Speaker 1: You are now listening to the Someone's Favorite Productions podcast network.
Speaker 2: Hey there, and welcome back to another Wild Thursday. Everybody.
Speaker 2: Uh this week first time guest, but frequent attender in
Speaker 2: the chat and if you are somebody that is a
Speaker 2: part of the Disconnected discord, you'll definitely recognize this name.
Speaker 2: We have mister Blake Bergman, who you will know is
Speaker 2: Spaghetti aka a various Spaghetti aka the guy who writes
Speaker 2: on letterbox to all the damn time Blake doing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 2: It's uh, it's been a bit since I've wanted to
Speaker 2: do this and since I've had you on a list.
Speaker 2: We've got some some cool stuff to talk about. One
Speaker 2: we probably should start with the fact that you and
Speaker 2: I got to work together earlier this year on a
Speaker 2: river from Grayface. You're a part of the very first
Speaker 2: grave Face release. How How was it putting out your
Speaker 2: first visual lesson? My friend?
Speaker 3: Oh man, it was. It was very exciting and it
Speaker 3: was definitely a big learning lesson. I love that you
Speaker 3: get to go through, not that it was troublesome or anything,
Speaker 3: but just you know, the the trial and error of
Speaker 3: learning the process and really getting to put together sort
Speaker 3: of the pragmatic skills that I'm applying in other areas
Speaker 3: and put it on a disc r definitely was a
Speaker 3: big learning lesson and yeah, it was just a ton
Speaker 3: of fun and very gratifying that I was able to
Speaker 3: find that I could do something like that and also
Speaker 3: work with you guys on that as well. So for sure,
Speaker 3: it's definitely a team effort.
Speaker 2: We were stoked to have you and not to mention
Speaker 2: to be a part of the first Gray Face release
Speaker 2: is really cool for all of us to got to
Speaker 2: be a part of it, and it's an incredible movie.
Speaker 2: For anybody that hasn't picked Up River yet, could you
Speaker 2: tell them a little bit about the movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's a collaboration between the director Juta Yamagucci
Speaker 3: and then Altho the writer Makoto Ueida, and with those
Speaker 3: two it's all about tide paradoxes, and this is the
Speaker 3: second time that those two have worked together. Another shout
Speaker 3: out is a film called Beyond the Infinite two Minutes,
Speaker 3: But basically the narrative of this story is it's a
Speaker 3: a small little mountain resort community in Japan and where
Speaker 3: it's a lot it's pretty simple life day to day,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, with really no explanation, time
Speaker 3: starts resetting every two minutes, and so panic sets in.
Speaker 3: Everybody's trying to figure it out. But the interesting novelty
Speaker 3: of this film is that everybody retains the knowledge of
Speaker 3: the past two minutes even though two minutes is resetting.
Speaker 3: So it's very much a movie where they're problem solving
Speaker 3: and they only get two minutes to make a set
Speaker 3: forward with things, and then the two minutes resets, but
Speaker 3: they still remember what they did, so it's a constant
Speaker 3: rat race, is the best way to put it, where
Speaker 3: they learn all about themselves trying to get themselves out
Speaker 3: of this situation. But then also there's a weird tandem
Speaker 3: where they only have two minutes and it's resetting, they
Speaker 3: suddenly have all the time in the world. So there's
Speaker 3: a lot of interesting concepts there. So it's a fun film.
Speaker 2: And somehow been overlooked by a lot of people that,
Speaker 2: like played some festivals, did not get a lot of
Speaker 2: attention like Beyond the Infinite two Minutes did at first,
Speaker 2: And first off, I just love that the creative team
Speaker 2: worked together multiple times on a very similar idea. It
Speaker 2: made two very different movies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they both deal with time concepts. But like
Speaker 3: I said, River is more the rat race kind of scenario,
Speaker 3: and then the other one, Beyond the Infinite two Minutes,
Speaker 3: works with it's more like I equate it to like
Speaker 3: the scientific theory kind of movie where they're doing a
Speaker 3: lot of science experiments and a lot of testing in
Speaker 3: the moment because it's all about something called the Drost effect,
Speaker 3: which is picture within picture within picture, and so Beyond
Speaker 3: the Infinite two Minutes is all about this weird echo
Speaker 3: chamber of time travel. And then this one is just
Speaker 3: like I said, retaining knowledge but then how to get
Speaker 3: themselves out of the situation. Yeah, it's the same thing
Speaker 3: but very different at the same time, and that's sort
Speaker 3: of what's the genius.
Speaker 2: About, which kind of works in with the storylines of
Speaker 2: what they're doing. It's literally eating the same thing, but
Speaker 2: just through a very different way. Tonight's tonight's discussion after
Speaker 2: the announcements is going to be a really fun one.
Speaker 2: We decided we were going to talk about just the
Speaker 2: overall theater experience, and Blake has some experience in experiences,
Speaker 2: so we're going to discuss with that framework, we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about what we could be doing in the
Speaker 2: near future to enhance the theater experience, what theaters could
Speaker 2: do to make this better for a lot of us,
Speaker 2: discuss things like D box and four d X and
Speaker 2: all this other stuff that they're trying. We're even going
Speaker 2: to talk about a filmmaker that I'm going to talk
Speaker 2: about now in my recent pickups on mister William Castle.
Speaker 2: So I don't share a lot of my vinegar syndrome
Speaker 2: stuff because I feel like everybody's getting it. But I
Speaker 2: feel like I got this pretty quick this month. So
Speaker 2: this is the brand new cinematograph. This is Shanks William
Speaker 2: Castle's last film, one that I've never seen. Definitely eager
Speaker 2: to check that one out. The other three here, I think,
Speaker 2: are the three from this month that I was most
Speaker 2: eager to check out and most eager to get first.
Speaker 2: I've been dying for a good Blu Ray release Murder
Speaker 2: Party since this movie came out. Jeremy Salny is one
Speaker 2: of my favorites, and to have this from a VS
Speaker 2: partner label as wild. If you've never seen this, this
Speaker 2: is definitely worth checking out. It's the guy that did
Speaker 2: Green Room, this year's Rebel Ridge. He did, oh gosh,
Speaker 2: the other Netflix Turn of the Dark, and that's not it?
Speaker 2: What am I thinking? I don't remember? Somebody will tell
Speaker 2: me the comments. Next one the found Footage Phenomenon. This
Speaker 2: is one that I've been wanting to see. It's directed
Speaker 2: by co directed by Phil Escott, who is a producer
Speaker 2: for Second Sight. He's the guy that owns Fractured Visions
Speaker 2: and the Cool Thing. One of my dear friends, mister
Speaker 2: Sam Cohen, has an essay in this one. It's his
Speaker 2: first written essay, so kudos to Sam. Hold the Dark?
Speaker 2: Is that what I said? That's pretty damn close. I
Speaker 2: don't understand. I can't believe I remembered that. Kyle. Thanks.
Speaker 2: And then finally my last pickup, I'll share corpse Mania.
Speaker 2: I am loving all the Hong Kong titles coming out
Speaker 2: of Vindger Centrom over the last couple of years. This
Speaker 2: is one that I wanted in high quality for a
Speaker 2: very long time. I will be watching this one very
Speaker 2: very soon. What about you, sir? What have you been
Speaker 2: oh Blue Ruin, that's not the great one from him?
Speaker 2: What have you been picking up lately? Because you get
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do have Vinegar Singer of on the way,
Speaker 3: so I got that one from Castle. It could show
Speaker 3: up today for all I know. Some of the hitters
Speaker 3: I got, like some big notable titles because I did
Speaker 3: get like there's been the Resense Keino sale and the
Speaker 3: Shout Factory Screen Factory Sale, which you can get a
Speaker 3: lot of back titles and bolts stuff like that. But
Speaker 3: some of the notables, like new releases. I'm excited digging
Speaker 3: to this. The House of Doom Set with Lindsey and
Speaker 3: Fulsey's gonna be a lot of fun in this one.
Speaker 3: Let's see, got the the Hollywood Hillside Strangler. Oh nice.
Speaker 2: I did not go for the limited slip, but man,
Speaker 2: I need to pick up this release.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be interesting. I heard from somebody the
Speaker 3: discord that it's a little bit different than what we're thinking.
Speaker 3: But that's a good thing. I think it was Adam
Speaker 3: h So I'm interested. You get into this one. Oh,
Speaker 3: everybody's showing this one off.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's a deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this thing's a brick.
Speaker 2: Oh, John's throwing shade at you, says he already went
Speaker 2: through the house as a doom set slacker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he would he would. And then another brick is
Speaker 3: this thing which is from Umbrella and this thing is
Speaker 3: it's like the Super Mario set for those who have
Speaker 3: that thing. This thing is heavier than heavy.
Speaker 2: There's come damage because I know a lot of people
Speaker 2: are upset with it.
Speaker 3: No, this is pretty clean on all the corners and everything.
Speaker 3: And then a couple things from Arrow Let's see trick
Speaker 3: or treat. I've seen this thing a million times, but
Speaker 3: excited to see it in four K. And then the
Speaker 3: the j Horror Rising set. Excited about that thing. And
Speaker 3: then I guess lastly, which is an interesting title, but
Speaker 3: a lot of people are clamoring over it because I
Speaker 3: guess it was hard to get Yes, future cops.
Speaker 2: Yeah, still, as far as I saw, it was still
Speaker 2: in stock on Orbit. Okay, we're looking after that. Make
Speaker 2: sure you go to Orbit because it is out of
Speaker 2: print from Eureka. Let me make make sure while we're
Speaker 2: talking it is still in stock. Yeah, you can pick
Speaker 2: it up abbit right now.
Speaker 3: It says it's like an absurd. I've never seen it,
Speaker 3: but it says it's like an absurd. It's like street
Speaker 3: Fighter two yep kind of thing. So I'm all about it.
Speaker 3: So I'm definitely interested. So yeah, that's just a couple
Speaker 3: of things on top of like, you know, both the
Speaker 3: bulk you know, some bulk screen factory stuff like that,
Speaker 3: some back titles that are a lot of fun. Excited.
Speaker 2: So some recent watches for both of us. This week
Speaker 2: we watched in our house Women of the Hour, the
Speaker 2: brand new Anna Kendrick film for Netflix. It's about the
Speaker 2: the Dating Game killer, the guy that killed a bunch
Speaker 2: of people and went on the dating game and him
Speaker 2: eventually getting caught for directing debut, and she kind of
Speaker 2: killed it. She she did very well. She acted in
Speaker 2: it as well. Very very happy that we watched it.
Speaker 2: I thought it was pretty well done. Both of the
Speaker 2: leads did an incredible job. She is great, obviously, she's
Speaker 2: usually pretty amazing. But the lead that played the killer,
Speaker 2: I mean, unsettling the entire time, but also charismatic, like
Speaker 2: you expect somebody in a material killer position to be.
Speaker 3: Huh. Yeah. I've seen a couple of people review that
Speaker 3: on miner box. That's interesting. And then I've heard of
Speaker 3: that scenario previously like that character, so that'd be cool
Speaker 3: to look into for sure.
Speaker 2: Only other one I'll talk about is a nice bridge
Speaker 2: to yours because we both watched for tonight mattinay, I
Speaker 2: watched the Old Screen Factory Blu Ray and this movie
Speaker 2: is just so damn good. It might be my favorite Dante. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it is so fun, and I mean Goodman is crazy
Speaker 2: good in it. Yeah, the scenarios are wild. It's like, well,
Speaker 2: I was gonna say modern day William Castle, but nineteen
Speaker 2: fifty set William Castle and done in a way that
Speaker 2: is just the most huckster guy traveling from city to
Speaker 2: city that you can picture, trying to make every buck
Speaker 2: that he can, and that coupled with the nuclear bomb
Speaker 2: of it, all of what was going on then is
Speaker 2: such a perfect way to like set it in realism,
Speaker 2: but make it fun and interesting and make it like
Speaker 2: certain silly things that you could do with it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's a great film. If you've never seen Mattinee,
Speaker 2: anybody that loves movies should watch mattew It's absolutely that
Speaker 2: just cut and dry.
Speaker 3: It's like I equate it to like the B movie
Speaker 3: version of Sarah the Cinema Paradiso yep. And I've seen
Speaker 3: Mattinee countless times of my life, and I got the
Speaker 3: four K of it. Oh when it came out, I
Speaker 3: think it was about May June something like that, but
Speaker 3: I purposely sat on it for a while and I
Speaker 3: just watched it this week again, and yeah, I loved
Speaker 3: every bit of it, and and I love just revisiting it.
Speaker 3: And there's a lot of things that I noticed upon
Speaker 3: this round that I didn't notice before, and outside of
Speaker 3: just the typical John Goodman character, but like how Dante's
Speaker 3: sneaking in some stuff with the everyday life characters, especially
Speaker 3: to make it sort of like an atomic B movie
Speaker 3: kind of thing. So yeah, I absolutely love that movie.
Speaker 3: And it definitely got better this week, even though it
Speaker 3: was already a five star film for me.
Speaker 2: So yeah, absolutely had the four K on that one.
Speaker 3: Look, it looks great. I mean I would say that
Speaker 3: I'm pretty easy judge compared to some others where I'm
Speaker 3: just like, yeah, it looks great, but yeah, it looks
Speaker 3: it looks pretty fresh, pretty good.
Speaker 2: Not to like pre promote something, but I did want
Speaker 2: to shout out tonight. I posted it in the discord earlier.
Speaker 2: But anybody that is in any way nerdy about visual
Speaker 2: aspects for films or anything. Tomorrow's episode of The Deaf
Speaker 2: Crocodile Podcast is maybe one of the most important things
Speaker 2: that you could listen to over this year. We had
Speaker 2: a special guest on to fully just dedicate almost the
Speaker 2: entire episode to film restoration, and we go through like
Speaker 2: we go through the individual software that they use. We
Speaker 2: talk about what they do on a day to day basis,
Speaker 2: we talk about the threat of AI. There's all kinds
Speaker 2: of stuff that people are gonna love. It's not a
Speaker 2: super long episode, but it's one that you're going to
Speaker 2: probably want to even save and maybe listen to again.
Speaker 2: Lots of great information again, check it out tomorrow. Should
Speaker 2: be releasing about midday on the East Coast. I think
Speaker 2: you'll like it. But what else have you been watching?
Speaker 3: Let's see, so this week, I did you know one
Speaker 3: good shout out? I watched Dead of Night by Bob
Speaker 3: Clark Blue Underground just put that out a little bit ago,
Speaker 3: and I love that movie and it's sort of wildly
Speaker 3: buried in between. Bob Clark's an interesting character. And yeah,
Speaker 3: obviously we know Black Christmas and this is the movie
Speaker 3: that he did right before Black Christmas. But it's very
Speaker 3: interesting film that it's very simple in the sense that
Speaker 3: you don't really know a lot about the character, just
Speaker 3: that he's evil and apparently dead. But you have this
Speaker 3: whole fascinating family drama going on, and that's sort of
Speaker 3: the hidden gym of this film is you're just seeing
Speaker 3: the family dynamic and how it metaphors for probably a
Speaker 3: lot of realism with somebody who had somebody go away
Speaker 3: to war in Vietnam or just in general. So that
Speaker 3: movie is a lot more brilliant in a sense than
Speaker 3: just a standard horror film. Let's see here.
