ebert each week.
I love to hear that. Absolutely, cuberic, this is great.
I think you can expand your thoughts about film by watching and reading film criticism
one hundred percent. When I mentioned earlier Celeste videos, they are the analysis
that they do on some of these films, Like in our conversation and in
the discord the other day I mentioned this, but genuinely one of my favorite
things from the second half of twenty twenty two was Celestes analysis of Barbarian and
reading that as true art form with a capital A sort of focus on film
criticism was one of the things that made me love Barbarian way more than I
thought I did when I left the theater, and I am grateful as a
movie watcher to have had that experience from Celeste as well to inform my brain
in a way that I did not have my perspective on it. Informed that
so you have to grow through films but also through film criticism when you want
to get the entire picture of the art form period. A good comment from
Zach. It's also turned into a sport. I'll never understand people wanting certain
movies to fail, like they cannot fathom people enjoying something they don't, but
that idea has become so popular recently. Look at Don't Worry Darling this year
that was a shit show and so many people were shitting on it before even
premiered Avatar. I've not seen the newest Avatar. I didn't love the first
one. I don't know if I would love this new one. But so
many people the first night they were calling it a flop and it's a billion
dollar movie. Now, I mean, come on, ridiculous. Yeah,
and completely agree he rick have your own opinion, just allow it to be
open to change and understanding that your perspective is not superior because it's yours.
DC got lambastard for loving Blonde, and I guarantee most people putting it down
the line didn't watch it, but just what jumped on the bandwid Absolutely,
this is a good point from Lissa. I don't understand the obsession with disspecs
since I was around wod vhs. Yeah, I mean the amount of times
that many of us in the chat, because a lot of us are not
you know, twenty or below, have watched on previous general on terrible crttvs
or Beta Max or whatever in really fuzzy fuzzy fuzzy releases. Yeah, it's
it's hilarious to see arguments on disspecs. Sometimes and looking back on what we
watched, yeah, Ragnar obviously positive and negative opinions that will always be both
one hundred percent. We just gotta we got to parse through what is good
and what is something that is constructive to us as humans. Terry says,
I think Joe Dante was someone who said it is not fair to review a
year in film in real time. It usually takes a decade or so to
truly understand a certain year. And I will argue that that could be that
can be applied not just to reviewing a year in film, but reviewing like
historical events and reviewing the effect of things like the pandemic. The fact that
we are having films made about the pandemic already when we're in the pandemic is
sort of weird to me. Not that I you know, like I Love
Kimmy this year and that's that's very much a pandemic film, but it is
it is something where it's gonna take a like seven or eight more years for
us to truly understand what twenty twenty two was in regards to a lot of
this, and I I don't know. That is a very very good point,
and again not just about reviewing things, but creating things and having perspective
on things. Maybe that's the best way to say it. It's hard to
have perspective on something that you're still in and being affected by. That's tough.
KB is here, what's up? KB? Film criticism, especially online,
is a toxic, mechanized form of marketing one hundred percent very well said.
The art of it is dwindling day by day, and we are watering
it down like crazy, start to says some people. You have to ignore
enough people ignore them, they go away. Eventually. I tried to learn
about criticism, but it took the joy of the film itself away. I
think it depends on the type of criticism. I get that though Flex is
going on. What's going on? Flex? Diabolic DVD doing a better job
with packaging when shipping. I've never known them to be bad. What's happened
with Diabolic? Let's see music criticism littered with bands and albums that were written
off entirely and now they're celebrated. And that's the same with films and everything.
Man, there are so many comments. I love this. Remember seeing
people trash the Craft four K release and hadn't even seen it in playback they
just went with. Other people wrote absolutely, are you upset Henry Cavill is
no longer Superman? Do you agree with Warner Brothers redoing the DC flex?
This is gonna sound ridiculous. I just happened to have literally not seen a
film with Henry Cavill playing Superman. I don't understand the mechanisms behind redoing all
of Warner Brothers. It does seem to me like it might be better to
redo the whole DC extended universe because what people have have reacted to they've seen,
it's not what they've been churning out already. So I get that part.
Henry Cavill has been great in the other things I've seen him in,
and I think he will make some great other choices. What else do we
got? S? Artist doesn't read social media or watch trailers. I've tried
to stay away from the trailers thing myself quite a bit. Some of the
teasers all right, but man, those long, like two and a half
minute trailers kind of suck nowadays. I came back to check out Royal Rumble
for wrestling. Oh man, Nathan, he is crashing soon. Good night,
Nathan, have a good night. I know you'll wake up early.
Paul says, I like using a letterbox to get a sense of general sentiment
from a wide audience. While true, I will argue there's also a lot
of pretension on letterbox, a lot motto says I hate Marvel movies. Guess
how many more Marvel Marvel videos I made? Zero? Easy enough, completely
easy. Let's see what else we got? Eric, Even seeing things in
the theater didn't promise a perfect image. How many films did I watched that
were scratched at missing frames? And I mentioned this one previously, the time
that I went and saw The Green Knight in theaters upon release, the bulb
was like thirty five years old and ruined the picture experience. I'm so glad
that I give it another chance at home. Let's see Pioneers says I respect
you and your channel, Ryan, but I think going to see a mass
content and less time. I wish critics, professional and average filmgoers would be
more critical. Not every three star film is great and no, that's why
they are three star films one hundred percent, and that's why most of those
people are not actual critics. I would argue, obviously, we need people
to praise proper filmmaking and able to be critical about improper filmmaking and storytelling as
a whole. But it is the overall sense of everybody's a film critic that
leads to the watering down of those three star films. And I think that's
what I was really trying to get at there DC. It's amazing to go
back and read DVD or even Blu Ray reviews for stuff that is now out
on four K, with reviewers saying by it, it'll never look better.
