Speaker 1: Weird.
Speaker 2: We welcome back midnight viewers to Father Malone's weekly round up.
Speaker 2: I'm father alone and with me infected with pure cuteness. Ah,
Speaker 2: the cute virus, it's a ripley gene. No, you don't understand.
Speaker 2: A pug becoming vicious only adds to the cuteness even
Speaker 2: with a knife.
Speaker 3: Ow.
Speaker 2: Okay, the fucking world is on fire, everybody, So let's
Speaker 2: take a look at some dystopia. More specifically, it's the
Speaker 2: dystopia everyone's talking about. Actually, no, they're not talking about
Speaker 2: post apocalypse. They're talking about zombie dong and we will too,
Speaker 2: I suppose, since everyone is a fucking fourteen year old
Speaker 2: girl when it comes to on screen penis, we are
Speaker 2: looking at twenty eight years later. But we'll get there
Speaker 2: after some days and some weeks. It's the Danny Boyle
Speaker 2: Alex Garland. Wait, no, it's not them anymore. Weight they're back.
Speaker 2: The series has gone from shitty DV camera to high
Speaker 2: quality thirty five millimeters back to fucking iPhones. Before we
Speaker 2: get there, a quick annoying autobiographical pause. Now I've told
Speaker 2: this story over on the Projection Booth podcasts. You should
Speaker 2: head over there for more in depth analysis of this film,
Speaker 2: but see In nineteen eighty two, I was consumed with
Speaker 2: creep Show mania. I read and re read that comic.
Speaker 2: I listened to the soundtrack obsessively, and I sought out
Speaker 2: any tangential material related to creep Show. That's how I
Speaker 2: ended up convincing my mother to rent the Ripper. The
Speaker 2: shot on videotape Nightmare, starring FX guru Tom Savini. What
Speaker 2: a boondoggle, a horn swoggle, that was. But the holy grail,
Speaker 2: the one I just could not find in any fashion,
Speaker 2: was the film, the film that George Romero had made
Speaker 2: a few years prior, a film my older, irresponsible cousins
Speaker 2: would talk about in Whispers Dawn of the Dead, a
Speaker 2: film my cousin Susan expressly forbade her husband from taking
Speaker 2: me to see, which he did at the first opportunity,
Speaker 2: and it fucked my head up. Sincerely, the human in
Speaker 2: the movie theater seat when the lights went down was
Speaker 2: not the same one when the gog came flounced across
Speaker 2: the soundtrack two hours later. Suddenly, vampires and ghosts and
Speaker 2: Frankenstein's and witches and everything I'd come to know as
Speaker 2: scary took a fucking back seat to the ultimate monster
Speaker 2: us Because what are zombies but our loved ones and
Speaker 2: our friends back from the dead and just vacant all
Speaker 2: animal instinct and animal hunger. It's not hard to remember
Speaker 2: just how horrifying a concept that is. Even after the
Speaker 2: last twenty five years of non stop zombie everything in entertainment,
Speaker 2: that wasn't always the case. Prior to two thousand and one.
Speaker 2: The number of zombie films totals about seventy give or take.
Speaker 2: Since then over five hundred. That doesn't count novels and
Speaker 2: comic books and TV shows and lunchboxes and plush toys.
Speaker 2: So what was the spark? Who if it wasn't Billy
Speaker 2: Joel actually started the fire. Most horror folk and film
Speaker 2: folk for that matter, tend to point the decaying finger
Speaker 2: in the direction of twenty eight Days Later, and it's
Speaker 2: easy to understand why here was a thoughtful, dare i say,
Speaker 2: art house take on the zombie menace? Those art house
Speaker 2: bona fides are provided by Danny Boyle, I'd say, Alex
Speaker 2: Garland as well, but when twenty eight Days Later was released,
Speaker 2: he was just the guy who wrote the book that
Speaker 2: Boyle had made into that disastrous DiCaprio flick. The Beach Boyle,
Speaker 2: on the other hand, was an indie darling. He still is,
Speaker 2: despite working in every strata of the industry imaginable. Incidentally,
Speaker 2: I think there's a divide that can be drawn for
Speaker 2: cinophiles about nineties movies. I have a theory you were
Speaker 2: either wowed by pulp fiction or train Spotting. I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to make a Beatles Stones feud or anything, but
Speaker 2: Trainspotting is the clear winner. There suck at all you
Speaker 2: goons with your Uma Thurman posters on your dorm room walls. Anyway,
Speaker 2: if the guy who made train Spotting was taking the
Speaker 2: undead seriously, then I guess we all had better too.
