WEBVTT - Alien: Romulus Reactions & Interview with Aileen Wu 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:06.800 Warning, Today's episode contains spoilers for Alien Romulus in theaters now, 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:28.760 so if you haven't seen it, let's see it then listen. Suit. Hello, 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:34.000 my name is Jason and I'm Merday Night and welcome 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.800 back the Extra Vision of podcast where we dive deep. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.640 It's your favorite shows, movies, comics, and pop culture coming 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.839 to you from our podcasts where we're bringing you to 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.720 action packed episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:53.760 In today's action Packed episode, previously on, there is news, news, news, 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:58.880 the Acolytes been casting, rip to that show black Smith 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:03.560 Wukong is here and shadd James Streemis, shadd those steam records, 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:07.679 borderlines for trailer, secret level trailer, some sad news from 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.720 the world of anime, and a new date for Marvel Rivals. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:13.560 There's all kinds of news and we're getting into it. 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:18.440 In the airlock, we are breaking down Alien Romulus, Fede 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:22.280 Alvarez's box office smash hit, So if you haven't listened, 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:26.240 make sure you go back. I watched that movie before 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.200 you come in here because it's gonna be all spoilers. 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.840 And then we have a special guest star as Jason 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:36.240 interviews one of the fantastic stars of Alien Romulus Aileen lou. 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:44.560 Up next. Previously on Well, folks, we woke up to 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:49.120 some crazy news this morning. The Acolyte has been canceled. 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:53.040 There will be no season two. This is reported by 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:58.520 all the trades, Deadline, forty, et cetera. The show ended 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.960 up with a seventy eight percent on Rotten Tomatoes. But 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:05.000 I think it's fair to say there was some divisions. 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:11.000 It was certainly divisive in terms of ratings. It was 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.840 the worst performing Star Wars show. Now, a quick note 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:20.400 about ratings. It's impossible to get accurate streaming ratings from 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:24.560 any of the streamers, so here you're kind of, uh, 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.519 We're always going to be referencing either Nielsen data or 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:34.400 Illuminate Data, some third party data site. And the thing 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.880 is their formulas are all different and have a lot 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.360 to do with like engagement in social media. The streamers 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:45.400 themselves would say that's not accurate. That aside, it certainly 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:49.200 appears that The Ecolyte was in terms of watches, in 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.360 terms of ratings, the worst performing and fell off over 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:57.160 the course of the series. And that is, you know, 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:02.000 in addition to the pretty toxic conversation around the show. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:02.560 Yeah, it was. 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:03.320 It was hammered. 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:10.120 I definitely feel like we obviously can't know what's going 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.080 on in an exact mind, but I do feel like 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.240 this was surprising to me because you know the surprised. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:17.000 Yeah, for sure. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:22.960 The show had a very passionate fandom that loved it, 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.560 and it also was a conversation driver in a way 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:30.520 I think Disney has been seeking for their shows. That 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.960 hasn't necessarily happened this year. But as you say, it 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.560 was very divisive. I would hope that this is not, 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.720 you know, a case where they're listening to the most 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.320 negative parts of the fandom and choosing to cancel a 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.920 show based on that. I would say something we need 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.000 to notice. The show was incredibly expensive. It was one 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.400 hundred and eighty million dollars apparently according to Disney, which, 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.640 by the way, like that's all that's a Disney problem. 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.440 Like if you want to make the show for less money, 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.560 give them less money. Like if you don't have the 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.000 money to make one hundred and eighty million dollar show, 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.360 which I know you do, Disney, then don't give it 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.880 to them, you know, like, let's let's plan ahead. But 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.000 I think there was so much more to come from this. 