But now they say the four K is a ast difference that has happened for
many of those films. All Right, a couple more and then going back
to I've gotten just a couple more things left to say and then we can
call it a night. This is already longer than I expected. Brian says.
I wonder if superhero movies will die out like westerns did. Of course
they will, at least for a little while. Everything is on a death
knell. Eventually, it's not going to die forever, but it's a cycle.
The most common cycle, especially when it comes to genre film, which
a lot of us on these types of channel and this community have gravitated to,
is the cycle between vampires and zombies. And if you look back through
classic film, they are popular at different times. They seem to go in
these weird up and down cycles. Not that there were never vampire films made
while zombie films were popular, but yeah, everything is cyclical. The superhero
movies will will leave. We will get some great westerns again. And not
that we haven't in the last you know, fifteen years, There's still been
some great ones. But yeah, superheroes will definitely go away for a while
at least, and eventually we will discover something else and mass for us to
love as a whole planet. Wando is asking if I've seen the whale yet.
I have not. Literally just talked to Cam, the somebody that's in
the chat all the time. He's not sure if he's still here tonight,
but he was here earlier about seeing it. He went and saw it today.
I've not been able to see it. I've been going through a lot
of stuff at home. Actually I'm being vulnerable tonight. Why not share it.
I've had a lot of medical stuff going on in my entire family over
the last couple months. For those that may not know or may not remember,
my mom just moved in with me. She's watching the stream from like
forty feet away. Probably. She has been going through a lot of stuff
for herself. She's not been able to get in to see a doctor because
places in Kansas City right now they say they're seeing first time patients, but
it's like a seven month wait legitimately, so she's not able to get in
to get some of her prescriptions filled. So she's not been doing great.
My wife has been going through like nineteen different things for her entire life,
and it's been a really hard few months for her. I've been in a
hell of a lot of pain with my foot. People that have been watching
the channel for the last couple of years, you'll know I've had two surgeries
on my left foot in a way that has been debilitating. It's hard for
me to walk like a mile when I used to walk ten miles at a
time, genuinely, So that's been tough. But then in the last month,
my kids have both gotten sick. My wife got sick. My wife
hasn't had a voice in like five days, and I feel terrible for her.
So, yeah, I've not been able to get out of the house
to go see a film. Oh gosh, I think the last one I
went to was Black Panther, and even then, like right now, my
kids are at home on winter break with me at home on vacation, and
because I'm doing so much for them all day long, I'm exhausted when they
go to bed, and unless I'm doing a stream and you guys are energizing
me, I'm passing out pretty much immediately. A lot of other nights I'm
not watching much of anything. So it's been it's been a crazy time.
I'm dying to see the whale. There's about fifteen films from this year that
are on my like I have to see this now list, and I just
I can't seem to cross any of them off, and it's pissing me off.
For sure. What else we got? Film criticism and film reviewing are
not the same thing one hundred percent, and both can be detrimental to a
film legitimately, and both can be helpful to a film legitimately. The important
thing is to parse through the noise and the absolute wasted words out there.
Let's see. I love the simplicity and startus's comment here. I don't rate
films. There are two categories. Only have I seen it or have I
not seen it? That's perfect, DC says for trailers less, it's more.
Look at Barbarians first trailer. Not everyone likes the remake of TCM,
but check out the band blank screen audio only trailer. Amazing. Agreed,
what else do we got? Ruben loved The Batman just like me? Yeah,
I adored The Batman. Holland Oates wants all of the vampire and zombie
films. And I will say it now, Renfield coming out in twenty twenty
three, please please be the thing that drives down zombies. We've been fighting
zombies culturally since really since Sean of the Dead was released, but it really
didn't hit like that in mass existence until we got The Walking Dead obviously,
and I think that was well, gosh, what year did the Walking Dead
TV show premiere? Was that? Two thousand and ten? I want to
say it was like October twenty ten. And it's just been all zombies that
whole time. We've gotten We've gotten zombie other movies that are not Walking Dead
related, We've got zombie video games, We've gotten zombie TV shows. Walking
Dead has multiple spin offs, ridiculous. Let's get vampire films back and that's
why I want Renfield to be the thing that brings it back. Brian says,
time for musicals to make a massive comeback. I like it. One
of my favorites from last few years is a zombie film that we just talked
about the other night, and the Anna and the Apocalypse. Let's see what
else we got, Key Rick, sorry to hear that is connected. My
name is Ryan, right, yep, it's right there on the on the
screen in that corner there it is. That's my name. Brian is talking
to my mom. Your son is one of the most kind hearted people I
know. Glad to call him a good Thanks Brian. Uh, let's see,
I'm convinced that Ryan is a robot. Uh, Jermy, you're a
basic. He plugs himself in for a quick charge like the new iPhone fourteen
for only an hour at night. I just sound like an ad and somehow
accomplishes five hundred things in the day where the rest of us do three.
Now, that's just ADHD making me be too productive. Not sure if it
helps it all. Is there any chance your mom could get into Carbon Health?
