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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of

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

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Speaker 1: is Rob Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick. And today we're

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Speaker 1: gonna answer the question what do you get when you

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Speaker 1: throw Mad Max, Star Wars and three D in a

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Speaker 1: blender with copious dirt road driving sequences. The answer is

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Speaker 1: Metal Storm The Destruction of Jared sin uh I. Uh So,

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited to talk about this movie today because

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Speaker 1: it's not only uh one of those great blender movies.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're just kind of chucking in elements from

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Speaker 1: everything and you mix them all up into a cinema smoothie.

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Speaker 1: But it's also a great example of something that I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of listeners will will have experience with

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Speaker 1: from their day to day jobs. This movie is a

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Speaker 1: great example of the boss had an idea and now

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Speaker 1: it's our job to make it work. Yes, to bring

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Speaker 1: it to life. That the boss in this case, for

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Speaker 1: the most part, is Charles Band. So yes, we are

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Speaker 1: returning to band Camp. I don't think we we necessarily

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Speaker 1: intended to return to to the cinematic world of Charles

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Speaker 1: Band so soon after transfers too, but then you ended

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Speaker 1: up I mentioned it in the Transfers episode, and then

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Speaker 1: you ended up watching it. And here we are. Right

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Speaker 1: last weekend, I was visiting with an old friend of

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Speaker 1: we ended up going out to rent some discs and

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Speaker 1: the video store shelf was metal Storm The Destruction of Jaredson.

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Speaker 1: It was fresh in my mind from your mention on

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Speaker 1: the Transfers two episodes. I was like, well, we got

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Speaker 1: to pick it up and we had a blast watching

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Speaker 1: this thing. Though I will say, for uh, for a

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Speaker 1: really pretty dumb movie, a really enjoyable but dumb movie,

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Speaker 1: this one definitely took me to go around to understand

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Speaker 1: the plot. I look. I look forward to that. I

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Speaker 1: I have seen it twice as well, but those viewings

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Speaker 1: are separated by by many years. Uh uh. Now, speaking

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Speaker 1: in pretty awesome, has some neat extras, and it's two discs.

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Speaker 1: One disc is your typical Blu Ray two D format

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Speaker 1: and any other one is in three D. For those

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Speaker 1: of you who have the equipment to make three dimensional

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Speaker 1: cinematic viewing possible. Yeah, well, what what would it require?

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Speaker 1: Would be red blue glasses even at home. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: I'm not up enough on this technology. Um So I

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Speaker 1: was afraid to even put it into my xbox. That

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Speaker 1: was like, I don't know what will happened? Could be

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Speaker 1: this devastating. But what like other three D movies, this

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Speaker 1: at all when you're watching it in two D. So

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Speaker 1: characters just shoving things towards the camera here, you know,

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Speaker 1: here's a here's a thing flying at you. It's very

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Speaker 1: much like you know, uh, Friday thirteen, Part three in

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Speaker 1: So the sequences where people are reaching at the screen

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Speaker 1: also just I mean, you can't deny that name metal

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Speaker 1: combination of like the tech Viking vocabulary metal Storm, but

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Speaker 1: can't explain it. But maybe it's because ultimately the Jared's

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Speaker 1: the escape of Jaredson because that's what happens at the end,

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Speaker 1: He's not destroyed. And our Band's like, no, that's that's

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Speaker 1: that's not a good title. The destruction of of Jaredson.

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Speaker 1: this at Samuta music dot com. But this is the

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Speaker 1: Born One. We've discussed his bio on two previous episodes

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Speaker 1: Features and Full Moon Features is still going strong today.

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Speaker 1: So this movie came out in what year was it? Three?

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Speaker 1: That seems about right, that's right, eighty three, a big

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Speaker 1: as well as an episode of the original Twilight Zone. Huh,

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00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,000
Speaker 1: and he's He's done a lot of bit parts here

428
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 1: and there. He played. Interestingly enough, he played at this character,

429
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 1: if you can call it, a character test administrator in

430
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:33,800
Speaker 1: the two thousand nine Star Trek movie. Oh for the

431
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 1: Kobeyoshi Maru test. That's what I guess. Yeah, in this movie,

432
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,879
Speaker 1: he is always shiny. Did you notice that, It's like

433
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 1: he's never he's never dry, So he's always, I guess,

434
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:49,199
Speaker 1: been recently sweating and the sun is glinting off of

435
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,479
Speaker 1: his face. Well, another I didn't think about this. I

436
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 1: just don't know much about three D and what it

437
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,199
Speaker 1: takes to to film in three D. But in the

438
00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 1: the feature they were pointed out the first of all,

439
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,760
Speaker 1: you have to light everything a lot more intensely to

440
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:03,480
Speaker 1: film in three D, or certainly they did at the

441
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,360
Speaker 1: time back in the early eighties. And they also had

442
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 1: to use our like orange makeup on everybody's face, so

443
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,399
Speaker 1: that could be part of the the look that we

444
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: see with our main character here is like that that

445
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:20,639
Speaker 1: perhaps he's a lot of orang er in you know,

446
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,439
Speaker 1: in real life on the actual set and um, and

447
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 1: maybe that ends up making his face looks sweatier than

448
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 1: it is. I don't know. Well, he's very shiny in

449
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,959
Speaker 1: the movie, but not all the actors are shiny, like

450
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 1: the the actor playing Jaredson is very matt He's he's

451
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,359
Speaker 1: a very matt guy. Yeah, alright, let's move on to

452
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 1: the next. Uh, I guess kind of a sub hero

453
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: of the film. This is the Han Solo character Rhodes

454
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:52,360
Speaker 1: played by Tim Thomason. Uh, that's Jack Death himself, Timmy Tas.

455
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 1: I mean, one of the things that's absolutely astonishing about

456
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 1: this movie is the age question that we're gonna get

457
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:02,359
Speaker 1: into about, Like about him Thomason here, But yes, he's

458
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 1: he's sort of playing Jack Death as as this character Rhodes,

459
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,719
Speaker 1: but he's also definitely Han Solo. Like you said, the

460
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 1: idea was like, what if mad Max and Han Solo

461
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 1: were buddies and they went on an adventure together. Yeah,

462
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,679
Speaker 1: but in a weird way, it is like it's like

463
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 1: the old version of Han Solo, the Han Solo from

464
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 1: the Star Wars sequels. And and yet the age question

465
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 1: that comes up, this is this thing. It's like, unless

466
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,879
Speaker 1: I'm just drastically wrong on the math, Tim Thomason was

467
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,399
Speaker 1: thirty seven during this film, during the filming of this

468
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 1: this movie, Like I just I don't know, I just

469
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: I just I look at I look at him in

470
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 1: this and he's just a lot more weathered looking um,

471
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 1: and I just would not guess that he was thirty

472
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 1: seven years old. It seems like he's always been at

473
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 1: least forty two. We had the same comment about Trainsers too,

474
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 1: and that he seemed much older than he actually was,

475
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 1: and the same is true here. He I can't believe that.

476
00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he seems at the absolute youngest mid forties. Yeah,

477
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 1: so I don't know. I mean people aged differently, and uh,

478
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: I mean maybe that's ultimately and also, you know, makeup

479
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: in hair are part of it. Uh and maybe this ultimately,

480
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: like this, this leaned into his um, his his vitality

481
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 1: on the screen, you know, is that like he's a

482
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: he's much younger than he appears, so he's able to

483
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,439
Speaker 1: bring energy to these kind of rugged roles. I don't know.

484
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,360
Speaker 1: At any rate, he's he's always a pleasure. He's great

485
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,680
Speaker 1: in this. He has great comedic timing and so forth. Yeah,

486
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 1: he's a he's a whiskey drinking cynical. You know, I don't.

487
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 1: I didn't get myself into this. He's also the source

488
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: of comedy in the same way that Han Solo is

489
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 1: sometimes the cynical source of comedy, the person who has

490
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 1: a pessimistic outlook on the adventure. Yeah, all right, let's

491
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 1: move on to the next actor. We have the character Diana. Uh.

492
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 1: It's spelled d h y A and A in the

493
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: credits and uh. This character is played by Kelly Preston,

494
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: who lived nineteen sixty two through Oh she passed way

495
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, yes, that sadly did she. She started

496
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 1: it off on various early eighties TV shows, but this

497
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: this was her first feature film, followed the same year

498
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: by John Carpenter's Christine, the adaptation of the Stephen King

499
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 1: novel about the Haunted car Now. She eventually met John

500
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: Travolta on the set of the The Experts seven and

501
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,639
Speaker 1: the two married. She acted in a number of notable

502
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 1: films um over the years, but genre films of note

503
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: of interest to us. She was in Space Camp, she

504
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,120
Speaker 1: had a brief part I Think and From Dusk Till Dawn.

505
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 1: And she was also in her husband's sci fi passion

506
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 1: project Battlefield Earth in two thousand. I did not remember

507
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 1: this at all, though I have seen Battlefield Earth and

508
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 1: I was just laughing this morning remembering that the aliens

509
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 1: in it are called the Cyclose. Yeah it was. It's

510
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 1: just the word psychos with an L in it. Yeah, yeah,

511
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,159
Speaker 1: the cyclos. And she plays the cyclos. She's a sexy

512
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: cyclo named Kerk. She has a big, long cong well

513
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 1: not in my brain at all, completely forgot that. I

514
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: should also mention she's also so Ian Jerry McGuire from

515
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: which isn't a genre film, but that means her performance

516
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: will one day become a part of the brilliant pyramid

517
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 1: that rises out of the American desert. Oh that's right. Yeah.

518
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,199
Speaker 1: Acting wise, Um, she's present in this film, she's not

519
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,239
Speaker 1: really given much to do. And again she was, like

520
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: you know she was. She was very young at the time,

521
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,640
Speaker 1: so uh, you know, not a knock on her her

522
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: acting ability, but there's just not this is not much

523
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: of a role. There is a great scene where she

524
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: gets teleported and before she gets teleported, she turns into

525
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:34,679
Speaker 1: a big red laser blob. Yes, all right, and you

526
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 1: know who who did that? Whose magic that was? That

527
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,199
Speaker 1: was the magic of Jared Sin. So let's get to

528
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: the actor who plays Jared Sin. The actor Michael Preston.