Speaker 2: I think it's the second best film easily to Black Christmas.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, he only did really three horror
Speaker 3: movies because he did Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things,
Speaker 3: which I'll be honest, The beginning of that movie is
Speaker 3: a little bit of a drag. Actually, most of that
Speaker 3: movie is a little bit of a drag. But then
Speaker 3: the final part of it is like, you know, crazy,
Speaker 3: and it makes up for the entire rest of the film.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he Bob Clark's interesting that he did three
Speaker 3: movies in that genre and just said, all right, I'm
Speaker 3: going to do family stuff and then you make Christmas Story,
Speaker 3: which is amazing in its own right. He made two
Speaker 3: of the best Christmas movies of all time, back back
Speaker 3: in their polar opposites of each other. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: Bob Clark, what's another. I'm trying to mix it up
Speaker 3: around hat Halloween season, hitting a bunch of different things.
Speaker 3: I did watch Darkwater, so I got a Jay horror
Speaker 3: in and this one was from back in two thousand
Speaker 3: and two. I saw the one that Jennifer Conley did
Speaker 3: that was like two thousand and five, I believe. But
Speaker 3: this guy, he's the same guy who originally directed Ringo
Speaker 3: or the original Japanese That one was pretty excellent as well.
Speaker 3: I think I might have seen snippets of it before,
Speaker 3: way back when when it was first released, but that
Speaker 3: was definitely an excellent revisit. Just the the perfect dynamic
Speaker 3: of how the Japanese create a horror movie that almost
Speaker 3: seems like it's steeped in like legend and or like folklore.
Speaker 3: Even though this is a movie that's that was like
Speaker 3: then set in a contemporary time, and even though it's
Speaker 3: you know, it's centered on like a murder that happened
Speaker 3: only in nineteen ninety nine and then they're figuring out
Speaker 3: the events in two thousand and two, it still it
Speaker 3: feels like you're watching some parable folk tale thing. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I definitely appreciated watching that one. What's another shout out,
Speaker 3: because I've watched quite a few this week?
Speaker 2: Of course, you.
Speaker 3: Know another one which I think this one is a
Speaker 3: good novelty film, and I bet you it's it's flown
Speaker 3: over as probably a piece of crud by many people.
Speaker 3: But I watched Man's Best Friend last night, and this
Speaker 3: is John Laffia who, although he's the person who coined Chucky,
Speaker 3: the name Chucky, he worked with Don Mancini and they
Speaker 3: wrote the first Child's play and then John directed Child's
Speaker 3: Play too. But he created this movie that's a year
Speaker 3: behind Beethoven, the family film Beethoven, and it's about this
Speaker 3: evil dog that is almost like he's cybernetic. He's like
Speaker 3: a terminator dog and he just goes around and just
Speaker 3: kills people. But the movie is so off kilter and
Speaker 3: it doesn't know how to like tonally that it's footing.
Speaker 3: But it's so weird in retrospect that I bet you,
Speaker 3: if plenty of people watch it now, would be a
Speaker 3: cult hit. At the time it's panned at the time,
Speaker 3: plenty of people say this is garb but yeah, it's
Speaker 3: they're sort of brilliant. So yeah, I had a lot
Speaker 3: of fun with that one just because of the audacity
Speaker 3: of it. But yeah, yeah, I could go on forever
Speaker 3: because I watched ten movies. But yeah, that's just a selection.
Speaker 2: On that note. If you are not following Blake on letterboxed,
Speaker 2: he is linked in the description below, and he is
Speaker 2: an incredible following letterboxed. He takes the time to research
Speaker 2: and write on every single thing that he watches. When
Speaker 2: I say right, I mean like five plus paragraphs usually,
Speaker 2: and done in a way that will entice you to
Speaker 2: watch almost everything. Because he's a very positive person, so
Speaker 2: he's a great follow He's one of those people that
Speaker 2: his reviews get so many likes that you start to
Speaker 2: get jealous. Definitely work to follow him.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Yeah, I'm definitely a bit on the
Speaker 3: positive spectrum. But I guess because you know, rating films
Speaker 3: is speculative and it's subjective, so you know, to each
Speaker 3: their own. My mentality is I sort of grade at
Speaker 3: like people great paid first, like if I was a teacher,
Speaker 3: and I just live in a world where you can
Speaker 3: give a lot of a's, so it's like all right.
Speaker 3: You know this movie did its job in the moment.
Speaker 2: So that's the roll speaking my language on a day
Speaker 2: that I had parent teacher conferences for my kid.
Speaker 3: Yep, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's get into some movies after I highlight
Speaker 2: John's comment, because this is absolutely true. You watch movies
Speaker 2: to essentially like to watch movies.
Speaker 3: Yep, exactly, exactly all right.
Speaker 2: We are starting with Imprint Asia. They announced during the
Speaker 2: show last week, since Sibner and I were on for
Speaker 2: almost five hours last dayDay. These are all coming on
Speaker 2: January eighth on Blu Ray in Australia. The first one,
Speaker 2: this is the Erotic Ghost Story Trilogy. They had revealed
Speaker 2: that this was coming again hardbox release, limited to fifteen
Speaker 2: hundred copies. They've got new special features on these. We've
Speaker 2: got new audio commentary from Ian Jane on the first one,
Speaker 2: new interview on the second one, Costume drama meets Category three.
Speaker 2: On the second one, we've got audio commentary by Keilen Modell,
Speaker 2: new interview with art director Raymond Lee and art assistant
Speaker 2: Cyrus Hoe, a new interview on that one as well.
Speaker 2: And then the third one we got another new commentary
Speaker 2: from Modell. New interview with the art assistant Cyrus Hoe.
Speaker 2: This has been released. It's coming out from Shout Factory
Speaker 2: now coming from Imprint, and I think eighty eight Films
Speaker 2: is doing it in December as well. Are you picking
Speaker 2: any of those up?
Speaker 3: I'm interested in for sure, because it's same directors Rick Riccio,
Speaker 3: at least the first one is I got to see
Speaker 3: if the same person did all three. I didn't look
Speaker 3: at that.
Speaker 2: I don't believe they did.
Speaker 3: Yeah that makes sense. But yeah, the first first film,
Speaker 3: same directors Riccio, and then Seventh Purse, which I love.
Speaker 3: Seventh Purse. It's one of the films I watched a
Speaker 3: few years ago that I was just like, this movie's
Speaker 3: off the wall. Ye, So yeah, for sure. I mean
Speaker 3: probably the easiest act. Excess one is maybe like the
Speaker 3: Shout Factory one. But I mean I'm all over the map,
Speaker 3: so I bounce between all regions, so who knows, whatever,
Speaker 3: whatever one comes my way in the best situation, right, Oh,
Speaker 3: what I'll grab.
Speaker 2: Next one from Imprint Asia is is You U's Train.
Speaker 2: This is from two thousand and two. This is a worldwide,
Speaker 2: first time on Blu. Ray gong Li is starring in
Speaker 2: this one and the important thing, no bonus features on
Speaker 2: this film, nothing at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this one, I really didn't know a lot about
Speaker 3: it at all. I did look it up and somebody
Speaker 3: equated it to like a Douglas Search kind of melodrama.
Speaker 3: So that's a good siding point. But that's that's the
Speaker 3: extent of my knowledge on it. But hey, I'll take
Speaker 3: that well.
Speaker 2: And Gongley's great. Yeah, obviously. The final one from them
Speaker 2: is Yolo from twenty twenty four, again brand new worldwide,
Speaker 2: first on Blu Ray. This is the first release of
Speaker 2: it and again no bonus features whatsoever. And on a
Speaker 2: brand new movie, you would have done anything to have
Speaker 2: some special features. I guarantee the director wants to talk
Speaker 2: about it at least.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. Imprint's an interesting company. I have a
Speaker 3: few other stuff, but yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 2: Totally get it. Uh but if man, this is gonna
Speaker 2: be a weird one to talk about. So we got
Speaker 2: coming on four K and Blu Ray in the UK
Speaker 2: soon from Hammer Films themselves Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter. This
Speaker 2: is coming for the first time anywhere on four K.
Speaker 2: But what's crazy is this film is getting a five
Speaker 2: disc release two four k's three Blu rays with the
Speaker 2: content duplicated across both formats, and when we were just
Speaker 2: talking about Imprint not having any special features, this has
Speaker 2: like literally anything you could possibly ask for on this release.
Speaker 2: Thrown on here. It looks like a great, solid, really
Speaker 2: nice physical media package. But this also is kind of
Speaker 2: like an under It's it's like the not not bottom chier.
Speaker 2: I'd say it's more like mid tier Hammer Films. And
Speaker 2: the fact that they're putting this one out in a
Speaker 2: five years release, I mean, they're gonna do a lot.
Speaker 3: They're going all in on this thing. This thing, it's
Speaker 3: this movie is interesting. Not gonna lie speaking about recent watches.
Speaker 3: I actually watched this movie yesterday, right, and because I
Speaker 3: found it in like the Scream Screen Factory version, you know,
Speaker 3: just in the bundle of Mini and I hadn't seen
Speaker 3: this before this one. It's it's weird. It's sort of
Speaker 3: like a square peg trying to fit in a round hole.
Speaker 3: But that's not necessarily a bad thing like it would
Speaker 3: usually be, right because I can see this movie as
Speaker 3: sort of a template for a lot of the later
Speaker 3: on action narrative like Vampire or just crypto movies in general,
Speaker 3: because this guy, he's very much like a swashbuckler and
Speaker 3: he's going after fighting these vampires and it's very dry
Speaker 3: in Hammer fashion. But once it starts going, it gets going.
Speaker 3: I could see a lot of fandom from the adventure
Speaker 3: fans getting in this one, so it's an interesting watch.
Speaker 3: I definitely recommend it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, for sure, this one has probably been a
Speaker 2: good ten or twelve years since I've watched this. But
Speaker 2: just like Paul said in the comments, there are so
Speaker 2: many other Hammer films I'd much rather get this type
Speaker 2: of release first than this one. And I'm not saying
Speaker 2: at all that this means it's replacing those This was
Speaker 2: probably just more recently restored or somebody else had already
Speaker 2: started a restoration or something and they said, oh, I
Speaker 2: know what we can do to save some money. And
Speaker 2: now the hard part is this is going to come out,
Speaker 2: and it's going to be a very expensive release. There's
Speaker 2: no way you release all of this without it costs
Speaker 2: probably more than one hundred dollars plus shipping. And the
Speaker 2: fact that they're doing this for a mid tier Hammer.
Speaker 2: Some of the bigger Hammer films are gonna get even
Speaker 2: bigger releases than this, probably. So. In other words, if
Speaker 2: you love Hammer, get ready to open your wallet a
Speaker 2: lot because they're willing to go there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you said it was Hammer directly doing this,
Speaker 3: so they probably live in a little bit of an
Speaker 3: echo chamber, probably saying, oh, we got all this, and
Speaker 3: they they probably love it way more than the average person,
Speaker 3: even though there is a lot of fandom for this thing,
Speaker 3: so of course they're throwing it all in with this
Speaker 3: being sort of their first big release and then so
Speaker 3: it's it's an experiment.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we'll see what they do next. This thing
Speaker 2: will go up for pre order on their website on
Speaker 2: Halloween and then we'll find out more about the price
Speaker 2: and all that that stuff. Yeah, Vampire Lovers is another
Speaker 2: one that definitely needs to be released for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Next is we got word from Second Site that they
Speaker 2: are putting out The House of the Devil on Blue
Speaker 2: Here soon. This is one that I believe I called
Speaker 2: a couple months ago saying I think Second Site will
Speaker 2: likely be putting this out soon, so I'm glad to
Speaker 2: see that come true. This is a great movie. I
Speaker 2: genuinely really like this one. I think I like this
Speaker 2: one more than most. How do you feel about this one.
Speaker 3: I do need to see it. I'm lacking in some
Speaker 3: of my thy West department because I've really only seen
Speaker 3: X and Pearl. So yeah, I know this is an
Speaker 3: early one, like nine something like that.
Speaker 2: I think, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh nine. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a it's a really it's a weird one, but I
Speaker 2: think you'll like it. Greta Gerwig is great in it.
Speaker 2: For like a couple of minutes. This movie's great. I
Speaker 2: think people are gonna love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Perfect. I mean, I'll definitely catch out for sure.
Speaker 2: Next one, Keno announced that they are doing The Great
Speaker 2: Gatsby from nineteen forty nine on Blu Ray soon. This
Speaker 2: is from a four K scan of the OCN and
Speaker 2: it's probably the exact same release that Imprint did last year.
Speaker 2: Interesting movie. Not my favorite Gatsby, but I think people
Speaker 2: that have never seen they're gonna be happy with it.
Speaker 2: This is only the second HD release Imprint had the
Speaker 2: first one, so I think if you've never seen it,
Speaker 2: it's a good one to check out.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I enjoy Alden Ladd in movies. I
Speaker 3: watched Like the Glass Be a little while back. That's
Speaker 3: a good one. I sort of cracked up when I
Speaker 3: looked at this and it said it's also in the
Speaker 3: Dark Side of Cinema box set whatever. Yep, And we're
Speaker 3: at the point where it's like, is there more box
Speaker 3: sets or super Bowls? Like when you get to the
Speaker 3: Roman numeral gibberish and it's like you just start to
Speaker 3: give up on counting it all, you know, that's what twenty.
Speaker 2: Six, twenty six. Yeah, this will also be in the
Speaker 2: twenty six film Noir box from Kinos, So they think
Speaker 2: this is enough for people to purchase standalone and uh,
Speaker 2: one in the box set for others. So they must
Speaker 2: have a lot of faith in this one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a while. Gatsby a nor I don't know,
Speaker 3: they're just sort of throwing anything in there, so ish
Speaker 3: maybe all right, it's been a while.
Speaker 2: It's just dowlan led so it must be in one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. That works.
Speaker 2: Uh, next one. Keno is also putting out Shout at
Speaker 2: the Devil from nineteen seventy six. This is coming. On
Speaker 2: December seventeenth, we had a new audio commentary by Lee Marvin,
Speaker 2: biographer Dwayne Epstein and Steve Mitchell accompanying him. Uh, this
Speaker 2: is a good looking cover.
Speaker 3: I'll definitely yeah, Yeah, this is definitely a film that
Speaker 3: I would probably get in the Keno's.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is that type of film for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks interesting. It's the same director as in
Speaker 3: Her Majesty's Secret Service, I think, right, I think so. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Yeah it's James Bond. That's the one with Lazin be
Speaker 3: So everybody sort of forgets that one, right, But yeah,
Speaker 3: it looks interesting. I lee Marvin's a good time. So yeah,
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 2: Love of these comments. Keynot should start advertising Roman Numerals as.
Speaker 3: A feature, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: They also announced Hyperspace coming on three D Blu ray.
Speaker 2: This is from nineteen eighty four. This was starring Chris
Speaker 2: Elliott and Paula Poundstone, shot by Earl Dixon, directed by
Speaker 2: Todd Durham, and it says the special edition release also
Speaker 2: includes the nineteen eighty four three D short film The
Speaker 2: Fright Before Christmas that a lot of people have been after.
Speaker 2: So this looks to be a pretty great, like comprehensive disc.
Speaker 2: Anything that three D Film Archive touches is like really
Speaker 2: high quality. Definitely suggests people check this out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I watched a little trailer of this because
Speaker 3: I didn't know much about it. I watched the little
Speaker 3: trailer and it I mean, it looks it looks dumb,
Speaker 3: but it looks dumb fun, So it's definitely up my alley.
Speaker 3: It reminded me of MBD put out Hardware Wars earlier
Speaker 3: this year, which I definitely recommend that as well, because
Speaker 3: that's just a lot of fun. So this is the
Speaker 3: same vein for sure. Yeah, definitely worth your time.
