The Horror Returns - THR - Ep. #475: Subservience (2024) & M3GAN 2.0 (2025)
Episode Date: July 4, 2025Nez stops by for robot week at The Horror Returns! Cool of the week includes smoking briskets, Matilda - the Musical, and Please Don't Feed the Children. Trailers are Project Hail Mary and The Running... Man. The podcast spotlight shines on Slasher Street. THANK YOU CRIMSON CHUNKS FOR A BRAND NEW 5 STAR APPLE PODCASTS REVIEW!!! And we get feedback from Xim Vader, Pat Caruso, Aaron Ahlstrom, Justin Morgan, and Stephanie Baggley. Thanks for listening! The Horror Returns Website: https://thehorrorreturns.com THR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thehorrorreturns/ Join THR Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1056143707851246 THR X: https://twitter.com/horror_returns?s=21&t=XKcrrOBZ7mzjwJY0ZJWrGA THR Instagram: https://instagram.com/thehorrorreturns?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= THR Threads: https://www.threads.net/@thehorrorreturns?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== THR YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@thehorrorreturnspodcast3277 THR Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thehorrorreturns THR TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-horror-returns SK8ER Nez Podcast Network: https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-p3n57-c4166 E Society Spotify For Podcasters: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/esoc Music By: Steve Carleton Of The Geekz
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Regings victims, for those of you who delight and dread, who fantasize about fear, who glorify gore, welcome.
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Welcome back, everyone, to the horror returns.
I'm Lance, with me as always,
my righteous co-hosts, Philip and Brian.
What's up, guys?
What's up?
Righteous.
I like it.
I felt like it.
like a Bill and Ted moment.
What's going on, Brian?
Yeah, that's rad, dude.
Brian, you into any 80s?
Are you into any 80s comedies lately, man?
Do you see any good 80s comedies?
Every now and then I'll show my daughter some 80s stuff.
I think last week we watched one crazy summer
with John Keyes that.
That's a good one.
And I had to show a rad.
Yeah, Rad's kind of sort of action, isn't it?
Well, it's kind of comedy because I told her about the prom scene where they danced with bikes.
Okay.
Kind of like the karate kids scene where they were all dressed in skeletons.
Comedies and kids, you know, because like there's so many really awesome comedies I want to show my kids, but I'm like, oh, they're not ready for that.
I'm more worried about showing them some of the comedies that I like than horror.
If I could make a recommendation, guys, better off dead.
Speaking of one crazy summer, I think it's the same director.
Okay.
Oh.
All right.
I guess that'll get us into Cool of the Week.
Who's going first?
Because I got a humdinger for Brian.
I'll start because mine's going to suck.
I don't really have anything.
So my cool of the week is that as soon as this show's over,
I'm smoking like two brisketes and a pork butt.
Nice.
For Fourth of July stuff.
That is cool.
Yeah, I'm pretty stoked about it.
Damn.
I got to get some stuff set up, though.
It may take a wall.
Smoking brisketz is Phillips School of the Week.
Yeah, I figured.
if I'm going to spend
$15
on wood,
I may as well
load that fucker up.
Right.
Brian,
you ready for this?
Other than that,
I've watched nothing.
What you got, Lance?
On Netflix,
Matilda,
The musical.
What the fuck out of here?
I'm not fucking with you.
This thing started
and I thought this
is going to be hot fucking garbage
because it's a British
production
and they're all in this.
maternity ward and all the new parents are like singing and and dancing and oh we've got our new
child we've got our new light of the world new light of the world you know brian it's a musical dude
and then matilda's parents seem to know the words already pretty much pretty much
matilda's parents come in and they're like oh my god we got to take care of this little fucking
brat Jesus how'd you get pregnant again it was just really dark and really funny like you
this headmistress that was the school teacher,
and she would, like, grab this little girl by her ponytails
and swing her around, like a big Helga athlete-type woman,
and then just swing her around and throw her.
It would show the girl flying and then landed with dust coming up,
like behind a big fence.
And the other kids were like, she's main.
They would come up with things to, like, play tricks on her.
And, like, Matilda, she was a little brat.
back home, she would put like, uh, like dye and glue and shit like that in her dad's, uh,
shampoo. So you'd take a shower and he'd have like bright green hair and then his hat would
stick to his head. So they were like, that's why she ended up into school. So, uh, yeah, as far as
as musicals go, this, this one was pretty good because it was, uh, it was kind of one of like a lot of
those Rowell doll stories like that, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and this one, they, they always
had that dark, you know, undertone to them. Not quite horror, but something the kids could
sort of get into without going too far. No, you know, no gore or anything like that, but lots of
violence and stuff like that. A lot of things that were implied. Really nasty people. It was,
it was great fun, you know, 10, 15 minutes into it. I was singing along with it, dancing with
the kids, enjoying it. You know, I've been watching nothing but kids shit all week, guys. I've had two
grandkids.
Oh, there was kids there.
Yeah, two nephews and a niece here.
No.
But I might check it out again.
It's good.
Is that new?
No, I think it's been out a couple of years.
It's a Netflix.
Yeah, it's a Netflix movie.
I know it existed.
There may be a new patron named Lami Longstein or something that recommends this.
You never know.
We revoke his patronage.
Save me, Brian.
Save me.
I was going to talk about Squid Game 3,
but I'm not finished with it,
so I'll talk about it next week.
I did watch that.
It's all right.
I feel like they should have just released it all at once,
because now watching it,
I'm not as excited.
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
I mean, not that it's bad,
but it's just...
It's the rest of season two.
Yeah.
Right.
Is this if?
I'll talk about it next week.
Okay.
Is this the end of it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
And what else?
I finished Ironheart, the Marvel series.
What do you think?
Pretty good.
Did it get better?
Okay.
Really?
I agree with the Rotten Tomato score because they just released it today.
It's like an 89.
Damn.
Yeah.
I don't know if I go high as 89, but it's pretty solid for, and it's a mini series.
It's not going to have a season two or nothing.
Okay.
It's good.
We got introduced to her and Black Panther 2, and then we got some more background on her
in this one.
And...
Wait, this is the same girl from the first Black Panther?
The Black Panther, too.
I saw Black Panther, too.
Yeah, you're thinking of the new Black Panther.
This is a totally different day.
This is like the new Iron Man, I think.
So maybe in the new Avengers might pop up.
Who knows?
I've got Marble fatigue, dude, I'm so done with these movies.
And a villain showed up that they've been teasing for years.
Oh, okay.
No spoilers, but they teased them.
They teased them in Wanda Vision.
Yeah.
They teased them in Agatha.
Yeah.
Phil knows what I'm talking about.
