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Speaker 1: Hey, you welcome to Weird House Cinema. Rewind, we have

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Speaker 1: a fun one here for you today. This one originally

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Speaker 1: published eleven, twenty two, twenty twenty four. It is the

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Speaker 1: early sixties Danish American co production Reptilicus. So we have

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Speaker 1: some excellent euro Kaiju action to dive into here. Let's

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

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Speaker 3: And this is Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema,

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Speaker 3: we are going to be talking about a movie that

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Speaker 3: has two faces, but one slimy toxic heart, and that

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Speaker 3: is the nineteen sixty two English language version of the

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Speaker 3: euro Kaiju movie Reptilicus, directed by Sydney Pink. Now, one

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Speaker 3: thing to mention right at the beginning here is that

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Speaker 3: this movie is kind of weird. There exist two different

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Speaker 3: versions of the film, one in English and one in Danish,

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Speaker 3: and neither one is simply a dub of the other.

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Speaker 3: There were actually two different movies shot separately, but sharing

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Speaker 3: the same story and most of the same cast, but

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Speaker 3: with different lines in each language and two different directors.

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Speaker 3: So The Danish version you'll get was directed by Paul

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Speaker 3: Bong and the English version by Sidney Pink, the latter

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Speaker 3: of which, again is the one we're gonna be talking

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Speaker 3: about today. Both of these movies have the same basic storyline,

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Speaker 3: the same scenes overall. Both films are set in Denmark

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Speaker 3: and concern Danish paleontologists attempting to investigate the remains of

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Speaker 3: a giant frozen dinosaur tale uncovered from deep underground, which

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Speaker 3: eventually turns into a big dragon thing is named Reptilicus,

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Speaker 3: and then just goes nuts on Denmark, runs around eating

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Speaker 3: cows and attacking people at the beach, attacking the city,

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Speaker 3: attacking famous beautiful landmarks that you should visit by the way,

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Speaker 3: if you're ever in scene at Copenhagen. And yeah, and

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Speaker 3: so this is a giant monster movie like many others

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Speaker 3: we've talked about before, but with I don't know, some

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Speaker 3: interesting distinctions we can get into as we go along.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I guess you could say it's kind of

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Speaker 1: like the situation with nineteen thirty one's Dracula, where you

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Speaker 1: though that one doesn't have the same actors. This one

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Speaker 1: has almost exclusively the same actors. They're just we just

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Speaker 1: have them delivering their lines in different languages in separate shots.

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Speaker 3: Exactly. It would be like if the thirty one Todd

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Speaker 3: Browning Dracula and then the Spanish language version were It

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Speaker 3: would be like that situation if they used mostly the

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Speaker 1: They had been like okay, Bella, how's your Spanish, that

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Speaker 1: they went a different direction. Obviously.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Now we were talking about something before we came on, Mike,

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Speaker 3: which is that I think both of us really enjoyed

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Speaker 3: watching Reptilicus. But I do have to be honest about

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Speaker 3: this one and not over sell any of its individual merits,

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Speaker 3: because I don't think it has a lot of extreme

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Speaker 3: a great script. I would not honestly. You know, sometimes

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Speaker 3: it's got a great cast, no offense to any of

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Speaker 3: are not really that impressive. They're they're enjoyable in a

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Speaker 3: So there is there's really no element of this movie

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a charming picture, like it's a feel

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Speaker 3: So maybe, despite not being stellar filmmaking in any particular direction,

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Speaker 3: Reptilicus has many appealing things. One of them is just

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Speaker 3: the word reptilicus, which is one of the most pleasing

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Speaker 3: words to say that I've ever come across. I discovered

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Speaker 3: Reptilicus the Beautiful. I'm proud to be a Reptilican. They've

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Speaker 3: of course no one language or culture owns the idea

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Speaker 3: So there's plenty of you know, trading back and forth

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Speaker 3: And in the Gorgo episode, I think we had a

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Speaker 3: way that it's just not counterintuitive or funny for that

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Speaker 3: about I don't know, predominant styles of local architecture. I

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Speaker 3: it's interesting that people quite consistently have this reaction, So

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Speaker 3: it's just something to think about.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think part of it is that we from

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Speaker 3: Oh that'd be great.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, but then from the Danish perspective, why

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Speaker 3: I was not able to research this before we recorded today,

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Speaker 3: don't know local the Copenhagen Tourism board or something was

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Speaker 3: this gorgeous bridge and fountain. Great place to take the kids.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, everything that they say during this ten minute travel

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Speaker 1: Steve's saying all of it in an episode of his

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I can imagine him saying, like, you know,

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Speaker 3: It it ends with a scene of it's like two

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Speaker 1: Here we are. But I love that the film felt

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Speaker 3: Okay. Another thing to consider this also has come up

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Speaker 3: this picture. Does rep Tilicus have any serious themes in mind?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if they're there, it's a very and we can

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Speaker 1: only speak to the American version here. Something like this

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Speaker 1: got maybe mild vibes of the importance of international cooperation

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Speaker 1: against threats regenerative threats, but it's very shallow if it's

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Speaker 3: Okay, should we hear some trailer audio?

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Speaker 1: Sure? Sure? My? Oh my elevator pitch. By the way,

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Speaker 1: is springboarding off? Is something you said, is they're coming

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Speaker 1: to Reptilicus today. I'm not going to sing it, because

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Speaker 1: I don't know if we get pained for that anyway. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the US trailer for this is pretty fun. Let's have

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Speaker 4: Somewhere in the Forbidding Tundra mountains of Lapland, high above

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Speaker 4: the Arctic Circle, a group of mining engineers were prospecting

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Speaker 4: for copper. But what they on earth was a story,

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Speaker 4: a story that was to terrorize the whole world.

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Speaker 1: Fossil bones.

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Speaker 5: I have never seen bone fragments like this before.

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Speaker 4: I'll work with the army through Captain Bratt, Commandersvencent, you'll

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Speaker 4: stand by for any naval action required. As chief of police,

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Speaker 4: I'll rely on you to handle the population. Handel Grayson

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Speaker 4: where day out of his way? How long do you

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Speaker 4: expect me to continue this hill?

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Speaker 1: There you Go. Also, I'm Always into a good I

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Speaker 3: ghost train, and then it all turns out to be

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Speaker 3: a ruse covering up a like secret espionage caper where

434
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:41,159
Speaker 3: like communists are infiltrating Britain by way of a secret train. Yeah,

435
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:46,160
Speaker 3: which is okay, but then yeah, so there were many

436
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 3: adaptations of this plot, and one of them is this

437
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 3: one that has Dirt Passer in it, who I don't

438
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,399
Speaker 3: remember which character he plays.

