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 In this very special episode, Marty and Clif have access to large movie database and decide to use its shuffle function to assign each other movies. It's live, no breaks. Two movies watched and reviewed back to back. Marty shuffles to the movie Cobra and Clif shuffles to The Voices

What happens when your two favorite movie review podcasters spend six hours doing a live episode with back to back screenings and no breaks? 

Tune in and find out. 

Note: Clif and Marty probably won't do another episode like this again, folks!

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Clif 0:05
And and Lieutenant Cobretti? Really. Lieutenant Cobretti.

SPEAKER_00 0:11
Really.

Clif 0:14
Anyway. How did he get that perfect 80 stubble? Like that perfect one centimeter, two centimeter eighty stubble. Oh.

Marty 0:26
Well, they shot the whole movie in one day.

Clif 0:28
Yeah. He would wake up at two in the morning to shave, so it's a few. It's glued on.

Marty 0:32
It's actually an appliance that they would peel off like a fruit roll. He's flocked. He's flocked.

SPEAKER_04 0:42
Welcome to season four of Talking Pondo. Talking Pondo is a podcast where Cliff and Marty give each other a film to watch and talk about them in detail. Some episodes will include a special guest.

Marty 1:00
Talking Pondo will not be heard today, so we may bring you the following Pondo Shuffle. Hit Shuffle, Marty. Yes, we will be hitting Shuffle today. What the fuck does that mean? Well, it's Talking Pondo. How did I let you talk me into this? It's it's me and Cliff. I'm Marty. We're back again. Hi. We're here in person. That's why.

Clif 1:24
In the same room, five feet away from each other.

Marty 1:26
Let's do something goofy this time. We we have uh a database of movies we can watch, about almost 5,000. And we decided for the in-person episode, the second one, we're gonna hit shuffle.

Clif 1:40
Because the library has a shuffle function.

Marty 1:42
Yeah, and we're gonna see what it forces us to watch. Now, of course, each party gets two veto choices. And also, if something comes up where we deem that's not really a movie, we'll skip it. Or we've done it already. Yeah, we'll skip it. And so if we get to the third choice and we're like, oh god no, we have the ability to go back to one of the first two force ourselves to watch that, then we turn off this recording, we watch that movie, much like the regular show. We come back, talk about that movie for a half hour, and then we spin the wheel again. The wheel of justice. And then we come back uh do our thing. I feel like we're telling a guest what the show's about.

Clif 2:22
Yeah, well, this is uh the primer. This is friggin' weird. This is gonna be interesting.

Marty 2:27
Yeah. Mixing it up. Mm-hmm. And so who knows what we're gonna end up with, and that and then we'll come back and talk about that movie and give each other our picks for the following week. And yeah, we're gonna let Cliff do the first spins, and then I'm gonna say if we're watching something or not.

Clif 2:49
So we got some access to a large database of films, like he said, and it has a shuffle function. So I'm out here on vacation visiting him. We're doing some pre-production stuff on some things we're working on, and uh we have a free day, and we we couldn't figure out what to do. So this is how we're gonna fill our time. I don't know about the rest of you, but maybe we need a hobby or something.

Marty 3:10
Anyway. This is the hobby. This is the hobby. It's one of those where it's like this felt seemed like a really great idea at the time, but who knows? Maybe it'll end up being awesome.

Clif 3:22
Okay, so here we go. I'm I'm pulling up the database here. Uh let's see if I can find that shuffle here.

Marty 3:28
We'll go up to that little three dots there. 4,544 items. Shuffle. Here we go. Here we go. The first shuffle. Here we go. Movie number one is something called Real Engine Engine from 2010.

Clif 3:45
It's a documentary about uh Native Americans and uh uh their representation in film.

Marty 3:52
Might not be terrible. Let's see what else we get.

Clif 3:55
Okay.

Marty 3:57
So a veto on the first real engine throwing stuff at me. I have no idea what it is.

SPEAKER_04 4:03
Real engine, Jesus.

Marty 4:05
Wow. It's like, oh, you want to do this? Okay, let's do this. Okay, here we go. Uh selection number two. Cobra. Okay. Cobra is Cobra's in the running right now.

unknown 4:15
Cobra.

Marty 4:15
But we're gonna spin it one more time. Even though I just watched this, we've talked about this on the Dragonheart episode excessively. Mary and Cobrady, okay. So let's let's do one more spin here.

unknown 4:33
Cobra.

Clif 4:34
I would never bring Cobra on this show. That's why that's how it's gonna come on the show. What is this? What is this? Oh pull up the things. It's not just you, Murray. 1964 from the Criterion Collection. I don't know what that is.

Marty 4:52
What is that? Oh, I don't know.

Clif 4:54
You're gonna have to hit up IMB.

Marty 4:56
Well, we we should be able to go to the description.

Clif 5:01
Yeah, let me navigate through 4,500 movies for you. Hang on just a second.

Marty 5:05
In real time, people it's exciting. Um It's not just you, Murray. Everybody knows Murray. It's uh Scorsese's first film. That's only 16 minutes long. Yep. So we're gonna have to spin again because we can't consider that a movie. Even though we could be like, we're gonna watch a 16-minute movie and call it a day. Here we go, here we go, here we motherfucking go on Pondo Shuffle. Stand and deliver. Stand and deliver.

Clif 5:38
So Cobra or Stand and Deliver are probably gonna be your two picks.

Marty 5:42
We're gonna watch Stand and Deliver, people. I'm gonna give Cliff a break. We're gonna not have to sit through the.

Clif 5:48
Stand and Deliver it is.

Marty 5:52
And tell you what we think about this.

unknown 5:54
Sure, you don't want to watch Cobra?

Marty 5:56
Well, how long is this one?

Clif 5:57
Uh I I absolutely honestly have no idea. Um I don't know. Hang on. It's still trying to be longer.

Marty 6:06
Cobra's shorter. It's up to you. Let's do Cobra so we don't have to do as long. And we'll be back in 90 minutes, but you'll never know the difference because we'll be back right now. And we're back. But we never left. We're here. We've turned the radio on. We've sat through a movie that almost seems like we did it on purpose because the film has been brought up before. But we just sat through all 87 minutes of the 1986 cult classic Cobra.