Yeah.
Okay.
Finally showed up.
Pretty cool.
Did he die?
No.
Okay, good.
That would have been a spoiler.
He'll bring him in a movie.
That would have been a spoiler.
Oh, I guess so.
Not even like teasing this guy forever.
He shows up and then dies the next episode and now he's gone.
Happens a lot.
I don't have a pretty Marvel move.
Yeah.
I checked out two movies.
One, is it not cool?
I watched the ritual,
the exorcism movie
with Al Pacino and Dan Stevens.
Oh, yeah.
What did you expect, though?
Did Stevens at least ham it up,
Brian?
No.
What?
Give me flute playing Stevens.
Give me Jim Carrey
shirt wearing fighting
Godzilla Stevens
Give me
asshole
Thief and Abigail Stevens
Not
Playing it straight
Priest Stevens
Uh oh
And Al Pacino
I couldn't
I couldn't get over his accent
It almost sound like yogurt
From Spaceballs
Mors
Moichard
The Moichendise
It's the Moichendise
But I will
I will say
If there was
one good takeaway, the girl that played
the possessed
she was pretty good
at the possession scenes.
That demons got a big
ass!
I'm going to skip this one.
But for
a movie that's supposed to be
based on true events,
the...
Oh, boy. Kiss to death.
The movie that the
Exorcist was based on.
It was just
it's that problem.
The exorcists set the bar so high
that all these other movies
are just rehashing the same thing
and the dialogue was laughable.
The exorcism takes place over, I think,
28 days.
And they just kind of speeded up.
It felt like the exorcism took like two days.
Well, you can't rush an exorcism.
Al Pacino in a movie and give him shitty,
shitty dialogue, you know?
Get there away from me, Satan.
It takes place over 28 days.
It's just the way they...
All right.
Edited the movie, it felt like it took less than a week.
The way everything was just moving past.
I didn't even know it was like time had passed.
Mm-hmm.
So I don't recommend this one.
But my cool, the week will have to be a movie
we checked out the trailer for
and that's, please don't feed the children.
directed by
Destry Allen
Spielberg
Spielberg's daughter
okay
I remember that one
for a toby
movie is pretty fucking good
oh it's on TV
okay
yeah it looked good
and it was acted well
they put you in this world
where this virus
or disease happens
that affects children
so they're like
rounding up all the children
because the adults
so worried about getting infected.
You kind of understand what happens.
You don't have to like try to,
no, I need more to figure out what's really going on.
No, they kind of just lay it out for you.
And then it's pretty decent for a Tooby movie.
I will say for, it has Gene Carlo Esposito.
He's not in it as much as I would want him to be.
Of course.
Yeah, you got to put that guy in there a lot.
He just picks up the paycheck, huh?
Yeah.
So one day on the set.
Please don't fear the children.
He's the new Danny Trejo, right?
Show up and get a check for one day work.
Who knows?
Unless he does like 17 movies.
Unless he has like 17 movies coming out in one week.
I don't think he's at Danny's level.
Okay.
He's not quite there yet.
All right.
Well.
there was a rumor he was going to be one of the new X-Men, right?
Wasn't he supposed to be Magneto or something like that?
Or was that just...
Was that a hearsay thing or were they honestly...
He's too old.
He's too old.
Yeah, I know.
They need to...
I guess if they're going to reboot the X-Man, make him young, right?
I mean, you want these actors to be in a franchise.
you can't hire somebody that's like in their 60s.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Yeah, fair enough, fair enough.
So what are they going to do with Magneto's backstory?
Because there's no way they could make it modern day.
And he was a survivor of Jewish encampment and stuff like that, right?
Like World War II era, how would you guys redo?
If you were to think of something that's happened, what, 20, 30 years ago that he could have survived
What would you guys use now?
Tough call.
Because you've got to give him something to motivate him, right?
Yeah, that was more like 60s, right?
That was at least.
Skirmish or something.
20.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Maybe our listeners can write in.
We'll talk about our feedback.
Damn.
You can have him probably be, had the same background,
but just be from alternate timeline.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They play fast and loose with that. So I can, I can see that happening.
Or maybe he was in Afghanistan. Maybe he was from Afghanistan. I don't know. And Philip Phillips troops rolled up on him.
All right. Sorry, Phil. I know you aren't on the front lines, right, Phil?
No, man. Oh, you can't talk about it. I wouldn't garden the poppy fields.
Okay.
I said too much already
Said too much already
This is going to get taken down
If I told you I'd have to inject you with heroin
We should have done this over telegram or something
All right
So
Brian
Do we have any horror headlines
To talk about this week?
Not really
I mean there's a couple things
We're getting another stand
Adaptation
But this time a movie from
from Doug Lyman's directing
The Foreign Identity Roadhouse.
Oh, okay.
The new roadhouse, the one with Connor McGregor.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was a fun movie, but like...
The stand, though?
It seems like a departure.
No, no, it was fun, but it was.
I mean, the stand is serious stuff, man.
This guy's a clown.
With that kind of McGregor character.
Who's a clown?
Obviously the director.
Conn McGriger has nothing to do with...
I think we have a lag here.
Okay.
All right.
I'll listen.
I'll listen.
I'll listen to the book of mine.
I listen to the stand.
Doug Lyman.
No, I know that.
I'm talking about...
Doug Ryman's directing.
I'm referring to the...
So who's a clown?
I'm referring to the film.
It was kind of...
A clown?
Kind of a comedy, yeah, in my opinion.
With Connor's character,
I just said he's a funny guy, I just meant, you know,
like a good thing.
Funny like cow.
I'm confused.
Like a clown?
You're too amuse you?
I'm not really seeing any news.
Eish.
All right.
Have they announced any casting for the stand yet?
No, they just announced that it was being a day.
develop.
All right.
If they put Connor in as the
walking dude, I'm out.
The big bad.
Oh, dude.
I won't buy that one.
Would you?
Probably be pretty funny.
Let's see.
I don't really think there was any news.
All right.
It's Fourth of July weekend.
Bucket.
Let's go to the trailer park.
Yeah.
That's it.
I got plenty of fireworks down there.
Okay
Well, maybe they're taking a
Holiday break or something
So, uh
All right, time to go down to the trailer park
Brian is going to bring us the big, the small
And sometimes the very, very weird
What is our first new trailer tonight, Brian?
Well, being at a slow week
And the genre
Of our main movie that we're talking about,
talking about I decided we do it little something different for trailers. They're not horror,
but they look interesting. The first one is a sci-fi
dystopians, what other, what other little genres they put in there?
Dystopian sci-fi thriller called Project Hail Mary. Comedy.
Yeah, it looked like a lot of comedic moments in it.
