Austin Lugo: Alright, another week, another movie.
What have you been up to this week? Andrew, what have you
Andrew Harp: been watching? I'm watching a lot of movies this week. Have you been rewatching
Austin Lugo: the John Wick
Andrew Harp: movies or, I watched all three of them the other day. Yeah, in a row. Have you seen them? No, never seen any of them. Oh, really? Yeah, pretty much like after we did Bar podcast last week, I just went and watched all three John Wick movies,
I watched one and I was like, yeah, I'll watch the other real quick. And then I watched the other one too. They're pretty good. My favorite is the second one. There's definitely a beauty to that movie for sure. The third one is a little much for me, but it's still pretty good. It's a lot. My least favorite was the first.
Yeah. It's too dark and smudgy for me. , I, I kind of don't understand what's going on when, when the action is happening, , even though it is still
Austin Lugo: fine. Yeah, I think part of that is just the first one has a much lower budget than the other two, which, you know, the first one is, is kind of a, a low budget film, but I love them.
I got a certain nostalgia for the John Wick films. I'm excited for John mc four. You gonna see that in.
Andrew Harp: Yeah, of course. I'll see that in theaters cuz yeah, I saw these movies now and like I said, I like the second one the most and you know, part of me doesn't really like that, like super over the top choreographed like action stuff.
Like what? It's almost a little too mechanical for me. It's like a little too like video game. C g I. Cut scene for me. But I think chapter two is pretty, does, I think it does reach like levels of like beauty and amazement. three kind of loses me sometimes, but it's still, I think it's still good. And you know, I think like all like the little like details, like the weird world that they live in with like the hotels and stuff are, it's kind of funny.
Um, I had heard about it, but it is a little unexpected when you do end up watching the movies. . That's pretty much all I have to say about them. I think this, I, I, I would definitely rewatch the second movie because I don't know, that one is just really crazy. It just kind of has everything that I want. I don't know.
That one's like really badass and it's like really like, I don't know. That's probably like one of the better action movies of the 2010s probably.
Austin Lugo: I'm loving the John Wick, uh, films. I've, I've enjoyed every experience. There's gonna be a four, uh, coming out soon and there's also gonna be a John Wick five, so, you
Andrew Harp: know, it's just, yeah, I mean, I'll see the four with one of theaters
Austin Lugo: for sure.
I mean, that's basically, Most of the films the Sky's done are just John Wick films,
Andrew Harp: so yeah, the Chad guy. Yeah, I don't think he's, he just makes John Wick movies ,
Austin Lugo: which, you know, I, you find something you're good at and you do it. I got to see John Wick three in, in theaters. I haven't watched any of them since I originally watched them, which it's been a hot minute.
I think I watched them when I still lived at my first apartment. Carmel, Indiana. So I probably just turned 21. So it's been, it's been a minute and I watched the first two back to back, and I saw John mc three in theaters. Definitely worth the theater experience. I think I liked John Mc three the best.
Maybe just because I saw it in theaters. But I also do love those big choreographed scenes. Like I, I get that, you know, it may be a little too like choreographed for you, but it's
Andrew Harp: way too, it's way too much. Like, like I said, dude, it's like bordering, and for me it's like bordering on like a video game cut scene.
It's like I'm watching in uncharted cut scene or something like that, . And when I'm watching movies, it's like, I want like, at least a little bit of like believability going on. Um, maybe just like touches of it and when they're like shooting, like when they're just getting like headshot after another. And I understand like John Wick is like supposed to be like the greatest hitman of all time, but I don't know.
Sometimes it's a little much, but I, but I still really, like, I, I, I like John Wick chapter two and three. I think those are like good fun action movies that have plenty of, I don't know, they have plenty of things to say and I just think like, I think should probably dial it back a little bit, but it's still good.
I don't think they're gonna
Austin Lugo: dial it back for, from the trailers I've seen from John Wigg four.
Andrew Harp: No, no, no. I'm still gonna see John Wigg four and I kind of hope they don't dial it back, even if I don't like it. I'm still fine with that. Like they should just go all in. Yeah, I mean like even if I don't end up liking the movie, it's, it doesn't matter really.
Austin Lugo: Yeah. And, and something I do like about John Wick is he does, you know, he is not like an unbeatable guy. I mean, he has like, you know, head shots. I mean, he gets beat up a lot and especially he get,
Andrew Harp: he does, he always heals very quickly though. , I think he gets, he gets like hurt in one of the movies. and I don't remember which one it was.
It might have been the third movie or the second, I don't remember. But he like gets hurt and like his stomach is like ripped open. He like got stabbed or shot or something and then he's just back to like jumping around and shooting at people and stuff. I think it might have been the second movie, but it's so funny.
It's just like, I don't know, even when he's like horribly like wounded, he can still like do just crazy shit with. I don't know. It's, it's good.
Austin Lugo: I love it. I mean, it's almost like watching there, there's certain, uh, ballet aspects to it. Yeah.
Andrew Harp: Yeah. Well, there's ballet in the, in the one of the movies, I forget which one it was.
I think it's a third movie. There's ballet in it.