Clif 6:43
Fuck, I almost fell asleep watching that thing. You do need to turn the radio on. It's bad. I mean, it's, you know. It's missing like 30 minutes of footage of the original footage. It's it's you know, apparently was much more uber violent, and they cut all that shit out. And, you know, then they cutting that shit out, they lost plot points that they had to cut out. So it its editing is real choppy and weird, you know, and it's it's just it's not a very I don't know. I mean, I it did well. I mean, like, like we talked about while we were watching it,$160 million off of a$25 million budget or you know,$25 million opening weekend, uh, you know, it's pretty good, but I I I still think that people exp talk about this movie like it's a letdown film in his career because he'd just come off a Rambo, you know, Rambo uh First Blood Part II, he was a big, huge star, Rocky, for you know, first blood, all these movies, and then he comes in and does Cobra, and it's just like, dude, what are you fucking doing?

Marty 7:42
Now, what is this thing with the red laser beam? Cobra, a golden globus film, one of those canon movies when they were cranking out a movie every week, and I'm not kidding.

Clif 8:00
Um, Cobra. Here's your log line. A tough on crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far-reaching plans. Um, your storyline, let's see here. Uh, where the hell is it? A tough on crime on crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far-reaching plans. That's it. Uh, I guess there's one. A game of thugs led by the self-proclaimed night slasher are breaking into people's homes, guards, then killing them at random. When Lieutenant Cobretti, an intense Take No Prisoners cops, confronts a new world, and the Night Slasher, Cobretti must protect a young woman, Ingrid Newtson. Cobretti plans to move the only witness to the upstate, but the thugs follow them, and a battle for survival rages between Cobretti and the Thugs. Cobretti and the Thugs this fall on NBC. It's like Cobretti and the Thugs is like uh this the sequel through the uh follow-up to the um Welcome Back Cotter.

Marty 9:02
So apparently this was based on a novel. Yeah, Fair Game, Fair Play? Fair Game, and then Fair Game was made into a movie, which I don't think I've ever seen. Is it Al it's not Alec Baldwin? It's like Stephen Baldwin.

Clif 9:15
I I think it is, I haven't seen it.

Marty 9:16
Daniel Baldwin. And it's Cindy Crawford, right? But apparently the log line of that reads completely different than what this movie was.

Clif 9:25
Well, I I knowing Stallone and his massive fucking ego, I'm sure that this film kind of deviates pretty far from the original source material. Like, because that's what Stallone does, you know. He always gotta kind of make it about himself, and and uh, you know, of course he's a big star, so he's gonna make it about, you know, right. These movie stars, that's what they do. Well, okay, that's great. Now tell me more about how I'm important in the film.

Marty 9:51
That's why the movie was uh originally longer, and he supposedly cut out everybody else's extraneous stuff and kept all of his scenes.

Clif 10:02
You know, I mean, I think if you're into if you're super into like hyper action from the 80s, you know, that type of shit, if you're really into those type of movies, Lethal Weapon, uh the um Enforcer series with Clint Eastwood, uh the Bronson series of of uh, you know, that type of stuff. And those type of films, you're gonna this is right up your alley. You're gonna fucking jump right in this and absolutely love it. However, this is one of the dumbest fucking movies I've seen in a long time. It's it's just dumb. It just it just doesn't make a lot of sense, and that's because of course they cut it up, but it's also just you know, it's it's got really stupid dialogue, you know, and uh You're the disease of a cure.

Marty 10:42
You know that was the tagline, huh?

Clif 10:44
And it's also got uh it's got some of the best fucking stallone babble of the fucking eighties you'll ever hear, where you're just like, what did he say? You know, uh it's uh and and Lieutenant Cobretti? Really. Lieutenant Cobretti.

SPEAKER_00 11:04
Really anyway.

Clif 11:09
How did he get that perfect 80 stubble? Like that perfect one centimeter, two centimeter eighty stubble.

Marty 11:19
Well, they show up the whole movie in one day.

Clif 11:21
Yeah. He would wake up at two in the morning to shave, so it's a little bit. It's glued on.

Marty 11:26
It's actually an appliance that they would peel off like a fruit roll. He's flocked. He's flocked.

Clif 11:35
Uh there's a moment in this movie when taking a pee actually saves someone's life. Um, yeah, it's a one of the more clever moments.

Marty 11:44
Yeah. So apparently, when Stallone was attached to being Beverly Hills Cop, he rewrote that script, and it was gonna be about this cop named Axel Cobretti. Now you can see where I'm going with this. So he dropped out of Beverly Hills Cop to focus on Rhinestone, as you do, and then took his rewritten version of Beverly Hills Cop, and then loosely adapted the fair game book into it, and out comes Cobra. Very, very strange, because you wouldn't think this and Beverly Hills Cop have anything to do with each other outside of some basic cop tropes. I mean, they don't. They don't.

Clif 12:37
He wrote a bad fucking version of it that they threw away, and then Axel came and then you know Eddie Murphy came in with his crew and they rewrote it and made it funny again. The only connection is that Stallone wrote a version, you know, because there's nothing in Beverly Hills Cop that's even close to Cobra at all.

Marty 12:51
The only thing is you don't play by the rules, Axel Foley.

Clif 12:54
Well, that's every but that's every cop in these situations, you know, is I'm tired of defending your screwball antics to the commissioner, you know. That's every one of these fucking movies, you know. So it's it's you know, and of course they this movie's like, hey man, we're gonna do the the the far, you know, the cool thing, and we're gonna grab that fucking uh cop that's been riding his ass the whole movie and a handshake, and then we're just gonna belt him in the fucking mouth, man. And that's satisfying.

Marty 13:21
So they start should have started playing Power of Love by Huey Lewis in the news right at that moment where he socks him. But no, they go off into this other song instead, which fits the movie. It's not quite over the top, guys, but if you like that one for its goofiness, yeah.

Clif 13:40
It's um the so so we you know, we start off with that uh the the the supermarket shooting, right? And you know, we get the you know, and th this is the 80s where they would do stupid shit to kind of uh uh give their characters some personality, right? Where Cobretti sneaks in and he's looking around the corner and he just picks up a nice Coors cold gold banquet. It's fucking warm, it's not even cold. He just you know takes a nice sip of that, you know, puts that down. Uh I I laughed because there's so many of those in the 80s where they do stuff like that. And that one in particular is kind of just ridiculously goofy. Um later, when the night stalker comes for her in the in the hospital, right? There's that scene where she fight she's trapped in between the the in the small room and between the two doors, and he's stabbing the door and keeps her down, right? And she starts pushing the door open trying to get out, and then she gets out into the hallway and she's screaming for help and screaming at the and she's at the desk and nobody's around. There it is, it is like it is like the Night Stalker and his crew have cleared this floor out, right? And he comes busting out and she starts running and runs down the hallway and sees a fire alarm and breaks the glass and hits it, and 3,000 people suddenly show up in the fucking hallway, and the Night Stalker has to, you know, fade into the distance of the crowd. I was just like, this movie is fucking dumb. It's just dumb. Yeah.