Speaker 2: I like a lot of twenty eight Days Later, and
Speaker 2: I do think it managed to inspire a lot of
Speaker 2: measured re examination of horror and its impact, while giving
Speaker 2: a proper introduction to the greater populace of a proud
Speaker 2: member of the monster family that had been all but
Speaker 2: ignored up until then. But the film is not precient.
Speaker 2: It didn't predict a goddamn thing. It is a thoughtful
Speaker 2: meditation on the times that was created, but it's cobbled
Speaker 2: together from other horror pieces. More specifically, Twenty eight Days
Speaker 2: Later is George Romero's Zombie trilogy, and a few of
Speaker 2: his other films used for parts with a thin layer
Speaker 2: of Day of the Triffids at the outset. Like that movie,
Speaker 2: our hero awakens after a lengthy hospital stay to find
Speaker 2: the entire world changed by a horrible invasion and has
Speaker 2: to figure out the where and the what and the
Speaker 2: how while evading this new threat. That's the end of
Speaker 2: the Day of the Triffids. Then it's all zombies, although
Speaker 2: they're not because zombies are dead by fucking definition. These
Speaker 2: are living, breathing folks who've been infected by a virus.
Speaker 2: So after some harrowing though fairly rollicking adventures, our heroes
Speaker 2: form a family and try to live the old way
Speaker 2: and are forced to move on. And then they're splintered
Speaker 2: apart again and again by the threat of these creatures,
Speaker 2: and in the end they run to what's left of civilization,
Speaker 2: which is the military, who are so fucking degenerate that
Speaker 2: the only way to any sort of safety is by
Speaker 2: embracing these zombies as your ally. If that's not night
Speaker 2: and Dawn in Day of the Dead, then well it
Speaker 2: just fucking is, There's no two ways about it. Also,
Speaker 2: stop using rape as a fucking plot point. Okay, the
Speaker 2: fact that there would be a pandemic twenty years after
Speaker 2: the film does not make the film a fucking prophecy.
Speaker 2: The idea of rage filled humans triggered that way by
Speaker 2: a virus is straight from Romero's pre Dawn of the
Speaker 2: Dead flick The Crazies. They remade that a decade ago
Speaker 2: with Timothy Oliphant, which is pretty damn good. Anyway, The
Speaker 2: virus is also from Romero. Now, the virus being one
Speaker 2: of rage, that's pure Alex Garland. That's the innovation. That's
Speaker 2: the relevant commentary they've added to the zombie equation since
Speaker 2: they're not dead and they're not zombies. By the way,
Speaker 2: the fast zombies slow zombie debate here is moot. This
Speaker 2: isn't Romero's sandbox that these movies are playing, and so
Speaker 2: the ghules can behave however you want. And the fucking
Speaker 2: fact of the matter is this movie did in no
Speaker 2: way create fast zombies. Do I need to say that again?
Speaker 2: I think I do, because I was fucking shocked to
Speaker 2: hear Alex Garland and the interviewer and at least a
Speaker 2: dozen other so called horror podcasters talking about this subject
Speaker 2: and having only a passing familiarity with Return of the
Speaker 2: Living Dead. Those are zombies, they run. They are, in fact,
Speaker 2: the scariest zombies ever Committed to Celluloid, I'd take two
Speaker 2: shopping malls of Romero zombies to one or two Obannon
Speaker 2: zombies in an empty field, easy. But people talk about
Speaker 2: Return of the Living Dead very casually, like, oh, there
Speaker 2: was a punk rock movie with zombies. Nah, fuck you.
Speaker 2: You're talking about a movie that is one thousand percent
Speaker 2: better than any zombie entertainment you'd put on a top
Speaker 2: ten list. Not you, listener, You're one of the good ones.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about these other horror hacks. I'm no gatekeeper,
Speaker 2: but know your fucking history. Otherwise we're all going to
Speaker 2: end up in trouble. Up too late. And by the way,
Speaker 2: it wasn't as if there was nothing at all going
Speaker 2: on in zombie Town by the time twenty eight days
Speaker 2: later hit theaters. In nineteen ninety six, Capcom released Resident
Speaker 2: Evil on the PlayStation. While that game eventually involves straight
Speaker 2: up monsters, the main antagonist the one terrorizing a whole
Speaker 2: new generation and thus prepping them for what's to come
Speaker 2: was the zombie. I don't think the follow up to
Speaker 2: twenty eight days later Quit gets the love it deserves.
