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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind production of My

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. My name

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Speaker 1: is Rob Lamb and my name is Joe McCormick. And

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Speaker 1: today's movie is a nine Japanese film called za Ram

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Speaker 1: or maybe better to say zer Um because the za

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Speaker 1: Ram really sounds like the Tennessee take on the name

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Speaker 1: of the alien in this film. Yeah, but hey, what

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Speaker 1: do you know? This is our very first space bounty

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Speaker 1: and say that za Ram is not the most scintillating

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Speaker 1: movie I have ever seen, but it has a really

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Speaker 1: great central monster as it is has a fun bounty

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Speaker 1: Hunter and it is light years beyond the quality of

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Speaker 1: the other main Space bounty Hunter title in my mental database,

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Speaker 1: which is also from nine and is called a Braxis

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Speaker 1: Guardian of the Universe. Rob, have you seen this one

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Speaker 1: with Jesse the Body Ventura? I have. I believe I

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Speaker 1: watched the Riff Tracks version of it, uh, and I

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Speaker 1: remember it being bad, and I definitely remember the two

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Speaker 1: principal cast members. Bractis goes way like when I very

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Speaker 1: first started getting into b movies in like high school,

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Speaker 1: you know, and my friends and I were going to

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Speaker 1: the uh to like the used book and and DVD

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Speaker 1: store and digging through their like trash pile to see

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Speaker 1: what we could find. This is one of the ones

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Speaker 1: we dug up. So it's got Jesse the Body Ventura

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Speaker 1: as the space bounty hunter, and it's got Sven ole

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Speaker 1: A Thorson, who you might know from Oh, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: He was in Conan, I think, uh, and they're running

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Speaker 1: around some Yeah, yeah, they're they're running around some town

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Speaker 1: in Ontario, and uh, Spin is the is the fugitive,

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Speaker 1: and I recall he keeps grabbing people and asking them

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Speaker 1: if they know how to compute the anti life equation.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, uh yeah. Spin shows up in a number

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Speaker 1: of different Arnold movies. He was kind of like part

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Speaker 1: of the the ensemble, I believe, um, but then eventually

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Speaker 1: starts showing up by, you know, doing solo projects as well.

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Speaker 1: Do you think they originally wanted Arnold for a Praxis

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Speaker 1: but he, I don't know, went on to Determinator two

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Speaker 1: or something. I can't imagine Arnold was ever in talks

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Speaker 1: for a Practis. I think I think this this project

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Speaker 1: was in a different orbit entirely. But hey, a space

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Speaker 1: bounty hunter can be a lot of fun because Okay,

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Speaker 1: so you know, you have like two parties arrived from

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Speaker 1: other worlds. Now they're here on Earth, and there's already

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Speaker 1: a chase going on, so like, you know, it's not

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Speaker 1: like you have to get to that part once they're here.

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Speaker 1: One is already in pursuit of the other, and that's

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Speaker 1: a good setup. Yeah, absolutely. Um. You know, in general,

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Speaker 1: the bounty hunter uh scenario makes for good fiction, especially

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Speaker 1: when you know, because you can do the same thing,

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Speaker 1: like who's this mysterious individual chasing this other mysterious individual.

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Speaker 1: Well you're gonna have to explain it to the bystanders

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Speaker 1: and they become part of the whole plot. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: throw in space and alien ends, and you've you've got

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Speaker 1: yourself a winning formula. Um. And I think that's one

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Speaker 1: of the things that I like about Za Ram is

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Speaker 1: that it's a pretty simple formula. They don't they get

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Speaker 1: but in terms of the basic plotting, uh, into a

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Speaker 1: this is a movie where the title is the name

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Speaker 1: be monster centric. There's extremely little plot in this movie. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: form of the far more interesting than spin only Thorsen Fugitive,

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Speaker 1: which is an elegantly haberdash to bipedal star beast who

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Speaker 1: has so many now I reveal my true form moments.

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Speaker 1: I lost count of them, like every time it now

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Speaker 1: I reveal my true forms. There's another one coming, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Um My son walked in and watched part of this

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Speaker 1: with me because because this is ultimately a pretty pretty

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Speaker 1: It's suggests elements of Samurai and one mushrooms and sting rays.

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously there's a little bit of Xeno morph

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Speaker 1: But again, I didn't see the whole film. I forgot

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Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I need to look this film up.

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Speaker 1: I need to see who this mysterious uh um creature

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Speaker 1: did do have a bounty hunter chasing after him. I mean,

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Speaker 1: essentially some sort of bioweapon. I'm gonna buck expectations and

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Speaker 1: argue that when it really comes down to it. Much

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Speaker 1: like the original Alien Za Ram is a movie about

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Speaker 1: It's not really about human relationships. It's not really about

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Speaker 1: It's like, you know, when you see a road partially

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Speaker 1: Except add in space tentacles. Yeah, I think I think

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Speaker 1: can see it if he's a bioeapon. I mean, like

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Speaker 1: The movie raises lots of great questions and I love it.