Marty 15:08
It's set in another reality, man.

Clif 15:12
God damn liberal press. Oh, can we talk about the exposed lavalier?

SPEAKER_00 15:17
Oh, yeah.

Clif 15:18
So there's the scene where, of course, Marion likes to park his car at a certain place at the end of the day, you know, and he's got a spot. Now it's not a designated spot, but you know, the world should know that that's Marion's spot. So he pulls up, and there's of course a couple of vatos and a nice uh lowrider in his spot, and he honks and they tell him to go fuck himself. And so what's he do? He basically uses his car to nudge the other car out of the way and then parks, and then the dude's like, hey man, what are you doing? He gets all mad and Cobra Brady's like, Yeah, you should what did he say? You should calm down or blah blah blah blah. And then he rips his teeth, he rips his white shirt, his A-frame off. And I and I I agree with you. I don't think that was scripted because the dude's lava lear is just taped to his bare chest and it's completely exposed for three or four seconds.

SPEAKER_00 16:05
And they just left that in the film.

Clif 16:08
Nobody's gonna notice that.

Marty 16:09
I'm like, is he wearing a wire? Yeah. It's like, no, this is his microphone pack. You're not supposed to Yeah, what?

Clif 16:19
Um, so the rumor is that Stallone's basically directed this movie, and Cosmados was basically just the kind of the producer, you know, and basically would shut up and kind of stand out of Stallone's way when he was on set. And it feels that way watching the movie. It definitely feels like a like a Stallone vehicle.

Marty 16:38
This comes from 1986, the year I saw every movie, it seems like, and this movie was popular. This thing was everywhere. I remember renting it from the video store, it was a big deal. Siskel and Niebert hated it because they said it was like this horribly violent. By today's standards, it's pretty tame, but back then, him in the back of that truck shooting everybody.

Clif 16:58
Well, and and and to be fair, I mean, it's a 90-minute movie because the first cut was two hours and it was braided X due to all the friggin' violence. I mean, we're talking severed hands, uh long extended autopsy scenes with more of a horror movie. Yeah, more of a very more like um uh silence of the lambs type thing, right?

SPEAKER_00 17:18
Mm-hmm.

Clif 17:19
So Cobra, so okay, so we get away from the Night Stalker and Cobra's like, oh, we got somebody police forces rating on us and talking to the Night Stalker. And so they're like, okay, let's run to, let's take her and run, because that way we'll be um uh, you know, that way we'll be nice and and safe somewhere else outside of the city. And his partner's like, or his the buddy he's trusted, just shows up with this strange woman cop that they don't know, and he's just like, all right, let's go. And Hober's like, sure, let's go. Never mind that you know we have somebody who's been ratting on us, we'll go ahead and take this woman with us. Uh and then they just run to Forks, Washington and into a Twilight movie, I guess. I mean, the only I I with the with the where they were and like the the lack of sunlight and the fog and the mountains and shit, I just thought I'm gonna fucking see a collin drudge up out of this movie any minute now.

Marty 18:11
The old let's go hide out in the woods for 20 minutes of the movie and stop the pacing dead in its tracks uh trope. So you can rest medicine.

Clif 18:20
Yep. Yep. And then so they have a giant shootout, and it's basically it's it's basically cowboys and Indians with just updated because the the it's a bunch of bikers and they're zooming around in a circle in front of a house the hotel where they're holed up in, and Cobretti's, you know, of course, shooting through the windows. He literally takes his gun and he busts out the window, that classic move, you know, that they do back in the 40s and the 50s, and he's you know, shooting his little pew-pew, and then he gets his little laser gun and uh or laser-sided gun. And then from there, they end up having to run. Of course, they can't kill them all, right? So they end up running and they run into a fucking orange orchard, which just happens to be right next to where they are, right? Which then they run through the orange orchard into a factory that somehow is right next to the orange orchard that seems to only produce nothing but sparks and jets of flame. Like that seems to be its only purpose. That's what they make there. And this kind of this is kind of harkens back to the joke that Pat Noswell did about hey, if you liked metal in the 80s, you were probably gay because all these metal bands, these hard rock bands from the 80s were in these in these videos where you know there's a bunch of hot girls, but they're nowhere near the band, and the band's in some factory somewhere that, you know, and the joke is that only produces sparks, right? And all that type of thing. Anyway, uh, that is classic. I mean, this is this is so 86 it's not even funny with that stuff.

Marty 19:44
Uh so how much ketchup do you put on French fries?

Clif 19:49
Oh god, here we go with the arguments again. I'm a dipper. I am not a on the fries person, and I think people who do that are fucking weird because how are you gonna get the fry and not get the ketchup on your finger?

Marty 20:00
Yeah, I don't think they mind it.

Clif 20:02
It's at that point you're at a fork.

Marty 20:03
You're at a fork type situation.

Clif 20:05
Yeah.

Marty 20:05
It's almost like uh, was it poutine?

Clif 20:08
Yeah, poutine, yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Marty 20:10
Well, they were up north.

Clif 20:12
Well, I guess so. How do vampires put their ketchup on their fries? How much do they use?

Marty 20:18
Right. I'll have to watch that again to see the Twilight movies.

SPEAKER_01 20:23
Yeah.

Marty 20:24
He gets he gets kind of sick because he wants to eat it. He has that like puke thing. Oh, what about the robots? Oh, yeah. The robot montage. Yeah. My favorite part of the movie. Yeah. It doesn't make any sense. It's pure Coke-driven 80s. Robots with uh scrotums, as we could say. What's the rooftracks were saying about it? What's that supposed to represent? Don't know. Getting fucked by machinery in the 80s. AI's taking over, you see. That's what the uh axe uh cult was against. What are they doing on there slamming those axes together?

Clif 21:05
I don't want to get fucked by machinery.

Marty 21:06
And don't we hang don't they hang out in that? Looks like they hang out in that boiler room place. So when they're at the last smelting sparks. You think they would know their way around better, is all I'm saying.

Clif 21:20
Maybe not all smelting sparks places are the same.

Marty 21:24
How terrible of me to assume such a thing. If all these hooks flying around and everyone's oh yeah, that's uh that guy, he's that's a killer's really on the hook for his past behavior. See, he that's the pun he could have made.

SPEAKER_01 21:36
Boom.

Marty 21:37
Instead, uh he did he even make a pun right there, he just threw him on the hook. Yeah, just threw him on the hook. Harry Leatherface style. Yeah. So there were there were other puns and the the matchstick uh paid off eventually.

