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

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

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Speaker 1: Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick, and we are

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Speaker 1: going to the year three for this one. We're going

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Speaker 1: to be discussing a film that has many names. It's

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Speaker 1: primary title in the United States is Extraterrestrial Visitors, but

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Speaker 1: it is also widely known to Mystery Science Theater three

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Speaker 1: thousand fans as pod People. Strangely, that title has nothing

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Speaker 1: to do with the contents of the movie and makes

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Speaker 1: it sound like it's a rip off of Invasion of

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Speaker 1: the Body Snatchers, when in fact it's a rip off

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Speaker 1: of ET but with much grizzlier elements. Yeah, it's. My

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Speaker 1: rough understanding of this film is that it may have

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Speaker 1: originally started as your as Your Basic Error, Creature in

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Speaker 1: the Woods sort of fair, but this is the year

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Speaker 1: after e T Cute aliens being befriended by children is

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Speaker 1: big business, and so this gets folded into the plot.

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Speaker 1: So it's one of these films that much like much

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Speaker 1: like the film Gremlin's, it's totally inconsistent, like it one

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Speaker 1: second it's doing cute stuff and the next second it

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Speaker 1: by the end of the film, your your loft wondering

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Speaker 1: like who is this for? Like they are parts of

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Speaker 1: this film that I would show my child. There are

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Speaker 1: other parts that I would not show them. There are

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Speaker 1: there plenty of human characters I would not expose them

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Speaker 1: to in this Well, I would say even the cute

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Speaker 1: stuff in this movie is grotesque. Uh. The scenes with Tommy,

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Speaker 1: the child and his alien friend, like playing around and

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Speaker 1: and stuff. Uh. Something about that is its own kind

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Speaker 1: of horror, even though I don't think that part is

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Speaker 1: intended to be scary. Oh, I thought it was delightful.

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Speaker 1: Tommy is is absolute goodness and sweetness, and so is

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Speaker 1: Trumpy Trump. He is the name that Tommy gives UH

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Speaker 1: to the childlike alien who comes into his life. So

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Speaker 1: in a way, this movie is going to be in

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Speaker 1: the tradition of you know, all the movies where a

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Speaker 1: child to be friends a benevolent, fantastical being. Think about

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Speaker 1: the movie that was the direct inspiration for at least

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Speaker 1: half of this spielberg ZT came out the year before UM.

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Speaker 1: But on the other hand, I think you can think

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Speaker 1: being done by just other aliens that look identical to

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Speaker 1: the one he's befriended, but it's part of the sub

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Speaker 1: genre of child to be friends a deadly monster movies

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Speaker 1: like UM. I think one of the core prototypes here

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Speaker 1: is the original UH ninety one Frankenstein, the Universal monster movie,

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Speaker 1: moral innocence as well as his destructive power. After the

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Speaker 1: creature escapes Frankenstein's lab, he wanders the countryside where he

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Speaker 1: it's that's sort of what makes Frankenstein more of a

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Speaker 1: grotesque tragedy than a movie about a sadistic evil monster. UM.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's exactly the case in Pod

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Speaker 1: almost called it Pod people extraterrestrial visitors. It's I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure if this movie was trying to say anything about

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Speaker 1: to humans. The child at the in the movie does

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Speaker 1: Yet we do see the aliens totally unprovoked to just

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Speaker 1: if they're completely unprovoked. Now to come back to Frankenstein,

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Speaker 1: and I think Frankenstein is a great comparison here because

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Speaker 1: And you can call him Frankenstein. It's it's fine, we checked. Uh,

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Speaker 1: provided by ms T three K, because I've seen this

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Speaker 1: But I've never really given the film a chance to

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Speaker 1: It does both. Now, I do want to come back

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Speaker 1: in TV and was also in Slugs. And then we

427
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:22,399
Speaker 1: have and then Tommy's uncle Bill lives with them. Uncle

428
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 1: Bill is played by Manuel uh Pereiro, who was born

429
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:31,439
Speaker 1: in a Cuban born Spanish actor I believe, who has

430
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 1: a fairly diverse filmography, having appeared in movies that also

431
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:40,160
Speaker 1: featured the likes of John Finch, Steve Guttenberg, Alan Arkin,

432
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: Leonard Nimoy, Julian Sands, Paul McGann, and Paul Nashy of

433
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 1: course Paul Nashi. Um I, oh man, I'm gonna get

434
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 1: tripped up a lot when we're talking about the plot

435
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,919
Speaker 1: because this is uncle Bill. But I was definitely just

436
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 1: thinking of him as grandpa. So he is grandpa to me. Yeah,

437
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,680
Speaker 1: and he's oh he he's awful. He's just a grumpy

438
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 1: man who distrust everyone, hates animals. Um yeah, really hates

439
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 1: Carl Line s c Yeah. Oh yeah, so it was

440
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,719
Speaker 1: we'll discuss um Bill. Uncle Bill is is not a

441
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 1: likable character, all right. And finally, the music, the music

442
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 1: is definitely I think one of the best attributes of

443
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: the film. The music here was done by Libra Pastor.

444
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,640
Speaker 1: Pastor worked on a handful of Simone films, including pieces

445
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 1: Spanish organ player and composer. He was apparently a member

446
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 1: of the band Los Roberts and the soundtrack was released

447
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,919
Speaker 1: on vinyl in Spain, so some of these films will

448
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: end up talking about We're like, oh, what if they

449
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 1: ever put this out on vinyl, wouldn't that be cool?

450
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 1: This is one where it came out on vinyl originally.

451
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's put it back out on vinyl.

452
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's available anywhere officially, like as

453
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: a digital as a digital version. I don't think it

454
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 1: ever came out on like cassette or CD, but it

455
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: came out on vinyl. And the cover is pretty great

456
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: because it has this wonderful illustration of Tommy looking up

457
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: into the sky and there's like a halo of light

458
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 1: behind him. Los Nuevos Extra terrest Race. So comb your

459
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,399
Speaker 1: local used record store if you find a copy right in.

460
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: This has got to be worth a fortune at least

461
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: two certain very specific individuals. But anyway, the music in

462
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,760
Speaker 1: this uh is pretty fun to the score anyway, lots

463
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:28,959
Speaker 1: of scent, very atmospheric at times, also very goofy and

464
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,640
Speaker 1: carnival esque at times. Um I remember in the MS

465
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 1: T three K episode they distinctly made I think they

466
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: made a music from the Hearts of space joke. In

467
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 1: there because it does have have that kind of feel

468
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 1: at times. Uh, did this person that will also write

469
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 1: the pop song that is the that is diegetic music

470
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,439
Speaker 1: within the movie. It is the band the song the

471
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:54,719
Speaker 1: band sings in the studio. I do not know about that.

472
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 1: I don't think that awful track which is which was

473
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: known as idiot Control out um on among MST three

474
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: k fans. I don't think that's on the on the

475
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: score album here, and I did know that iron on

476
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 1: IMDb there's another individual credited as well for music, and

477
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: so perhaps that individual had something to do with the

478
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: creation of that track. I'm not sure. I think outside

479
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 1: the context of ms T, the song is actually called

480
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: Burning Rubber Tires, which is a really wonderfully attractive name.