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Speaker 1: But one of one of the ones I think people

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Speaker 1: would think so. All right, So the elevator pitch for

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Speaker 1: z Ram, I feel like we've basically done it already.

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Speaker 1: It's an alien bounty hunter alien bounty taking place on Earth,

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Speaker 1: some guests. While they're here, try and make them the

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Speaker 1: of the galaxy. Yeah. Not not a great trailer, my fad.

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Speaker 1: But that's the that's the English language shoil or the

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Speaker 1: I mean a big part of this movie is explosion sounds. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: so who made this thing? All right? So the director,

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Speaker 1: am Amia Ammama has an illustration background born nineteen nine.

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Speaker 1: And I think the illustration background makes sense given just

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Speaker 1: Emmamia has done a lot of work in design and effects,

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Speaker 1: including uh, this is interesting. He was an effects animator

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Speaker 1: But next thing, after the intro, we go to meet

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Speaker 1: our main characters, who are all going about their business

426
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 1: somewhere in modern day Japan. So we meet our bounty hunter.

427
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Speaker 1: This is Aria, and she is very on target. She's

428
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: very on task. She will stop at nothing to capture

429
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,679
Speaker 1: or kill the hat beast. And I couldn't remember if

430
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,679
Speaker 1: they explain this anywhere in the movie. But she looks human,

431
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,399
Speaker 1: but I think she's supposed to be from another planet, right,

432
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,919
Speaker 1: She's not like a human who secretly went to space

433
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,679
Speaker 1: and became a bounty hunter, because this is not understood,

434
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,159
Speaker 1: as far as I can tell, to take place in

435
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,440
Speaker 1: the future or anything when humans have gone into space

436
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: and some of them might be space bounty hunters. Right,

437
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 1: she is, I guess what we might loosely think of

438
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 1: as a space human, which, which to a certain extent,

439
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: is kind of a the legacy of a budget constraints

440
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,719
Speaker 1: on sci fi various cultures and film cultures, and you know,

441
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 1: in various decades where yeah, you just can't have a

442
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 1: crazy looking alien for everybody, some of them got to

443
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,120
Speaker 1: be human. And uh, I don't know, maybe it's something

444
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,920
Speaker 1: that's fleshed out more in the sequel or the TV series,

445
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: but she is. And we're never given any glimpse that like, oh,

446
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,399
Speaker 1: she may look human, but her blood is blue or purple.

447
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: Now she's she just seems to be uh a human

448
00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 1: who happens to have this job and maybe don't know.

449
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: It's one of these things we're not supposed to think

450
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 1: about too much. I guess it's planned nine for matter

451
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 1: space that the aliens just look human except they're wearing

452
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: a shiny shirt. Yeah. But well, but the other possibility

453
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,400
Speaker 1: I was considering. Again, I don't think they ever said this,

454
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 1: but I was like, well, I wonder if she's like

455
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,440
Speaker 1: doing I don't know, assuming the appearance of the dominant

456
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: life form on this planet. Oh yeah, it wasn't that

457
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: one of the elements and critters where we had we

458
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,919
Speaker 1: had alien bounty hunters in that, but they ended up

459
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: looking like people, but they weren't people that could be. Yeah,

460
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:34,679
Speaker 1: my critter's knowledge is abysmally low. So as we've we've

461
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 1: threatened a few times we may have to to break

462
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 1: the critter seal on the show. It's just hard to choose.

463
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 1: I don't know, I've we've we've talked about it. I

464
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: think off Mike before. But each Critter's movie offers its

465
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: own alluring choices. I mean, do you go with Critters one?

466
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 1: I think what that's is that the one? Uh, or

467
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 1: maybe it's a sequel that Leoto Leonardo DiCaprio is in it,

468
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,719
Speaker 1: but then one is that the third one? Okay, well,

469
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 1: I don't know, two or three perhaps, But then you

470
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 1: have a pretty good cast in the first one, and

471
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: then by part four you have Brad Dorriff showing up.

472
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: So I don't know, there's so many directions to go.

473
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: And then of course they're roly poly alien create creatures

474
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 1: in all four of them. Uh some some wonderful Gromlin action. Yes, okay,

475
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: so you've got Aria, she's the main hero. She's she's

476
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 1: the bounty hunter. But then you've got Erie has got

477
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,120
Speaker 1: of a sidekick, right, sort of the nerd who does

478
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: her her computing for her. And in the case of

479
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 1: this movie, you know they're not gonna just go another

480
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,439
Speaker 1: humanoid who act kind of nerdy and does computing. They

481
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: actually have a talking computer. It's just an AI sidekick

482
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 1: who constantly explains to the viewer what is happening, Yeah,

483
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 1: Bob the AI. Which I think one of the reasons