529
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,120
Speaker 1: Uh no relation to Kelly Preston by the way, Um,

530
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 1: born in ninety eight. Uh. This is our our central villain,

531
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: you know. I he's somehow at the same time wonderful

532
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: and very underwhelming as a villain like he he is

533
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 1: a very ineffective and underwhelming villain in many ways. But

534
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: at the same time, I enjoyed his presence because of

535
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 1: his bizarre armor that he wears the whole movie. It's

536
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: it looks like, I don't know, like sparring pads in

537
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: a weird way. It's like it looks very puffy and

538
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: foamy and has these odd bubble shapes where in some

539
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 1: places where his muscles would be. It has this giant

540
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 1: called era of a collar um. And his hair is

541
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 1: just out of this world. It's this matt flat combed

542
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: down in the front, kind of nineties alt rock haircut. Yeah,

543
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: it's it's he has weird hair and a very weird

544
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: outfit that has like kind of a muscle suit, kind

545
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: of like power armor. It's it's black and crimson, and

546
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: it's the sort of outfit that if it were just

547
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: a few degrees to the left, if we're just a

548
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 1: little cheaper, it would look just absolutely awful. It would

549
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: just look like something out of Power Rangers. But you know,

550
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: part of it, maybe it's the cinematography, maybe, but but

551
00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: I think a large part of it is is the costume.

552
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: Like The costuming in this film is generally just is

553
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,479
Speaker 1: really effective. Um and credit were credit to do. This

554
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: is the work of Kathy Clark, who also gave us

555
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: those wonderful jumpsuits in Robot Shocks. Okay, yeah yeah, so

556
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: um yeah. I think that the Jaredson character, like, ultimately,

557
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: it's a large percent of it is the weird hair

558
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: and the strange costume and the lot, especially in the

559
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: shadow realm sequences, it's really well let it looks really cool,

560
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: and the actor tends to have a certain intensity about him.

561
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: I found that he never looked completely silly, which is

562
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: a huge accomplishment considering some of the elements that were

563
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: in play. He has notes of Mick Jagger as what's

564
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: his name in free Jack? That the syndic or whatever

565
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: it was. Yeah, I think that was right. Yeah yeah.

566
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: So occasionally I really thought Jaredson was going to say

567
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: get the mate, but he never did. In fact, a

568
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: lot of times he doesn't talk. He just stares into

569
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: the camera, smoldering with the eyes, with the awesome you know,

570
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: flat front haircut. Yeah. Yeah, Ultimately, unlike McJagger in in

571
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: free Jack, when when Michael Preston opens his mouth and

572
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: and actually uses dialogue. There's some level of consistency and

573
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: it doesn't just completely destroy the illusion of coolness. Uh.

574
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: But anyway, Michael Preston was was like a big get

575
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: for the filmmakers here because they were making a Road

576
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: Warrior esque film and Preston was actually in the Road

577
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: Warrior playing this character Papa Gallo, who I think was

578
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: the leader of the good guys. Oh yeah, I think

579
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: he was sort of the leader of the compound that

580
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: was being assaulted by the Gang of Lord Humongous. Yeah.

581
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: So this guy was London born. He was a boxer

582
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: turned singer turned actor. I think he ended up spending

583
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: most of his time in Australia if I'm not mistaken.

584
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 1: There he started acting in the early seventies, wound down

585
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: in the late nineties, but don't worry, he got an

586
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: episode of Highlander the TV series in there before he retired.

587
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: Did he play an immortal? I assume so. I mean,

588
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: if you're if you're a guest player on Highlander the

589
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: TV series, and you're you know, at all notable for

590
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: any villain rolls, you're you're losing your head. That's all

591
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: there is to it. I haven't seen Highlander of the

592
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 1: TV series. But a while back you shared with me

593
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: a really great, uh compilation video and that was something

594
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: like the seventeen best Quickenings of the Highlander of the

595
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: TV series. Oh but did you see the seventeen or

596
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 1: however many worst? Actually I think maybe that guys it, Yeah,

597
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: because there are some bad ones, so you had to

598
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: have a quickening every episode and they all had to

599
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: be like somewhat different. Some of them involved incredibly tasteless visions. Yeah,

600
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: so anyway, he got in there on that. He also

601
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: did a fair amount of TV work and um, I

602
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: think he was in a couple of different Australian cop shows. Okay,

603
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: all right, well let's move on to the next character.

604
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: We we we have so many interesting characters in this one.

605
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: Richard mole is in this playing her Rock, the dinosaur Hunter.

606
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: Uh well yeah, similar, similar r Rock. So this is

607
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: the legendary Richard mole Borne. Um. You know, I grew

608
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: up watching him on reruns of night Court, in which

609
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: he plays the good natured giant bailiff Bull Shannon. Bull

610
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: Shannon appears in all nine seasons, all one nine three

611
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: episodes of night Court, and it was only much later

612
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: that I realized that that he you know, had it

613
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: was already making a name for himself as like a

614
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: B movie actor before this came out. And then then

615
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,239
Speaker 1: of course he went on to to do a lot

616
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: of voice acting afterwards, and it's still active today. I've

617
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: never seen Night coord But Richard Mall is a lot

618
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: of fun in this movie. He plays this, uh, this

619
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: big warrior of this faction in the movie known as

620
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: the Cyclopeans. So he's only like one half of his face,

621
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: has this makeup on where he's only got one eye.

622
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: But he's like this big tough warrior guy who has

623
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: a great great battle with size, like like Raphael the

624
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: Ninja Turtles has and with our with our hero Dojin. Yeah,

625
00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: he's I guess he's kind of cling on asking this.

626
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: You know, he's the he's a member of this warrior

627
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: culture he had. He's he's gonna fight, but he's noble

628
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: and you know he ends up uh turning face by

629
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: the end of it. Now, this is a fun, fun

630
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: fact from the making of this film. Um, Richard Mole

631
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: had and still has like a full head of hair,

632
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: so he didn't want to shave his head for Metal Storm. Uh,

633
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 1: but they wanted him to because it ultimately made the

634
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: makeup that heat much easier because if he had his

635
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: head all of his hair, they were gonna have to

636
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: put a bald cap on him and do all this

637
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: extra stuff. So that they were like, can you can

638
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: you shave your head for this role and he said

639
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: absolutely not. And then apparently his agent was like, like, look,

640
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: he really needs the work right now. Um, I bet

641
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,239
Speaker 1: if you offer him five hundred bucks, he'll do it.

642
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: So they did. They offered him five hundred extra bucks

643
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: to shave his head and he did it. Uh. And

644
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: as it turned out, it was pilot season at the time,

645
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: and that was one of the reasons he didn't want

646
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: to shave his head. Uh. And this was the time

647
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 1: period during which he auditioned for night Core and they

648
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: offered him the part, but they loved the look, so

649
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: they said, you know, it was in his contract that

650
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: he had to keep his head shaved as long as

651
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: he was Bullshannon. So that's interesting as well. So metal

652
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: Storm indirectly responsible for the creation of a TV icon exactly, Yeah,

653
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 1: where would we be? Uh? So Rigald mole Um his

654
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,760
Speaker 1: first role was playing Joseph Smith in the ninety seven

655
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 1: film Brigham, But then he went on to do some

656
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,320
Speaker 1: TV work and finally an increasing number of of genre

657
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: films Evil Speak, The Sword and the Sorcerer, The Dungeon Master, Galaxis.

658
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,280
Speaker 1: But I think once he established himself as a comedic actor,

659
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 1: that was that was kind of hard to shake. Though.

660
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 1: He also shows up as a villain on an episode

661
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: of Highlanders, the TV series, um and then he uh, yeah,

662
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: he's also done some other interesting to Like I said,

663
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 1: he was a voice actor. He was in the old Batman,

664
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: the animated series. He did the voice of Harvey Dent.

665
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: Slash to Face Batman the Enemy series is great. They

666
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: recently added that on one of the streaming services, and

667
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: I've been watching some old episodes of it. It still

668
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: holds up. It's wonderful. I loved it as a kid. Yeah.

669
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: Was Now you said he was in The Sword and

670
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 1: the Sorcerer. Was that also one that Richard Lynch was in? Yeah,

671
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 1: I believe that's the Richard Lynch picture. That one's on

672
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: my list to watch, but I haven't quite got around

673
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: to it yet. That's the way that is much beloved

674
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:23,720
Speaker 1: in some circles. Alright, let's move on to another secondary character.

675
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: At this time of secondary villain the right hand man

676
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:31,240
Speaker 1: to uh to our man Jaredson, this is the character

677
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: ball uh B A A L. And this is played

678
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: by our David Smith. So this is spelled like the

679
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 1: like the ancient god ball, like Lord's Lord Ball. Yeah.

680
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: So Smith acted in various TV shows. Um he was

681
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: in you know, and then also there was this, there

682
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 1: was there was AI artificial intelligence apparently has a role

683
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:56,439
Speaker 1: in that. Um. He did stunts on Predator Too, which

684
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: which is very interesting. So one of the things that

685
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 1: becomes obvious as you watch metal Storm is that is

686
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 1: that he's missing part of his left arm. He was

687
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: born missing his left arm just beneath the elbow, and

688
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: so he ended up this was utilized in a number

689
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: of different films that he did don't work in or

690
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: or in this case acting work. Um, particularly Predator Too.

691
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember, but there's a part

692
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: where Danny Glover, our hero is fighting back against the

693
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 1: predator and manages to slice the predator's arm off. Well

694
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 1: at that point, our David Smith is playing the predator

695
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: and uh and apparently played him in this kind of

696
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: ultimately dangerous repelling scene where like the Predator slides down

697
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: like a drain pipe or something from the roof to

698
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: the to the pavement, and much like in so in

699
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: the Predator movies, the Predator has glowing green blood, and

700
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: I believe in that sequence in Predator to Danny Glover

701
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: after the arm gets cut off, tracks the Predator to

702
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: his lair by following the splatters of blood. There is

703
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: a scene exactly like that in this movie played by

704
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: the same guy or David Smith, as Ball gets like

705
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: his cyber arm ripped off. He's squirting green goop all

706
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 1: over the place because that's I don't know, he just

707
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: green goop comes out of his arm for some reason.

708
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,240
Speaker 1: And our hero, that the mad Max guy, just follows

709
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: the green blood. Yeah. So interesting, even though this film,

710
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: of course was years before Predator two came to be.

711
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 1: But at any rate, uh, he Ball, the Ball character

712
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: is pretty cool. It is perfectly weird looking character that

713
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: I ultimately helped sell the picture. He's like a cyborg

714
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: with a robot arm that we'll we'll we'll get into

715
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: the details of his abilities here in a bit, but

716
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 1: he reminds me a bit of the Heman character that

717
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: I think came after this. The character trap jaw. Oh

718
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: I don't remember that character. What was his deal? I

719
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,720
Speaker 1: included a picture of him here from like a comic

720
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: book back in the day, so you can see it.

721
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: But basically, he had one robot arm and of course

722
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 1: huge muscles because that was part of the whole human thing.

723
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: And then he has like a lower like he's a cyborg.