481
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: But I would say this is actually it makes for

482
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 1: one of the all time great ms T skits. You know,

483
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: you watch MST and like a lot of times, the

484
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: skits aren't the aren't the best part. But the skit

485
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: in the pod People episode where they sing a parody

486
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: of this song is it's got to be Top three

487
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: ever on the show, Oh yeah, yeah, Joel does a

488
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: spoof of it and it's dis tremendous definitely. This is

489
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: a situation where watching it unriffed, I still had the

490
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: echo of a number of the riffs in my mind

491
00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: as I was watching a steady issue goes or Fly

492
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,479
Speaker 1: and over Trout. Yeah, yeah, except the weird thing is

493
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: I thought some of the lines they sang in their

494
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: version that we're just that I assumed we're just straight parody,

495
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,119
Speaker 1: are literally the lines in the real song. Like I

496
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: think all I want to feel is the wind in

497
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 1: my eyes, which is hilarious. Is actually the lyric I

498
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 1: think it is? Yeah, that's that just sounds insane, Like

499
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 1: if I'm feeling the wind in my eyes, I probably

500
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: need some goggles. Yeah, that's going to dislogic contact lens. Okay,

501
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: you ready to talk about the plot. Let's get into

502
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: the plot, all right. We get how many movies have

503
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: we watched recently? I feel like this is a really

504
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: common opening motif. We open on a starfield, we're just

505
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,239
Speaker 1: looking at space. It's got to be, like, I don't know,

506
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 1: at least four out of the last seven movies we've done. Yeah, yeah,

507
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: it's and I feel like this one especially is kind

508
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: of an example of how not to do it logically.

509
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: I feel like, if you want an a logical example

510
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: of how to do it, look at something like John

511
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: Carpenter's The Thing right where we have Starfield object entering

512
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: Earth's atmosphere, and then we pretty much cut two stuff

513
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: on Earth. We don't go back to space. We were

514
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: never just stuck in space without any hint of action

515
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: going on. But there's something I do like about this opening.

516
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: Actually that's a little more stylish than I think most

517
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: of the film is, which is the base beat Star.

518
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: There is like there's kind of a pulse a beat

519
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: in the soundtrack that is synchronized to the flaring of

520
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: a star in the middle of the of the void

521
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: and uh. And then of course we see after that

522
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: there's a big explosion and I guess that's supposed to

523
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: be a supernova or something. I don't know. But then

524
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: there's like a hunk of something flying through space towards

525
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 1: the camera. And I gotta say, from what I recall,

526
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: this is completely different from the opening that I remember

527
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: from Uh, from the version of the movie that's used

528
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: in the Mystery Science Theater episode, which I recall was

529
00:29:55,960 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: grainy slow mo footage from a totally unrelated movie. Yeah,

530
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: the film Ventures International version that's where we got the

531
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: title Pod People. That was based out of Atlanta by

532
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: the way back in the seventies. But the version they

533
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: put out on I assume a VHS that they used

534
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: footage from Don Dollars five film Galaxy Invader. In the

535
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 1: opening Don Dollar of course is the guy did Night Beast. Yeah,

536
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: I've seen Galaxy Invader. Galaxy Invader and Night Beast, Uh

537
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: have some things in common. Both of them are about

538
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: a an alien that crash lands somewhere in like rural

539
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: Maryland and then runs around scaring people. Yeah. Yeah, we

540
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: really need to do one of his films at some point.

541
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: They're all basically all the the alien films anyway, and

542
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: he has like what three or four of them. They're

543
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: all essentially the same plot. They have different and different

544
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: alien or different aliens in them, but they're they're always enjoyable.

545
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: One thing I remember about Night Beast is the the

546
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 1: titular Beast has a really cool, like, uh like shiny suit.

547
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: It almost looks like a like a suit, like a

548
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: cool like sy Or from the seventies would wear, like

549
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: in a disco band or something. Oh yeah, yeah, he

550
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: does have a shiny suit don't. But okay, that's the

551
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: opening of what a Wait? Which one? Which name are

552
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: we even using to call it? Extraterrestrial visitors? And then

553
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: we we go down to Earth and we're looking at

554
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 1: the woods of Fog and Bog. We're in Fog and

555
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: Bog territory. The atmosphere again, it kind of reminds me

556
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: of those misty woods with the knights who say knee. Uh.

557
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: It's very atmospheric in fact, like you could imagine some

558
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: of these uh, these environmental shots being kind of cool

559
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: in a better movie like the The atmosphere is not bad,

560
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: it just doesn't segue into very compelling action instead of

561
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: what we get is like three poachers kind of bumbling about,

562
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: arguing with each other, and it's like are we here?

563
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: Are you sure? Are you sure you're sure? And I

564
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: think they're trying to steal eagle eggs or something. Yeah,

565
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: they're like fumbling around for a ladder. They're they're scaling

566
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: a tree and they have what they claim to be

567
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: like three grand earth of eggs that they've still like

568
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: three thousand dollars worth of eggs they're going to sell

569
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: in the black market. I was wondering if they might

570
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: be fabergees. I don't know what are the What is

571
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: the market for eagle eggs? Do people want to cook

572
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: them and make eagle omelets or people trying to hatch eagles?

573
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: What's the deal? I don't know. But the bottom line

574
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: is the very least. When we meet these three poachers,

575
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: they have no respect for nature. All they see is

576
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: profit and they're going to break their break the rules.

577
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: They're gonna break all rules of of of law and

578
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: man and alien to get what they want. They're bad dudes.

579
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: And then we zoom out again. It's like, I'm tired

580
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: of Earth. Let's go back to space. So we just

581
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: see like auroras of weird energy and space and we

582
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: see the Earth from orbit and all kinds of stuff

583
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: going on, and then we come back and then they're like, Okay,

584
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: you saw that. Now let's go back to Earth. Um

585
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: here's a kid in bed and he gets up out

586
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: of bed to scold his cat. He's talking about like,

587
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: naughty kitty. I don't remember why the kitty is naughty.

588
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: I guess just where it's not supposed to be. I

589
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: think it got up to move around. Okay. He's like,

590
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: all right, I gonna take the kitten back to bed.

591
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, this is this is our introduction to Tommy,

592
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: a child of absolute goodness who loves animals and nature,

593
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: whose room is home to roughly a hundred different species

594
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,959
Speaker 1: that he's caring for there. And they're not only his charge,

595
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: they are his friends. Oh, he's just, He's just childhood innocence.

596
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: He is biophilia incarnate. He's just, he's just utter sweetness.

597
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: In an example of what humanity could be on this

598
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: world or in the universe at large. Only likable human

599
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: in the in the picture, beautiful, wide eyed in a

600
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: sense and curiosity. I start contrast to the to the

601
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 1: grumbling evil of the poachers. And then but let's go,

602
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: let's go check him with the poachers again. So something

603
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: crashes to earth. The poachers I think they're hanging out

604
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: of the campfire, but they're like, well, let's go investigate.