Speaker 2: Yep. Definitely one that if you are into Star Wars,
Speaker 2: you're gonna want to watch this. Yeah, yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: going to our next one, which is a big deal
Speaker 2: November twenty sixth, but also if you order from their
Speaker 2: website at shipping now. Media Blasters is releasing a four
Speaker 2: K and Blu ray release of Photo the New Generation
Speaker 2: from nineteen ninety six. This is not only Media blasters
Speaker 2: first four K release ever, this is the first Takashi
Speaker 2: mik film on four K ever. Really super surprising that
Speaker 2: this is the first one. I would have thought that
Speaker 2: some of the others may have made the joke first,
Speaker 2: but either way, I'm glad this is coming. We got
Speaker 2: brand new four K restoration on this. Some audio commentaries,
Speaker 2: video interviews with Mik and the actor Shosa K. Teddy
Speaker 2: Hara And there is a side exclusive version with a
Speaker 2: slipcover if you want, but you can also get it
Speaker 2: on Amazon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you would have thought Aro would have jumped on
Speaker 3: something and put out a four K like Audition or Audition.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, or Ichi the Killer or I don't know
Speaker 3: who have the rights of that one, but that, for
Speaker 3: sure is some of the more main mainstay ones. I've
Speaker 3: never seen this one by him, but I've seen quite
Speaker 3: a few of his mainstay ones. This one definitely what's
Speaker 3: interesting for sure. I watched the trailer of it.
Speaker 2: I've not seen this one either. I'm interested in checking it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. A lot of people on the letterbox said that
Speaker 3: it's really trashy, which I mean, that's like half his films,
Speaker 3: But you know, they said, but it's in a good
Speaker 3: sense trashy.
Speaker 2: So that's me k.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Next is VCI putting out two poverty row films on
Speaker 2: one disc. We got King of the Zombies from nineteen
Speaker 2: forty one and Miss v from Moscow from nineteen forty two.
Speaker 2: Is VCI, So first of all, keep that in mind.
Speaker 2: But the other thing, like, yes, I understand that these
Speaker 2: are attached by Poverty Row. These films aren't really anything
Speaker 2: like each other. Yeah, and both of these movies are
Speaker 2: on YouTube in decent quality. This is a really odd
Speaker 2: choice unless they have a new restoration and they're not
Speaker 2: advertising that. But even then, again, really weird double feature.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's probably like King and Zombies probably has more
Speaker 3: of a draw and they probably were sitting on the
Speaker 3: other one and just said, ah, let's just throw it
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 2: Yet something like that. They must have had the ability
Speaker 2: to do it. I don't know. Anyways, you can check
Speaker 2: that out. This is coming January twenty first on Blu
Speaker 2: Ray from VCI.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the real cook on King is Zombi. The director's interesting.
Speaker 3: I watched Hill Billy's in a Haunted House the other day.
Speaker 3: That's from the same guy, So it's it's gonna be
Speaker 3: schlocky and anything from Poverty Row, you know is, But yeah,
Speaker 3: it'll be fine from the enthusiasts for sure.
Speaker 2: I love that. Gym on Facebook says quote classics. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Silent Mandil says, is there a mister V I mean, technically,
Speaker 2: I guess me.
Speaker 3: I guess yeah.
Speaker 2: Two Poverty Row picks on one disc from VCI. That's
Speaker 2: three bad signs. In one sentence. I couldn't have said
Speaker 2: it better myself. Yeah, although I believe these are both
Speaker 2: fairly short movies like how Ish.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: The next coming soon on four K steel book in
Speaker 2: the UK and likely the US and everywhere else right
Speaker 2: around the same time. Yeah, from Warner Brothers Constantine from
Speaker 2: two thousand and five. This will be a big twentieth
Speaker 2: anniversary release. This is going to be having a rigid slipcase,
Speaker 2: a steal book, double sided posters, art cards they save
Speaker 2: on disc. Special features to be confirmed. I hope. I mean,
Speaker 2: like Keanu loves this movie. I'm sure he would have
Speaker 2: loved to talk about it. We'll see if we at anything.
Speaker 2: But the thing that I'm gonna bring up again Warner
Speaker 2: Brothers doing this whole We're gonna make you pre order
Speaker 2: something without knowing the artwork, without knowing when it's in
Speaker 2: a ship, and that is such a dirty way to
Speaker 2: do this in twenty twenty four. Just get your shit
Speaker 2: together and then put it up for pre order like
Speaker 2: everyone else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they need to get on Hammer's level. Caps. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Connstein's a good time. I remember seeing it
Speaker 3: way back when I've seen this thing so many Times
Speaker 3: own multiple copies of it. I for sure enjoy this
Speaker 3: film and will definitely upgrade for sure. It's a fun time. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know about the comic book enthusiasts, and he's
Speaker 3: definitely sort of strayed from the character a little bit,
Speaker 3: but I I, you know, it's fine for me. I
Speaker 3: enjoy it quite a bit. So it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: And the other thing like, if the restoration is done right,
Speaker 2: this with HDR could look very good.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, this thing's a blast.
Speaker 2: Sibboners says they've already confirmed Constantine tou so just wait
Speaker 2: to build on the hype. Was that confirmed? I thought
Speaker 2: it was just a semi rumored and like Keanu trying
Speaker 2: to get it interesting. I didn't know it was confirmed.
Speaker 3: They're gonna bring everybody back? Are they gonna tie down
Speaker 3: shil above?
Speaker 2: Uh? This is pointless now because you can't use it.
Speaker 2: But the Criterion Collection had their fall flash sale like
Speaker 2: they always do. Usually it would have been the previous week,
Speaker 2: but the flash sale day would have landed on the
Speaker 2: new announcement day, so they delayed it a week to
Speaker 2: do this. Did you get anything in this one?
Speaker 3: Uh? Gummo happiness real quick. I can, I can wait
Speaker 3: until the Barns sale. But I think it's good for
Speaker 3: what it is. A lot of people are sitting on
Speaker 3: their their coupons and so it's a good time to
Speaker 3: use it. And I get that Criterion sort of wants
Speaker 3: to get their own piece of action before Barnes and
Speaker 3: Noble probably takes a chunk of it. So it totally
Speaker 3: makes sense. With the sale, I just sort of got
Speaker 3: it and got out.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Eric got the Before trilogy. Good job, that's
Speaker 2: a masterpiece.
Speaker 3: I'd still got plenty from this summer sale that I
Speaker 3: gotta watch. So it's like, I can, I can wait
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's stand on. Constantine says nothing is ever confirmed.
Speaker 2: Just ask Joaquin Phoenix.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, true che Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh. Manda Micabre's Halloween sale is currently live. This is
Speaker 2: live until October twenty seventh. The pre orders that are
Speaker 2: available as well are Cafe Flesh on four K, Bohachi
Speaker 2: Bushido on four K, The Girl Slaves of Morgana La
Speaker 2: Fe on four K, and The Punishment. You can still
Speaker 2: pre order off our four of those as far as
Speaker 2: I know. However, Uh, this has done oh so well
Speaker 2: for Monta Micabro. Yeah, Cafe Flesh is almost sold out already, Jared.
Speaker 2: If you listen to the Mona Micabre podcast episode that
Speaker 2: went up earlier this week, he's said that this should
Speaker 2: be available for a month or so at the very least,
Speaker 2: and it looks like Cafe Flesh will likely sell out
Speaker 2: tonight or tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean I loved Doctor Calgary and so I
Speaker 3: was obviously Cafe Flesh right off the bat. I'm sold
Speaker 3: on that whole crazy wonky all the above. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I got to pick a few things from this. I'm
Speaker 3: one of the sections of my collection that I definitely
Speaker 3: need to catch up to speed on is Mondo Macabre.
Speaker 3: So I definitely put a little bit of a dent.
Speaker 3: Not crazy, but I definitely want to catch up to
Speaker 3: speed with him. So I grabbed a couple from this one.
Speaker 3: So I got, like, uh, what I get? Killer Dolls.
Speaker 3: I guess a lot of people are talking about that one,
Speaker 3: and yeah, blood Spattered Bride and Beast of the Magic
Speaker 3: Sword looked crazy. Yeah, yeah, it'll be fun time. So
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 2: We got a question here from Seminary, says Ryan, do
Speaker 2: they confirm how many copies were done? Yes, they did
Speaker 2: for all of the titles, but Hachi Bushido and Cafe
Speaker 2: Flesh were both two thousand copies, and I believe Morgana
Speaker 2: la Fay and The Punishment were both fifteen hundred. I
Speaker 2: may be wrong on Morgana la Fae, but it is
Speaker 2: on the site. Let me see if I can look
Speaker 2: that up before I say the wrong thing. It is
Speaker 2: two thousand copies, so I was wrong. Yeah, Morgano la
Speaker 2: Fay also two thousand copies. But the big thing, all
Speaker 2: of these will have standard copies. If you don't want
Speaker 2: you know, the booklet or the slipcover or anything like that,
Speaker 2: just wait. It'll be back in stock for the retail edition.
Speaker 2: It'll likely not be in stock until like April or May,
Speaker 2: so as long as you have no problem waiting, you'll
Speaker 2: still be able to get them. Don't worry. Yeah, this is,
Speaker 2: like I said, available till the twenty seventh. Check it out,
Speaker 2: and if you want Cafe Flesh, sooner than later. Although
Speaker 2: keep in mind the brand new four titles are not
Speaker 2: shipping until January, so if you want sale titles as well,
Speaker 2: you might want to do two orders.
Speaker 3: Yeah that makes sense. I'm good, I got playing to watch,
Speaker 3: but yeah, through it all in one file, but I'm
Speaker 3: good it'll be a good surprise couple of months from now.
Speaker 2: And agree with jim Mondo rules. They speak to my
Speaker 2: taste almost exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, definitely a lot of fun. I'm definitely happy
Speaker 3: that I'm catching up speed with them.
Speaker 2: Next one is another piece of important news. This is
Speaker 2: just kind of a reminder that Something Weird Video is
Speaker 2: shutting down the downloads and the DVD rs that they've
Speaker 2: been selling from their websites. You can only get that
Speaker 2: until Halloween, which means you only got one more week.
Speaker 2: As of the time of this recording. The website is
Speaker 2: not going away. Something Weird is not going away. It's
Speaker 2: just the dvdrs and the downloads. They're still going to
Speaker 2: be doing like restorate with other companies, still going to
Speaker 2: be selling some of those Blu ray discs and all that.
Speaker 2: Just the dvd rs and the downloads are going away.
Speaker 2: Lisa will always be a part of this, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: The big thing is they weren't selling very many, so
Speaker 2: they said, why are we keeping this available and making
Speaker 2: it a headache for us? So they're just cutting this out.
Speaker 2: But they announced it very far in advance, so that
Speaker 2: everybody could have a chance to get what they wanted.
Speaker 2: It's a great deal. If you want your stuff, get
Speaker 2: in there and do it. However, you only have a
Speaker 2: week left.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I wandered around in there, looked at it. It
Speaker 3: was fun stuff. I have a lot of their stuff
Speaker 3: on physical media. But yeah, I appreciate the work that
Speaker 3: they're doing. And yeah, for sure, there's a lot of weird,
Speaker 3: crazy stuff there.
Speaker 2: It's true, there's a lot of lot of weird things.
Speaker 2: As they said, the big thing is that their partnerships
Speaker 2: are amazing. I mean the stuff they do with the AGFA,
Speaker 2: the Kino discs that they've got, They've worked with a
Speaker 2: handful of others. It's it's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a whole pile of those Kino like
Speaker 3: the Drugs films and all those that. Yep, someday it's
Speaker 3: a project of mine to like watch them all in order.
Speaker 3: So there's like thirteen editions of them sitting there. Who knows,
Speaker 3: but yeah.
Speaker 2: Well now I think they're up to seventeen or eighteen,
Speaker 2: so good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know I'm missing a few, but yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: All right, Next up, I put a new interview up
Speaker 2: on the channel with Eugenio Eklani. He is the on
Speaker 2: the Grand producer who goes between Rome and London and
Speaker 2: helps like every company out there. Basically, he is one
Speaker 2: of the most knowledgeable people in physical media. And I'm
Speaker 2: really happy with this conversation. I hope people check it out.
Speaker 2: He we get into some like existential stuff about his
Speaker 2: purpose in life and talk about how much he's contributed
Speaker 2: to over the last year and what makes him happy.
Speaker 2: And it's just it's great to see somebody that is
Speaker 2: truly passionate about all of these films like we all are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2: Going to our next one. I'm stoke. This is getting
Speaker 2: released November nineteenth. Frago Rock Back to the Rock Season
Speaker 2: one is getting a physical media release from Sony Pictures.
Speaker 2: Kind of surprising. This was a streaming only title and
Speaker 2: now here here it is. This This season had a
Speaker 2: lot of like special guest We've got Davd Diggs that
Speaker 2: was on it, Ed Helm's, Patty LaBelle Keenan Thompson, Cynthia Revo,
Speaker 2: the Foo Fighters. But I know that they're looked down
Speaker 2: on at the moment. Anyways, frag of Rock Back to
Speaker 2: the Rock, I mean it's a handsome thing. Everybody should
Speaker 2: love it. It's amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's I mean, it's good to see stuff
Speaker 3: like this get physical release because it's sorted in the
Speaker 3: streaming only land. At least that's what people would pragmatically
Speaker 3: think prior, where it's sort of set it and then
Speaker 3: forget it kind of thing. Obviously, I haven't seen this one.
Speaker 3: I've seen obviously the original show plenty of times. Right,
Speaker 3: But yeah, definitely it'd be an interesting watch to see.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I like that. This is a good sign
Speaker 3: in general that a lot of the stuff that would
Speaker 3: just be a quick gimmick and then thrown out the
Speaker 3: window was definitely being put out there.
Speaker 2: Agreed there, Uh, never let go. This is the newest
Speaker 2: halle Berry film. This was directed by Alexandra Aja. This
Speaker 2: is coming on Blu Ray DVD from lions Gate on
Speaker 2: December third. No word on special features yet, but it's
Speaker 2: lions Gates, so I really wouldn't expect very much that
Speaker 2: their new stuff they don't put a lot into unfortunately,
Speaker 2: But I've heard really good things about this one. Did
Speaker 2: you go see this one?
Speaker 3: Uh? No, I haven't. Was this was it primarily on
Speaker 3: streaming or was it? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like this was a theatrical release, but I'm
Speaker 2: not sure was it.
Speaker 3: Okay, No, I have I'm a little rusty on some
Speaker 3: of these, but yeah, I mean I know the director
Speaker 3: obviously from the French extremity stuff. I've seen that plenty
Speaker 3: of times. What's it called it's leaving my mind at
Speaker 3: the second high tension? Yeah, I've seen that plenty of times.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it looks in interesting. It's one that maybe
Speaker 3: I would run into randomly. Oh, I guess it's a Netflix.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a Netflix movie, So I guess the.
Speaker 3: Same going with Fraggle Rock there is you know what,
Speaker 3: I'm glad that this has got a physical format for
Speaker 3: the one person out there that definitely wants it for sure.
Speaker 2: Next up is a White Bird. This is from this year,
Speaker 2: also coming on Blue Rain DVD on December third, from Lionsgate.
Speaker 2: This is with Helen Mirren and this is from the
Speaker 2: same person that wrote Wonder. The book Wonder I'm supposed
Speaker 2: to be like a inspirational story. I've somehow heard that
Speaker 2: this is pretty good too, huh.
Speaker 3: I think I remember Wonder that was a movie. Julie
Speaker 3: Roberts was in that thing.