Austin Lugo: I always, uh, am fascinated by the way people choreograph fight scenes. I don't know why that interests me so much, but there's something,
Andrew Harp: it's not my favorite fight choreography in the world, but it's still good for me. It's like a mid tier, mid to high tier.
I think I like stuff that's a little bit more. I like the second and third movies a little bit more than the first because there's also more hand to hand. Yes. The hand to hand's, the best stuff. The, the first movie is just, I think gunfights, which kind of get old after a while. That to me feels a very CGI video game cut scene.
But hand to hand is really fun to watch happen because it's really happening. The, the sequels especially too, they get some like really awesome people in the movie too. Some kind of like obscure kind of, uh, dudes to be in those movies who are really good, who've been in like, plenty of great like martial arts movies over the decades and stuff.
And you know, it's really great to see them in movies and to, you know, be in the John Wick movies, you know, really big popular movies. So it's cool to see them in those, in them again and yeah, you know, there's definitely, when, when, when, when the action is, when the fight choreography, whatever is really good.
I mean, it's, it's really good. You know, it's, it's, it's. It does its thing, you know, I prefer maybe something a little bit more low tech, like a Jackie Chan movie, like Police Story or something like that. A little bit more, uh, I guess Lofi where they just kind of like use their bodies and the environment.
Yeah. And that's pretty much it. But John Wick is still good. It's still like they, it serves it. It's cer it, it, it does a good job.
Austin Lugo: Yeah. I feel that. I mean, it's, it's hard to beat Jackie Chan. I mean, one of the greats please. Story incredible film. And, and, and, . But yeah, I agree. The first John Wick, there's definitely mostly just shootouts and, and the shootouts are definitely my least favorite.
I feel like in each one there's less though, and maybe, maybe I'm wrong. I, I'm, I'm interested to see, I'm hoping John Wick four is just like hand to hand shit. Like, I hope it's just like fucking. You know, people punching the
Andrew Harp: shit up. Little guns. Yeah. people like the guns too though. But I don't really like,
Austin Lugo: yeah,
Andrew Harp: it is kind of badass when you like head shots, like 50 guys in a row.
Sure. But once again, it's kind of like, God, I'm watching a video game. Cut scene. Yeah. Which I don't like, but you know. No. Yeah.
Austin Lugo: I feel ya. Speaking of choreographed films, I watched Rent for the first time this week.
Andrew Harp: Okay. . Alright.
Austin Lugo: I had never seen Red before. Obviously, I, I know the songs from Rent because it's, it's the incredibly famous musical rent.
I watched Tick, tick, boom when it first came out, which wasn't that long ago, was the last year, which I, I enjoyed. I thought I, I like Jonathan Larson's music. I think it's fun. I thought Andrew Garfield was, was great in the film and rent is. The most 2005 movie you could think of, even though it's supposed to take place in 1989.
It's about as 2005 as you can get just in the way people dress. The, uh, hairstyles, the way people talk. Look, the music's good. They have almost the entire original cast, and so, you know, they're, they sing well, they perform the music well, but overall, it's. Who cares? Yeah, it's okay. It's a bit saccharin, you know, it's, it's about aids, so, uh, not the happiest film in the world.
Great music though. Very good music. But otherwise, underwhelmed. By
Andrew Harp: rent directed by one of the greatest directors, Christopher Columbus. What else did this guy direct? Uh, the Home Alone movies, and the first two, Harry Potter movies. . He was also a writer for Gremlin's one and two. Really? Yeah. Oh, that's intriguing.
He's all right. I guess like, I don't . He still makes movies, I guess. You know, he still directs and producers them. He's directed, he's produced a lot of movies. He was a producer for The Witch. Oh. In the lighthouse. Yeah. Oh, damn. But I mean, like, he's also, I mean, he's also produced all the ninth and museum movies.
So,
Austin Lugo: so you're saying he has taste, he he's a man of many talents. .
Andrew Harp: Yeah, he rocks. He's awesome. Christopher Columbus. What a
Austin Lugo: strange man. Doing strange things.
Andrew Harp: The red movie is a movie I would put on while I do something else. Probably. That's the, that's a movie where I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna be doing something else while I watch that.
Even for the first time. Yeah. You know, it's not a
Austin Lugo: sit down and watch movie. It's mostly action takes place, like in the singing. So you know, there's not like, , even though it's a musical, there's no like cool like dance scenes or, you know, it doesn't have like those classical like musical things to it.
Andrew Harp: It's just mostly just kind of like they stand around and kind of like sing deeply about stuff.
Yeah, I like Rosario Dawson's in it. I like Rosario Dawson's one of my favorite actors.
Austin Lugo: There's some, like I said, good is almost everyone from the original cast is in it, but that's also problematic because these are all theater actors, which, if you've ever worked with theater actors before,
Andrew Harp: Looking, I'm looking at the cast and a lot of these people like have been in a lot of movies though. Yeah. Anthony Rap has been in a lot of movie. even.
Austin Lugo: So, okay. Okay, gotcha. Okay. Maybe this isn't a problem with performers. Maybe this is more a problem with the direction of the film. Their performances feel very theatrical, right?