605
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: And one of them stumbles into the crash site and

606
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: it is a cave of glowing red fog. That's kind

607
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: of weird. But he goes inside. In the cave is

608
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: full of eggs. I don't know why, but for some reason,

609
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: he's like, I gotta bash all these eggs. I gotta

610
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 1: smash him. So he gets a stick and or is

611
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: it a stick or a hammer, He's just start bashing

612
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: all the eggs for no reason. Yeah. Yeah, it's awful

613
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: because he just he happens about this holy grotto of

614
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: extraterrestrial eggs, and his immediate reaction is just to start

615
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: smashing them all, just like, must destroy all of these eggs,

616
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 1: and you're like, no, don't do it, and he just

617
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: keeps doing it. But oh no, there is something in

618
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: the cave of glowing fog that does not like the

619
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: egg bashing endeavor. We get a p o V of

620
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: some kind of creature that comes out from around a

621
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: corner and attacks and kills the poacher. Dude. Yeah, this

622
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: is creature number one, which I guess weird to think

623
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 1: of as an adult creature or a mature creature of

624
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: this species that it was maybe already aboard this ship

625
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: or this or whatever or this piece of its planet,

626
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 1: whatever the details. Maybe he can learning this thing that

627
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: has craft with eggs on it um, but it's kind of,

628
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 1: I guess, kind of an egg guardian. It does. I

629
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 1: don't think it's supposed to be the mother because we

630
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,760
Speaker 1: later get some testimony from from Trumpy creature number two

631
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: in which he's asked where you're where its mother is

632
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 1: and he like points to the stars or points at

633
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: a constellation on a map or something. So it's just

634
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: another creature of mature individual from this species. It may

635
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: be Trumpy's brother or sister, but it is not his parent.

636
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 1: But we're getting ahead of ourselves because we haven't met

637
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,799
Speaker 1: trump A yet. Trump still so egg because not all

638
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 1: of the eggs are smashed. It it will turn out later, right,

639
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: most of them are smashed. So then we follow the

640
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 1: poachers some more. And I'm confused about what they're doing

641
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,720
Speaker 1: at this point because at first they were stealing eagle eggs,

642
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: but then it shows them like aiming rifles at deer,

643
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,720
Speaker 1: so or the they just also happened to be hunting

644
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: deer at the same time they are poaching eggs. It's

645
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: confusing because at first I thought, oh, I guess they're

646
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: gonna shoot deer because they at one point they're like

647
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 1: the white haired one, the Frank Brauna character. He's like, well,

648
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: we gotta get out of here. This feels weird. There's

649
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: something weird in the forest. Let's let's move. But then

650
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: they seem to stop to consider shooting some deer, so

651
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: maybe they're not in that big of a hurry. And

652
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: then they stopped to camp, and so I think they're

653
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: not in a huge hurry after all. And then there

654
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,800
Speaker 1: are all these scenes where Brauna is using the rifle

655
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: to just look at things and look at people doing things.

656
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: So he's like aiming his high powered hunting rifle, I

657
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: just random people in the forest. It's like the cop

658
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: in Plan nine for Matter Space who just points his

659
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: gun at people whenever he's talking to them. Yeah, but

660
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 1: let's let's go back to the house, so we check

661
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: in with Tommy. He is we find more, Uh, we

662
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: found out more about his his innate curiosity because he

663
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: is examining a centipede under a microscope and he's looking

664
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 1: at all the little legs and the overlapping plates and

665
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: the body segments in the parts, and you can tell

666
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: how much he just loves learning about the natural world.

667
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: But oh, the fact that he's looking at a at

668
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: a creature under a microscope. This leads to conflict with

669
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: the guy I was thinking of his grandpapa. This is

670
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: uncle Bill. Uncle Bill apparently does not like the book

671
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: learning it is witchcraft. Yeah, that's right. Uh, it's mentioned

672
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 1: it's a centipede, and and Tommy gives the what is

673
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: supposedly the scientific classification for the species, and Uncle Bill

674
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: just hates this. He's like, no, it's a centipede to me,

675
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: we call that a centipede. And it's just heated over

676
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: it heated. This man is awful and and even Mom

677
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: is not much help. She's like, well, it's dirty. It's

678
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: like it shouldn't be in here. Like there's just like

679
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: Tommy has all this sweetness and innocence and curiosity, and

680
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: it's just like Uncle Bill's just just pounding it into

681
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: the dirt as to to the best of his ability.

682
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: There is far more bacteria on Uncle Bill than there

683
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: is on the centipede. Come on. Yeah, Plus, you should

684
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: be so lucky as to have this beautiful predator in

685
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 1: your house hunting other packs, especially if it were a

686
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:14,240
Speaker 1: house centipede, which you know is spread with humanity around

687
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: the world and are especially known for praying and all

688
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: sorts of things you don't want in your house, like

689
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: uh like like like bedbugs, for example, or cockroaches, So

690
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: like you want a house centipede around, Okay, Finally we

691
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: get to the band or the what do you call that?

692
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: I guess when I think of a band, I think

693
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 1: of people who play instruments. This is a a singing group,

694
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: a group of singers. Oh yeah, none of them are

695
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 1: actually playing an instrument, right, there's just they're just singing

696
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: over a prerecorded track. Um, so we see them recording

697
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: in the studio. They're flying over trout and by this

698
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: point we've essentially established the three movie formula. I know

699
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: Mystery Science Theater also, uh thought about the movie this way,

700
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: but it makes a lot of sense. You've got movie A,

701
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 1: which is the Poacher's movie B, which is the The

702
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: Child with Pets, and then movie CEE, which is the

703
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: singing group. Yeah, this toxic bunch of band members and

704
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: their various hangers on and producers. They're just they're just awful,

705
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: like this whole scene, like they're doing this terrible number,

706
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: and Rick is just a perfectionist, an abusive perfectionist about

707
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Or he's like, it's awful, it stinks.

708
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: We're taking it from the top. Like you get the

709
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: impression that he's one of these guys who's like, we're

710
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: gonna do five hundred takes of this scene until we

711
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 1: get it. We're gonna keep doing this track until we're exhausted,

712
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: until we get it right. And of course they're not

713
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: scaling Mount Everest here. We heard the song, we know

714
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 1: that it has absolutely garbage. Yeah, thinking of other people

715
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: who do ridiculous excessive numbers of takes, I think of

716
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: like Stanley Kubrick or something, and not that this makes

717
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: that behavior acceptable, because I mean, even then, I think

718
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: it could be considered wildly excessive, abusive to the cast

719
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: and stuff. But at least with Kubrick, you end up

720
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 1: with a good movie. Yeah, it's one thing if you're

721
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 1: talking about someone who has also has a reputation for

722
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: high quality work. Like I want to say that that

723
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: there are similar tales about Dr Dre being very um

724
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:10,240
Speaker 1: perfectionist when it comes to producing tracks and all um.

725
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 1: But but at the end of the end of the day,

726
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 1: do you have a Dr Dre produced track, do you

727
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: have a Stanley Kuprick directed film? Now you have idiot control?

728
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: Now this is the wind in my eyes. Yeah. But okay,

729
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: so they sing the song and then Rick, the lead singer,

730
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 1: is is hideously abusive to all of the other singers,

731
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: and then they're all going to pile into an r

732
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: V and go up to the mountains for the weekend. Yeah. Perfect,

733
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: ever getting along. Great, Let's let's take this to a

734
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: crowded camper and head out to a crowded gabin somewhere. Oh,

735
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,399
Speaker 1: and then there's conflict over the fact that so they're

736
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: like open up the door to the r V. It's like, well,

737
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: we all hate each other and we've been fighting, so

738
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,720
Speaker 1: let's let's go on and you know, spend the weekend

739
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: in the woods. And they opened the door to the

740
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: r V. And then here is like a lady who

741
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: introduces herself as Laura. They say that she is the

742
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 1: daughter of the ball loss of the record label. I think.