They are an independent health organization, but perhaps they can help. I'll
look it up. Thanks. Have had to cut down on my media purchases.
There are too many films one hundred percent in my collection that I've not
watched or appreciated in full more than once. Trying to correct that, good
Jeremy said, I was almost going to say Ryan does not sleep that I
remembered I've seen it happen with my own eyes. Yes, yes, you
have. Not many people in the chat can say that. Just started the
TV version of what we Do in the Shadows right before the stream tonight,
and I've not started the TV show. I really really need to watch it
because I love the film. Let's see never seen Texas Chainsaw Asker before.
I'm waiting until the second Sight released to watch it for the first time.
Damn. Twenty twenty three a year of discovery for Texas Chainsaw Asker. That
is amazing. Wow, Griff has watched My Grandpa as a Vampire? That
was a seven. Put it out this year. Bring back the Giant Bug
era. Yes, I love some of those old films. Ryan, Did
I see that Victoria from twenty fifteen? Absolutely fabulous? Twenty fifteen Victoria.
There's a couple of films with that name. Is that the one I think
it was Dark Star the Vinegar Syndrome partner label just released recently. I don't
think i've seen that one. Not to sound like it's an insult, but
King Dingling, that's the name you have associated there. Uh, Cubreak coming.
Sorry, it's not a big deal. Yep. I'm Ryan h.
Brian wants a Werewolf cycle to return. Um, yeah, yeah, I
think we're due. What was the last good Werewolf film? Even though the
last good one man, because I know that there was that Anthony Hopkins film
that I remember not liking when that came out. Uh, John, my
friend John. Stuff. If we're spending the time here voicing concerns and frustrations
within the film community, can we please as a community come to the agreement
that underrated and underseen aren't the same either. Oh my god, thank you,
Yes, this is absolutely true. Let's define them underrated people think that
this movie is terrible, but it's actually great and we can agree on that
as a community. Or underseen too many people have literally never with their eyes
watched the movie. Not the same thing. A movie can't be underrated because
people haven't seen it. That's the difference. Sartist wants more newdist films with
ordinary people instead of models, and we can think something weird for a lot
of that output. Let's see what is the poster behind your head? Something
of the year. This is I think I talked about this on the channel,
but just in case. This is a poster that is lit up from
behind. And this was made by a patron and sent to me and it
was amazing. And the patron's name is Matt. I believe hopefully my memory
is not feeling me and I'm getting mixed up here. He sent this to
me after he made it himself. I'm gonna move the laptop. Hopefully it
doesn't make it jitterate too much. This is the entire poster. It says
it's the most wonderful time of the year. And the cool thing is it
flips out really easy to be able to change it. There we go,
and I'm gonna be switching that out every so often so I don't always have
the exact same background. That is really difficult to see. So uh uh,
yeah, that's that's cool. Uh Let's see a bomb at the box
office does not necessarily equal lack of quality. Oh my gosh, so true.
How there are lots of films that have bombed that are amazing. There
are lots of financially ruined films that are incredible. Completely. Uh, let's
see, John says, I can you may fall asleep watching Hackle Antern.
Oh. I definitely fell asleep while watching Hacklelantern. Uh that's right, KATEP.
Just watched Texas Teens. I'm asking after or I think it was in
preparation for one of your conversations. Right. The Wolf of snow Hollow.
I forgot about that one. Yeah, that's Jim Jim Cummings. I think
that's his last name. That's a good one. Wolf Cop, the first.
I've not seen the sequel, but the first Wolf Cop is a lot
of fun. Oh God, those that have read my thoughts on teen Wolf
this year, please no more. Teen Wolf. Finally watched Malibu High and
I now know why so well love it. It's such a fun movie.
And that poster that was on the original Vinegars in the release is so misleading.
Heard the Curse was good. I need to see that. Yeah,
lots of lots of good reviews. We've been talking about reviews tonight. Ginger
snaps. I this is where I fail a lot of you. Maybe I
didn't love Ginger Snaps. I don't know if it's because it's so so pointed
towards the female experience. I yeah, it just didn't connect with me.
I need to see the sequels though, and see if maybe maybe like the
the universe that it's in appeals to me more. After all those let's see
what we got. That's a really funny comment, Jeremy. We really haven't
had a solid werewolf movie cycle. Vamps and zombs get bigger and they alway
zoo absolutely. King Dinglang Victoria twenty fifteen is shot in one shot a party
coming of age film that turns into a bank robber action drama. Interesting that
those that sequence of words is very appealing. That sounds fantastic. Can we
let the idea of box office go? Yes? Please? One? Dog
Soldiers Love Dog Soldiers. Do you remember when that French Andreas Laski box that's
coming out again pre ordered and forgot everything? Yeah, that's right, the
comments I forgot you did that? I think that was February if I remember
right, And if you want to go look it up. That release is
coming from Lechet Quifume, which in English is the Smoking Cat. So you
can find them on Facebook and you should be able to find that particulably,
or even don't forget the Blu ray dot com website. If you make that
global, you can look up you can look up releases from the label,
or you can look up if you remember one of the films that we're in
there, because I don't offhand, you can look that up specifically and it
will show you the release date as well. All right, I've got just
a few more things to throw out, and probably gonna call this some night
soon. I am so grateful that there's still almost seventy of you watching this
live. I love this one thing that helps a lot. If you support
this channel in any way, or like this channel, or like being a
part of the community, there's a couple of things that you can do to
assist and it does mean a lot to me, not just obviously hopefully you
saw earlier. I have like a really tiny ego and I'm not just looking
for that dopamine boost or anything like that. But if you watch this on
YouTube, there's not a great way to do this. But if you listen
by podcast and don't forget, this is going out as audio tomorrow morning for
everybody in the world to be able to download, and I not that I've
been like steadying eye on the numbers or anything like that. It's reaching quite
a lot of people. If you feel it within yourself, please go give
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iTunes. Apple's podcast system is the biggest, so that actually does the most
to help boost it to more people within that community. One of the other
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is just to share it. I know that I'm reaching you guys,
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never will, I promise, But two things that people have asked about is
the ability to donate to the channel and the ability to send me something because
they want me to see something, or they've created something that they want to
share with the community or with me and just get more eyes on it.