484
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: I like this is this this this alone. And I'm

485
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: not comparing this movie to Ian em Banks culture series,

486
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: but in those in those novels, you'll frequently have a

487
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: have an individual who's often a member of the culture

488
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,879
Speaker 1: and they have they have an AI that they're talking

489
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: to all the time and they're having little conversations and

490
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: disagreements and so forth. So this felt, you know, not

491
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 1: not to say that this was even you know, remotely

492
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,360
Speaker 1: inspired by it. It's a pretty you know, I think,

493
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,199
Speaker 1: common idea regarding science fiction, but it it made me

494
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: think of that a little bit. The Bob's got a

495
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: little bit of personality. Bob is not just a you know,

496
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: purely giving the answers to you know, he's not like

497
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: a Google search result, like, He's got some some thoughts

498
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,199
Speaker 1: of his own. Yeah. Yeah, again, he's he's very into

499
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 1: making sure that they get to keep their license, that

500
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 1: that any weaponry or tactics that they employ, that these

501
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: are that they have the correct certifications, that they're they're

502
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: not going to get in trouble. So he's you know,

503
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: he's very much, um, very lawful mindset, and Aria has

504
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: more of a chaotic mindset. I'd say, that's right. Yes,

505
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: So Bob is sort of lawful, neutral and arias kind

506
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 1: of chaotic. Good. Yeah, okay, But then the other two

507
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: main character are our power company guys, and we mentioned

508
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: them already, but you have tepe who is he's handsome, sweet, shy.

509
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 1: Earnest don't have a lot of notes on tepe A.

510
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: He's just kind of like, oh, he's a nice guy.

511
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: But then the other one, you've got his Camilla, who

512
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: seems a little bit older, um, and he is our

513
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 1: fidgety clown, but he ends up really coming through in

514
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: a pinch at the end of the movie. Uh. And

515
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: early on, Kamia has a near meat cute with Iria

516
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: the bounty hunter because she seems to be buying hundreds

517
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: of apples and she drops one in the street and

518
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 1: then Camia picks it up out of the gutter and

519
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: tries to run after her. But I don't think they

520
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: ever come face to face, not at that point, but

521
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 1: of course later on they meet and he's like, oh,

522
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: it's the woman from the street. Though I don't know

523
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: what the purpose of that is, like that that opening sequence,

524
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: because it's like, oh, yeah, I saw you before. Anyway.

525
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: So this movie, especially early on, is very heavy on

526
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: techno babble. There is a long scene with Aria and

527
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: Bob just discussing regulations on the technology they use. Like

528
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,719
Speaker 1: the main thing I think you need to understand is

529
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: the concept of a zone. And so there's a long

530
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: scene where Erie and Bob are talking about the idea

531
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: of a zone. Here's my best interpretation of how it works. So,

532
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: Iria and Bob know that the monster Zairam is headed

533
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: towards Earth, and they know that it will crash land

534
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: at roughly a given place at a given time, and

535
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: they get there before it. So in order to capture

536
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: Zayram with as little risk as possible, Iria and Bob

537
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: make an alternate dimension copy of the city district where

538
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: Ziram is going to land, and then somehow get him

539
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: to land there instead of in the regular dimensional place.

540
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 1: And this alternate dimension city district is known as a zone.

541
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: It's like surrounded by invisible walls, and it's just like

542
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: a regular city, except it has no people in it

543
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: except whoever teleports into that using Arius transporter. And apparently

544
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: you collect a reduced bounty if you quote use a zone,

545
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: but you gotta do what you gotta do. Ultimately, I

546
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: liked this aspect of the movie, like it adds an

547
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: extra little wrinkle to it um and I'm not sure

548
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: how much of it is them wanting to do something

549
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: cool with kind of like, oh, they're not battling the

550
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: alien just on the streets, they're battling it in this

551
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: strange shadow zone, or if it's kind of like, well,

552
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: if they're battling in the zone, we don't have to

553
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: have any extras or worry about why the police aren't

554
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: showing up, right, So most of this movie just takes

555
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: place in the zone. So, like you say, there's no

556
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 1: need for extrasm. There was one scene where they cut

557
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: back to the regular world and they show like the

558
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: people that the electricians were supposed to be partying with

559
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: later that night, hanging out and like they're not there,

560
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: but they're like, oh, I don't miss them. I don't

561
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 1: care that they're not here. Yeah, that was strange. But

562
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 1: by the way, I should ask at this point, did

563
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: you watch that we both used the same Blu ray

564
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: copy on this. Did you do dubbed or subtitled subtitles?