Clif 21:51
Yeah, because he lit somebody on fire.

Marty 21:53
But he didn't even have it in his mouth when he took he lit it. He like took it out of his pocket and ran it across his gun. I was just let down by that.

Clif 22:02
But he'd keep the one in his mouth, and he was like, I'm not wasting that one, I'm taking a spare.

Marty 22:06
That one makes the diagonal come out. It's like Fred, it's like Fred Norris doing the Gary Delabati. You put the tongue in his mouth, Wolf and you get your you know.

Clif 22:17
Dear Diary. All I wanted was a Pepsi. Just a Pepsi. But Momarian Cobretti wouldn't give it to me. Instead he shot me. So I threw a rock at his cool neon Pepsi sign. I hope the Night Stalker kills him, stupid jerk. Also I'm taking his parking space.

Marty 22:35
When I went to your institutional learning facilities. I went to your Night Stalker. They're still wearing masks at the end. Yeah, just visibility is more important at this point when you're I I guess. I this it's a silly movie. It's a it's a video game. It's so silly. Um before violent video games existed like that.

Clif 23:02
I I I'm I struggle with with why people like this movie. It's it's not very well put together, it's kind of goofy. I guess it's got a little bit of style or a little bit of um uh it's strange tone and feel to it, but it's just not very well made. It's not very well done. I mean Lee Garlington is in this, Brian Thompson's in this. Yes, of Dragonheart fame. Art LaFleur is in this. Of running time fame. Um, I mean, there's a fuckload of uh Marco Rodriguez is the Southwest supermarket killer. It's it's it's a bunch of great character actors surrounding Stallone, and unfortunately, I think I feel like when you get this much talent together, you could probably do something better than this. You know what I mean? And instead you do this kind of week. How many fucking times have we seen the psycho killer cop chase film done? Bronson did it. Even at that point, Stallone did it.

Marty 24:02
Everybody had to do their version, everybody did their version of it. Then Eastwood, like you were saying, the Deadpool. Eastwood did it, yeah. They the you know, even the Deadpool, not Ryan Reynolds.

Clif 24:10
Right. And I think even um Schwarzenegger did a version of it. You know, um, maybe I could I'm trying to remember if he did or not.

Marty 24:19
Well, I know Terminator is pretty damn close where he's the you could say he's the killer psycho.

Clif 24:24
And then maybe Terminator 2, where he's chasing the side the Terminator 2, where he's chasing the T1000 and trying to kill it.

Marty 24:29
Which rips off Cobra because it ends in the smelting place. You're going to the smelting place. Is that like the sunken place? It's kind of like what it feels like when you watch this movie.

Clif 24:43
Yeah, when you watch this movie, you go to the smelting place. I'm gonna remember that and I'm gonna say that later on. I'm like, this movie sent me to the smelting place and I didn't like it.

Marty 24:52
Well, George P. Cosmodos, uh, his son is a director now, and made that movie Mandy with Nicolas Cage, which is like an LSD-fueled nightmare revenge flick. And I'm thinking, yeah, if I was like 12 years old growing up on the set of movies like Cobra, I you might end up making movies like that too when you get older. Because I've seen parts of Mandy and it looks like Cobra, the reddish hue and the strange lighting and the you know the Dutch angles.

Clif 25:22
I haven't seen it.

Marty 25:22
But it might be a better film, who knows? If I have, I don't remember it.

Clif 25:26
I mean, I know I'm fam I'm familiar with it. I've heard of it, but I just don't think I've seen it.

Marty 25:31
Uh well, so what do you give this one? Well, he also made Tombstone.

Clif 25:35
That's true. This is one of his only good movies.

Marty 25:38
But what do I give this one? Jeez, I'm still thinking about it. Uh in classic form, not talking directly into the mic there. I'm still thinking about it, but because it's so fresh, because we literally, everybody, we literally just finished watching this movie and got back in. It's like talking Pondo live, talking, talking Cobretti. Oh, one and a half. Yeah. It's amusing enough. I'm sitting here giggling the whole time because it's it's so trope laden. The Andrew Robinson is the detective, you know.

Clif 26:12
It's bad. Um, but it's it's it's in focus, it's shot well, you can hear it. It's got some cool stunts. Um, some good stuff. The stunt work, the second A D in the stunt work really honestly saves this fucking movie if we're if we're being completely honest.

Marty 26:26
That might be why people dig it.

Clif 26:28
Yeah, I can see that. Uh, but for me, it's it's a it's a two-star movie. Yeah. You know, it's just it's it's there, it's not great, it's not bad, but I can't say it's right in the middle, it's lacking a little bit. And ah, yeah. Oh god, now we've got to do another shuffle.

Marty 26:44
Yeah, so it we might be it might be a little shorter than usual because we just watched the movie, so that's why we only did 20 minutes on Cobra instead of a half hour.

Clif 26:55
Yeah, so it doesn't always have to be an hour.

Marty 26:57
So now I hit the button. I guess we might as well keep recording, huh?

Clif 27:02
I guess so.

Marty 27:02
And then we'll just have this be this portion. Okay. Look at that. 17% Cobra got on uh Rotten Tomatoes there. But an audience score of 44.

Clif 27:14
Half the audience likes it.

Marty 27:18
Cobra is a bad movie with fleeting flashes of something better. So bad it's good. The pizza's the best part. Oh, yeah, he cuts the pizza with the pair of scissors. How can we not mention that?

Clif 27:30
Yeah, I forgot that note. It says, uh, my note says that um that's the first one here. Cobra at how Cobra at home is just disturbing. Uses using scissors on pizza is crazy.

Marty 27:41
Look at that second review that's frightening, sir. Hit shuffle while working and it chose a good candidate. Somebody else got this on shuffle? What are the fucking odds, people? Okay, now we're gonna go back in time, people. I wonder what it's gonna give us this time. Let's get to our browser here. Okay, I picked a fucking winner. Let's see what happens this time on shuffle number one is What the fuck is that?

Clif 28:21
Robbery from 1967. Uh I've definitely never seen it. Robbery, 1967. Stanley Baker, a group of British criminals planned the robbery of the Royal Main Trail on a mail train on the Glasgow-London route. I think this actually might be uh uh based on a true story. Um just like Cobra. Interesting. This is that's that's fascinating. Um it's a dramatization of the great train, Robley. It's uh while not a how-to, it's very detailed dependent showing the care and planning. That's gonna veto for now.