So it's a lot of over the top facial expressions and, and this sort of thing. Like there's no, there's no sense of subtlety in this film, unfortunately, which, uh, for a film with such a, like harsh issue and even, you know, the topics they sing, There should have been more subtlety. I, I think I've never seen the actual, like, theatrical performance of it, but I think they definitely could have done a better job with the material.
And I was overall disappointed with the, uh, film adaptation of this extremely famous
Andrew Harp: musical. Well, I didn't watch any stupid musicals. I watch crazy great movies. Actually. I only watched, um, I was planning on watching a bunch of part WK movies. And I only watched one. I, I watched joint security area, which was good.
It's a good movie. It's like his, uh, it says North and South Korea, uh, drama movie about, ooh, how it sucks. Like it's a movie that takes pretty, pretty much at the demilitarized zone, so like the border between the two countries and something happens. And so a neutral party has to come and investigate it.
Um, and actually the person, the investigator is the person who plays the lead character and Lady vengeance. Oh does, she's the investigator and she comes in and she has to investigate this like thing that's happened. And you know, it's just kind of like a movie about kind of like the push and pull of like the North and South Korea and.
It's good, you know, it's good. Kind of, you know, once again, kind of twisty turn. It's a little, it's definitely more low key, less locations. Mm-hmm. , uh, it's good. It's sad. . It is. Uh, yep. That movie's good. I don't really have much to say about it cuz then it would get into spoilers. But I mean, you know, it's just, it's a portrayed movie about, you know, northern south.
the demilitarized zone.
Austin Lugo: Interesting. And you're seeing his new
Andrew Harp: film this week, right? Uh, it's next weekend. Next weekend. Playing next weekend. Okay. I'll probably, I'm probably am gonna go see decision to leave next weekend at the cinema for sure. Yeah. I'm definitely gonna go see that. I
Austin Lugo: don't think they're playing it around here, so you'll have to let me know.
Andrew Harp: Yeah. White people love, they love, uh, they love Korean movies. . This movie, parasite. I love them. . I think it's just like, they, like how dramatic they are and how like, like how surprising they are. You know, they get, they, they have so many surprises.
Austin Lugo: There's a lot of twists, a
Andrew Harp: lot of turns, , a lot of twists and turns.
You know, it's not a boring movie where a bunch of French people walk around and like, you know, like they do something and then they're like, whoa. And then they have. . Like they actually have like crazy shit happen in them. I don't know. There were some movies this week that are like some of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Wow. Those are some
Austin Lugo: big words.
Andrew Harp: Just some of the worst stuff I've ever seen. One movie in particular was, uh, the Doug Lyman directed 2008 movie Jumper ? Yes. Have you ever seen Jumper ? Yes. You have? You have seen Jumper? I have seen Jumper. Wow. Like when it came out? Yeah.
Austin Lugo: We watched. I think Chuck turned it on one night, like way back in like, probably 2010, 2011.
Yeah. It's a terrible
Andrew Harp: movie. It's a, it's, it's a really bad movie. Yeah. It's like some of the worst acting I've ever seen, like in a studio picture. Like it's really bad. Like a big budget, like, like theatrical film, like terrible acting. You know, Doug Lyman, terrible director.
Austin Lugo: He sucks. What else has he done?
Let's see. Oh, he did Edge of Tomorrow. That movie was fun.
Andrew Harp: I know that's movie's probably good. I know he has some good movies, but I mean, this movie is like shot like a commercial. It's way too bright. Everything is even, everything just looks, even even lighting everywhere. It's, it's a bad film and the movie does not make any sense.
No. are the main character of played by Hayden Christensen, who's really bad. He's a not a good actor. His decisions are terrible. Like he just has like weird, he does weird things that don't make any sense. It is just like, I don't know, it's like a really bad movie. It's like they should have gone either, they should have done, there's two movies they could have done, they could have done a superhero origin story where he's like a, a.
A guy who has this power and he's selfish and he sucks. And then he builds himself up to be like a really great superhero and he saves people and he saves a day. And you know, he stops this and that. Or they could do a Hollow Man thing, which is a movie I talked about last week where he gets this power and he's a horrible person and he uses his power to do horrible, terrible things to people,
And then other people have to stop him. The movie is somewhere in the middle.
Austin Lugo: I generally don't remember a thing that happens
Andrew Harp: in this movie. He doesn't do anything good or bad, , so he like, the worst thing that he does is that he steals stuff, which whatever. He steals stuff. And that's, that's the worst thing that he does.
And he's hunted by these guys. They'll like, wanna kill him because of his power. Right. But he doesn't do anything bad, but he also doesn't do anything good. There's a scene at the end, at the beginning where he's in this cool apartment and he is watching TV and he sees like this newscast of these people that are like, caught up in a flood.
And they're, and and he's like watching TV and he's like eating breakfast. And then he like walks away from the tv. and you're like, oh, okay. So he's kinda like selfish and he doesn't give a fuck, but, but I'm guessing later on in the movie, he's gonna like save those people or he is gonna do something to save people who are caught up in a natural disaster.