724
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: So he has like a helmet and a lower jaw

725
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,959
Speaker 1: that's like a trap, like a bear trap. Oh yeah,

726
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: I do see the comparison, you know, with the helmet

727
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:02,280
Speaker 1: also because so wait, this is even more complicated because

728
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 1: Ball in this movie, even though he looks like he's

729
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,240
Speaker 1: an alien or something like, he's kind of green and

730
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: he's got the cyborg stuff, he is supposed to be

731
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: Jared Sin's son. Yes, I mean, I have no idea

732
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:17,800
Speaker 1: how it works, but yeah, you know, I mean I

733
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 1: don't know it. You know, we don't know that the

734
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: jaredson is Ball's birth father. I mean, we we're not

735
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,799
Speaker 1: sure what. We're not privy to the details on this relationship,

736
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: but but they do seem close. Okay, alright, finally, just

737
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: I already mentioned him, but Richard Band did the music.

738
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,280
Speaker 1: This is Charles Band's brother. An accomplished film score composer.

739
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: His work tends to be very traditional but effective, sometimes

740
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: suitably cheesy, and he's worked on pictures like Terra Vision

741
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: before and like that's the perfect place for slightly cheesy

742
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: traditional music. I watched this movie with subtitles, and a

743
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: lot of good humor came out of the bracketed subtitles

744
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 1: telling me what kind of music was playing? Orchestral? Yes, yeah,

745
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: so it would just show uh Jaredson like with the

746
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: flat haircut, staring into the camera looking like he's composing

747
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: a really angry like you don't Internet reply in his

748
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 1: brain and staring ahead, and then it just says like

749
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 1: ominous orchestral music. Brackets Yeah, speaking of composing. The other

750
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 1: interesting thing, Like I said, a lot of this film

751
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: apparently came together on a very tight, very tight budget,

752
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: but then also a very tight schedule. Band had to

753
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,959
Speaker 1: do all the music and something like eleven days. Wow. Yeah,

754
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 1: like composed record everything. All right, you ready for a

755
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 1: full plot breakdown, Let's do it now. I gotta say

756
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: there is a very nice three D title sequence. Always

757
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: love those and you can always tell so I when

758
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: I rented this didn't realize it was a three D movie,

759
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,320
Speaker 1: but I could tell as soon as I saw the credits,

760
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: because it's that style where they're the blocky letters that

761
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: you can just see them like with this dimensionality that

762
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: would not really be there if they weren't intended to

763
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: jump out of the screen at you. When we get

764
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: our first glimpse of of real action, it is in

765
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: a taste of things to come, a driving montage. I

766
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: thought that would be appropriate because I don't know what

767
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: percentage of this movie's run time. Would you guess is

768
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: made up of driving? A lot of it? A lot

769
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 1: of it? Yeah, like like I like I mentioned, Uh,

770
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: I believe it was. I believe it's Richard Band who

771
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 1: brought up that they didn't speed up the driving sequences

772
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,479
Speaker 1: and that they ended up running the credits. I didn't

773
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: notice this when I watched it, but the credits run

774
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: exceedingly slow on various cuts of this picture, so that

775
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: it takes up as much time as possible. Uh So,

776
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: Richard Band says this is actually one of the rare

777
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 1: movies where there's more music than there is film. I'd

778
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 1: say there's a solid seventy two minutes of film content

779
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 1: in this movie, and then the rest is credits. Now

780
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: the driving sequences though, or like I said, they're not boring.

781
00:40:56,120 --> 00:41:00,439
Speaker 1: They have some really cool looking vehicles. We immediately meet

782
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: our heroes vehicle. This is the I come to think,

783
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:04,839
Speaker 1: came to think that it is the dog skull doom

784
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: truck because it looks kind of like a dog skull.

785
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: It looks like what might happen if you took the

786
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: dog truck from Dumb and Dumber and you boiled all

787
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: the flesh and hair off. Ye yes, yes, yes, yes,

788
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: it's got he's even got teeth, you know, it's got

789
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:23,399
Speaker 1: a little great on the bottom, some kind of cow

790
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: catcher type thing, but it looks like teeth. So yeah,

791
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: as soon as you pointed that out, I saw it.

792
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 1: It's dog skull every time. And so of course the

793
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: driver of dog truck here is our hero, the man

794
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: named Dojin, which I guess is appropriate since he drives

795
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: the dog truck and he is as we described earlier,

796
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: he's a scruffy, sweaty earth rim roamer dressed exactly like

797
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: Mad Max in The Road Warrior. Black leather up and

798
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 1: down in this hot, dusty desert seems like maybe not

799
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 1: the best choice, but perhaps that's why he's always so

800
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 1: shiny and sweaty. Uh. And yeah, he's playing some kind

801
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 1: of cop of the post apocat Elliptic wilderness. He's driving

802
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: around with a helmet on at first, but then he

803
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: takes the helmet off and you hear him getting some

804
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: kind of radio transmission. Uh. They're they're, you know, they're

805
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: saying like, hey, ranger, ranger. Uh they're they're they're calling

806
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: him about some kind of crystal interference. And so he

807
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: drives out to meet the challenge while a bunch of

808
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: very determined sounding orchestral music plays, you know, done dundune

809
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: to dune um. And then there's a road battle. So

810
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:30,280
Speaker 1: Dojin is attacked in his dog truck by a Cyclopean

811
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: warrior who's only got one eye, who is flying on

812
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: a speeder in the air and trying to blast the

813
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: dog truck with lasers. They have a laser shootout. Uh.

814
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: The effects are cheap, but like I said earlier, I

815
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: like them even though they're cheap. I would say this

816
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 1: is very much in my rub the fur category type movie.

817
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: But it's cheap synthetic fur, but it still feels pretty good. Yeah.

818
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of like when you're watching a

819
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: play like on the stage, and it has special effects,

820
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: you know those special act be it's something like a

821
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 1: red handkerchief representing blood and all. Uh. You know, just

822
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,320
Speaker 1: because it doesn't look real doesn't mean that it doesn't

823
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: have its own sort of style, and then it can't

824
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: be um, you know, it can't be effective, and then

825
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 1: you can't adjust your viewing. Uh. You know, you can't

826
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,879
Speaker 1: suspend disbelief to meet like the level of the artistic medium. Yeah. Yeah,

827
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: And I would agree that I would say that the

828
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:23,840
Speaker 1: effects in this movie are fun despite being cheap and

829
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: not super convincing. Uh, in the same way that the

830
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: effects or the sets or whatever in a good play

831
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: can be. So they have a shootout. Dojin wins the battle.

832
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: The the speeder crashes into a cliff and explodes. This

833
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: movie is absolutely of the school of any time of

834
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: vehicle crashes. It explodes in a fireball always of the time.

835
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 1: So Dojing goes up to explore the crash cyclopean vehicle

836
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: and he finds among the wreckage a red crystal. And

837
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: this will be the first crystal of the movie, but

838
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: by no means the last, because if there are two

839
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: things this movie is obsessed with it is driving sequences

840
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: and crystals. Yeah, a lot of crystals in this movie.

841
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: If you own a crystal store, you should have this

842
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 1: playing in the background at all times. Oh yeah, it'll

843
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: really convince people of their power to Yeah. I mean,

844
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: The Dark Crystal probably has more crystals in it than

845
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 1: this movie. But I can't think of another film wrong

846
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,720
Speaker 1: that this movie has more crystal than The Dark Crystal.

847
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: You may be right, now, yeah weak. Now, from here,

848
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: we cut to a mining scene because we get this

849
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: is the whole thing about the crystals is like, this

850
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,399
Speaker 1: is the planet. I guess is this is this Earth?

851
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: Or is this a different planet? They never make that clear.

852
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is supposed to be far

853
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: in the future or just some alternate fantasy realm that

854
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: that's never fully clear. It doesn't it doesn't ever in

855
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: any explicit way connect to real history, so we don't know.

856
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: But yeah, we get some crystal mining and this is

857
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: where Kelly Preston and her dad, not the actress's dad,

858
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: but the character of this character's dad. They're drilling for

859
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: crystals with these little handheld tools in a mine shaft,

860
00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: and Kelly Preston's character's name is Diana Uh. And they

861
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 1: make clear that this is like an old mine that's

862
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 1: been abandoned by the original miners, and I was I

863
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: have to admit I was having like a little No

864
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 1: Man's Sky flashback here, because here we have these characters

865
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,879
Speaker 1: in a weirdly shaped cavern with uh and they're they're

866
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:19,479
Speaker 1: mining weird crystals that are everywhere with a weird space guying.

867
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 1: It's like a laser. Yeah. Yeah, it's like straight up

868
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: No Man Sky. I was afraid I was about to

869
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: spend like an hour and a half tediously collecting these

870
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: crystals with these characters so that you can buy like

871
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: a shorter cool down period for your mining gun. Yeah

872
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: uh yeah. And so the characters here, so the Dad

873
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,240
Speaker 1: is sort of reminiscent of Sam Elliott as the Stranger.

874
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: He's sort of affable, gray haired with a mustache. And

875
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: we get a little bit of a window into the

876
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: politics or the world building here because Kelly Preston says,

877
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 1: you know, treaty or not, I don't like being in

878
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: Nomad territory. They don't allow trespassers. And the dad says

879
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 1: they'll never even know we were here, and then immediately

880
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: Kelly Preston finds a gigantic crystals the size of a thermus,

881
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: and then the dad is like, wow, we're rich, and

882
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 1: so they take it outside to look at it in

883
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: the light. Uh. They're standing around the opening of the mine,

884
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: and Uh, I wanted to point out quickly there's one

885
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,799
Speaker 1: set dressing detail I really like. Here in the mine,

886
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 1: there's this giant pile of some kind of flexible tubes

887
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: or hoses that are just coiled chaotically all over the place,

888
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: and it looks like a giant battle meck just spilled

889
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: its intestines. Yeah. I think they filmed a lot of

890
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: these sequences in a quarry, but they dressed it up nicely.

891
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 1: And I mean I ultimately bought this. The thing is

892
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: in the viewing it visually. I bought this as another world,

893
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 1: but I never got enough information from the film to

894
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: know of, like the nomad territory is an entire planet,

895
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: is it part of another planet, what's sort of what's

896
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 1: going on, what's the what's the interstellar community? Like? Nothing? So,

897
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 1: like I said, is this Earth? Is this an alien world?

898
00:46:58,239 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: This is maybe something to think about as we go on,

899
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: the question of what makes good world building versus bad

900
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: world building. And as much as as much fun as

901
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: this movie is in a you know, other movie, mash

902
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,240
Speaker 1: up elements in a blender, rubbed the fur kind of stuff,

903
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: this is this movie, I would say, is a very

904
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:18,320
Speaker 1: bad example of world building. I don't understand the world,

905
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 1: and it does not seem very interesting. But it's full

906
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:24,439
Speaker 1: of interesting characters, and we immediately meet some of them. Yeah,

907
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 1: that's right. So we get the bad guys coming in

908
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: there there outside, Oh, look at the crystal. We're rich,

909
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: immediately ambushed by Ball and his cyclops enforcers. So Ball

910
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 1: is the the cyborg guy with a cyborg arm, and

911
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 1: so Kelly Preston hides in the mind while her dad

912
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: gets attacked by these guys. They come up on him.

