1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: Good morning, Ben, Good morning guys. Are you excited about 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: this one? 3 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, I am. I know it's a true story. 4 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 2: I mean, obviously it's been a little embellished for the movie, 5 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 2: but it is essentially a true story. Ye, powder down 6 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: thoses in anticipation. 7 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: Ben. Yeah, let's talk Cocaine Bear, And you're right, Lease, 8 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: it is based on a true story. But you know 9 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: how you see at the start of a film and 10 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: it'll say loosely inspired by true events or something like that. Well, 11 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: this is about as loosely inspired as it gets. So 12 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: the true story was that back in nineteen eighty five, 13 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:40,480 Speaker 1: some drug smugglers flying across America. Their plane was overloaded. 14 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:42,319 Speaker 1: It was going to crash, so they thought, you know what, 15 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: let's dump duffel bags of cocaine out the door into 16 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: like a national forest, and then we will parachute out 17 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,160 Speaker 1: of the plane to safety, collect the drugs, make our money. 18 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: Everything will be sweet. And in the real story, that's 19 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: what happened, except the drug smugglers that parachutes and open 20 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: they died, and so the drugs were left in the 21 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,119 Speaker 1: forest and a like a five hundred pound black bear 22 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 1: eight about fifteen kilos. Yeah, so just like just like 23 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: a you know, yogi bear at a picnic. He's had 24 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: a grand old time and he died immediately. And he 25 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: died immediately, so he did he didn't really there wasn't 26 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: really much of a story to it. But he didn't 27 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: kill it. He didn't kill anybody. He didn't go on 28 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: a rampage and then was found and the person who 29 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: found him, they discovered all of his cocaine and his belly, 30 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: but they thought it was it was a shame to just, 31 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: you know, dispose of this this bear carcass. So they 32 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: had it, took him to a taxidermist, had him stuffed, 33 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: and he ended up in a shopping mall of all things, 34 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: where he took on the nickname Pablo Escobar. Please it's true. 35 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 2: It's good for the kiddies to point and say, what's 36 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 2: that mummy? 37 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: And so basically basically this film has been in buyed 38 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: by Pablo Escobart in a shopping mall. And the guys 39 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: who gave us the lego movie, Phil Laud and Chris Miller, 40 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: who've done a lot of funny films over the years, 41 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: thought that there was something in this. They came across 42 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: a script. It was kind of a horror comedy script 43 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:19,959 Speaker 1: and they and they got Elizabeth Banks, who's a well 44 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,799 Speaker 1: known comedic actress, to direct the film, and from there 45 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 1: they just take a lot of creative liberties. The basic 46 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 1: story starts the same, but then all of a sudden, 47 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 1: the bear goes on this rampage kills people all across 48 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: this National park, from from you know, sort of Swedish hikers, 49 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: through to through to local no goods rangers, wildlife inspectors. 50 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: Pretty much everybody had encounters. And at the same time, 51 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: you've got a group of drug smugglers who are trying 52 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,239 Speaker 1: to recover the merchandise. And you've got a mum in 53 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: Kerry Russell from Felicity who's looking who's looking for a 54 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 1: lost daughter who has kind of kind of like ditch 55 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: school and gone into the park to check out a 56 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,359 Speaker 1: waterfall or something like that. So you've got a few 57 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: sort of competing storylines indeed, and it also stars O'sha 58 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: Jackson Junior, who was in Straight out of Compton a 59 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and Alvin Einrich who was in 60 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: Hail Caesar, the Coen Brothers movie, and he played solo 61 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: in the in the Star Wars spin off. So pretty 62 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: much everybody in this film, you'd have to think, is 63 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 1: you know, maybe at not the greatest point in their 64 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: career if they ended up in Cocaine Bear, Jesse Tyler 65 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: Furkis Family. Yeah, that's that's actually a great reference, because 66 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: like this is getting this is getting perilously close to 67 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: Sharknade Old Territory. Oh yeah, very much so. And my 68 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: issue with the film is not the not the concept 69 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: or that they've taken these liberties with the true story. 70 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: It's probably that they didn't lean into it enough. And 71 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: I think I think maybe Elizabeth Banks was not the 72 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: person to direct this film like that. Some of the 73 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: horror stuff seems really quite ham fisted in the way 74 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: that they handle it. There's not a lot of you know, 75 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: real drama or scares, even though there's this bear is 76 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: quite terrifying when you see it up close and so 77 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: and there's and for a comedy, there's really not that 78 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 1: many laughs. So it probably just doesn't it doesn't quite 79 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 1: pick all the boxes that it needed to be a 80 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: kind of a fun genre film, if you know what 81 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: I mean. 82 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't really peak. Yeah, while you're watching this, 83 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 2: you know the bear on the glass barbecue. Were you going, 84 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 2: what the hell am I watching? Or did you did 85 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 2: you know? Did you have some warning this was coming? 86 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: Oh? Look it's in the title, isn't it. You know, 87 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: it's like if you if you're like, if you go 88 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: to a cafe and you buy a B L T. 89 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: You can't you know what you're getting. And so I 90 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,359 Speaker 1: think when a film is called Cocaine Bear, you know 91 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 1: you're in for a going to be ridiculous. Yeah, it's 92 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: going to be ridiculous. And certainly if you've seen a trailer, 93 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: you've got no doubts at all. But in the end, 94 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: probably it was ridiculous in the wrong way. And and 95 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: the plot, the plot, well you probably don't worry about 96 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: the plot, but you know, the die log wasn't that amazing. 97 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: The characters weren't really believable enough. Rale Honor is in there, 98 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: but you know, again he probably doesn't add a heck 99 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: of a lot and it doesn't last. Yeah, yeah, I know, 100 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: And that's the thing. And at the end of the film, 101 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: and you know, in tribute to Rali Owner and you think, right, 102 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: they're going out. 103 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 2: One song man, Well, how many bumps out of five. 104 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: Are you giving? It. I'm going to give this one 105 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: to Bump. 106 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 2: Okay, just a couple on your bend.