I completely get that, and I'm more than happy to share with the world
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anything like that. I have a po box and if you want that,
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paywall, but the Patreon is really the best way to support this channel directly
because not only is it able to give back some of this, because like
my streaming service that I'm doing to be able to share with all of you
right now, I pay for this every year. It's on a subscription.
I'm losing money every single year. The shelf Shock Awards I out of pocket.
I paid for things to be able to put on the shelf Shock Awards,
and I'm genuinely willing to do that just because I support this community.
Other than you know, a lot of those things that are ongoing charges,
I'm never gonna make money doing this, and I know that, and I'm
not upset about that. I will still do this no matter what. But
the Patreon genuinely is I think one of the best ways to do it because
other than like I was getting at, other than the monetary help with the
reimbursing of my subscriptions for this, I feel enriched when we have this ongoing
conversation in the discord. And oh my gosh, it is always shocking to
me when I go do an interview with someone, like we'll say one of
the big ones this year when I for some reason had a lot of a
lot of people talking at the same time, I interviewed Fran from Radiance Films.
And when I got done with that one conversation that was like eighty five
minutes long, I go back to the discord afterwards and there's literally like thirty
five messages for me to read through. I can go on vacation for a
week and the complete like robustness of my community that's in that discord. We
have all just grown to be genuine friends. And while I could be gone,
they all moderate themselves and stay positive and keep talking. That's the big
thing we all look forward to the discussions in the discord. So if you
are curious about it, join for a month, check it out, and
if you don't like it leave, Not a big deal the different levels on
the Patreon. I'm not going to pitch this all the time again because I
don't want to make it sound like a begging or anything. But the second
tier gets you into the discord, and then that third tier is great because
it also puts you into a giveaway every single month that I send a hack
of boutique stuff to a lucky winner, and it's always random draw I've had
I think two people have won twice this year. Cam was the first one,
but sartists in the chat he just won and I'm about to send him
something out this week and happy to do that every single month. I appreciate
the Discord the Patreon. I put out my own videos that people in the
discord are seemingly into, and I might, after a long period of time,
might start putting some of those on the channel so people can see what
has happened in the past. But like the best thing that I've loved and
gotten a little bit of good feedback. I bring my kids on sometimes for
pickup videos. And my youngest is six, my oldest is seven, and
I have them look at a video that came a movie that came in.
Unlet's see what's a good one. This would be a fun one. I
asked them, like, hey, I just got this in movie is called
God told me to look at the picture, and what do you think this
movie is gonna be about? And a six year old, a six year
old looks at my movie and makes a judgment based about that. And sometimes
it's hilarious, other times it is existential as fuck. One of the films
recently had the word hell in it, and so while I'm recording this video,
I to explain to my six year old hell is and then go into
this die tribe. Some people believe in this place and blah blah blah.
But we'll talk about that when you're older and can understand it more. Okay,
And he was like okay, and we just kept going on. It
was hilarious. But yeah, a lot of those videos you'll only get on
the Patreon and I appreciate that. But if you're looking for other ways,
YouTube's got the super Chat if you ever want to use that, Definitely not
going to turn it down, it'll highlight your comments on the channel. Obviously,
you can do that right under where you're typing in your chat comments.
And again the main thing is that if you want to help this channel is
just through growth. The way that this community gets better is by more perspectives
and seeing people share my channel and my response, like, Hey, somebody
asked about Hamilton Books all the time, and I pretty much every time I
see a question about that, somebody in the chat goes and shares my video
that I did. That was a guide to Hamilton Books, everything that you
need to know about that, and I love that. That's it though,
That's all I got for tonight. I'm gonna go through the comments when last
time. If anybody else has any questions for me as a person about my
background, I'm willing to stay and talk and be vulnerable if you have anything
that you want to discuss widely on twenty twenty two as a whole. In
response, I've still got some best of videos I'm gonna put out, so
I don't want to go into too many details on those to give away it
would kind of be odd to spoil some of the videos I already have recorded
and scheduled to go live. But yeah, if you want to talk about
like how the year feels for physical media or anything else, just ask some
questions in the chat we'll dive into that will give us a good five minutes
at the very least, and then we'll call it a night. But before
I go to the comments, just again, thank you all. Thank you
for being here, for being here for five hour streams, for helping me
be able to track down somebody like Fran from Radiance Films and call somebody like
kat Ewnger a friend, and know that if I want to record with some
of these people again, they're more than willing to come back because they've seen
the positive interactions and it's amazing to see. I've seen people because I am
like personal friends on Facebook with some of them. I've seen people share some
of the comments that you all have made on the interview videos as something that
they're proud of. Literally, like I don't want to name names, but
a couple of them they read the comments on our discussions and they will hear
it with their friends that they they liked seeing this one that I think he
would be happy to do this. Justin Little Liberty from Vinegar syndrome. It
wasn't about a comment, just that he he was proud of the way our
conversation went when he was on at the beginning of December. And it's it's
because of you all that these conversations are happening, these comments are made,
that the feedback is drafted that way, and you keep you keep this rolling.