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.360 I also will say this is all rumors, of course, 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.640 but the Internet has noticed some interesting choices, which are 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:22.240 like they had Manny Jacinto at D twenty three like 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:26.720 a week ago, and they had a thirty foot projected 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:28.600 image of him on the wall that people could take 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.560 pictures with, which I've heard was very popular because who 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.360 didn't love crime here. They also then canceled the show 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:39.280 on his birthday. Seems thoughtless if this was always going 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.719 to be the case. Maybe we're looking at a situation 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:45.279 here where there's no Acolyte season two, but we will 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.480 see these characters and stories be continued in a high 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.760 republic style movie or something. 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:59.440 That would not surprise me. I think this is in 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:05.719 certain specs. It's not surprising because of the ratings. I 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:10.760 think if if the viewership was there, then you could 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.680 they could shrug off the conversation. And I think more broadly, 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:16.960 Star Wars is kind of in a weird spot right 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.400 now where they are beholds into nostalgia in a way 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:26.080 that no other ip really is. They're caught between a 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.520 segment of the fan base that wants Star Wars the 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.800 way it has always been delivered to them. Now, I 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:36.800 think that the way that that that picture of a 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:41.440 nostalgic Star Wars is a myth in large part, uh, 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:46.799 and I think allies the content of the original trilogy 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:51.000 in a large way. That said, I it's it's a 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.080 tough spot because if you innovate, if you do something 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.240 interesting people, there's going to be a segment of the 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.760 fan base that absolutely hates it. And then if you 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:05.159 do the same old Star Wars stuff, you're really not 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:09.160 evolving the IP or doing anything that might bring in 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:16.200 more fans exactly and keep the community vibrant. So it's 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.359 just a tough spot and definitely a bummer. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.520 Also interesting that they just straight up canceled it rather 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.200 than leaving it in kind of you know, limbo, like 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:29.480 a lot of these shows and movies end up being 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.760 like it's very rare for them to just be like 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.320 this is over, Like it's not happening, it's canceled. So 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:39.480 I think that's very interesting. Apparently there is rumors that 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.800 they had started working on season two, and that's why 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.000 they have to say it was canceled because Season two 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.800 kind of already existed. I will say one thing, our 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.839 discord is absolutely bummed. They were big Acolyte fans in there, 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.720 so sending love to the discord today, and I understand. 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.880 I hope we will get to see these stories and 0:06:56.000 --> 0:07:00.000 themes and characters continued, because in the age of streaming 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.760 we live in now, stuff gets canceled so quickly. And 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.120 there's definitely been a lot of hilarious memes like the 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.560 Clone Wars never would have made it past you know, 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.240 season one in this era, so it's like. 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:16.520 That's maybe true. Although I will say animated Flies under 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:22.480 the Radar continues incredibly influential. I think, in my opinion, 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:28.600 is probably primarily responsible for keeping people in touch with 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.520 Star Wars and growing new audience. But it's also like 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.760 something that the nostalgia heads, the hardcore nostalgia peeps, I 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.200 think broadly. 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.320 Ignore, yeah, the most part. 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:45.400 Next up, there is a new hit video game, and 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:50.760 it is Black Myth Wukan. The game has already become 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:56.680 in its short life as a release, has already become 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.400 the second most played game on scheme with why two 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:05.520 and a half million concurrent players behind PUBG still doing 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:07.480 it by way, PUBJ still. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.440 Doing it, still doing it, basically. 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.880 Still doing it now Steam numbers. Of course, we're not 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:15.280 taking to account players using the Epic Game Store, which 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.360 is platform or playing on PS five, which is wild 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:23.800 separate ecosystem. This a game from a Chinese developer, has 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:29.760 had some controversy around it related to an email they 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:34.160 sent around to influencers as they were kind of like 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.920 ginning up excitement for the game, basically saying don't mention 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.240 COVID nineteen, we get it okay, but also no quote, 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:47.440 no feminist propaganda, which is interesting. Sure that said blackmith Willkon. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:53.640 It's the gameplay looks pretty crazy, the bosses look incredibly huge, 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.520 and this game looks to be a juggernaut in the making. 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:00.560 Yeah, And the truth is, like I do deeply loved 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:04.080 Journey to the West and like the Monkey. 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.680 King Wukan is the main character and Journey to the West, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.600 which is huge hit in China and much of Asia. 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.240 Yeah, and it's like it's a it's a it's like 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.280 a sixteenth century Chinese novel that basically a lot of 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.959 people think it created the hero's journey. If you're watching 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.400 something like Avatar the Last Airbender, you're really watching something 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.640 that's very influenced by Journey to the West. So I 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.200 do think this is really interesting. The CEO of the 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.000 game company, who said, now that email he is. You know, 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.640 he has said some wild things in the past, but 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.200 sometimes you just gotta ignore it and just look at 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.200 a game. So it'll be interesting to see and I'm 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.440 interested to play this. I'm interested if any of our 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.080 our discord users are playing it, because the reviews are 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.840 pretty crazy. People say it's just a total whirlwind and 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.680 kind of a bit of an unexpected smash. I think. 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.319 Next up more video game stuff. Borderland's four has released 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:59.160 a teaser trailer. Not much that no gameplay, but I'm 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.240 excited on the less as a fan of the Venerable 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:06.120 Borderlands looter shooter franchise, I do enjoy some Borderlands. 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.240 Yeah, this is really great. I think I've been very 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.160 impressed with the Boardlands guy who was like, hey, you 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:16.160 love the game so much that you hated this bad movie. 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.760 Guess what, Bordlands four Finally it's finally coming out. He 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:21.680 was like, how can I turn this to my favor? 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:23.839 He's like, I didn't spend one hundred and ten million 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.200 dollars making this movie. But the reason people hate the 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.440 movie is because they love the games. So guess what, 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.480 Baby Boardlands for trailer They could not get that out 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:33.360 quick enough, and I respect it. 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:40.000 More kind of video video games adjacent video games adjacent. 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:45.080 The trailer for Secret Level on Amazon Prime Videos this 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:49.160 is wild. This comes from the creative team behind Love, 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.839 Death and Robots, which, if you were a fan of Love, 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.960 Death and Robots on Netflix, this looks to be for you. 0:10:55.480 --> 0:11:00.400 And it's an anthology series with each episode based around 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:06.400 a different game slash video game franchise, including Dungeons and Dragons, 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.679 Honor of Kings, Mega Man, pac Man, Warhammer, Warhammer forty 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:14.080 K So uh looks pretty cool. 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.800 Yeah. I also feel like Secret Level is the correct 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.480 name because the way that they kept this under wraps 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.520 until now is kind of super impressive when you have 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:28.200 something as broad as like pac Man and Outer Worlds, 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.720 you know, God of War episode as an Armored Corps. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.160 So I'm extremely interested to see how this lands because 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.920 I do think that the way the IP is being 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.560 used right now, like with this Star Wars stuff, right like, 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.520 you invest all this money into one show and if 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:48.320 it doesn't work, then you know you're fucked, basically, So 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.320 I do think this idea of more like anthology ips 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.760 where you try stuff out and see what works and 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.440 see what people are drawn to. That feels like it's 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:01.439 quite could be a war for the future kind of 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.640 of what these companies are gonna do. Apparently looks like 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.480 Keanu Reeves is going to be involved, which you know, 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.920 always a good thing. We love to see him. 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:14.000 Marv rivals. We have a release dates. What are you 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.640 doing for the holiday season? I don't what I'll be 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:22.600 doing playing December four, it's gonna be free to play, 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.480 which means you're gonna pay for those skins. 