00:00:00 Today on the show will be covering two of my faves, 1984's The Terminator and 2003's the Italian Job fan. Fucking tastic. 00:00:21 All right, everyone, welcome to Brandon at random reviews, I am your host, Brandon Griffes. 00:00:29 Thank you for tuning in. 00:00:30 I do appreciate it. 00:00:32 Today on the show, I'd like to talk to you first about some changes to my format that I'm toying around with. 00:00:40 I'm trying to decide. 00:00:41 If I really want to change the way I've been doing things. 00:00:45 So the the format I've been toying around with and it's kind of been set up over the last, you know, this is the culmination of the episodes in that format it would be be. 00:00:55 Basically, the first episode would be like a bad couple of Movies OK? 00:01:01 And then, you know, I'd, I'd talk about why they were bad and everything terrible about them and all that stuff and what made them so horrendous. 00:01:10 And then the next episode would be a new to me kind of episode. 00:01:15 Where it's not necessarily new movies, but it's movies that I've never seen before that I want to cover on the show. 00:01:21 And I I. 00:01:22 Think you know, like that's something I definitely need to start doing. 00:01:25 More is getting back into. 00:01:28 The movies I've never ever seen and I've, I've wanted to check out because it's just I think it's better for my movie soul if I am am seeing new things, if I'm not just constantly watching and and discussing all of these movies that I've already seen 1000 times before. You know what I mean? That's kind of where I'm thinking I might go with it. 00:01:48 And then. 00:01:48 The final episode would be the old standby that I've been doing most of throughout this episode, or I should say, throughout this podcast. 00:01:56 It's been, you know, pretty much consistently favorites, you know, all time favorites of mine, movies that I love, movies that I want to talk about, and I already know for the most part what I plan to do. 00:02:09 In terms of the discussion, it's like I feel so good about the movies that I just can't wait to gush over them. 00:02:17 You know what I mean? 00:02:18 I'm toying with that notion. 00:02:20 And and obviously, you know, by the time the movies or by the by the time the episode comes out where this starts happening and you start noticing it, I won't know until I've recorded, I don't know, eight episodes farther into it. 00:02:36 And then if somebody says, yeah, I really don't like this and you know, they're. 00:02:40 And they're one of my 3 listeners. 00:02:43 You know then that that can be a problem for me. 00:02:45 So I'm going to do this. 00:02:46 I'm hoping that my instincts are right on this and I can I can talk about some bad movies. 00:02:52 And then some new movies and then some favorites and and just keep that rotation going where I'm I'm constantly discussing 'cause. 00:03:02 Most of the bad movies I want to do are also new movies, because it's a lot better to get a fresh take on those bad movies. 00:03:08 But I will do some that I I remember as being bad movies and I just want to revisit them. 00:03:13 On a completely unrelated topic, I have been looking into, you know, changing my, my choice of foods and, you know, trying to find. 00:03:22 Some stuff that's a little. 00:03:23 Healthier than you know these. 00:03:25 These super cheap processed foods that you can get at the grocery store. 00:03:30 You know, I was looking into these, these Catalina Crunch cookies and they were, I was looking at him like, my God, like, they're super ******* expensive. 00:03:39 Like I was looking at a variety pack and they were like, I don't know, 40 bucks for. 00:03:45 A pack of like 4 different kinds of cookies. 00:03:48 And there were like 16 cookies in a box for each of the flavor you know like so 16 though. 00:03:53 So you get you get 64 out of that, which is it seems like a decent amount, but for almost 40 bucks that's. 00:04:00 Like almost a dollar or cookie. Get the **** out here. And so, you know, looking at the price, it's if you bought an individual box, it would be 1095 for 16 cookies and it would work out to $0.69 per cookie. OK, that's pretty ******* pricey. Oreos are 399 for a regular pack. 00:04:20 Of them you know that you'd buy at the grocery store. 00:04:23 Not like a pack, like a a sleeve that you buy at the, you know, gas station or convenience store, like an actual full pack of the. 00:04:31 Would be like 399 and they have 36 in a pack of those, so more than double and they'd be $0.11 per. 00:04:40 E which is staggering. 00:04:42 I mean just holy **** And I mean the the calorie count. 00:04:46 That's what's what's a troubling thing is it's like the Catalina Crunch cookies are healthier by far. 00:04:52 But the calorie count is still about the same, you know, you're not really getting much more out of the Catalina Crunch, calorie wise. 00:05:00 You know, if it was, if it was a little lower, and I was, I was like looking at the the reviews to see if they were decent. 00:05:07 And, you know, most people were just saying, oh, they're not good enough for the price or, you know, most people are just completely complaining about the price. 00:05:14 And it was like, yeah, I hear you there, you know? 00:05:16 I mean, I can't blame you for being ****** about that. 00:05:18 And it's like I I look at one and the person sharing the review gives them a 5 star review and they say the key is you only eat a couple of. 00:05:30 Well, yeah, that's the trick, isn't it? 00:05:33 You know, like, of course you should only 'cause. 00:05:36 I mean, the serving size of Oreos. 00:05:39 It's only for two cookies. It really is. It's it's a very small serving size and they're like 140 calories for just two cookies, you know? And that's a lot of ******* calories in my opinion. 00:05:50 And when I saw that, I was just like, are you ******* kidding me? 00:05:54 And so I was also looking at, you know, they have high protein cereals, you know, Catalina Crunch also has high protein cereals and they also have like magic spoon. 00:06:03 But these are all, like, grossly overpriced. Like, they're super expensive and I'm like, looking at them like if I ******* get these and they're almost $10.00 for a box of cereal. 00:06:14 Or a bag, or, you know, pouch or whatever you want to call it. 00:06:17 And I bite into that series. 00:06:19 Bill and it tastes like cardboard. 00:06:21 I'm gonna be annoyed, you know what I mean? 00:06:23 Especially if I buy 4 ******* bags or boxes of them. 00:06:27 And so I happened to be, I was at my are you know it's a if you're listening from out of the area, it's a Midwest based grocery store chain and I was like looking around in the cereal aisle. 00:06:40 And I came across these Catalina crunch pouches of cereal and I was like, holy **** they're about as much as they are on Amazon. 00:06:48 And I can get them right now and I can try them right now and I can be done with it. 00:06:53 You know what I mean? 00:06:53 I could just, I could figure out if they're really even worth the try. 00:06:56 And so I bought the Catalina Crunch ones, brought him home. 00:07:00 The I I bought the the ones are basically like the cinnamon toast crunch wanna be and then the the other one was like a peanut butter and chocolate. 00:07:09 And so I poured the peanut butter and chocolate into a bowl, and I I foolishly poured a full bowl of cereal like I was thinking I was going to eat the whole thing, and I really should have just not taken that chance. 00:07:20 But I poured the cereal, got the the almond milk on it, 'cause that's how I roll. 00:07:25 And it was it was legitimately like cardboard. 