913
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 1: They say like, you can't be here. You're not allowed

914
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 1: to be here. The law says you must die, And

915
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 1: so they grab his crystal and they smash it on

916
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: the ground. They sentence him to death, and then the

917
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: form the execution takes is one of the strangest and

918
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: most elaborate that I've ever seen in a movie. They've

919
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: got laser guns there, but they don't just shoot him. Instead,

920
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 1: it's a four step process, right, And I'd say the

921
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: process is squirt, trip, crystal die. This is wonderful. So

922
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: the squirt is that Baal has on his cyber arm.

923
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: He squirts green goo on you and then the and

924
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:26,760
Speaker 1: then the green goo makes you hallucinate, and the hallucination

925
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: transports you to another plane of existence, like another dimension.

926
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 1: And then in that other dimension, Jaredson is there and

927
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,359
Speaker 1: he's holding a red crystal and then he touches you

928
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: with the red crystal and then you die. And this

929
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 1: is a wonderful sequence because the other realm is is realized,

930
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 1: is this kind of place where it's like black gravel

931
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: on the ground and it's just infinite darkness all around you.

932
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:57,280
Speaker 1: And then once you're there, here comes Jaredson strolling casually

933
00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: up to you, just exceptionally well lit, like just the

934
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 1: right amount of shadow and light. Strolls up to you

935
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: with this smoldering look on his face, reaches out with

936
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 1: the red crystal, touches you on the side of the neck,

937
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: and you scream in anguish and presumably die and and

938
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:15,399
Speaker 1: he gets the meat. And so yeah, and it's very

939
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: darkness was washed over the dude because it's the Sam

940
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:21,720
Speaker 1: Elliott guy here dying. Uh. And so the bad guys

941
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,240
Speaker 1: they kill him and then they leave, and then Dojin

942
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 1: arrives in his dog truck to the rescue, but he's

943
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: too late. The dad character has already been crystals here. Uh.

944
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: And instead he meets Kelly Preston. And here we get

945
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 1: some kind of plot because Dojin says the following to Diana.

946
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: Let's see if you can follow this. He says, you've

947
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 1: been isolated. You haven't heard. Treaty has been broken. There's

948
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:50,240
Speaker 1: a madman named Jaredson who's been inciting the nomads. There's

949
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 1: Holy Warwick in this whole Crystal minds in forbidden territory. Okay,

950
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: so maybe this is a good place to see because

951
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: we're not gonna like reac every new piece of information

952
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:03,319
Speaker 1: we get as we go, but maybe this is a

953
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 1: good place to try to figure out what is the

954
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 1: situation of this film? All right? This is this is

955
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 1: the plot as I understand it. This planet is a

956
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: waste land overrun by two factions. You've got the humanoid

957
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 1: nomads who always wear environmental protection gear. I'm not sure

958
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: why because our heroes don't. Perhaps they're from another planet

959
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 1: or you know this, or maybe it's due to continued

960
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 1: exposure to hostile conditions, or maybe it's a religious choice.

961
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but that's the Nomads, Okay, permanent gas

962
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,399
Speaker 1: mask and they were like a hood. Yeah. And then

963
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,840
Speaker 1: you have the Cyclopeans, and this is a race of large,

964
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: powerful warriors, again kind of cling on esque, and they

965
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:46,879
Speaker 1: seem to have a congenital mutation that has obscured half

966
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,359
Speaker 1: their face. So half of their face is just kind

967
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: of like twisted mutant flesh, and there's either not an

968
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 1: eyeball there or the eyeball is completely obscured by flesh. Okay,

969
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 1: I think maybe I misinterpreted this as them having like

970
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:03,839
Speaker 1: all ritually gouged out one of their eyes. I mean,

971
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think there's anything in the film

972
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 1: that says one way or another. So it's ultimately a

973
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 1: fair idea. I think in some of the supplemental information,

974
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 1: like the interviews, I think they may have referred to

975
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 1: it is kind of like a congenital treatment that they

976
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 1: gave it because they ultimately wanted to go the mutant

977
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: route and have and go with this, because they thought

978
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 1: that it might look too crappy if they just did

979
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: the one eye in the center of the face, which

980
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:30,720
Speaker 1: I have to agree. I mean, you think of cyclopsis

981
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:32,720
Speaker 1: when they show up in other films, even with films

982
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: with a lot bigger budgets than this one, and it

983
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: can look a little off because at least this way,

984
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 1: the actor is getting to to act with their one

985
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:45,760
Speaker 1: unobscured eye. That's true. Yeah, So like Richard Moue, for example,

986
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: he has he has great eyebrows, very expressive eyebrows, and

987
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 1: he gets still gets to use one of them in

988
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,919
Speaker 1: this film. So yeah, they're paying up for at least

989
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: actors who are potentially going to be you know, expressively

990
00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: getting into the parts. Like I'd say, Richard muell is

991
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: maybe the most expressive faced actor in the movie. If

992
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: they were to completely cover up his face, that would

993
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 1: be that would be a heck of a loss. Yeah, alright,

994
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: So that's that's what's going on with like the Occupants

995
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: of this Land. The main attraction here crystal mining, of course,

996
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 1: including powerful red crystals that can drain and collect human

997
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: soul power and enable individuals uh to to utilize that

998
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 1: power to give themselves like like wizarding type abilities. So

999
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 1: the warlord Jaredson is amassing all this crystal power in

1000
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: order to control the entire world, maybe worlds beyond. We're

1001
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 1: not sure. I'm not sure how local this dispute ultimately is.

1002
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:41,279
Speaker 1: And then Dogan is the Hunter sent to stop him.

1003
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: Kellie Preston's character Diana gets roped into it because she

1004
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 1: wants revenge for her father. And that's pretty much where

1005
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:51,359
Speaker 1: we are, okay. Yeah, And so there is a territorial dispute, right,

1006
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:55,959
Speaker 1: It's that the Nomads and the Cyclopeans both they they

1007
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:58,799
Speaker 1: are have some kind of grievance about their land and

1008
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: they want their land back from I think another faction

1009
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: who we barely encounter in the movie, who are like

1010
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: the crystal miners. And Jaredson is promising the Nomads and

1011
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: the Cyclopeans their land back from the crystal miners. Is

1012
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: that how you understood it? Yeah? I think so. Okay.

1013
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: So he's like, you put me in charge, I'll get

1014
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 1: you your land. And he seems to he seems to

1015
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: be getting, you know, going with this. He seems to

1016
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:26,839
Speaker 1: have some momentum. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Uh. So he's

1017
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,399
Speaker 1: using the red crystals to to you know, crystal ghack

1018
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 1: people and and that's working for him and then so yeah,

1019
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 1: so we of course, uh here here Dojin and Kelly Preston.

1020
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:40,320
Speaker 1: They become friends, We get brackets, gentle orchestral music, and

1021
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 1: they decide that they're going to work together to avenge

1022
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,239
Speaker 1: the death of her father, hunt Jaredson and solve the

1023
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,760
Speaker 1: mystery of the Red Crystal. So you know the plot

1024
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: is underway. And then of course we get to meet

1025
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 1: the villain. Well, I suppose we sort of met him

1026
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:54,800
Speaker 1: before in the vision where he does the Red Crystal

1027
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: on Sam Elliott. But he but then we meet him

1028
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: in person, and when we need him in person, he's

1029
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 1: wearing this hilarious armor we mentioned earlier, this like bubble

1030
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: muscle armor, uh that looks kind of like inflated foam paths,

1031
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: and it's this strange mix of it's like semi and anatomical.

1032
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 1: So you've seen armor before that has contours on it.

1033
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: They're supposed to match human muscles, and this sort of

1034
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: has that because it's there for like the pecks and

1035
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: the abs, but there are other parts that just have

1036
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,360
Speaker 1: all these little like bubbles and contours that have nothing

1037
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 1: to do with human anatomy. Yeah. Again, I have to

1038
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:35,479
Speaker 1: say I think it's strong costuming, because if it looked

1039
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,399
Speaker 1: too much like human anatomy, he would look like the

1040
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: biggest dummy in the world in this thing, you know.

1041
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:45,800
Speaker 1: But it's just the right level of of of musculature

1042
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:49,280
Speaker 1: and armor and and like alien weirdness that it somehow

1043
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 1: works well despite uh, the elements that are coming together here.

1044
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,840
Speaker 1: So when we first encounter him, Jaredson is in a cave,

1045
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 1: surrounded by the nomads, who are the people wearing the

1046
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: gas masks and psyche Loops warriors, and he's just waving

1047
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: a red crystal around in their faces, saying, with this crystal,

1048
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 1: we have the power to steal life, which when I

1049
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 1: first saw it, I was like, wait a minute, couldn't

1050
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: you also do that with one of those laser guns

1051
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 1: or just like a big club. Uh. And then he's

1052
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: promising no one can stop me now, and he and

1053
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: then at the end he's like, oh, I do this

1054
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 1: for you, my brothers, because he's offering he's clearly trying

1055
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:27,239
Speaker 1: to get them on his side because by promising them

1056
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 1: some kind of outcome. And then I guess to demonstrate

1057
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: the power of the red crystal, which seems utterly superfluous

1058
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,560
Speaker 1: because we just saw what it could do to the

1059
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: other guy in the in the previous scene. But they

1060
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: bring him a prisoner and this guy's they're like no, no,

1061
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 1: And Jaredson walks up touches his neck with the red

1062
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:49,840
Speaker 1: crystal and he just goes gag and he dies. Yep um.

1063
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 1: And of course the whole, the whole reason to use

1064
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: crystals and not laser guns is because the crystal harvests

1065
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:58,879
Speaker 1: the soul energy. Yes, Jaredson gets to use it later,

1066
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:03,080
Speaker 1: like his powers seemed to come out of his harvesting

1067
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 1: of of life force. That's right. The crystal doesn't just

1068
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 1: kill people. It's an external hard drive for souls. So

1069
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:11,840
Speaker 1: when you touch somebody, you download their soul into the crystal,

1070
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: and then you bring it back to Jared Sin and

1071
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: then he touches the crystal to his really big crystal

1072
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 1: and that uploads the souls into it. And when he

1073
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: gets enough souls in the big crystal, he's going to

1074
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 1: use that as an army to take over the world.

1075
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:27,879
Speaker 1: So you can't say that this movie doesn't make sense.

1076
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:31,319
Speaker 1: A sense make sense. But of course the characters don't

1077
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 1: know this yet. So when you come back to Kelly

1078
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 1: Preston and uh, and and Jeffrey Byron. Uh. They got

1079
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 1: to take the red crystal they found to their crystal guy.

1080
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 1: You know, they of you've got a crystal guy. Yeah,

1081
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:43,279
Speaker 1: I got one. So they go to the crystal guy

1082
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 1: so he can explain what it does. Yeah, and he's

1083
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 1: kind of this fire tuck looking character in this cave

1084
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:52,320
Speaker 1: with crystals hanging around everywhere. I like him, not that

1085
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 1: he's he's fun. This actor, I think his name is

1086
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:59,400
Speaker 1: Marty Zaggon or zagon I'm not sure which looked him up.