439
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: But yeah, he ends up on some of the promotional

440
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,439
Speaker 1: materials for it. Because he had that very expressive face

441
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: with which I think he could use for sort of

442
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,199
Speaker 1: terror as well as comedy, Like he could open his

443
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:09,919
Speaker 1: mouth really wide, and yeah, I was instantly impressed by

444
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,119
Speaker 1: those stills, Like you know, you see a still like

445
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 1: that and you're like, who is this hyper expressive actor. Indeed,

446
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: he was a pretty legendary within the Danish world of

447
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 1: entertainment as an actor, a kind of a character actor,

448
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 1: but also as a comedian, noted for his improv skills

449
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:31,679
Speaker 1: and apparently also just really explosive loud performances. Though in

450
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: his private life, as is often the case, you know,

451
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,679
Speaker 1: he was said to be a very quiet, reserved man. Huh,

452
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 1: that's funny, but on the stage, a loud speaker for

453
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: the absurdity of the human condition. He was also apparently

454
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: had a clown act and famously Slash tragically died in

455
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: his clown makeup. He suffered cardiac arrest in the midstore

456
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: immediately following a performance. And so I guess this is

457
00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: one of those things that cannot help but sort of

458
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 1: add to one legendary status. But he's apparently highly influential

459
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: within the Danish acting world, and I can see why,

460
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: Like this is a guy that even in this small,

461
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:14,119
Speaker 1: you know, just comedic role, like he stands out like

462
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 1: he's the main actor that sticks in my mind from

463
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 1: this picture.

464
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 3: Agreed, There are some shots where as we were discussing,

465
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 3: he has a bit of a Stephen King in the

466
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 3: eighties energy going on. Yeah, he brings with him the

467
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:33,400
Speaker 3: great suggestion of tom foolery soon to follow. Like when

468
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 3: he's walking down the hall and you see the eel tank,

469
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 3: you just know before it even happens, is like he's

470
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 3: going to end up at least part of his body

471
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,120
Speaker 3: is going to be in that eel tank.

472
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, thank thank goodness, it happens. But again we'll

473
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: just going to prepare you for disappointment. He does just

474
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 1: disappear at some point in the film and does not

475
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: come back for more comedic misapps.

476
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 3: They should have had him defeat Reptilicus. I would have

477
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:57,639
Speaker 3: bought it.

478
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, he seemed like a big I think you could

479
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 1: handle it all right. Finally a music for this picture,

480
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: the US version anyway. It's another Less Baxter score. It

481
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 1: Live nineteen twenty two through nineteen ninety six. We've talked

482
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 1: about him numerous times for you know, some of his

483
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 1: very traditional scores, his weird score for a very minimalist

484
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: electronic score for Frogs in the seventies. This is another

485
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: film score by the master of exotica music that I

486
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: guess mostly doesn't hit any exotica notes, at least until

487
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,120
Speaker 1: the very end, right, it gets a little exotica right

488
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: there at the end.

489
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 3: No, there's some mean So there's nothing wrong with the

490
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 3: music in this movie except the way it is matched

491
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 3: with what's happening on screen, like persistently funny music choices throughout.

492
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 3: It'll have these these like stings and stings, the orchestra

493
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:52,159
Speaker 3: stings that are timed strangely. It'll have the use of

494
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 3: like blustery march music like seventy six trombones kind of

495
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,719
Speaker 3: marches playing over scenes where it doesn't feel like it

496
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 3: makes any sense, just like a pulling up to a building.

497
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 3: And then one of the funniest things is like right

498
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 3: at the end, when they're looking out over the water

499
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 3: and it's like, well, we killed Reptilicus. And it's while

500
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 3: the guy is saying this, it's playing like the nightclub

501
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,360
Speaker 3: music that we heard earlier, like the lounge song.

502
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,119
Speaker 1: Bum it needs to feel good film.

503
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, time just talk about the plot.

504
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get into it.

505
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 3: Okay, So we begin with the glorious aip logos. We

506
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 3: pan over a vista of rippling hills dotted with green shrubbery,

507
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 3: and then we get a voice over. This is later

508
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 3: going to be revealed to be I'm pretty sure it's

509
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 3: the general, Brigadier General Grayson, but we don't know that yet.

510
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 3: It's just somebody saying somewhere in the Forbidding Tundra mountains

511
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 3: of Lapland, high above the Arctic Circle, a group of

512
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 3: mining engineers were prospecting for copper. But what they unearthed

513
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 3: was a story, a story that was to terrorize the

514
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 3: whole world. I'm already fact check they did not. This

515
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 3: movie does not have worldwide implications.

516
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: This is more regional conflict.

517
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 3: Yes, And so what we see, by the way, when

518
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 3: this is happening, we see some guys in like khaki

519
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 3: jumpsuits and white helmets working on a bunch of mining

520
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 3: equipment in the middle of a forest. What looks to me,

521
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 3: I could be wrong. What looks to me like a

522
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 3: pretty warm forest. Wherever this is. I don't think this

523
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 3: is the tundra, as he says. But then he goes

524
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 3: on to say, when the events began that were to

525
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 3: place a burden of decision involving the lives of an

526
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 3: entire city on my shoulders, I was far away, unsuspecting, unknowing.

527
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 3: And then we zoom in on one of the miners

528
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 3: who is busy retracting a drill bit from a borehole

529
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 3: in the earth, and as the drill comes up out

530
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 3: of the ground, he feeds it onto a pulley system

531
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 3: above his head and then notices that the drill is wet,

532
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 3: not with water or with oil, but with some viscous,

533
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 3: bright red substance. He says, it's blood, and then we

534
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 3: zoom on his bloody hands and then get the title reptilicus.

535
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a great start it's shocking.

536
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 3: I mean driu yeah, chiller font reptilicus. It's all dripping everywhere,

537
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 3: and the orchestra is like stinging again and again. But

538
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 3: after the title we rejoin the scene where the miners

539
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 3: are freaking out about the presence of blood on their drill.

540
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 3: They start digging at the mudcaked threads of the drill

541
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 3: bit with their hands, and then they start pulling all

542
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 3: of this weird gore off of it, floppy, moist red

543
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 3: flaps of something, and one of them says, it's a

544
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 3: piece of skin, like leather.

545
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: This is effectively gross. I was reminded of the music

546
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: video for a sober bitool scenes of like meat moving

547
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: through a tube at times, and like that's similar, vibing.