565
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 1: You did subtitles, okay, because so I did the thing

566
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: where I wasn't sure because sometimes there's a drastic difference

567
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: between subtitles and uh and and the dub on films

568
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: like this. So I did the thing at first where

569
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: I had both going on and I was, you know,

570
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: you kind of like trying to split my head um

571
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: by following both and seeing like which one was the

572
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: way to go. And I quickly decided, Okay, that doesn't

573
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: seem to be a tremendous difference. Maybe the subtitles are

574
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: a little tighter, but I don't think I'm missing out

575
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: on a lot of plot if I just go ahead

576
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: and uh and and employ the dub instead. I mean,

577
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: it always varies by case, but I think in general

578
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: dubs are a great option for like silly movies, b

579
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: movies and stuff like that. I think, you know, I

580
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: gravitate more towards subtitles if it's like they're they're real

581
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: strong dramatic performances by the original actors, and you kind

582
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: of want to hear their original tone and things, even

583
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: if you don't understand in the language. Uh and and

584
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 1: just rely on the subtitles for the for the semantic uh.

585
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean in a monster movie, I think

586
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: doubs are great. Okay, Well, we'll come back to this

587
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: because there'll be two points where I want to know

588
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: if you have a different understanding of what was occurring

589
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: based on the subtitles versus my understanding via the doubs.

590
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: Oh oh, but we didn't finish talking about the zones

591
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: because the other back. Okay, right, so the one last

592
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: thing with the zone is like, you can't just walk

593
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: into or out of a zone like a zone. Again,

594
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: it's an alternate dimension. It's surrounded by invisible walls, and

595
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 1: you have to have some kind of teleporter device that

596
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: Aria has set up in her command center in an

597
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: empty warehouse in order to teleport in and teleport out.

598
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: And multiple times in the movie, these teleporting devices get

599
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: broken and that prevents somebody from going one way or

600
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: the other. But okay, Iria and Bob are discussing zones,

601
00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: discussing bounties, discussing regulations and technology. Meanwhile, Tepe and Kamia

602
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,719
Speaker 1: are our power company guys are trying to finish all

603
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: the jobs they've got left on their list for the

604
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: day because at least one of them has a date

605
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: that they need to get to. I don't remember what.

606
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: I think it's Camia. Um, well, maybe both of them

607
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: do anyway, but I think Cape has an actual date date.

608
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: And Kenya is just like hanging out at the box. Yeah,

609
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: Kemya needs to go hang out with people who don't

610
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: actually like him. Um. So, one job that they have

611
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: to deal with before they can finish up for the

612
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: day is that somebody is stealing electricity, so they are

613
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: called to the location where this is this is allegedly happening.

614
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: They arrive at a warehouse where somebody has rigged up

615
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: a bootleg power line coming off of the pole, and

616
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 1: instead of just cutting the line, they have to go

617
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: into the warehouse to investigate, and lo and behold it's

618
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: it's the command center. It's full of weird, blinking, beeping gizmos.

619
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: Time to start touching stuff, right, Yeah, also, just put

620
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: our hands all over this long story short, the two

621
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: electricians accidentally get teleported into the zone along with aria Za.

622
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: Ram arrives and this leads into the rest of the movie,

623
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: which is just one long chain of fights, chases, monster attacks,

624
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: and monster transformations. Yeah, all in kind of dreary, mostly

625
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: dreary looking industrial locations that you know, fit the zone

626
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: and and fit this style of movie. Though. There is

627
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 1: also a wonderful looking I think it's a playground, like

628
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: a really modern um like early nineties Japanese playground. I

629
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,720
Speaker 1: didn't look this up to try and figure out where

630
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: this was. But it looks really cool. I look at

631
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 1: this and I'm like, yeah, I wanna I wanna head.

632
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: I want to play on that. And so from here

633
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,760
Speaker 1: on out, I think, because it's just sort of fights

634
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: and chases and transformations, uh, maybe we can just focus

635
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,399
Speaker 1: on highlights. Uh. The first big fight between za Ram

636
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:55,280
Speaker 1: and Aria is great. It involves energy weapons, ballistic weapons,

637
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: strange traps, like uh, area has all these different kinds

638
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: of traps. One shoots out all these tethers that wrap

639
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 1: up the monster. One is like, it shoots up these

640
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,800
Speaker 1: spikes that surround the monster and us. They're like metal spikes,

641
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: and I think it has to like bend them down.

642
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 1: But then the it also has hand to hand fighting.

643
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: Iria has the full gamut of bounty hunter skills, so

644
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 1: it seems like she is a trapper first and foremost,

645
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: and she likes using this device that encases someone within

646
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,720
Speaker 1: like a giant crystal. But then when a fight breaks

647
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: out she throws down. Yeah. She she does have a

648
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 1: wonderful array of sort of Mandalorian esque or predator esque weaponry,

649
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: you know, all the all the various bells and whistles.