00:07:28 I couldn't. 00:07:29 I I didn't even finish eating it. 00:07:32 I use my hand as a sieve and drained the milk back out of it into the sink and I threw the ******* cereal away. 00:07:41 And then I tried the cinnamon ones just for good measure, and lo and behold, they were not quite as terrible as the peanut butter and chocolate, but they were pretty ******* terrible, and I don't think I'll be going back to. 00:07:52 Give them another try. 00:07:53 It was just it was a big let down and luckily, like I bought some some Lucky Charms which are, you know, old faithful, you know you. 00:08:00 And always count on Lucky Charms and I really enjoyed them. 00:08:03 And so I had a bowl with them to like kind of get the taste out of my mouth from the other ones. 00:08:07 But yeah, I mean, it's always worth trying those new things, but it's just, it's not always, it doesn't always pan out. I guess I'll dive into the Terminator, which was released on October 26th. 00:08:21 1984 and it was directed by James Cameron. He made a movie called. 00:08:27 Xeno Genesis, which I've never heard of, and Piranha 2 the spawning which I have never seen. 00:08:35 I've only seen the first Piranha movie he made, the sequel to Alien Aliens, which was a huge hit. 00:08:41 It was a really good movie. 00:08:42 He made the abyss, which actually shares some costars from this movie and. 00:08:47 And formaly, he likes to work with a lot of the same people, I think. 00:08:50 And then he directed Terminator two I. 00:08:53 He directed True lies, which is a favorite of mine, and he directed Titanic and. 00:09:02 And now he's making all. 00:09:04 Apparently he's making all of these ******* avatar movies that are coming up too. 00:09:08 So I'm just kind of like, OK, man, like you have at it, I will lead you to do that and never, you know, I mean, presumably he's going to be making these until he's ******* 00:09:21 Ready to retire and I'm not gonna watch. 00:09:23 Another new James Cameron movie ever again. 00:09:26 So I was looking up the credits for this movie and, you know, James Cameron wrote the movie The Terminator, and I realized that I I would see, you know, I was looking at his filmography and what he's written, and it would like differentiate from one movie to the next if it was like a story. 00:09:43 By credit or a screen, by a screenplay, by credit or, you know, whatever it is and. 00:09:49 They don't have any ******* idea what the difference is, you know? 00:09:54 I don't know if somebody tells me that there was it was a story by writer. 00:09:58 I don't know if that means that they wrote the overarching plot, but they didn't really write any of the fine details. 00:10:04 I don't know anything, or I assume that's probably what it is, but who the **** knows he? 00:10:09 Wrote Rambo, which is first blood Part 2. 00:10:13 By the way. 00:10:14 He wrote a movie called Strange Days he. 00:10:17 Had some kind of writing credit in the movie Alita Battle Angel, which I was a big fan of and he also was involved with Terminator Dark Fate, which there are quite a few sequels and spinoffs of this, this series and and there I mean pretty much all you really need to watch is the first one and the second one and then you can just ******* abandon ship. 00:10:39 And you're pretty good. 00:10:40 I liked Dark fate, but I I don't know that most people would, you know. 00:10:44 So Brad Fidel composed the score for this movie and I I didn't see anything on his resume that stuck out to me. 00:10:53 But this score, this. 00:10:55 Theme song is spec ******* tacular. 00:10:58 I love it. 00:10:59 I love the theme song to Terminator. 00:11:02 So ******* great. 00:11:03 Can't get enough, you know? 00:11:04 He also did. 00:11:05 He came back for Terminator two. 00:11:07 He also did the true lies theme, you know, the the whole score, I should say. 00:11:12 And it's just it's really great to get that in a movie, you know, if. 00:11:15 If you can get a good score it it makes it bring. 00:11:18 It makes bringing the movie home so much easier. 00:11:21 You know what I mean? Obviously Arnold Schwarzenegger is in this movie and you know, he plays the Terminator. You know, the T800 or what? 00:11:30 And, you know, I've talked about him and the predator episode, you know, he's he's in a lot of favorite films. 00:11:36 He he's just he's overall solid and I, you know, I think he really did an amazing job. 00:11:42 I mean he he's got very little to do in the. 00:11:45 Way of acting in. 00:11:46 This movie, which I'll get to in a minute, but he is great in this movie. 00:11:49 In this role, it's perfect for him. 00:11:51 I just, I I think he's spectacular. 00:11:53 Linda Hamilton is also in this movie. 00:11:56 She is Sarah Connor. 00:11:59 He's basically in nothing but other Terminator movies, so that's if you're a big Linda Hamilton fan. 00:12:06 I guess you just kind of have to dig into IMDb and take your chances because I don't ******* recognize jackshit from her filmography and then we've got Michael Biehn. 00:12:17 I believe being is the correct way to pronounce. 00:12:20 Team it's. 00:12:20 E i.e. HN and he plays Kyle Reese. He was in Tombstone, he was in the abyss, which was another James Cameron movie. 00:12:30 He was in aliens, another James Cameron movie. 00:12:33 He's in Planet terror, the rock and Deadfall, which was a terrible ******* movie with Nicolas Cage and ******* 00:12:41 I I ******* hated every minute of Deadfall and Nicolas Cage. 00:12:46 Is as unhinged as you'll see him get in many movies. I mean, other than I think vampire's kiss. It's it's probably the worst you'll see Nicolas Cage get. 00:12:57 So I I really do need to check out the abyss, apparently, because I've just never seen it, I've never really heard anybody talk about it, and I'm just intrigued because. 00:13:06 It seems like it could be good, you know? 00:13:08 So casting notes on this movie just before we get into the actual plot of it into the meat of the the Old deal. 00:13:15 Arnold Schwarzenegger was the original choice to play Reese, which made executives feel like they needed to cast someone even more famous to play the Terminator. 00:13:24 OK, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone. 00:13:27 Both turned down the role. 00:13:29 Of the Terminator, the studio suggested OJ Simpson, but apparently Cameron legitimately said he didn't think that people could take him seriously as a killer. 00:13:40 And that's like an actual thing that it's pretty amusing, but it's it's kind of ridiculous to Cameron didn't want Arnold for this movie in the Reese role. 00:13:50 You know, and so he basically decided he was like he was going to meet with Arnold Schwarzenegger and he was going to concoct like a fight, basically just throw together this. 00:13:59 Now he's going to start an argument with him, and all of a sudden during this, like, you know, meeting, Arnold starts talking about how the villain should be played and how you know how this Terminator should be. 00:14:11 And Cameron realized then that, like, he was a good fit for the villain and not the Reese roll, right? 00:14:18 And he would have been. 00:14:19 ******* terrible as Reese. 00:14:21 It would have been a completely ******* different movie. 00:14:23 It would have it. 00:14:24 It's not just like, you know, when you substitute one actor for another. 00:14:28 It's like you're substituting Arnold Schwarzenegger for a guy that is basically just American. 00:14:34 And, you know, Michael Biehn, he's he's a very average looking guy, you know? 00:14:39 I mean, he's not like a ******* bodybuilder, you know what I mean? 00:14:42 So it's like you're putting Arnold Schwarzenegger in this and then you're going to have him have like a romantic relationship in the movie? 00:14:47 I don't think so. 00:14:48 That's that's a bad idea. 00:14:50 So some of the others that were considered for Reese were Sting. 00:14:54 Christopher Reeve, Mel Gibson, Matt Dillon, Kurt Russell, Tommy Lee Jones, and Bruce Springsteen. 00:15:01 Others considered for Sarah Connor were Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lea Thompson, Rosanna Arquette. 00:15:08 There are a few others, but I I basically just name off people that I've heard of because. 