You you are completely adding to it and energizing it more than you could
ever possibly know. Let's see one of the VS partner labels should re release
the film Victoria here in the States. Yeah, completely agree, sounds amazing.
Justin Robbin says where Wolves with Ian was a lot of fun, another
good Josh Ruben film. Yeah, he was just on here earlier this month
as well. Waves says, if it's on iTunes podcast all at It,
Yes, it is absolutely on iTunes, It's it's on everything, Spotify,
Stitcher. I don't even know all the ones that I added it to for
sure. What else do we got, Mondo, I'll start plugging you on
our podcast. Thanks. We have a decent sized show with the one hundred
patrons. That's fantastic. Not a movie based podcast, that's amazing. What
is the podcast name? Let me know the let me know in the chat,
I didn't realize. Oh wait I did, and I will completely own
up to this. You told me about that the last time when I commented
I think on one of your unboxing videos and I meant to go download it,
and I don't think I did. But remind me the name of it,
and I will absolutely make it a point to add it before I even
go out of here tonight. That I apologize Mondo. I was supposed to
check it out previously, and when I say that, I check out everything
that I tell people. I will for sure. Eric highly recommends the Patreon.
Thank you. The discord discussions are outstanding. So does Jeremy Long second
the Patreon recommendation. Highlight of my week and every week is that discord.
Yes, Ragnar, thank you. Don't forget. This is the last weekend
of pre order City of the Living Dead for Cauldron at the low price.
I think they said it's going up like five or six bucks after the first,
So yeah, if you want to make sure you get it, Anthony.
The Patreon is great. Ryan helps us get great deals. I do.
I have a deals channel that I had in there, monthly movie watch
Along. I completely forgot to do that. We watch a movie together every
single month. Usually it's the last Sunday of every month, and we get
to chat or talk over it, depending on the film. And we have
the last I think three months now, just decided to stay on the voice
chat and we just discussed for hours about all kinds of things. Just see
what comes up. I guess Ben Spaghetti has made a new rule. Pants
are optional in the discord. That's true, Mondo, thank you. I
am the Angel and the Devil on Jeremy's shoulder waves says, I'm looking at
the Patreon link is in the description below. One of the few places pants
are optional. The youngest one is a cutest I've seen him do that.
Yes, so Kab and I and Nathan Jones, who was in the chat
earlier. We all went to Barnes and Noble for the last sale and I
brought the youngest and oh man, it was hilarious. Anyone else really digging
Air forty four? Forty four reminds me of Mona Macabra. I get that
obviously a little Asian focused compared to Mondo, but yeah, I could see
that comparison for sure. I should mention the Amazon shopping link. Yeah,
I do have that below if you if you want, I've got a If
you do shop through Amazon, I've got an affiliate link down there. If
you make that your bookmark for Amazon, I get like pennies literally for every
one hundred dollars that you spend us hardly anything. It doesn't cost you anything.
Amazon just gives a slight amount to me as an affiliate. But yeah,
if you make that your bookmark, it'll give a tiny little kickback to
each channel. But not reality. I would shout up, make your Amazon
Smile partner AGVA so that they as a nonprofit kickbacks and said to me,
I think that's more important. Sartis is finally giving air a shot. Yeah,
I've been talking to him about that Dead Sea life. What do you
do or collect that has nothing to do with movies? That is a great
question. I'm fat, so this should be obvious, but I really love
eating through the pandemic. I have really tried to learn some better techniques for
cooking just tonight. I don't know if I can share it on here,
but I shared it in the in the discord, I felt pretty pretty proud
of what I made tonight, and they don't photograph super well. But I
made these wonderful street tacos, grilled the tortillas, made the chicken, myself,
pulled it, and everything I got like streetcorn on there. I've got
some black beans fantastic. I've I hesitate to call myself mastered this, but
I feel like I've gotten really good at frying, like really great fried chicken.
And my I love hot soie. Brian actually in the chat sent me
some hot peppers that he grew so good. But I love hot sauce so
much that I made the goal for myself that I wanted to make a really
great Nashville hot chicken sandwich. Oh my god. I've made it probably five
or six times in the last couple of years, and it is incredible.