548
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So more gore comes off of the drill,

549
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 3: and it's like sometimes it's uh, sometimes it's these flaps

550
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 3: of stuff. Sometimes it's something rigid covered in blood. And

551
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 3: to the rigid stuff, the head miner says, bones, fossil bones,

552
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 3: And then this other guy says what kind of thing

553
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 3: is down there? And the head miner says, I don't know,

554
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 3: but I intend to find out, and he decides they

555
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 3: have to halt operations until they, you know, figure out

556
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 3: what's going on with the drill. And there's some great

557
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 3: dialogue here. The main guy who later will learn this

558
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 3: guy is the character Spin. So Spin says to his

559
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 3: friend Henry, as an American, you have drilled all over

560
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 3: the world. What do you make of it? And Henry says,

561
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 3: it can't be a living thing? Let it be. And

562
00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 3: so Spin here is tall, blonde, handsome. He's going to

563
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 3: be our geo hunk for the film. He's a miner

564
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 3: and he's just a good looking, strapping lad. He says

565
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 3: to his friend that he's going to radio someone named

566
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 3: Navik at the University of Copenhagen. But first they're going

567
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 3: to take some polaroids of this wheelbarrow full of bloody slop.

568
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 3: And what they don't see, like they take some pictures

569
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 3: and then walk away. What they don't see is that

570
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 3: the gore starts breathing. These little sacks are inflating and

571
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 3: deflating in the gunk. Then the same voiceover from earlier

572
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 3: resumes saying within hours two Danish scientists had joined the

573
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 3: mining engineers. Professor Martin's from Copenhagen's don Mark's Aquarium and

574
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 3: his associate doctor Peter Dalby, as well as a third man,

575
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 3: Hans Carlson, a newspaper reporter. So we see all these

576
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 3: guys sitting around a campfire wearing hats with ear flaps,

577
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 3: and the narrator says, the two scientists had examined the

578
00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 3: startling find hidden beneath the frozen tundra and brought by

579
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 3: the drill bit they reasoned out the meaning of the

580
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 3: gruesome puzzle without ever dreaming of its full deadly secret.

581
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 3: So one of the scientists explains the results of their investigation.

582
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 3: They're like, these are the bones of a gigantic creature

583
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 3: which lies fossilized down in the ground below us. And

584
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 3: then the miner is like, but how do you explain

585
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 3: the blood? And Professor Martin's then says, there is quote

586
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 3: a streak of icy muck underground. The creature must be

587
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 3: embedded in it, frozen solid. And then this was great.

588
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 3: Dalby says, not unusual really, So they say, the drill

589
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 3: cut through this frozen creature's flesh. The friction of the

590
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 3: drill thawed the flesh out, and bam, there you get wet,

591
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 3: wet blood.

592
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: It's pretty I mean, for the time and for the

593
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: relative vibe of the picture pretty gorey, like there's an

594
00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: effective slop in this.

595
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 3: Sure, yeah. So Dalby explains that normally when this happens,

596
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 3: the frozen animal underground is a mammal like a wooly mammoth.

597
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 3: In this case, the flesh brought up by the drill

598
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,760
Speaker 3: is instead from a giant reptile, and that is totally unique.

599
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 3: So the scientists explain that they're going to excavate and

600
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 3: then ship the remains to the aquarium in Copenhagen. So

601
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 3: let's go straight straight to Copenhagen now, So we get

602
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 3: like a Copenhagen title in yellow text in this metal

603
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 3: band font. People are walking around in the streets. We

604
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 3: see lots of bicycles, motor traffic, old buildings, and so forth.

605
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 3: The music in this part is funny because it's just

606
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 3: playing this march. What we're seeing is like a red

607
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 3: convertible pulling up to a building. So the people in

608
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 3: the car are Professor Martin's who've already met Auto Martins

609
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 3: is his name, and his adult daughter Lisa, and she's

610
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 3: dropping him off at the aquarium, and Lisa says, don't

611
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 3: spend all your time with those old fossils, father, you

612
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 3: might become one. And then Otto says, with two daughters

613
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 3: like you and Karen, it's a pleasure to retire my

614
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 3: old bones. From what I can tell, this was written

615
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 3: in English and not in Danish. And then like losing

616
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 3: something in translation, but it feels like something where we've

617
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 3: lost something in translation.

618
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there are a lot of lines like this

619
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: in the picture.

620
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,320
Speaker 3: So we follow Professor Martin's as he wanders through the

621
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 3: don marks Akvarium to his laboratory. He's like passing through

622
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,800
Speaker 3: exhibit tanks full of fish and sea turtles on the way,

623
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 3: and what I just noticed. They've got these sea turtles

624
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 3: in a tank that looks quite small, and then the

625
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 3: professor stops to bang on the glass in.

626
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 1: Them, and everyone knows you're not supposed to do that.

627
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 3: So they get to the lab and there are various

628
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 3: technicians at work. Martin's and Dalby discussed the remains they

629
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 3: unearthed from the mine. Dalby has been trying to reconstruct

630
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 3: the creature, and so far his attempts have all failed.

631
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 3: He expresses his puzzlement, saying, I don't know why we

632
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 3: can't put this thing back together. We've got plenty of bones,

633
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 3: and Martin's says, too many bones. We aren't even sure

634
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,720
Speaker 3: they belong to the same animal, but Dalby is sure.

635
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 3: He says it's unlike anything in the fossil record, completely unique.

636
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 3: So anyway, Otto's other adult daughter, Karen, arrives with a

637
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 3: telegram from Spinn the handsome miner, that apparently he found

638
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 3: more bones and he's bringing them to the museum and

639
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 3: he'll be here in an hour. He needs somebody to

640
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 3: pick him up at the airport with the bones, so

641
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 3: Otto sends Karen and his daughter to pick him up

642
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 3: at the airport, and Karen is portrayed as boy crazy.

643
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 3: She's like, ooh, is he handsome father? And he tries

644
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,839
Speaker 3: to dissuade her. He says, like, no, he has three

645
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 3: eyes and a false mustache. Now hurry up. But the

646
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 3: next scene is that Svin and the bone fragments are

647
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 3: already here, and this is where we get that great delivery,

648
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 3: where Atto says like, I have never seen bone fragments

649
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 3: like this before. Well, what's so weird about the bones?

650
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 3: While the professor explains they are resilient but very strong,

651
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 3: almost like the cartilaginous bones of a shark. That's what

652
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 3: he says. Meanwhile, they discuss how they have identified the

653
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 3: frozen piece they discovered, and it is from the creature's tail,

654
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 3: and now it's being kept under deep freeze conditions beyond

655
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 3: this heavy iron door in the wall of the laboratory,

656
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 3: and we get to see inside and this actually looks

657
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 3: kind of cool. They've got it under like blue green lighting,

658
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 3: sort of frosty and shimmering. I thought it looked like

659
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 3: the texture of a puppet from the Nightmare before Christmas.

660
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's good.

661
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 3: Yeah. But then later we see a cross section of

662
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 3: it and it looks like a like a beef roast.