1087
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:01,320
Speaker 1: He was in a number of things over the years,

1088
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: but this is probably one of the least effective looking

1089
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:08,759
Speaker 1: sets but in the picture, but it's it's it's kind

1090
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 1: of fun in its cheapness. Yeah, he's got a crystal

1091
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 1: diagnostic process. He's trying to figure out what their crystal does.

1092
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 1: And so he hangs it off of a fishing line,

1093
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,000
Speaker 1: sort of a long a string of other crystals like

1094
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 1: their Christmas lights, and they're all wrapped around these, uh,

1095
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 1: these shelves made out of PBC pipes, and then he

1096
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 1: shoots the crystal with a laser and then the laser

1097
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:33,919
Speaker 1: bounces around between different crystals and that tells him something

1098
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 1: about what it does. And of course what it does

1099
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 1: is it harvests that soul energy. Right, he says, I

1100
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 1: should have known storage crystal storage of what life force. Uh.

1101
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: So they've got that figured out. But then also he

1102
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 1: goes and he looks at it and he's like, oh, yeah,

1103
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,320
Speaker 1: I see some emblems here. He says, this is an

1104
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:54,440
Speaker 1: emblem of set the Lost City and uh. And Kelly

1105
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: Preston says, oh, the Lost City. My father told me

1106
00:57:57,080 --> 00:57:59,760
Speaker 1: stories of this place. And so they get a tip

1107
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 1: off from their crystal guy that there's a man who

1108
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 1: can take them to the Lost City and his name

1109
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 1: is Rhodes. Crystal guy says he was once a finder.

1110
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: He lives in zo Are, one of those overnight crystal

1111
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,800
Speaker 1: mining towns. So before we get to all that, there's

1112
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: there are some more action scenes that don't have a

1113
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 1: huge import on the plot. There's just like road battles,

1114
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 1: driving car chases and explosions with with Bal and the

1115
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:27,920
Speaker 1: cyclops troops and uh. And of course, as I said earlier,

1116
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: it's of the classical school, which is that when a

1117
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 1: car crashes, it explodes giant fireball. But they get captured

1118
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 1: by Baal, and I don't think We've said this before,

1119
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 1: but every time Bell talks, he sounds like a text

1120
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 1: to speech editor or like, um, do you ever have

1121
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: one of those toys when you were a kid that

1122
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:47,919
Speaker 1: was like the plastic microphone that made your voice sound

1123
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 1: weird and echoe when you talk through it? Yeah, I

1124
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 1: think he I think maybe he's talking through something like that.

1125
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 1: But so he he says welcome, Welcome to your death.

1126
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: And then there's a big fight. And in this fight,

1127
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 1: Dojin does get squirted by the green goo. So you think, oh,

1128
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: he's done for right, you know, squirted by the goo.

1129
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 1: That means he's gonna hallucinate. Then he's gonna get red crystals.

1130
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 1: But it isn't like when Kelly Preston's dad got squirted.

1131
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 1: It seems to affect him more slowly. So you see

1132
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 1: later that night he's sort of laying by the campfire

1133
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: being cradled by Diana, and he starts having visions of

1134
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 1: Jared Son. But Jaredson's evil crystal magic does not work

1135
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 1: in the hallucination, and Jaredson explains he says, well, together,

1136
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 1: you're strong, but I'll separate you and I'll destroy you both.

1137
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 1: And so of course Dojin Diana are just immediately falling

1138
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 1: in love for no discernible reason. But they're just they're

1139
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 1: just both like, I love you. Now. Their bond is

1140
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:49,919
Speaker 1: so strong that his evil psychic crystal magic can't stop them.

1141
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 1: But they clearly they just met. They just they just

1142
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,439
Speaker 1: met earlier this day, and we have seen no no

1143
00:59:56,520 --> 01:00:00,000
Speaker 1: reason for them to have emotional connection whatsoever. They see

1144
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,800
Speaker 1: to have shared nothing really except that they went to

1145
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: the Crystal Guy together. Yeah, that's it. But you know

1146
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 1: the I guess life is hard in the waste land,

1147
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: and you find love where you can. So they just

1148
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:13,439
Speaker 1: both there immediately head over heels in love with each other.

1149
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 1: And uh, and their bond is so strong that even

1150
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:18,959
Speaker 1: the magic can't break it. But that's all right, because

1151
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 1: Jaredson he can work with this. He can work with this.

1152
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 1: He's got some plans. Yeah, and his plan is that, well,

1153
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:27,440
Speaker 1: first we see him just sitting there stewing, and we

1154
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 1: get brackets that say mysterious orchestral music. And then Diana

1155
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 1: back at the campfire, turns red and disappears. Then that's

1156
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 1: the red crystal energy. He basically teleports her away from

1157
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 1: where she is and brings him to his camp that

1158
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 1: seems like a really good power. So if he could

1159
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 1: do that, why didn't you just do that with with

1160
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:48,480
Speaker 1: the guy he's trying to kill, Like you can teleport

1161
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:50,520
Speaker 1: him into the tent and they can just get him there.

1162
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 1: Why not? Well, I mean, well, we don't know what

1163
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:54,439
Speaker 1: else he's got going on. You know, he's he's got

1164
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 1: big plans. It probably requires big crystal energy that he's

1165
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 1: having to. You know, if he makes time to to

1166
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 1: teleport everybody that opposes him, you know, he's not going

1167
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 1: to have the crystal energy he needs for all that stuff.

1168
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:08,960
Speaker 1: So he would prefer not to, but he has to now.

1169
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 1: But then there's a sequence that was one of my

1170
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 1: favorites in the movie, and this involved some some special

1171
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 1: effects and design that I thought actually looked really good. Uh,

1172
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 1: this is the part with the crystal golam attack. So

1173
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 1: Jaredson has a little crystal doll that he liked that

1174
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 1: he hallucinate teleports through time and space to turn into

1175
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:33,280
Speaker 1: a giant monster that attacks dogin at his campfire. Yeah,

1176
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 1: which is it's ultimately like it is really cool, all white,

1177
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 1: practical monster suit. But then they've added uh, you know,

1178
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 1: animated electricity, sparks, around him, Like not certainly not on

1179
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:47,880
Speaker 1: the same level of intricacy as you find with the

1180
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:51,200
Speaker 1: Lightning Warrior in Big Trouble and Little China, but that

1181
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood of that sort of effect. Yeah. Yeah,

1182
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 1: So he's this cool luminous monster with the mask that

1183
01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: I liked. It's kind of a uh almost like a

1184
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 1: ring Raith kind of head. And then so Dojin has

1185
01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:07,240
Speaker 1: to like he's using his laser on it, but that

1186
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 1: doesn't work, and he has to kill it by like

1187
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 1: tricking it into stepping into some kind of liquid. I

1188
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 1: didn't quite understand this part, but maybe it's the movie

1189
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:17,959
Speaker 1: logic that this thing is electrical and electric things can't

1190
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 1: touch water, doesn't He like shoot a rock and liquid

1191
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 1: comes out of the rock and then the monster steps

1192
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:27,160
Speaker 1: into it. That felt weirdly um old testament to me, Like,

1193
01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:30,240
Speaker 1: isn't there isn't there something where like Moses shoots a

1194
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:32,640
Speaker 1: rock with a laser gun and like what comes out

1195
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 1: of it? Well, he strikes a rock with his staff

1196
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:38,480
Speaker 1: and water comes out of it. There you go, the

1197
01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 1: same thing. Okay, uh, well, whatever this connects to, I

1198
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 1: wasn't aware. I didn't understand what happened here, but you know,

1199
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:56,280
Speaker 1: I'll roll with it. So anyway, we we get to

1200
01:02:56,320 --> 01:03:00,160
Speaker 1: see Kelly Preston at Jared Sin's place and he's showing

1201
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:03,480
Speaker 1: her how the big Crystal Soul hard drive works. Uh,

1202
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 1: and and he's, uh, he's storing the souls in the

1203
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: big crystal to turn it into an army that will

1204
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:10,760
Speaker 1: crush anyone who opposes him. And they're they're all these

1205
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 1: people watching, and it was actually, you know, I was thinking,

1206
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 1: it's kind of like one of those tech presentations, you know,

1207
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:19,360
Speaker 1: like the Apple thing or he's got this big audience

1208
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:21,080
Speaker 1: and he's like, let me show you how my big

1209
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:24,919
Speaker 1: crystal hard drive works. Everybody, you know, it's the it's

1210
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 1: the it's the killer app. Everybody's gonna have one. And

1211
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:32,240
Speaker 1: then next do Jin goes to find roads. So he

1212
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:34,920
Speaker 1: goes to a place that is I think this is

1213
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:37,680
Speaker 1: supposed to be the most icely cantina. He goes to

1214
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:41,520
Speaker 1: a minor camp. Uh. And some people in this camp

1215
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 1: are wearing strange future clothes or they're dressed like shepherds

1216
01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 1: or whatever. And some of them are wearing the robes.

1217
01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:50,360
Speaker 1: Other people here are just wearing nineteen eighties American clothes,

1218
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:53,360
Speaker 1: just jeans and T shirts, and he goes into a

1219
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: bar that is like the it's the most icily bar,

1220
01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 1: but with no aliens, so I think lower, lower budget.

1221
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:03,280
Speaker 1: And he meets the bartender Annie, who I loved by

1222
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:06,040
Speaker 1: the way. I thought she was great, and her bar

1223
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 1: consists of a counter. And then again, this movie is

1224
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:13,760
Speaker 1: fun of sets made out of just lattice of PVC pipe,

1225
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:17,240
Speaker 1: so they're these these pipe sets behind her, and then

1226
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:20,920
Speaker 1: there's they're just wrapped up with random hoses and neon lights,

1227
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,160
Speaker 1: and then a big snake. There's just a snake in

1228
01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 1: the background. But she she's like, oh, yeah, you're looking

1229
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 1: for Rhodes. He's over there, And of course it's our

1230
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:31,800
Speaker 1: old friend Tim Thomerson, who is this grizzled old Han

1231
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:34,680
Speaker 1: Solo living life at the bottom of a bottle. He

1232
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:36,760
Speaker 1: is content to sit at the corner of the bar

1233
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:39,720
Speaker 1: and have no friend but alcohol, right he is, I

1234
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:41,480
Speaker 1: think at one point he tells us later in the

1235
01:04:41,520 --> 01:04:47,120
Speaker 1: film he's getting too old for this stuff against But

1236
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:49,400
Speaker 1: of course Dojin is like, hey, I need to find

1237
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 1: the Lost City because I'm taking on Jared Sin and

1238
01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:55,840
Speaker 1: we get the classic Han Solo style refusal of the

1239
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:58,600
Speaker 1: call he says, sorry, kid, treasure hunting is one thing,

1240
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 1: getting killed another. So he's like, I'm not going to

1241
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:05,720
Speaker 1: risk my neck on some fool errand like this. Uh So, anyway,

1242
01:05:05,760 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 1: Dojin tries to leave, but then there's this high noon

1243
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 1: style shootout in the street. And this was another thing

1244
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:14,960
Speaker 1: where having watched it twice now I still don't understand

1245
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 1: what happened here. Uh I'll try to explain. Dojing goes

1246
01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:22,000
Speaker 1: outside and they're these just guys beating up on one

1247
01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:26,720
Speaker 1: of the Cyclops dudes, and then he and then Dojin

1248
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:28,720
Speaker 1: and then they walk away from him, and then Dojin

1249
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 1: walks over to the Cyclops dude and looks at him,

1250
01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 1: and then the guys who were beating him up they

1251
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 1: turn around and they look at Dojin and then start

1252
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 1: pulling guns on him in slow motion like a like

1253
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:44,280
Speaker 1: a gun slinger duel. Yeah. I was thinking that this

1254
01:05:44,320 --> 01:05:49,240
Speaker 1: scene was setting up um the main Cyclops character, the

1255
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:51,920
Speaker 1: Richard Mole character, because this seems like the way you

1256
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:54,440
Speaker 1: would typically introduce somebody, Oh, well, will you just save me?