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.439 Folks, Baby, are you ready to pay for Captain America? 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.600 Is a Nazi skin? Or ever hide your cat? They 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.960 gonna be chotching you five dollars for that. But yeah, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.400 it looks good. It looks like an Overwatch reskin, which 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:41.240 we always knew it would do. Side I'm like, let me, 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:45.120 let me just let me just kill some I mean, 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.080 let me just battle some people in the guise of 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:49.600 a character I enjoy. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:51.960 Looks great. I can't wait to get in there with you. 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.559 Rosie problems, because a. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:56.080 Lot of problems. 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:00.920 Next up new Megalopolis trailer, which is notable for this 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:05.440 Megalopolis of course. The Francis Ford Coppola latest Francis Ford 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:11.200 Coppola movie that that famously features a part of the 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:15.440 movie in which a actor has to come out and address 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.360 the screen. I don't know how they're gonna do this 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.560 and wide release. That said, here's what was notable to 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:25.000 me about this trailer. The trailer opens and I've never 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:30.600 seen this before. The trailer opens with a basically Francis 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:36.120 Ford Coppol's resume starting oh yeah, Father, and and a 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:40.800 like review from when that movie was released to listen 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:44.360 to nineteen seventy two The Godfather, and then some pan 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.960 yeah the movie nineteen seventy nine Apocalypse. Now, Rex Reid says, 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.680 and irredeemable piece of trash. 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.719 This man is so stressed. 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.520 Never seen this before. This guy he's been and France 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.960 is basically saying it. And people are gonna shoo on 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:02.920 this fucking movie, like the critic is gonna shoot on 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.360 it before it's released, and guess what, they're wrong. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.800 He's still gonna be great. Dude. This man is absolutely wild. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.240 I feel like this is especially. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:16.840 Fiery after all these kind of like on set issues 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.560 about he's been, like videos of him like kissing extras 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.880 and saying like I'm getting them into the party. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.720 Mood baby like if I don't love that, so I 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:30.720 feel like he's on a he's on a train to 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.920 Frants for Coppola Land. Then it's maybe it's gonna crash. 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.040 Maybe he's gonna make it there and make a billion dollars. 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.440 Who knows. It's absolutely bonkers, this tray Lie. I couldn't 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:41.080 believe he did it. 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:48.160 Uh well. The film has a crack ensemble cast, including 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:53.720 Adam Driver, giancarlois Posito, Natalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shila Buff, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:59.960 the disgraced Shilah Buff, everybody's favorite Hollywood right wing conservatives 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:04.400 On Voight, Laurence Fishburg, Tylie Shier, Jesus Schwartzman. 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:04.880 And more. 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.720 Yeah, I believe Aubrey Plaza, which just absolutely bonkers, just 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:14.680 like completely wild. Chloe Feynman from SNL, Yeah, sure love it. 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:15.600 I love that. 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:20.280 That's the of the Warriors Fame and other great features 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:29.000 fam Tebe Sweeney. Yeah, Dustin Hoffman, he's there with his nephew, Grace. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.960 Vanderwall, who I believe was on American Idol. Crazy, that's truly, 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.600 I mean, who knows what this movie is gonna be? Like, 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.160 this is gonna be absolutely Boncaus. Also, I just want 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.200 to say, this is a Lionsgate movie, right, This is 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.720 Lionsgate is doing some wild releases this year because lions 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.600 Gate is also buying The Crow, which we will talk 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.520 about another date. But I feel like who's out here 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:54.280 doing it? Like Lionsgate. They're putting the wildest stuff out 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.240 right now. And they picked up Cosmopolis and they're gonna 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:01.400 be making some kids come out from behind the popcorn 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.360 desk and speak to Adam Driver on that big screen. 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:05.000 I believe it. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.040 And then finally Sad News goes to the shell and bayonet. 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.120 A voice actress at Suko Tanaka has passed at age 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:17.680 sixty one, whiches so young? Uh thoughts and to her 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:18.400 family and. 