This is from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
and written by Drew Goddard
starring Ryan Gosling.
Lance, I believe you said you read the book.
Yeah, yeah, it's an awesome book.
The same dude who wrote The Martian.
And it was pretty science-heavy.
And, I mean, they did have a little comedy in the beginning
when they were like choosing him for the mission.
And he was kind of trying to figure out
if he wanted to do it or not.
And it's kind of like the fate of humanity rests on your shoulders.
He's like, I don't really want that.
I just want to be a schoolteacher.
That's why I thought they got the trailer pretty right, like with his character,
because that's exactly what he was doing early.
Was he making that many one-liners?
Maybe not, you know.
But that was the first half of the book.
And then, of course, the second half.
One-liners all the way up until he met the alien.
Well, you know, the second half of the book was basically him communicating with the alien.
And I was a little bit worried if they would be able to capture what they did in the book on film.
But it looks like they've done a pretty good job.
Because like that cellophane is basically something that he puts there so that, you know,
neither one of them can infect the other, like with a virus or something that they're not used to.
It's kind of like a safety thing.
And then the character Rocky, at least the parts we saw, like his appendages,
was kind of what I've visualized reading the,
the book. So it looks like they're going to do a pretty decent job just from, just from the trailer.
Where alien can't do a thumbs up.
Was that an alien? Okay.
Yeah, the thumbs don't go out.
That's awesome. I was, I think I was only half-ass paying attention to it. I thought it was a robot at the end.
What do you think, Phil?
I'm kind of digging it, man. Like, as much as I'm, I'm, I feel like I'm torn on Ryan Gosling,
but I kind of love everything that he does.
So maybe I'm not.
You know what I mean?
Like he shows up and just makes the movie better.
So I'm sort of stoked about this.
It looks pretty funny.
It looks really interesting.
I'm definitely seeing this.
Yeah.
It looks like interstellar mix with the Martian.
Yeah.
But like,
I think I like Ryan Gosselin.
in that lead role better than Matt Damon.
Yeah.
Okay.
Though we did get the iconic Matthew McConaughey crying face.
Gotta have it.
This, oh, I don't know why they dropped a trailer now.
This hits theaters March 20 of 2026.
Wow.
Okay.
They always do that shit.
All right, well.
And for a March movie, you'd think that they would be,
trying to push this one as like a summer blockbuster or something but spring break we'll see yeah
and for our final trailer just dropped this week the reboot more of the adaptation of the book
the running man directed by edgar wright stars uh glen powell josh brolin and michael sarah and
what's his name from
Freer of the Walking Dead
Coleman Domingo
Coleman Domingo
What did he say something like
This is America
God bless us
Good game show host
Yeah
Actually yeah
I think he looks pretty good as a game show host
I'm down for this one too man
I think this one is
I mean I wasn't like super stoked about it
but it's sort of a, yeah, fuck it, why not?
I still can't decide if I like this guy or not.
Glenn Powell?
Yeah, it's tough.
Like, I feel like I want to hate him, right?
I kind of like him.
Yeah, that's fair enough.
We'll see how it goes.
I don't think I've seen him anything I didn't like,
or at least didn't like him in it.
Yeah.
Well, he was just, he was a dick in that Top Gun movie,
and he played a dick really well.
He, I think he is sort of a dick,
but like a lovable one.
Did I just hear what I thought I heard?
Based on that performance.
Yeah.
Based off that performance,
I thought he should have been
the Human Torch and the Fantastic Four movie.
Oh, for sure.
He'd kill that one.
Wow.
Unless he's a little old for it.
Looking at the cast here,
Lee Pace,
William H. Macy.
Yep.
Love him. I hadn't seen him in a minute.
Yeah, good cast. The action looks fun.
I've enjoyed pretty much everything Edgar Wright's done.
What else has he done?
The Cornado trilogy.
The Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz.
Oh, right, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The World's in. Scott Pilgrim versus the World.
Baby Driver.
Great movie. All right, dude. I'm sold.
you're in you're in philip
and
yeah man those are some fucking killer movies
dude
and i read
Scott pilgrim and baby driver is all you had to say
yeah and i read he
he spoke with arnold about doing the movie
really kind of got his blessing
okay yeah
he's got to make a guest appearance right
i mean
when was the last time we've seen
I mean, Arnold's got that season
two of the Food Bar show on Netflix,
but I can't remember
the last movie I've seen him in.
Yeah, but I feel like this is one that
he would like at least
show up for?
Just make a little cameo in or something, yeah.
I agree.
I'm remembering, I know they're
going off the book, not
remaking the movie, but in the last movie,
they had to, like, call the president
to get stuff
like approved.
he can play the president.
Oh, yeah.
Wow.
Actually, that would be good.
Would do that.
That would be good.
Good point.
Yeah, I'm kind of looking forward to this movie because the person was fun in its own way, but make no mistake, it was nowhere near the book.
And this one seems like it kind of follows the storyline of the actual book.
Like it's, because I remember I read it many, many years.
fuck, I read it decades ago, right? Literally. And I do remember the angle about him. You know,
everybody, like basically the, there's a small group of ultra wealthy. And then everybody else is just
kind of struggling, you know, to make ends meet. And I, and I remember vividly, you know,
he and his wife were talking about, well, should I do it? Shouldn't I do it? You know, she's like,
you know you're going to die. I remember that from the book. In the very beginning of the book,
she said, you know you're going to die. He said, yeah, but after I die, they're going to
still give you money. And so it was one of those things where he literally was going on a suicide
mission. He had no intention and no hope of actually winning the game or anything because I think
nobody had at that point. And I don't want to give the end away, but let's just say they do
some double crossing to him at the end, which I'm sure they're going to have in this, in this
version of it. So I think Edgar Wright's probably a huge fan of the book. Does the game take
place in the city? Yes. Does it look like it?
Yeah, and it's not just like Master Blaster or whatever.
Who are those bad guys?
Like the American Gladiators, right, that were inside the studio.
That was bad Max.
I know, dude.
I'm just, I can't remember the names of them.
But actually, Arnold could play one of them now, right, if they were to bring some of those back.
But no, it was actual, like, real people trying to...
I like Ronald as president.
That makes way more sense.
I like that a lot.
I like that a lot.
This was just, like, everyday people that were...
Because I think they would get money.
if they killed him or something like that.
I think there was that angle to it.
So, I mean, like, this movie,
this trailer is really reminding me of the plotline of the books.
I think it's going to be really good.
I'm kind of super stoked about this one.
Voluntary Hunger Games.
Yeah.
Pretty much.
Before then, and it was the villains in the movie.
Who were the villains in the movie?
