WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:31.760 We can kill it. Shouted it out there? What hell 2 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:32.159 are you? 3 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:42.479 Welcome back to midnight viewing. More specifically, we're talking yaucha fest. 4 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:46.200 I heard an interview with Dan Trackckenberg recently, and evidently 5 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:49.200 I've been saying it wrong this entire time. What a crime? 6 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:52.399 HB, yao sa yalloa is a yaucha? 7 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:54.759 Get the fuck out of here with that nonsense. I 8 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:59.840 wait about this time for that. All right, ladies and gentlemen, 9 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:04.359 kids and germs and smith mars. This is the one. 10 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:06.680 Oh no, we did pray. This is the stopgap. This 11 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:10.879 was a surprise. This was a secret project. Evidently nobody 12 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:12.640 knew about it while they were doing it. They were 13 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:15.760 doing it in conjunction or at the same time as 14 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:16.879 Predator bad Lands. 15 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:21.120 All Right, Dan Tracktenburg is full of surprises, as will 16 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:23.519 be this discussion. I think you'll find father alone. This 17 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.920 discussion on killer of Killers will be full of surprises 18 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:27.400 as well. 19 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:30.760 Okay, that means that HB didn't like it, evidently, so 20 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:33.439 let's find out why. First of all, here's the trailer. 21 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:23.159 You are old enough. Now it's time I tell you 22 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:48.520 about the monster. We must kill it or it will 23 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:49.120 kill us. 24 00:02:49.199 --> 00:03:28.120 Old editor and Killer of Killers, released on June sixth, 25 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:32.879 twenty five, on streaming only. This is a Hulu jam. 26 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:37.879 It is directed by Dan Tracktonberg, screenplay by Mishow Robert Rutari, 27 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:41.400 Story by Dan Tracktonberg and Me Show Robert Routari, based 28 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:44.719 on characters by Who Say It with Me? Everybody? Jim 29 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:50.719 and John Thomas. And this one stars Lindsay Lavanchi, Louis Ozawa, 30 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:55.759 Rick Gonzalez, and Michael B. HB. What did you say this? 31 00:03:55.960 --> 00:03:56.919 What does you think of this one? 32 00:03:56.919 --> 00:03:57.000 No? 33 00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:59.280 Actually, no, I'm going to take that back. Let me 34 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:02.599 just say it is rare in the midst of a 35 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:07.159 franchise to receive the gift of an anthology. We hear 36 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:11.120 at midnight viewing specialize in anthologies. So what a welcome 37 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:14.719 fucking dessert this was for me. I love short fiction. 38 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:17.639 I love slices of fiction. Now, HP, did you know 39 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:20.519 that part of the inspiration for this film a side 40 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:22.720 of Dan Tracktenberg saying a pulp fiction is also an 41 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:25.920 anthology because most people think of horror anthologies when they 42 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:28.240 think of anthologies at all. But do you know that 43 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:31.319 part of the inspiration for this film was best in show. 44 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:34.759 That I did not know, and I'm searching trying to 45 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:37.480 find the Is it just because of the fact that 46 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:42.480 you're dealing with five or six different groups of dog competitors? 47 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:45.040 Is at the tie in that's part of it? Okay? 48 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:47.600 What's the formal connection between the two? 49 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:51.639 You meet each of those characters individually, you fall in 50 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:54.680 love with them and their own particular stories, and then 51 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:56.720 you have to watch them battle at the end. 52 00:04:57.199 --> 00:04:58.600 Ah. Interesting. 53 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:01.639 Now can I up for one minute before we get 54 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:04.839 into this. I just I feel the need to bring 55 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:06.920 this up now. I didn't want to imply that I 56 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:10.480 did not like this. I'm maybe I'm spoiling the discussion 57 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:12.120 a little bit, but it's not that I did not 58 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:12.839 like it. 59 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:15.000 It's just we'll get into it. 60 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:18.600 But just understand, first of all, I love the fact 61 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:22.639 that this was a surprise that was sprung on people. 62 00:05:22.399 --> 00:05:23.560 Without any real notice. 63 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:26.360 It was like getting a present on when it's not Christmas. 