1257
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 1: And now I'm you're a part of your party, you know.

1258
01:05:56,600 --> 01:05:59,040
Speaker 1: It seems like the standard Dungeons and Dragon's character and

1259
01:05:59,040 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 1: introduction scenario. But he didn't work out like that at all. Now,

1260
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 1: why did the guys pull the guns on him? Like?

1261
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:06,040
Speaker 1: What did he do? What? What did he have to

1262
01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:07,840
Speaker 1: do with them in any way? I don't know. I

1263
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:09,920
Speaker 1: guess just a rough part of town. Okay, Yeah, it

1264
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 1: didn't seem to make any sense. But they they disarm him,

1265
01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 1: they shoot the gun out of our heroes hand, and

1266
01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 1: it's then he doesn't even dodge, he just stands there.

1267
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:20,959
Speaker 1: He's like, okay, I'm ready to be vaporized. But Tim

1268
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:23,480
Speaker 1: Thomason to the rescue. It's like the you know, it's

1269
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:25,920
Speaker 1: like Han Solo showing up with the Millennium falcon at

1270
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:28,600
Speaker 1: the at the trench run Uh, you know you and

1271
01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:31,360
Speaker 1: he shoots the gun out of the bad guy's hand

1272
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,240
Speaker 1: and uh, and he's on board. Now I guess for

1273
01:06:34,280 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 1: some reason, he's on board for some driving and that's

1274
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:39,760
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. So so they just go driving

1275
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:41,520
Speaker 1: for a while. I think they're trying to find this

1276
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 1: lost city. And there's an exchange I wrote down where

1277
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 1: uh where Dojin says to him, you must have fought

1278
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:51,840
Speaker 1: in the sand Wars. Yeah, so what that's when they

1279
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 1: stopped issuing those uniforms. So I think that's supposed to

1280
01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:58,120
Speaker 1: be comedy, like he's, you know, you're wearing old, old

1281
01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:02,440
Speaker 1: uniform clothes. He's all. That's kind of the But then also,

1282
01:07:03,160 --> 01:07:06,960
Speaker 1: uh it also the sand Wars just dropping that without context.

1283
01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:10,000
Speaker 1: It's it sounds a bit like the Clone Wars mentioned

1284
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:15,600
Speaker 1: in the original Star Wars film, you know, except less mysterious. Yeah,

1285
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 1: So they go to these Cyclopean ruins. I think the

1286
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 1: Lost City is supposed to be this great like ancient

1287
01:07:20,840 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 1: sacred burial ground that has been abandoned where the ancestors

1288
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:28,360
Speaker 1: of the Cyclopean people lived. And I thought this sequence

1289
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:30,760
Speaker 1: was great. It is. It takes place next to what

1290
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 1: looks like a filled in open top mining pit. So

1291
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:35,919
Speaker 1: if you've ever seen those where you know the it's

1292
01:07:35,960 --> 01:07:38,960
Speaker 1: been dug out from the top down and then now

1293
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:42,439
Speaker 1: it's just filled in with green water that's very still. Yeah,

1294
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:45,920
Speaker 1: and it's just this gnarly ultimately death metally look like

1295
01:07:45,960 --> 01:07:47,800
Speaker 1: this thing could be the cover of a death metal

1296
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:54,200
Speaker 1: album because it's like this weird Bahamad esque Cyclopean cyclops

1297
01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:58,440
Speaker 1: god with weird ruins and strange script all around it.

1298
01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:01,400
Speaker 1: It's it's really cool looking. Yeah, and in this statue,

1299
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:05,440
Speaker 1: the Cyclops statue is over this treasure box that Dojin opens,

1300
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:09,040
Speaker 1: and it's very Indiana Jones because this yellow light pours

1301
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:11,360
Speaker 1: out of the treasure box when he gets into it,

1302
01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:15,480
Speaker 1: and inside he finds this mask. It is the magic

1303
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 1: mask that has been spoken of in legend. And then

1304
01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:21,720
Speaker 1: afterwards they're walking around in the mist and there's been

1305
01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:24,559
Speaker 1: some foreshadowing of this because we saw the sands shifting

1306
01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:27,439
Speaker 1: behind them and they get attacked by some really great

1307
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:30,680
Speaker 1: sand creatures that I think are literally hand puppets, but

1308
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:34,480
Speaker 1: I love them. A great cheap effect, a little subterranean

1309
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:38,080
Speaker 1: pig snakes that are biting our heroes on the legs. Yeah,

1310
01:08:38,320 --> 01:08:40,640
Speaker 1: now you don't see it in this, but apparently they

1311
01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:42,519
Speaker 1: had arms like I saw a picture of like the

1312
01:08:42,520 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 1: full creature they made, and they ultimately have little harms.

1313
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:48,120
Speaker 1: So they do just look like um like snake puppets

1314
01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:50,679
Speaker 1: in this, but they look pretty cool and and also

1315
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:54,280
Speaker 1: ultimately what there were three of them. That's reminiscent of

1316
01:08:54,280 --> 01:08:57,320
Speaker 1: Trimmer's later on when we get the Trimmer's movie, because

1317
01:08:57,320 --> 01:09:00,320
Speaker 1: remember the Graboids had I think what they had three

1318
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:05,640
Speaker 1: hand puppet like appendages inside of their beaked mouth. That's right. Okay,

1319
01:09:05,680 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 1: So eventually they're escaping with the mask. But here we

1320
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 1: get to meet the night Court guy. So so what

1321
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:13,880
Speaker 1: happens here, Well, they run into these warriors and the

1322
01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:16,760
Speaker 1: warriors are like, hey, what you're doing here? Well, what's

1323
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:19,320
Speaker 1: your whole reason? And they started laying down cyclonic lawn

1324
01:09:19,880 --> 01:09:23,000
Speaker 1: right right, so that yeah, they say. Uh. The guy says,

1325
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:25,840
Speaker 1: having having come this far, you've proven your warrior, but

1326
01:09:26,040 --> 01:09:28,640
Speaker 1: being found on our land, you must die. That is

1327
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 1: our law. And then Tim Thomerson's like, hold it, a

1328
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:35,559
Speaker 1: warrior must also be given the chance to take the challenge.

1329
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:38,639
Speaker 1: That is also the law. So I find it interesting

1330
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:43,479
Speaker 1: that Tim Thomerson knows his cyclops civil rights, so so

1331
01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:46,960
Speaker 1: her rock. The Cyclops guy is like, okay, fine, you

1332
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:49,439
Speaker 1: must meet me in the pit. And then they have

1333
01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:52,800
Speaker 1: a duel where their hands are tied together via this

1334
01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:55,720
Speaker 1: tether uh. And then in the other hands they have

1335
01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:59,519
Speaker 1: si like Raphael has in the Ninja Turtles, and and

1336
01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:03,040
Speaker 1: of course guess who wins. But but but Mad Max

1337
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:05,560
Speaker 1: shows mercy to the Cyclops guy. He's got him on

1338
01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:08,320
Speaker 1: the ground, but he doesn't kill him, and like, oh,

1339
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:11,679
Speaker 1: what a stand up guy mad max Is and then um,

1340
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:14,680
Speaker 1: Richard Mule is like, well now we're friends. Uh, and

1341
01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:17,440
Speaker 1: he informs him. He's like, I know you're looking for Jaredson.

1342
01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:21,280
Speaker 1: I've been called to a war council by Jaredson. We

1343
01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:24,760
Speaker 1: can't go there together, but but maybe i'll see you there. Yeah,

1344
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:27,080
Speaker 1: well we'll meet up later. Now there's some other stuff

1345
01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:29,760
Speaker 1: that happens in between. There are more the more road battles,

1346
01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 1: more car chases, uh, you know, shooting shooting at each

1347
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:35,000
Speaker 1: other from cards. A lot of these battles are between

1348
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:38,240
Speaker 1: Dojin and Tim Thomason on one side, and then Ball

1349
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 1: and his people on the other. Uh. And I will say,

1350
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:44,599
Speaker 1: in this attack, there are some stunts that look very real,

1351
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:47,560
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure how exactly they were accomplished. I

1352
01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:51,080
Speaker 1: kind of wonder if something very unsafe happened on set.

1353
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:55,120
Speaker 1: But Dojin at one point drives the dog truck off

1354
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:58,240
Speaker 1: of an embankment, and it really just looks like the

1355
01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:01,559
Speaker 1: truck lands on a couple of balls troops. I don't

1356
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:04,120
Speaker 1: know how it looks or at least it comes dangerously

1357
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:07,040
Speaker 1: close to these guys. When I was like, whoa that was?

1358
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 1: That was a little too real He was also a

1359
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:11,559
Speaker 1: scene where a guy comes flying through the windshield of

1360
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:13,960
Speaker 1: a vehicle at the camera for that three D effect,

1361
01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:16,000
Speaker 1: and and that one too. I was like, well, it's

1362
01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:18,400
Speaker 1: it's kind of rough. That's these these stunt guys were

1363
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:20,800
Speaker 1: going for it. Yeah, so as long as that was

1364
01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:23,640
Speaker 1: done in an actually safe way, hats off to the

1365
01:11:23,640 --> 01:11:26,640
Speaker 1: stunt people there. That's yeah, it looks good. But then

1366
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:29,240
Speaker 1: after the battle we get a vision and this part

1367
01:11:29,320 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 1: is great. We get the crystal mask, the magic mask,

1368
01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:34,559
Speaker 1: and Dojin puts it on and has some adventures in

1369
01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:38,040
Speaker 1: the shadow realm. He sees visions of a flaming tree

1370
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:40,439
Speaker 1: and a sort of red light district of the mind.