663
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 3: It's like an oxtail. Anyway, they can estimate just from

664
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 3: the tail that this creature would have been among the

665
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 3: biggest reptiles or dinosaurs ever to live. They say ninety

666
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 3: feet or more. They don't specify in what direction. And

667
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:09,240
Speaker 3: they say it lived seventy to one hundred million years ago.

668
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 3: And then also in this scene, Karen Martin's daughter is

669
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 3: just coming on so strong to spin. She says, like, father,

670
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 3: now that you've told Spinn about frozen matters, can I

671
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 3: thaw him a little? Yeah?

672
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: Oh?

673
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,280
Speaker 3: But then the other professor Otto daughter shows up again.

674
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 3: This is Lisa, and now Lisa brought a guy with

675
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 3: her as well, but this is Dirt, so I don't

676
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 3: think they actually meant that, like dirtch is her boyfriend,

677
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 3: but that's almost how it comes off. She like brings

678
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 3: him up like here he is father.

679
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, because again this is Peterson. He appears to

680
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: work here, or at least he is here and is

681
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:50,879
Speaker 1: ordered around to do things right.

682
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 3: So he's this strange looking guy in a gray flannel

683
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 3: shirt and denim overalls. And by the way, in the

684
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 3: scene like this, the sisters are mocking and sniping at

685
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 3: each other like they're fighting over the handsome minor the geohunk,

686
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 3: literally pulling him in opposite directions, you know, they each

687
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 3: take one of his arms and they're fighting over him.

688
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 3: And then these two old scientists Martin's and Dalby are

689
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 3: acting like creeps. One of them. Dalby's like Auto, I

690
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 3: envy that young man and running off with your daughters,

691
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 3: and Auto is like, yes, he will be very busy now,

692
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 3: and this gives way into the Dirt passer scene, where

693
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 3: he is explaining that he is there to help them

694
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 3: keep an eye on things when no one's around, he

695
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,720
Speaker 3: will be there to keep a lookout. So he seems

696
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:43,280
Speaker 3: to me more security guard than janitor, but it's still

697
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 3: never very clear. Like basically what he does is he

698
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 3: just walks around in the hall and gets into gets

699
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 3: into trouble.

700
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, it gets in little mishaps. Yeah.

701
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 3: Now, the scientists stressed to Peterson that the most important

702
00:39:55,480 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 3: thing is to always keep this reptilicous tail frozen, never

703
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 3: let the freezer thaw out. And he's like, okay, got it, boss.

704
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 3: And so I really had my expectations subverted because as

705
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 3: soon as I saw this scene, I was like, I

706
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 3: know what's gonna happen. Dirt, Dirt passer is gonna mess

707
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 3: this up. He is gonna thaw this tail. But it

708
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:19,839
Speaker 3: is not Dirt's fault.

709
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: Is it. No, No, not at all, which is surprising. Again,

710
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:27,479
Speaker 1: like generally when someone says, hey, make sure this doesn't happen, ay,

711
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 1: that thing is going to happen. And if you have

712
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: a comic relief bumbling security guard like who better than

713
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: to accidentally thaw the reptilicus.

714
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 3: That's right. But so he's not the one who thows it.

715
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 3: He does get into some other trouble. He is walking

716
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 3: down a hallway and just in the middle of the

717
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 3: hallway there is an open tank that has all these

718
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 3: like electricity warning signs on it. It's got electric eels

719
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 3: in it, and Dirt is like, I just got I

720
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 3: gotta stick my hand in the tank.

721
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Well we build up to right. It's the

722
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: first is it the first scene where he just passes

723
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: by and he's like he says like, yep, everything around

724
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: here runs on electricity, which is a line I genuinely

725
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: laughed at. I thought, oh, yeah, it's pretty good.

726
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, okay, No, he doesn't stick his hand in

727
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 3: it yet, that's later, but he he comments on the

728
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 3: fact that they're electric, just like the lights.

729
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know that hand is going there. You

730
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: know we're going to come back to that electric eel.

731
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 3: It's Chekhov's eel. Yeah. So later that night, Dalby is

732
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 3: taking some Reptilicus samples and analyzing them under the microscope,

733
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 3: but he is overworked and drowsy and soon falls asleep

734
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 3: at his desk. Meanwhile, outside there's a lightning storm raging,

735
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 3: and somehow this leads to the freezer door falling open.

736
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 3: I think that Dalby like didn't shut it right or

737
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,359
Speaker 3: something when he was getting the sample out and the

738
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 3: freezer begins to thaw.

739
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: That's right, you can't nail Peterson for this. He had

740
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 1: no hand in.

741
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 3: This, right, not his fault. It was Delby. And then

742
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 3: the next morning Professor Martin's and Lisa, they come into

743
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 3: the office and discover the scene. Dalby is asleep, head

744
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 3: on the desk, the freezer's hanging open, and the reptilicus

745
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 3: tail is dripping blood on the floor, and we see

746
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 3: it in its thawed state after it has come up

747
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 3: to room temperature, and it now looks much nastier than before,

748
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 3: like it's covered in a red brown damp wool. Obviously

749
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 3: unhappy to see this that everybody rushes in and Auto

750
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 3: is like unfrozen. So there's some general fretting and chewing

751
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 3: out of people until they discover something shocking. The drill

752
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 3: hole in the tail that the handsome miner made by

753
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 3: you know, with his drill bit. It is now healing,

754
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 3: and the scientists say, you realize what this means. You

755
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 3: let it thaw and now it is alive. So the

756
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 3: next scene is Professor Martin's having a meeting in his

757
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 3: office with somebody. We haven't met before. It turns out

758
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 3: this is a UNESCO official named Connie Miller, and the

759
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 3: first thing he says to her is some casual sexism.

760
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,240
Speaker 3: He's like, oh, we don't often see women as beautiful

761
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 3: as you associated with science, and she's like, dude, I

762
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 3: am qualified, and he's like, ah, yes, I'm sorry, I

763
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 3: am old. But I'm still unclear on exactly what Miller's

764
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 3: job is supposed to be here. I take it this

765
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 3: is like a job interview where they're having this meeting here,

766
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 3: but they don't explain exactly what she's doing. It's something

767
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 3: related to reptilicus.

768
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure exactly what this character is supposed

769
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: to be doing. Like I was mainly distracted by, like,

770
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: who's this actor playing this role? You know? And this

771
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: is where I came upon the Miss Germany factoid. Yeah.

772
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 3: And then also, for some reason, the dude's daughter Lisa

773
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 3: is just looming over this lady during the interview.

774
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:48,320
Speaker 1: Yeah.

775
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 3: Just one of many many examples of throughout the whole film.