00:15:13 If I see their name and it doesn't jump out at me as like, Oh yeah, they're really, you know, somebody. 00:15:17 I know there's somebody famous. 00:15:18 I don't I don't feel like sharing it with you. 00:15:20 So anyway, you know basically the the premise of this movie is and I'll I'll read the intro graphic thing, you know like the the thing that comes up on the screen at the beginning of this movie but basically this movie. 00:15:33 Is about a Cyborg going back in time from 45 years ahead. You know, like going back in time 45 years and trying to kill the woman who is the mother of the leader of the Cyborg enemy. OK, 'cause, there's a big war going on in the future. 00:15:54 And all this stuff and. 00:15:56 So that basically the humans are going to win this war with the cyborgs and the only way that they can the the cyborgs can figure out to defeat them is if they kill the guy that banded them all together. 00:16:09 That's the premise. 00:16:10 And so then, you know, once they send the Terminator back, Reese is the human guy that realizes that. 00:16:16 They've done that and he goes back in time as well. 00:16:20 Knowing he can't come back to the future, OK? It's it's, uh, crazy. Like to me, if if I was in 1984 and I was the right age, if I watched this movie, I feel like my mind would be ******* blown. 00:16:34 Like, I feel like there were no movies out there that were anything like this. 00:16:38 Basically like one thing that. 00:16:40 Annoys me with movies about time travel is when they put in the actual year. 00:16:46 That things are supposed to be happening and then, you know, that year comes and goes or that date comes and goes and then ******** on the Internet have to ******* post, hey, today is the day that Marty would have gone back in time, blah blah blah. 00:17:00 You know, it's like, shut the FCK up like I don't. 00:17:03 I get it. 00:17:04 I get it. 00:17:04 It's cool to reference the movie. 00:17:07 And you know, a lot of people like the movie, so you know that you'll get a lot of positive responses to it, but for the most part it's ******* stupid, you know it just shut the FCK up the intro for like I I don't even know what word I want to use, But basically that it comes up on the screen and said. 00:17:23 As the machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire, their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades. 00:17:31 But the final battle would not be fought in the future. 00:17:34 It would be fought here in our present tonight. 00:17:37 And so that's what sets up this movie, and you don't, I mean, based on that, you're not going to. 00:17:43 No, what the **** is going on? 00:17:45 And you're just going to kind of be like, ummm yeah, alright, I guess let's buckle up and see what what's going on. 00:17:52 And so every time I see the credits this movie, they give me the chills. 00:17:56 Although they do go on a bit long. 00:17:58 They're they're ******* great. 00:17:59 I mean, that theme song just ******* hits, man. 00:18:02 It ******* rules anyway, James. 00:18:05 Cameron made mention. 00:18:06 That Arnold should not have worked in this role. 00:18:09 So I mean, one of the first things we see after they get done talking about the future and being in the future, showing you what a wasteland it is, is like, you see Arnold and he just kind of appears, you know, like there's all of these electromagnetic fields or whatever going on around him and he just appears. 00:18:26 And he's, like supposed to be going back in time, too. 00:18:29 Kill this woman. It would. It makes no sense to have him be a 6 1/2 foot tall bodybuilder with an Australian accent, you know what I mean? 00:18:39 Like, he's not going to hide very well in plain sight, you know? 00:18:44 So James Cameron admitted that it shouldn't have worked with a lot of things in movies. 00:18:48 All it has to be is. 00:18:49 Plausible, and it works. 00:18:52 So that's that's what he want with. 00:18:54 I will say like, although I love the theme song to this movie, every time I hear like a sympy score in a movie, I immediately think this sounds ******* dated. 00:19:03 Like it sounds really ******* dated and I don't like it. 00:19:07 It's just it. 00:19:08 It always screams 80s to me I love. 00:19:12 When? So when Reese she. 00:19:14 Goes up and you know 1984 and he he is taking some homeless guys clothes and a cop stops him and he asks the cop, you know what? 00:19:26 What's the date? 00:19:27 And he's like, you know, he he tells him the date and he's like, what year? 00:19:31 You know? 00:19:31 And he's like. 00:19:32 Is it what? 00:19:33 What do you? 00:19:33 Mean what year? 00:19:34 Like, how do you not know what year it is? 00:19:36 You know? 00:19:36 And it's just such a great ******* I I just love that line. 00:19:40 I don't know why. 00:19:40 So Sarah Connor works. 00:19:42 At this diner. 00:19:43 And she's clearly not super great at her job, and she's also got this friend that works there with her. 00:19:49 And at one point, you know this like she's Sarah screws up the order for this table, and then this little kid takes a scoop of ice cream and dumps it in one of the pouches of her apron. 00:20:03 And her friend, Sarah friend comes up and says look, he says. 00:20:09 Look, she says. 00:20:10 Look at it this way. 00:20:12 In 100 years, who's going to care? That's it's not even comforting, even a little bit. But anyway, back to what I was saying. The whole scene with Sarah Connor where he just like the first Sarah Connor. 00:20:25 So basically what he does is he goes, you know, the Terminator goes to the phone book to find Sarah Connor and he. 00:20:32 Yes, and for those of you that don't know what a phone book is, you're too young. 00:20:35 But anyway, the phone book used to have everybody phone numbers in it, unless you paid to have your name omitted from the phone book. 00:20:42 And so the Terminator goes to the phone book and looks up Sarah Connor and there are like 3 different Sarah Connors. 00:20:50 And so he just decides I'm going to go pluck. 00:20:53 These people are, you know, these Sarah Connors off 1 by 1 and be done with it, right? You know the Terminators only knew that she was in LA. 00:21:01 They they didn't know exactly where, they didn't know a lot of stuff about her. 00:21:06 It was just kind of, you know, up in the air for them. 00:21:09 So they just, they went to LA and they looked her up and they figured out where the **** she might be. 00:21:14 And the I I remember when this happens. 00:21:18 OK, so when he goes to the first Sarah Connor he. 00:21:21 He has, you know, he's already stopped at this gun store and he, he pulls out this this gun with this laser sight, this like pistol. 00:21:29 That has a laser sight on it. 00:21:31 This woman answers the door and he's like, say like, Oh no. 00:21:34 And she's like, yes. 00:21:36 And he's and he. 00:21:37 Like forces the door open even though it's changed shut and he just ******* starts shooting her and just repeatedly shoots her until you know she is more than ******* dead and it's it's more than enough they show. 00:21:49 So at like Sarah Connor, like the real Sarah Connor's apartment, she has a roommate, her roommates getting ready for a date, and her roommates boyfriend calls and Sarah answers and he immediately launches into this super ******* raunchy dirty talk with her, thinking that it's the roommate, you know? 00:22:09 And Sarah lets him go on for a while, you know, and it's just kind of like, what are we doing here? 00:22:15 And so. 00:22:16 He just it's like, I I'm like, I'm not very old, but I am old enough to remember the days before everyone had a cell phone and before that was like the primary method of communication. 