650
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: But of course za Ram has his own tricks, and

651
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 1: one of them, one of the weirdest ones I thought,

652
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: was that he throws out these bio prisms that like

653
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:57,240
Speaker 1: hatch open and then release these creatures, these weird google

654
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: eyed critters that look like a cross between Final Stage

655
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: Bundle fly E t and the baby from the nineties

656
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: puppet sitcom Dinosaurs. Yeah. Yeah, and there's one he he

657
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: patches multiple of these things. Again, it's like it's like

658
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: a little s organic seed pod looking thing, and when

659
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 1: it breaks open, it kind of like like whatever is

660
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: inside rapidly grows and mutates into this kind of squat

661
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 1: goblinoid creature then runs around and squeeze and stuff. Uh,

662
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: there's one that pops up later on that has three

663
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 1: faces and not just one, and the faces kind of

664
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: her mind one of the baby masks from Brazil. And

665
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: they make a kind of noise too, don't they Like, Yeah,

666
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,760
Speaker 1: these are squee noise. Yeah yeah, yeah, these are not uh,

667
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: they're not doing you know, heavy heavy booted martial arts

668
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: like Za ram Is. They're just sort of going like

669
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: and like running at the heroes. Yeah, it's almost like

670
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: he's he's weaponizing some other technology, Like like these things

671
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: are mostly just distraction. They're not They're not going to

672
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: really make a huge tactical difference. He's not hatching like

673
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: elite hunter killers there. These are not his hunting dogs.

674
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: These are just like blithering clone goblins that you know,

675
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: are just there to cause a distraction. Agreed, Yes, but

676
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: I love Yeah, I like them too, And there's a

677
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: number of them throughout the movie. There was one part, though,

678
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: I thought it was funny where the Electricians are figuring

679
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: out what's going on, and um, I think Erie says

680
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: to them. At least this was how it was in

681
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: the subtitles. She goes, don't you get it now, we're

682
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: in an alternate dimension, and then one of the electricians goes,

683
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: you're right now. One of my favorite sequences in this

684
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: um occurs. I want to say, you know, more or

685
00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: less halfway through the film, uh, you know, we've are

686
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 1: he had the initial battle was za Ram. Then we

687
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: get this scene where where's you know? Za Ram has

688
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 1: a run in with our two humanoid characters. And I

689
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 1: think at this point it's been established that the humans

690
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: are on their own in the zone and Area has

691
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: been like ejected from the zone and can't get back

692
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 1: in due to like gadget reasons, right, yeah, the transporter

693
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: brakes or something. Yeah, so this is where he gets

694
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: fun because we know she can hold her own against

695
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 1: a Ram and and and effectively captures a Ram, but

696
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: then she gets booted. Are too human characters mess things up,

697
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: accidentally freeze a Ram, and z Aram has to figure

698
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: out what he's gonna do. And so we have z

699
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: a Ram still in this this form of this hulking bioweapon,

700
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: you know, clothed in this shroud and having this a

701
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: large hat like head. Um. We already know that he

702
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: can rapidly grow grotesque goblinoids to do his bid bidding.

703
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: And in a previous scene he used that the mouth

704
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 1: or the face on the on the hat, it kind

705
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: of came out like a tentacle and it bit one

706
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: of the humans arms. Yeah, yeah, like tore off a

707
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: bit of skin. So h it has a tissue sample.

708
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: So we go to this scene where it's just as

709
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: a Ram alone in this um this in you know,

710
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: open industrial space, and he removes the cloth from his

711
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 1: mouth region and he spits up one of these He

712
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 1: kind of like you know, flexes his muscles, uh strains,

713
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: spits up one of these seed pods. But instead of

714
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: throwing it and letting it hatch, he crushes it in

715
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: his big muscular hand, and some sort of clone slime

716
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: drips out of it, pools up on the ground, begins

717
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: to bubble and rapidly grows into a kind of half

718
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: formed clone of of Cama, or at least the head,

719
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,959
Speaker 1: uh one arm and part of the torso just laying

720
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: there in a pile. And it's really grotesque and wonderful.

721
00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 1: It mostly just spits up clone goop. But he but

722
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: but then Zerrium seems to word sort of wordlessly question

723
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: this thing, and then the goblin clon clone responds with

724
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: kind of alien gibbering and also a little more oozing

725
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: of clone goof from the mouth, and then, satisfied with

726
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 1: all this, Zerrium then crushes the goblin clone underfoot. I

727
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: absolutely love just the alien weirdness of this whole scene.

728
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:24,760
Speaker 1: Um one of these scenes where there are no humans

729
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 1: at all. It's just monsters doing monster things and having

730
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: some sort of conversation that we can scarcely understand. Now,

731
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 1: this is one of the one scenes I would say

732
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 1: if somebody was thinking about showing this movie to a

733
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 1: very little kid, I don't know. This one's pretty grotesque

734
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 1: and kind of and it's kind of pathetic the way

735
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: the creature is like no, and Zayram is just like

736
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: done with you and then squashes him. Now did this

737
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:50,760
Speaker 1: have subtitles in your version? No? It didn't. Okay, excellent,

738
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 1: that's good. I would be disappointed, Uh, first of all

739
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: if I missed out on this the details of this conversation,

740
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: but I ultimately like not knowing, Like as of human viewer,

741
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: we're just completely cut out on the details here, Like

742
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: what is he just saying? Hey, where did that guy go?