Speaker 2: I think it's been a while it was Zach Braff,
Speaker 2: I know that, yeah, and then.
Speaker 3: It's it was like a heartwarming film about kid has
Speaker 3: physical deformity, and then you know they're talking about the
Speaker 3: power of I Forget. But yeah, yeah, I think I
Speaker 3: remember that being a decent film. It's been a while,
Speaker 3: so yeah, this looks interesting.
Speaker 2: Sibbonar says it's a prequel to Wonder. Oh okay, I
Speaker 2: didn't realize they were connected. That's interesting. Alrighty. Next Dark
Speaker 2: Side Releasing is putting out well, you can purchase it now. Actually,
Speaker 2: it's out now Blu Ray for Dead Name from twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. This is a movie that is directed by
Speaker 2: Warren Badensky, and it's got an audio commentary on it
Speaker 2: and Sympathy's Fall of Rude and music video some interviews
Speaker 2: with the cast and crew. Looks like a fairly indie horror.
Speaker 3: Ah. This is not a prequel to.
Speaker 2: Wonder, Probably not, I mean with this cover.
Speaker 3: Yeah, huh, yeah, I've never heard of that company. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Keno putting out Mister Monk's Last Case a Monk movie.
Speaker 2: This is coming on December seventeenth. The extras get it's
Speaker 2: an internet and TV spot and that's it. I'm kind
Speaker 2: of kind of surprised they didn't do anything for this
Speaker 2: at all, like get Tony Shalaloub to comment on his
Speaker 2: long career on this show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. If there's one thing that Keino's doing,
Speaker 3: it's the dark side of film noir and Monk seasons.
Speaker 2: This should be the end of it, I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But you know, I'm glad to see it. I've
Speaker 3: I've enjoyed Monk like the next person on syndicated television,
Speaker 3: so I haven't been a crazy fan, but I enjoy
Speaker 3: it for what it is. I randomly saw Tony Shaloub
Speaker 3: in an airport once, but that's it.
Speaker 2: Yet another streaming movie that is coming to physical as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, good to see it.
Speaker 2: Next is The Killer Is Loose. Speaking of good Kino art,
Speaker 2: this one is great. Yeah. December seventeenth. This is coming
Speaker 2: on Blu Ray. This is from nineteen fifty six, starring
Speaker 2: Joseph Cotton, directed by the one and only Bud Betteker
Speaker 2: and we got a commentary on here by Gary Garani
Speaker 2: and a trailer. This is like an exact what we
Speaker 2: were saying earlier. This is a when there's a keynosale,
Speaker 2: I am picking this up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, for sure, I'm definitely interested. I am sitting
Speaker 3: on Baker's his Western set from Criterion, and part of
Speaker 3: me is crazy in the sense that I have intentions
Speaker 3: to watch an entire box set from front to back,
Speaker 3: and that's the only reason why I haven't gotten to
Speaker 3: it yet, even though it's four films and they are
Speaker 3: not that long. But I need to just sit down
Speaker 3: and watch that thing. But yeah, I know that, just
Speaker 3: like I would love those films, I'm gonna love this
Speaker 3: film because there's just a sense of how he makes
Speaker 3: films and like they're sort of little gritty be kind
Speaker 3: of movies, but they're fun in their novelty kind of sense. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm all about this one.
Speaker 2: Indeed. Next one, December seventeenth, Umbrella is giving Terrifier. This
Speaker 2: is such a crazy release. They are doing a box
Speaker 2: set with so much we're gonna get into. First thing
Speaker 2: is where do they get into the details here. This
Speaker 2: comprehensive set includes Terrifier, Terrifier two and Terrifier three on
Speaker 2: four K, and the anthology prequel film All Hollows Eve,
Speaker 2: so you get everything art the clown Possible all coming
Speaker 2: in this box set. This is the first time anywhere
Speaker 2: in the world that the first film has been on
Speaker 2: four K, So if you are four K rider, die,
Speaker 2: this is finally the one for you. There was a
Speaker 2: steable announced in the UK, but it got delayed and
Speaker 2: then delayed again, and it might be coming next year
Speaker 2: or who knows, but this is already I think the
Speaker 2: fourth or fifth release I've talked about for Terrifier. So
Speaker 2: I do want to say to everybody, this is going
Speaker 2: to be the most exploited title and series in physical
Speaker 2: media in modern horror for the next handful of years.
Speaker 2: This is going to be the big one. This set has,
Speaker 2: like I said, all the films four K and then
Speaker 2: the anthology prequel on Blu Ray and the exclusive version
Speaker 2: from the Umbrella Store has an one hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: piece brick set. They can't call them legos because they're
Speaker 2: off brand legos. Yeah, they've got there you go. Terrifier
Speaker 2: three VHS, two hundred and fifty plus page book, behind
Speaker 2: the scenes experiences and art with written content from a
Speaker 2: handful of people, custom artwork, rigid slipcase arts, Christmas sunglasses,
Speaker 2: twelve art cards, two reversible posters, and then it is
Speaker 2: their limited edition numbered release This has everything you could
Speaker 2: possibly want. There are exclusive features for Terrifier three, so
Speaker 2: if you really love this movie, this might be the
Speaker 2: release to get because nobody else is going to have
Speaker 2: those bonus features. This is a crazy release, and I
Speaker 2: gotta be honest. I talk about bad pricing a lot
Speaker 2: on here. The fact that this comes out to only
Speaker 2: I think one hundred and thirty five dollars US before shipping, Like,
Speaker 2: if you buy anything else for five dollars, you get
Speaker 2: free shipping, But one hundred and thirty five dollars for
Speaker 2: this entire bundle is kind of a pretty great price.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be like what was it that
Speaker 3: Collegio set this brick times three?
Speaker 2: The crazy thing though, Uh, They've already announced a fourth film,
Speaker 2: So for me, I would never buy this box set
Speaker 2: because I know there's more coming and they've even hinted
Speaker 2: they might be a fifth one. So I mean, do
Speaker 2: you want to go all in and buy a box
Speaker 2: set every time? Do you want to you know, get
Speaker 2: the exclusives and sell the box set of the movies
Speaker 2: and buy the next box set? Who knows. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna tell you either way, but this is wild, Like
Speaker 2: there are so many people in the mainstream world that
Speaker 2: love Terrifier right now that are buying this just because
Speaker 2: it's the best looking release of Terrifier. They're going to
Speaker 2: sell a metric shit ton of these.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they needed they need to pull a Charles
Speaker 3: Band and like full Moon and then like they give
Speaker 3: you like the evil Bong box that but then they say, hey,
Speaker 3: look there's like ninety of these coming, and so they
Speaker 3: leave like this whole cardboard like half empty, so you
Speaker 3: can put your additional evil bong movies in there. That's
Speaker 3: what they need to do with Just geez. Yeah, this
Speaker 3: movie is the movie that will never quit. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm all four people who enjoy it. I like it
Speaker 3: to a degree. I've seen the first one. In the
Speaker 3: second one once a piece. I still need to see that.
Speaker 3: The first one. That's like an anthology. It gets a
Speaker 3: little taxing after a while. I definitely like the gore
Speaker 3: and the physical effects. I think it's a celebration of that.
Speaker 3: Do I think it's in its head a little bit
Speaker 3: too much? Yeah? Probably, for sure.
Speaker 2: It's up something a little too.
Speaker 3: Yeah it is. It's it's definitely huff in a little
Speaker 3: bit too much of its own fumes. But you know,
Speaker 3: there's gonna be some people that, you know, love the
Speaker 3: movies and it's all for it, you know. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not opposed to rewatching as well. So
Speaker 3: I don't hate them. It's just I'm not crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I literally the exact same feelings. I do not
Speaker 2: hate them, I don't certainly don't love them. I have
Speaker 2: never once had a desire to go throw on a
Speaker 2: terrifier film. I'm very happy that they have made practical
Speaker 2: effects an important part of the series. I'm also very
Speaker 2: happy that a basically a tiny budget Christmas set really
Speaker 2: gruesome horror slasher it was the top film at the
Speaker 2: box office for a weekend. That sends a lot of
Speaker 2: shockwaves through the industry. As many people don't think that's
Speaker 2: a big deal, it truly is. I'm I'm stoked for
Speaker 2: Damian Leoni. I just don't really care about the movies
Speaker 2: all day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's it's its own celebration. I'll never
Speaker 3: really put it down. Yeah, like I said, I think
Speaker 3: it's huffing a little bit too much of its own fumes.
Speaker 3: But you know, I enjoy it at the end of
Speaker 3: the day for what it is.
Speaker 2: What's crazy is if this isn't enough Terrifier for you,
Speaker 2: Umbrella has shirts for a pre order right now, They
Speaker 2: have art wrapping paper. They even have a shirt that
Speaker 2: they're not revealing the design, saying it's too gruesome, and
Speaker 2: one of the like subtitle for it says who would
Speaker 2: even wear this? Seriously? But that's crazy to me that
Speaker 2: you can pre order it without even knowing the design. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I love the Umbrella's doing it. They are all in
Speaker 2: on it. I think that this is going to be
Speaker 2: if you love Terrifyer your favorite release probably well.
Speaker 3: And it fits in with the theme of like its
Speaker 3: film as an event right oh you know, and definitely
Speaker 3: not might pop up later on, but you know, more
Speaker 3: power to it for what.
Speaker 2: It's doing, all right. Next up, Celluloid Dreams has announced
Speaker 2: their next title that's coming out on four K, and
Speaker 2: that a short Night of Glass Dolls from nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 2: This is a hiallo film that was previously released by
Speaker 2: Twilight Time. Has been out of print for some time,
Speaker 2: but it's also not that out of reach. I know
Speaker 2: a lot of Twilight Time films have exploded in value
Speaker 2: and you can't find them for like less than one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty dollars. This one is still pretty gettable. However,
Speaker 2: it was a decent Blu ray release. I was hoping
Speaker 2: for a little more obscure from them, like when they
Speaker 2: announced Black Belly the Tarantula that was the kind of
Speaker 2: obscure I was really hoping for. This is fine, it's
Speaker 2: a good movie. I'm glad that it's coming, and we'll
Speaker 2: probably get a gorgeous four K release that's you know,
Speaker 2: some big three or four disc release with art cards
Speaker 2: the size of surfboards and everybody will be super happy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, I still have a case of the
Speaker 3: bloody iris I gotta get too, But yeah, I definitely
Speaker 3: appreciate it for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you are easy on four K transfers, I
Speaker 2: will say that is genuinely one of the best four
Speaker 2: K transfers the last two years. It is.
Speaker 3: The dinner plates that they brought with it too, But
Speaker 3: you know, that's appreciate. Somebody's gonna frame those and yeah
Speaker 3: put them up or something. So yeah, definitely I'm all
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 2: Silent Man, his glass night of short dolls is better.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I love all of these random puns about Terrifier releases
Speaker 2: that we could get like Arts European Vacation art and space.
Speaker 3: That'd be great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Make him like National Lampoon I overs yeah.
Speaker 2: Art meets Winnie the Pooh.
Speaker 3: Yeah they I mean just make them till end of time.
Speaker 3: That if that if that's the shock that the film
Speaker 3: industry needs to keep going thirty years time and it's
Speaker 3: only art the clown movies.
Speaker 2: Well, David Everard Thornton will be They'll just his face
Speaker 2: will be stuck.
Speaker 3: Like terrorfire Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh jeez, terrifier for Tokyo Drift. Look at that.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Eureka put out a couple announcements today. First one is
Speaker 2: running on Karma. This is coming from their Masters of
Speaker 2: Cinema line on Blu Ray on January twenty seventh. But
Speaker 2: the cool thing this is available in the UK and
Speaker 2: North America. Glad that they are still taking advantage of
Speaker 2: what they're doing in the US and Canada. This one
Speaker 2: is directed by Johnny Toe, a name that many people
Speaker 2: have been in physical media for the last couple of
Speaker 2: years will recognize once again. Limited to two thousand copies,
Speaker 2: it's got a slipcover on it. It's got the new
Speaker 2: audio commentary by Frank Jang and FJ. DeSanto on this
Speaker 2: new interview with Gary Bettenson, the editor in chief of
Speaker 2: Asian Cinema Journal, some archival making of featurettes and trailers,
Speaker 2: and a collector's booklet with a new essay by David West.
Speaker 2: I've not seen this one, but Johnny Toe is a
Speaker 2: hell of a good film.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, throw downs a good time. Yeah, it looks interesting.
Speaker 3: It looks like a newer movie. I like I said,
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it either, but yeah, looks interesting for sure.
Speaker 2: And in the discord earlier Craig Craig says, man, that
Speaker 2: guy is yoked or whatever he said, buffed something. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this guy's ripped. The muscles on this guy are crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But the bigger deal from Eureka over in the UK
Speaker 2: they are getting not a Kira Kiyoshi Kurasawa's Cure from
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven coming on four K. This is also
Speaker 2: still part of their Master's the Cinema line, since this
Speaker 2: has been released by them previously, and this has archival
Speaker 2: interviews with Kyoshi and then Kim Newman on Cure, interview
Speaker 2: with a critic and out there Kim Newman a collector's
Speaker 2: booklet with essays on Cure by Tom mess This movie
Speaker 2: will look beautiful swollen, that's the word you used. Cure
Speaker 2: will look beautiful on four K. Gary, glad this is
Speaker 2: coming out. Slip on. This looks great. It's cue.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's probably a precursor that it's coming four K
Speaker 3: out on this side of things as.
Speaker 2: Well, Criteria definitely released it on four K.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a great film. Everybody who's seen here probably agrees
Speaker 3: that the film's excellent. It's been a bit, but definitely
Speaker 3: I want to revisit this thing. It's definitely a gritty
Speaker 3: I was looking back at my review of it because
Speaker 3: I I'm sort of fuzzy on it because it's been
Speaker 3: a couple of years. But somehow I put the equation
Speaker 3: of seven Meats Stocker like Tarcassi Stoker, and so that
Speaker 3: just like reinvigorated in my brain again that yeah, I
Speaker 3: definitely want to rewatch here. But yeah, I just remember
Speaker 3: loving this thing when I watched it.
Speaker 2: I am the lone outcast idiot. I will say I've
Speaker 2: watched this once and it did nothing for me. I
Speaker 2: really need to see it again. I feel like I
Speaker 2: just went into it on a bad day and I'll
Speaker 2: probably love it on the second watch. But man, I
Speaker 2: don't get the hype for this movie at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's been a while. Like I said,
Speaker 3: I'm Buzzney, but I just remember in the moment it's
Speaker 3: very atmosphere. So I definitely agree. Like if you walk
Speaker 3: into it on and off day and you're not like
Speaker 3: not to say, you're not fully engaged or you know, whatever,
Speaker 3: is off to slightly a degree, I totally can see
Speaker 3: that that happening. But yeah, I mean just full with
Speaker 3: full buy in this movie. S nuts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like this is one that you got
Speaker 2: to watch in the dark room, no phones, nobody else
Speaker 2: around other than you know, somebody else, silent on the couch.
Speaker 2: This is definitely one that you got.