64 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:27.800 It reminded me. 65 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:32.600 It reminded me a little bit of when musicians sometimes 66 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:37.160 have a surprise album drop. Bowie did this with the 67 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:39.000 next day. I remember it was a big deal to 68 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:41.120 me because it came out of nowhere. He hadn't recorded 69 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:43.399 in forever, and there we had this gift of an 70 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:45.879 album kind of out of the blue. So I really 71 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:49.079 I love the fact that trackten Berger. It makes me 72 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:55.000 feel like he values the fans and loves that shock, 73 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:59.360 surprise and appreciation of something that kind of out of 74 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:01.680 It's not like he had to do it. 75 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:01.920 He did. 76 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:04.920 He wasn't under any obligation to give us these the 77 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:09.240 gift of this movie or this animated collection of shorts. 78 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:12.600 But so all due respect to Trachtenberg, I love the 79 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:15.279 fact that we were gifted this essentially. 80 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:17.560 But let's dig into it a little bit. 81 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:20.240 And I'll go into some of my the pros and cons, 82 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:21.839 my likes and dislikes of this. 83 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:24.319 Too late. You didn't like get the atracted Mercades. 84 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:27.279 Yeah, I hope not, because I respect the hell out 85 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:29.000 of him. I love I love what he's done with 86 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:31.160 the franchise. But let's dig into this a little bit. 87 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:35.399 Let us do that three stories technically four, because there 88 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:37.639 is a wrap up, a wrap around, if you will 89 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:39.279 take us there HB. 90 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:44.959 Broad Strokes. The first episode takes place in its Viking times. 91 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:48.879 It's called The Shield, and it involves a. 92 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:50.800 This is the oldest one, This is the oldest story. 93 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:52.959 This takes place in eight forty one ad. 94 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:56.079 Ah okay I must not have written down the year. 95 00:06:57.000 --> 00:06:59.160 So this is the story of a shield. 96 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:04.120 Maiden in Viking times who is obsessed with vengeance. She's 97 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:07.800 trying to she wants to kill the feudal lord or 98 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:11.360 what have you who murdered her, actually forced her to 99 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:15.399 murder her own father. And she's taking among the people 100 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:18.319 she takes with her as her son, and they have 101 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:22.199 this final assault on his palace, if you will. And 102 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:25.759 of course who has to come and crash the party 103 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:28.120 but our friend the Yaucha. 104 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:29.879 So that's story one. 105 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:33.439 Story two is a little further into the future. It 106 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:37.199 takes place in sixteen oh nine feudal Japan. This, by 107 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:40.199 the way, spoiler alert, this was my favorite of the 108 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:41.160 stories that we get. 109 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:42.680 This one was called The Sword. 110 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:47.120 This is about two brothers who are supposed to fight 111 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:49.879 to decide who gets to carry on the samurai tradition 112 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:53.160 of their father. One of them runs away in disgrace 113 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:58.959 and becomes essentially a ronin, and they eventually the father dies. 114 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:02.199 Excuse me, sir, he did not become a robin Ronan. 115 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:06.160 He became a shinobi, a Ronan is a disgraced samurai. 116 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:07.439 He becomes a ninja. 117 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:09.480 That's fine, I stand corrected. 118 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:13.319 This is the classic tale of samurai versus ninja. 119 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:17.079 Yes versus and again it's they're having this showdown, the 120 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:20.839 father has died. They're having this showdown, and who crashes 121 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:26.560 the party? Our friend, the Yaucha. The third tale is 122 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:30.160 called I have it here. It's called The Bullet It 123 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.759 takes place in nineteen forty one. It's the story of 124 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:36.919 a young man who dreams of becoming a pilot. 125 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:37.799 One day he is. 126 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.039 He eventually joins the war effort. In nineteen forty two, 127 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:47.080 there's an air battle. Once again, our friends the crashed 128 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.279 the party, as it were, I already said that before. 129 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:51.000 I used that metaphor twice. 130 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:56.039 Thank you. And this young man what's his name, Gonzalez? 131 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:57.919 I think his name is Torres. 132 00:08:57.720 --> 00:08:59.799 Sorry Tores played by Rick Gonzalez. 133 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:02.000 Yeah, that's where the mix up was. 134 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:07.320 Torres musters the courage to try and take out the Yaucha. 135 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:11.360 And then the fourth technically the fourth and final entry 136 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:15.240 in this anthology is spoiler alert. All of the main 137 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:19.399 characters of the preceding three stories beat the predators. They 138 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:23.679 effectively kill the Predators. The fourth story is they've all 139 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:28.320 been brought together to the Yaucha home planet to juke 140 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:31.600 it out in gladiatorial combat to decide who is wait 141 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:33.360 for it, the Killer of Killers. 