00:22:28 And I remember when I would call someone and I would, you know, someone would answer even if it was a woman or a man or, you know, there was, there was the gender I was. 00:22:37 Expecting to answer, I would say hello is so and so there, you know, just basically break that ice and make sure you're talking to the right person, especially if you're gonna ******* 00:22:46 Talk about sex. 00:22:47 **** You know what I mean? 00:22:49 Like, what the **** is the matter? 00:22:50 With you, I was looking at the. 00:22:52 There's a a white guy that is presenting these files because you know, 2 Sarah Connors have been killed and he's presenting them to the police chief. 00:23:01 This guy, it's like he looks really familiar and I can't ******* place him and I look him up on IMDb and I know that it's not like one of those. 00:23:11 He looks like somebody else. 00:23:13 It's it's definitely the guy that I'm thinking of. 00:23:16 You know what I mean? 00:23:17 I'm like, what do I know him from? 00:23:19 And as I'm looking through it, I'm seeing nothing. 00:23:21 Nothing, nothing. 00:23:22 And I'm like, oh, I know what I know him from. 00:23:24 I know him from the 1984 film Terminator and that's it. That's all I know him from. 00:23:30 So I just felt like a big dumb FOC when I did that. And the other thing at Sarah and her roommate's apartment is her roommate has recorded this outgoing message on their machine and it's like she answers it like, oh, hi there. And then she's like, oh, gotcha, I'm not really here. And it's like. 00:23:50 People that do that **** are the ******* worst. 00:23:53 Like, they they really think they're ******* special, you know what I mean? 00:23:56 They they think they've really done something. 00:23:58 Lazy, it aggravates me to no end. 00:24:00 I can't, I? 00:24:02 Stand up there and like the reason I mentioned the answering machine is like the amount of exposition going on with these answering machines is ridiculous. 00:24:10 You know, like basically Sarah, you know, she gets like her date cancels on her or whatever, and she tries to call her how you know her apartment. 00:24:22 To get ahold of her roommate. 00:24:23 And you know, the Terminators already got mirror and killed the roommate, and she's she's like, explaining exactly where she is. 00:24:32 She's like. 00:24:33 Oh, hey, by the way. 00:24:34 You know, like a guy. 00:24:35 He's totally trying to kill me. 00:24:37 He's chasing me. 00:24:38 He's he's hunting me down. 00:24:39 He's really looking for me. 00:24:41 My exact location is this address and I'm at this club and I'm wearing that, you know? 00:24:47 It's just like, **** 00:24:48 You like do not ******* give him all this information. 00:24:51 Like you. 00:24:52 You don't know who is there if you can't talk. 00:24:54 To somebody directly. 00:24:55 And she's been like trying to call the police and all this stuff and it's just, it's not. 00:25:00 Oh my God. 00:25:01 Yeah, I mean, it's so stressful because there's so much tension and you just know, and I mean, it's great because it's not like he doesn't. 00:25:08 It's not like the Terminator doesn't catch up with her until, like, more than halfway through the movie or something. 00:25:14 It is ******* quick. 00:25:15 One thing I mentioned, that is the most ******* 80s thing I've ever seen. 00:25:19 It was like just Sarah Connor. 00:25:21 Outfit in this movie is like her main outfit that she wears after she gets out of work and she is on the run. 00:25:29 And with Reese is like this pink and white tie dye shirt and it's she's got like this big ******* poofy hair and it just like it screams 80s so much to me I can't ******* take it, even not knowing he's a Terminator. 00:25:45 They're like way too many dudes in this movie that. 00:25:49 Assume that they can take Arnold Schwarzenegger and hand to hand combat. 00:25:54 Sorry, that's. 00:25:55 You're just not, that's not going to work out and I can, I can tell you if I look at somebody, I can tell you. 00:26:00 If I feel like there's even a slight chance that I could, I could take them in a fight, and the answer 99.9% of the time is no, I cannot take them in. 00:26:10 A fight, but. 00:26:11 There are some that I would feel better about than others. 00:26:14 And Arnold Schwarzenegger. 00:26:15 He is the last person I would feel good about being able to take in a fight. 00:26:18 The Terminator finally finds Sarah Connor. 00:26:22 The, you know, the real Sarah Connor at this this nightclub. 00:26:26 And Reese has been kind of like staking it out, waiting. 00:26:29 For the Terminator to show himself and it's like the the way they have it all play out where it's like basically the Terminator walks up to Sarah Connor to ******* shoot her in the head and shoot. And like everything is kind of like slow motion. The music's dying down. It's it's all very. 00:26:49 The way they they capture that moment is is so good. 00:26:53 So it comes together so ******* nicely, you know, and like obviously recent her go on the run. 00:26:59 I what I what I don't really understand is so Reese shoots the Terminator with like a 12 gauge shotgun, OK? 00:27:07 When he shoots the Terminator, it obviously doesn't kill the Terminator, but it knocks the Terminator. 00:27:13 Over and the Terminator acts incapacitated for handful of seconds. 00:27:19 Maybe I don't understand what the logic is or what the rationale is behind. 00:27:24 You know that span of time where he's he's down, but he's not dead, it's not like he's hurt. 00:27:30 It's not like anything really happy. 00:27:32 And to him, it's just he's been hit by something that hit a lot harder than other guns and that's it, you know? 00:27:39 So it's like what what is really going on? 00:27:41 And and I guess, I guess we just have to accept that as viewers that it's like that they have to be able to do something to get away from the Terminator. 00:27:48 Otherwise they'd be ****** like immediately and die. 00:27:51 So I would say. 00:27:52 You know, I mentioned how good Arnold Schwarzenegger is in this movie. 00:27:56 He does this awesome thing in this scene where, you know, it's the initial chase and the police are after recent Sarah and it's Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor. 00:28:07 There, by the way, and the police are after them, and the Terminator is he has stolen a cop car and his eyes are doing the creepiest darting back and forth, and it's just like he really phucking captures, like the creepy robotic type thing. 00:28:26 You know it it he really does. 00:28:27 Good job. 00:28:28 I I mean it's basically this whole movie is 1 long intermittent chase scene. 00:28:32 It's it's very well concocted though ever since. 00:28:37 Ever since I got my glass, I, I, you know, like 'cause there's a scene where, you know, the Terminator has, you know, he's got all of his battle wounds or whatever, and he goes to this like abandoned hotel or apartment or whatever. 00:28:48 He like cuts his eye out of its socket and pulls it off and you can like see the red glowing eye. 00:28:57 Behind it. 00:28:57 And like ever since I lost my eye, I've wanted to. 00:29:02 Do a Terminator cosplay, you know, taking my my glass eye out and then put in like a glowing red light. 00:29:09 The problem is I haven't been able to find something that would work for that long and it like I want it to be able to like really look legit. 00:29:19 You know? 00:29:20 I want like a battery operated. 00:29:22 Red light that would fit in my glass eye that I could just put in there and see how it worked, but I have yet to find one. 00:29:28 So you know, let me know if you come across. 00:29:30 One eye. 00:29:32 Like every time you see the Terminator, if it's a slower scene, you know you still get the the theme song, and in faster scenes, obviously you get some some Terminator theme as well. 00:29:43 But like in the scene where he's taking his eye out, it's like he's he just shoot us. 00:29:51 You know? 00:29:51 And it's like, it's just so ******* menacing and awesome. 00:29:54 And I just, I really want to, I, I want to have like a music box in my bathroom. 