None of that happens in the movie at all. He doesn't do anything to save people except maybe his girlfriend. He saves his girlfriend, but that's not like enough for me. No. Personally, absolutely not. That's still selfish. Like he's not built up at all as. As like a hero, which like I said, you either go superhero mode or you go like horrible monster villain mode, like in hollow man.
But instead they do nothing with, they don't do anything. There are no, like, he doesn't do anything with his powers except like steal stuff and then evade people who are trying to kill him. And it's like a very boring, lame movie. At least it's under 90 minutes at least. It's, at
Austin Lugo: least it's Sure. Well, all of the writers on this, there's 1, 2, 3, 4 writers on this.
All of them, pretty much all of them have all written for, uh, superhero movies. So all people
Andrew Harp: Really? Okay. Yeah. Oh yeah, I see that. David Goyer. Yeah. Yeah. Who've, of
Austin Lugo: course did the Dark Night series. Uh, Batman, bear, Superman, man, steel Blade, that sort of thing. You got, uh, fucking Simon. Kinberg. Who did? Simon Kinberg.
That's funny. Who did a lot of the Xmen movies and Fantastic Four.
Andrew Harp: This movie is, this movie is based off a novel, I'm pretty sure. Like
Austin Lugo: a graphic novel or just like a novel. Novel. I have no
Andrew Harp: idea.
Austin Lugo: Well, it's bad . It's very bad. I mean, my guess, I mean, look, there's like 20 producers on this film. My guess is that there's probably a good film somewhere in here that was just cut to pieces.
Andrew Harp: You either gotta go either way, in my opinion. You gotta go either way. Yeah,
Austin Lugo: like my guess is like somewhere in, in here, there was like a direction where like they went like he's a total like asshole and they just abandoned it because they. I mean maybe, but
Andrew Harp: like, I mean, once again though, but
Austin Lugo: there's like no potential in it either.
Yeah, ,
Andrew Harp: the acting is really bad. And also like Doug Lehman shoots everything like it's a commercial. It's like, I don't know what you can salvage out of that. Like, I'm sorry. It's just not, it's just not turn, it's not gonna be good and it's not, it's not a good movie at all. The leads are really bad too. Like Hayden Christensen and his girlfriend are like, terrible.
Is Hayden
Austin Lugo: Christ Christensen good in anything? Is there anything he's good in?
Andrew Harp: I heard he is all right in the OB one.
Austin Lugo: Oh, I haven't s, I've only watched the first episode, so
Andrew Harp: apparently he's in the mouth of madness, but I don't remember what he does in that movie. Or e if he even has like a major role in that movie.
Oh, he plays like a very small role in that movie. Nevermind. It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Yeah. I feel bad for him. Completely failed actor. I'm sorry, but that's just how it is. , like, it's just like, ugh. That's a shame. I'm sorry, but his girlfriend is like really bad. Rachel Bilson. Oh my god. Her, she was really bad.
I couldn't believe it.
Austin Lugo: Rachel Bilson. I don't know who this person is. I see.
Andrew Harp: Just, you just, just not really, not even worth looking up. Don't even look her up. Doesn't matter. , she's in nothing. She's like an OC actor or something like that. Yeah. She has not been
Austin Lugo: in very many movies. It
Andrew Harp: doesn't matter. The only, yeah, so that movie's really bad.
I also watched another really bad movie that was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Uh, I, I decided to go ahead and watch the Bill Maher documentary. Oh, uh, religious, that sounds awful religious. One of the worst documentaries I've ever seen. , it's, uh, really bad and not. And Bill Maher is, I, I've talked about Bill Maher before.
He is kind of like an interesting guy, just cuz I think like, he's super successful. He's had this television show for a really long time now. Every clip, every moment I've seen him in, he's terrible. Like he's just not funny. He just doesn't, he just doesn't have any good jokes and he has like, he has like the mind of a baby
He's like a 70 year old man, and he just has like a tire. He has a terrible, terrible way of thinking about the
world.
Austin Lugo: So what, what is this movie about? I, I can guess, but
Andrew Harp: it's just, it's so, it's it's directed by Larry Charles, who's the Borat guy. Okay. Um, he directed Borat and Bruno like, although like he's directed like all the Sasha Baron Cohen movies.
He's also like a writer and producer for Seinfeld. Um, sometimes he'll appear in Seinfeld. He's got a very distinct look. He's like, um, he's like a John Jewish guy with like a really big beard. Awesome. But yeah, bill Maher. Basically what Bill Mar does is that he's basically just goes around the world to talk to religious people about religion and.
Every conversation is the same, where he'll meet a very religious person and they're like, yep, I think this. Mm-hmm. And it's a miracle. Mm-hmm. , you know, like I think that like, um, for example, like I think that, you know, Jesus is born from an immaculate conception. Sure. You know, it's a miracle conception.
Mm-hmm. , and that's what I believe. And then Bill Mar is like, you know, that's impossible. You know, that's fucking stupid. You idiot. You're so stupid that you would believe that. I can't believe that I'm so open-minded. Like that's just pretty much how the movie progresses, where he talks to Jewish people, Muslims, Christians, um, , he does avoid, uh, certain religions like Hinduism and Buddhism for some reason.