743
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, he's over there. I was like,

744
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,760
Speaker 1: all right, good squash. But maybe he's getting more information

745
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 1: about the planet. I'm not sure. It's just it's a

746
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: lovely scene. This, I believe is the scene that I

747
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,439
Speaker 1: saw on television and it just stuck with me because

748
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: it was just so strange. Yeah, this is a great

749
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: one that they pushed the weirdness past eleven. It's it's

750
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 1: off the charts here. Another thing that stuck with me

751
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 1: was I think I wonder if you agree there's a

752
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: part in this movie that I think is a direct

753
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: homage to Aliens, because there is a scene where they're

754
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,760
Speaker 1: they're fighting with za Ram and then suddenly it pans

755
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 1: over to reveal somebody coming in to say that I

756
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: think tape A is being threatened. But then it pans

757
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 1: over and here's camera driving an excavator he's working in

758
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: heavy machinery with. And I think it's like framed in

759
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: stage with the same kind of lighting and stuff as

760
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: when Ripley comes out in the power loader fight at

761
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 1: the end of Aliens. Would you agree? Yeah? Absolutely, And

762
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: it seems like that's where they're gonna go, oh, we're

763
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna have kind of a rip off of

764
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,360
Speaker 1: that scene where it's gonna be Bulldozer versus ari Um,

765
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: but then it ultimately ends up being for comedic payoff,

766
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,800
Speaker 1: right because doesn't Zerium just sort of like swap the

767
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: bulldozer and turns yeah and uh and then and then

768
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: Cammia just runs for it. So I I like that

769
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 1: ultimately a successful scene if they'd gone if they'd actually

770
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: had it be kind of this fight, which I think

771
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 1: they've done. Didn't they do that in Carnissaur. Doesn't a

772
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 1: bulldoz or fight a dinosaur in Carnossaur? Oh? Yeah, somebody

773
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: gets into like a Bobcat or some one of those

774
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: smaller one of those a little I don't know what

775
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: you call the smaller bulldozer, little mandozer. Nobody wants to

776
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: see that. I mean, Ripley did it best using a

777
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: space bulldozer suit. I don't want to see just a

778
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 1: normal bulldozer fight a dinosaur. Now. I have another question

779
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 1: for you, Joe, regarding um dubs and subtitles. Uh. Okay,

780
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: So a large part of this film is that the

781
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: humans are trapped in the zone with za Ram and

782
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: then in area is stuck on the outside. Okay, but

783
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 1: then the human is get in trouble with a Ram

784
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: and then Iria jumps in and saves them, saves the day.

785
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 1: And I don't if it was established how she was

786
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: able to do that. I missed it. Oh, I don't know.

787
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,359
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, there's a lot of stuff like that.

788
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: I don't I know what you're talking about. And I

789
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: don't remember. I think they must have fixed it somehow.

790
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: And then they just like don't show her teleporting or something.

791
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, here she is, you know, Bob got

792
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 1: Bob got it all put together, Okay, but she's ultifinitely

793
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: not that important. But no, no, no, but yeah, there's

794
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: some gaps like that, and uh, A lot of the

795
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: a lot of what Aria and Bob are doing later

796
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 1: on is they're like trying to put together like the

797
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,439
Speaker 1: supercannon or something, or trying to get permission to use

798
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: it or something. Yeah, there's some question from Bob, especially

799
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 1: if they have authorization to use the super weapon. Uh,

800
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: and then they have to get it there, and then

801
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 1: once it's there, it has to be assemboled, and clearly

802
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: our electricians are not quite up up to the task,

803
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: so Aria has to has to slap it together and

804
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,439
Speaker 1: it's a pretty cool weapon when she fires it off.

805
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,240
Speaker 1: Though I like some of the more low tech fighting

806
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 1: you see that the you see the electricians doing because

807
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,280
Speaker 1: and I think we're going to talk about the monster

808
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: transforming into different stages in a minute, but one of

809
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 1: its stages, it's attacking the two electricians and they just

810
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: start piling furniture on top of it, which I thought

811
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: was very funny. Yeah. Yeah, there's another scene where I

812
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 1: want to say that the monster is either thrown into

813
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 1: or throw somebody else into one of you know, you're

814
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: just go to set pieces in a film like this,

815
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: A wall of cardboard boxes clearly empty. Alright, So yeah,

816
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 1: one of the this is a film about the monsters,

817
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: about the monster itself here, and one of the great

818
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: things about it is that it goes through multiple stages again,

819
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: like you said, this is a film where Behold my

820
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: true form happens again and again. So we have stage

821
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 1: one zeri Um, which we've largely described clothed, hulking humanoid warrior.