743
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: So it's like they've got to be nice to her

744
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: because you know her her dad is deciding their musical fate.

745
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: But immediately this causes problems between Rick the Jerk and

746
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 1: his girlfriend Sharon, because it's for some reason immediately cleared

747
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: that Rick and Laura this other lady are gonna, you know,

748
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 1: they're gonna get together. And this other guy goes up,

749
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,280
Speaker 1: like the nice guy. I think his name is Brian.

750
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: He goes up to the girlfriend Sharon, and he's like,

751
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. He says, this is a quote.

752
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: Making out with chicks is part of his act as

753
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 1: an artist. Smooth, very smooth. Just every everyone in this

754
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: group is awful or they're enabling of awfulness. It's yeah,

755
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 1: it's it's but also it works. He says that, and

756
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: she's like, yeah, you're right. That. Okay, you know, so

757
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: let's go on a road trip with people we hate.

758
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: And then there's a lot of driving scenes. We see

759
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: them going up and down roads in the RV and

760
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 1: winding along while the music plays. More time is spent

761
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: getting these characters to the countryside than getting that that

762
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: space rock from its origin to the Earth. Meanwhile, we

763
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 1: gotta check in with Tommy. And here's where things really

764
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: start to cook, because Tommy runs off into the woods

765
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 1: and he stumbles across the glowing red cave and he

766
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: goes inside into the red fog and he sees a

767
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: dead man with led lights on his forehead in the

768
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 1: pattern of the shape of the Big Dipper. And then

769
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: Tommy's like, oh, this is a dead man with the

770
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 1: Big Dipper on his head. Better steal one of these

771
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 1: alien eggs now, I want to ask. This is a

772
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: recurring motif where people in the movie who are killed

773
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: by the aliens end up with the Big Dipper on

774
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:50,720
Speaker 1: their forehead in lights, and I'm wondering, number one, why

775
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: does that happen? And number two, how does that happen? Yeah,

776
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: I have a lot of questions about this too. Later

777
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: on Trump, he indicates that this is his home constellation,

778
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: like this is where his mother is. So I guess

779
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: Alien number one the non trump e is killing people

780
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: or in some cases, perhaps finding dead people and writing

781
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: the constellation on their forehead or making it appear with

782
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: phosphorescent spores or something. Who knows what the zeno biological

783
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: rationale is here, But I'm not sure why it would

784
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: do this. Is it like it would be like us

785
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: riding earth on dead aliens that we killed? Yet um,

786
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I understand they want to go home, but

787
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: you're not going to achieve that by just riding home

788
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: on the forehead of of of your victims. So I'm

789
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: not sure. I guess it's one of these things that

790
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: don't overthink it. It looks kind of cool, it's kind

791
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: of a neat effect. It just doesn't make a tremendous

792
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: amount of sense. All right, I won't overthink it from

793
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:53,399
Speaker 1: now on. That's just what happens. Um so, so yeah,

794
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 1: Tommy grabs one of these eggs. He He's like, well,

795
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this back home. Maybe it's religious. Maybe

796
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: it's like like like we're thinking it's something bad. But

797
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,880
Speaker 1: as we as we later like these these these aliens,

798
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,320
Speaker 1: they just want to be our friends. Maybe this is

799
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,760
Speaker 1: like last rites for them. Huh yeah. Well, so here's

800
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 1: a thing we're thinking about. An alien from the direction

801
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: of the constellation of the Big Dipper would not see

802
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,839
Speaker 1: like it itself, would not look up into the sky

803
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 1: and see the Big Dipper as the Big Dipper. That

804
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: is a feature of our perspective from Earth. So if

805
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: it were doing this in some ritual way, it would

806
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: have to be sort of for our benefit or in

807
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: an earth directed sense, you know what I mean, Like

808
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: that wouldn't be a native piece of imagery for them.

809
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: M yeah, well in that case, it doesn't make any sense. Sorry, Trump,

810
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 1: I can't help you. But anyway, So Tommy takes the

811
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: boy home and we're gonna have some some good times

812
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 1: with the egg. He sneaks the egg into his bedroom.

813
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: Um he uh, you know, he talks to his animals.

814
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: I think his mom's like, Tommy, what were you out?

815
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 1: You know, what were you doing at there? And Tommy lies,

816
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,720
Speaker 1: he says kitty was me owing. I thought he was hungry.

817
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: But then after mom goes away, Tommy tells all of

818
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: his other animals you just wait and see. You're gonna

819
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 1: have a new friend soon. And then the kid goes

820
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 1: to sleep hugging the egg. So it's so sweet. Now

821
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,720
Speaker 1: back to the kids, Uh, the kid, not the kids,

822
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: I mean the I don't know. The people in the

823
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,720
Speaker 1: r V. The singers, Uh, they're up to no good.

824
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 1: They're they're just again just being nasty. Like the the

825
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: record Executive's daughter Laura. She goes up to Rick, the

826
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: jerk in the woods and she's like kiss me Rick,

827
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: and he's like, well okay, and then then she immediately uh.

828
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: In the next scene, they're like sitting around a campfire

829
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: and she's taunting Rick's girlfriend like, tell her what we

830
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: did in the woods. Rick and I don't know why.

831
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: They're just like absolutely unnecessarily cruel to each other in

832
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 1: a way that doesn't even make sense as like normal

833
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 1: types of cruelty. It's it just it's weird. Yeah, it

834
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 1: just left feeling like these are all this horrible people

835
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: and I don't care if an alien kills them in

836
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 1: the woods. But this leads to uh, this leads to

837
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: Sharon like throwing water in Laura's face or something, and

838
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 1: then Laura runs away and then what did you think

839
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 1: happened here? What I thought happened was she like saw

840
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: the poachers and then got scared and fell off the

841
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 1: edge of a cliff. But not only saw the poachers,

842
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:26,760
Speaker 1: but one of the poachers, the non Frank Brauna poacher,

843
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 1: and and and the non egg Smasher one who's dead

844
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: of course. Uh yeah, the non Frank Brauna attempts to

845
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 1: grab her and like a ductor or assault her or something.

846
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: So he runs away from from him, and then she

847
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: runs off the side of a cliff and and falls. Uhm,

848
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 1: it seems like quite a distance. She falls enough to

849
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,879
Speaker 1: where she's not completely unconscious at least. Yeah, And so

850
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 1: they eventually the r V people come and find her,

851
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: and they take her back to the r V and

852
00:46:55,719 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: they try to I don't know, what does this medical scene. Yeah,

853
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: they they're like, okay, she at least has a severe

854
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 1: concussion so let's tuck her into bed and pour liquor

855
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: down her throat. So they get a bottle of Jack

856
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 1: Daniels or something, and they're treating it like it's a

857
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: potion of greater healing or something. But so they eventually

858
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna show up at the house, right,

859
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: So they arrive at the house of Tommy's family asking

860
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 1: to use a phone. You know, our friend is hurt.

861
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: We need to call for help. Um, uh and uh.

862
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: And how does the family react? Uncle Bill doesn't take

863
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,399
Speaker 1: kindly to strangers. Of course. Yeah, he grabs a gun.

864
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: That's his first reaction to the strangers at his door

865
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 1: pleading for help. Um. And his attitude does not improve

866
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,240
Speaker 1: much at all. When he finds out that they're in trouble.