Speaker 2: Twenty eight weeks later israelly an alien versus alien scenario.
Speaker 2: At least it would be if alien had been shot
Speaker 2: on a fucking camcorder. That's another aspect of twenty eight
Speaker 2: days Later. I got to mention, it looks like garbage. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they saved so much money and it allowed for all
Speaker 2: this kind of innovation and blah blah blah, it looks
Speaker 2: like shit. I do not buy the CCTV camera angle. Obviously,
Speaker 2: I'd prefer to have a terrible video looking move then
Speaker 2: none at all. But come on, does anyone actually love
Speaker 2: the look of this film? Now? Twenty eight weeks later,
Speaker 2: Boyle and Garland were off making the wildly underrated film Sunshine.
Speaker 2: That's Afflick will definitely be covering at some point. I
Speaker 2: think it's Boyle's best film. That's right, better than Trainspotting
Speaker 2: in their Instead, they hired Intacto director Juan Carlos Resnadio.
Speaker 2: The film takes place well twenty eight weeks later. The
Speaker 2: infected have been starved and or eradicated, and the US
Speaker 2: forces are in control of London and are reconstructing, while
Speaker 2: former residents having been abroad or fled during the outbreak
Speaker 2: are being resettled into the country. Listen, I should have
Speaker 2: said at the top, this is going to get real spoilery.
Speaker 2: I consider twenty eight days and twenty eight weeks to
Speaker 2: be fair game. They're twenty three and eighteen years old
Speaker 2: at this point. When we get to twenty eight years later,
Speaker 2: I'll do a spoiler free sanction and then I'm going
Speaker 2: to warn you, because there's no way I can talk
Speaker 2: about that film without spilling some of the beans. The
Speaker 2: opening scene of twenty eight weeks Later is truly fuck horrifying.
Speaker 2: A husband and wife are holed up with a dozen
Speaker 2: other survivors. They're set upon by the infected, and Robert Carlyle,
Speaker 2: our hero, panics and runs, leaving his wife, Catherine McCormick,
Speaker 2: and a small boy in the house with the infected
Speaker 2: while he runs and runs and runs. It's fucked. And
Speaker 2: then he's one of the families being relocated as he's
Speaker 2: being reunited with his children who were abroad during the outbreak,
Speaker 2: and then the wife shows up alive. Holy fuck. Now,
Speaker 2: that's a dynamic to play against a backdrop of rage,
Speaker 2: infected chaos, and Harold Parano from Last shows up and
Speaker 2: he mows down an entire field of infected with a
Speaker 2: helicopter's rotor blade. This is a great movie. And Jeremy
Speaker 2: Renner is in it, and Rose Byrne is in it,
Speaker 2: and Idris Elba Hello, I guess I'm supposed to feel
Speaker 2: pedestriate in some way that my favorite is the popcorn
Speaker 2: munch and all star cast that actually looks like a
Speaker 2: movie movie and not Danny Boyle's home movies of Halloween
Speaker 2: that one year twenty eight weeks later ends with what
Speaker 2: apparently was a loose end that needed to be dealt
Speaker 2: with immediately. In the new film, right before the credits rule,
Speaker 2: there are shots of the infected emerging from the Metro
Speaker 2: in Paris and racing toward the Eiffel Tower. Thus, in
Speaker 2: the opening of twenty eight years later, we're told in
Speaker 2: an opening scrawl that the virus has been eradicated from
Speaker 2: mainland Europe. That keeps the action in Great Britain, which
Speaker 2: was a concern of Alex Garland and Danny Boyle when
Speaker 2: they returned, which is great Romero's films owe as much
Speaker 2: to Pittsburgh as his imagination. Soh yeeha, keep that film
Speaker 2: series at home. But that wasn't the only loose thread
Speaker 2: that film left behind. The climax involves the fire bombing
Speaker 2: of London and the overall cooking of everyone still living
Speaker 2: in the UK. So where's everyone else coming from?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Hell, let's get to it.