142 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:35.600 Yeah, that last story is called the Battle. 143 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:37.879 By the way, The Battle, Oh sorry I left that out. 144 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:42.600 Let's Dig into the Shield my favorite story. In fact, 145 00:09:42.679 --> 00:09:45.600 I wish these stories had been played in reverse order. 146 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.399 I wish we had started with the Bullet and then 147 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:50.159 gone back further and further in time. 148 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:55.240 It would have been an interesting choice. I so I 149 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:57.679 said that the the one that in Japan that the 150 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:01.840 Sword was my favorite. This one was a very close second. 151 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:02.600 I really like this. 152 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:06.320 This is a very solid introduction to the world and 153 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:09.000 the sort of look of this because it is animated, 154 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:12.559 but it's not animated in a traditional sense. It almost 155 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:16.039 looks and I think the team that animated this, they're 156 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:19.799 known primarily as a Previz team, and that's the vibe 157 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:22.919 I get from this. It's both kind of a strength 158 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:25.399 and a weakness of this, because if you don't like 159 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:30.279 the look of this animation, you're predisposed to not really 160 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:31.799 enjoying the experience. 161 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:35.159 I think that's the thing about every animation, honestly, And 162 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:37.519 the further and further the older and older I get, 163 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:40.080 the more and more I find that I either respond 164 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:43.080 to the character design or I don't, and no amount 165 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:47.039 of oh wow, that school wizbang whatever is going to 166 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:50.240 change that or make me enjoy that thing. Luckily, these 167 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:52.399 look like watercolor paintings come to life. 168 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:53.840 Yeah, they're very cool. 169 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:57.159 They have a three dimensionality to them, which I think 170 00:10:57.240 --> 00:11:00.720 is appealing. And it's animated very well. I like you, 171 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:04.759 I really enjoyed it. I thought it's probably a less 172 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:08.399 expensive way of producing the animation because it's not as 173 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:12.679 smooth or as detailed as other animation that I've seen. 174 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:14.240 But this worked very well, I think. 175 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:16.440 Yeah, And this is a story I like the most 176 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:20.120 basically because it's it goes everywhere I want a story 177 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:24.399 to go. It has breathless action, it has fantastic action 178 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:27.000 as a matter of fact, and it has crazy emotion 179 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:30.840 and it leaves you devastated at the end, and that's 180 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:33.679 what I'm looking for. And no Predator movie to this 181 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.440 point has left me feeling that way at the end, bereft, 182 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:40.480 even Predators where they're trapped on that planet. Because I 183 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:43.399 didn't give a shit about those characters. This story is 184 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.120 twenty two minutes maybe in length, and by the end 185 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:49.120 I was absolutely shredded for Ursa. 186 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.120 It's a powerful story and it's well told, and I 187 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.840 think what you hit upon is one thing that we 188 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:58.759 talked about in the context of Prey the last episode, 189 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:02.879 which is pro was we basically agreed that Pray you 190 00:12:02.919 --> 00:12:06.480 could have taken the Yaucha out of it entirely, and 191 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:07.879 it could have been. It would have been a very 192 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:12.240 compelling story of this Native American tribe and the struggles 193 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:15.360 of Naturu and how she was going to navigate the culture. 194 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:20.000 The best stories in this anthology, in my opinion, follow 195 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:23.480 a similar dynamic. So this one the story of the 196 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:27.120 shield Maid and looking for vengeance against her her hated 197 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:31.960 this person that destroyed her world essentially and made it. 198 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:34.000 So that she says she feels that there's. 199 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:37.000 A monster inside of her that cannot be it can't 200 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:40.200 be slaked until she kills this person. That's a very 201 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:45.399 compelling story without the other worldly dealings with the predator. 