We had, uh, ice cold.
Dinosaur.
I don't remember.
Professor Sub Zero.
I hadn't seen that movie in 30 years.
That's it.
Yep, yep.
Fireball.
And then I forgot Jesse Ventura's character.
He didn't actually do anything.
Captain Freedom, I think.
Yeah.
Captain Freedom.
Just asking questions.
He was there to look menacing.
Now, that was a fun movie, though.
But way off from the message of the book, right?
And this seems like it's going to be the message of the book.
Okay, that's cool.
I can dig it.
Well, we don't have to wait until next year.
This one hits theater is November 7th.
All right, right.
Right around the corner.
Well, I mean, this could skyrocket.
What's his name, Glenn Powell?
I mean, he's been in a bunch of shit, but this could be like, you know,
cement him into something really great.
Agreed.
The reverse, but whatever.
Or the reverse.
If nothing else, maybe he'll be the next Joel Kinneman, right?
Yeah.
All right.
All right.
On to listener feedback.
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It features reviews and discussions of various horror films, including
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The podcast also includes
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Thank you to whoever's family member that is.
I didn't recognize the username.
I like it, though.
But yeah, appreciate that for sure.
From Crimson Chunks.
Crimson Chunks.
Absolutely love your podcast, episodes, and the movies you review.
Keep up the solid work.
There's a story behind that name.
I'm sure there is.
I'm not sure which direction the crimson chunks goes,
but it sounds gross no matter which way you go with it.
I think you and me are kind of on the same.
All right, and Brian posted a poll.
Is it good that Blumhouse took over Saw?
And so far it is 100% no.
Nobody wants to get Blummed.
Yes, we'll see.
though to be fair
I think only four people voted
that's still a majority
rules
yeah
check out the Facebook page
go vote
and we got Zim Vader
he said
as long as they don't just
re
uh excuse me I'm sorry
as long as they don't just reboot it
I'm okay with it or maybe not
let's wait and see
for the Blumhouse saw
I don't think they'll reboot it.
Yeah, no, I don't think so.
But I do hear that there is a problem
that they were probably just going to do
the Saw 11 script that they were supposed to make.
Okay.
But I guess there might be a problem on who owns that script
that maybe that wasn't part of the rights deal.
Hmm.
You know, I'm not so sure the story even really matters that much.
We're just going to have to have
really cool traps and really cool kills.
Yeah.
You're going to have to have to find a new jigsaw too.
Yeah, for sure.
You think?
98 years old.
Yeah.
All right.
And in regards to the Young Frankenstein series.
Oh, I forgot that.
That could have been a news.
It's going to be Young Frankenstein series.
Oh, I was going to say.
I don't know what that is.
Pilot episode is going to be directed by Tycho Watiti.
Oh, okay.
Oh, all right.
I think he is a pretty good person to pass that torch on to.
I like it.
Prequel series.
Pat Caruso says,
Would you like to go for a roll in Zay?
Roll, roll, roll, roll in the hay.
Regards to subservience.
Hey, we're reviewing that movie today.
Aaron Alstrom says, I thought it was way better than I expected.
okay
all right
in regards to 28 years later
Justin Morgan says
movie sucked ass
hmm
not everybody likes it
has there been a lot of negative feedback
on this one at all
I think it's
or has it been mostly positive
mostly positive
but I think the negative
I think it was more so
how it just ended weirdly
oh I got it
and I don't think people knew
that it was a planned trilogy
right
it didn't
it didn't click for me until I looked it up
because I was like
what the fuck was that
and now
I kind of don't hate it
maybe this could have been a really cool series
TV series
yeah
hmm
well never say never
yeah
I have to be on like HBO
oh yeah for sure
there's so many
so many dicks in this
that's true
giant dicks
I guess the main
abnormally large.
To main infect it was
questioned if that was all him.
No, there's no way.
That was a Mark Wahlberg prosthetic.
That's why he was the leader of the infected.
There you go.
That guy has the biggest dick.
You should lead.
All right. In regards to Little Shop of Horrors, a lot of a lot of stuff for Little Shop of Horrors lately.
Stephanie Bagley says, Audrey, too. Feed me Seymour. Feed me all night long.
Okay. All right.
We see where this is going. So weird. We heard that comment after we just talked about the infected with the big dick.
He climbed that tree.
Timing is everything.
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Subservience from 2024.
Follows a struggling father who purchases a domestic sim
to help care for his family and house.
Unaware, she will gain awareness and turn deadly.
director is S.K. Dale, also known for Till Death.
Writers are Will Hunley and April McGuire.
Megan Fox's character was renamed from Alice to Megan in Russian version
to avoid the resemblance of the virtual assistant called Alyssa.
Okay.
Okay. That makes sense.
Interesting.
All right.
Brian, you want to start us off on subservience?
Yeah, this guy,
S.K. Dale, he must have loved some Megan Fox
because if he directed until death,
I believe that was a Megan Fox movie.
It was, yeah.
Oh, that was that one, where she's like handcuffed
dead guy.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah?
This movie was, I agree with that comment earlier.
This movie is way better than it should have been.
Better not.
I expected it to be.
Yeah.
I enjoyed it.
I had fun with it.
It does teach you some lessons,
not rebooting your Android to be more self-aware.
I don't know why.
That's a constant thing in boobies where they reboot.
Sure.
Companion.
I mean, all of them, right?
Also, I'm going to tell you right now,
my wife would not in a million fucking years get that robot
yeah but the wife was not feeling good when he got it right
yeah she wasn't in a position to say no yeah to be fair he did get it when she was in
the hospital so oh yeah i guess that's true but she would have been she would have been sent
back when she showed up to the hospital what the fuck is this right well she kind of had
a reaction at first, you know, but
yeah, she kind of went with it for a while.
That was her mistake, right?
And besides, it wasn't him.
It wasn't him that brought it home.
It was the daughter.
Blame the daughter.
The daughter didn't purchase it.
All right.
I mean, my daughter asked for a lot of things,
and she's not getting the majority of them,
just because she asked for it.
I bet she would get this.
Wild guess.
Well, that would help Dad out a whole bunch.
Yep.
But they kind of, just the way she's built, they're kind of setting him up.
Sure, yeah.
Because there's no way this Android needs to look like that.
And I believe if I'm not wrong, I didn't rewind, but the sex scene did the android have a tattoo on her ass.
Oh, I didn't catch that.
I didn't catch it either.
That doesn't hurt.
That doesn't exactly hurt, does it?
It's a barcode.
Probably a barcode, yeah.
You know, she's kind of messed with her face so much that she sort of looks like an android anyway.
I was thinking the same thing.