Absolutely love Nashville hot chicken sandwiches. Mando says, Air sent me my package
and the discs were missing. Odd contacted them and they had the disc out
the same day. Very easy to deal with. And that's another reminder,
open your shit. This kind of thing happens so much more than you think
it should be. Right here these ones. So when Severn originally put out
these video nasties Definitive Guide, they have two versions. People were buying these
and opening them and realizing that the discs for volume two were the discs from
volume one. It was the exact same disks in both, and so because
of that people had had to call in and get it, but or not
callin, had to email in. But unfortunately lots of people weren't opening them
for months or a year plus, and people discovering later that it was like
that, and that's that's kind of hard to try to get free discs sent
to you after that long. Obviously, if you made the order through them,
it is it is easier to argue because it should be in your order
history. But yeah, I gotta watch out for that stuff. Stan says,
it's worth repeating the show. It's truly educational. Thanks Dan, I
still need to have you on one of these days. Jeremy says, in
all seriousness, can't quite even remember how I met or became friends with Ryan,
but I'm thankful every day that he's in my life. Genuine want to
be kind of better than half my Hella friends, and I've met you in
person, that is okay. So one more thing for twenty twenty two to
throw out about this, the fact that I've met like six or seven people
from this channel in person. Is remarkable. That is incredible, and oh
my gosh, it is. It's so fantastic to meet people that you know
in real life that are passionate about the same thing and people that don't have
that when it's a it's hard to explain to people that are into something like
sports, because you can find anybody around you that's into football, but physical
media, most of us don't have eight people around us that we can point
to and say, yeah, they all love physical media, they all love
buying movies. Just having these people it helps so much. Planet Moto podcast
is called Break the Apocalypse. I am subscribing right this moment, and I
will even show it after this. I use the podcast app overcast on iPhone
and I believe it's on Android as well. Break the Apocalypse and I don't
even care what it's about. I'm going to listen and support it and try
to learn something from it. John draper Shaw and show Brian as long as
this is the one and it looks like it, this is the one that
I am now following. Look at that, I will definitely give it a
listen. Thanks Mondo. Interesting, I will I will check it out.
Odd conversation to see this comment. There's already a real life Asian male porn
star named Jeremy Long. Interesting, Brian, are you trying to make me
feel bad with your luxurious here? Okay, here's the truth. I'm I'm
obviously not like very old, but I will likely never go bald. I
don't know what it is my genetics. People with my family just don't go
bald. My wife has even said she'll probably go bald before me. King
Dinglang if he's looking, Hey, justin, let's get Victoria twenty fifteen with
extras as my copy as Jack shit and Jack left. Oh man, let's
see what else we got? Super legit company. They relate on the latest
release talking about Air forty four, but they really made up for the quality
of the product. Yeah, it's I have it close by. I feel
like I just saw it. I must have put it away already. Great
release from them this time around, for sure. I desperately need to watch
the films. I watched a couple of the extras, but oh man,
scolder. I like eating too, try to eat every day. Let's see
what else we do we do an episode while eating Hotter and Hotter wings.
Funny you say that. I don't know if you saw stan. I did
a hot Sauce challenge with my kid on this channel. My oldest I think
he saw something on YouTube and said, Dad, we got to do this
for your channel. And we went. We went basically through the hot Ones
gauntlet and went all the way through the last dab and my seven year old
had the last dab. So proud, absolutely proud. Now they are collectible
DC. If you had to guess what unexpected title do you think will be
released this year? Ooh, I'm assuming something like a four Flies on Gray
Velvet. Oh, great question. Uh. I think before the end of
the year, and maybe this isn't too unexpected. I feel like before the
end of the year we get a four K of the first Nightmare in Elm
Street, but that's it. I don't think we get any of the other
ones in any and I don't even think we get the first one in a
boutique treatment. I think the studio puts it out because I mean, look,
New Line milked Freddy for all of the money ever for years, and
I one hundred percent believe that they will put out the four K of the
first one themselves, and then if they somehow ever get scans of the sequels,
they may license it to a boutique for a box set. But I
don't see that happening any anytime soon at all. However, when I and
Cam from the chat, who surprised me by driving from Saint Louis to Kansas
City, we all went to this wonderful theater here in Kansas City. Oh
and k he loves Movies, who's also in the chat, he was there
as well. We went to a marathon of the eight Nightmare Nightmare on Elm
Street Films. They showed everything from the very first one to Freddy Versus Jason
except the remake, of course, and it was incredible. But when they
showed it, I think accurately, the owner of the theater stepped out and
said that the first one was from a new four K restoration. So I
don't know if that's like low key information or whatever, but I do think
that there's a high chance that we get the first one only in four K
from the studio before the end of this year. Rubin says, I had
Asian spiced hot wings love that that's amazing. Are the coupons for vinegar Syndrome
stackable. The Black Friday coupon and the subscriber we have coupon didn't say anything
about that. They are not if you are a current subscriber for twenty twenty
two, you should not have bought the Black Friday coupon, and it did
specifically say that that you will not be able to use that at all.
The coupon that we just got for the code for I think it was seventy
dollars off to subscribe for next year, that is the only one that can
you can use at once. I mean you can use either one. I'm
sure for the next one, but yeah, they only allow you to use
once, and then once you put one in the field to enter, one
disappears. That'd sea life. We should run a party bus and drive from
New York to Missouri. Hell yeah, do it. Although I kind of
want to go that way. I really want to have a pilgrimage soon and
go to Grindhouse Video, Orbit DVD, the Archive in Connecticut and see New
York. I've never seen New York at all, so yeah, absolutely,
I would love to go that way. Chester Curious. Have you met Flip
in person? I've not We've been trying to do it for a couple of
years, but he is so so absorbed with the restaurant, he is essentially
running it. I mean after we record podcasts, he literally goes and washes
the entire restaurant for hours. If you're wondering how I do it, like,
I don't understand how that guy lives his life at all. There is
so much that Flip does that is just behind the scenes. And he's had
a really hard year as well. He's had a lot of family deaths this
year. Monto says, that's the one glad I got it. Good sartist
is asking what is the subject matter on that podcast? A motto answered.