Speaker 3: To be all in onf Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: Similar Shaw Shank is a classic. I get it. It's
Speaker 2: just overrated, That's okay. Then, the third wave of Disney
Speaker 2: Steel books got announced today, and we got some weird
Speaker 2: things happening here. First off, all these come out on
Speaker 2: December third. The press release for these doesn't say anything
Speaker 2: about Blu Ray this time, so all I see is
Speaker 2: that the are coming out on four K, not on
Speaker 2: Blu Ray potentially. But also it's Disney, they could change
Speaker 2: their minds in the middle of the night and do
Speaker 2: the same thing. The should all go up for pre
Speaker 2: order by the end of next week everywhere. These are
Speaker 2: not exclusives anywhere, and all of these releases are two
Speaker 2: hundred gig discs and they all have Dolby Vision and
Speaker 2: HDR ten, which is a great sign for Disney because
Speaker 2: they were not embracing Dolby Vision for the longest time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Disney is smelling some of the copy
Speaker 3: that they need to get back into physical media a
Speaker 3: little bit. They're so all over the map and temperamental
Speaker 3: in their thoughts stuff like that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we're gonna talk about Disney later, right, Blake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 2: So this first one is the Mandalorian, the complete third season. Now,
Speaker 2: a lot of people complaining because they announced this. They
Speaker 2: did not announce the Book of Boba Fett, which should
Speaker 2: have been the next one to come out in this saga.
Speaker 2: But here we are, Sibner. Remember when Disney said they
Speaker 2: would never put out a four K again. No, but
Speaker 2: I remember when a YouTuber who has no idea what
Speaker 2: he's talking about made the Internet think that was the case.
Speaker 2: Ronnie says, I'm Dying for Nagata all along physical release.
Speaker 2: I hope they get to all of them eventually. I
Speaker 2: mean for people that love Marvel stuff, which I've never
Speaker 2: hated Marvel stuff. Sure, I don't love the current wave,
Speaker 2: but if you love Marvel like yeat release them all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just ebbs and flows and saturation. But yeah, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of good ERRt there for sure, and I
Speaker 3: want to see the fans get their their physical copies exactly.
Speaker 2: So that is season three of The Mandalorian. There's gonna
Speaker 2: be some bonus features on here as well. There's a
Speaker 2: tribute to Carl Weathers, the creatures and droids of the Mandalorian,
Speaker 2: and then some forgetting Forging the Covert. Part three, Jon
Speaker 2: Favreau and a couple other of the filmmakers explore the
Speaker 2: expanding world of season three's Mandalorian Warriors. Then the next
Speaker 2: Star Wars one they announced is Ahsoka the complete first season.
Speaker 2: This is gonna have some bonus features as well, joining
Speaker 2: the cast and crew for a look at their developing
Speaker 2: live action series, exploring the dynamic of Anakin Skywalker in
Speaker 2: Ahsoka within the world, Go Deep with the spotlight on
Speaker 2: Ahsoka's allies, and then uncover the secrets of Ahsoka's foes.
Speaker 2: Third one is the first Marvel one of this one.
Speaker 2: We got Hawkeye the complete first season. This has all
Speaker 2: kinds of deleted scenes on here, plus a gag reel
Speaker 2: Tale of Two Hawkeyes featurette and then the making of Hawkeye.
Speaker 2: And finally we are also getting Loki the complete second season.
Speaker 2: This is the only one, by the way, that will
Speaker 2: be in a two point two to one aspect ratio
Speaker 2: rather than two point three to nine to one like
Speaker 2: the others. This will have again some deleted scenes assembled,
Speaker 2: the making of a gag reel and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: You're gonna pick any of these up?
Speaker 3: Uh? I don't know. Maybe in the distant future. I'm
Speaker 3: you know, I've actually never seen an episode of Mandalorian,
Speaker 3: which is crazy, except heard a lot of good things
Speaker 3: about I've seen a little bit of Loki. Eventually I
Speaker 3: might get there. I'm so backlogged and doing all kinds
Speaker 3: of crazy old cult films that maybe in the future
Speaker 3: I'll get there again. But yeah, we'll see. I'm not
Speaker 3: against them.
Speaker 2: Let's see Jack Black and Lizzo included. They need people
Speaker 2: to catch up on the Mandalorian for the movie true true, Yeah,
Speaker 2: definitely not releasing in Australia because there's no more Disney
Speaker 2: in Australia. Then just got a few more left. We're
Speaker 2: already almost done with the announcements, which is wild. November nineteenth,
Speaker 2: Magnolia is releasing Yoshiki Under the Sky. This is from
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three and is a music documentary featuring the
Speaker 2: world renowned rock star and composer leading a global concert
Speaker 2: featuring today's top musical artists like The Chainsmokers, Saint Vincent
Speaker 2: and more. Yeah, not many things released like this. This
Speaker 2: is pretty cool that this is and release.
Speaker 3: It was like a good concert on Blu ray, so
Speaker 3: it's a good time. So that's all on that one.
Speaker 2: Same next, Mill Creek doing their next Ultraman thing. I
Speaker 2: believe these were web series and did not get released elsewhere.
Speaker 2: December tenth, there is a Blu Ray coming of Ultra
Speaker 2: Galaxy Fight Series one through three and Ultraman Regulos First Mission.
Speaker 2: Supposedly these are really high quality and if you love Ultraman,
Speaker 2: mill Creek has been killing it over the last At
Speaker 2: this point we're talking like five years for what they've
Speaker 2: done for Ultraman, So check it out.
Speaker 3: You know, mal Creek. I mean, they're fine for being
Speaker 3: some of the bargain bin kind of stuff, but I
Speaker 3: enjoyed when I get a title from them on so
Speaker 3: I you know, I'm very lacking in the ultraman department,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I enjoy like their little retro vhs cover
Speaker 3: stuff like that. So it's a good time to come
Speaker 3: across some random old movie from them.
Speaker 2: And they look great on Blu ray too.
Speaker 3: Will say, yeah, they're good for their value for sure.
Speaker 2: And then I think we got two more left. December eighth,
Speaker 2: on four K Blu Rain DVD from Loma Vista Recordings.
Speaker 2: Ghost right here, right now. This is for the band Ghost.
Speaker 2: It is a film plus bonus content. We got Q
Speaker 2: and A's with some of the band and some others.
Speaker 2: The Future is a forid Land animated music video and
Speaker 2: the webisode series chapters one through twenty eight. Not a
Speaker 2: lot of bands doing releases like this, which is why
Speaker 2: I wanted to make sure that we highlighted it. I
Speaker 2: know a lot of friends who love Ghosts. Yeah, my
Speaker 2: mom' saw Ghost live. But yeah, this is pretty cool
Speaker 2: if you're a fan of Ghost.
Speaker 3: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2: All right, I think we have one yep, last one.
Speaker 2: I didn't know this existed until today. Fabulous Films over
Speaker 2: in the UK is releasing Taken the complete series on
Speaker 2: December ninth on Blu Ray. This is from twenty seventeen
Speaker 2: to twenty nineteen. It has two seasons that it did.
Speaker 2: And yeah, they made it a Taken TV show and
Speaker 2: it's based on Liam Neeson's character, who is young, younger
Speaker 2: than his actual character, Otherwise they would have to shoot
Speaker 2: this in nine thousand takes like they did the films.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I've never heard of this. I mean, I've
Speaker 3: heard of the movie, but yeah, I didn't know either
Speaker 3: that this existed. But more power to the people enjoy
Speaker 3: it for sure.
Speaker 2: That is it. I just saw on the top that
Speaker 2: said from producer Luke Passant, that's yeah, that's weird speed Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I can see that as a reminder for what we
Speaker 2: are releasing next week, just in case you forgot Zodiac
Speaker 2: on four K, trick or treat four K like Blake
Speaker 2: already showed us Dragged Me to Hell four K from
Speaker 2: Scream Adam's Family Values four K. We got that colligular
Speaker 2: set coming from that one company that I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: name anymore. Jay, Horror Rising from Arrow Shocker, four K
Speaker 2: from Screen Factory. Doctor SEUs is How the Grinch Stole
Speaker 2: Christmas four K, lots of four K releases, The die
Speaker 2: Gothic set from Radiance that I got to get my
Speaker 2: hands on. I need that box set for sure. Warner Archives,
Speaker 2: The Walking Dead and the Return of Doctor X. The
Speaker 2: Classic Ghosts from Keno. That's definitely what I wanted. All
Speaker 2: of the standard releases from Vinegar Syndrome for this month,
Speaker 2: and a couple from seven look like they're getting their
Speaker 2: retail street date next week. The Beast with Five Fingers
Speaker 2: from Warner Archive, elvem Piro two blood Sucking Tales from
Speaker 2: Mexico from Indicator. Let's see Dogra Magra from Radiance which
Speaker 2: is supposed to be great, Lauren Hardy or two from
Speaker 2: Flicker Rally fil Noir. The Dark Side is in the
Speaker 2: twenty two perfect timing. Yeah, top copy from Keno Lorber
Speaker 2: for your consideration from Warner Archive. Man, this is a
Speaker 2: big week. Yeah, Any of these so far catching your eye?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I love for your consideration any Christopher
Speaker 3: Guests movie. I love those movies absolutely trying to think
Speaker 3: of it. I mean a lot of them, I see
Speaker 3: like a lot of the vinegar Syndrome seven stuff. But ah,
Speaker 3: and then the arrow ones that I have, But it
Speaker 3: looks like there's I mean, Chakra was a cool one.
Speaker 3: I'll upgrade that one when it goes on sale. I
Speaker 3: have a slew of radiance things coming my way, and
Speaker 3: I might have Doggar Magrath in there, so I have
Speaker 3: to see what's in that chunk. But yeah, there's some
Speaker 3: good stuff coming out.
Speaker 2: For sure. Jeff says Blake has never said anything bad
Speaker 2: about her release. Is that true, Blake, that's not true.
Speaker 2: Ask about that one MVD rewind title and Blake will
Speaker 2: slam it to hell.
Speaker 3: Oh what was that thing? Oh like the last BHS
Speaker 3: or the first v VCR.
Speaker 2: No, No, I enjoyed the ride MVD rewind.
Speaker 3: It was Oh, Hail Caesar.
Speaker 2: Hail Caesar. That's the one.
Speaker 3: Oh that thing is ai. It's actually it's actually so
Speaker 3: much of a travesty that it was sort of like
Speaker 3: a brain melt watching it. Like they could have like
Speaker 3: promoted that it's so bad on the cover, like, hey,
Speaker 3: you want to watch the worst blu ray ever made?
Speaker 3: Watch this?
Speaker 2: Then? Yeah, some I have not named yet. We should
Speaker 2: finish these real quick. Sorry, Baby Blood four K from Keno,
Speaker 2: Deadly Circuit four K or not four K? Just blu
Speaker 2: Ray from Keno d D is coming as well Man
Speaker 2: called Shenandoa from Warner Archive. Enough Rope from Keno, Sweethearts
Speaker 2: from Warner Archive. Uh krack coon if you were after
Speaker 2: that one. The Heidi Ho in the Boardinghouse Blues from
Speaker 2: Keno is also on the way. The Falling Star from Keno.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of Keno in one week. All right,
Speaker 2: all right, go ahead.
Speaker 3: All that text chainsaws, I mean there's a prellion of them,
Speaker 3: but I saw pictures online and so we had it,
Speaker 3: and it's like a full sized physical chainsaw. It doesn't
Speaker 3: it doesn't provoke me to get it because I got
Speaker 3: the second site one.
Speaker 2: But well, it also must not have sold well because
Speaker 2: it was only listed on the Dark Sky website and
Speaker 2: now it's on Amazon, and it was three hundred on
Speaker 2: the Dark Sky site, it is four hundred on Amazon.
Speaker 3: I think plenty of people will get it enthusia. The
Speaker 3: same people buy an umbrella Terrorizer terrifire sets, they're gonna
Speaker 3: buy Terrorizer terrifier sets. They're gonna buy text Jean saw
Speaker 3: Master sets.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, this is a this is a big week.
Speaker 2: I'm really stoked to hear about how Zodiac looks on
Speaker 2: four K. I'm worry about that. It's my favorite fincher.
Speaker 2: I hope it looks good. Adam's Family Value is obviously
Speaker 2: a great film too. Definitely want that on four K. Eventually.
Speaker 2: My big shout out though is j Horrorrizing. If you
Speaker 2: have never seen n Roy The Curse, definitely consider checking
Speaker 2: out this box set. Look at that. The art looks
Speaker 2: great in person. Man, Yes, I think if you've never
Speaker 2: seen Narroy The Curse, you are going to love that film.
Speaker 2: It is so creepy.
Speaker 3: The just parallel back to Zodiac. I love Zodiac. I
Speaker 3: wonder does that send the director's cretident or is it
Speaker 3: just theatrical That's the only thing that Yeah, that's the
Speaker 3: only thing I'm sort of like about because I love
Speaker 3: that movie.
Speaker 2: Right, it's I mean, literally my favorite finsure. It's it's yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a lot. I don't know what's going on, but
Speaker 2: uh yeah, it seems like we're not going to get
Speaker 2: a lot of these cuts. And from what I hear,
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's supposedly a legal thing where some
Speaker 2: of the actors that appear in scenes that did not
Speaker 2: sign off on this to be released. It's too much
Speaker 2: of an illegal ongoing thing to go get permission from
Speaker 2: everybody to have it released. So in fear of being
Speaker 2: sued by somebody, they are not gonna put it out
Speaker 2: that and there's there's potentially other music cues that were
Speaker 2: in there that they don't have the rights to necessarily.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it makes sense. I get it because I've seen
Speaker 3: like stuff like you know, Stabborn tries to put out
Speaker 3: of it and then like every little you know song
Speaker 3: from a Severn title and they got but like Marty
Speaker 3: graulm Asker, I remember that fiasco and then you know
Speaker 3: it's so it totally makes sense. In retrospect, It's something
Speaker 3: that just being an average movie watcher, I would have
Speaker 3: flown over previously and just would have sat there disgruntled,
Speaker 3: like why am I not getting this version right? But yeah,
Speaker 3: in retrospect, sort of being slightly more connected at the
Speaker 3: hip with stuff, Yeah, it totally makes sense.
Speaker 2: We didn't talk about that that we were going to
Speaker 2: discuss that, but just an inside baseball thing. Blake lives
Speaker 2: close to the Severn warehouse, so sometimes like after the
Speaker 2: big sales or a super big pre order of it,
Speaker 2: and Blake goes and helps with the shipping and then
Speaker 2: they pay him and releases. Oh yeah, what uh, what's
Speaker 2: your experience been like with those?
Speaker 3: Oh, it's a lot of fun. You know, we've got
Speaker 3: it's hard work for sure, Like I won't I mean
Speaker 3: we're not changed to the wall and they're not whipping
Speaker 3: us or anything like that, but I mean you'll break
Speaker 3: a sweat for sure. You know, it's a good atmosphere,
Speaker 3: a lot of film fandom in the room as we're
Speaker 3: packing movies, and you know, we definitely work our butt
Speaker 3: off to try to get it out the door as
Speaker 3: fast as we can. There's a lot of circumstances that
Speaker 3: arise that people don't you know, understand in the in
Speaker 3: the world of They just think that something could show
Speaker 3: up instantaneously. But there's I will just say on that end,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of earnest, hard work effort to make
Speaker 3: title show up as quick as possible. There's there's logistics
Speaker 3: stuff outside of the shipping room that often slows the
Speaker 3: process down. So it's this is what it like the
Speaker 3: postal service, for example. You know, I'm not gonna throw
Speaker 3: them under the bus because there's a lot of postal
Speaker 3: workers that are hard workers, but sometimes they're overloaded and
Speaker 3: so that can delay stuff. So it's not necessarily like severing,
Speaker 3: you know, delay and shipment. So yeah, it is what
Speaker 3: it is. But it's a lot of fun. You know.
Speaker 3: You get to meet a lot of good people that
Speaker 3: know film and you know, and get to see all
Speaker 3: the releases and yeah, great atmosphere. Love doing it.