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:22.840 Ye very just a huge kind of beacon in the 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:24.600 in the voice acting space. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:31.960 And yeah, folks, let's jump out of your sternum, oh 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.560 like in like a freshly hatched alien to talk about 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:53.520 alien robins. Up next, we're stepping out of the air 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.320 lock to discuss alien romulus in theaters. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.880 Now, Roses big hit, Baby. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:04.080 It's a huge all around the world. 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:09.040 People are enjoying it, people are feeling it, people are 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:14.800 loving it, people are having conversations about which is exactly 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:15.800 what we're gonna do. 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.080 Well, Rosie, I'll start. I like this movie. This is 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.920 a fun this is a fun movie, A good prequel. 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.240 I believe. I believe they're calling it an intquel now 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:31.399 because it's between alien and aliens. 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:32.440 A delightful interquol. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.399 I'd never heard of that phrase before this week, but 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:35.919 there it is. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.560 I love the practical effects. I love the more of 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.360 a starring role for the face huggers, which was oh 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:43.080 yeah fun. 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.760 The animatronics Animore very impressive, very scary. 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:53.439 Was great, and I really enjoyed David Johnson as as Andy. 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.040 That was the breakout. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.040 Officials agreed, what did you think of the film? 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:03.640 Yeah, I really enjoyed it. I Fedda has Eddy Alva 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.920 as the director has made stuff that I really like, 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.000 like beebdev movies, made stuff that I like a little 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:13.400 bit less, like don't Breathe but visual and don't Breathe 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:18.399 too ooh. But the vision that he had for this movie, 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.560 the aesthetic of the movie, I think it's really. 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:23.400 Uh. 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:25.520 I think it's nice to be back in the world 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.800 of alien that you can kind of deeply immediately recognize. 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.960 It's grubby, it's gross, it's dark. You're on a mining colony, 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.679 you want to get out, you're a blue collar worker, 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:38.560 and you're going to be stopped by an alien. It's 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.399 incredibly bleak in a way that I think Edde does well. 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.240 I really liked it in the cinema. I think it's 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:49.840 a very enjoyable movie experience. Also, I have like a 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:53.680 cannon of movies and TV shows where like I will 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:55.760 forgive a lot of stuff if it's just like a 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.399 bunch of kids trying to get stuff done. So I'm like, 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.119 this is in the I would dive my children cannon. 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.320 Apart from Bjorn, I'm glad he died, but otherwise I 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:07.000 would be there. I would have been there fighting alongside Anna. Yeah, 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.840 I thought I definitely David Johnson as Andy, I think 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.600 is if he wasn't in this movie, I do not 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.360 think the reviews would be as good because I think 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.120 the one thing this script does really well that's very 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:24.920 interesting is it explores the notion of being a synthetic 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:28.360 in the alien world and what that means and how 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.960 much agency you have. And David Johnson gets to play 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.880 two different roles that are really really powerful, and one 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:38.600 of them is really scary and the other is really 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.120 kind of melancholic, and I just think he does such 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.720 an incredible job. Kaylee Spenny, she's great. She's a great 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.560 action e lead. She's she's got her muscles out. She 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.320 can hold he you know, a pulse rifle. I think 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:56.960 that there was some character actors here who were slightly wasted. 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:02.720 Isabella McCard from the beloved smash hit family movie Madam Webb. Yeah, 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:04.280 who is about to behold Go? 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.680 Well, let's quickly recap the film and then get into 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:10.919 a kind of deeper discussion. We're going to recap this 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:15.320 off the top of our heads. So we open on 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:22.480 a corporate planet that's basically all about mining and scavenging 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:27.640 a whalean Utani planet where you have to hit a 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:32.920 certain quota of I guess scavenge or hours or currency. 