Speaker 4: This is twenty eight years later, seven six eleven, five
Speaker 4: nine and twenty miles a day, four eleven, seventeen thirty two, the.
Speaker 1: Day before boost booth, booth, booth moving up and down again.
Speaker 1: There's no discharge in the war. Don't don't, don't, don't
Speaker 1: look at what's in front of you. Booth booth, booth,
Speaker 1: booth moving up and down again.
Speaker 3: Men, men, men, men, men were mad with watching 'em.
Speaker 3: There's no just charge in the war.
Speaker 5: When she woke onto that mainland, there's no rescues.
Speaker 6: There are many kinds of dad, infected, non infected, alike.
Speaker 6: That this is a glorious who's going on to be said?
Speaker 1: He'll keep quite denote me.
Speaker 3: You know, if it is a bit young, be you ready?
Speaker 3: They have judgment.
Speaker 4: If your im rob they will get on top of you.
Speaker 4: Boom boom, boom boom, moving up and down again.
Speaker 3: That no parts in the wall, My ririar for nothing.
Speaker 1: Differ Bring up.
Speaker 4: Heaven, I think eleven five, seventeen thirty the day before.
Speaker 2: Zombie movies only work when it's in the initial days
Speaker 2: of the outbreak, maybe a year or two later. Everything
Speaker 2: else is a Western or Mad Max with insane cannibals
Speaker 2: instead of biker gangs. Three decades on, this is a
Speaker 2: post post apocalypse movie, and we're given what appears to
Speaker 2: be the only viable community left. They've taken a residence
Speaker 2: on a tidal island off the coast, which can only
Speaker 2: be accessed by a causeway that only appears during low tide.
Speaker 2: The rest of the time, the current is so swift
Speaker 2: there's no navigating. There's just a quick trip out to
Speaker 2: the open ocean. Here, we're introduced to Jamie by Aaron
Speaker 2: Taylor Johnson Craven that's right, Craven and his twelve year
Speaker 2: old son Spike, played by the fucking Revelation that is
Speaker 2: Alfie Williams. Jamie's wife, Ila that's island in Spanish, y'all,
Speaker 2: is played by Jody Komer. She was the only good
Speaker 2: thing in that fucking horrible Ryan Reynolds video game movie
Speaker 2: Free Guy. Actually, there's one other good thing in that
Speaker 2: movie at the end, when Ryan Reynolds is fighting a
Speaker 2: roided up version of himself. They're fighting on Revere Beach,
Speaker 2: which is my hometown anyway. Ila is laid up with
Speaker 2: horrible migraines. Most of the time, she's sick and deteriorating.
Speaker 2: As part of a coming of age ritual, Jamie takes
Speaker 2: Spike to the mainland to kill his first infected and
Speaker 2: to learn just what's going on over there. What's going
Speaker 2: on is fucking horrifying. Given three decades to evolve, the
Speaker 2: infected have separated into three distinct categories, slow, bloated and
Speaker 2: usually blind creatures that crawl along the ground feeding on
Speaker 2: insects and earthworms. There's the regular old infected we've come
Speaker 2: to know and love. And then there's the alphas, apparently
Speaker 2: stronger and more intelligent and able to marshal the other infected,
Speaker 2: and they love ripping off heads with spine. Oh, and
Speaker 2: everyone's naked. Every goddamn crazy in England is butt naked,
Speaker 2: butt naked, buck naked. I've heard both. What do you
Speaker 2: think father Malone seven to one at a Gmail dot
Speaker 2: com and that's where all the zombie dong talk is
Speaker 2: coming from, folks. The Alpha, nicknamed Samson, is a huge
Speaker 2: man with a huge cock. He puts Doctor Manhattan to
Speaker 2: shame as sister amanas my eighth grade teacher at Immaculate
Speaker 2: Conception School used to glower at us. You've seen it, Okay,
Speaker 2: get over it. Her name was Amnas, but there was
Speaker 2: no love in her. The film is a solid two hours,
Speaker 2: with the first hour being Jamie and Spike and their
Speaker 2: adventures to and from the mainland. But when Spike discovers
Speaker 2: that a doctor is alive on the mainland, he makes
Speaker 2: the decision to take his mother and seek him out
Speaker 2: and get the medical attention that she needs. Along the way,
Speaker 2: they encounter a Swedish NATO soldier who's found himself stranded
Speaker 2: and an infected woman pregnant with a normal child, and
Speaker 2: the doctor himself played by Ray, findes they may as
Speaker 2: well have named him doctor Romero, given that George made
Speaker 2: no secret that his allegiance in the Dead films was
Speaker 2: with the zombies, so too, Ray finds Doctor Kelson sees
Speaker 2: no difference between the human and the infected and treats
Speaker 2: them both with equal respect. Now, if you've heard anything
Speaker 2: about this movie, it's the giant dick and the moment
Speaker 2: at the end, which we'll talk about in spoilers. But
Speaker 2: the other thing, the major thing, is the shift in tone.