Marty 29:05
Okay, I was gonna say you might almost might as well do the three spins just to see what the hell they are, right? For the sake of the program.

Clif 29:12
Not really, but if it's a good one and I like it, I'm just gonna go for it.

Marty 29:15
That is true. Number two is shit. The voices 2014, what is this?

Clif 29:28
Uh Ryan Reynolds hears voices in his head. Um it's uh I haven't seen it either.

Marty 29:35
I don't know what this is either.

Clif 29:37
Oh my goodness. The voices. Um, let's see, Ryan Reynolds 2014. It's got Gemma Arderton in it. A likable guy pursues his office crush with the help of his evil talking pets, but things turn sinister when she stands him up for a date. That is definitely high on the list.

Marty 29:54
Yeah.

Clif 29:55
Um, but let's see what else that let's see what the last one is.

Marty 29:57
Okay, it's like Joker's Wild over here. Joker, Joker, Joker, no whammy, no whammy. And a triple. Okay. Dark Star don't count. We have already covered the film Darkstar. Yep. So Darkstar count. Another shuffle.

Clif 30:17
Shuffle it again, my friend.

Marty 30:21
Like and subscribe. The animated hobbits. The animated hobbits. It does count.

Clif 30:33
It absolutely does. Um it's an hour and 17 minutes long. Um I'm gonna go with other I'm gonna go with the voices. The voices. I'm gonna go with the voices. Alright. I've never seen it, and I've I I you know, I don't know. I it should be I I like the I like the premise, so we'll we'll try it.

Marty 30:55
Alright. We like blind picks around here, and it falls into our uh trying to give each other newer movies we haven't seen category as well. So the voices it is. We'll be back in about an hour and forty-five minutes to tell you what we think.

SPEAKER_04 31:12
Out the voices.

Marty 31:16
It's got that going for it. Comedy horror. Okay. Let's do it. Alright. Well, well, that was a movie. Yeah, we're back. We never left. The Voices. 2014. I can't say that I had never heard of it before. But I didn't know what it was.

SPEAKER_01 31:42
Mm-hmm.

Marty 31:44
And I'm still processing what it was.

Clif 31:47
It kind of I mean, the the log line and the storyline in the movie, and let me have I read that yet? No, what is Okay. The voices.

Marty 31:54
The voices. A very uh antagonistic cat.

Clif 31:59
The voices. Uh 2014 rated R, Hour 43 Minutes. Uh your log line is a likable guy pursues his office crushed with help from his evil talking pets, but things turn sinister when she stands him up for a date. Plot lie. Storyline. Jerry is a chipper guy clocking the nine to five at a bathtub factory with the off-beat charm of anyone who could use a friend of anyone who could use a friend, few friends. With help from his court-apported psychiatrist, he pursues his office crush, Gemma Arderton, but their relationship takes a sudden murderous turn turn after she stands him up for a date. Guided by his evil talking cat and benevolent talking dog, Jerry must decide whether to keep striving for normalcy or indulge in the sinister.

Marty 32:40
Is that what happened? I mean, it feels from a certain point of view, maybe.

Clif 32:44
In the beginning, to me, it's they they mislead you, right, in that be a little bit, because in the beginning it's a it's a comedy of errors, right? It's a dark comedy of errors where he accidentally kills his crush, like he's got the date, you know, or he thinks he's got the date. She kind of stands him up and is you know supposed to leave him meshes and and he doesn't get it, and then he's on the date at the Chinese place, waiting on her and you know, crying when he goes home, but then he sees her, right? And she needs help, and she gets in the car and is like, hey, let's go to dinner. You know, I'm I apologize for treating you like shit, you know, or for not calling you or whatever. Let's go to dinner and and you know, made up. And then a fucking deer, as they're on their on their way to dinner, goes right through the windshield of the truck, of course, because they live in the middle of nowhere, right? In the woods. And uh, of course, you know, Jerry hears animals talking to him, and so the deer tells him, I'm all fucked up. Jerry, you gotta kill me. And he does, and Gemma freaks out. And then, you know, yeah, he pretty he's chasing her through the woods, going, Don't you're gonna get lost, don't run. And then he falls on her and accidentally stabs her, right? And I mean, it's it's it's a silly plot device, but it's not it's not like he intentionally did it, right? Like even the cat's telling him to.

Marty 33:52
But that description makes it sound like he did. He did like he's like it was his choice, yeah. Like he like she stood him up and he killed her, but before it, yeah. He she had car trouble, and then they were kind of on the date, and then oh, I'm I accidentally stabbed you over and over.

Clif 34:11
Over and over, yeah.

Marty 34:13
Yeah.

Clif 34:14
Well, and then you learn later on in the movie, right? Like that's kind of his psychosis. His psychosis is you know, watching his mother try to kill herself and then handing him the glass to to finish her off because she had couldn't do it fully, right? And so she's and she's like, You gotta finish it, you know, I'm in pain and blah blah blah. And that's what the deer says to him through the window, and that's you know, kind of his thing he's reliving constantly, in my opinion, with these murders. Was he the voice of the deer? Yeah, he was yeah, he was the voice of the deer. He was the voice of all the animals.

Marty 34:46
Ryan Reynolds did all the animal voices.

Clif 34:48
Yeah, he does a the cat's a psychotic, psychotic like Irishman or Scotsman, and then the dog is a big old lovable uh sane person. It's funny, because the cat's the one who's like, you should just kill everybody. The dog's like, you're a good person. The angel devil.

Marty 35:04
You're a good person, Jerry. You don't have to do that. I mean, the tone of this thing is all over the place, but it's ultimately kind of silly. If you if I had to elevator pitch it, I'd say it's American Psycho meets Dr. Doolittle. Okay. Now excuse me, I have to go return some videotapes.

Clif 35:26
Okay, I mean I could see that. Um I will say that there's a there is a piece in this that's pretty serious, and that's and that's about people who are on medication, like for for to keep the voices away or to have live normal lives. And to those of you out there, I know that that medication sometimes always isn't the greatest and it makes you muddle-headed, but you go off of it and you have bad experiences, you have you know, bad things happen, right? So take your meds, you know. You know, it's okay. You know, take your meds, you know, it'll be good for you, right? Um, and then of course when when poor Jerry stops taking them, the dog and the cat, you know, are talking to him and you know, confusing him.

Marty 36:07
Yeah, this felt like a movie a guest would have brought to the show, but I guess a guest did bring it to the show. The shuffle guest. The shuffle guest, yeah.