1371
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:43,760
Speaker 1: There's just this red light in the fog everywhere, and

1372
01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:46,559
Speaker 1: he produces a mind hatchet and wax at the tree

1373
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:49,479
Speaker 1: and then the trees bleeding. It's good stuff. Yeah. He's

1374
01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:52,760
Speaker 1: also shirtless and oiled up the whole time. So this,

1375
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:55,040
Speaker 1: along with the other shadow room sequence, these are shot

1376
01:11:55,160 --> 01:11:57,960
Speaker 1: like I think, entirely in a set uh, and the

1377
01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 1: lighting is like really really well done. So these are

1378
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:03,640
Speaker 1: some of the most beautiful and weird segments in the

1379
01:12:03,760 --> 01:12:07,080
Speaker 1: entire picture. Yeah, so Dojin and Tim Thomerson get ambushed

1380
01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 1: by Boll and his troops and in the fight they

1381
01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:12,840
Speaker 1: actually rip off Bow's cyber arm and then the green

1382
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 1: goose squirts everywhere and the bad guys runaway. Tim Thomerson

1383
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 1: is wounded, and you know, I wonder what will happen

1384
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:21,280
Speaker 1: to him? Dojin promises I'll be back for you, buddy,

1385
01:12:21,360 --> 01:12:24,400
Speaker 1: and so he's like leaves him, just leaves in the

1386
01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:27,120
Speaker 1: dust mid the ruin and the death, and he's like,

1387
01:12:27,160 --> 01:12:29,679
Speaker 1: I'll come check on you later, and Thompson's like, hi, yeah,

1388
01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:32,839
Speaker 1: and he follows the green slime trails of the villains

1389
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:36,000
Speaker 1: like in Predator, like I said earlier, um. And then

1390
01:12:36,040 --> 01:12:38,760
Speaker 1: back at Jaredson's place, Ball is of course wounded and

1391
01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:40,840
Speaker 1: he's very mad. He's like, you have to kill Kelly

1392
01:12:40,880 --> 01:12:45,599
Speaker 1: Preston now, and Jaredson says, no, Kelly Preston and Mad

1393
01:12:45,680 --> 01:12:48,599
Speaker 1: Max they're gonna be my final sacrifices to the Crystal.

1394
01:12:49,240 --> 01:12:51,400
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, it's time to go tell the troops,

1395
01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:54,120
Speaker 1: and so he goes outside where the Nomads and the

1396
01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:57,280
Speaker 1: Cyclopeans are waiting. They're all watching like they're you know,

1397
01:12:57,280 --> 01:13:00,080
Speaker 1: watching to see the dolphins show, or like the you know,

1398
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:03,439
Speaker 1: the Apple iPhone demonstration or whatever, and he shows off

1399
01:13:03,479 --> 01:13:06,680
Speaker 1: people downloading souls from their little red crystals into his

1400
01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:09,599
Speaker 1: big crystal, and he says, we'll be kings of our

1401
01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:14,800
Speaker 1: land again forever. And of course do Jin arrives during

1402
01:13:14,840 --> 01:13:17,679
Speaker 1: the big presentation, and I thought it was really funny

1403
01:13:17,680 --> 01:13:20,080
Speaker 1: how he just walks in like nobody kills him, nobody

1404
01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:23,160
Speaker 1: even tries to stop him. He just walks in. And

1405
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:26,280
Speaker 1: the additionally funny thing is he's just holding this magic

1406
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:29,920
Speaker 1: crystal mask in his hand. Yeah, well it looks it's

1407
01:13:29,920 --> 01:13:31,840
Speaker 1: hard to imagine how you would really wear I mean,

1408
01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:34,599
Speaker 1: maybe he's wearing it briefly in the vision world, but

1409
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 1: it also doesn't I got the impression like this is

1410
01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:38,680
Speaker 1: not made for a human being to wear. It's like

1411
01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:41,800
Speaker 1: an alien mask or something. Yeah, I think so. So

1412
01:13:41,960 --> 01:13:44,120
Speaker 1: you get a bowl, of course, is like, oh, that's

1413
01:13:44,160 --> 01:13:46,599
Speaker 1: the guy I've been fighting. Kill him. But then Rock,

1414
01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:49,439
Speaker 1: who is now because he is friend that you know,

1415
01:13:49,520 --> 01:13:54,000
Speaker 1: he steps in and it's Bow versus Horrock. And and

1416
01:13:54,040 --> 01:13:58,160
Speaker 1: at this point we quickly realized that Jaredson's claim to

1417
01:13:58,240 --> 01:14:02,960
Speaker 1: rule is is just very tenuous and he very easily overturned. Yeah,

1418
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:05,000
Speaker 1: I thought it was funny that the final battle here

1419
01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:08,120
Speaker 1: is really one of persuasion rather than violence, and it's

1420
01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:11,160
Speaker 1: not even that difficult. Doge Coin is just like he

1421
01:14:11,200 --> 01:14:13,760
Speaker 1: goes up in front of everybody and he's like, Jaredson

1422
01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 1: is bad, and then the Cyclopeans are like, hey, he's right. Yeah,

1423
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:20,479
Speaker 1: no real evidence presented, like he didn't give a power

1424
01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:24,040
Speaker 1: point or or display any evidence. He's just like like

1425
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:27,240
Speaker 1: that this guy sucks, and they're like, yeah, he's right, yeah,

1426
01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:30,479
Speaker 1: and that's it. Jaredson does not do very well in

1427
01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:32,960
Speaker 1: defending himself though, because I wrote down one of the

1428
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:36,760
Speaker 1: actual exchanges. Dojin says like, he says something like he's

1429
01:14:36,880 --> 01:14:39,080
Speaker 1: using you, he wants to rule over you all, and

1430
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:42,639
Speaker 1: then Jaredson responds by saying let him babble, I am

1431
01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:48,559
Speaker 1: your master, yeah, which the Cyclopeans immediately rejected, like you're

1432
01:14:48,560 --> 01:14:51,599
Speaker 1: not our master. Yeah. Her Rock says Jaredson is a

1433
01:14:51,640 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 1: false chief, this is false metal, and then there's some

1434
01:14:55,280 --> 01:14:59,519
Speaker 1: crystals apping. Jaredson is like, well, uh oh, the jig

1435
01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:01,519
Speaker 1: is up. Well now I'm just gonna try to zap

1436
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:04,200
Speaker 1: everybody who doesn't go along with me. So he uses

1437
01:15:04,240 --> 01:15:07,439
Speaker 1: his big crystal to shoot lasers. At people. And here's

1438
01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:09,920
Speaker 1: where the magic mask comes in. It seems that this

1439
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:13,160
Speaker 1: is the purpose. Dojin uses it to deflect a laser

1440
01:15:13,200 --> 01:15:15,240
Speaker 1: blast from the big Crystal. It works like a sort

1441
01:15:15,280 --> 01:15:18,599
Speaker 1: of mirror shield that shoots back in the other direction,

1442
01:15:19,080 --> 01:15:21,800
Speaker 1: and he does this like twice and then bow smashes

1443
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:25,000
Speaker 1: the mask, which is funny. It seems like a relatively

1444
01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:27,760
Speaker 1: small return on the investment of that whole plot line

1445
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:29,680
Speaker 1: in the middle of the movie. If this is what

1446
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:32,200
Speaker 1: the mask did, Yeah, it didn't. It didn't seem to

1447
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:34,600
Speaker 1: make a huge difference in the battle. So anyway, so

1448
01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:38,000
Speaker 1: Jaredson's like, well, okay, this didn't work out for me,

1449
01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:39,680
Speaker 1: so I'm getting out of here. So he runs off,

1450
01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:42,080
Speaker 1: gets on his air speed er to escape, and then

1451
01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:45,800
Speaker 1: there's an airspeeder chase because dos Coin also gets on

1452
01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:48,200
Speaker 1: an air speeder and they chase each other around. This

1453
01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:50,599
Speaker 1: part might have been cooler in three D, but here

1454
01:15:50,640 --> 01:15:52,880
Speaker 1: I think the ending chase is pretty weak. It's a

1455
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:55,519
Speaker 1: lot of aerial footage of just p O V zooming

1456
01:15:55,560 --> 01:15:59,880
Speaker 1: over scrub land. Uh, some miniatures thrown in as well, yes, yes,

1457
01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:04,080
Speaker 1: until Jaredson finally at some point he just escapes into

1458
01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:07,320
Speaker 1: the phantom zone, like they go into this realm of triangles.

1459
01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:10,320
Speaker 1: That's the kind of cool psychedelic sequence when that happens.

1460
01:16:10,360 --> 01:16:14,320
Speaker 1: But Jaredson gets away, Dojin is unable to catch him.

1461
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:17,280
Speaker 1: He's gone to triangle land and and we don't know

1462
01:16:17,400 --> 01:16:20,720
Speaker 1: if you will ever be coming back. Yeah. At the end,

1463
01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:22,240
Speaker 1: we're well, I guess we're let Yeah, we're left with

1464
01:16:22,240 --> 01:16:24,200
Speaker 1: the side of the Sin has escaped to another dimension,

1465
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:27,599
Speaker 1: perhaps another time in space, which they allude to their

1466
01:16:27,640 --> 01:16:29,360
Speaker 1: like he could be anywhere, he could be in any place,

1467
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:33,040
Speaker 1: any time, which kind of sounds like there they were

1468
01:16:33,040 --> 01:16:35,160
Speaker 1: setting up the possibility that they could do a cheap

1469
01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:39,920
Speaker 1: sequel where uh where where our road Warrior character is

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Speaker 1: chasing Jaredson into, say, like you know contemporary Los Angeles, Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what we're talking about at the beginning with like

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Speaker 1: Jaredson and Beverly Hills, or Jaredson goes to New York. Yeah,

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01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:53,880
Speaker 1: like basically Beast Master two, which we know how that

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01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:57,240
Speaker 1: turned out, So maybe it's best that we didn't follow

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Speaker 1: Sin into such a world. But on the other hand,

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01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:02,879
Speaker 1: in the the extras on this, they mentioned in passing

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Speaker 1: that that Banned Are already had some big ideas for

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01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:08,360
Speaker 1: the sequel that involved like giant robots, but of course

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01:17:08,360 --> 01:17:11,479
Speaker 1: he got to do that in subsequent pictures. So, um,

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01:17:11,520 --> 01:17:15,120
Speaker 1: who knows. Who knows what what a Metal Storm Too

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Speaker 1: might have consisted of had it ever come come to pass.

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Speaker 1: You know, should we still be holding out for Jared'son Too?