Speaker 2: It's uh, it's been nice during the sales to have
Speaker 2: Spaghetti comeback and update the discord, being like, yeah, well
Speaker 2: today we finally got in this one title. So if
Speaker 2: you're waiting on that, it's it's gonna start shipping now.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I try to do my part just to
Speaker 3: sort of you know, break down some of the rumor
Speaker 3: mill a little bit, you know. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: it's it's a good time for sure, working in that room.
Speaker 3: So i'd say working in that room because that's where
Speaker 3: we're small mighty crew.
Speaker 2: So all right, so tonight we are talking about the
Speaker 2: theatrical experience as a whole. To put you on the
Speaker 2: spot in your memory, what is the best theatrical experience
Speaker 2: you ever had?
Speaker 3: Best theatrical experience. I mean, obviously I'm gonna have a
Speaker 3: lot of like old times, I tend to ramble, so
Speaker 3: it just heads up, sorry, ramble the spot, and then
Speaker 3: I start garbling my life story. I think a lot
Speaker 3: of your older stuff, like I remember seeing Roger Rabbit
Speaker 3: and stuff larger than life films. I think that's due
Speaker 3: to my age. But if we have to say, like
Speaker 3: something that's outstanding where you're cheering at the screen, probably
Speaker 3: something like Jurassic Park. You know, I'm that was ninety five.
Speaker 3: I was ten when that came out, so it's the
Speaker 3: right age where it's it's a film that's like an event.
Speaker 3: It's huge, larger than life. I remember seeing I remember
Speaker 3: going seeing Star Wars, not obviously not when it originally
Speaker 3: came out, but they did, like they brought it back
Speaker 3: out and yeah, this is when like they threw in
Speaker 3: cgi Sabbath jab of the Hut and everybody, you know,
Speaker 3: George Lucas was roasted under Coles for that. But you know,
Speaker 3: I'm a little kid, so like that's huge experience. So yeah,
Speaker 3: things like that. The big movies for sure has been
Speaker 3: my best exp.
Speaker 2: Have you done many things that made it a theatrical event,
Speaker 2: like anything with filmmakers there or done any of the
Speaker 2: forty X or D box or any of those fancy ones.
Speaker 3: I've seen a couple three D movies. This is the
Speaker 3: standard three D. You get the glasses. I will say this,
Speaker 3: this is I wish I was able to go to
Speaker 3: more screenings where I were like casting through was there
Speaker 3: to give Q and as things like that. Living in
Speaker 3: the Midwest and now living in Arizona, I haven't really
Speaker 3: gotten a lot of that, right, Like I know that
Speaker 3: you know, La gets it, and New York gets it,
Speaker 3: and you know, probably Chicago and stuff like that. But
Speaker 3: so throwing that to the side because I don't have that,
Speaker 3: it's really a lot of like the elemental gimmicks that
Speaker 3: has to hook me in. I will say one thing currently,
Speaker 3: because you know I live in Phoenix, we don't have
Speaker 3: what we got here. It's a it's the fifth largest
Speaker 3: city of the United States, but it's still growing in culture,
Speaker 3: so they're doing what they can and we have a
Speaker 3: lot of chain stuff. So we have Harkins Theater, which
Speaker 3: is like Janior. But the one gimmick that still hooks
Speaker 3: me that I was going to bring up today is
Speaker 3: They have the biggest theater in the western portion of Phoenix.
Speaker 3: It might be the biggest theater in Phoenix, but it's
Speaker 3: called Cinema One. And they still bring out these big,
Speaker 3: flowy golden curtains like nineteen fifties or something like that,
Speaker 3: and they really make it a spectacle to the pull
Speaker 3: the curtains aside and do the rotating spotlights and stuff
Speaker 3: like that. And it's just little simple things like that
Speaker 3: that I think make all the difference in the world.
Speaker 3: No matter what film I'm watching now, it does make
Speaker 3: a difference later on with the film, but you know,
Speaker 3: that first setup I think does wonders and that's one
Speaker 3: of the first things that I mean, I wish I
Speaker 3: could have the other elements, but that's what I do have.
Speaker 3: At least I can champion that.
Speaker 2: I will say, Blake used to live around where I
Speaker 2: live now, so we've got a lot of the same
Speaker 2: like reference points. And one of the things that's really
Speaker 2: cool is Kansas City. They have a lot of theaters.
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't know this. They are the
Speaker 2: headquarters of AMC here over in Leewood, Kansas. It's in
Speaker 2: the Kansas City metro, so there's there's a lot of
Speaker 2: AMC to choose from. There's like five or six maybe
Speaker 2: even more than that. AMC's in the area. But beyond that,
Speaker 2: we have a little independent theater called Screenland Armor, which
Speaker 2: you have probably heard as a movie fan just scrolling
Speaker 2: through these things. Every year they have a film festival
Speaker 2: there called Panicfest. There's a lot of places with that
Speaker 2: has like partnered with Screenland to show some things. Kevin
Speaker 2: Smith has popped in for a screening of his newest
Speaker 2: Jane Jane Silent Bob film. I will say what Blake
Speaker 2: just mentioned is also a very similar thing for Screenland
Speaker 2: is they've got the curtains, they've got the they've got
Speaker 2: a little like automated robot that does the little hocket
Speaker 2: turning thing that opens the curtains. And seeing this is
Speaker 2: gonna be a weird like touch point. But seeing the
Speaker 2: fourth Hatchet film, which is called Victor Crowley with Adam
Speaker 2: Green there in Screenland Armor was a really fun night.
Speaker 2: I mean to have to have the filmmaker sitting there
Speaker 2: laughing along with his film, with the big audience. Everybody
Speaker 2: had sold it out, and it's a funny movie, like
Speaker 2: it's a comedy horror movie and people are into it,
Speaker 2: and then to have him do the Q and A
Speaker 2: after it was it was something that doesn't happen that
Speaker 2: often in Casey, so it was pretty special. Love to
Speaker 2: hear that craig'say. Shout out to the Straight Cat, another
Speaker 2: small Kansas City theater. That's great. There is so many
Speaker 2: different ways that you can look at this. Another thing
Speaker 2: that I could say is I got really lucky where
Speaker 2: I grew up in California. We lived about forty five
Speaker 2: minutes drive away from a place that had like one
Speaker 2: of the only D box theaters at the time, and
Speaker 2: I got to see way back in what was it
Speaker 2: twenty twelve that it came out. I got to see
Speaker 2: Cabin in the Woods in a D box eater and
Speaker 2: I had never done anything like that before, so having it.
Speaker 2: You know, the the opening shots where after they get
Speaker 2: out of the little factory they're in and they're introducing
Speaker 2: like the core four or five that you meet the teenagers,
Speaker 2: there's this one shot that's a crane shot. They go
Speaker 2: from the ground up to this apartment building and the
Speaker 2: chair felt like it was rising that entire time, and
Speaker 2: the chair is not moving really, It's like slight swivels
Speaker 2: and it's crazy that they can pull that off. I
Speaker 2: was really happy with it. It's not forty X where
Speaker 2: they're spraying water in your face and the wind and
Speaker 2: all that stuff. But we'll get into some more of those. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's talk about William Castle about how do you feel
Speaker 2: about him as a filmmaker. Oh.
Speaker 3: I love William Castle. I love you know, the entirety
Speaker 3: of not only is he he's sort of an unsung director.
Speaker 3: I mean, people love his work, but he's sort of
Speaker 3: unsung in the merit of his actual films are good,
Speaker 3: but because he's known as the master of the gimmick.
Speaker 3: But I love his uh gimmicks as well. In the
Speaker 3: combination of both of them clashing together is wonderment. He's
Speaker 3: definitely a director that I sort of flew over when
Speaker 3: I was younger, and he's one that I because I mean,
Speaker 3: obviously you're watching like Alverred Hitchcock movies stuff like that,
Speaker 3: and they're they're similar to a degree, but definitely William
Speaker 3: Castle's one that I came into knowing more of his
Speaker 3: persona later on, being more of a movie fan than
Speaker 3: just casual film watcher at a younger age and just
Speaker 3: his He's sort of like the P. T. Barnum there was,
Speaker 3: you know, Robert Ripley mentality, just sort of the the
Speaker 3: wonderments of how can he add an extra spark to
Speaker 3: the movie experience, And yeah, I have a blast every
Speaker 3: time one of his movies pops up.
Speaker 2: This is, uh, you know, one of those filmmakers that,
Speaker 2: like his legacy literally precedes him. He's one of those
Speaker 2: that you hear about how he did things and worked
Speaker 2: to literally sell his films. Yeah, oh yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: you could say huckster, but more of like just freaking
Speaker 2: passionate and fighting to do everything you possibly can to
Speaker 2: get eyes in front of them. And when you hear
Speaker 2: about things like the Tingler and all of the gimmicks
Speaker 2: that come with all of these, it is such a
Speaker 2: unique way to experience these and I would have loved
Speaker 2: to have been a part of someone e these screens.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah. Just the atmosphere of it, I mean,
Speaker 3: and it's just simple novelties and it just like I said,
Speaker 3: you know, going talking about like just farkens in the
Speaker 3: experience of just the golden you know, robes just separating
Speaker 3: like that. It's just the little element that make a difference,
Speaker 3: And so I just know that, you know, whyn Castle
Speaker 3: could just put something that's simple on the screen and
Speaker 3: now I'm gonna build them up. That he actually put
Speaker 3: out some really well movies without the gimmick, But he
Speaker 3: could just put something on the screen and then just
Speaker 3: the atmosphere that has created from the little novelty tricks
Speaker 3: that he does just just blows it through the roof.
Speaker 2: So yeah, he He's done so many different types of
Speaker 2: gimmicks that he was literally famous for them. And again
Speaker 2: not every film of his had them, so he was
Speaker 2: definitely a filmmaker outside of that as well. But it
Speaker 2: all comes down to, sorry if you heard that, we
Speaker 2: just had a thunderstorm start outside. Oh really loud. What
Speaker 2: this comes down to is the experience selling people on
Speaker 2: a reason to come to these and not I hate
Speaker 2: to use the word just, but like come to these
Speaker 2: without just experiencing a film to make it something. And
Speaker 2: you've got a unique background in that. What did you
Speaker 2: do with experiences in your prior jobs?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I mean, first of all, I was just
Speaker 3: a standard theater grunt working in a movie there that
Speaker 3: wasn't really necessarily experienced. But I worked in a movie theater.
Speaker 3: I knew there was actually the AMC Independence Commons twenty
Speaker 3: which is probably in your neck of the woods a
Speaker 3: little bit, so hopefully if that place is ste.
Speaker 2: Been there many times. That's where I watched Oppenheimer, and
Speaker 2: I try never go to that theater because it's awful.
Speaker 3: Oh geez, well, my day it was. It was decent,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I can't speak for it now.
Speaker 2: But no.
Speaker 3: After after working there, I definitely was given the opportunity
Speaker 3: to work with a lot of experience like retailers, but
Speaker 3: I worked for Mattel and Disney both and they definitely
Speaker 3: have a mentality where it's not directly the you're not
Speaker 3: at a store or you're not you know, just there
Speaker 3: doing a Monday thing. You're there and it's an event,
Speaker 3: and so that it's definitely something that I've tried to
Speaker 3: carry with me in mentality, and that's why I think
Speaker 3: like Castle films and just movie going experience has no
Speaker 3: carried with me as well. First of all, I worked
Speaker 3: with Mattel directly under the window of they had American
Speaker 3: girl dolls, which it was sort of a joke. I
Speaker 3: was sort of the dude in the devile store, but
Speaker 3: I was in logistics mainly, so I mean, I'm not
Speaker 3: out there coman dollar, but that was something they did,
Speaker 3: which you know, that's an event because some little girl
Speaker 3: would go into the store and it's not like, you know,
Speaker 3: you know, kudos to toys. R us were being cool
Speaker 3: because we love it for a nostalgis sense. But going
Speaker 3: to toys arrests and you know, here's the package, you
Speaker 3: go grab it, you go bring out here, you're in
Speaker 3: there and you're getting the full catered experience. It was
Speaker 3: almost like a theme park and in the middle of
Speaker 3: the you know, in Missouri, and this was actually in Kansas,
Speaker 3: but in the middle of the country where you know,
Speaker 3: you're separated from you know, all these major theme parks
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. We did our darness to make
Speaker 3: that the experience. So like with American Girl, I mainly
Speaker 3: did a lot of like training in the sense that
Speaker 3: there's a lot of historical characters and people wouldn't know
Speaker 3: to sell they would just sell standard dolls. And I
Speaker 3: actually went and researched the history of all these characters
Speaker 3: because they have a series of books, and I was
Speaker 3: applying like historical factors and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: I had like all these sales staff going out there
Speaker 3: and like teaching the children like this is the World
Speaker 3: War two doll and she's got a friend from the
Speaker 3: Blitzkrieg and all this stuff, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: it builds this entire world for the kid. And it
Speaker 3: made that much of a difference because the sales went
Speaker 3: through the roof, and then from there, you know, I
Speaker 3: was able to make like training material for the rest
Speaker 3: of the company. And you know, I wish that the
Speaker 3: American Girl franchise went a different route. I guess they're
Speaker 3: doing okay now, but a lot of those stores primarily closed.
Speaker 3: That's outside of my bubble. But from there I went
Speaker 3: and I worked at Disney, and Disney I did a
Speaker 3: lot of the same kind of things where I built
Speaker 3: an experience store from the ground up. And like I said,
Speaker 3: you know, you have your theme park in LA and
Speaker 3: you have your theme park in you know, Orlando, and
Speaker 3: you're in the middle of you know, the Kansas City
Speaker 3: metro area. They're two days drive in both directions. You
Speaker 3: better make sure that kid who walks into the door
Speaker 3: is going to Disneyland that day. And so it's just
Speaker 3: a wonderment of turning that into an event. I mean
Speaker 3: we we did rope drops when the store opened, and
Speaker 3: I mean you're in Oak Park Mall at eight o'clock
Speaker 3: on a Tuesday with just mall walkers walking around, and
Speaker 3: you know, and and we're like, the lights are off
Speaker 3: and here's like one kid, or or it's not even
Speaker 3: a kid. It might just be a mallwalker, you know,
Speaker 3: And you know we would I press a button and
Speaker 3: tinkerbells flying around the store at Tuesday morning at eight o'clock,
Speaker 3: you know. But you know, it's it's the little things
Speaker 3: like that. I could press buttons and make muppets up
Speaker 3: out of trees and it was a blast. But what
Speaker 3: what it goes to show is the mentality of you
Speaker 3: don't work directly in a store. You you work in
Speaker 3: an experience. And I think that ties in with Castle,
Speaker 3: uh for sure. And it also ties in with probably
Speaker 3: a mentality that a saturated the theater industry right now
Speaker 3: might need to look into to some degree, and that
Speaker 3: they are, they're they're looking into their avenues. But you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's all about bringing the experience back. And
Speaker 3: I guess the other thing I didn't really allude to
Speaker 3: is I built I was part of the team that
Speaker 3: built these stores from the ground up. Not only did
Speaker 3: I run some logistics for them, but I was able
Speaker 3: to see them being built. So it's sort of connected
Speaker 3: me with you know, I watched mattin AE as we
Speaker 3: talked about today, and it was really cool to see
Speaker 3: the scene with like, you know, John Goodman's character Woolsey,
Speaker 3: you know, putting the buzzers under the Seatson like that.
Speaker 3: So I got to see like sort of behind the
Speaker 3: scenes of how all that comes into effect. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's ultimately it boils down to, in my ramble here,
Speaker 3: recreation of the experience and how the experience turns something
Speaker 3: that is normal into something even so much more, and
Speaker 3: that's how to settle sum.
