Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast. Again.
Speaker 1: You assigned to it because we getting into Team Wolf.
Speaker 1: Jack had never seen it before. It's a child of
Speaker 1: the nineties. Somewhat yesterday watched Teen Wolf. I watched it again.
Speaker 1: I remembered how much I loved it back when the
Speaker 1: only way you saw a movie, which was on the eighties,
Speaker 1: was in a theater with a load of your mates
Speaker 1: and other people. And it was amazing experience. Because now
Speaker 1: you're streaming it. You know, you watch movies and TV
Speaker 1: shows and you're separate from that and when you see
Speaker 1: When I saw Teamore for the first time, I do
Speaker 1: remember some of the iconic scenes, not things the scenes,
Speaker 1: but I remember everyone laughing, all the gasp at some revelation,
Speaker 1: the same science of a team Wolf. There were so
Speaker 1: many moments in that movie. Watching it again, many many
Speaker 1: years later, I'm like, I remember what that got In
Speaker 1: the cinema.
Speaker 2: It used to be much more of a collective experience.
Speaker 1: I used to love going to the cinema. There's been
Speaker 1: so much hype about it and you finally got to
Speaker 1: see it, and you weren't you think about it. You
Speaker 1: couldn't even see it trailer on your phone or on
Speaker 1: YouTube or on you know, Instagram. It was like a
Speaker 1: really bigger moment to go to the cinema. So Teen
Speaker 1: Wolf was a big thing for me. I loved Michael J.
Speaker 1: Fox in Back to the Future, so he followed up
Speaker 1: within the same I think was six months later Teen
Speaker 1: Wolf came out or what did you think? Watching it
Speaker 1: with different eyes? Now?
Speaker 2: Bianka and I both watched it, and despite some obvious
Speaker 2: weaknesses throughout the movie, we actually really enjoyed Teen Wolf.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some of it stands up really well. Other bits don't.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's a dated movie.
Speaker 2: But overall, where it deviated from all the other eighties
Speaker 2: films I've been watching, which have one thing in common
Speaker 2: completely slow, Teen Wolf was well paced. He starts turning
Speaker 2: into the wolf straight away, the teen Wolf.
Speaker 1: They gave you the teen Wolf, that's what you're there.
Speaker 2: First eighties movies would spend half an hour setting up
Speaker 2: He's just a normal high school kid playing basketball. Then
Speaker 2: he starts turning into a wolf. Love that he started
Speaker 2: turning into a wolf straight away, And then it kind
Speaker 2: of surprised me because I thought it was going to
Speaker 2: be an ELpH Man situation. Where the whole school teased
Speaker 2: him and he was an outcast. They loved the wolf.
Speaker 1: No, they weren't shut behind us so much so. Do
Speaker 1: you remember the first basketball game where imagine if you're
Speaker 1: you're watching a kid playing a basketball game, and what
Speaker 1: of the kids a child turns into a flipping wolf. Doctor,
Speaker 1: he's turning into a wolf. They just look at him.
Speaker 1: The referee disc goes, okay, let's play ball.
Speaker 2: You gotta ge him a nursele, an ambulance and elite
Speaker 2: at the bare minimum, stop the game and find out
Speaker 2: what's going on.
Speaker 1: One of that is turn into a wolf. Shot. He's
Speaker 1: even against the rules and regulations of the game of basketball.
Speaker 1: You can't faild a team at a high school game
Speaker 1: where one of you is a half boy, half wolf.
Speaker 2: That's what we couldn't understand about the universe where Team
Speaker 2: Wolf is set. Is it meant to be that were
Speaker 2: wolfs are known about and more common. Because there was
Speaker 2: a bit of head turning, but for the most part,
Speaker 2: people just accepted he was a wolf.
Speaker 1: Within a couple of game, they're all doing the chart.
Speaker 1: There's no kind of he's different to us. And the
Speaker 1: whole thing about when he realizes the big sort of
Speaker 1: the big moment that got the big gass in the cinema,
Speaker 1: which no one saw come was when you realize his
Speaker 1: old man is also part human part wolf. Shocked me.
Speaker 1: This bit an explanation is probably long overdo. Before you
Speaker 1: go any further, right, you need to listen to two
Speaker 1: different things here right imagine I can only imagine it
Speaker 1: now and I watch it again. Yes, there's a dad.
Speaker 1: If one of my kids came to me and they'd
Speaker 1: realized that I was a wolf as well, you know
Speaker 1: that there'd be a lot of drama there, the shame
Speaker 1: that I passed it on. Listen to his old man.