776
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 3: Why would this character be here? But then suddenly we

777
00:43:56,120 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 3: meet another new character, the American brigadier general named Mark Grayson,

778
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 3: who again this is I think this was the guy

779
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 3: narrating in voiceover earlier, but we meet him through one

780
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 3: of those sentence completed from across the room by a

781
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 3: newly arrived character intros. So, I think Martin's is saying

782
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 3: we have a general coming in. His name is and

783
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 3: then he's looking amongst his papers, and then the guy

784
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 3: you hear another voice and he says Mark Grayson, and

785
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 3: I have never seen a man introduce himself in a

786
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 3: movie with such apparent disgust. He says his own name

787
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 3: the way that cop talked about hippies in The Living

788
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:36,760
Speaker 3: Dead at Manchester Morgue.

789
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so weird.

790
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,359
Speaker 3: So Grayson wanders over to Professor Martin's. He's scowling, he's

791
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 3: not happy about whatever's going on. The professor welcomes him,

792
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:50,240
Speaker 3: and Grayson says, I think the line is, I don't

793
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 3: know why I'm here, Professor, I assume you'll let me know.

794
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:58,720
Speaker 3: Classic didn't we just talk about movies with the scene

795
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 3: of the scene convention of like we're all here for

796
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 3: a mission, but we don't know what it is. Now

797
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:04,280
Speaker 3: we're going to get the briefing.

798
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. We have kind of like a mini version

799
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: of that here.

800
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, though, I guess we talked about how the most

801
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 3: believable context is when it's a military things.

802
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it makes sense here.

803
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, but here all of the characters are introduced to

804
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 3: each other. He got Miller, Lisa Grayson all saying hello, introducing,

805
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 3: and it's very stiff all around. Now, the next scene

806
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 3: is a news conference hosted by Otto Martin's highlights. So

807
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 3: the press is gathered and he gives sort of a talk,

808
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 3: and the highlights are, this creature is alive, it is

809
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 3: quote regenerating, and he explains that by saying a lizard

810
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 3: can regrow its tail when it's chopped off, a flatworm

811
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 3: can regrow whole parts of its body, even its brain

812
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 3: after being cut in half. And that's what's happening right now. Also,

813
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,359
Speaker 3: we learned that the animal is called reptilicus. The name

814
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 3: is suggested by a journalist, and Martin's is just like

815
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 3: reptilicus it is.

816
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: I think that's standard, right. It's like the journalist gets

817
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: there first, they get to officially name a new organism. Yeah,

818
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what publication they're from.

819
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 3: What if we name it the Daily Maelosaurus. So all

820
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,240
Speaker 3: the journalists come in and flock to look at the tank,

821
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 3: like they're clamoring up the staircase to look in the

822
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 3: window inside, and they're murmuring. And then we see newspaper

823
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 3: headlines spinning at the screen. We see prehistoric monster growing

824
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,800
Speaker 3: in huge tank. And I really like that one because

825
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 3: it's got the word huge in it, but it refers

826
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 3: to the tank. And then another headline prominently featuring the

827
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 3: concept of tank, it is incubator tank feeds monster from pass.

828
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 3: So after this, there's a scene of Brigadier General Mark

829
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:05,240
Speaker 3: Grayson sulking because he is being relegated to the command

830
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 3: of in his words, two captains, three office boys, and

831
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 3: a damn lizard. And he's like, I'm a war hero,

832
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 3: I'm worthy of prestige. How dare they put me on

833
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 3: Reptilicus detail. Now, the next scene we get is a

834
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 3: good old dirt scene. Here we're not at the eel

835
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:28,320
Speaker 3: part yet. Instead, here he's eating a sandwich and painting

836
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 3: something on a microscope slide and then looking through the microscope,

837
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 3: then putting his sandwich under the microscope and seeing lots

838
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 3: of bacteria, and then he burps, and then we get

839
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 3: like harp music playing, and we cut to Black.

840
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: I have no idea. This is a scene where I

841
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: really was trying to figure out what Peterson's role here is.

842
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 1: Like he did not before the scene. He did not

843
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: seem like a character who had microscope access. You know.

844
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 3: It's like he's just now discovering that there are microbes

845
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 3: on his food.

846
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:02,760
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess maybe I would not be surprised

847
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: if they this was not a scene where they were like, hey,

848
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: let's just let's just improve some stuff. Let's just get

849
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: the camera on this guy and just see what he's got.

850
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 3: Turn dirt loose in the lab. See, Yeah, he's like

851
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 3: Billy Crystal and yeah.

852
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: Oh.

853
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 3: Also this right after this, I think is when he

854
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:22,240
Speaker 3: actually does cram his hand in the electric eel tank. Yes,

855
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 3: so he's like going down the hall and just wants

856
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 3: to get a little taste a free sample of electric eel,

857
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:31,319
Speaker 3: and it I don't know, I guess it shocks him.

858
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 3: I assume we were to take it as him really

859
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 3: being electrified, not him pretending to be.

860
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think it was supposed to be real electrocution,

861
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 1: because we get we get as we're hoping like full

862
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: like a full array of facial emotions here like, he

863
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: goes to the seven stages of being shocked by an eel,

864
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 1: and it's pretty great.

865
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 3: But while this is happening, there is a distraction because

866
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 3: he hears a rumbling in the reptilicus tank and he

867
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 3: gets very alarmed, in fact, so alarmed that he pulls

868
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,280
Speaker 3: an alarm. He pulls the fire alarm. Everybody comes running.

869
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 3: They're like, what's happening, what's wrong Peterson? And he explains,

870
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:12,919
Speaker 3: But then Martin's says to him, don't worry Peterson. Here's

871
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 3: the quote. He says, Reptilicus has no conscious life. Yet

872
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:24,360
Speaker 3: what you heard was merely involuntary embryonic movement. So you know.

873
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,240
Speaker 3: In the meantime, we learn more about Reptilicus. The scientists

874
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:30,280
Speaker 3: are constantly studying it as it grows. Martin's is like, yes,

875
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 3: grow more reptilicus, and they learn he has big, strong

876
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 3: scales on his back, slimy secretion from his mouth which

877
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 3: has a corrosive effect, like like highly concentrated acid, and

878
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 3: so they're like, yes, keep keep growing it. Oh, and

879
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 3: this is the part where we get to the Copenhagen

880
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:52,400
Speaker 3: tourism reel. Oh, Yes, like there's this I think I

881
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 3: don't know German general. There's a general from somewhere named

882
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,359
Speaker 3: Brandt who is working with Grayson, and he comes into

883
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,240
Speaker 3: his office and he says, is there is there anything

884
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 3: I can do for you? And Grayson says, yeah, get

885
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 3: me transferred out of this damn place. So he's being

886
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 3: grumpy as usual, but then Brandt suggests to him, why

887
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 3: not go out for a night on the town and

888
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 3: see all the sights in this beautiful locale, and Grayson

889
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:20,320
Speaker 3: is like splendid idea actually, So they go out together

890
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,840
Speaker 3: and we see all of the fountains and the bridges

891
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:28,880
Speaker 3: and the trams and the bicycles and the palace, and

892
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:33,720
Speaker 3: then we end up. Oh, they go over the longebro Bridge,

893
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,720
Speaker 3: which is an important landmark in the movie that will happen.