Speaker 2: While the latter half of the movie doesn't skimp on
Speaker 2: frightening at times skin crawling scenarios, it settles quite heavily
Speaker 2: into a sense of mourning and sometimes sorrow. It's a
Speaker 2: far more contemplative film than either of the previous entries.
Speaker 2: There's also a distinct flavor of spiritualism, at times bordering
Speaker 2: on the supernatural. I think if that sudden shift in
Speaker 2: gears from thrill ride to mausoleum walking tour is too
Speaker 2: much for you to bear, then the movie won't have
Speaker 2: much for you at all. But I imagine those complaining
Speaker 2: are the ones that didn't have any trouble when the
Speaker 2: bank robbing family, kidnapping Geko Brothers ended up besent by
Speaker 2: vampires at the Titty Twister. Here's the thing overall, I'm
Speaker 2: of two minds on this film. If I didn't know
Speaker 2: there was a sequel already filmed and scheduled to come
Speaker 2: out in January of twenty twenty six. I think this
Speaker 2: movie would be a failure. If it were going to
Speaker 2: be a standalone flick, then it should have been Spike
Speaker 2: and Ila from the start, so we can fully know
Speaker 2: her and him and their relationship. As it is, we're
Speaker 2: given half a movie with her and half a movie
Speaker 2: setting up something else. Entirely, it does tell a complete story.
Speaker 2: It is ultimately a coming of age film, and in
Speaker 2: that regard it not only succeeds its soars, but there
Speaker 2: was so much place setting going on for what is
Speaker 2: obviously the future Adventures on the Mainland that if you're
Speaker 2: judging this movie on its own, it's a big old failure.
Speaker 2: So we're left in the unenviable position of the matrix reloaded.
Speaker 2: Was it good? I don't know. I think so. Maybe
Speaker 2: I'll let you know when Revolutions comes out. Nope, garbage.
Speaker 2: I have higher hopes with the continued involvement of Alex
Speaker 2: gos Arland that twenty eight years later The Bone Temple
Speaker 2: will not only bolster what the first movie had been
Speaker 2: laying down, but we'll give everyone exactly what they were
Speaker 2: looking for. Here is where to turn off the show
Speaker 2: if you don't want anything spoil. You're not going to
Speaker 2: miss anything. I'll just give out the email address and
Speaker 2: beg you for money. But if you stay, I'm going
Speaker 2: to spoil the fuck out of everything. You need a countdown.
Speaker 2: Fuck that spoilers, y'all. That pregnant infected girl gives birth.
Speaker 2: They tote the kid around, keeping it safe for than
Speaker 2: the infected and away from Samson, even though it's totally
Speaker 2: fucking clear that it's Samson's kid. Alpha male with a
Speaker 2: giant prick. What else am I supposed to think? Oh,
Speaker 2: and Isla has inoperable cancer and commits suicide. It's awful
Speaker 2: in a good way. At the end, Spike drops the
Speaker 2: baby off at the island like a cartoon from the
Speaker 2: nineteen forties, and then he goes off adventuring. Now here's
Speaker 2: the Bonker's crazy mental bullshit. At the end, Spike is
Speaker 2: being chased down by a horde of infected when he's
Speaker 2: befriended by a group of young adults all dressed identically
Speaker 2: with dyed white blonde, gross hair, and they fucking parkour
Speaker 2: Ninja the fuck out of the infected with all the
Speaker 2: camera work of a Kung Fu flick, And I mean
Speaker 2: a Samo Hung Chinese opera Kung Fu Flick. You can
Speaker 2: actually hear the earlier tonal shift of the movie say
Speaker 2: out loud, Wow, I didn't see that coming, and I
Speaker 2: fucking loved it. I keep thinking about it, turning it
Speaker 2: over and over in my head, and a crazy bit
Speaker 2: of potential non sequit or nonsense at the end of
Speaker 2: a contemplation of death and grief was such a fucking
Speaker 2: big swing and for me it absolutely connected. But let
Speaker 2: me explain why I'm not just some fanatic for physical
Speaker 2: comedy or action. Like twenty eight weeks later, twenty eight
Speaker 2: years later. It begins. At the start of The Outbreak
Speaker 2: two thousand and three, we're shown the Crystal family in
Speaker 2: the Scottish Highlands. The children are gathered around watching Teletubbies
Speaker 2: when the infected invade. Jimmy Crystal, no older than Spike,
Speaker 2: escapes and finds his way to the local church where
Speaker 2: his father is a vicar who's preaching the Day of Atonement.