822
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: And in my opinion, this is uh z Ram, it

823
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: is best uh. And I'm realizing here I may be

824
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: saying zerri Um at times Rams. Okay, who knows, but

825
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 1: I think I think za Ram the Tennessee and version

826
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: is correct. Um. Anyway, this this primary look primary z

827
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: a Ram, tremendous clothing, accessory options, numerous bioweapons, really comes

828
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: off well. But then eventually z Aram gets blasted and

829
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: we get stage Tuesday Ram, which is a skeletal, multi

830
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 1: limbed walker. And this one's a lot of fun because

831
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: it's a stop motion effect, which obviously has limitations in

832
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: a film like this. It even has limitations when he's

833
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: done especially well, like in a Ray Harry House in

834
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:46,840
Speaker 1: or like RoboCop two. But you know, generally examples of

835
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,240
Speaker 1: really well done integration of live action and stop motion.

836
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 1: But still the monster looks great in this Yeah, yeah

837
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,359
Speaker 1: it does. It's it's sort of a mix of an

838
00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: insect and like a mammal skeleton. Yeah, multi limbs lashing

839
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: around pretty fun. But eventually that gets blasted too, and

840
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: we're off to stage three za Ram which it had

841
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: been established earlier that only the head is important. I

842
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 1: think they literally say hat, just the hat, So just

843
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: at this point, z a Ram is reduced to just

844
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:26,240
Speaker 1: that hat, shroom cap, stingray thingy, and it flies around,

845
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: floats around, you know, kind of looking like a rubber

846
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: bat on a string. Uh. There. It reminds me a

847
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of various flying Kaiju monsters, so

848
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 1: maybe less compelling, but very much expected. I feel like

849
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 1: maybe a Kaiju movie that we watched for this show

850
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: had a monster that could transform into something that looked

851
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,800
Speaker 1: like this flying mushroom cap or stingray thing. Was it

852
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: the Godzilla movie? Was it? Did the pollution monster have

853
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 1: a flying stingray form? It might have? Remember Anyway, they

854
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:03,280
Speaker 1: eventually capture the stingray hat thing. They get it sealed

855
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: up in its crystal, but of course it gets out

856
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,839
Speaker 1: of that as as well. Um and uh. And then

857
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 1: we get one last pretty great transformation where the hat

858
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 1: is like upside down and a whole bunch of like

859
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: mutation stuff starts boiling out of it, a very um

860
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 1: John Carpenter's the thing asque transformation, and then it transforms

861
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: into this the Thing esque abomination, which, uh, this was

862
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 1: I guess the logical place to go. Like at this point,

863
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: za Ram is back in the corner. It's just gonna

864
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: mutate a bunch and just lash at you with a

865
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,240
Speaker 1: bunch of tentacles and teeth and mouths and so forth.

866
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: I feel like this incarnation of za Ram was maybe

867
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 1: a bit ambitious, and the full monster comes off a

868
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,439
Speaker 1: little stiff here, but it's still it's still pretty cool.

869
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,240
Speaker 1: Well it has at this point though, it is also

870
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: because it has incorporated some human DNA from CAMA. I

871
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 1: think it has like a little human body parts coming

872
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: out of it, like nipples and stuff. Yeah, there's it

873
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 1: looks like there there might be a boob on it,

874
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:09,720
Speaker 1: but not in a way that like is distressing, I guess,

875
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: just kind of like, oh, I guess that's supposed to

876
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 1: be a human breast. Oh yeah, Okay, Now that would

877
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,280
Speaker 1: have been an interesting way to go if it had

878
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: taken um came As form that's the final form. I

879
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,799
Speaker 1: don't know. Oh yeah, yeah, Like if it had gone faull,

880
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 1: like they just made a clone of him, but a

881
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: defective one. Oh you know, it would have been another

882
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: great ending. They should have done this. I know we

883
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:34,760
Speaker 1: we squashed the came a half clone earlier, but wouldn't

884
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:36,720
Speaker 1: it have been great for like a post credit sequence

885
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: where it's came As friends at the bar, but the

886
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: clone has shown up to hang out with them, and

887
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,240
Speaker 1: it's like having out at the bar and has a drink,

888
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 1: but it's still like spitting up Clone Goog. So they're

889
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 1: in the middle of talking about how they don't miss

890
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 1: Camea and they don't mind that he couldn't make it.

891
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: But then he does show up and he's just bleeding

892
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 1: goo everywhere, and they're like, oh, hey, we were just

893
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 1: talking about you Titters in an alien voice, and they

894
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 1: just notice a couple more things that I thought were

895
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 1: interesting about the ending. One is that in in the

896
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: end camera has to come through and save the day

897
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: by using electrician knowledge. He has to repair the wiring.