Clif 36:15
Uh I did laugh pretty hardly where he's hacking Gemma up and he's looking over at that that big bottle of pills, you know, and he's hacking her up and looking at those pills, and I just thought, you know, if you're just taking those pills, maybe this wouldn't be a problem. Um but yeah, it's um weird ass movie.

Marty 36:34
Yeah. I feel like maybe if they had done a PG or a PG-13 version where it wasn't as explicitly gory, then they could have still maybe got the same thing a little more palatable. Obviously, that's not what they were trying to make.

Clif 36:51
I I mean I I I agree. I mean, I think if you had gone PG-13, toned down the violence, made it a little more romantic, and kind of played up the um the uh rom-com aspect, like this dark rom-com about this guy who keeps accidentally killing the girls that he's dating or whatever. That might have been pretty funny and pretty good. I really wanted to see more of the dog and the cat going back and forth. Like I enjoyed the cat being like, you this fucking dog is worth listening to the dog being like, You are the most evil piece of shit. Do not listen to this cat, you know. Um, and uh, you know, the dog in general. Let me smell her cross, dairy. It's pretty funny.

Marty 37:29
Yeah, such such a mixture of tone. What's silly, then it's serious, then it's trying to be scary, then it's back being silly again, then there's dance routine.

Clif 37:38
Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's it's wild. And this is 2014, right? Yeah. So this is two years before he does Deadpool, and this is two years after Anna Kendrick. What in the fuck is Anna Kendrick doing in this movie?

Marty 37:50
Well, like you said, blacklist script. So maybe they thought this was gonna be like a big deal or something.

Clif 37:58
I mean, this is two years after she's this for her, this is two years after Pitch Perfect. You know, at this point, she's a pretty big star. And this is what she chooses to do as kind of a surprise.

Marty 38:07
Who who knows? Maybe good payday in between other projects, like the script. Who knows?

Clif 38:13
I definitely respect the choice because I think it's a weird movie to do, and and I I like seeing actors step outside of their comfort zones a little bit, or at least maybe not their comfort zones, but outside of their their um expected uh sort of things, right? You expect Ryan Reynolds to play Deadpool, you expect him to play the smart ass, the good the you know, the the good-looking, confident, smart ass kid. You expect, you know, these types of things. So when he steps out of that and plays the the killer or Anna Kendrick steps out and plays a different type of role. I I enjoy that with actors. I think that's a good thing.

Marty 38:44
I think another reason this has such a strange mixed tone is I've never seen Persepolis, but wasn't that an Oscar-nominated animated film? And it's supposed to be kind of serious. Well, the director of that directed this, but the writer of this, among many other things, paranormal activity sequels. So you got this mixture of, you know, goofy comedy and uh serious and silly. And so we had another uh woman director for this movie, and I noticed a similarity between this and the love witch. Both have men crying in the film.

Clif 39:25
For for varied reasons. Uh I did like the look of the film. Uh I think I we were while we were watching it, there's a there's a driving scene and with uh Anna and or maybe it's Gemma and uh Ryan. And uh I was like, where's that light coming from? And I it's not that I it's not that I necessarily dislike the look of it. It just doesn't look like natural lighting, right? Which is sometimes that's fine, right? And the whole movie seems like a fairy tale. It's removed from reality. Like it's it's it's it's ridiculous enough and sort of farcical enough that you're not trying to take it seriously, otherwise it'd be fucking silence of the lambs and it wouldn't be darkly funny, right?

Marty 40:04
Yeah.

Clif 40:04
And the film is darkly funny. There are some darkly funny moments in the film.

Marty 40:09
It's like uh as if movies like Maniac or Nightmare were comedies is very very kind of fucked up, but that's why I say it's the American psycho type thing, because it's it reminded me of that the most, I think, because that's gory and gross, but they're being satirical at the same time, right? And is it really happening? Is he really nobody'll take him serious, right? In that movie, doesn't he tell people he's killing people and they're like, oh yeah, yeah, whatever, look at my business card. Yeah, yeah.

Clif 40:38
Well, yeah, yeah. And it it's again, it's a I mean I don't know who can't look fucking watch American Psycho and not realize that that is a massive satirical film. Oh, of course. Like if you are watching that and thinking that it's anything other than a and it's not funny. It's like it's sad. It's kind of satirical and sad at and and kind of making fun of how fucked up these people who do this are, you know, that this guy would fucking that four guys would hold out white ass fucking cards and talk about the differences in them, and then you know, one of them gets pissed and kills one of them for it. It's just the stupidest shit ever, right? So um the most horrifying thing in this movie is Ryan Reynolds looking at spoon he used to to scoop out dog food. That's me, my that's that's the one part of the movie where I just went, oh, oh God, oh no.

Marty 41:24
Put a little catch-up on it.

Clif 41:26
Don't do that, don't do that.

Marty 41:27
Put a lot of catch up on that.

Clif 41:28
Put all the catch-up on that.

Marty 41:30
Don't go to a second location, the movie.

Clif 41:35
That's the other thing I'll say. I did like how I liked the way they dressed up the locations. The the factory, the the tub making, the plants factory was very cool. It looked right. Um the his this bowling alley place that he lived at was real kind of neat looking. I liked the different you know, Milton town aspects of the different uh things. I thought that was really cool. Uh very good art direction. The pacing's a bit brutal.

Marty 42:06
Yeah. It's a little overlong.

Clif 42:09
Yeah, I'd say maybe what, ten minutes?

Marty 42:11
At least. It's that top heavy part where it tricks you into thinking it's gonna be something else. And then about halfway through it decides, oh, we're doing this. Yeah, it leans into it.

Clif 42:22
Yeah, I think that either the Gemma thing is a little too a little too long, or the anacendric thing is. I'm not sure which one I would have cut, but I would have trimmed some there and and made a little bit shorter, and 137 would have been perfect, 138. This is 147. I'd cut 10 minutes out of this and be fine with it.

Marty 42:39
Yeah.

Clif 42:40
Um but you do need that background and that context to understand his motivation to get where he's coming from, to understand his psychosis, and sort of to understand uh what's going on to a certain extent. Right. Otherwise, he's just a nutball killer. Oh, of course. You know. I didn't really buy the whole awkward Ryan thing that he was doing. Like it just I don't know. I I I feel like it would have been better served if he had played it a little more straighter and just been a little less trying to be awkward and trying to be you know, do you know what I mean?

Marty 43:18
Yeah.

Clif 43:19
Um it's it's fine to hear voices and it's fine to be weird, but this strange kind of little boy awkwardness he had was a little weird at times.

Marty 43:28
The conflicted tone.

Clif 43:29
Yeah.