Speaker 2: He gives Jimmy a crucifix, and Jimmy escapes and it's
Speaker 2: all horrifying and it's great, And that is the last
Speaker 2: we see of Jimmy until that final sequence the leader
Speaker 2: of the Parkourt gang of Badly Dressed Ninja's is Jimmy,
Speaker 2: which means that that boy has lived on the mainland
Speaker 2: and survived for twenty eight years. I love a book end,
Speaker 2: particularly when it doesn't announce itself, so I think on
Speaker 2: that level, this ending is a win. But further listen
Speaker 2: Jimmy Savil. He was a television personality and presenter on
Speaker 2: the BBC. He hosted Top of the Pops and a
Speaker 2: show called Jim'll Fix It, which had children right in
Speaker 2: with a wish and then they try to make that
Speaker 2: wish happen. That show was wildly popular and ran for
Speaker 2: nearly twenty years. The man was beloved for his charity
Speaker 2: work and was generally seen as a top shelf eccentric.
Speaker 2: The gang at the end are styled exactly like Jimmy Savil.
Speaker 2: They are in fact a gang known as the Jimmy's.
Speaker 2: During an earlier scene, one of the infected can be
Speaker 2: glimpsed with a Jimmy branded into its skin. So who
Speaker 2: knows what these crazies are up to? But it banks
Speaker 2: a couple of important questions. See After his death in
Speaker 2: twenty eleven, it came to light that Savile was a
Speaker 2: fucking horrendous sexual predator, with some four hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: confirmed cases and suspected as high as a thousand, almost
Speaker 2: exclusively children of both genders. It is absolutely mind boggling
Speaker 2: the sheer volume. Now here's the question. Those allegations didn't
Speaker 2: come to light until twenty eleven, meaning in two thousand
Speaker 2: and three you'd have had no idea at the time
Speaker 2: as a kid, Saville would be a hero. So is
Speaker 2: that what's happening. Is this misguided idolization and cult like
Speaker 2: devotion to a child's fantasy, or is there a much
Speaker 2: darker option that Jimmy Crystal is one of Savill's victims
Speaker 2: and that the hero worship is just as fucking twisted
Speaker 2: as the man himself. Either way, my mind is in
Speaker 2: ruins at the potential I mentioned. We're in a matrix
Speaker 2: reloaded wait and see situation, and there are some questions
Speaker 2: I have that I assume we'll be addressed, but if not,
Speaker 2: see matrix revolutions, the sequels could retroactively cancel out any
Speaker 2: goodwill that twenty eight years later has engendered. No Alpha
Speaker 2: has figured out there's an entire island of people and
Speaker 2: if you just wait till the tide is out. You
Speaker 2: and an army can just go get them in twenty
Speaker 2: eight years. To quote Jack Burton, I'm supposed to buy
Speaker 2: this shit two thousand years. You can't find one broad
Speaker 2: to fit the bill. Come on, Dave, you must be
Speaker 2: doing something seriously wrong. Also, NATO is patrolling the island because,
Speaker 2: like the New York Maximum Security Penitentiary or the island
Speaker 2: of Los Angeles for that matter, once you go in,
Speaker 2: you don't come out. Nothing comes off the island. Okay.
Speaker 2: For thirty years, no other nation has looked at this
Speaker 2: prime real estate the UK, which is now completely overgrown
Speaker 2: with forests and woodland and all this natural resources, and
Speaker 2: they thought, yeah, we'll just leave it abandoned. We won't
Speaker 2: just hover in helicopters with miniguns and eradicate the problem. Sure.