867
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: He's just like, all right, I guess we let him know. Yeah, yeah,

868
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: But the phones, of course are out, they say because

869
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: of the storm. But I don't think we've seen a storm.

870
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:52,240
Speaker 1: It's just I guess all that fog, that just hideous

871
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: fog bank that's rolled in. Its just destroying phone lines

872
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 1: and everything else. Here's a metal band name Storm of Fog.

873
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: There you go. I like it. Also, the road is blocked,

874
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: so they can't leave, so they're just stuck here at

875
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,359
Speaker 1: the house. And they realized they're gonna have to spend

876
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:10,319
Speaker 1: the night and tomorrow they'll go find a radio in

877
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: the rangers cabin and then use that to call for help.

878
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:16,800
Speaker 1: So this place must be very secluded. I noticed that

879
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: they didn't make much use of it. But they had

880
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: a bar in this film, in the in this environment,

881
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: in this cabin that reminded me a lot of the

882
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: bar in The Devil Girl from Mars. Yes, really well stocked,

883
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:34,479
Speaker 1: lots of brown liquors. Yeah, multiple shelves, like just that's

884
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:37,439
Speaker 1: an extensive liquor collection. But I don't know, we don't

885
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: really see people sitting around enjoying it. I guess they

886
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: just didn't have time with all that's happening here. Meanwhile,

887
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: the poachers are out camping in the woods, and if

888
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: they're having a hard time, I thought they were going

889
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: to be getting out of there, but they're just hanging

890
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,320
Speaker 1: around for some reason. I don't understand what the poachers

891
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 1: are doing. Yeah, they at first they acted like they

892
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 1: realized something was wrong and they need to get the

893
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 1: heck out of Dodge. But then they're not there's no

894
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: real rush. Later on, you're like, all right, well, I

895
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: guess we're walking out of here. They seem concerned about

896
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,879
Speaker 1: the fact that their truck is gone, but they don't

897
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 1: really do anything about it. They accept that they're the

898
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 1: really bad poacher says well, couldn't we steal those kids camper?

899
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: And he's like, like, you idiot, you can't do that.

900
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: You've are already doing enough crimes here. We don't need

901
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 1: more crimes. Yeah, it's the bearded one that wants to

902
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: take the RV. The other guys, the frank brownna is

903
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 1: more like they'll get us into more trouble. Yeah, we're

904
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 1: just here to poach eggs. We're not here to kidnap.

905
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: We're not here to steal vehicles. And the bearded guys like, well,

906
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:35,879
Speaker 1: we could do all those things. We have time, let's

907
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 1: do those things. But so they're camping out in the

908
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 1: woods and they oh, they encounter an alien and I

909
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: think this is the first time we actually get a

910
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 1: look at what the alien body forms are like in

911
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,839
Speaker 1: this movie. So the alien is like, uh because sort

912
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 1: of a furry uh squat Chewbacca style body, but much shorter,

913
00:49:56,719 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 1: and then the head has like a pointy a pecks

914
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,399
Speaker 1: on top and then long ard vark snout and then

915
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: pointy elf ears. I thought this scene was rather effective

916
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: because when we see the creature here, and we granted

917
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: we have some context as well, we've seen presumably we've

918
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: seen it kill already, but you know, it looks a

919
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: little bit cute. There's some cuteness here. It's not just

920
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: completely monstrous, but there's an uncanny nous to it as well.

921
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: And then also the lighting is very dark. Are the

922
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: human characters here are being uh, you know, very cautious

923
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:33,919
Speaker 1: around it? Uh? And then another thing that I really

924
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:37,240
Speaker 1: like about the extraterrestrials in this film is the eyes

925
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 1: they created for them are very expressive, Like they're very glassy,

926
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: like living looking eyes that I think give them a

927
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: lot of character. But to keep up with your theory

928
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 1: that the alien only turns murderous because it is repeatedly

929
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:53,760
Speaker 1: exposed to aggression from humans early on. So it walks

930
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 1: up to the campfire, I don't know what its original

931
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 1: plan is, but they start shooting it with the crossbow. Yeah,

932
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:01,919
Speaker 1: they're kind of like the bearded guy. He kind of

933
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, come on in, he's trying to small

934
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: talk the alien. He's offering a big grotesque piece of

935
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: meat that they've been cooking over the fire. Um, you know,

936
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: just already kind of an unsettling display. But then Frank

937
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 1: Brownna tries to net it. They fire a crossbow bolt

938
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 1: at it, and the bolt hits it in the hits

939
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 1: the alien in the chest. So yeah, these are not

940
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: good ambassadors who have a humanity here. Meanwhile, back at

941
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:38,399
Speaker 1: the house, Oh, that eggs hatchen uh pops open. There's

942
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 1: a little kind of greasy, slimy little alien in there,

943
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 1: and so cute. So it's not cute yet, it's already cute.

944
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:52,280
Speaker 1: It's already cute. It's simmy little like like fetal elephant creature.

945
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,240
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, I don't know. I thought it was cute. Okay,

946
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 1: I won't argue with you. Um. He starts feeding the

947
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: alien food. It's eating a lot. It really enjoys vacuuming

948
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 1: up milk with its snout. He names it trumpy. I

949
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 1: assume that's because it has a long snout and so

950
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 1: that is like a trumpet. I don't think that's ever

951
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 1: made explicit, but that's what I guess. Yeah, I don't know.

952
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:21,400
Speaker 1: It could also originate in one of the two original

953
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: languages for the film. I don't know. Maybe it makes

954
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: even more sense in French or or or in Spanish.

955
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. But the kids like, oh, we're gonna

956
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: play now that you're getting bigger. Do you know what

957
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: playing is Trumpy? And Trumpy does not know, but Trump

958
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: Peop will find out. So this is the world that

959
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: Trumpy has is introduced to. This is the human world

960
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: that he's introduced to, A world of of of copious

961
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: amounts of food. A lot of it is breakfast, cereals, toys, play, um, friendship,

962
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 1: all the things that were denied to extraterrestrial one. But

963
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: remember now this is all taking place in the same

964
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 1: house where the RV singers are staying overnight, and apparently Laura,

965
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: the record executive's daughter who fell off the cliff, she

966
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: dies overnight and they come and see her and they

967
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 1: see something as horrible about her face. We already know

968
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 1: what it is. It's going to be the you know,

969
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 1: the big dipper with the lights um. But I guess overnight,

970
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 1: also Trumpy becomes much bigger. He grows from like the

971
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 1: size of a little toy on the on the shelf

972
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:22,840
Speaker 1: to basically the same size as Tommy. Uh. And we

973
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 1: see that this great scene that is hilarious in the

974
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 1: Mystery Science Theater version where Trumpy is just surveying the

975
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 1: buffet of Tommy's pets, panting over the rabbits and the

976
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: hamsters and the cat and all that stuff. Yeah, they

977
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: make some great riffs in the in that episode about

978
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 1: him considering eating all these animals. But but in this

979
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: in the original film, uh, he does not eat any

980
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: of the animals. And I kind of get the sense

981
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 1: that these are vegetarians, that they don't eat meat, which

982
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: makes the earlier offering of the grotesque meat by the

983
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: bearded poacher even more fitting. You know, He's like, like,

984
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: come here, organism. Would you like some more organism? But

985
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 1: in this scene we also discover via interactions with a

986
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:07,840
Speaker 1: toy robot that trump E has telekinesis. Oh yes, like

987
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 1: not not even just a little bit like not just

988
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: a little bit of carry White, but like full power

989
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:17,319
Speaker 1: Carrie White, like full almost godlike telekinetic powers. Well ET

990
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: does too. I think this is an ET touch from ET. Yeah,

991
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,800
Speaker 1: does E t like bring the whole room to life?