894
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 3: We will encounter again later when Reptilochus is rampaging. But

895
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 3: this is the part where Brant and Grayson both take

896
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:50,320
Speaker 3: Connie Connie Miller from Unesco on a date to dinner

897
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 3: and she's walking around holding both of their arms and

898
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 3: it's playing what the subtitles referred to as soft sultry music,

899
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:01,760
Speaker 3: and this like nightclub singer isinging a song called Tivoli Knights,

900
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 3: Tivoli Knights, So what a sight. This might be a

901
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:06,879
Speaker 3: standard I wasn't familiar with it though, but it does

902
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 3: include also some pretty good Danish scat singing.

903
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I love this whole sequence here again,

904
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 1: it's so overt, you know, it is like a travel brochure.

905
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: But at the same time, this is probably a sequence

906
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:26,000
Speaker 1: where some viewers are saying, hey, didn't I pop in

907
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 1: a monster movie? Isn't there supposed to be a monster

908
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: rampage at some point?

909
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 3: Well, if that's what you're thinking, you're in luck, because

910
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 3: it is finally time for Reptilicus to break loose. So

911
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 3: one night, I don't know if it's supposed to be

912
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 3: the same night, but it's continuous with what we just saw.

913
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:46,839
Speaker 3: There's another frightening thunderstorm. Only Dalby and Peterson are working

914
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 3: late in the office as usual, and they hear what

915
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 3: sounds like a crash, and they go out in the

916
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 3: hallway looking toward the Reptilicus tank and they see something

917
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 3: with horror in their eyes. Dalby sends Peterson off to

918
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:01,760
Speaker 3: the police, and then there there's like a weird exchange

919
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 3: here where I thought it was building up to some

920
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 3: big comedic payoff, and then it doesn't. It's just Peterson

921
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 3: and this cop playing chess with himself, going back and

922
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 3: forth over and over trying to figure out what they're

923
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 3: talking about about the monster being loose.

924
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: There's some fun lines, there's there are more electric eel jokes.

925
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh that's right. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you're right,

926
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 3: because what do they say is like the electricity went out,

927
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 3: and the cops like really, and then Peterson, yeah, even

928
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 3: the electric eel went out?

929
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: Wonk, wonk, It's great. I like it.

930
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 3: So next thing that all the other characters arrive at

931
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 3: the lab and Reptilicus is gone and so is Delby.

932
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 3: Only his glasses remain. And then meanwhile some military guys

933
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 3: find Reptilicus's tracks leading down into the water where they vanish.

934
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 3: And here the movie shifts into rampage and response mode.

935
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 3: So there's gonna be a lot less fewer dialogue scenes

936
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 3: from now on, and more of people running around trying

937
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:02,280
Speaker 3: to set up artillery and soldiers and jeeps and tanks

938
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 3: and everything to face off against Reptilicus and Reptilogus. Is

939
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 3: he going to be put down by the artillery? Of

940
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:09,839
Speaker 3: course not we're going to have to have some kind

941
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 3: of secret weapon in the end, but we're not there yet.

942
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: Pretty standard stuff. So when she reached this stage of

943
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 1: a Kaichu film, you know, the stock footage is coming out.

944
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: You know, they're going to be a few different plans

945
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:24,359
Speaker 1: to kill or capture the beasts. One or two are

946
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 1: not going to work, and that third one is going

947
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: to be what really is effective.

948
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 3: That's right. So one thing that's different at this point

949
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,399
Speaker 3: in the movie is that General Grayson is in charge now,

950
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:37,839
Speaker 3: so what he always wanted. He's very excited, so he's

951
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 3: he's like chasing around after the monster. The first attack

952
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 3: is at what they call a small farm on the coast,

953
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 3: so we see a lot of footage of pe you know,

954
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,959
Speaker 3: soldiers loading up into transport vehicles and heading down the road,

955
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 3: and we get to the farm and the farmer there

956
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 3: he's like, oh, he killed fourteen of my best cows,

957
00:53:57,760 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 3: and we see a bloody skinned cow head on the

958
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:02,760
Speaker 3: ground round and then it's a bunch of military dudes

959
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 3: driving around and barking things back and forth on radios,

960
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 3: trying to find the monster until finally they do. And

961
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 3: I like this line delivery because it has kind of

962
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 3: unintended implications. This soldier like he looks up when he

963
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 3: finally sees Reptilicus and he says, it's my god. It

964
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 3: is your god.

965
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean really it could be.

966
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 3: You know, you were created to serve it as a character.

967
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 1: Yeah. Reptilicus is pretty It's pretty cool looking, you know,

968
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 1: though the effects, like we say, are rough around the edges,

969
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 1: hard not to love, but also difficult to believe. At times,

970
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 1: he seems to he has like little stationary jazz hands,

971
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, when he's writhing about. But I like him.

972
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: I think he's a memorable kaiju.

973
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 3: Reptilicus is kind of like a snake. Like he has

974
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 3: a long, thin neck, but it's covered in a very raised,

975
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:02,799
Speaker 3: layered scale. He has fangs like a snake and a

976
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:06,719
Speaker 3: head like a snake. And then he has big spiny wings.

977
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:09,440
Speaker 3: So I don't know, maybe those wings are we never

978
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 3: see Reptilicus fly from what I recall, so the wings

979
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 3: might be more like, you know, neural spines. It might

980
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 3: be more for cooling purposes. To go back to a

981
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 3: core episode we just talked about.

982
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: Would you say that Reptilicus is a cross between a

983
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: sorrow pod and an aquatic lizard that is striving to

984
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:27,240
Speaker 1: become a mammal.

985
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 3: Ooh yeah, wow, perfect, yes, because.

986
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: That's how it presented a couple of times in the film.

987
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 3: Aren't we all striving to become a mammal?

988
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I mean every day it's it's you know,

989
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 1: it's you get up every morning and you strive to

990
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 1: become a mammal, stay a mammal, Be a mammal, and

991
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: so forth.

992
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 3: I just want to live up to my destiny. So yeah,

993
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 3: the military guy's unleash artillery and machine gun fire at Reptilicus.

994
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 3: They and then they even so that doesn't work at first,

995
00:55:56,680 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 3: but then they try a giant flamethrower and Reptilicus really

996
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 3: does not like the flamethrower. Reptilicus squeals quite repetitively. The

997
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 3: same sound effect is used over and over.