898
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 1: I think multiple times in order to I don't know,

899
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: power up the device they're using to defeat the monster

900
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 1: in the end. Yeah, this is really great and it

901
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:26,360
Speaker 1: made me wonder, not enough to actually watch it. But

902
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: in the Super Mario Brothers movie, did the Super Mario

903
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: Brothers end up using their plumbing skills to save the

904
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:36,879
Speaker 1: day against That would be a good twist. Yeah, it's

905
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: been and I don't remember that movie is weird. That's

906
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,280
Speaker 1: a contender for the show. That is a strange film.

907
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 1: I I cannot imagine that the Chris Pratt Mario Brothers

908
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:51,319
Speaker 1: Dream make is going to really equal or or you know,

909
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: excel in creating the same kind of weird cinematic experience. Wait,

910
00:49:56,040 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 1: does Chris Pratt playing Mark Mario super Mario? That is

911
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: what Seth I believe was telling us. Okay, so they

912
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: went from Bob Hoskins to Chris Pratt. Yeah, well it's

913
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: it's a it's a different, different take on the on

914
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:16,399
Speaker 1: on the source material. Okay. Oh oh, no, one last thing,

915
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: final comment about the movie. I like how it ends

916
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 1: with a graduation photo. Yes, why, I don't know. All

917
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 1: the humanoids so after the monsters defeated uria camera tape,

918
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, let's all pose for a photo and

919
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 1: Bob just like that. They stand together and pose and

920
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: Bob takes their picture and then it's like best friends,

921
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: friends forever. It's so wholesome. I love it. Yeah, So yeah,

922
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 1: this is not This is not a film that is

923
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:42,879
Speaker 1: going to really hit you with a lot, a lot

924
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:47,280
Speaker 1: of mysteries and intrigue and double crosses and so forth.

925
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: The plots pretty simple, the payoffs are pretty much everything

926
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 1: you'd expect, but wonderful, weird monster. And I think this

927
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:58,319
Speaker 1: is one of those films that kind of like Pumpkinhead

928
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: to a certain extent, is you see action figures and

929
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:05,880
Speaker 1: costumes and fan art depicting the monster, like the monster

930
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: has really sort of is really kind of more popular

931
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:12,760
Speaker 1: than the film itself, or it seems to be the case. Yeah,

932
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: that would make sense. Now, Uh a little credit? Where

933
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 1: credits do here? When I first started poking around for

934
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: places to watch this film, I could not find zay

935
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: Ram anywhere. I think za Ram two was available as

936
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: a streaming option or you know, or at least a

937
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:29,760
Speaker 1: digital purchase option, and the anime spin off TV series

938
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,799
Speaker 1: was also available that way. But it looked like I

939
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:34,959
Speaker 1: was going to have to obtain a physical copy for sure.

940
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 1: So I inquired with the good people at Atlanta's own

941
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: Video Drome video rental store about it, and they said, sorry,

942
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 1: we don't have a copy. But then they wrote me

943
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 1: back and said, actually, we just ordered a copy of it.

944
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:51,239
Speaker 1: We've ordered the thirtieth anniversary Blu Ray and so that

945
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: came in and that's how we got to watch it.

946
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 1: It's a it's I think a solid Blu ray release

947
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 1: from Media Blasters. It includes a couple of trailers and

948
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 1: also a making of feature that I believe popped up

949
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: on a previous laser disc edition. Oh oh man, can

950
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 1: you imagine the experience of watching this on laser disc? Yeah?

951
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: I watched part of the making of video um but

952
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty bad. Like they're talking to the director

953
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:18,440
Speaker 1: in the star and the directors like, I wanted to

954
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 1: make a film that was fun. So making a fun

955
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 1: film was my primary my primary goal here. Okay, so

956
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 1: it was you know that sort of thing. I don't

957
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:29,479
Speaker 1: know that there's some more depth, in depth stuff about

958
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,840
Speaker 1: the effects later on. But anyway, if you live in Atlanta,

959
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: you can certainly go to Video Drome and rent the

960
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 1: same blue ray disc that we watched it on. You

961
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: can also check out video Drome at video Drome a

962
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 1: t l dot com. And if you want to get

963
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: some of their merch, and they have a lot of

964
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 1: cool merch, you can go to video drome dot tv.

965
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 1: So thanks again to the guys at video Drome for

966
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 1: hooking us up with our z A ram. All right,

967
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:53,720
Speaker 1: if you want to check out more weird house cinema,

968
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: it happens every Friday in the Stuff to Blow Your

969
00:52:56,120 --> 00:53:00,120
Speaker 1: Mind podcast. Feed were primarily you know, science and sometimes

970
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 1: culture or sometimes philosophy podcast. Primarily science though, but on

971
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: Friday's we set both of most of that aside and

972
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: we enter the zone where there's nothing to worry about

973
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:15,400
Speaker 1: except for maybe a strange monster and some you know,

974
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 1: questionable acting performances that sort of thing, huge things. As

975
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:23,520
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977
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