00:30:00 That I can hit the button and it will just continuously play that theme song as it is in that in that specific scene when I'm cleaning my my I you know Michael at my prosthetic and it just be I think it'd be ******* wonderful I would say in the in the scene like Arnold Ted does look a little bit claymation Y you know. 00:30:20 It does look a little, a little the worse for wear, you know it's not, it doesn't look right. 00:30:25 You know, it doesn't look like it's a real head. 00:30:27 I will say Michael Biehn to just kind of change topics. 00:30:32 Michael Biehn is ******* spectacular in this movie. 00:30:35 He he puts on a great performance. 00:30:38 He feels like he's one of the few like him and him and probably Linda Hamilton. 00:30:43 I don't want to take away from from Arnold, but like, beam does an amazing job in this movie and he's not, you know, winking at the camera or anything like that. 00:30:52 He's dead serious. 00:30:53 And it is. 00:30:53 It is. 00:30:54 Just ******* great. I love it. There is a like a little while where you know, they're on the run from the Terminator and they go to this cabin and you know, they there's all this **** that I mean like the Terminator tracks down Sarah Connor's parents and you know, he's he's able to emulate somebody elses voice. 00:31:14 He's so he's able to talk to Sarah Connor as her. 00:31:18 And, you know, he convinces her to give him her address, and so it's just, you know, like you'd think that Reese would know better than to stop running. 00:31:29 You know, it's like if you're in one place at any given time, you're you're never going to be safe. 00:31:35 You know what I mean? 00:31:35 And I mean, he tells her, you know, you can't. 00:31:38 Reason with him. 00:31:38 You can't slow him down. 00:31:40 You can't do anything. 00:31:41 You're just like you have to like. 00:31:43 He will not stop until you're dead. 00:31:46 During the slow spot we get, we get some, some boobys, you know, a little bit of ******* you know, they belong to Linda Hamilton. 00:31:53 And so I mean. 00:31:55 That's a nice little consolation prize for the slowness of this sequence I I was starting to think at this point in the movie, though, that perhaps Terminator two, judgment day is a superior film to this. 00:32:09 Like, I know a lot of people already say that I'm not acting like I'm being original in that, but I'm saying that like T2. 00:32:15 I don't remember there being as big of a slow stretch, and like, you know, there's the scene where they're out in the middle of the desert and T2 where, you know, like they go to visit Sarah's friends or whatever. 00:32:28 Or I don't know, I I'm I gotta watch T2, but it's it's a tough call. I'm I'm thinking I'm leaning towards T2 for this. 00:32:35 But, you know, there's this scene where they're running from the Terminator and a truck, and he's pursuing them on a motorcycle. 00:32:45 And, you know, Reese has a Sarah. 00:32:49 Driving the truck and Reese is throwing pipe bombs at the Terminator, and it's pretty cool. 00:32:55 I mean it. 00:32:56 It's just it's really great, like how well they set up that like, yeah, you're not ******* stopping this guy, you know what I mean? 00:33:01 Because 'cause, he does a pretty ******* solid job of landing these pipe. 00:33:05 Bombs and the Terminator just rides right the **** their own. 00:33:08 I mean, just does not care at all. 00:33:12 And so I love, you know, like Reese is about to die and, you know, he's just like limping along and they're convinced that the Terminator is. 00:33:26 Dead and you know they because Sarah took a pipe bomb and like 'cause, the Terminator took over like a tanker truck and. 00:33:36 Sarah used a pipe bomb to explode that tanker truck and the Terminator was still inside the truck. 00:33:42 And like, you see him like come out and like fall down on the ground and like, well, while recent and her are getting ahead of themselves, it's like he pops up and you know all of his skins then. 00:33:56 Melted off and **** and like it just didn't, you know? 00:34:00 It's like it taught me that scene. 00:34:02 Taught me I need to confirm the kill whenever possible, and I've talked about it before. 00:34:08 You've got to ******* make sure. 00:34:10 That those kinds of people are dead because they'll just keep coming back if movies teach you anything. 00:34:16 So I said this movie always taught me to confirm the kill before celebrating in getting sappy. 00:34:23 And I said also never get sappy. 00:34:26 And that's that's really an embodiment of my my outlook on life. 00:34:30 The design of the Terminator is ******* spectacular. 00:34:33 I really like it. 00:34:34 It's it's a really cool look. 00:34:36 They put a lot of work into making it. 00:34:39 Work, and apparently it took like six months to develop or. 00:34:42 Thing that there are so many false alarm deaths of the Terminator in this movie. 00:34:48 And and I mean, it's great. 00:34:51 It it it keeps the tension building and it keeps you on the edge of your seat. 00:34:55 And that's what's great about it. 00:34:56 Obviously, like, you know, eventually Sarah does kill the Terminator because that's literally the only way she could. 00:35:03 She could slow him down. 00:35:04 She basically, like leads him into this press in this factory and he's like reaching and trying to grab her and he's only like he's got no legs left and he's just clawing at her neck and like. 00:35:18 He's just, he's just there and she's caged in, but she can't really get away from him very easily either. 00:35:27 And it's like she deliberately says you're terminated ****** and then hits the button to crush him. 00:35:34 And I'm like, man, I mean, I'm sure a lot of people think that that line is super iconic. 00:35:39 But to me, it's like, why don't you just not say anything at all, just not say that. 00:35:44 You know what I mean? 00:35:45 That'd be ******* perfect. 00:35:46 So yeah, I mean, there's that. 00:35:47 And then. 00:35:48 So I said, quick, Sarah, hide all those pieces of that Terminator so that it doesn't come back to haunt you. 00:35:55 Because, you know, that's totally what happens in Terminator 2 is that they've taken the pieces of this Terminator and used it to develop the Terminators. 00:36:04 I mean, this, this entire film series is so. 00:36:08 Full of of. 00:36:09 Ridiculousness with with **** like that at the end of the movie, you know, 'cause you find out that basically, you know, 'cause, Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor have sex, you know? 00:36:19 And he keeps telling her about her son John Connor, and how her son never really talked about his dad and all this stuff. 00:36:28 And it's like, OK, so they they end up having sex and it's like, you know, you know, 'cause like at the end of the movie, you know, she's out driving in this Jeep or something. 00:36:36 Thing and she's recording herself on a tape recorder and she's she's pregnant and she stops and says, should I tell you about your father? 00:36:46 Boy, that's a tough one. 00:36:48 And I'm like, you think your father is a walking ******* paradox, like your father is not. 00:36:54 You sent your father back in time. 00:36:57 To, you know, to protect your mother and your father, so basically there's, there is such like a an infinite loop of like, OK, if John Connor had never been born, he couldn't have sent him back in time and if he couldn't have sent him back in time, then he couldn't have been born it. 00:37:16 Just holy **** It's too ******* much for me. 00:37:19 So I mean, I I think I've said all the the positive things I can say. 00:37:23 The only the only thing that I was missing in this movie that I forgot was in the second movie was like the the. 00:37:30 Twirl of the shotgun like the sawed off shotgun that the T800 uses in T2. 00:37:38 ******* great. 