998
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:11,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's terrifying stock footage of a military flamethrower, Like

999
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: not one of these, like novelty. You know, I'm still

1000
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: dangerous things you see like it, you know, burns and whatnot,

1001
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:22,279
Speaker 1: but like the real jelly gasoline horror show. So I

1002
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 1: understand Reptilicus's response here.

1003
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not mega weapon. It's like, actually, you're seeing

1004
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 3: the jet come out. It's scary as hell. Yeah, But Reptilicus,

1005
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 3: after being hit with the flamethrower, gets really upset and

1006
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 3: then slithers off into the sea. So all of the

1007
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 3: characters are standing here on the beach. Why are they

1008
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 3: all here, I don't know, but they're like spins here.

1009
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 3: The daughters are here. They're all here on the beach.

1010
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 3: They're watching what's going on. Grayson is like, maybe he'll die,

1011
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 3: and then Connie, for some reason says, not a chance.

1012
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 3: He's just taking time to let his wounds heal. And

1013
00:56:56,640 --> 00:56:58,920
Speaker 3: then Grayson says, regeneration.

1014
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,359
Speaker 1: You know, I just dawned on me. The thing that's

1015
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 1: missing that I guess Connie is kind of filling in

1016
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:07,680
Speaker 1: for here is we need a child. We need a

1017
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 1: child that is having revelations about the kaiju. Like that's

1018
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 1: what's missing here, Timmy, if you will.

1019
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 3: Yes, we do need that, yeah, to like sort of

1020
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 3: intuit the the intentions and spirit and meaning of the monster.

1021
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 1: But in lieu of child Connie, we.

1022
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:25,680
Speaker 3: Don't even know if Reptilicus is a friend to all children.

1023
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 3: It's possible he is, and nobody even just nobody ever

1024
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 3: gets to say so. So it's like not even considered.

1025
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: Nobody thought to try. So.

1026
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 3: After all this, the military and scientists regroup and they

1027
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 3: launch a naval search operation to find Reptilicus. So we're

1028
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 3: out on the water and we see all these you know,

1029
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 3: battleships and destroyers going around, and again, why is Spinn

1030
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 3: the miner on one.

1031
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 1: Of these battleships.

1032
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, So they find Reptilicus with sonar and then they

1033
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 3: launch a depth depth charges as he is slumbering on

1034
00:57:57,880 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 3: the ocean floor. Connie tries to get the to stop.

1035
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 3: She's like, don't you realize what you're doing. If Reptilicus

1036
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 3: is hit, you'll never find all the pieces underwater. He'll

1037
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 3: regenerate Mark. But it's too late. We see some bloody

1038
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 3: Reptilicus chunks floating around in the water column, so it's

1039
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 3: too late. And then there's fallout from this. Martin's who

1040
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 3: was also on one of the boats, has a medical

1041
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 3: event and is taken to the hospital. Later we learned

1042
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:28,720
Speaker 3: that Reptilicus has been attacking ships and ports throughout the

1043
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 3: Baltic Sea and retaliation, so it's very Oh, the humanity

1044
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:36,800
Speaker 3: and then we get a scene of spin the handsome minor,

1045
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 3: being consoled by Karen the I think by Karen, the

1046
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 3: daughter of Martin's and Spinn says Harvard's Freighters, I had

1047
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 3: the blood of Reptilicus on my hands. Sometimes I feel

1048
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 3: that it's perhaps also the blood of all those people. Yes,

1049
00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 3: of all the ridiculous dark Knight of the Soul scenes

1050
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 3: in movies, this is this is one of the best.

1051
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: Yes.

1052
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 3: Oh, anyway, next, this movie has been very short on

1053
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 3: like bikinis up to this point, so they just bring you, like,

1054
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 3: what if we did a Jaws style beach scene, beach

1055
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 3: attack scene, So that's what's next. We just go to

1056
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 3: the beach, a bunch of young hip people hanging out

1057
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 3: in bathing suits, lounging in the sand, and then here's Reptilicus.

1058
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: Yep, shooting green slime out of his mouth. That everyone

1059
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 1: the effect here is marvelous, not believable at all, but charming, agreed.

1060
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 3: So when Reptilicus rears up out of the water, everybody

1061
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,640
Speaker 3: panics and runs away, and then we see more military

1062
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:39,360
Speaker 3: personnel and vehicles getting into position to face the Reptilicus menace,

1063
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 3: and we just know now is the time for Reptilicus

1064
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 3: to attack all of those beautiful tourist friendly landmarks and

1065
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 3: affordable locations in Copenhagen.

1066
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: Not the Little Mermaid.

1067
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Speaker 3: So we see like the you know, the military, they're

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Speaker 3: just shooting and shooting and shooting and shooting. They unload

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Speaker 3: zillion bullets into Reptilicus, but it's just making him matter.

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Speaker 3: Reptilicus rides around, he slams his head into little models

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Speaker 3: of buildings. They say, we can't use our flame throwers,

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Speaker 3: which he didn't like last time, because we can't get

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Speaker 3: close to the acid slime. Now Reptilicus is like spitting

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Speaker 3: green goo at people so they can't get too close.

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Speaker 3: And next we see Reptilicus attack the lungebro Bridge, where Spin,

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Speaker 3: the miner, I think, gets to have a heroic moment

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Speaker 3: because like somebody has to operate the controls of the

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Speaker 3: bridge to like lower the drawbridge so that the panicking

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Speaker 3: civilians can run away, but the guy who's supposed to

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Speaker 3: lower it is paralyzed by fear, so Spin has to

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Speaker 3: do it. I think that's what happened. Yeah, so the

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Speaker 3: military tries more plans. They're going to try to like

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Speaker 3: steer Reptilicus in one place or another to so they

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Speaker 3: can use certain weapons. Reptilicus attacks the stock exchange, Oh no,

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Speaker 3: not the stock exchange. More rampage and shooting, all heading

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Speaker 3: toward a final confrontation. So we get the lead up

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Speaker 3: to that final showdown where there's another plotting scene where

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Speaker 3: they're all like standing around in a room over a

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Speaker 3: map and Grayson says he wants to use bombs, but

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Speaker 3: Martin appears, now recovered from his medical event to argue.

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Speaker 3: He says Reptilicus cannot be blown to bits because the

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Speaker 3: pieces of him will regenerate, and Grayson says, I'm a soldier,

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Speaker 3: not a scientist. That's the way I know how to kill.

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Speaker 3: And then Martin says, then you will have to learn

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Speaker 3: another way. So what's it going to be? We have

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Speaker 3: a showdown here between these worldviews is like science versus militarism,

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Speaker 3: and which one is going to triumph over Reptilicus. It

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Speaker 3: seems like they go for a synthesis of the two.