202 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:48.200 Same thing when we get to the Sword, it's the 203 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:51.679 same deal. We really care about these characters, and it's 204 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:56.000 such a compelling tale that they tell that with or 205 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:58.559 without the Yaucha, it's still going to be a cool 206 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:02.080 story that they're telling. That to me is what marks 207 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:05.440 the best of these anthology pieces is and The Shield 208 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:06.399 is a good example of that. 209 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:09.600 I've been in the anthology trenches for years now, and 210 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:14.039 I can say with authority that the greatest thing an 211 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:18.759 anthology story can be is economical with its time. And 212 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:22.639 each of these is incredibly economical their fleet to foot, 213 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:26.519 considering how much shoe leather they're laying out here. And 214 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:28.840 I agree with you, the best predator stories are the 215 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:30.919 ones that could exist without the predator, that could just 216 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:33.840 be whatever the threat happens to be. At the end 217 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:36.879 of the Shield, the predator character might as well have 218 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:40.759 been the Zorn character, which is the be evil warlord 219 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:43.440 that she's come to kill. She dispatches them, or rather 220 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:46.879 her son dispatches him pretty quickly, but and then she 221 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:49.960 has to fight the predator, so that easily just could 222 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:52.600 have been swapped out in her fight Zarren and then 223 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:56.679 come with the same outcome. However, what they do here 224 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:00.840 by aditing the predator is they do something really which 225 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:04.039 is they tell us once again the story of Baio Wolf, 226 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:08.840 where they've come to this king's grand hall and they're 227 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:11.559 in there, all these warriors, and then this monster of 228 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:14.320 Grendel shows up, and the fact they call him Grendel 229 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:18.039 as soon as he does, and that to me was 230 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:22.799 fan fucking tasting, a real world sci fi reasoning for 231 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:25.399 the Beowulf tale to have been told in the first place. 232 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:27.480 I thought that was really cool too, that because that's 233 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:30.679 the only frame of reference these characters have back then, 234 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:33.919 is this mythology of this great monster that's come to 235 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:36.879 do battle with them. Of course they would lean on 236 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:39.840 their own mythology to make sense of what's happening around them. 237 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:42.559 The other kind of cool thing that they introduce in this, 238 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:46.000 and we've seen this in the other Predator movies especially, 239 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.919 is that each Predator, each Yaucha, has some kind of 240 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:55.480 unique style or weaponry that kind of distinguishes them from 241 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:57.960 any of the other yaucher that we've seen. 242 00:14:58.000 --> 00:14:59.799 We saw this in every one of the movies. 243 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:03.519 This has one of those kind of cool weapons. He 244 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:09.480 has what's essentially like a sonic spring. He's missing a hand, 245 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:13.639 this yaucha, and in its place, it's this spring loaded 246 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:17.039 device that when it's fired, it shoots like a wave 247 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:21.720 of sound energy and knocks down people, can break things. 248 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:25.759 I love the technology. Every little morsel of technology that 249 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:29.240 they introduce with the Yaucha, I think is always really special. 250 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:32.919 Absolutely, when Pray we discovered that they hadn't at that 251 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:36.159 time come up with energy based weapons. They were still 252 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:39.480 using projectiles. So this is even further back. This is 253 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:42.639 like a thousand years before that movie. It only makes 254 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:46.320 sense that it's going to be more physical and less 255 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:51.320 sort of sci fi energy based phasers or something. And 256 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:54.600 if so, that makes it almost steampunk because he has 257 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:56.919 to lock it into place to get it to work 258 00:15:57.039 --> 00:16:00.360 every time, basically like Prime the Pump not only like 259 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:03.559 the cool, steampunky version of a Predator weapon, but it 260 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:07.120 does continue the care with which Tracktenberger's treating all of 261 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:09.480 this because, as he said, each of them has their 262 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:12.639 own specialized weapon, and he knows that as fans, we 263 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:15.559 like that shit. We want new stuff and we want 264 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:17.240 it to be super cool, and all the weapons are 265 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:20.679 super cool, and this one in particular more than the 266 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:22.879 other stories. And maybe the reason I like it the 267 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:26.600 most is that's that Predator's ace in the hole. That's 268 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:28.960 what he thinks and probably has gotten him out of 269 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:31.919 every scrape he's ever been into or ever been in, 270 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:35.600 and it's the thing that effectively kills him here at 271 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:39.600 the end. I love the ending and using the shield 272 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:43.240 and that knocks her back and knocks him into the 273 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:47.399 fucking anchor, and ah, I don't know, loved it, loved it. 274 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:50.879 That's key to all of these stories is the combatant, 275 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:55.360 the human going up against the predator always figures out 276 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:58.840 how what's the secret to beating it? What's that thing 277 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:01.200 that makes the vulnerable. 