992
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: It's been so long since I've seen ET. I think so, yeah,

993
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 1: I think there's a scene where Et does basically the

994
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: same thing Trump. He does, like makes all the you know,

995
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:36,320
Speaker 1: the toys fly around and stuff. I feel like Trump

996
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 1: he probably does it better. I feel like I'm if

997
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:40,439
Speaker 1: I were to watch ET again, I would side with

998
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: the Trumpy um cut because Trump basically uses a Simon

999
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:48,919
Speaker 1: game to cut a synth track like this Carnival scynth

1000
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: track that starts playing like Trump. He does this by

1001
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: manipulating the Simon software. I did not expect your take

1002
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:59,839
Speaker 1: on this movie to be so anti Et. I mean,

1003
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: he's fine, you can't hate Et. But but I also

1004
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: I don't. I've also I've seen Et like once in

1005
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 1: my life. I've seen pod people or extraterrestrial visitors multiple

1006
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: multiple times. What else does Trump e eat? So I'm

1007
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,360
Speaker 1: trying to think do they ever feed him meat? We

1008
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 1: see him suck up a bunch of milk. We see

1009
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: Tommy bring him oh, a big old thing of Planters

1010
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:22,839
Speaker 1: peanuts and you can see the label. So, I mean,

1011
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:26,799
Speaker 1: Planners surely they paid for that place, you know they did?

1012
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: This is the the Reese's treatment, right, And they do

1013
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: a special effect where you know Trump, He's snout is

1014
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: like a vacuum cleaner, and it's sucking up all the peanuts. Uh.

1015
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: When we in this scene, we get some really good

1016
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 1: looks at Trump's eyes. Noticed Trumpy has a vertical slit pupils.

1017
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 1: Oh nice, Yeah, again these are lovely eyes. Um, whoever

1018
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,319
Speaker 1: did this this costume? I feel like they they kind

1019
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 1: of knocked it out of the park. I like it.

1020
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:57,800
Speaker 1: But Trump, he learns puzzles and games. He telekinetically solves

1021
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 1: a puzzle, uh, and manipulates a simon says thing. Uh,

1022
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 1: there's a there's a bonding scene where Tommy is drawing,

1023
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: and he draws this hideous picture and says, that's my mommy.

1024
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: Do you have a mommy? Yeah? His picture of his

1025
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 1: mom looks like a Rick Flair Pez dispenser yep. Uh.

1026
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:24,279
Speaker 1: It also it looks absolutely nothing like his mommy, Like

1027
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:26,720
Speaker 1: it's not even close, not even the same hair color.

1028
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,280
Speaker 1: But anyway, this is the Trumpy. You can do magic

1029
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 1: things here. Uh. The scene and and Trump he turns

1030
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: the child's bedroom into a living nightmare of carnival music,

1031
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 1: flickering lights, dancing toys, terrorizing the pets. Uh. He sticks

1032
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:45,320
Speaker 1: to the ceiling like Baron Harcon and it's great. Yeah.

1033
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:49,359
Speaker 1: And also his eyes glow like stars. It's it's it's

1034
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 1: pretty great. Now is this the scene where Trump he

1035
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 1: says where his mommy is and points out the constellation?

1036
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 1: I think so, because I think he shows in the

1037
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:00,760
Speaker 1: picture Tommy's picture of his own mommy. He says, where's

1038
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:04,359
Speaker 1: your mommy, and He's like, he points, and Tommy's like, oh,

1039
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:06,359
Speaker 1: your mommy, You mean the trees. Your Mommy's in the

1040
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:11,439
Speaker 1: trees and He's like, no. Trumpy points that a map

1041
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 1: of the constellations and causes one of the constellations the

1042
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 1: one of the dippers took low. Yeah, now exactly like

1043
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: an et. Also, there's a whole thing of Tommy trying

1044
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: to hide Trumpy from his family, like hiding him in

1045
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:27,959
Speaker 1: the closet and stuff. Obviously this is more difficult. Well,

1046
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 1: while Trump he is playing DJ in the bedroom, but

1047
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 1: there's the distraction of of a of a dead woman downstairs,

1048
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:36,720
Speaker 1: so I guess that probably helps cover things up. They're

1049
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: not as concerned about what new animal Tommy has a

1050
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: snuck into the house. But at one point and maybe

1051
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 1: later but uh, mom gets short with Tommy and She's like, like, oh,

1052
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: more animals, they're all going out tomorrow. Yeah, that sounds

1053
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 1: kind of kind of harsh, mom. You know, he loves

1054
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: these animals even come on, that's an empty threat. Uh.

1055
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 1: But meanwhile, speaking of grizzly murders, Grandpa and one of

1056
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: the r V kids they go off looking for the

1057
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 1: ranger station. I think this is the guy Brian who

1058
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: earlier was like, Hey, you know, don't worry about Rick

1059
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 1: making out with other girls. That's just part of his act.

1060
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 1: Brian and Uh and Uncle Billy. They go to the

1061
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: ranger station. Uncle Bill just walks around pointing his gun

1062
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 1: at everything, and they find one of the poachers inside,

1063
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 1: but he is dead and he's got a big dipper

1064
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: in lights on his forehead, just like everybody else. And

1065
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 1: then one of the aliens attacks them. It seemingly kills

1066
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 1: the RV dude, and Grandpa escapes. Now here's a question

1067
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 1: I wonder about um. Are we are we as the

1068
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 1: audience supposed to be wondering if this is Trumpy doing

1069
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 1: the killing since in the scene right before this Trump

1070
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 1: he sneaks off and disappears, or are we supposed to

1071
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 1: assume that this is a different alien that just looks

1072
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 1: identical to Trumpy. I think we discover it is a

1073
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: different alien, but I don't know if that's intentionally supposed

1074
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 1: to be an open question or not. Yeah, I'm not

1075
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: sure on this because it it seems like, on one hand,

1076
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 1: the killing started before Trump he hatched. So if we're

1077
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 1: just looking at the timeline of events, we we can't

1078
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 1: pin all the murders on Trumpy. There has to be

1079
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 1: a A has to be another A, a primary alien

1080
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 1: out there, extradrestrial one. So I don't I have a

1081
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 1: hard time understanding how we the viewer are supposed to

1082
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: think Trump he might be doing this. But also it's

1083
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: hard to reflect on this because I it's been so

1084
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: long since I had a fresh viewing of this, Like

1085
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 1: it seems like I've always known that Trump he was

1086
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 1: innocent and incapable of murder. He is blameless. Did you

1087
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 1: notice the Ranger cabin in the woods here has framed

1088
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 1: portraits of Ronald Reagan on the wall. Yeah? Yeah, that

1089
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 1: that made me laugh. I feel like there was after

1090
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: I saw it. I have a vague recollection of there

1091
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:58,880
Speaker 1: being a riff about the Gipper or something in the

1092
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: Nst three episode, but it is an odd inclusion because

1093
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 1: this again is Spain. It's supposed to be Spain, and

1094
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 1: it's filmed in Spain. I don't know why Ronald Reagan's

1095
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 1: on the wall. Uh. So we see the alien kill

1096
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 1: another one of the band members. This is the singer Tracy.