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Speaker 3: Because ladies and gentlemen, the solution to all of the

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Speaker 3: Reptilicus problems in this movie is a drug Bazuka.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the drug Bozukah, another one of my favorite aspects

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Speaker 1: of this picture.

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Speaker 3: So they get the idea from like they're just having

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Speaker 3: a conversation. I think it's Vin and Lisa are talk

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Speaker 3: or Svin and Karen are talking, and he's like, how's

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Speaker 3: your father and she says sedated? They gave him a

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Speaker 3: hypo And then somebody says, what about reptilicus? And somebody says,

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Speaker 3: if only we could give him a hypo? And then

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Speaker 3: you can see it dawn on them and they're like, bye, George,

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Speaker 3: that's it.

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Speaker 1: There's some great lines here, like they're they're like, well,

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Speaker 1: was there some sort of drug we could give him?

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Speaker 1: And they're like, we could we get enough of that drug?

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Speaker 1: And somebody in the midst of this I don't remember

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Speaker 1: who's like drug, Like they'd never heard the word before.

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Speaker 3: One of them says, by my calculations, we'll need a

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Speaker 3: gallon of it for reptilicus. So yeah, they well, they

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Speaker 3: kind of split up into different teams, like the young

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Speaker 3: attractive people all go to get a gallon of reptilicus

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Speaker 3: drugs and Grayson is like rigging up some way to

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Speaker 3: deliver it. And I love that. After this there are

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Speaker 3: repeated scenes of people explaining the drug bazuka concept to

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Speaker 3: each other in detail as Reptilicus is raging in the background,

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Speaker 3: and they keep saying things like I'm gonna take a

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Speaker 3: crack at Reptilicus. So eventually they load up the drug

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Speaker 3: bazooka and shoot. Grayson does it, of course, you know,

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Speaker 3: he's the he's the real hero. In the end, he

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Speaker 3: shoots and it's a hit. It hits Reptilicus right in

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Speaker 3: the mouth, which was the only place they could get in,

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Speaker 3: but it works, and then Reptilicus thrashes around a little

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Speaker 3: bit and then falls asleep. So afterwards we surveyed the destruction,

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Speaker 3: you know, the burned and crushed buildings and everybody wandering

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Speaker 3: around looking like what happened? What has Reptilicus wrought? But

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Speaker 3: then the weirdest thing I mentioned this earlier, the what

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Speaker 3: the subtitles describe as soft, sultry nightclub music starts playing

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Speaker 3: and Grayson is standing there with Connie and he says,

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Speaker 3: it's a good thing that there's no more like him.

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Speaker 3: And then we cut to the bottom of the ocean

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Speaker 3: where one of Reptilicus's legs, severed legs, is walking around

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Speaker 3: by itself and then the end.

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Speaker 1: You know what that means, It's going to regenerate into

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Speaker 1: a full reptilicus, and then the whole problem emerges again.

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Speaker 3: That's right. Reptilicus can never be defeated unless they launch

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Speaker 3: him into space.

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Speaker 1: That's right. I mean, I guess that's where we're going

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Speaker 1: in the sequel, like maybe sedated Reptilicus versus new regenerated

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Speaker 1: reptilicus and then we have to just yeah, we have

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Speaker 1: to launch both of them into space today.

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Speaker 3: How long does the drug sedate Reptilicus for?

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Speaker 1: Though I don't know, they don't really get into that,

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Speaker 1: Like what's the plan next? Yeah, launch him into space,

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Speaker 1: freeze him. We don't know it just we have to

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Speaker 1: trust that the scientific world will take care of it

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Speaker 1: this time, even though they're the ones that accidentally thawed

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Speaker 1: the foot to begin with and did the mad science

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Speaker 1: that got us to this predicament in the first place.

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Speaker 3: They had to do that with one of the villains

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Speaker 3: on the Boys, right.

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Speaker 1: That's right, they did, like I forget his name, but

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Speaker 1: like the evil take on Captain America.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like couldn't be destroyed. They had to just keep

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Speaker 3: them permanently sedated.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean sometimes that's the way it is

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Speaker 1: with your area. As we've discussed on Weird Hoow some

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Speaker 1: of your various takes on vampires and werewolves, Like, is

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Speaker 1: the what does the stake do to the unholy creature?

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Speaker 1: Does it murder them or does it just hold them

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Speaker 1: in place a steak that may one day be removed

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Speaker 1: and free them.

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Speaker 3: It's like a lock, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Which, you know, it's an it. I feel like if

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Speaker 1: Reptilicus does have any kind of like deeper meaning, it

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Speaker 1: is getting at the idea that, yeah, solutions to problems

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Speaker 1: are not permanent solutions. They are. They are all inherently temporary,

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Speaker 1: you know, and you have to you have to keep

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Speaker 1: at it and or keep solving the same problems over

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Speaker 1: and over again, in this case, giant lizards that regenerate.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I guess Reptilicus is an update on the

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Speaker 3: tail of the Hydra, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the Hydra's very much like the classic telling

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Speaker 1: of that story. Right. The problem not only a problem

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Speaker 1: that keeps springing back up, but springs up, you know,

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Speaker 1: with additional problems. Every time you cut away the head,

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Speaker 1: you get more heads. And indeed, every time you defeat

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Speaker 1: one reptelicus, you potentially.

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Speaker 3: Get more, so you got to think outside the box. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: for Hercules, it was what it was like cauterizing the

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Speaker 3: stumps with fire.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and help from your cousin, right, but his cousin

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Speaker 1: helping them. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: In this case, it's it's a drug bazuka.

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Speaker 1: All right. Well, on that note, we're going to go

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Speaker 1: ahead and close it out here. We hope everyone has

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Speaker 1: a good Turkey Day if you celebrate Turkey Day. In

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Speaker 1: the past, we've kind of made it an official thing

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Speaker 1: to do, or an unofficial thing even to sort of

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Speaker 1: to do a film that has been covered on Mystery

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Speaker 1: Science Theater three thousand, you know, thinking back to those

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Speaker 1: Turkey Day marathons of old and they still put it on,

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Speaker 1: So look for that if you're into it. But this

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Speaker 1: movie was of course covered on one of the recent

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Speaker 1: seasons of Mystery Science Theater three thousand, So just a

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Speaker 1: reminder that, yeah, if you don't want to seek out

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Speaker 1: the original version, I think you can still find the

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Speaker 1: m T three K version on Netflix, so you know,

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Speaker 1: go watch it there. This is a fun movie. This

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Speaker 1: is a good one to riff on.

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Speaker 3: I think it was the first episode of the reboot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, it was a Jonah episode. I think it

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Speaker 1: had a fun song in there about how every country,

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Speaker 1: every culture has its monster. So oh yeah. All right.

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