Speaker 2: There was a some sort of news article that came
Speaker 2: out recently that has revealed that some it's like the
Speaker 2: top eight movie theater chains or something like that in
Speaker 2: the US and Canada are investing a shit ton of
Speaker 2: money into adding not only like better seating and better
Speaker 2: audio and visual and all that stuff, but they're investing
Speaker 2: in pickleball courts. And it's this sort of thing that
Speaker 2: is super interesting but also weird, like people are not
Speaker 2: not going to the theater because you don't have pickleball courts. However,
Speaker 2: I could see I could see the appeal of like
Speaker 2: going somewhere and literally making a night out of it,
Speaker 2: being able to get your entire food, the alcohol, spend
Speaker 2: some outside activity, and then and the night with the
Speaker 2: you know, date night of the movie theater type of thing.
Speaker 2: But I I you know, when you're talking about the
Speaker 2: Disney store, I still remember as a child in nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety four going to the Disney store in southern California,
Speaker 2: and there's things to crawl through, There's stuff that like
Speaker 2: you would literally slide down off of one of the
Speaker 2: rocks and suddenly you're in a different part of the
Speaker 2: store looking at more products. And that experience lives with me.
Speaker 2: I still have that pure memory. I can smell it.
Speaker 2: That's that's how weird Disney stores are. Movie theaters need
Speaker 2: something like that. If we are in a part where
Speaker 2: everybody is failing. Yeah, everybody's questioning that. Let me let
Speaker 2: me pull up the link. The pickleball thing is very real.
Speaker 2: Oh god, this link is forever long. It two point
Speaker 2: two billion dollars to upgrade cinemas improof tech and add
Speaker 2: pickleball courts. I think I can post a link in
Speaker 2: the chat, open this in another tab and take a
Speaker 2: look at it. Yeah, they are literally adding pickleball. It
Speaker 2: is such an odd situation, Like, if you are somebody
Speaker 2: that runs a theater in twenty twenty four, the biggest
Speaker 2: enemy right now, and I know, I hope you agree
Speaker 2: because you used to work for them, is Disney. They
Speaker 2: require certain things to be in the theater for a
Speaker 2: certain amount of time, to play a certain number of
Speaker 2: times throughout the day, and it's squashing what some of
Speaker 2: these smaller theaters could do for events. I mean, so
Speaker 2: many of these theaters across the country don't ever have
Speaker 2: the opportunity to have REP screenings. And many of the
Speaker 2: smaller towns across the US has literally never had a
Speaker 2: REP screening because they're required to. If you're going to
Speaker 2: play newer films, you have to play them for a
Speaker 2: certain period of time. I mean, how do we get
Speaker 2: past this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Disney is a very interesting that they're I always
Speaker 3: say that they're obviously an experienced company first, film company second,
Speaker 3: and sometimes that's a good thing and sometimes that's a
Speaker 3: bad thing. It's a good thing in the sense that
Speaker 3: you're walking in the Disney store and they're making Disneyland
Speaker 3: for in the moment. It's a bad thing in the
Speaker 3: sense of evolving with the industry and also being a
Speaker 3: fair partner in the industry. And that's one of my
Speaker 3: biggest gripes with them is they're very much in the moment.
Speaker 3: They sort of have blind on to do their gain
Speaker 3: in the moment and then then whatever if they don't,
Speaker 3: if it's something that's not really helping them out in
Speaker 3: the moment, just throw it away versus I mean, they
Speaker 3: do have a sense of history in the sense of like,
Speaker 3: you know, stuff Walt Disney did and like the rides
Speaker 3: and things like that, but like, oh, take for example,
Speaker 3: they used to have a Blu ray line. I know
Speaker 3: this is getting away from the theater, but they used to
Speaker 3: have the Disney Classics Blu ray line of like all
Speaker 3: the stuff like you know, twenty thousand Leagues in the
Speaker 3: Sea and you know, you know, Apple Dumpling Gang, stuff
Speaker 3: like that, and that was only you could get that
Speaker 3: if you remember their club. But now it's like the
Speaker 3: club's gone, Like are you gonna get those titles? Who knows?
Speaker 3: You'd probably eBay them, but it's just what Disney is
Speaker 3: in a sense that they're just like, no, this is
Speaker 3: how we play ball. You're gonna work with us here.
Speaker 3: And they're very sided in the moment of what can
Speaker 3: they gain with the properties until it's expended. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: Disney is Disney. That's in a nutshell.
Speaker 2: Craig says in the chat, the studios killed theaters with
Speaker 2: their streaming quote strategy. Friends of mine say that they
Speaker 2: went regularly and now they go rarely. They always say
Speaker 2: I can just watch it at home, and that's true
Speaker 2: for a lot of titles. Yeah. I also think it's
Speaker 2: funny that they tried after COVID to go back to
Speaker 2: in a lot of these ads or trailers. Now we're
Speaker 2: seeing exclusively in theaters. But in all reality, if the
Speaker 2: film fails, like the Joker sequel, it's gonna be streaming
Speaker 2: like two weeks later. Yeah, you can't afford to not
Speaker 2: have it playing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And there's like there's limited risk if you don't
Speaker 3: miss it. You know, you hear word of mouth and
Speaker 3: people are like, oh, this movie stinks, and you're like,
Speaker 3: all right, well just get it on streaming. So there's
Speaker 3: there's no risk for the consumer, and you know, once again,
Speaker 3: it's all about in that moment to moment basis, you know,
Speaker 3: it's like whatever. But then in the grand scheme of things,
Speaker 3: all these are bubbling up, and you know, you had
Speaker 3: the situation of COVID, which you know, COVID is what
Speaker 3: COVID is. You know, it's something we couldn't avoid. But
Speaker 3: when you're sitting at home and then you're in your
Speaker 3: sweatpants and just lounging on the couch and doing your
Speaker 3: own thing, that became the experience. And now we have
Speaker 3: to break people out of the bubbles of the theaters,
Speaker 3: have to break people out of that bubble of what
Speaker 3: are they going to do to compete? Because before it
Speaker 3: was just the old standard of this is the only
Speaker 3: way you can watch it. And they're trying to do
Speaker 3: a little bit of that. You know, you advertise the
Speaker 3: big movies and say it's only gonna be in theaters now.
Speaker 3: But the system is now damaged to the point where
Speaker 3: people are preconditioned. It's like whatever. And then now you
Speaker 3: have these huge, massive hits that even if they were
Speaker 3: a film that wasn't the greatest, even if it was
Speaker 3: a flop, it would still make way more like Joker too, right,
Speaker 3: I haven't seen Joke or two. I'm I don't know
Speaker 3: if it's good or bad. You know, I'll eventually see it.
Speaker 3: But we live in a day and age where you know,
Speaker 3: Joker two would sell tons regardless of how well it
Speaker 3: was made. But now it's just that word of mouth
Speaker 3: just you know, sparked a flame and it just died
Speaker 3: on arriving, right, So how are we going to break that?
Speaker 3: And the theaters have to figure out something to spark that flame.
Speaker 2: Obviously we're not going to change anything. I'd love to
Speaker 2: hear if anybody yet has any ideas for these. Simnar
Speaker 2: wants to point out if you're if you're living near
Speaker 2: an AMC, just get a list. One Dolby show will
Speaker 2: already save you like four dollars. And it's true. I
Speaker 2: mean in some of the smaller towns it's not quite
Speaker 2: that expensive, but I know in my state, the A
Speaker 2: list is literally less than twenty dollars. It's nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 2: and to go to like a A anything after a
Speaker 2: five PM most of the film started like twenty one dollars.
Speaker 2: So getting a list, I'm all ready literally saving money
Speaker 2: if I only go once. But now I can go
Speaker 2: three times a week for the entire month. That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so I think they're definitely doing better about like, yeah,
Speaker 3: the prices individually are egregious, but that's inflation in general.
Speaker 3: But they're doing They're doing good with the package deals, yep.
Speaker 3: But they still have to find that middle ground of
Speaker 3: how can the package deal still compeat and streaming, you know,
Speaker 3: or something like that. And ultimately, you know, like I said,
Speaker 3: streaming is convenient in the moment, but we've gotten to
Speaker 3: a point where we're, you know, half a decade or
Speaker 3: more in and we've started to see the effects of
Speaker 3: it in that sense. And I'm not all against streaming.
Speaker 3: I've just seen that the natural causation of it is
Speaker 3: definitely evolving some things. And I also think outside of streaming,
Speaker 3: I think a saturation of so I mean, I could
Speaker 3: go to whole Disney dangent, you know, and we could
Speaker 3: get it to that later. But I think saturation of
Speaker 3: properties is another thing that has waned people down as well.
Speaker 3: That you know, I worked for Disney when they bought
Speaker 3: Star Wars and Marvel, and it was very exciting in
Speaker 3: the beginning, but then in typical Disney fashion. What they
Speaker 3: do is they find every single little character, even the
Speaker 3: ones that are in one scene that you and as
Speaker 3: an employee with the Disney company, you know all their
Speaker 3: character dames, like like all the random cars in the
Speaker 3: Cars movie that are in one scene in the background.
Speaker 3: You know that's Fred, you know, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 3: and you better sell twenty Fred Plushy's to a kid,
Speaker 3: right And so I knew as soon as like, that's
Speaker 3: what superheroes are going through right now. You know, Disney
Speaker 3: bought Marvel and they're making a movie out of every
Speaker 3: single little character that you know. I'm glad maybe the
Speaker 3: fandom of that one character is getting their movie, but
Speaker 3: it's also killed the market. It's not something special anymore.
Speaker 3: So that's another co existing.
Speaker 2: Tan Craig just said, Tuesday nights are only like six dollars.
Speaker 2: I just went and looked to book a seat at
Speaker 2: the am Seed that I normally go to to watch
Speaker 2: the new Vendom movie next Tuesday. It is fourteen dollars,
Speaker 2: and that is the discounted price. Normally it's about twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two discounted as fourteen dollars, which is a lot. Still,
Speaker 2: if you were to go and if suddenly, if you're
Speaker 2: taking a partner, which most people go at least two
Speaker 2: people to a theater, you're looking at twenty eight dollars
Speaker 2: plus tax and convenience fees. Doing that as a family,
Speaker 2: now you're talking about fifty six plus tax and countingience fees.
Speaker 3: I'm a family of five and when we go to
Speaker 3: the movie, it's usually all five of us, and it's
Speaker 3: we have to it has to be well worth our time.
Speaker 3: And so that's why it's like, all right, doing what
Speaker 3: I can to help the industry. But they got to
Speaker 3: have this spark again, you know, to make it magic.
Speaker 2: Terry says, uh A, listen unlimited. It's good for the consumer,
Speaker 2: but unless those consumers go to concessions, it doesn't help theaters,
Speaker 2: which is correct. You you absolutely should be doing that,
Speaker 2: not all every time, obviously don't, but at least somewhat
Speaker 2: helped them out a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the dollar General dollar box of candy that smuggled
Speaker 3: in your pants.
Speaker 2: Do you need to be a member to get the
Speaker 2: good deal? Craig I was signed in. That was the
Speaker 2: price as a signed in a list member that the
Speaker 2: it was showing thirteen ninety nine and then discounted thirteen
Speaker 2: ninety nine became zero.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I remember when I worked for AMC twenty and
Speaker 3: everybody loved My Big Fat Greek Wedding. And the reason
Speaker 3: why the theater the theaters loved big that movie is
Speaker 3: it ran for a year straight, and so at that point,
Speaker 3: that point the theater starts to get revenue from that movie,
Speaker 3: so they kept going the My Big Fat Wedding train
Speaker 3: for like, oh god, that thing was shown for like
Speaker 3: nine months straight. Yeah, it's whatever the window is. You know,
Speaker 3: there's a little bit right off the bat goes straight
Speaker 3: to the studio, but there is a window where if
Speaker 3: they keep it long enough, it's you know, it goes
Speaker 3: to them. But now it's like, I mean, we don't
Speaker 3: live in that world where there's no way a movie
Speaker 3: can go to the theater. And I don't know the
Speaker 3: logistics of like when they're doing like Classics Night and
Speaker 3: they're pulling et on thing, you know, how much of
Speaker 3: that is going to Universal and how much of that
Speaker 3: is going to the theater. I'm sure plenty of it's
Speaker 3: going back to Universal still, but I don't know the
Speaker 3: logistics of that. But yeah, it's it's a different world.
Speaker 2: Quite often we can. We can gauge some of this
Speaker 2: because one of the biggest holders of theatrical titles for
Speaker 2: especially the ones that we like, is AGFA. They actually
Speaker 2: control a lot of the theatrical screenings and most of
Speaker 2: the time their screenings only cost two hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: dollars for the theater. And so when you are showing
Speaker 2: a film like that and your theater holds I don't know,
Speaker 2: even seventy five people, if you're charging ten bucks a seat,
Speaker 2: which most theaters are charging around there, if not more, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're you're making a little bit of money at least.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. And so I mean, like I said, that's
Speaker 3: you know what a lot of people want to see. Again,
Speaker 3: if we're going back to the events, that's the step
Speaker 3: in the right direction, is you know, the standby classics
Speaker 3: to put on the screen. Yeah, we gotta we got
Speaker 3: a morph into having modern day films doing the same.
Speaker 3: But I whatever they need to figure out to do
Speaker 3: of having classics night, like like right now, my local
Speaker 3: chain is Harkens and they have a Classic Night. I
Speaker 3: think it's like on Wednesday or something like that, and
Speaker 3: they I don't think they advertise it that much. So
Speaker 3: I never go to it, but the tickets are fairly cheap,
Speaker 3: but I would love to see something old, you know,
Speaker 3: on the screen and all of it's gran during glory.
Speaker 3: But it's just sort of a moot point, And I
Speaker 3: understand that's the industry and they're filling stuff in. You know,
Speaker 3: they're gonna have twenty screens of Terrifire twelve, but you
Speaker 3: know it's they I don't know the logistics of how
Speaker 3: much they care from a corporate standpoint to pursue that stuff,
Speaker 3: but I mean there's a lot of Like the easiest
Speaker 3: one is probably like Rocky Horror, and you have the
Speaker 3: whole gimmick with the cast or with the audience dance
Speaker 3: into all the things. But I don't know how much
Speaker 3: revenue that would bring in.
Speaker 2: But then that's usually not like your Regals or AMC's,
Speaker 2: which are most popular across the US, because they literally
Speaker 2: can't because of the Disney requirements.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's your little independent one, which I forgot to
Speaker 3: shout out earlier because I know Phoenix. I said that
Speaker 3: it's growing in culture. I do have a friend that
Speaker 3: runs something called Cemetery, which is local here, and he's
Speaker 3: definitely doing a damn this to play some old classic
Speaker 3: horror movies. So I want to give him a shout out.
Speaker 2: Terry is correct here too. He says, as much as
Speaker 2: I love trailers, they really need to show less of them.