We talked about everything with the comedic twist. The show started out during COVID
got tired of everyone reporting news in a depressing way, so we covered everything
happening with some laughs. Sound's fun. Is that a centipede horse shirt?
It is absolutely yeah. This is the one that came in that big bundle
from them. To clarify with the Vinegar Syndrome post today, will the Thriller
Box be available by itself or with both individual sets included? It just wasn't
sure it will be the entire release the slip box with the two slip covers
on the inside with the four K for both versions of the film. The
only reason this happens usually is because they set aside some that are just in
case people get damages, or people cancel orders, or a handful of other
reasons. The other things that they're putting out, like, they've got some
slipcovers for Sweet Sugar and Spookys and Don't Panic, and a couple others that
there's only gonna be a few of. So if you really want one of
those, you're you have to check out like immediately when you go into the
sale. A lot of those are because they held them for conventions and they
just either haven't been going to as many, or they haven't sold or what
have you, so they're offering it to the community. Again. It's a
good thing. Last House on dead End Street for the Vinegar Syndrome tent,
your absolutely could be. There's honestly, there's a few from Vinegar Syndrome that
they've been hinting at for years that we really need. Intrepidos Punks was one
of them. Coonskin. I don't know if they've abandoned that but they announced
that was coming. Oh gosh, I want to say like twenty fourteen or
fifteen something like that, and where is it. It seems like that's probably
canceled. There's a couple others. Uh, we're probably gonna get some more
Cardona here soon. Not that they've figured out what to do after his death.
Yeah, lots lots of vinegar syndrome that they've hinted at that should still
be coming. Jeremy, I think what is really beautiful is that the way
these comments are flying in. You ain't ever anything the lives dream. You
have no idea how right you are. I gonna speak faster so I can
reach the end. We need Cube on Blu Ray or four K, then
movie air Levet DVD. I think it has a German release or something that
I feel like one just came out recently. Let me let me take a
look at that. I think there was a media book that was supposed to
be coming out with a Cube Blu Ray set. Let me see Cube from
nineteen ninety seven and not that. Not that Blu ray dot com is always
one hundred percent accurate. I will say that you can get a fifteenth in
Niversary Blu Ray edition from the UK and it's less than ten pounds. In
fact, I'm not going to make this promise for him, but you can
probably reach out to Mark at Orbit or to Diabolic DVD and Jesse will probably
order it for you if they can get it through their distributor. They'd be
happy to feel. There was a twentieth anniversary edition that came out in Australia
in twenty seventeen. What is the recent one I'm thinking of? Then?
Okay, there was a German release that came out in twenty twenty. Not
many others, but yeah, that Blu ray dot Com app in the site
really great way to find out if something had been released previously. Oh,
I didn't see the second half of that comment. Second site I would love
Oh my gosh, a cube release from second site would be great. Oh
now you got me excited. KB says, I'll take Diamond and m Street
one. We know there's a four K transfer exactly. I'd like a Blu
Ray of nineties horror Flick Mute Witness. I've not seen that one, I
feel. I wait a minute, somebody who's brought this up in a chat
recently I think might've been on another video. But yeah, I'd never heard
of this film and I looked it up and it sounded great. Yeah,
DC says, I really want that screen factory set. We've all been rumoring
about this whole time. I know it's not real, but still not only
is it not real, they've come out and said it's not happening, it's
not in the works. It's not something that they are able to do.
And I think for this they can be trusted. I know, I know
that they're Blu Ray labels and they're out to make money and all that and
all that. However, in this case, it all makes sense. I
don't think it's something that is happening at the moment. Let's see Scolder about
Cuban Q two Blu Rays nice nice? Oh that I mean, yeah,
we always talk about the devils. That would be mind blowing, and I
think I think that Warner Archive has kind of hinted that they are at least
doing something with it. But it's it's tough because I don't even know if
they could release it in the US. To be honest, with the whole
reputation that it has kb off topic typically how long this is an off topic?
This is exactly what this is for? How long does imprint orders take?
Still waiting for my Black Friday order? The odd couple don't want to
come over and funnel your copy again. It depends they had their biggest sale
they've ever had and they were super behind. The hard part is once you
get that shipping notice, it still takes a while. It still takes I
think it. The longest I've had was about three weeks from shipped to received.
Nowadays it's more like ten days ish from ship to receive, but it
is. It's tough imprint. I think that they had stuff that they were
selling that they didn't have on hand yet. It was either still at a
warehouse or they still were literally being manufactured. So unfortunately they were behind,
I think, and still holding on hope that people can get those sooner than
later. The rumored Peter Jackson box set that would make me very happy.
I adored Dead Alive. Stan. We need to do more than dinner in
a film. We need to do like a few films and at least at
dinner and probably a movie in a whole bunch of discussion. Absolutely, there
are a lot of people that I met after I went to LA This year
that I would have loved to have met in person, and I'm so sad
that the relationships just developed after June sucks. Are the ten dollars movies on
Vinegar on New Year's only for subscribers? No, not at all. Their
webpage kind of makes it look that way. No, it is for everybody.
It is basically what I'm assuming, And I've seen some other sides do
this before, so don't take this as gospel. But what it sounds like
to me is they are going to have ten ten films, and probably three
or four of them will be like their old drive in double features that are
only like twelve or thirteen dollars on sales, so it's not that much cheaper.