Marty 43:30
What do you want to be, movie? Well, I want to be everything. Oh, if I was raised in Germany, would I understand the movie more?

Clif 43:37
You make we made a good point. It's it's kind of like Wutnell and I were we talked about, right? Like, is this is there some culture here that I'm not but it is it's uh it's written by an American, so it's I mean, I don't think he's intentionally added any German cultural things to it, but maybe not.

Marty 43:51
I don't know, that last dance number there.

Clif 43:54
That was weird. That that whole dance number over the credits thing was just fucking weird. And he but you know what I think it was, is I think it was The last attempt to lighten the tone of the movie and take you out of it being so dark and so serious. Right. I love the part where he drives out in the middle of nowhere with his therapist and puts her on the fucking hood and starts just going, all right, you got like 10, you got to do this now, right? And then at the end of it, he goes, that's like 10 years of therapy in 10 minutes. And the line is everybody has these fucking thoughts. You don't have to act on them. It's like, oh shit, what a revelation. Thank you.

Marty 44:28
That's a Jim Carrey stand-up routine. The thoughts you don't act on.

Clif 44:36
Oh, that's funny. One of my other notes is that you can kind of see the ending coming, right? But I was wrong. You can't see the ending coming. It's not the ending that you ex exactly expect. They do a nice little twist on it. Um, and I think it's kind of satisfying when you when you roll it in and you and you tie it into the end credits of the dance sequence and the musical number. I'm like, okay, I I don't mind the way that this wrapped up at all. I really don't. Especially the dog and the cat talking to each other in the end, and then like, alright, time for you to go your way, time for me to go mine. I quite enjoyed that.

Marty 45:07
And he ended up being the real Santa Claus after all.

Clif 45:11
Uh well, the real friends are the Santa Clauses we made along the way.

Marty 45:15
Exactly. Okay. It also reminded me of like 50s B movie classics, like the Tormented or Brain That Wouldn't Die, or like you were made a joke about Frankenhooker while we were watching it. It's not too far off in parts, you know.

Clif 45:30
Well, you know, I mean inspiration. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I think there's some notes there. But like, you know, he he didn't go try to blow up a bunch of hookers with super crack and build a new body, but he did put her head in the fridge and talk to her and all that type of shit. I thought that was uh pretty interesting. And and again, Reanimator is a great example of that too, where you get the uh that's what I was getting, some of those vibes. Yeah, Doctor Um, the the doctor who's in the pan with the reanimate with the reagent.

Marty 45:54
I see what they're doing there.

Clif 45:56
I liked it. I mean, I thought they they kind of mishmashed some things together, came up with an interesting um concept. Uh it was bloody, it was kind of there, you know, took some unexpected turns. That fucking deer coming through the truck window was the last thing I saw coming.

Marty 46:11
Yeah, this one's a little gory. Yeah. Everybody. It is. So be forewarned.

Clif 46:17
Yeah, got some blood, got some guts. Um again. There's a part where he's hacking up bodies, so it's not uh you know.

Marty 46:26
You're getting your Henry as a comedy. But Henry is a comedy in a way.

Clif 46:31
Yeah, but it's not saw, it's not saw, it's not torture corn, it's not uh it's not uh the grisliness of terrifier.

Marty 46:38
But there is a saw.

Clif 46:39
But there is a saw, and there is a hatchet or a cleaver.

Marty 46:42
But what there isn't is scissors cutting the pizza. There's pizza in this movie, but no scissors were used in cutting the pizza. No pizzas were harmed in the making of this movie. But the one similarity, well, there's a couple of similarities between this and Cobra, but the main one I noticed was there were similar news stories about a psycho on the loose killing people.

unknown 47:02
Ah.

Marty 47:03
Okay. So, you know, if I'd had if this had been a normal episode and I had time to come up with a joke, it probably would have involved Marion Cobretti chasing down the uh Ryan uh Reynolds uh psycho killer. Chasing down Jerry. But doing it in the form of a news story or something. I thought this was gonna be a like a fuck Mary Kill movie for a minute there. But they kind of deviated away from that a bit.

Clif 47:33
If you're into movies like Idle Hands, Shallow Grave, um, you'll this is right up your alley. You'll really dig this. You'll like this a lot. It's it's um it's relatively smart too. It's it's a little witty. It's it definitely knows what it's doing, and it definitely understands what it's trying to do. It's not it's not hit or miss, you know. Well, I'm not saying it's that cultural thing, yeah. Some of it works and some of it doesn't, but it definitely knows what it's trying to attempt.

Marty 48:01
And horror comedy is so difficult. It's really difficult. Especially when you're trying to weave these things together.

Clif 48:08
Yeah. And if you don't like Ryan Reynolds, if you you know if you think he annoys you as an actor, he's really gonna probably annoy you in this one. Because he's I think he's really going for it at times. And there's there's very there's definitely some Deadpool-esque type things that he's doing in this, in my opinion. Some shudders and some shakes and things that he's doing where I'm just like, oh, it's very reminds me of Reynolds in Deadpool or whatever. Uh this was a this was a weird experiment. I don't know if I ever want to do this again or not.

Marty 48:37
Um because you never know what you're gonna get in.

Clif 48:40
Exactly. And I I kind of would rather totally random. I would rather at least know half of the film what I'm giving you, so I can at least be prepared for that to a certain extent.

Marty 48:48
You could always curate a list of a hundred or fifty and shuffle that.

Clif 48:54
I could, but I could also but I mean also genres too, or things. I'm trying to give you, and I'm more blind picks anyway, so there's no guarantee. Yeah, this fit really well.

Marty 49:04
I mean, it's not it's just a little over ten years old. We haven't seen it, so it kind of it might have been something we would have been like, oh, bring that to the show, you know.

unknown 49:13
Yeah.

Marty 49:14
It wasn't on my radar, but I had seen it on there going, What is that?

Clif 49:18
I had heard of it and I'd I'd come across it in in some reviews or some other things, some articles or whatever, and I I I was like, I'm probably gonna end up watching that at some point, and here I am watching it. Um okay, so I did uradisease on the cure, right? That was my that was the Marion Cobra. Oh, you didn't say the magic word, please. I forgot to mention that for the Marion Cobretti. Oh I also meant to say that the Cobra movie sent me to the smelting place. Yeah. Which uh this movie did not. This movie did not send me to the smelting place. No, it didn't. But it I will say that. Yes, it was long, and for the first 40 minutes or so, I was kind of looking at this movie with a little bit of side eye going, what the fuck are you doing? And then it's a bit. And then once Anna Kendrick kind of gets involved, it uh for me it kind of everything started to work and unravel in a great way.