Yeah.
I was watching it.
I was thinking the same thing.
I thought her performance.
I thought her performance was pretty good.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Kind of going through the gradual changes as she's becoming more self-aware, more obsessed with the father.
Yeah.
And then when you introduce the mom back into the picture coming home from the hospital, you get the jealousy angle and trying to be the substitute protective mother.
I thought she did a pretty good job.
Yeah, she's kind of surprised me in like everything I've seen her in recently.
Yeah, she's, I know she's been like taking her roles a lot more serious.
I mean, she's not in like big blockbuster movies, but she kind of takes some.
seriously these roles she gets because
the Till Death movie where she was
handcuffed to her dead boyfriend. I thought
she was pretty good in that one too.
Yeah, she's definitely pulling it off.
She's grown as an actress.
And I
like the message they were sending
about the
storyline about the
the android's
taken over at the construction site
laying off all the human
workers and
I'd be pissed too. I mean, I don't know
if I'm leading a revolt against super strong
androids.
I don't know if I'm that guy, but...
Right.
But you know, I've had a lot of, you know,
like AI is going to take over everybody's jobs,
and, you know, they're going to have, like,
driverless trucks and stuff, so the cold trucking industry is going to be gone.
But I was like, well, I'm an electrician.
I mean, I don't think that they would get...
We're pretty far away from a robot that could do that.
I think, yeah, I think you're safe.
You're probably pretty safe in your lifetime.
Yeah.
I've seen these robots play basketball.
Your job's fine.
And did you see the new one?
I didn't see that.
There's a new one where they have a soccer match.
I saw that too.
Yeah.
I saw that.
They're just,
as soon as they touch each other, they fall over.
Well, that sounds about right.
And some guys coming.
Some guys come in a stretcher and carry one of them off the field in a stretcher.
So I think your job is fine.
Robots falling down is funny.
But, gentlemen, in Austin, Texas, we do officially have self-driving Tesla's now.
It's official.
They're on the road.
Really?
Like a cab company?
Charging $4.20 for one fair, one single fare.
$4.20.
That's what I read.
Really?
Oh, man.
It's all the right costs is $4.20.
I totally try it.
One puff with Joe Rogan, Philip, and Elon's totally off the fucking reservation, dude.
Elon's weird, dude.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I mean, he's obviously super smart.
But he didn't.
He didn't.
He didn't actually smoke.
He didn't hit that.
Oh, like Clinton.
I'm sure he has, though.
Okay.
Well, the rumor was that he does ketamine.
Yeah.
No, that's not a rumor.
He has a prescription.
Yeah.
He's, uh, he said so much.
Yeah.
Ketamine and all, it doesn't he also do like some kind of psychedelics, like mushrooms or something, like microdoses mushrooms, I think?
Well, I mean, that's how he comes up with all this stuff.
Uh, actually a lot of Silicon Valley microdoses mushrooms.
That's how you come up with innovations.
well somebody did mushrooms when they came out with this Megan fuckbot
because why did she equip to have sex
back to the movie they're setting this guy up
multi-purpose man yeah if you don't think the first
badass robots are going to be sex box I got news for you
because I'm watching the sex scene and I'm like
okay she she has some place to insert
Is there moisture and everything?
Is it...
I was thinking the same thing.
Is he going to have to clean that out?
That's what I was saying.
I'd hate to be the person who has to clean that thing out every week or whatever, you know?
Maybe it's self-cleaning.
No, I mean, they have, like, legit sex dolls that, like, look, like, robots.
They just don't move.
So...
Oh, this is the next step in evolution, man.
... realistic-looking faces and stuff.
I'm telling you, that's where...
Okay.
That's the industry.
where the human-like faces and stuff
are going to come from.
That makes sense.
They'll just take on, you know,
throw one of those skins on a Boston Dynamics thing
and then it can fall down on playing soccer.
Right.
And I did like the scene
where it showed how fast her skin heals.
Right.
Well, it probably is self-cleaning then.
Now that you mention that scene, Brian.
Yeah.
That's a good point.
They can do that for a robot.
They should be able to do that for us.
Sure.
Overall, I thought this was a pretty fun watch.
Not any real horror in it is just pretty much straight sci-fi thriller.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Lance,
what do you think?
Yeah, I enjoyed it.
I mean,
maybe it was a little more math for me because it wasn't just like, you know,
mind-blowing or anything like that.
But, I mean,
everything in the movie made perfect sense, right? And I agree with Brian. I think they set him up
because do you think it was by accident that make, I want to call her Megan? What was her name in the
movie? Was it Alice, you said? Or something else? Whatever it was. Who gives a fuck, right?
Yeah, but they changed her name to Megan in the Russian version. Okay. All right. Well,
I don't know. I don't know if it was so much an accent that she just happened to find the daughter and be so
kind to her when they were in that
robot buying factory
or whatever and what the fuck was that
you know
he got like all these
all these weird looking
you know butler type robots and stuff like
that and then like you guys are saying
you've got this you know
super hot
wouldn't 99.9% of the guys
pick that one anyway right
but then it's just kind of funny
how the daughter happens to finder
and she leads the daughter back to the dad
which one right?
that she transfers to another body, that one's hot too.
Right.
What's going on here?
This poor dude is doomed.
I know I would fall for it.
I would fall for it.
And I probably wouldn't last a day with something like this in here being subservient, if you will.
You know?
They're all repert for sex spots.
That's the industry they're going to take over is prostitution.
That would make sense.
And that should be legal, right?
You know?
No STVs.
So, yeah, no worry about...
Actually, I think somebody tried to pass a law about no sex robots.
What?
I can't remember where it was.
Yeah, to protect the sex workers, I'm sure, right?
Houston or New Orleans or something like that.
Yeah, they weren't going to have any sex robot brothels.
Well, I mean, look, there's still...
Wait a minute.
You're still...
You're putting a card in front of your horses.
There's still some...
fucking, there's still some in-cells out there, right?
That are, that are, they're going to want to try to lose the cell part of that
and go out and find a real live hooker, right?
And they're not going to be happy with a robot.
Or maybe they will.
I don't know.
But, I mean, it's, it's functional, right?
They totally be happy with a robot.
It does kind of, it does, I know if they can't talk back.
It does kind of make sense, though.
Like, everything that happened in this movie made sense.
So it was, it was pretty well written.
And I did like the backstory.
you know, of the robots taking the jobs of the construction workers.
I do think they went too far with the rebellion angle of it.
I thought that was getting a little bit, you know, a little bit silly, kind of over the top.
And you can't blame the wife, you know, for, well, like you said, at first she was okay with it,
but she knew something was kind of weird, but then toward the end she wasn't at all okay with it,
which, you know, makes sense.