That's weird. It's mostly just like the big three, right? Okay. Like the big, like, uh, Abrahamic religions and things are called. Yeah. He mainly, he also talks about like Mormonism. Scientology, he touches on, he's terrible. He know he just antagonizes everyone and gets really angry at everyone because they're so stupid and dumb and idiots.
They're big idiots. Uh, cuz they believe in, uh, because they have like a religion or whatever. When he gets into Islam, it's like very gross. Cuz he has like this like fucked up idea that like all Muslims like wanna like kill people and stuff. And it's like really bad. He, but he mainly I think, spends most of the time on Christianity.
I think most of the time he focuses on Christianity and he just talks to just like he'll, he'll talk to leaders but also talk to random people and whether he is talking to leaders or random, I guess when he talks to like a leader, like a, like an evangelical Christian Guy who's clearly like stealing money from people, that's when he kind of shines, I guess, cuz he's like trying to.
Antagonize this guy who's clearly awful, but especially when he is talking to just like regular people, it's like so aggravating cuz he's such an asshole. He's so bad. He's terrible. But if you wanna watch something that's like really aggravating and shitty, like this is definitely it cuz it's just so like, it's not very, it's not really well made either.
It's like terribly edited. Cause I think they just make, they had, I think they just got money to make the movie and then like, They went out and filmed it and there's just really like not that much going on at all. There's no like great, like there are no great funny moments. There's really no like, not uplifting, but you know, there's really like nothing to like say
There's nothing that I didn't already know or that Bill's Mar Bill Mar's audience didn't already know. He's just so cynical and like, yeah, he's an asshole. That sounds
Austin Lugo: extremely aggravating. I mean, just the way he kind. Shits on people's just like beliefs especially. Yeah. I remember Jimmy used to. The Bill Mar, like whatever fucking the name of his show is, and he'd watches sometimes, not because he agreed with any of them on any of his shit, but mostly just to get pissed off, I guess.
But his whole views on fucking religion are just, they're just got off awful. Such a just become a baby. Yeah, just like such a miserable human being that is so miserable in their own life that they feel the need to like make everyone else feel miserable. Like who fucking cares if you believe in like in the Buddha or you know, Vishnu or Jesus Christ, or like who the fuck was, like why?
Why is Bill Maher so fucking affected by everyone else's like, Desire to have happiness or like to be happy. Like I'm convinced that he's just a fucking miserable human being who is just,
Andrew Harp: he's convinced himself and he does a really big, uh, amazing speech at the end of that movie. Of course he does. He kind of, his main thing is that he thinks that like the source of all pain and war and destruction of our earth is through religion.
but I don't think that's necessarily true cuz I think American, like not American, but I think human greed and self-destruction is just kind of like there anyway, whether or not you add a religion into it. Yeah. It's just a scapegoat religion just happens to be, yeah. Yeah. So I don't really know what is, uh, Where he is coming from, to be honest, he's just kind of, he's just so curmudgeony and I really don't, I really don't find him very funny.
I think I laughed maybe once. I don't, uh, yeah, I don't really recommend it, but it, it's kind of like a weird time capsule, 2008 documentary. Okay. Oh, I didn't know it was that
Austin Lugo: old. Okay. Yeah, pro probably. We're not gonna watch that anytime soon, but it's good to know. I'm glad you watched. On, on both our
Andrew Harp: Behalfs
Yeah. I, I watched this so you didn't have to. Yeah. He also, I think he also edits, uh, interviews in a way that they're misleading. You know, he kind of does the Michael Moore thing, but in a way that I think is even way worse, , where he'll edit, like reactions to things that they're not actually reacting to.
Like, like he'll get a reaction of somebody laughing at like, maybe something Bill Maher said. He's not laughing at what? Bill Marr. You saw Bill Marr. Just say in the movie it's clearly cut from
Austin Lugo: something else.
Andrew Harp: It's, yeah, like it's clearly cut from something else. It's just, ah, it's terrible. Once again, they're just like, we don't have anything.
Austin Lugo: That's awful. Truly awful. Speaking of something that I hope will not be awful, I'm going to see, uh, bones and all
Andrew Harp: today. Oh well good luck with that. I like. ,
Austin Lugo: Alex Isperia, tell me by your name.
Andrew Harp: That movie just doesn't look very good to me. I don't know, like I'm not gonna go see indicators, but you'll watch it so I don't have to.
That's, that's
Austin Lugo: what we're here for. We watch things so the other person doesn't have to . We'll see, I haven't really seen any trailers for it, so I don't have any idea what this movie's about, which I think is the best way to
Andrew Harp: experience a movie. I haven't seen any trailers, but for some reason, like I, I, I'll watch YouTube a lot and I get a lot of like YouTube adss for it.
Really? I've been getting a lot of YouTube adss for it. Yeah. So. Yeah, I mean, I don't like to wash trailers, but I, I just, I've basically watched them because they just appear like in front of. I love trailers.
Austin Lugo: I love great
Andrew Harp: trailer. I don't know, like I, I wasn't really digging like what the movie seemed to be about, but not enough for me to go out, you know, to the theater.