278 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:02.879 Or how do they use their weaponry against them? 279 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:05.160 I think that's the thing that kind of binds them 280 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:08.519 all together, all of these winners in the predator battles, 281 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:12.240 they all have the ability to figure out what's happening, 282 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:15.200 quickly process that information and figure out a way to 283 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:16.839 use it back against the predator. 284 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:21.039 And they don't. Really. Half of every Predator movie till 285 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:25.960 now is them figuring out those things. Oh, it can't 286 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:30.519 see Cole. Like here, she's under a fucking ice flow, 287 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.000 She's beneath a frozen lake and it can't see her. 288 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:36.039 Does that matter to her? No, She's just trying to breathe. 289 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:38.759 We as the audience already know. So I'm glad he's 290 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:41.759 working his way towards that where we don't have to 291 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:44.240 be introduced to the rules of the predator every single 292 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:47.599 fucking time. How many times can we watch fucking Bruce 293 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:49.839 Wayne crying over his parents' corpse. 294 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:53.799 And that's the thing about this that I appreciate is 295 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:56.680 he's clear he's doing this. Trackenberg is doing this. He's 296 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:00.880 produced this for the fans. And that's the earest indication 297 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:04.240 that you just described, which is he doesn't have to 298 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:07.079 sit there and give you the rundown on the Yaucha 299 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:10.599 and their existence and their history and how they work 300 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:13.119 and their code of ethics and honor. 301 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:14.000 We all know that. 302 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:18.640 So clearly this was executed in such a way that 303 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:21.920 fans are going to have a field, have a lot 304 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:24.039 of fun with this, and not have to be spoon 305 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:26.440 fed the origin and how this all works. 306 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:27.319 It's all. 307 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:30.319 The word you used was like economical. This is so 308 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:35.119 streamlined and efficient storytelling. It's really that part of its 309 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:37.400 I think very effective. 310 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:41.200 I think it's not only excellent service for the fans 311 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:43.519 because it's not insulting to us and it came out 312 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:45.559 of nowhere and we love this and we want more 313 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:49.920 of it. But it allows him to expand his universe 314 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:54.400 exponentially and very simply the fact that this entire movie 315 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:58.759 starts with a quote from the Yaucha codex, go forth 316 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:02.599 among the stars and seek only the strongest prey. They 317 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:07.000 shall be your trophy. Become the killer of killers. That's 318 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:09.880 from them, and this is the first sort of text 319 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:13.279 we've received from the Yaucha. Apparently there is a law book, 320 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:14.759 and that's one of them. 321 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:18.680 The more and more he expands the universe, so the 322 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:21.079 cooler it is, and we see a lot of that 323 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:24.200 come the end of this movie. But for me, it's 324 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:29.119 also very chilling. And there's something very disturbing about one 325 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:32.799 aspect of the basically the third going into the fourth 326 00:19:32.839 --> 00:19:36.119 story that we'll talk about. But the bottom line is 327 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:41.680 Tracktenberg and his team of writers and everyone else, they're 328 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:45.279 just so smart at expanding this universe in such a 329 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.079 logical way and making it. I'm not sure they would 330 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:52.720 ever dreamed of where the Yaucher is now when the 331 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:56.960 first Predator was made back in eighty six, some forty 332 00:19:57.079 --> 00:20:00.640 years ago. It's pretty remarkable what we we have now 333 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:03.400 versus what was originally given to us back then. 334 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:07.359 Yeah, and you know, what like, finally somebody fucking innovating, 335 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:11.599 because what we had thirty years in between Predator and 336 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:16.599 Predators and they just told the same fucking movie. Pretty much, 337 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:19.039 Let's go back to the jungle with a bunch of soldiers. Okay, 338 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:22.880 let's do it. Hey gives the show we got dogs now, Okay, great. 