Speaker 2: Also there's a pretty huge leap that amounts to the
Speaker 2: equivalent of conventional amnesia, where Eyeli's condition allows her to
Speaker 2: basically be demented and out of it when the plot
Speaker 2: needs her to be. It's a little school convenience and
Speaker 2: on occasion borders on that worst instinct of Stephen King,
Speaker 2: making the mystic out of the mentally challenged laws. Yes,
Speaker 2: but that's equibble less. Equibbled is the virulence of the
Speaker 2: rage infection in the first film and sequel. Just a
Speaker 2: drop of liquid, a spray from the infected will have
Speaker 2: you vomiting blood in moments you all remember Brendan Gleeson
Speaker 2: and that motherfucking bird. Only the Ray Fines character makes
Speaker 2: an overture toward protection from the virus. Everyone else is
Speaker 2: just blithely trapesing through the countryside. At one point, an
Speaker 2: infected gets killed and a spray of blood splatters on
Speaker 2: Eyela's forehead and Spike just wipes it away. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: sure it didn't get in anywhere. I'm sure over the
Speaker 2: decades the IRUs has lessened in intensity or something. We'll see.
Speaker 2: I have faith in Alex Garland. I know he had
Speaker 2: a trilogy of Judge Dread movies plan that involved the
Speaker 2: Cursed Earth and then Judge Death, so he's no stranger
Speaker 2: to strategizing sagas. I'm sure my concerns will be allayed.
Speaker 2: And plus there's the promise of Killian Murphy's return, so
Speaker 2: things are looking up as much as they can on
Speaker 2: an island with murderous lunatics and a pedophile worshiping Parkour
Speaker 2: Gang and giant zombie dongs. I heard an interview with
Speaker 2: Alex Garland that I found pretty heartening. Maybe not hopeful,
Speaker 2: but at least it in gendered a sense of solidarity.
Speaker 2: He was speaking about the general feeling about those in
Speaker 2: power up until about twenty years ago. He said, it
Speaker 2: always seemed, through good or ill, that they were nothing
Speaker 2: if not progressive in their ideas and policies. It was
Speaker 2: always with an eye toward the future, toward keeping a
Speaker 2: nation strong by carrying it forward. And then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden that eye was turned back and there was
Speaker 2: a yearning for the past. It started wistful and got aggressive,
Speaker 2: rage filled, if you will. I think they were there
Speaker 2: for the spark of that, and I hope they're there
Speaker 2: for the final tamping down of the ashes. I assume
Speaker 2: Garland has a plan for a new society at the
Speaker 2: end of this series. For once, I hope these films
Speaker 2: are precientt that is going to be the round up, suckers.
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed it. I'm killing myself doing these
Speaker 2: twice a week and a full time job. I'm not complaining.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying I clearly love you and you should
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Speaker 2: thumbs up. It's how the algorithm gets us new listeners.
Speaker 2: Another way is by you telling them, say, hey, man,
Speaker 2: you like zombies.
Speaker 5: Cool?
Speaker 2: You know who else does bot them alone? Hand Ripley, Jean. Sorry, baby,
Speaker 2: next week is all you, and this week and every
Speaker 2: week is all you midnight viewers till next time. A
Speaker 2: piece from the post post apocalypse.
Speaker 5: Mister Harris, Yeah, we've found your kids.
Speaker 2: My god, Ni God, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: We found your wife too, so would you too?
Speaker 3: Thank you? Plinna.
Speaker 1: I said you saw her die?
Speaker 5: What you said you saw her die?
Speaker 3: He did?
Speaker 6: He said they.
Speaker 3: Didn't use those words.
Speaker 5: But this is I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's confusing, you know, it's this very
Speaker 3: hard for your imagine.
Speaker 5: You know, it's it's too hard to explain.
Speaker 6: Try to explain that.
Speaker 5: Try try what you want me to say. I thought
Speaker 5: someone I wouldn't have told you that. I'll sure, guys,
Speaker 5: I'm not sure what's happening here, but it's good, Okay,
Speaker 5: that's the point.
Speaker 1: I wanted to see her mm hmm.
Speaker 6: I show from show
Speaker 1: Show