Speaker 1: It's literally like it's not a big deal that his
Speaker 1: son is just realized he's actually a wolf. And wait,
Speaker 1: you're also a dad wolf. And listen to his old man.
Speaker 1: He's so um drum. An explanation is probably long overdo.
Speaker 1: An explanation, Jesus Christ, just look at me, Look at you.
Speaker 1: It's not as bad as it looks. You knew about this.
Speaker 1: You knew about this, and you didn't tell me. I
Speaker 1: was hoping I wouldn't have to the rehearsal. I was
Speaker 1: hoping I would pass you by. Well, dad. It didn't
Speaker 1: pass me by. It landed on my face. What the
Speaker 1: hell am I going to do the next day? Right?
Speaker 1: His dad? You think you go, hey, you know this
Speaker 1: is a lot forew We're gonna with some counselors.
Speaker 2: Don't go to school today. We've got to discuss this.
Speaker 1: People will judge you, son. That's in the world, right.
Speaker 1: He just gives him a steam of.
Speaker 2: That's it and says, you seemed a bit upset last night.
Speaker 1: You took it hard about the fact you've had I'm
Speaker 1: a wealth and you're now going to live off as
Speaker 1: a half boy. Christian Connell's show podcast, we'll get into
Speaker 1: a classic eighties movie and as we are stuck indoors
Speaker 1: at the moment, I cannot recommend enough. Even if you're
Speaker 1: not Charlie eighties, do you I have a favor of
Speaker 1: this weekend watched Team Wolf. It actually cheered me up yesterday.
Speaker 1: It made me smile. There are quite a few sort
Speaker 1: of well worn, sort of eighties movie cliches that are
Speaker 1: there that are funny. Some bit of its of it
Speaker 1: are actually quite pure and sweet. There are some bits
Speaker 1: that age really badly, but it's a treat yep. All
Speaker 1: of it so yeah, I can't really. Did you watch
Speaker 1: it on Stan? Yes?
Speaker 2: You can stream it on Stan. I loved his best
Speaker 2: friend is a guy called Styles.
Speaker 1: How old was that actor? Right? Because obviously Michael J. Fox,
Speaker 1: all right, you're a high school kid's mate. Styles could
Speaker 1: have played Michael J. Fox's dad. Seriously, who's a flipping
Speaker 1: proper man high school buddy? Styles? Great characters.
Speaker 2: Didn't you want a friend?
Speaker 1: Yes? I still want a mate like Style?
Speaker 2: Who is the party master? And the parties that they
Speaker 2: made they had in the eighties looked incredible and were.
Speaker 1: Like no eighties party I went to as a teenager
Speaker 1: or any of us. There were always some heightened state
Speaker 1: like a utopia, weren't they? Of like it was all
Speaker 1: about kegs of beer, and in fact there's one. But
Speaker 1: when Michael J. Fox finds out that he can at
Speaker 1: will transform into a werewolf, of course, what would you
Speaker 1: do with that kind of superpower? Oh? Wait, go and
Speaker 1: get underage beer? Listen, no idea, No goddamn beer. Can't
Speaker 1: you get that through your six skull? Give me a
Speaker 1: kick off beer I got off? That'd be the very
Speaker 1: next thing. I wait, guys, guys, listen, I know it's
Speaker 1: all good with the Harry palms and stuff like that, but
Speaker 1: I can get a beer. It's actually there's got a
Speaker 1: lot to it for you guys. Bonuses. The other big
Speaker 1: scene in the movie watching this in the cinema was
Speaker 1: when he did the van surfing. Was terrible watching it yesterday.
Speaker 1: It was how many thirty two backflips in the wine
Speaker 1: slow motion? As well? Man, we got to find the wheels.
Speaker 1: We got some good tunes and a total disregard for
Speaker 1: public safety. You're right, okay, go's a teenager. Everyone watching
Speaker 1: get Down?
Speaker 2: He does up there and riding away a handstand from
Speaker 2: do you know in real life?
Speaker 1: Who did those? By the way, the same actor that
Speaker 1: played his mate styles much grown up he was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't need a stuntman he did that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: couldn't believe when I found it out. The other thing
Speaker 1: that is amazing and got a big reaction at the
Speaker 1: time the scene where Michael J. Fox right loses his
Speaker 1: how can I put this? He loses his boyhood and
Speaker 1: enters manhood.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, bacehood really because he's becomes easy what we're way,
Speaker 2: This is the most concerning part.
Speaker 1: So watching it back, you're like, okay, so she's kind
Speaker 1: of excited that he's he's now for wolf and they're
Speaker 1: about to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she doesn't want to do it with Scott.