1097
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 1: He just he kills her in the r V. And oh,

1098
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 1: this time, Tommy happens to be looking through the telescope

1099
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: at the down at the r V outside I guess

1100
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 1: to witness this, and because the aliens look the same,

1101
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: he thinks Trumpy is the killer. Oh no, there there

1102
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 1: is a rift between them. Now. Now, this is definitely

1103
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: the point at which, yeah, it's hard to imagine that

1104
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:40,920
Speaker 1: this particular murder was itself on that that it was

1105
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 1: provoked in anyway, This seems to be an unprovoked killing

1106
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 1: by exterrestrial one. Yeah, Tracy, what do you think Tracy

1107
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 1: attacked the alien? No? I mean, Tracy is just Jesus chilling. Yeah. Anyway,

1108
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 1: the rest of the survivors are all hold up in

1109
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 1: the cabin um. Oh except Tommy for some reason, like

1110
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: he runs off into the into the bog and fog

1111
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 1: to to find Trumpy. And here there is a really

1112
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 1: weird scene where there's a standoff between uncle Bill and Rick,

1113
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: the jerk lead singer, where uncle Bill's like, have you

1114
01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 1: ever used a gun before? And Rick says, I don't

1115
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 1: need a gun to defend myself, and then uncle Bill says, yeah,

1116
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 1: you probably pay others to defend you. And then Rick

1117
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 1: aims the rifle at at Grandpa here at Uncle Bill

1118
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:27,840
Speaker 1: and then shoots in his direction without hitting him. He

1119
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 1: like shoots a glass beside him on the bar, and

1120
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:33,240
Speaker 1: then everybody's like, why are you shooting at uncle Bill?

1121
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 1: And he goes, I don't like anyone bugging me. Yeah,

1122
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:38,960
Speaker 1: this is the act of of a rational character that

1123
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:42,040
Speaker 1: we're supposed to right for now, Tommy comes back to

1124
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:44,280
Speaker 1: so he ran off into the woods. Then he comes

1125
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:47,560
Speaker 1: back and he finds Trumpy in his bedroom and playful

1126
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 1: happy music is chiming. But then there begins this mad

1127
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:54,920
Speaker 1: exchange between Tommy's a voice again. This is dubbed by

1128
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: like an adult woman, I think, and and trump. He's

1129
01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 1: various like head nods and headshake to communicate. Uh so

1130
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:05,120
Speaker 1: the kid is saying Trumpy, no, stay there, stay away.

1131
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:07,680
Speaker 1: Why did you kill that girl? Why did you kill

1132
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 1: that girl? Why did you do that. Now I can't

1133
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 1: be your friend anymore. Naughty Trumpy, very naughty. Now they'll

1134
01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:18,800
Speaker 1: kill you. But but Trumpy, I think, is able to

1135
01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 1: explain himself with head nods somehow. He's like no, no,

1136
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: wasn't me, shaking his head, and then the kids like

1137
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:27,480
Speaker 1: was it someone else? Did another one do this? And

1138
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 1: Trumpy nods. He's protesting his innocence, and so eventually I

1139
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:34,360
Speaker 1: think Tommy is convinced that Trump he is innocent, and

1140
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:37,640
Speaker 1: for some reason he dresses Trumpy up like a jahwa like.

1141
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: He puts a coat with a hood on over him.

1142
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:42,600
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the purpose of that is. I

1143
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 1: guess to sneak him out of the house. But there

1144
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:47,520
Speaker 1: are no other children anywhere in the vicinity in the

1145
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:49,880
Speaker 1: film at all, so I don't I don't know exactly

1146
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:51,800
Speaker 1: what time he was hoping to pull off with this.

1147
01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:54,760
Speaker 1: This is just my friend, the bipedal ardvark who wears

1148
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 1: a raincoat. Yeah, so we get another random alien attack.

1149
01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: The r Trumpy species alien attacks one of the RV

1150
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:06,640
Speaker 1: ladies in the bathroom. We get a mirror scare where

1151
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 1: she wipes the fog off of the bathroom mirror and

1152
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 1: it's standing behind her and then it attacks. Uh. There

1153
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:16,760
Speaker 1: are more scenes of Tommy and Trumpy arguing to Tommy

1154
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 1: saying that you have to hide or they'll kill you.

1155
01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:22,920
Speaker 1: And eventually this all comes to a head when uh,

1156
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 1: when the mother and Sharon I think see Trumpy. They're

1157
01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:29,720
Speaker 1: like the kids trying to sneak him through the house

1158
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:33,959
Speaker 1: and they're like, there, it's that monster. And Tommy tries

1159
01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:36,440
Speaker 1: to explain. He says, no, it wants to be our friend.

1160
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:39,560
Speaker 1: He's good, he's good. Um, they all want to be

1161
01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:42,160
Speaker 1: our friends, but we won't let them. And of course

1162
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:45,680
Speaker 1: the mother doesn't believe that, so so Tommy and Trump

1163
01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:48,040
Speaker 1: he really have no choice. They flee into the woods.

1164
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 1: And here in the woods, you think the other alien

1165
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:52,960
Speaker 1: is about to sneak up on Tommy and and give

1166
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 1: him what for, but Trumpy intervenes. Yeah, we finally have

1167
01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:01,680
Speaker 1: extraterrestrial one and extra terrestrial to a k a. Trumpy

1168
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:04,640
Speaker 1: meeting up in the woods. Now, eventually there's a big

1169
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 1: showdown Uncle Bill and Rick that they shoot the other alien,

1170
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 1: the non trumpet alien. Grandpa is killed in this scuffle,

1171
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:16,680
Speaker 1: but Rick blasts the alien to death and then it

1172
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:22,040
Speaker 1: like turbo berries its own body telekinetically. Yeah, we have

1173
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 1: another self burying monster, kind of like the some of

1174
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:28,520
Speaker 1: the creatures in Crawl. It's a great effect. I like it.

1175
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:30,920
Speaker 1: I'd like to see more of it in my monster films.

1176
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:35,200
Speaker 1: And there's a tearful goodbye between Tommy and Trumpy. You know,

1177
01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:38,200
Speaker 1: it's like they'll never accept you, Trumpy, we cannot be together.

1178
01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 1: And the humans all walk off together and Trumpy is

1179
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:44,280
Speaker 1: left behind in the woods and finally he wanders away

1180
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:46,520
Speaker 1: into the mist. You never know if he gets back

1181
01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:49,200
Speaker 1: to his home planet or not, or or what happens

1182
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:52,240
Speaker 1: to him. He just wanders away, and then roll credits

1183
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 1: and Rick survives. Yeah, that's that's the weird choice. Perhaps

1184
01:04:57,520 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 1: the product of this film probably changed its direction and

1185
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:04,720
Speaker 1: priorities at some point in production. They're like, oh, we

1186
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 1: forgot to do anything with Rick. That's all right, But

1187
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 1: I have to say that this the ending to this film.