00:37:38 Just love it. 00:37:40 I but it was obviously not in this movie, so that's that's the way it is. 00:37:43 James Cameron decided to make this movie after having had a dream about a a metallic torso carrying kitchen knives, and he decided to make a slasher film about like a robot. 00:37:59 And Cameron, agent at the time, didn't like the idea. 00:38:03 So Cameron. 00:38:03 Fired him. Cameron's original draft was. 00:38:06 Too much Terminator 2, but he realized that they really didn't have the technology at the time to do what they needed to do to make Terminator 2. 00:38:15 So Cameron sold the rights to this story to Gale Anne Hurd, who she bought it for a dollar from him, as long as on the condition that Cameron was allowed to direct it. 00:38:27 She she bought the rights and she gave him some notes on his script and basically made him give her a writing credit on this movie. 00:38:37 And it's like he he had openly said that she didn't do any actual writing on this movie at all. 00:38:42 She did nothing. 00:38:44 She gave some notes and I didn't even take all of her notes and that's it. 00:38:47 You know. 00:38:48 I mean, so it is what it is. Schwarzenegger speaks 17 lines in the film and he says fewer than 100 words. 00:38:56 The theme song is in the unusual time signature of 1316, which is just a a neat little tidbit if you know anything about music. Which excludes me. Linda Hamilton and James Cameron were once married. 00:39:08 Following this film, I didn't see like what years they were married or you know, for how long or whatever the genre of this film and. 00:39:16 And movie like Blade Runner is considered technoir. And so it's like a futuristic noir movie. And then, you know, like, so the nightclub that the Terminator first finds Sarah at is called Tech noir at around 36 minutes in. Schwarzenegger and Bean are in the same frame. 00:39:37 For the only time in the movie that's I always find that interesting. 00:39:40 It's kind of like in Sin City when you know they were talking about shooting all these scenes. 00:39:44 Separately, you know, or without certain actors and stuff. 00:39:48 And Mickey Rourke and Elijah Wood hadn't ever met in person until the movie was premiering and they had had a fight scene together. 00:39:55 So so yeah, that's pretty nifty. The runtime of this movie was 107 minutes. The budget was $6.4 million. 00:40:04 The worldwide gross to date was $78.3 million. IMDb Rating 8.1 Rotten Tomato critics score 100%. Rotten Tomato audience score 89% personal rating five out of five stars. This is a ******* classic. 00:40:21 Game. I ******* love it. Moving on to the Italian Job release date May 30th, 2003, directed by F Gary Gray, which if you look at his name it looks like it just says Gary, Gary or Gray. Gray 'cause. It's just the same letters and just two of them are flipped anyway. He was. 00:40:41 He's like, I think his first movie was the movie Friday with Ice Cube and Chris Tucker and then he made set it off. 00:40:48 Often the negotiator, which I remember being pretty solid, be cool, which was a sequel to Get Shorty and that I'd never saw that and I always heard that was terrible, law abiding citizen with Gerard Butler I was not a big fan of. 00:41:05 He did straight Outta Compton, which was the N.W.A story. 00:41:08 And he did the ******* video for it was a good day by Ice Cube. 00:41:15 First number one cast member is Mark Wahlberg. 00:41:20 Don't call him Marky Mark if you can help it to his face. 00:41:23 He plays Charlie Croker. 00:41:25 Uh, he he was in, you know, some of his notable movies. 00:41:28 He's got quite a few. 00:41:29 I I I used to be quite the big fan of Mark Wahlberg, but he's kind of fallen off recently. 00:41:34 But he was in the departed boogie nights, the fighter, Ted, four brothers, Lone Survivor. 00:41:41 The happening. 00:41:42 Terrible ******* movie, by the way. 00:41:44 Invincible, and we own the night which. 00:41:47 I need to. 00:41:47 Revisit he was in a movie called Father's, too. 00:41:51 I need to watch that 'cause. 00:41:52 I think I might want to make fun of it. 00:41:53 It's got like Mel Gibson in it and he plays like a man of the cloth and he. 00:41:58 It's like an ex-con or some ******* thing. And there's another one of his that I really need to make fun of, which is called jobelle. 00:42:06 And it's just the the movie is ******* It looks ******* stupid. 00:42:10 And so anyway, I gotta check those out. 00:42:12 Charlize Therone, who is, as I mentioned, always hot. 00:42:17 She plays Stella Bridger. 00:42:19 In this movie she was in Monster Mad Max Fury Rd, which is ******* solid. 00:42:24 I'll probably do an episode on that at one point. 00:42:28 The fate of the furious. 00:42:30 She was the the villain in that. 00:42:32 That she was in long shot with Seth Rogen, which I hated. 00:42:36 She's an atomic blonde, which I've never checked out, the legend of Bagger Vance and the Devil's Advocate. 00:42:42 The Devil's advocate was terrible. 00:42:44 Edward Norton. 00:42:45 He plays Steve Frisoli a little note about Edward Norton in this movie. 00:42:50 He only did this movie to fulfill. 00:42:52 A3 film contract with Paramount. He had repeatedly refused other offers for different movies, so he got kind of coerced into doing this film and he was very visibly displeased with having to be in this. 00:43:08 Movie at all times when he was on set he would just clash with crew members and things like that. 00:43:15 When the film was successful, the producer of the movie bought gifts for all of the cast and he returned his gift to the producer and said give this to someone you actually like or someone. 00:43:29 Who actually likes you? 00:43:31 I mean, he seemed like I've heard stories about him and him seeming like he'd be douchy to work with, you know? 00:43:38 But like, my God, that sounds ******* bad. 00:43:41 But I love, I love Edward Norton. 00:43:43 I think he's a great actor. 00:43:44 I think he's got a lot of talent. 00:43:46 I just, you know, it's unfortunate when you hear that somebody. 00:43:49 You know, if any of it's not true about him, I would still say that if somebody asked me to, like, pick the actors in Hollywood that would be great to work with, I would. 00:44:00 I would definitely not mention him. 00:44:02 I would not think he would be good to work with. 00:44:04 But that's me. 00:44:04 You know, he was in, you know, Edward Norton. 00:44:07 He was in Fight Club American. 00:44:09 History X primal fear. 00:44:11 Here, Moonrise Kingdom, rounders, the score, the illusionist. 00:44:16 I mean, these are all pretty ******* solid movies, you know, varying in in levels of of goodness, but all very good. 00:44:23 Donald Sutherland is in this movie, I'll be it very briefly. 00:44:27 He plays John Bridger. 00:44:29 He was, you know, you know him from like. 00:44:31 The Hunger Games movies and he was in Pride and prejudice with Keira Knightley and. 00:44:36 He was in a time to kill, which I covered on my blog.brandon@randomreviews.com because I finally got that domain name. 00:44:45 Yeah, Jason Statham is in this. 00:44:47 He plays handsome Rob. 00:44:49 He was in ****** and crank and the transporter, you know, just those kind of movies. 00:44:54 And he's in the fast and the furious. 00:44:57 He so Seth Green. Also in this movie he plays the character Lyle, who prefers to be called Napster because he claims that he invented the popular peer-to-peer file sharing service Napster while in college and the guy that ended up actually getting credit for it. 00:45:17 Was his roommate and he stole it from him. 00:45:19 It's, I'll mention, I'll bring that up a little bit later. 00:45:21 But yeah, just to you know, he's Napster, slash Lyle. 00:45:25 And so most staff is in this movie. 00:45:27 He plays Gilligan, or left ear. 00:45:29 Uh, he is, you know, he's he's pretty popular, pretty well established rapper, but he's a really good actor. 00:45:36 He's in, he was in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which I couldn't sit through. 