339 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:25.319 I know I liked that movie more than I'm letting on, 340 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:28.079 but give me a break already. Anyway, let's move on 341 00:20:28.119 --> 00:20:29.880 to the next story. By the way, I listened to 342 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:32.519 and ran a bunch of interviews with Tracktenberg about this film, 343 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:36.319 and as if my admiration wasn't high enough, he gives 344 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:41.480 credit like it's fucking Halloween candy. He like everyone who 345 00:20:41.559 --> 00:20:44.599 points out something that was cool that came from another 346 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:48.119 person's idea, he points that person out immediately, And I 347 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:48.799 admire that. 348 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:52.759 I love humility. I love somebody who gives credit where 349 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:53.480 credit is due. 350 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:54.960 Makes me like him even more. 351 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:57.440 All right, Take us to the Take us to the 352 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:03.319 Sword sixty oh nine Feudal Japan. Beautiful chakrahachi flutes playing. 353 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:05.720 I would like to mention the score. By the way, 354 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:09.279 Benjamin Wallfish did the score. He's a very prolific film 355 00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:11.559 composer and television composer. As a matter of fact, I 356 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:13.880 listened to this entire soundtrack they're getting Dan today. It is. 357 00:21:14.599 --> 00:21:20.079 It's remarkably good and only occasionally plays on the dundadum 358 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:22.359 that has to be in every Predator thing. But he 359 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:24.440 works it in so well that I just fucking love 360 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:26.200 it anyway, the sort what else? 361 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:28.440 What else has he done soundtracks for? 362 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:32.839 Most recently, he did the soundtrack to it. He was 363 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:36.640 the co author of the Blade Runner twenty forty nine soundtrack. 364 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:41.119 He did, He did Shazam. He did hell Boy, that's 365 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:43.359 the bad hell Boy with David Harber, not. 366 00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:45.640 The Oh yeah, the most recent. Yeah. 367 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:47.960 He's also Leewan El's go to guy. So he did 368 00:21:47.960 --> 00:21:51.079 the Invisible Man and Wolfman. He did that last Mortal 369 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:54.240 Kombat movie. He's doing the new Mortal Kombat movie. Oh, 370 00:21:54.279 --> 00:21:57.920 he did the Flash for Andy Mashetti. He did Twisters, 371 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:00.920 he did Alien Aromulus. So he actually in the fucking 372 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:06.279 neighborhood already. Wow. He is prolific and good and we'll 373 00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:09.160 be reviewing his music again in a few weeks because 374 00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:12.960 he did Predator, bad Lands, Super The Sword, My Man. 375 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:13.680 The Sword. 376 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:17.200 Like I said before, your favorite, right, it was my favorite. 377 00:22:17.359 --> 00:22:21.039 I'm a sucker for a good tale of feudal Japan 378 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:25.319 where you know it's there. It's honor running through everything 379 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:29.559 you these The Seven Samurai is one of my favorite movies. 380 00:22:29.920 --> 00:22:32.440 I love all that stuff. I love the honor that 381 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:36.759 that they present. I love this idea of the duty 382 00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:40.400 that these two brothers feel. The one who's disgraced and 383 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:43.319 has become a shinobi, the other wants to uphold the 384 00:22:43.319 --> 00:22:46.920 tradition of his father, and that just the idea that 385 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:51.319 they're both they're having this last duel together. Like I said, 386 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:56.440 even outside of the alien aspect of it, that alone 387 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:00.279 would be an interesting tale. It's it's from lack of 388 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:03.200 a better word, it's shot really well, it's animated really well. 389 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:06.119 The action is great. I just love it. 390 00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:10.319 I love martial arts movies, so this was very much 391 00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:11.079 in my wheelhouse. 392 00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:13.680 Agreed, The action is all fucking fantastic here. And I'd 393 00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:15.359 like to point out that I forgot to mention in 394 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:19.240 the last story The Shield, when they finally arrive at 395 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:24.839 Zorn's compound and Ursa jumps off that boat, that's one 396 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:28.839 shot from beginning right until she gets to Zarn it's 397 00:23:28.839 --> 00:23:30.599 all on intaken. It's fucking amazing. 398 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:34.440 Anyway, Banks, we should we also should mention before we 399 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:37.680 get to that, that there's this thing that he does 400 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:40.960 where at the very end after the Shield, Maiden has 401 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:44.480