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Speaker 1: Do you think it's possible at this point? I mean no,

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Speaker 1: I mean I guess it would. I assume if band

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01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:32,280
Speaker 1: still had had retained the rights to it, we would

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Speaker 1: have seen something like that at some point, right, I

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01:17:34,240 --> 01:17:36,639
Speaker 1: mean why not? But I don't know. I think ultimately

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01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 1: the film did not It did not do well, um

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Speaker 1: critically anyway. Uh, you know, it ended up on a

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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of screens, but it didn't. I

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01:17:45,880 --> 01:17:47,639
Speaker 1: think you had you had a number of different elements

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01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 1: going on there. I think there was like some three

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01:17:49,280 --> 01:17:54,479
Speaker 1: D fatigue going on and utics don't know how to

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01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:57,799
Speaker 1: rub the fur. Yeah, I think so. I mean maybe also,

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01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:02,240
Speaker 1: like Road Warrior, Star Wars Wars inspired pictures of the

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01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:04,439
Speaker 1: early eighties at the time, maybe there just were a

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Speaker 1: lot of them and we're able to better appreciate them

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01:18:08,040 --> 01:18:11,240
Speaker 1: now because nobody's really putting out that kind of stuff

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Speaker 1: like where Arthur. I mean, I guess, And if they

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Speaker 1: did were putting them out today, they probably, I mean

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Speaker 1: it would probably he just wouldn't be the same. Maybe

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01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:19,599
Speaker 1: it wouldn't wouldn't be shot on film, it would be

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01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:23,840
Speaker 1: a different scenario altogether. Nobody has room in their heart

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01:18:23,920 --> 01:18:26,640
Speaker 1: for a PG mad Max rip off. You know. That

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01:18:26,840 --> 01:18:30,880
Speaker 1: is where ultimately jared'son escaped. He escaped into our hearts, uh,

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01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:34,639
Speaker 1: into the hearts of a future generations of of weird

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01:18:34,680 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 1: film enthusiasts. Also, the end of the movie is is

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01:18:38,160 --> 01:18:40,600
Speaker 1: quite sappy and sentimental in the same way because of

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01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:43,639
Speaker 1: course Tim Thomerson's fine. He arrives at the end as

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01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:47,719
Speaker 1: the chauffeur of dog Truck, and and uh and Jeffrey

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01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:50,200
Speaker 1: Byron and Kelly Preston are there, and he's like, hey,

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01:18:50,320 --> 01:18:52,360
Speaker 1: hop in, I'll you know, I got a big bandage

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01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:55,800
Speaker 1: on my head. I'll drive you wherever you want. And

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01:18:55,840 --> 01:18:58,679
Speaker 1: then they're off, Yeah, and they're just just bantering into

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01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:01,960
Speaker 1: the sunset. So well, ultimately, yeah, this is a really

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01:19:01,960 --> 01:19:03,960
Speaker 1: fun film with a lot of weird stuff going on

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01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:06,880
Speaker 1: in it. I don't think there was really I mean,

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01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:09,360
Speaker 1: I saw some stuff about reviews at the time, they

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01:19:09,360 --> 01:19:10,880
Speaker 1: were like, oh, this is boring, you know, and they

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01:19:10,920 --> 01:19:14,040
Speaker 1: were comparing it to to your the what the Warrior

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01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:17,439
Speaker 1: from the Future, UM, Hunter from the Future. Yes, Hunter

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01:19:17,479 --> 01:19:19,880
Speaker 1: from the Future, that that sort of thing. But I

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01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:21,400
Speaker 1: don't know, I didn't think there was really much in

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01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:24,360
Speaker 1: the way of boring uh content in this film. I

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01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:26,920
Speaker 1: felt like visually there was a lot going on. I

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01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:31,080
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it, though. I think that the trailer probably

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01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:35,519
Speaker 1: delivers just as much wonder as the full film does. Um,

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01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:38,000
Speaker 1: if you're looking to get out cheap on this one,

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01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:40,519
Speaker 1: you could just watch the trailer. I fully agree they

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01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:42,840
Speaker 1: could have sped up the driving. I think this is

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01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:44,599
Speaker 1: one of those movies. I mean, if you are making

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01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:47,719
Speaker 1: a movie and you're putting significant driving in the movie,

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01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:50,840
Speaker 1: unless it's really really top not driving stuff like you

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01:19:50,880 --> 01:19:53,759
Speaker 1: are George Miller and you are making a Mad Max movie.

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01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:57,000
Speaker 1: Otherwise I would say, cut out significant amounts of driving

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01:19:57,040 --> 01:20:01,320
Speaker 1: and you're probably making an improvement. Yeah, but they do

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01:20:01,400 --> 01:20:03,600
Speaker 1: hit all the cliches with the with the with the

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01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:06,160
Speaker 1: apocalyptic driving. You know, you have the you have a

1539
01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:09,280
Speaker 1: car go off the side of a cliff and explode, uh,

1540
01:20:09,560 --> 01:20:13,479
Speaker 1: multiple cards exploding. They do that that wonderful car stunt.

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01:20:13,479 --> 01:20:15,439
Speaker 1: I'm sure it has a specific name because it's done

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01:20:15,479 --> 01:20:17,720
Speaker 1: all the time. The one where a car will hit

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01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:20,400
Speaker 1: a ramp with only one side of it and they'll

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01:20:20,439 --> 01:20:22,559
Speaker 1: generally be some stuff to obscure the fact that there's

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01:20:22,560 --> 01:20:25,479
Speaker 1: a ramp there and it makes the car flip up

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01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:29,120
Speaker 1: on two wheels. Yeah. I always love seeing that one,

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01:20:29,200 --> 01:20:31,679
Speaker 1: especially if I can see the ramp. Sometimes they really

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01:20:31,680 --> 01:20:33,679
Speaker 1: mess up and you see like an actual ramp behind

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01:20:33,680 --> 01:20:36,640
Speaker 1: some trash cans. I think that happens in Final Sacrifice,

1550
01:20:36,680 --> 01:20:39,439
Speaker 1: the Roused Hour movie. So yeah, it's not Fury Road,

1551
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:42,639
Speaker 1: but it has its pleasures. Yeah, And I will say

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01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:46,000
Speaker 1: again that no matter how half formed some of the

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01:20:46,080 --> 01:20:48,720
Speaker 1: ideas for the film might have been, I feel like

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01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:52,920
Speaker 1: the crew that the people acting in it, the crew

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01:20:53,040 --> 01:20:56,920
Speaker 1: creating the effects and the costumes and dressing up the settings,

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01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:00,240
Speaker 1: the uh as you know, as well as um you

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01:21:00,240 --> 01:21:02,599
Speaker 1: know as the score, like all of these things really

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01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:06,439
Speaker 1: over delivered uh and ultimately made for a film that's

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01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:09,679
Speaker 1: that's quite watchable in my opinion. Alright, So once again,

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01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:12,080
Speaker 1: I don't think I think currently there's not a really

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01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:14,320
Speaker 1: good place to stream this, at least in the United States.

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01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:16,200
Speaker 1: But you know, keep an eye out. I know I have.

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01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:19,280
Speaker 1: I have streamed it in the past through uh like

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01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:21,720
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime or something, or maybe even Netflix back in

1565
01:21:21,760 --> 01:21:24,320
Speaker 1: the day when they had older films. Uh wait, is

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01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:27,679
Speaker 1: it not on in there like a band tube app?

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01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:31,360
Speaker 1: Now essentially there is, and I'm a current subscriber to it,

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01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:34,360
Speaker 1: but this was not on there. This was pre um

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01:21:34,720 --> 01:21:39,680
Speaker 1: either of those companies, So it's not not available. Uh

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01:21:39,720 --> 01:21:41,320
Speaker 1: you know it's it's not a full Moon picture, so

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01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:43,880
Speaker 1: it's not available through full Moon. I wasn't even able

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01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:47,160
Speaker 1: to rent it digitally, but you rented that shout factory

1573
01:21:47,160 --> 01:21:51,120
Speaker 1: Blu ray from Atlanta's own Video Drome, the last video

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01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:53,639
Speaker 1: store here in Atlanta. And if anyone wants to check

1575
01:21:53,640 --> 01:21:56,640
Speaker 1: out information about Video Drome or buy submerged from them,

1576
01:21:56,680 --> 01:21:58,920
Speaker 1: you can go to video Drome dot tv. They're not

1577
01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:02,240
Speaker 1: paying for this, even know we're giving them these free plugs. No,

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01:22:02,520 --> 01:22:05,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean we could hit him up and say, like,

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01:22:05,479 --> 01:22:09,800
Speaker 1: can you forgive our late face if we promote the website,

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01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:14,400
Speaker 1: but now we're happy to support video droump Um. Yeah,

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01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:16,120
Speaker 1: I guess that's it. I would love to hear from

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Speaker 1: anyone who saw this on the screen in three D

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01:22:18,960 --> 01:22:21,080
Speaker 1: back in the early eighties, or saw or or saw

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Speaker 1: any of the other early eighties three D pictures, or

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01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:25,920
Speaker 1: what you I would love to hear from everyone. What's

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01:22:25,920 --> 01:22:28,639
Speaker 1: your thought on just three D cinema in general? Uh?

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01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:31,120
Speaker 1: Does it give you a headache? Does it just fill

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01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:34,439
Speaker 1: you with wonder? Uh? You know, I I would I

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01:22:34,479 --> 01:22:37,559
Speaker 1: would love to hear everyone's experience. What are your favorite

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01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:40,080
Speaker 1: movies that are obsessed with crystals? You got this, you

1591
01:22:40,160 --> 01:22:42,080
Speaker 1: got The Dark Crystal. There's gotta be some other ones.

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01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:44,920
Speaker 1: I'm sure they have to be. There's so much crystal.

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01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:47,440
Speaker 1: There's a lot of crystal mania. I think the screenwriter

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01:22:47,560 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 1: for this mentioned that he was super into reading about

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01:22:50,160 --> 01:22:53,160
Speaker 1: Atlantis when he wrote, So I don't know how that

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01:22:53,200 --> 01:22:55,200
Speaker 1: relates to it, but it does remind me a bit

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01:22:55,200 --> 01:22:57,880
Speaker 1: of the whole story with Shock Waves, about the screenwriters

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01:22:57,920 --> 01:23:01,599
Speaker 1: for that being inspired by a Morning of the Magicians.

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01:23:01,680 --> 01:23:04,360
Speaker 1: So I think this is all an appropriate use of

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01:23:04,360 --> 01:23:08,040
Speaker 1: occult um and conspiracy theorist nonsense. It's like, take it

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01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:10,479
Speaker 1: and make some sort of zombie film out of it,

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01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:12,800
Speaker 1: make some sort of goofy science fiction film out of it,

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01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:17,519
Speaker 1: rather than you mean, like misleading studo documentaries for TV. Yeah, yeah,

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01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:20,120
Speaker 1: I would think so. Yeah. Alright, well we're gonna go

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Speaker 1: ahead and close it up here. Um. But in the meantime,

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Speaker 1: you can check out other episodes of Weird How Cinema

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