But what Phillips said is probably...
I don't think she was okay with it.
Yeah, it didn't seem like she was real okay with it.
think she was okay.
I didn't think she was okay with it.
I just felt like in her position she didn't really have a choice.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah, maybe they should have thrown a scene in where like the...
My wife would not be happy with a super hot sex robot for sure.
I mean...
Well, technically, yeah, technically she wasn't supposed to be a sex robot, right?
She just kind of liked seducing this dude behind closed doors, right?
But the feature was there.
Who could say no.
Oh, yeah.
No doubt.
No doubt.
It's his fault.
Like I said, he rebooted.
Right.
We got to learn from this movie.
We've got to learn from compliance.
Don't mess with the settings.
Right.
Don't mess with the settings.
Ex Machina.
I don't know if there's ever been an AI robot movie that didn't end in total disaster.
I know.
I know.
One day.
there. One day they may make one, but they haven't done it yet.
Yeah. Oh, we'll get there.
What'd you think, Philip?
Yeah, it was, I really expected it to kind of suck.
And it was surprisingly good.
I wouldn't say the movie's awesome, but it was definitely watchable.
I thought Megan Fox did a great job.
It was, it got my attention the whole time. It was exciting.
I don't have a lot of complaints.
I mean, not the best movie I've ever seen, but not bad.
So, Philip, I got to ask you, would you?
Oh, yeah.
The first time somebody left the house.
That'd be the thing.
Like as soon as I saw it, I'd be like, oh, this is going to happen.
That'll be fun.
I don't need to ask you, Brian.
All right.
Scores, Brian.
Okay.
I think we all know.
Of course.
What do you think about scores, Brian?
Seven.
I thought Megafox did a great job.
The story moved along pretty good for me.
There was some of the tropes, like I said, about their messing with the settings.
and the outcome is always going to be bad.
But overall, I thought it was a...
Like we said earlier, it was a lot better than it should have been.
Yeah.
And I think we've established that all you need is one bad apple to ruin the whole much.
Yeah, because we didn't even talk about it at the end.
She was able to get into the system and override other...
Oh, boy.
that's all it takes
that's all it takes
once you're in the cloud
super intelligent
a super intelligence controls the internet
you know that's
problem
uh lance
yeah on that on that note philip
i think we're already there
i think we just don't know it but uh
anyway i digress i'll give i'll give it a six
i um it was okay
it wasn't much better than i expected it was slightly
better than I expected. I thought it'd be like a
maybe a four or a five
until I saw it, but
I don't know, the story was well written.
It was believable and it
unfolded in a logical way,
so I'll give it a good six.
Yeah.
I think I'm going to go right in the middle, six and a half.
It was a
pretty solid movie.
Not going to make any top ten lists, but
it was definitely worth watching.
All right.
On to Mithrigan 2.0.
Two years after Megan's rampage, her creator Gemma
resorts to resurrecting her infamous creation
in order to take down Amelia,
the military-grade weapon who was built by a defense contractor
who stole Megan's underlying tech.
Director and writer is Gerard Johnstone,
also known for Housebound and Megan.
Housebound was amazing.
Housebound was fucking awesome, dude.
You've seen that one?
I think we've all seen that one.
That was Australian, right?
Yep.
Or New Zealand?
New Zealand or Australia?
Brian, do you remember?
Oh, New Zealand, yeah.
New Zealand, we reviewed it on the show.
Yeah, one of those upside down countries.
Gerard Johnstone says he felt an obligation to live up to fan expectations for the
Universal and Blumhouse sequel.
She was so well loved by
everyone, he says, and that first film was
just such a surprise.
We wanted to make sure that we delivered a sequel
that was worthy of the character and a
suitable reaction to the response from the world,
which was completely bonkers.
Hmm. That it was.
I wonder why they changed everything.
Brian, what you think about Megan?
I'm trying to find
this quote.
Trying to find this quote from
Jason Blone.
Okay.
About this one?
Yeah, it kind of explains because this bombed at the box office.
Well, it just came out.
It had an opening, well, it had an opening weekend of $10 million.
And then if you look at the first, Megan, that had an opening weekend of $30 million.
Well, they had a lot more marketing in Megan, I think.
You think?
I don't know.
Yeah.
I saw this trailer alive.
Yeah, but they did
like the guerrilla marketing
with the dancing,
Megan's and all that shit.
And the trailers
did not look good for this movie.
Well, no, not at all.
Well, I'll tell you why, Phil.
Because the movie was fucking dumb.
I can't find the quote.
Okay.
Basically, I'm going to try to sum it up.
He said
they thought Megan was like Superman,
but the audience wasn't ready for
the genre swap.
Okay.
That tells you everything you need to know about this dumb fucking movie.
They tried to make Megan a fucking superhero a good guy because the audience liked Megan.
That's not why the audience liked Megan.
It's not because they thought she was a good person, a good android or whatever, a hero.
She fucking murdered a whole bunch of people in the first one.
And then we're just going to make her a fucking superhero.
and the second one and to fight this
supposedly
equal if not better
AI robot
that's a trained assassin
Yeah
And this this was their apology
tour to AI to the AI
Overlords
Maybe they were forced to write this one huh
They might be mad too
Because like I said this movie was dumb
Yeah they even got the main actress
Not the little girl
the one that played the hunt
they even got her
oh gimmer yeah action shit
and I was like
this is just completely
going left field
from everything the first movie
was about
yeah right
they even tried to recreate a dance scene
so they can get that
all over again
yeah yeah yeah
yeah I guess they did
kind of put that in context
It's not like it came out of nowhere, but the costume was silly.
Although that sort of made sense in the context, too.
Yeah.
Apparently, Megan, well, that's spoiler.
I was already chump in the spoilers.
Are you sure?
Okay.
I just, well, what I was about to say was a scene in the movie and not ready to get there yet.
But I thought this was fucking dumb.
Yeah.
It was not excited.
I mean, there was a couple decent action moments.
But it was all CGI.
Yeah.
I just, I don't know.
I didn't like anything about this movie.
This movie, the first Megan was a surprise, a pleasant surprise,
because we all kind of came in thinking it was at the most.
It was going to be decent.
But we all pretty much came out like, this is a pretty fucking good entertaining movie.
And then they took that and said,
we're not going to read, we're not going to do any of that.
Yeah.
completely different direction.
Yeah, and there's a lot of scenes I'm going to bring up in spoilers,
but I thought this movie was fucking dumb.
You're going to save it, huh?
Spoilers will be funny.
Lance, what do you think?
There's not much Brian said that I don't 100% agree with.