00:45:40 I thought it was ******* terrible, like I listened to the books on audio or to the book, I should say, and it was like it was pretty decent, like I liked it and when I listened to or when I watched the movie. 00:45:50 I was just like, holy **** this was not what I was picturing at all. 00:45:53 He's also in a movie with Bruce Willis called 16 blocks, which I remember being pretty good. 00:45:58 This movie is basically about a bunch of, you know, a team of thieves. 00:46:04 Steal a bunch of gold in it in Italy and then they they get double crossed by one of their team who was played by Edward Norton and they and they have to concoct a what do I want to call it? 00:46:19 They have to concoct like a heist to to get them the gold back from him. 00:46:24 OK? 00:46:24 So that's just the the basic rundown. 00:46:27 I mean, there's some cool stuff in here 'cause, I mean, like. 00:46:29 There's a scene where they blow the the floor out from under a a safe in the very beginning of the movie, and you're led to believe initially that safe dropped onto a boat and they took the boat away. 00:46:42 My only thought was like, as soon as I saw it happen, I was like, well, if they want me to believe that that ******* boat like was able to to take. 00:46:49 On that ******* huge weight that fast. 00:46:52 Like kiss my *** you know what I mean? 00:46:55 I just kind of rolled my eyes and then of course they like pull the rug out from under you and it's actually the safe went to the bottom of the water and the they already had like a fake safe on top of the boat and they lead them on a wild goose chase while Donald Sutherland and Mark Wahlberg are breaking into the safe underwater. 00:47:15 So it kind of like there's a there's a moment where Seth Green and the beginning chase. 00:47:21 He, like, laughs at this guy who crashes in his boat and it's like, I guess that's Seth Green's character to do that, you know? Like he's gonna laugh at him, but it's it's so not a cool move, you know? 00:47:34 Like to ******* chuckle at it, but whatever I would, I would. 00:47:38 I want to mention that this is definitely like a 'cause. 00:47:40 This is. 00:47:40 Supposed to be it's billed as a remake of the movie from the 60s and that has Michael Caine in it, and I've watched that a few years ago now and it's like. 00:47:52 Michael Caine. 00:47:54 I only like old Michael Caine, you know, like, I I haven't found a movie by Michael Caine that was like particularly good that I that I watched where he was, like young in it. 00:48:04 You know what I mean? 00:48:05 And I know that was when he like made a name for himself, but still. 00:48:09 So basically this movie is nothing like that. 00:48:12 Original movie. 00:48:14 So I would call it more of a reboot than a remake. 00:48:17 And I mean, they really only shoot. 00:48:19 They only shoot the beginning in Italy. 00:48:21 And that's what why they call it the Italian Job. 00:48:24 And the people who wrote the movie only saw the original movie wants to get like, little hints of them for inspiration, but they didn't, like, take real elements. 00:48:33 From the story too, to go with, you know, and it's just every time I see, you know, in a movie like this where they're moving gold around and they're just trying to. 00:48:44 To, you know, take it away from from one place to another, in a hurry, under duress. 00:48:50 It's like, I immediately think to myself, what infox name like, do you realize how heavy gold is? 00:48:56 Do you realize how heavy it is? So the value of the stolen gold is listed as $35 million. 00:49:05 In 2003, when the film was released, gold prices ranged from around $320 to $420 per oz, at an average price of $370 per oz. 00:49:17 $35 million in gold would weigh just shy of three tons at 5912 pounds. 00:49:25 Tom, it kind of reminds me of like, I remember especially like the movie rush hour, they they had this ransom, you know, was $50 million and it was, they wanted it in small denominations, you know, like 20 million and 20s, you know, 10 million and 10, say 5,000,000 of fives, whatever. And like they talk about it, they're like. 00:49:46 Oh yeah, by the way, that amount of ******* money, like they they have it transported in the movie in like 2 small briefcases, right? 00:49:54 And they say like you would need so ******* much more like there. 00:49:57 It would take up so much more space than that, but. 00:49:59 It is what it is, you know. 00:50:01 You can. 00:50:01 I mean, it's just if you don't think about it too much and wish it like that in movies, it's not a big deal. 00:50:07 So when they get back originally before Edward Norton double crosses them, it's like they're talking about what they're going to do with it. 00:50:14 And he can't even think of a ******** thing to say to just make up to say that he's doing with this ******* money. 00:50:20 And I'm like. 00:50:21 What planet do you live on, dude? 00:50:22 Like, you can't think of anything that you like a lot that you want more of, like, get the **** outta here, they started playing Pink Floyd. 00:50:29 It's money, but it was like a cover version of it, you know? 00:50:33 And I did not enjoy it. 00:50:34 I always hate when they try and do that in movies where it's like, yeah, I'm not going to be fooled by the cover version. 00:50:39 Like, I know that's not Pink Floyd and it just it irked me a little bit. So there's a moment where they're tracking down where Edward Norton's character is and. 00:50:50 They're looking through. 00:50:51 His window at his TV and he turns on the TV and you can see a young Michael Caine. 00:50:56 I I'm assuming that that is a shot from the original. 00:51:00 I can't. 00:51:00 I don't remember the scene, but like. 00:51:02 It just looks far too familiar, you know, it's like, I think that's probably ******* the Italian Job on, you know, the original Italian Job in this movie, which is it's a funny little nod. 00:51:14 So whatever they do, a bunch of backs, or like they do a handful of back stories of all these characters, you know, explaining what made them who they are or what. 00:51:23 And a person they are or whatever. And when they talk about the guy, you know Seth Green's character while. 00:51:29 As you know, like how he had the, you know the the Napster program stolen from him by Shawn Fanning. 00:51:36 In the in the flashback scene where they show Seth Green like he falls asleep and his roommate goes to steal his his floppy disk from his computer, they actually show like it's it's really Shawn Fanning. 00:51:49 Like Shawn Fanning did the role in this movie of it, like it just as a joke, you know? 00:51:55 So I thought that was pretty ******* cool. 00:51:57 I would say Seth Green is, he's a pretty solid Comic Relief for this movie. 00:52:01 He does. 00:52:01 He does an impression of Jason Statham and, you know, 'cause. His character's name is Handsome Rob, and so he kind of, like, makes jokes about him picking up women and stuff like that. 00:52:13 Charlize goes from telling Marky Mark. 00:52:16 You know, 'cause like Chili's is Donald Sutherland daughter in this movie and Donald Sutherland dies. 00:52:23 And the the run in with Edward Norton when Edward Norton double crosses them and Marky Mark approaches her to ask her if she's interested in this job and she basically tells him, like I told you, you know to FCK off and never talk to me again, you got my father killed, blah blah. 00:52:40 And then like she almost immediately ******* goes goes back on that and Fuqing doesn't doesn't care anymore at all and just keeps working with them and get and warms up to them more and more every minute. 00:52:51 And it's like, OK, there's a scene where they're going to have Charlize go into Edward Norton mansion to fix. 00:53:00 The cable quote UN quote. 00:53:01 And really it's just like, you know, she's going in there for their own, you know, to just get an idea of what what they've got going on there and. 00:53:08 And she there. 