But once again, yeah, let me know.
Austin Lugo: I will let you know. I'll let you know how, how this movie goes. I don't know. I don't really have any. I made that. Call me by your name's good. I don't think it's nearly as good as people think it is. I don't know. I guess I don't really quite understand the appeals. I mean, it's a good film, but like, I don't know why that film.
Was so much more popular than other films that came out around the same time. Like, I don't know what made that film. I did like Susperia a lot. I, I think it's, it's a very strong remake of the original Susperia. Yeah, I think it's pretty good. I mean, I know the director, so I,
Andrew Harp: I like, I like I am Love as well.
That's a good movie by him. I haven't seen that
Austin Lugo: one. I'll, I'll have to go. One's pretty good, so Yeah, I'll let you know. It could be good, could be bad. I don't know. I hope it's. If not, I'll get to see some good trailers. Hopefully. So maybe I'll see. Doesn't Fable men's come out soon? Doesn't it come out in like a week or, I think it's already out.
Is it really?
Andrew Harp: Fuck yeah. I probably need to get around and scene that movie for sure. I just haven't done so I really ought to, I don't, I just don't know what, uh,
Austin Lugo: Oh shit. Maybe I should just go see Fable Men's
Andrew Harp: to do. I don't know. Let's see. Let me look at Toss up.
Austin Lugo: In my opinion, let me look at Showtimes.
Nevermind. Only one theater is showing Fable Men's.
Andrew Harp: That's so crazy. It's the fucking new Stevens Spielberg movie. And no theater's like, I don't understand like what is going on. Like it's the new Stevens Spielberg movie, one of the greatest. Uh, arguably, you know, one of the most, like influential director, iconic, like in all of cinema, and his new movie is like playing at like select theaters.
Like why is, it's cause it's, it's a movie
Austin Lugo: about movies and so people think that's like a niche thing.
Andrew Harp: It's so stupid. Movies suck. Like they suck now they're bad. What's playing in theaters? Like, I don't know. Like, let's see, let me, let me tell you what's going. Can't wait to see, see the menu in Wakanda forever.
It's condo forever
Austin Lugo: here. Let's see, let's, let's see what's playing at Century Summit, which is my favorite theater here in area. Cause there are no Our House cinemas except for ours. There's kind of Forever Strange World, which is the new Disney movie. Uh, puss and Boots. The Last Wish, the menu. Devotion, which I think is like a World War I top gun.
It's like top gun kind of.
Andrew Harp: Oh yeah. What I'm talking about. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Austin Lugo: Bones and all. Which I said I was gonna see. She said, I don't know what
Andrew Harp: that is. That's like that boring looking movie about like journalist doing something. Oh
Austin Lugo: yeah, that movie looks awful. Black Adam, I can't believe that's still playing in theaters.
I can't believe. Ticket to Paradise. I don't know what that is.
Andrew Harp: Oh, that's like the, uh, George Clooney, Julia Roberts Romcom movie.
Austin Lugo: That movie looked bad. Glass Onion, the
Andrew Harp: Knives Out. Sequel. Uh, who cares?
Austin Lugo: Knives Out was fun. Might be good. Uh, I don't know. Uh, Lyle. Lyle, the crocodile. That movie's been out for a while.
It's like an animated kids movie.
Andrew Harp: Yeah. I, I know, yeah. ,
Austin Lugo: uh, the Fable Mans, which you talked about a movie called Smile Horror Movie. Okay. And the last one is a, I'm not gonna pronounce this right, it's a Hindi movie called Behi Bia. I don't know anything about that movie. So Yeah. Not, uh, and this is the, this movie Shho, this theater shows the best, uh, films in Reno.
So, yeah,
Andrew Harp: I mean, you know, just, yeah, I mean, I don't know , it's just, you know, no tar, no, you know, Banshees Fable. I mean, like you said, there was Fable Men's, but I don't know, I don't really have much to say about that. . Yeah,
Austin Lugo: it's what is, I'm sure there'll be some good, there's some good movies coming out.
We'll see
Andrew Harp: about that. Yeah. I, I watched too many movies. I wa well, I watched a lot of movies this week. I don't even know, I don't wanna talk about everything. Uh, it's too much to talk about. Like, I don't know. Um, I don't know. I recommend watching Waiting for Guffman, which is like a Christopher guest directed documentary movie I haven't seen yet.
Okay. And I watched it this weekend. It was nice and funny and cute. Sounds fun. And uh, it's kind of like, uh, true stories. Where , it's like a movie. It's like a documentary, documentary movie about a town celebrating their anniversary. Oh. So it's
Austin Lugo: a lot like true story .
Andrew Harp: Yeah. It's like, um, . It's like Blaine, Missouri is celebrating their hundred 50th anniversary and they have to put on like a show.
And it's like, you have like, all of course, like once again you have all these like random silly characters and they're all doing, you know, stuff and you know, I like that they put like music in these documentary movies. They're really fun. Sounds fun. I liked it. I, I honestly, it was a really good movie. It, it's, it's, And yeah, the cast is good.