1188
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 1: It got me. I I teared up a bit, you know,

1189
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:15,680
Speaker 1: because the aliens, it turns out, you know, they are good,

1190
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:18,480
Speaker 1: and in fact it's not just a matter where okay,

1191
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:20,560
Speaker 1: Trump is good, but the other one is purely evil.

1192
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 1: Like we have that moment where Trumpy is able to

1193
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:26,760
Speaker 1: communicate with its its fellow alien, and and this seems

1194
01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:29,720
Speaker 1: to maybe even convince him of some of this stuff like, no, okay,

1195
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:33,400
Speaker 1: a lot of these humans are bad, but Tommy's cool. Um,

1196
01:05:33,640 --> 01:05:37,439
Speaker 1: they have this moment, so the aliens are good. Tommy's good.

1197
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:41,560
Speaker 1: Humanity itself is just hostile and violent and mean spirited.

1198
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:44,800
Speaker 1: And Tommy and Trumpy are just too good for the world,

1199
01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:48,360
Speaker 1: and and so, but but but what happens. Tommy has

1200
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 1: to push Trumpy away, has to send him off into

1201
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:53,240
Speaker 1: the woods where, you know, either he does find a

1202
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:54,880
Speaker 1: way back to his home plan or he just lives

1203
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:57,800
Speaker 1: in the woods as like a wild being, like a sasquatch,

1204
01:05:57,840 --> 01:06:00,480
Speaker 1: for the rest of his life. And we're left wondering, like,

1205
01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:04,360
Speaker 1: can Tommy retain his sweetness and goodness as he continues

1206
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 1: on in this world? Uh? Is he? Or is he

1207
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 1: saying goodbye not only to his friend Trump. Is he

1208
01:06:09,280 --> 01:06:11,920
Speaker 1: not only pushing Trumpy away from him, but is he

1209
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:15,000
Speaker 1: pushing away his own innocence and his own hope for

1210
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:18,120
Speaker 1: a sweeter world? And I think that's that's that's all

1211
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:20,000
Speaker 1: going through my head here as I was I was

1212
01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:24,520
Speaker 1: tearing up watching this. Uh, this, this poor extraterrestrial being

1213
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:27,479
Speaker 1: left in the foggy woods and then walking off into

1214
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:33,000
Speaker 1: the wilderness. The gospel of Trumpy. Yeah, and we also

1215
01:06:33,160 --> 01:06:35,600
Speaker 1: we have some some very potent synth music playing over

1216
01:06:35,640 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 1: all this, so that that also helped. So, like like

1217
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 1: I said, I'm I'm no, I'm reading a lot into

1218
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:44,720
Speaker 1: this film. And also this film is you know, it's

1219
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:47,880
Speaker 1: coming in the wake of ET, It's patterning itself off

1220
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 1: of existing media, and in doing so, it's retaining some

1221
01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:56,400
Speaker 1: of the inherent messages in those in those pictures. But

1222
01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:59,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. Also maybe Simone here, you know, he

1223
01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 1: was he was trying to to to get this message across.

1224
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 1: Maybe he was trying to say something about about the

1225
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:09,400
Speaker 1: world and about childhood innocence. I don't know. Like I

1226
01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:11,600
Speaker 1: feel like that the film does have a heart, you know,

1227
01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 1: there's still there's still some heart there. And what heart

1228
01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:17,920
Speaker 1: is there is genuine I wonder what, you know, what

1229
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:22,600
Speaker 1: kind of new themes and possibilities emerge from a sort

1230
01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 1: of a patch over job like this, Because I can't

1231
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:27,439
Speaker 1: remember if we already said this, I at least read

1232
01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 1: about this movie. I think you may have alluded to

1233
01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 1: this that it was originally intended to be just more

1234
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:37,040
Speaker 1: of a heartless kind of like alien slasher movies, just

1235
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 1: more like night Beast or something. It's just about an

1236
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:42,000
Speaker 1: alien that runs around killing people. And then e T

1237
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:44,000
Speaker 1: came out and they were like, oh, we gotta make

1238
01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 1: this a sweet story about the bond between a child

1239
01:07:47,560 --> 01:07:51,800
Speaker 1: and an alien and a child's love and um friendship

1240
01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 1: from the hearts of space and and trying to smash

1241
01:07:56,280 --> 01:07:59,960
Speaker 1: those two things together makes for such a weird product,

1242
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:03,240
Speaker 1: but maybe also having some elements that would not have

1243
01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 1: been achieved had it just been an attempt to create

1244
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:09,000
Speaker 1: an et rip off from the beginning. Yeah, that's a

1245
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:11,480
Speaker 1: great question because he kind of reminds me again of Gremlins,

1246
01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:15,600
Speaker 1: where the original Gremlins movie, by being totally inconsistent, seems

1247
01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 1: to have a core message of hey, kids, monsters exist

1248
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:21,200
Speaker 1: and there's no Santa Claus, you know, which which clearly

1249
01:08:21,280 --> 01:08:25,320
Speaker 1: was nobody's key intention. But I think that's probably what

1250
01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:28,280
Speaker 1: comes comes. This is kind of thing that emerges when

1251
01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:31,280
Speaker 1: priorities shift and the tone changes, and the tone is

1252
01:08:31,320 --> 01:08:34,880
Speaker 1: inconsistent throughout a picture. Every day I feel closer to

1253
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:38,920
Speaker 1: doing Gremlins too. Oh yeah, I think it's it's a

1254
01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:40,760
Speaker 1: grand idea. I think we should we should make it

1255
01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:43,840
Speaker 1: be our Christmas episode this year. Having done e t V,

1256
01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:47,760
Speaker 1: we have to do G two. No stopping it all right,

1257
01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:53,400
Speaker 1: Well that is extra Terrestrial Visitors or visitors or e

1258
01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 1: v P, or of course, um, the Hatching of Monsters.

1259
01:08:57,160 --> 01:08:59,639
Speaker 1: I think the Hatching of Monsters is really good because

1260
01:08:59,640 --> 01:09:01,800
Speaker 1: it also because we have different types of monsters. We

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Speaker 1: I think it's a good title. I wish they I

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Speaker 1: kind of wish it's stuck with that across translations. UM.

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Speaker 1: As always, we'd love to hear from anyone out there

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Speaker 1: if you have particular thoughts and memories insight about this picture.

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Speaker 1: You know, perhaps you you know, like us, grew up

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Speaker 1: watching the MSG three K episode, perhaps you have prior

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Speaker 1: experience with pod people or than or extraterrestrial visitors. Uh,

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Speaker 1: definitely right in and let us know. And hey, if

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Speaker 1: you do find a superior copy of the film out

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Speaker 1: there that we're not aware of, let us know. I'm

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Speaker 1: hoping that if it doesn't exist now, at some point

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Speaker 1: in the future, that will be the next big one,

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Speaker 1: because there there are a lot of worse films that

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Speaker 1: get get the restoration treatment. Uh and uh and And

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Speaker 1: I'm not not saying that that's bad. It's probably just

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Speaker 1: a case of nobody's found superior footage from extraterrestrial visitors yet,

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Speaker 1: but I hope they do. Maybe it's self buried itself

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Speaker 1: in the in this Spanish forest somewhere it wants to

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Speaker 1: be found. All right, until next time? Weird How Cinema

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Speaker 1: Monster Factor short form episode, and on the weekends we

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Speaker 1: audio producer Seth Nicholas Johnson. If you would like to

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