Speaker 2: She wants to do.
Speaker 1: I guess it's a thing now, isn't it. She's into
Speaker 1: wolf fun all right. When he he howls, he hows
Speaker 1: you are in Animal, he hows he's lost as Cherry.
Speaker 1: Imagine that happened in real life to teenagers. I think
Speaker 1: it'd be a great kind of wrinkle. You'd know. I'd
Speaker 1: know if there's someone going to my house, stop that. Now,
Speaker 1: get out of my house, Get out, Sarah. Did you
Speaker 1: hear him howling? He was helping that scene her at
Speaker 1: the time. We're like and everyone laughed at the same time.
Speaker 1: It's an amazing scene, this moment you are animal, he's
Speaker 1: a wolf. One final thing right for a movie which
Speaker 1: is kind of come into age movie, it's also a
Speaker 1: sports movie as well. The sports stuff basketball is the
Speaker 1: worst basketball scenes you've ever seen in a sports movie
Speaker 1: or any basketball movie.
Speaker 2: The basketball stuff is where it lost me. It was ridiculous.
Speaker 2: So there, before he becomes a wolf, they suck at basketball.
Speaker 2: They lose by seventy points. They're the worst team in
Speaker 2: the town. He becomes a wolf for some reason. That
Speaker 2: means he's the new Michael Jordan. He's the best player
Speaker 2: on the team. They win, they make it all the
Speaker 2: way to the championship.
Speaker 1: At one point, he grabs the ball off one of
Speaker 1: his teammates. What I know they used to have and
Speaker 1: go at like Michael Jordan being selfish.
Speaker 2: This is what I hated about the film. So the
Speaker 2: final scene is he comes to the basketball stadium and says,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm not the wolf anymore. That's not me.
Speaker 2: We got to play as ourselves. The wolf isn't here today.
Speaker 1: This is a message of the movie about whoever you are,
Speaker 1: however you are self accepted.
Speaker 2: Yes, but what there's no reason why now they should
Speaker 2: be good. So they go on to win the game,
Speaker 2: but they suck and they lost by seven.
Speaker 1: Stand I don't play basketball, but I know right, you
Speaker 1: don't dribble by staring at the floor. How did he
Speaker 1: ever know whether who was or his teammates were, And
Speaker 1: now one's grabbing off the wrong person. He's looking at
Speaker 1: the floor the.
Speaker 2: Whole time they dribbling in their shooting. Yes, said that
Speaker 2: they've never really played. None of the actors had played
Speaker 2: basketball before, so it's meant to be a big climax.
Speaker 1: Like Michael J. Fox, even in if you said right,
Speaker 1: he said them beforehand, right, this is all great. Look
Speaker 1: I'm not really very good, so I probably do like
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, you know, like a boot camp.
Speaker 1: They don't don't worry about it, We'll fix it all up.
Speaker 1: What Rob Low did a great eighties movie called Young
Speaker 1: Blood where he's a hockey player, and he never played hockey,
Speaker 1: so he had to do a six week intensive boot camp,
Speaker 1: so at least looked a bit legit. Michael J. Fox
Speaker 1: and it shows did nothing, nor did this. It's like
Speaker 1: they'd never actually played basketball. I read a quote from
Speaker 1: the director of the movie. He said in a vault
Speaker 1: Buried Away, it's an hour of a worse basketball footage
Speaker 1: you've ever seen the outtakes, which he said maybe one
Speaker 1: day when he's about to die, going to release it.
Speaker 2: Actually looks like he's shooting with his wrong arms. And
Speaker 2: you know when kids shoot and they have to lean
Speaker 2: back to get enough energy to propel the ball far
Speaker 2: up through the air.
Speaker 1: That's his shooting stuff.
Speaker 2: What I hated this during the last game and you're
Speaker 2: wondering is the team gonna win now that he's not
Speaker 2: the Wolf anymore? And there's a big montage of the game.
Speaker 2: They're playing a song that's called win in the End.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna win in the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is it. The music in it is terrible,
Speaker 1: by the way, isn't it most eighties movie I had
Speaker 1: great songs like Breakfast Clubs in my Mind's this my
Speaker 1: heavy message with Kits, isn't it. It's not gonna take
Speaker 1: him by nine eighties?
Speaker 2: Win it and it takes away all the mistique about
Speaker 2: are they gonna win? Well, it's right there in the montague.
Speaker 1: Mark's out of ten for team Wolves.
Speaker 2: Seven out of ten for Team Wolf.
Speaker 1: Great. I would recommend this weekend stream it on stamp.
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