It is just, it is a good documentary movie, I guess. Like one, uh, one that's kind of a movie. It's like a docu, it's a YouTube free YouTube documentary called, uh, Disney Channel's Theme, A Mystery, a History Mystery where like, there's this guy, and maybe I talked about it last year. This is Guy, his name is Kevin Berger.
He has a, um, channel called Defunct Land. A YouTube channel that I've watched here and there. And, uh, he makes these really great YouTube videos about the history of amusement park riots. Um, but he also does other things. He does like TV shows as well, like very obscure, like kind of kids television shows.
Very interesting. And his YouTube videos and you know, they're well researched and they're well made. Last year he made, uh, a long documentary about, uh, Disney Fast Pass and if it works or not. Does it work? Watch the documentary. Okay. , go watch it. It's, it's very fascinating and well done. This one is a little bit different than this one, basically, you know, like, uh, like in Disney Channel there's that like theme music that plays after the person does like the Oh yeah.
The little like Disney thing. Yeah. Well, there's like a little song that plays after they do it that goes like, like, dun dun, dun dun. I think it's what it's, yeah, yeah, yeah. No. Or like dun dun dun dun. I forget what it is. It's kind of hard Sometimes I get it mixed up with other things, but anyway, yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Four note themes. Yes. And the idea of the documentary is that he's trying to find out who wrote it, , and that's pretty much like the document. Awesome.
Austin Lugo: That sounds it, it. And it's good.
Andrew Harp: It's very good. It's 90 minutes. Probably one of the better documentaries I've watched this year. Dunna, wait, isn't it Dun Dunna?
Yeah. You just, you just sing it? Yeah. Okay. You just sang, you just sing it. Yeah. . And, but like, he, but like, when he started it, like there's no like information readily available at first to see who wrote it. So he kind of has to go through like this process of like trying to find out who wrote
Austin Lugo: it. Is it kinda like that, uh, reply all episode where he tries to find.
Remember that song's playing in the grocery store and he tries to figure out like, is it
Andrew Harp: similar to that? It's honestly like pretty similar to that. Honestly. It's a, this, this documentary was pretty personal. There was some personal elements that I think were kind of nice that kind of, you know, fleshed out Kevin A.
Little bit. But yeah, he, he, I think he did a really good job and I think that, uh, it's worth watching for free. And, uh, it's funny and, uh, it's really. There's some really funny stuff. There's some stuff in it that really made me laugh. And you know, Disney Channel wasn't my favorite thing to watch as a kid, but I did watch it a lot.
Yeah, you were a kid. Cuz I loved TV cuz I loved tv and so it's kind of neat night. Neat. And uh, and it's documentary too that even if you're uninterest in this subject, you'll still end up caring about it,
Austin Lugo: which. That's a great documentary. That's the sign of a great documentary. I wish I was watching more movies.
I'm gonna get back into it. I'm almost there. I I mean, we, we finished almost all the theater stuff, like all the like physical stuff's done. So like I'm, I'm gonna get back in into movies soon. I'm, I'm, I'm ready to, cuz it's been a minute since I've watched like, a good amount of movies in a week. Like, uh, I'm typically oxygen like maybe one or two a week.
Andrew Harp: Yeah, that's okay. I mean, I mean, you're busy. I'm kind of getting back in the swing of things, so I'm having a good time. Of course. You know, but. being busy. You know, some weeks are more busy than others.
Austin Lugo: I did watch a little bit better call Saul. I'm almost done with the first season. I will say it's all right.
I mean, it is created by the same people did Breaking Bad. So
Andrew Harp: yeah, pretty much like
Austin Lugo: everybody, I mean they, they got the whole like original like writers and producers and that, which is great, but. As of yet, it's just not as good, which, I mean, it's, it's hard, you know, breaking Bad's a great show, so those are some high standards to live up to.
But I think my problem with Better Call Saul is there's no sort of like overarching goal as of yet where like, breaking bad from the very beginning. It's like, okay, he's got cancer, he's making meth. Like he got a goal. Even if, like, I complained a bit about, you know, like taking too long to kind of get into like the whole Heisenberg.
This feels it. It doesn't feel like there's much direction and it's a lot more lawyery than I thought it'd be. I mean, I know that Barco is a lawyer, but it feels almost just like a lawyer show. It
Andrew Harp: is a lawyer show. Yeah. Which
Austin Lugo: that's what I, I mean, I've seen a lot of lawyer shows and they're all, they're all kind of the same, you know, it's just like a s.
A higher tier lawyer show at this point. So
Andrew Harp: you probably should just take a break and do something else. Something else. What, what
Austin Lugo: should I watch Andrew TV show wise? I need, I need a TV show. I don't,
Andrew Harp: I don't know. That's not helpful. I really have. No, you should watch Adam, you watch, you watch an Adam Curtis show or something like that.
Like what would that be? I've been watching, I started watching, uh, I started watching, uh, one of the newer, uh, Adam Curtis series, documentary series, so I'm watching, I started watching that last night and I'll probably finish it and report on it next. I will look into this. Yeah. I like Adam Curtis and, uh, not his newest one, but his, like the one before, his newest one I'm watching right now and it's good.