Speaker 2: People were burned out on them when I was still
Speaker 2: working in one, and I've noticed as the viewer it's
Speaker 2: gotten worse. I will say, Yeah, AMC is great for
Speaker 2: a list, but they are awful for fucking trailers. I
Speaker 2: didn't know how bad it was because we had not
Speaker 2: been going to an AMC. To get to my closest AMC,
Speaker 2: it's a good twenty ish minute drive, and so we
Speaker 2: didn't start doing that until we got a list like
Speaker 2: three months ago. But we went in there and I
Speaker 2: had heard that it had gotten worse. So I said,
Speaker 2: on the first time that we went, I want to
Speaker 2: test this. And our first showing was at one o'clock
Speaker 2: and they started showing the first trailer at twelve fifty nine,
Speaker 2: and the movie did not start until one twenty eight,
Speaker 2: twenty nine minutes of trailers and the Nicole kidmanad and
Speaker 2: Go Bye Snacks whatever it was, all of that stuff
Speaker 2: twenty nine minutes, Like it's already a two hour twenty
Speaker 2: minute movie for you to get another half hour on
Speaker 2: that is a damper to my day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, harkins. I mean they're okay with its a lot
Speaker 3: of local ads that they put on there as well,
Speaker 3: but yeah, for sure, if you're a time constraint, and
Speaker 3: now the interesting factor of your buying seats early, it's
Speaker 3: like purchasing seats on an airplane versus just you can't
Speaker 3: really go to a theater in the whim of it anymore, right,
Speaker 3: And so I just think that and then that's sort
Speaker 3: of what I used to do back in my you know,
Speaker 3: more aggressive movie watching days in the theater. As I
Speaker 3: just say, what are you gonna do right now? I
Speaker 3: don't know, go to the theater now it's just a
Speaker 3: whole structured ordeal and for you to pragmatically think, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is a two hour, fifteen minute movie and it
Speaker 3: turns into a three hour movie. It's like, yeah, totally
Speaker 3: changes things up.
Speaker 2: Craig says, I forget what I'm there to see by
Speaker 2: the time. Yeah, yeah, it's so true. I mean the
Speaker 2: hard part and uh, I think it was similar was
Speaker 2: just joking. I already know that, uh, Wolfman is the
Speaker 2: new Dammel this movie come out already, so I can
Speaker 2: stop seeing this trailer trailer. You know, there was the
Speaker 2: whole joke about Speak No Evil. This year, everybody that
Speaker 2: has gone to the theater even once every couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: you have seen that trailer this year probably forty times.
Speaker 2: And before that one, it was Shyamalan's Trap. It was
Speaker 2: just you see this thing over and over and over again,
Speaker 2: and it's crazy how much they throw it out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I get to the point where saturation and
Speaker 3: you have an audience that is like, well, if I
Speaker 3: missed it the first week that it's in theaters, it's
Speaker 3: just gonna be over on you know, eight on max
Speaker 3: in five seconds anyway, so I might as well just
Speaker 3: you know, hang out, you know, if I miss it.
Speaker 3: So it's it's almost like do you want you want
Speaker 3: to promote your films to get people hyped, but also
Speaker 3: at the same time, it's like do you want to
Speaker 3: overdo it where you kill the buzz and then people
Speaker 3: have easy options to just see it at their own
Speaker 3: leisure outside of it. So it's like.
Speaker 2: Some clarification from Craig. He just went on AMC and
Speaker 2: he says, when you go to check out, the price
Speaker 2: drops to seven dollars at checkout, So I guess I
Speaker 2: did not go one step. It said fourteen and maybe
Speaker 2: goes to seven after that. Still, it's only on Tuesday nights.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of parents that can't get out on
Speaker 2: Tuesday nights. Yeah, hard part. Patty Boy says, I like
Speaker 2: the trailers because I get my popcorn and soda and
Speaker 2: I have twenty minutes to settle in. I get that
Speaker 2: trailers are always too loud three times the movie itself. Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And unless streamers are giving theaters price breaks, I really
Speaker 2: don't understand commercials for prime movies or Hulu or tub
Speaker 2: That is a great question. Great question. So what's up
Speaker 2: with the experiences? Any ideas for people are what are
Speaker 2: theaters missing? What do you think we should have? What
Speaker 2: about you blake any ideas?
Speaker 3: Well? I mean I'm speaking for or I enjoy the
Speaker 3: films that are an event. I you know, it was
Speaker 3: really interesting seeing a release schedule of films this year
Speaker 3: and they're using old EPs, because that's sort of they're
Speaker 3: sort of a life support mode a lot of the
Speaker 3: theater industry and a lot of these these studios, they're
Speaker 3: like the only thing we can pump out, it's not
Speaker 3: worth I think part of them wants to pump out
Speaker 3: a fresh new idea, but the business logistics of it
Speaker 3: is not as safe, not safe ground, so they're gonna
Speaker 3: put out a lot of stuff like you know Twister two, right,
Speaker 3: for example. And I enjoyed that for what it was
Speaker 3: because I loved the first Twister growing up. I was
Speaker 3: at perfect age. I was like ten eleven twelve when
Speaker 3: it first came out, And so the second movie comes out,
Speaker 3: it pays respect to the first film, but it's very
Speaker 3: much its own film. And I think Twister two worked
Speaker 3: because it's a disaster film, so you can make an
Speaker 3: event out of it. But they're gonna get to a
Speaker 3: point where they're just oversaturating all these ips that they're
Speaker 3: starting to kill all the established love. It's like when
Speaker 3: you had the first three Star Wars movies and they're amazing,
Speaker 3: they're an event, and then you release three more and
Speaker 3: you're still cool with it. And then they released three
Speaker 3: more and you're like, okay, and now there's TV shows
Speaker 3: and there's a million things, and now Star Wars pales
Speaker 3: in comparison to what it once was, right, or the
Speaker 3: other thing. I guess a recent one before I end
Speaker 3: this tangent here is Beetlejuice. Right. I loved Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice
Speaker 3: too just came out. I enjoyed Beetlejuice two for what
Speaker 3: it was, but they tried to turn it into a
Speaker 3: ride with twenty billion different ideas all smashed into one movie.
Speaker 3: And it's almost like I couldn't breathe in the movie
Speaker 3: because I was like, I love this concept. I love
Speaker 3: this concept. You guys could have made two movies out
Speaker 3: of this one movie. I mean, heck, they have to
Speaker 3: make a movie called Beetlejuice, Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice anyway,
Speaker 3: out of irony of the series. You might as well
Speaker 3: save some of the ideas and do the other one.
Speaker 3: So that's the road that they should not go down.
Speaker 3: That I do see them going down. And so when
Speaker 3: it comes to events they need to do obviously. I
Speaker 3: like the idea of old disaster films is a safe bet.
Speaker 3: Make it a ride, scare the audience. That's why the
Speaker 3: whore is the old standby. I really wish I could
Speaker 3: see something in that forty X or D box, Like
Speaker 3: I said, Phoenix is a growing city, and eventually they'll
Speaker 3: get one because they're big enough to get one. But
Speaker 3: I would love to like ride Twister too, you know,
Speaker 3: in that thing or the original Twister. You know, release
Speaker 3: some of the old films and then do the same
Speaker 3: kind of effects with that. The old standby is that
Speaker 3: people clamor for and have a huge nostalgia, build and
Speaker 3: work with some special effects person to not add to it.
Speaker 3: We're not talking about George Lucas cgi Jabba the Hut here,
Speaker 3: but like add effects to it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I just got back from Disneyland a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 3: and they had a simple little three D movie in
Speaker 3: that and there's little stuff lying at your face, and
Speaker 3: it's just the little novelties of it all that I
Speaker 3: think is the first building block that's on that standpoint.
Speaker 3: I do think that we also have to have normalcy
Speaker 3: to get back into dramas and comedies, and those really
Speaker 3: aren't your gimmick films. It's just an It's an interesting landscape,
Speaker 3: and I think that there's some hurdles to get through,
Speaker 3: but I think in retrospect, I think we have to
Speaker 3: go through growing pains and we'll get there. I think
Speaker 3: this is going to be known as like the big
Speaker 3: business era when you're looking at film eras, and I
Speaker 3: think conten years time, we'll have some crazy film movement
Speaker 3: that it'll have its own pros and cons, but it'll
Speaker 3: be interesting to look back at this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the whole forty X thing, this is one thing
Speaker 2: I was thinking about before. Like I again, I mentioned
Speaker 2: earlier the d box thing. When I was in California, California,
Speaker 2: I had to drive forty five minutes to get to
Speaker 2: a box theater and I think it's the only one
Speaker 2: that was there. I mean this was thirteen years ago
Speaker 2: or whatever. But imagine if you lived in a smaller
Speaker 2: town and you took a fairly small footprint on you know,
Speaker 2: main Street, USA wherever, and just make a little two
Speaker 2: theater for d X or d box place that can
Speaker 2: show catalog titles and not live on new titles, so
Speaker 2: you don't have the desire to compete with Disney. You
Speaker 2: can play Cabin in the Woods the entire month of October. Yeah, come,
Speaker 2: come spend twelve bucks and watch Cabin in the Woods
Speaker 2: and d box and buy our you know, festival apple
Speaker 2: cinnamon beer or whatever we're doing it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's not hard because we're talking about
Speaker 3: you know, William Castle here, he's pulling all these gimmicks
Speaker 3: in the nineteen fifties, right, and so you know, I
Speaker 3: don't know like the safety of it all, you know,
Speaker 3: the wiring under the seats, but you know, that's been
Speaker 3: fifty years plus, and so I'm sure that there's gonna
Speaker 3: be There's been some novelties, but that's what they got
Speaker 3: to break through the barrier of. And I think, yes,
Speaker 3: there's an industry standard where we got to fix the
Speaker 3: new movies that come out. But then alsto, I think
Speaker 3: there's just a reliable source of old movies that you know,
Speaker 3: especially like you said, small town, USA, or you know,
Speaker 3: just moderate you know, any moderate metropolitan area place that
Speaker 3: has you know, plenty of population. Just show some of
Speaker 3: those classics, but don't rely on like six dollars Classic Knight.
Speaker 3: Just come see the movie and just whatever zone out
Speaker 3: build it as you know, you could turn it from
Speaker 3: six dollars Classic Night to ten fifteen dollars Classic Night
Speaker 3: if it's gonna be a crazy you know, shake you
Speaker 3: around a little bit, whatever novelty it is, you know,
Speaker 3: And I think that is gonna be something that starts
Speaker 3: to get people in more and more, and then you know,
Speaker 3: you can make new films that sort of branch off
Speaker 3: of like, hey, you enjoyed this experience that because word
Speaker 3: of mouth catches on right, and so like, hey, you
Speaker 3: enjoyed the re insurgence of you know whatever movie that
Speaker 3: hit a spark again, you know that news is gonna
Speaker 3: travel and then somebody's gonna make a movie that plays
Speaker 3: on that gimmick, but it'll be a new movie. And
Speaker 3: then hair, you got a fresh new genre. And I
Speaker 3: mean the problem is, yes, things can get over saturated eventually,
Speaker 3: but you know, we're jumping forward into something.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I think that's where the terrifier sort of comes in
Speaker 3: because I'll applaud terrifier for what it's doing in its
Speaker 3: own little rights. It's building upon its gimmick. Yes, it's
Speaker 3: it's a chore for some people, and some people really
Speaker 3: love it. But you have to really sit there and say,
Speaker 3: you know, terrifiers doing its thing, and it is. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's horror, so yes that's the most accessible thing. But yeah,
Speaker 3: make people put their phones away, but yeah, it's it's
Speaker 3: one of those things.
Speaker 2: Fully agree with zimmin Er, who is saying, here's a
Speaker 2: nifty gimmick, make people put their phones away. I used
Speaker 2: to have an Alamo draft house here in Kansas City.
Speaker 2: They well, they close down momentarily, and then B and
Speaker 2: B theaters bought them and they're using it now. But
Speaker 2: I only went to that Alamo because of the whole
Speaker 2: no phone requirement and no talking during it or will
Speaker 2: literally kick you out. I really wish most theaters would
Speaker 2: do that. And if you stick to that, it literally
Speaker 2: becomes an experience because you're enveloped by the film. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the amount of times I've seen people texting on their
Speaker 2: watch and peaking at the time during like dark scenes,
Speaker 2: you know, a horror movie is so goddamn annoying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's the evolution of human attention, which
Speaker 3: has not helped any of this whatsoever. And so yeah,
Speaker 3: I've definitely seen my fair share of people just pull
Speaker 3: it up their phone. And I think I've seen only
Speaker 3: a movie theater employee like once or twice until somebody
Speaker 3: turn it off. But I have definitely every big movie
Speaker 3: I go to, there's somebody sitting there like just playing
Speaker 3: something on their phone. It's sort of the population we've become.
Speaker 3: They should just put a big thing on the theater
Speaker 3: to the screen that says if you pull up your phone,
Speaker 3: we will confiscate it or something like some scare tactic.
Speaker 3: I don't know. They probably can't so they can't liability.
Speaker 3: But you know, do some scare tactic and there will
Speaker 3: be at least you know, sixty percent of the audience
Speaker 3: they'll buy it. Even though if they can do.
Speaker 2: It, I mean, you have the right to refuse service.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly if.
Speaker 2: They're ruining it for other people, even if you got
Speaker 2: a refund them, get out, Like I'd rather have everybody
Speaker 2: else happy and have you out of the.
Speaker 3: Room exactly exactly. And that's I it needs to be
Speaker 3: the undivided attention. Again. I think that's a big chunk
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 2: Craig says, most people in LA a pretty good theater etiquette.
Speaker 2: That is very lucky. But similar says, block the cell
Speaker 2: signal from getting inside the theater. I mean that's a
Speaker 2: good start. Make them all afferretag.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
Speaker 2: That's probably not enough. People are still gonna check the
Speaker 2: time and shit, yeah, that light, that light is so blinding.
Speaker 2: If like somebody is driving at night and there's no
Speaker 2: lights on the screen, and suddenly somebody's like, oh, it's
Speaker 2: seven thirty four. I got it.
Speaker 3: People just don't care anymore. It's just in cell phone
Speaker 3: so ingrained in that. I mean, they say, I won't
Speaker 3: go on on tangent they're driving, but you know, people
Speaker 3: see daily layers just driving two miles an hour down
Speaker 3: the road because they're texting while they're It's the same thing.
Speaker 3: It's just it's just cell phones are so ingrained that
Speaker 3: it's it's gotta be just a hard stop.
Speaker 2: So I complete tangent. I guess I'm enraged by how
Speaker 2: many people I've seen watching TikTok while driving. What the hell?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm definitely in the phase where one other
Speaker 3: random job I used to and we won't take a
Speaker 3: tangent on this whole thing, but I used to investigate
Speaker 3: automobile accidents. Awesome, So texting and driving is a big
Speaker 3: thing with me that I a. But yeah, I'm definitely
Speaker 3: in the mode now where I'm in the car pickup line,
Speaker 3: dropping off my kids, picking them up all the time.
Speaker 3: And I can't tell you how many people are just
Speaker 3: going slower than dirt because they're just texting and looking
Speaker 3: at it all that that's a mess. So yeah, we
Speaker 3: just need to get rid of cell phone and then
Speaker 3: the theater industry will be booming again. It's all cell
Speaker 3: phone's gone. Let's just go back to them. There's the
Speaker 3: cept phone, Motoro and Snake and yeah, yeah, none of it.
Speaker 2: Well, in two hours, in one of our shortest episodes,
Speaker 2: we have solved the theater experience. Just get rid of
Speaker 2: cell phones. Yeah, thanks, thanks for coming on, Blake. This
Speaker 2: has been Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, I'm glad to be in here.
Speaker 2: Have fun again shouting out some things for Blake. Everybody
Speaker 2: needs to pick up River. This is the first grave
Speaker 2: Face title that was released. Incredible art. If you've never
Speaker 2: looked close, the back of this release is gorgeous, Like
Speaker 2: both sides are great, but man, this is especially if
Speaker 2: you've seen the film. This is a really great picture.
Speaker 2: Incredible that you were on the first release. Other than that,
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
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