Marty 50:13
And you're like, okay, I see what I finally kind of know what you're doing, but damn, did it take a bit to get there. I really like maybe a revisit you might like the first part more.

Clif 50:24
Yeah, that's that's a good point. That's a good point. I I really liked the part where he's uh looking through the skylight, sky the the the uh ceiling window, and she's she's broken into his house and discovered these bodies and you know, these people chopped up and blood everywhere and shit, and he's just looking at her like fuck. And there's that great I I thought that was a great moment. I really liked that. Because up until that point, if she doesn't break into that place and he could clean that up and get away from it, he might have a happy ending with her, right?

Marty 50:57
Yeah, the movie could take all sorts of different turns at any time.

Clif 51:01
But she had to break into the apartment and be the girl to help him out and all that, and then boom, it you know, it ends up backfiring on it, and then she's the second victim. Second or third. Second.

Marty 51:10
It does have a mid to late 80s feel to it, like a movie you would have rented some direct video or some of the like remember Parents, that Randy Quaid movie? Yeah. It's kind of those strange off-beat. You just yeah.

Clif 51:28
Do you remember the the show um with the dude? It was on Comedy Central, I think, and it and it was the one where he he was talking to an imaginary cartoon like dragon that was played by, I think, Pat Noswald.

Marty 51:43
Oh, I mean, there's been many shows with the imaginary friends.

Clif 51:47
It had the dude from Law and Order in it.

Marty 51:49
Even our movie has the elements of uh Chris something. The imaginary people that the guy's talking to. Um characters don't kill anybody.

Clif 51:58
No, this was a specific one from uh yeah, what was it? I can't remember now. But anyways, it was um very weird. And um but it was about a guy kind of like that who hears voices and is kind of messed up, and he has a uh I guess a fucked up dinosaur. I never watched it, but played by Patton Oswald. Oh wow. Christopher Maloney, that's who it was. You know who Christopher Maloney is, right? Um what the hell was that thing called? Anyways, it was a weird premise and it reminded me a lot of this. Um I wish I could find it here. I'm kind of looking for it. Happy! Yeah, and it got, I mean, 8.1 ratings. It ran for two seasons. But it was an injured hitman befriends his kidnapped daughter's imaginary friend, a perky blue flying unicorn.

Marty 52:54
Wow.

Clif 52:55
Yeah.

Marty 52:57
Of course there's Harvey. Harvey, yeah. Yeah. So yeah, and we're part of that fine tradition of movies that feature imaginary friends. Check out Revenge of Zoe and Love Song of William Made Shaw streaming on Tubi. And then you can do the double feature like we did Cobra and the the voices, and it to me it felt like one long movie. Yeah, well, when you watch it back to back like that. And I usually don't watch the movies of the week back to back, and we certainly never get on and immediately talk about them.

unknown 53:29
No.

Clif 53:30
Um, yeah, and the show those movie links are uh in the show notes, guys. So if you want to watch those films, just uh go down to the show notes, the links will be there.

Marty 53:38
Certainly helps us out.

Clif 53:40
Absolutely. We could appre we would appreciate the clicks and the views. Because we are in pre-production on something else, and every little every little bit and push that you do helps. That is right. So, what do you give it?

Marty 53:56
Okay, so like I say, it's the rating I have of the week, usually. But this is like the rating I have of right now. It's probably gonna go up a little bit, but right now I'm at a two.

Clif 54:07
I'm a two and a half.

Marty 54:09
Yeah.

Clif 54:09
And I I might even go three, maybe.

Marty 54:12
Because I think I want to think about it more, and there's things that I like. Yeah.

Clif 54:16
I think it's other things where I'm just like, uh I mean it's something that I might re-watch once in a while, every now and then, but it's not something I'm gonna I'm gonna rush to put on, right? But I do think it again, I liked the way it looked. I thought it was competently shot. I really liked the art direction on it. They went for set direction, they really went for it, and it was well made. It was definitely well made. Um, I liked its therapist quite a bit. Um, I liked everybody in the film. I you didn't have any problems with anybody. It was just, you know, a few things that just, you know, strange mixture. Strange, strange movie. Yeah. But not terrible.

Marty 54:48
No. Wow. What an interesting experiment. The Pondo Shuffle. And it's been a talking shuffle. It's been an interesting experiment for the last couple weeks because we uh you've probably noticed. It's like, where are all the guests? It's like, well, we were on a little vacation and also doing some pre-production, like Cliff mentioned on our next feature. So it was time to just do some episodes without guests. But strap in, folks, as we like to say, because we're gonna be having guests for oh a bit to make it match the numbers of oh blah blah blah, blee blee. It's season four. We're having 24 guests. Season four, fiddle DD. And then we're having 12 episodes where it's just me and Cliff. So to make the ratio work, the ratio is all out of control. To make the ratio work, we're gonna do that. So next time it'll be a guest and a guest and a guest and a guest, but eventually, in about six weeks, we're gonna watch another movie that we give each other. And what is that movie going to be? It's not gonna be random, or is it? I know what your movie next time is. I know, and I know what your movie is too, so do you think I know? Yeah, yeah. Okay, just checking to make sure it's so weird because it's so far away. I wasn't sure if you want to get a movie. We might as well. Go right ahead. Uh in sticking with the theme of movies from the last five years that neither of us have seen, I hope. Suitable flesh. Suitable flesh. Okay, the Barbara Crampton film. And I picked it out before you had discussed it yesterday.

SPEAKER_04 56:21
Okay.

Marty 56:22
Alright. Because I figured for more selfish reasons. And when I looked at the cast, I was like, yeah, yeah, okay, okay. So um the movie I thought that was Strange Darling.

Clif 56:33
This one is not within the last five years, but it is within the last ten. Yeah, yeah. Um, it is a movie that we have discussed or referenced on the show and had a not a discussion because you haven't seen it, uh, but I've seen it and uh I want you to see it because I want to talk about it, so I'm gonna give you Green Book.

Marty 56:50
Oh, we're doing that one finally. Okay. A lot of people hate this movie, and I do not know almost anything about it. So that's good that I'm gonna go into it uh completely blind.

unknown 56:59
Yep.

Marty 57:00
Uh yeah, and so that'll be quite a while from now, but it will happen probably around June, your time. That's crazy to even fucking think. June.

Clif 57:10
So until June, I'm gonna send you to the smelting place. Is that your quote? Nope. You want to get out of here on a quote? Yeah. You're a good man who made a mistake. No one's gonna rape you, Jerry. Go ahead. I don't shop here. Later, man.

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