A couple might be like the six String Samurai VSU and maybe Censor VSP,
and the maybe a couple of Blues that still have slips. I think
that some of those, like the VSU and the VSP, maybe they put
up like five copies that are only ten dollars and then the moment though sell
out, they're back to full price. They're sticking to their word they were
offering them. But if you were the most loyal people that went there at
launch and could buy them. That's probably the way they're doing that. I
don't think it's gonna be ten dollars for twenty four hours. That would be
insane. But they did say that it's gonna be VSUS and VSPS and VSAs
and some other titles, so it's gonna be cycling in and out every day.
I'm sure it's gonna be across the spectrum. Some super cheap titles,
some I just hit the microphone, some more expensive titles. DC says,
come to New York, will check out. Oh, that would be amazing.
And then Ice is in New York. I need to go see Ice
for sure. King Dingling needs to see Anguys from Blue und Around finally get
an update. There are a lot of films stuck on DVD that need Blu
Ray releases. But honestly, there's still thousands of films stuck on vhs or
no releases, and I would love to see those. Every month that Imprint
announces something that's a Blu Ray premiere, I'm just happy to see that happen.
Let's see, we need a remastered Snake Sisters by Celso and Castillo.
Interesting. I don't know the film at all. What else are there?
My panic is going to be trying to find the ten dollars for ten dollars
ten for ten dollars section. When the site goes live, you'll find it
quickly. I'm sure they'll they'll be advertising it like crazy. Jeremy Long,
can I come with stand nice? Given recent chatter, we should see Cafe
Flesh hopefully next year. I'm not confirming that I know information, but I
have somebody that is close to the director and I have a conversation with them
coming out in I think it's two weeks, the same week that Celeste conversation
is coming out. I have somebody that was heavily involved in the Doctor Caligari
release, and I do ask about Cafe Flesh, So we will we will
hear more about that, it sounds like to me soon. Have you heard
anything about the Japanese thriller Under Your Bed? Not a single physical release.
I've heard that it's great. Not many people I know have seen it,
but I've heard that it's good. That's it. That doesn't help my mom.
I think she's going to bed, can I mom? Mark from Orbit
mentioned today that he's going to start doing more YouTube If you're interested see.
Yeah, Mark is gonna be doing that. He does Instagram lives a lot.
I'll also shout out Grindhouse Video. The transparency that Mike as every single
Sunday to go live at seven PM. I almost wanted to say his whole
spiel for when he goes live every Sunday at seven he does that seven o'clock
Eastern. Yeah. Check out Grindhouse video. They are right now. I
think they're kind of my go to place for when I want stuff. Love
it? How about the Dark Backward on four kses Stan and KB. Yeah,
we talked about this earlier. Who's the Killer A hard Boiled? Absolutely?
Please? If VS released a VSU of if Looks could kill with Richard
Greg Richard Greco, they could charge me whenever they want. Don't say that
because they will. Yeah, completely agree. Wish older films would get Blu
ray releases, Hush and others got ahead to bed. Good night, Zach,
this will still be here tomorrow. I love you guys. Foreign Exchange
in Culver City is another great disk shop. Nice if you are in southern
California. Jeremy Long's favorite is CD Trader. He gets some incredible deals.
I get like every week every single week I get like nine pictures from Jerremany.
Which one of these is worth it? Yeah? Absolutely Meander from twenty
twenty. A US release would be great seeing it on Prime has super cube
vibes, nice terror vision for Cafe Flesh. I don't I don't know if
that would fit them necessarily, but I mean they don't have a whole lot
to go off of. Sadly, Eureka doing four K. Now's when I
have to start importing what the Calgary said. I will say it is great,
it looks wonderful. The keep on blue. We've been hearing for years,
this is impossible. Australia got a DVD Upscale Blu Ray, but it's
not the same thing. Oh my gosh, I reached the end of the
comments. I don't know what to do with my life. All right,
everybody, I think this is This is pretty much it. This has been
everything I wanted and more Tonight, being able to have these conversations has been
incredible. As I said earlier, email me, Email me if you have
a question, email me if you just want to talk, email me if
you need somebody that can uh. I just read that gig niggling comment.
Now I gotta highlight that I'm out like a boner in sweatpants. All right,
good night, uh I. I am eager to see what comes from
this. I appreciate all of you so much. As you watch this or
think about it and ruminate on it, give me a comment, come back
to the video. Comment, keep the discussion going, join the join the
Patreon, let's come discuss this in the discord. I would love to see
some of these comments. Just keep rolling in because there's a lot here to
unpack, and I know that my gosh, last thing I'll shout out again,
don't forget. There is another stream coming Sunday at eleven thirty am Eastern
as Vinegar Syndrome goes live for the new year and subscriber year. I can't
drag this out any longer. I appreciate you all. This is amazing,
Thanks for everything. Thanks for a wonderful year. Justin just said, been
killing it this year. Great job, Thank you, Justin. I'm killing
it because people like you. I'm glad you're here. That's it, everybody,
from one collector to all of you. I hope you've had a great
year. I hope that next year is kind to you and your family.
I hope that you watch more films next year than you did this year.
I hope that you keep it tight leash on your wallet. I hope that
this community grows and is inclusive to everybody with every single belief system and outlook
on life that you could possibly have, and that we celebrate humanity as a
whole. And here's just twenty twenty two. Have a night, everybody.
We'll see you Sunday,