00:53:10 Seth Green starts putting the pin on that, has the camera in it, and he's fumbling around and getting all nervous. 00:53:17 And then Marky Mark does it and it's like, why can't she put her own ******* pin on her *** **** self? 00:53:24 You know what I mean? 00:53:24 Like, why does she need a dude fondling about her **** 00:53:28 You know what I mean? 00:53:29 It it's it's ******* stupid. 00:53:31 Would say. 00:53:31 Ed Norton does an amazing job playing a bad guy. 00:53:34 I mean, he's really convincing, and I think he was probably channeling a lot of his own personal feelings about the movie and, you know, in this character. 00:53:43 But like, it's funny 'cause they keep talking about how massive his TV is, and his TV is honestly like, I wouldn't be surprised if it was like 50 inches at most. 00:53:54 And it's like, I guess you know by 2003 standards it would have been like the equivalent of 900 inches or something. So I guess that's that's cool they say that. 00:54:04 Charlize Theron was the best driver of the whole cast. 00:54:08 Just seems like. 00:54:09 Like, a lot of **** is going on at once at one point in the movie, and it's like it's almost too much. 00:54:14 I feel like because it's one thing to be like misleading or deliberately like lead you in the wrong direction as a viewer, but it's quite another to just overload you and annoy you. 00:54:25 You know what I mean? 00:54:26 So Norton convinces, Charlize is there. 00:54:29 Character to go on date, right? 00:54:34 And so she goes to the, you know, the the restaurant and Norton says, sure you don't seem like the adventurous type. 00:54:43 And she says, well, don't let the cable uniform fool you. 00:54:46 And he says. 00:54:48 I'm not making assumptions, and it's like you are 100% making assumptions. That is absolutely what you're ******* doing right now. 00:54:55 Like that's there's nothing else to call that. 00:54:58 You are making assumptions. 00:54:59 You said she doesn't seem like the adventurous type type. 00:55:02 What else is there? 00:55:04 You know what? 00:55:04 I mean and at. 00:55:05 The same scene in the restaurant I I decided I was officially. 00:55:09 Over the whole. 00:55:10 Concept of the scene where it's like the cliche where the bad guy says something, something to upset one of the good guys and the good guy like comes at him like they're gonna physically attack them and people have to hold them back. 00:55:25 And that's what happens. Like Ed Norton says, it makes a comment about like, Charlize's dad or whatever. 00:55:30 And Shirley comes at him and they hold him back, her hold her back and it's like fog off. 00:55:35 Like just I'd rather that you just let her ******* hit him and just be done with it. 00:55:40 You know what I mean? 00:55:41 I feel like the the whole casting of Donald Sutherland. 00:55:44 And character in this movie was it was deliberately misleading. 00:55:49 It was like, Oh yeah, you know, he can't possibly die that quickly because he's, you know, he's Donald Sutherland and he's going to have a bigger role in this movie. 00:55:56 But you know the so when they finally are on you know they their Edward Norton is going to move you know he's basically. 00:56:04 Jumping ship with the gold that he knows these guys are trying to steal and he looks like he has three different armored trucks to kind of like mislead, you know, and and to confess. 00:56:16 U's just basically interfere with, you know, what their plans are because he knows they're going to try and get it. 00:56:22 And so, you know, they still, they're able to figure out which one it is and they, they get into the truck and like they're going for the truck, it's an armored truck and they take a crowbar to it for, I don't know, 5 seconds. 00:56:36 Maybe it's like they're they're ******* into that armored truck with a crowbar that ******* quickly. 00:56:42 So yeah, anywhere so. 00:56:44 I mean, there's there's. 00:56:44 A big showdown with Ed Norton on. 00:56:48 He's in this helicopter, you know, and Mark Wahlberg is is in this Mini Cooper 'cause. 00:56:53 There's all these mini Coopers they're using to transport this show. 00:56:56 It and 'cause, they're small and easier to, you know, maneuver and all that stuff. 00:57:00 And so Edward Norton is in this helicopter and he there's like a big showdown with Wahlberg in this, like, under this bridge, basically. 00:57:08 And they say that there are no digital effects. 00:57:11 And I'm not surprised because, I mean, I know that there was technology available to do that. 00:57:16 But I don't think it would have looked as good in 2003. 00:57:20 As it would now. 00:57:21 If they tried to do that with digital effects. 00:57:24 So I I'm not surprised by that at all, but I would say All in all, it seemed like it was. 00:57:29 It was almost too easy, you know, the whole thing seemed like it was a little too easy. 00:57:34 But I will say the cast had like really good chemistry. 00:57:38 The tension was was well designed, you know, it was pretty high tension. 00:57:43 Ed Norton is an excellent villain. 00:57:45 Their own and Norton truly shine brightest in this film. 00:57:50 So only there are some things like there are moments, like lighthearted moments in this movie that are pretty stupid. 00:57:57 And I know a lot of people are going to pitch at me, but there's just dumb SHT going on, you know what I mean? 00:58:02 It's, you know, the whole blowing the woman clothes off with speakers is ******* stupid. 00:58:08 Guess what? 00:58:09 If you can, if you could make something that was going to be powerful enough to rip someone clothes off to blow them off their body. 00:58:17 That person would not just like be standing, they would ******* get knocked to the dirt, you know what I mean? 00:58:23 So that that kind of annoyed me. 00:58:26 It feels a little bit like and this isn't too big of a knock, but I I feel the need to mention it. 00:58:31 I feel like it wants to be Ocean's 11 on wheels, basically, and I don't think it quite gets there. 00:58:37 'cause, I think Ocean's 11 really ******* hammers at home. 00:58:40 And they do it with a bigger cast, you know? 00:58:43 So it's like, yeah, I'm not, I'm not as impressed with, you know, with the Italian Job, but you know, whatever, you know, I also want them to just get the get the real Pink Floyd song, please. 00:58:54 Thank you money. 00:58:55 So most of this film, well this is this is trivia by the way, most of the film was shot on location. 00:59:02 The director wanted it to be as realistic as possible. 00:59:05 The actors received a stunt driving course before filming and mostly did their own stunts. 00:59:10 32 Mini Coopers were used throughout the film. The writers literally only watched the original Italian Job once for inspiration. They wanted to make their own version. 00:59:22 They basically wanted to make their own movie, is what that means. 00:59:25 The runtime was 105 minutes, budget $60 million worldwide gross $176.1 million. IMDb Rating 7.0 Rotten Tomato critics score 73%. Rotten Tomato audience score 80%. 00:59:44 Personal rating of 4.5 out of five stars. 00:59:49 I think, given my criticisms, that that should seem a little surprising, but I still I I enjoy the movie quite a bit, and I I don't need to justify myself. 00:59:58 Thanks everybody for tuning in. 01:00:00 I do appreciate it. 01:00:02 As always, you know, stay tuned if this this new format actually works out. 01:00:06 If I you know, if you don't like it, if you you know. 01:00:09 I mean, obviously let me know. 01:00:11 If enough people tell me that they don't don't really care for it, then you know, I mean, I'd be happy to hear about it and and change it up again, But I'm just, I'm trying to find a rhythm, you know, I'm still pretty early into the the infancy of this podcast. 01:00:25 And I just, I'm trying to get there. 01:00:28 So, alright, already have a good rest of your day. 01:00:30 Thank you.