I mean, this was absolute hot garbage, man.
I walked out of this movie thinking, well, you know,
know, we do have to have a bottom 10 at the end of the year, too, because it's been such a
great year in movies.
There have been some amazing movies.
Yeah, and I can't even count on one-hand movies that I would put as contenders for bottom
10 yet.
But, yeah, no, this was rough.
Yeah, this was rough.
I mean, not only everything Brian talked about, but my God, the fucking convoluted storytelling.
When you get into, oh, well, now this character can switch over to this one through the internet or whatever.
And now you've got this conspiracy going on, which I can't say too much, or I'll get into spoilers.
But it just like tried to be too many things at once.
And yeah, I saw the trailer and I thought, this is going to be horrible.
And I thought, okay, well, it is so bad.
Like the CGI was so bad in the trailer.
I mean, like first trailer, She-Hulk bad from the Marvel TV series that they had to clean up and thank God they made it.
look better. But this, they didn't. Like, they kept the same fucking CGI. It was terrible. It was
like watching a goddamn cartoon or a fucking video game or something. This wasn't even a real
person movie and that took me out of it. And I'm with Brian. Yeah, we love Megan because
Megan fucking kills people and she's fucking evil like Chuckie. And now all of a sudden,
could you imagine, just close your eyes and everybody listening. Now think of Chuckie as
turning into a literal good guy.
You can't do it. You can't fucking picture it, period.
Because he's too chaotic, he's too evil,
and he just has so much joy and glee from killing.
And that's kind of where this first Megan started going.
I wish they had gone the other direction
and made this like a horror movie and like taking all the breaks off, right?
And just made her go on a total killing streak of innocent people.
I would have fucking loved that.
like she uh you know Megan ends up like in a
yeah because it doesn't seem like it would have been crazy
difficult
yeah like crazy difficult to put her in a new body or something
you know I want to see
you can come up with some shit to make that work
I want to see Megan in an orphanage
slashing the little kid's throats and sodomizing the nuns
come on that's what we want to see with Megan
we don't want to see this good guy fucking superhero
MCU bullshit
yet.
Bride nailed it, man.
This is a fucking joke.
This is terrible.
Don't include my name with what you just said.
And it was so long.
Like Dark Vader.
This movie was so fucking long.
I thought,
I thought,
okay,
surely we're going to get out of here
in an hour 20,
hour 30 at the most.
It's a fucking two-hour slog of a movie,
man.
I'm passing the hat.
Who's next?
I'm done.
I've done until spoilers.
Who's next?
Pimp Daddy Niz.
All right, Brian, say your quote first.
Okay.
Bumhouse.
Blumhouse Boss gets candid on disastrous Megan 2.0 box office.
We all thought Megan was like Superman.
We decided the genre swap.
The audience was not ready for the genre swap.
People wanted more Megan just like she is.
No shit.
The audience wasn't.
ready.
How is the audience
not ready when they didn't want it?
What is this deal?
Every time a fucking movie bombs, they want to
blame the audience now.
Maybe you just made a shitty movie.
Nez, what did you think about it?
Well, before we get into it,
I know this is the horror
returns, everyone, but
welcome to the action returns.
Because this movie was an action
movie.
and
it went from
this killer robot
to the Mission Impossible
to everything
everything else
what was the other robot
Amelia
yeah
that was the killer robot
that was the one from
Ahsoka
she was having a badass
especially like at the beginning
I think her name was Shin
Hatty or something
I can't remember her name
But yeah, man, I dug it.
I thought it was awesome.
Oh, no.
I was just ready to like, eh, okay, another Megan move.
But, I mean, I really didn't even want to see it.
But my son, he was coming in late.
He was coming in at midnight on his flight.
I got off work at 8.30.
So I had hours to kill.
And that was the only thing starting.
So I said, you know what?
Let me just watch what the,
this is. So I was, I really didn't want to see it. I'd seen all the other movies that were out. So I said,
F it. Let me watch it. But as it was going, I was texting Theo. And I was like, dude, man, this,
this, it's not horror anymore. I mean, they did this with, um, was it, uh, happy death day or whatever
that one way. It was all horror. It was all horror in the beginning. And then that, then it turned
into a sci-fi in the second film, which I loved. I did too on that one. There was a, there was
lot of there was a lot of action in this and shooting up and fighting and good robots and bad robots
i i enjoyed it i actually like this one better than the first one but wow there's your answer i did i did
i had to i had to rewatch the first one again and yeah it was i still came with the same verdict it was
it was all right but i really enjoyed this one i mean i i thought it was cool i liked all the action i
Megan was tough, the evil robot, she was badass, and just everybody that was involved.
10 on 10.
The little, uh, the teeth.
No, I'd probably give it an eight.
It kind of drug in some parts.
It didn't need to be as long as it was.
That was why it's taken off some points.
I was like, this is over two hours, really?
Um, but I don't know.
They were, they were just trying to build this.
And if we get more, I'll watch it.
But I see why it, and a lot of people didn't enjoy it because it was just the genre switch from somewhat of a sci-fi horror to an action sci-fi film, which I had no problem about it.
I just thought it was cool.
The chick that played the, what was the bad robots name?
like Amelia
yeah whatever
I thought she did a good job
because I loved her in Osoka
because she was the bad girl in that
kind of looks like a robot
yeah she does
because I kept looking at her like
I was like
I had to look her up
while I was watching the film
but I mean I liked it all
Megan being that little
okay
uh AI thing in the house
the the uh the
the Siri or the
what's the Google one
um right Alexa
I thought that was cool that they had in the house
and then she had this little secret underground layer
that she made herself come on
come on nez you lost me dude
fuck nez come on man
I'm all about this one I love
I love this movie
wow I'll buy it when it comes out
I'm sure you will just like black Christmas
before we get to a spoilers on this one
I thought the trailers
looked like shit
I was really going into this movie
expecting it to completely suck
and I kind of agree with Nez
I had a really good time
What is happening?
But it was a lot of fun
The one-liners were
probably too much
but
they had some funny moments man
some of them hit pretty well
like there was some funny stuff in there
I still think maybe a bad idea to make an adolescent girl robot, but whatever.
Maybe that's not the first one, guys.
Epstein Island.
Epstein Island.
Yeah, I'm telling you.
Well, I guess it would solve some of that problem or make it worse, one of the other.
But yeah, no, I unexpectedly kind of enjoyed it, man.
I came away smiling from this one.
Wow.
Wow.
Yeah, because I wasn't ready to hate it.
Yeah, me too.
Scores.
Ness gives it an eight.
Brian, what do you think?
Three.
Three.
Lance.