Austin Lugo: What kind of shows does he
Andrew Harp: do? He makes documentary series and movies so they're not fictional. So, but that's what I've been watching.
Austin Lugo: Okay. You know, I always say I'm gonna get into documentaries and, uh, I always seem to fail on that. So maybe now's the time. I mean an
Andrew Harp: Adam, maybe an Adam Curtis documentary isn't where you should
I dunno. You just, have you ever watched an Adam Curtis documentary ever? No, I don't think so. Nevermind. Don't watch . Wow. Don't watch it. All right. I don't know. They're really good. I love him. I love Adam Curtis. He's great. One of the greatest documentarians of all time. I mean, those are some big words, but, uh, they're miserable.
They make you feel really bad. Okay. I don't wanna watch, I don't wanna
Austin Lugo: watch something that makes me feel
Andrew Harp: bad. You would definitely feel bad after watching these. They ma the these, these Adam Curtis documentaries are great. They make you feel completely powerless.
Austin Lugo: That sounds awful. That sounds like an awful experience.
Andrew Harp: But I guess sometimes they do make you also feel powerful. I don't know. You're selling
Austin Lugo: it. Well, they sound like good films. That also sounds really, I
Andrew Harp: wanna watch once again, I'm, once again, I'm gonna watch, I, I'm gonna watch, can't get you out of my head. I'm gonna finish it and then I'm also gonna watch Trauma Zone, I think.
And then I'll report, yes, report
Austin Lugo: back. I'll go from there. Okay. Because I need to, cuz bro, I gotta watch something like while I'm working I can't fucking watch something depressing. Like it's gotta be
Andrew Harp: like, actually the Adam Curtis documentaries might be good. I've watched them while I've worked and they've been, they're good working shows.
They've aided okay, but maybe they, maybe you need to watch defunct to land Watch the defunct to land. Okay. Yeah. Uh, channel, honestly, like, yeah, just watch those videos. They're not movies or shows, but I mean, like, they're really good. Like, I'm not like a theme park guy, but the history of some of these theme park riders are pretty crazy.
Okay. They're pretty, they're very interesting. Cause I mean, you know, some people have to like, make 'em . They have to like, design them right. And have like a, like a philosophy and then like an aesthetic. It's really not that different than like watching like a, like a movie. , like a, like a documentary about like making a movie or a, you know.
Yeah. Okay.
Austin Lugo: I'll looking into Defunk Land. Maybe I'll watch some Defunk Land this week.
Andrew Harp: The only other thing that I guess I can report on is that I think the best movie I watched this week was like, uh, the Setup, which, I dunno if you've seen the Setup. I don't think so. It's definitely up your alley. Okay.
You should probably watch it. Okay. It's a Robert Wise directed boxing noir film.
Austin Lugo: Ooh, that, that definitely does sound. 1949 Oof.
Andrew Harp: 73 minutes short. Nice. I don't, I don't, yeah, that's, that's, uh, the film recommendation for you, Austin, if you, when you get the chance, is to watch the setup. I don't see why you wouldn't like it.
It looks like a film I would like, it's perfectly directed and acted and yeah, it's just like a good solid kind of short noir film and it's just, I don't know. It's just, it's just, it just got it all, you know, it kinda reminds me, kinda reminds me of Rocky a little. Pre like a proto rocky film. Yeah. Yeah.
It's, uh, a little miserable, you know, it's a noir film. I, I, I, I don't see why, I think for you personally, it's a home run. Um, and for me it definitely was. I really, really liked it. So that's all I'm gonna say about it though. Okay. I'm pumped.
Austin Lugo: I'm excited. I'm definitely gonna watch that this week. It's on the list, it's on the watch list, so I have to.
I'm gonna watch it, gonna watch some of that, gonna watch some defunct lands, gonna watch the Batman movies. Tim Burton just directed the first
Andrew Harp: two, right? He, he directed Batman and Batman returns. Like I said, Batman Returns is probably the best one, but Batman is also good. It's pretty fun. It's got Jack Nicholson and I think it's worth watching it just for him for sure.
He's legitimately good.
Austin Lugo: Yeah, I'm, he's Jack Nicholson's. Great. It's a good time. I've been watching. Because, so we don't have any sound at the theater yet cuz they're still setting up the sound but the projector's there and the screen's there and stuff. So I've just been having, uh, the Shining on repeat the last couple of days cause it's a movie.
I've seen enough times that like I don't need sound and it's still great. . I can confirm that it is still a great film.
Andrew Harp: It's been a while since every watched it, but you know, I'll watch it soon enough. I mean, it's just, that's an amazing movie.
Austin Lugo: Hopefully the sound will be up soon. Start watching movies in the theater.
It's gonna be
Andrew Harp: good. Sound
Austin Lugo: will be nice. . Sound will be nice. Very soon. Coming soon. Yeah. We'll have sounds coming soon, so,
Andrew Harp: yeah. Cool, cool. Fuck yeah. All right. I think that's pretty much it all. All
Austin Lugo: right y'all. Thank you for listening. Of course, you can find everything we do here on the podcast on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube at With Nothing to Say or Theater 42.
And thank you all for listening.
Andrew Harp: Thank you.