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.320 It's unclear what the number is, but you have to 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:38.000 hit this number before you're allowed to leave. So it's 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:40.879 kind of like the old school, like owing your life 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:43.720 to the company's store type of situation of like the 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:48.760 late nineteenth early twentieth century Industrial Revolution type thing, and. 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:52.320 If they need more workers, they will just extend your time, 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:56.040 right so there's no it's not fair whalen Utani. This 0:20:56.200 --> 0:21:00.000 is the ultimate like working class factory town where people 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:03.280 just dying from being in the mind from Black Lung. 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:06.320 There's like two thousands, about two thousand people live there 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.080 in total, and part of that population is our main cast. 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:16.000 There is Rain played by Kaylee Spainey. There is Andy, 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:22.240 her artificial person brother, a gift from her father who 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:24.399 has passed away in the minds we believe. 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:25.000 Yeah. 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:30.600 Uh. There is Tyler, who is I believe Rain's ex right. 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:33.879 It feels like the coding there is that he is 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:34.680 her ex. 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:40.600 Yeah. There is kay who is pregnant with a baby 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:45.760 of unknown providence. We will discuss this play by further length. 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:49.040 Isabella Mcott who is going to be Hawk Girl in 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:52.600 the James Gun of Us and who was recently Ranya 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:54.040 and Madame Webb. 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:59.840 Las and then there is Bjorn played by Spike Fearn 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:05.240 Oh boo, I hate good acting Spike, and Alien Wu 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:09.920 plays Navarro. Yes, we'll be stay tuned for Alien Wu interview. 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:14.920 And basically they hit upon a scheme by which they 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:20.040 can leave the planet by taking their their like Junker 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:28.320 scavenger craft and outfitting it with enough cryo fuel to 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:33.199 power the the cryo chambers so that they can go 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:36.880 into hibernation for a nine year trip to a planet 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:40.520 where the sun actually shines, because on this planet it's 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:43.960 raining all the time and it sucks. And the only 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:46.439 way they can do that is by getting enough cryo 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:48.080 fuel to make the trip. 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:51.680 And keep the described for like nine years. 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:54.320 For nine years, and they've discovered that there is like 0:22:54.440 --> 0:23:01.159 a wrecked Whyland Utahani space station that's just kind of 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:04.720 like floating right above the planet, so they go up 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:07.919 there turns out to be a research facility, and it 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:13.080 turns out this research facility is like chock a block 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:17.920 with face huggers and other aliens and a more research. 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:25.880 There's like a decommission destroyed artificial person there played by 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:32.760 a beyond life ian home and long story short, the 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:40.840 aliens come out, Everybody except for Rain gets killed. She 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:45.480 ultimately defeats the alien. The final boss alien turns out 0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:53.080 to be a hybrid alien human baby that gives birth 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:58.320 to is really scary, and now with enough cryo fuel 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:02.000 to make the trip, she leaves her last log, puts 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:05.800 Andy in the hibernation chamber, puts herself in the hibernation 0:24:05.920 --> 0:24:10.600 chamber and heads for the new planet. Okay, you kind 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:15.399 of hit on it in your statement up top. I 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:18.560 do think and this is my one nitpick. Here's my nitpick. 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:21.119 I love everything about this movie. I love the face huggers. 0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:24.520 I love the practical effects. I think that looks as 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:31.680 it looks astoundingly good. The cast is wonderful. I do 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:34.320 think the one thing I was craving, and I was 0:24:34.440 --> 0:24:37.840 craving it kind of significantly, was just like a little 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:42.359 deeper understanding of these characters. I do feel like Kay, 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:45.119 basically all we know about her is she's pregnant. That's 0:24:46.359 --> 0:24:48.239 who is she? What does she dream of? What does 0:24:48.240 --> 0:24:49.960 she want to do? What does she hate? Like I 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:54.840 kind of don't know Jorn. I know he hates androids, 0:24:54.920 --> 0:25:00.600 and that's kind of it. Like Tyler, same thing. He 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:03.280 feels a little and the characters feel a little thin 0:25:03.440 --> 0:25:06.960 to me now you mentioned it. I do think David 0:25:07.040 --> 0:25:09.440 Johnson gives a tour to force here as Andy. Yeah, 0:25:09.920 --> 0:25:13.560 and he's given a wide range of Like there's Andy 0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:18.639 who is more hobbled intellectually and physically and is not 0:25:18.920 --> 0:25:23.280