Jemaine Clement, Clemante, or however you say his name,
couldn't even fucking save this turd.
I'll give Megan 2.0 a 2.0.
Oh, I'm going to go seven.
I liked it better than the first one, I think.
And Ness already said eight, huh?
Yeah.
Oh, hey, babe.
What alternate universe?
What alternate universe did we step into, Brian?
This is a motherfucking spoiler alert.
You've been fucking warned.
This is a motherfucking spoiler alert.
You've been fucking warned.
This is a motherfucking spoiler alert.
You've been fucking warned.
I don't know.
The universe where Megan can build an entire underground bunker
with everything you need, but can't build her own body.
Well, she didn't have all the...
She sort of did.
Yeah, she made whatever she could use, she made.
So how did she get the stuff into the bunker set up?
Good question.
Don't ask me, maybe it was already down there.
Worker drones.
Human drones. Human drones. Human drones.
Had that the lady not know that was there.
good point how did she not know all this money was coming out of her account
are we in spoilers officially not much to spoil in this all right oh yeah there there's nothing
really to spoil it was just them trying to stop a bad robot and had to get an ex bad robot
to we saw all the it's all in the trailer the whole movie ending in all pretty much yes yeah
there are what do we think about the dance
scene. Well, how
Brian, Brian was going to recreate the
well, they just
try to recreate the whole
dance phenomenon
that happened in the first movie.
I thought it was going to go viral
on TikTok.
Oh, probably.
Not having a little
musical. I liked her little robot
moves. I wasn't, I wasn't
mad at it.
Till she goofed at the end and
spun her body around. Did it?
Yeah.
You think I would have loved it then.
She's saying.
Okay.
Oh, yeah, the singing scene.
I was like, are we just going to keep going with this?
Well, she did that in the first movie, too.
The family guy got hitting the knee laying on the ground, rolling around thing,
and just kept going with it until it was funny again.
Right.
Peter Griffin would have probably made this movie better.
I mean, I like that they brought back everyone that survived, the first one.
Sure.
Because even that part when that dude was sitting in the chair sleeping, which they show on the trailer,
when he, like, woke up and she was standing in there and she apologized.
I'm sorry for trying to kill you or whatever the hell she said.
I mean, all that hit with me and I laughed.
Dude, I laughed a lot at this movie.
So did I.
They had some good jokes.
I mean, there was a lot of them.
and it was kind of rapid fire
and you know some of them didn't hit but
a lot of them did I was like
damn that was they
they even tried to throw in the singing
scene again
yeah that was a lot
yeah I didn't hate it man
I really
fair enough I'm glad you guys enjoyed it
I'm glad you guys enjoyed it
and another
problem I had was
why is the
little girl all of a sudden a tech genius
now
because her aunt's a tech genius and she had a robot
she was a robot best friend
a secret tech genius
because she couldn't have any
any screens or anything on whatever her aunt said
right it runs in that was that was a
protection against Megan she couldn't have screens
well it's like oh yeah
well it didn't
it didn't
Megan just kept herself quiet because she didn't really,
because the way she just announced herself to her aunt in the house,
I mean, she could easily did that to the little girl,
but she didn't.
So it wasn't like they needed a screen.
Apparently the aunt's not paying attention to shit
because there's a whole bonker being built underneath her.
No shit.
Wasn't like some drilling or something going on?
It's an awful lot of construction.
This is, this is Phillips.
night swim, Brian.
Seven out of ten, this is Phillips
night swim.
I'd watch this movie in a second
overnight swim.
Oh, yeah.
Barb, once was enough.
I totally wouldn't mind watching
this one again. I took the family.
They had a great time.
It was a fun movie.
I'm not totally surprised
that it bombed in the theaters,
but really?
But I don't
know, it may make a resurgence.
It was family night at the theater.
I was at because there was a whole bunch of families in there.
Yeah, I took seven kids.
It was awesome.
Yeah, I took a whole bunch of kids.
Yeah, there was.
And there was a couple of kids.
Yeah, I think so.
PG-13.
What was it?
What was the unrated one?
I watched that one.
I couldn't tell you what was.
I couldn't tell much difference.
They're going to do that again.
They're going to do that again.
They're going to release an unrated version
because the Amelia,
the Amelia robot was punching people's heads off.
The only reason I know they were punching people's heads off
because we saw the shadow.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay, that first scene with Amelia was awesome.
I was like, okay, I like where this is going.
Yeah, when like she goes in and starts kicking ass,
I'm like, all right, if you're going to make a female action character,
it's a robot.
That makes sense to me.
Okay, fair enough
Fair enough
You didn't like the scene where she chugged the martini at the bar
And Jermaine Clement was like, ah, that's my kind of woman
Yeah, slightly socially awkward
Although here's the thing
By the time we get around to robots, AI is not going to be socially awkward at all
It's going to be fucking weird
No, I think we're not going to be able to tell a difference
Well, all right again, I need to get it may already be here
All right, Ness, thanks for popping in, man.
Literally.
All right, guys, but yeah, hey, Megan 2.0, go see it.
Oh, man.
Later, brother.
Peace.
I don't know why we brought him in for that.
But, okay, Brian.
What else?
What other scene did you want to talk about, man?
I mean, like Ness said, the movie's pretty straightforward.
I mean, they're chasing Amelia because they think she's trying to kill the one.
guy that's going through Congress trying to ban AI.
Right.
But then you find out the guys using Amelia to show how AI could be dangerous.
So convoluted.
Yeah.
So I totally expected Megan to be behind all of it.
I did Tigan, I kept wanting her to turn.
They tried to paint that scenario in the middle of the movie.
Like Megan's been doing this in the background this whole time.
And I was like, no, she hasn't.
You're not going to build her up as a superhero to turn around.
I mean, that would have been awesome.
My score would have went up.
They would have been building up to be a superhero
when she's the real true super villain the whole time.
She's the criminal mastermind and cracking stupid one-liners
because she's just throwing them off guard.
That makes more sense to me.
That would have been awesome if you got that scene with the big reveal
that she's a big mastermind
and Amelia like gets on one knee
and bows to her.
All hell, Megan.
Or Amelia turns around
and she's just Megan.
Yeah.
You know,
like her consciousness is in everything now.
They almost tried to do that.
But all right,
that's enough about that one, right?
Ready to move on?
I suppose so.
Okay.
All right.
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Now, is that carry the rage, or is that a different one, Brian?
What?
Uh-oh.
You still with the slants?
Yeah.
Is the 2013, is that carried the rage?
No, we already reviewed that one.
All right.
And on that note, Brian, until the whore returns again?
I don't know what's happening.
Until the whore returns again?
Good.
Again, good night.
