Oh, how it's good to be back! Hello everyone, thanks for coming join me here, another episode of Armchair Review, my name is Chris Godin. Holy shit, it's been a while. Good God, it's been a month since we last had a conversation.
What's been going on with me? I'm in all over the place. Shit, I took a big step in the work field. Some of you may have been following myself on the Instagram, at ChrisForGods, by the way.
It's been quite a trip. I'm doing some work training down here in Quebec, but I actually drove all across Canada. I left Yolane, I think March 1st, and took about six days I think. I'm further the drive down here.
I went all the way from Yolane to Edmonton to Calgary, Calgary to Regina, Regina to Thunder Bay, and then Thunder Bay to Ottawa for a weekend before coming in to Quebec to start this training. It was crazy. I've been very, very busy. Big changes for me.
James still back up in Yolane for all you loyal listeners. I don't know if I'm going to be going back to Yolane, I have to be honest with you. This new employment of mine will most likely put me anywhere in Canada. That's a good chance of that.
We'll see. But have all of us equipment with me. I brought it with me. I want to keep this puppy going.
My baby. Kind of keep going. So I finally have time here. Let's get right to it, guys.
Shit. I've been watching a couple things here and there, but I just haven't had time to actually press the record button. I'm going to be doing this one by myself. Hopefully, I can get some people on here as guests moving forward.
Maybe Rob Carl, he was on a couple episodes before, and maybe some new future co-workers of mine as well will join me here. But, that being said, let's get up to what I've been watching recently. Now, normally what I do is I do this shit at the end. I have to talk about what have I been watching, but there's been two bigger movies that I've gone to see in the past three weeks or so that were quite big for when they came out, but just didn't match up with times for me to actually go and press record, set all this shit up and get going.
But I'll do a quick little synopsis here. I went to see the first one that was out a little while ago, Alita Battle Angel. That was kind of just a whim to go see it. I just, what am I going to do today?
I have time. Fucking, I'll go see a movie. And Alita Battle Angel, I didn't really give a shit about it. It just looked like one of those movies.
I was like, yeah, it looks kind of fun. I'll go watch it. I have no idea what it's about. It's from manga, Japanese, manga, whatever.
Popular shit. And I honestly thought the movie was going to bomb. I thought the trailers made it look like a silly, but I couldn't tell what kind of silly was it going to be good, fun, silly, or was it going to be just absolutely ridiculous dog shit, just heated up in a microwave. I couldn't tell.
I was like, you know what? I'll go for a mat and ask me a shit, whatever. I actually didn't mind it. I'm going to preface that saying that it is, it's not great, but I can see how it was massively successful.
It made all the money. I don't have the facts with me right now. And Wi-Fi here, where I'm staying, has been down for about two weeks. I've been here for two weeks.
It's been down for two weeks. Maybe you can get on for five minutes here and there. All I know for sure is that the data chart is for everyone here is going to go through the fucking roof. But that's not here in the right there for right now.
It made all the money. It looks like a battle angel. The action scenes were probably the best part of it. Yeah, it was just fun.
The story is stupid. I couldn't give a shit. And the twist of the end with Edward Norton. Don't care.
It's spoils. Guys, this is 54 episodes in now. You've got to know that there's going to be spoilers all over the place. I'll be getting into that later with our feature, which I'll come back to in a minute here.
But it was just entertaining. It's one of those movies where you can just put on. You don't really have to give a shit about the plot. It's just like a roller ball, murder ball, or whatever the fuck it's called.
Those scenes are kind of cool. Anyway, the effects are cool. Action is cool. Story's dog shit.
Did I have a good time? Kind of. I mean, my expectations were like subterranean low, level of low. I didn't give a crap.
But I had a good time. And I can see this one being like getting on Netflix or something sometime soon. And yeah, it's just one of those. Just turn it on in the background.
You don't have to really pay attention to it. We can still enjoy it. Next, moving on. I didn't really want to talk about that one too much.
But Captain Marvel, that was huge. Came out on International Wednesday. My buddies and I, I think I came back at the night before. But we were there on Friday, the opening day.
We went to go see it and it was just, it was okay. It was just fine. Did I enjoy it? Yes.
Would I expect a little bit more from it? Probably. Just because of the way Marvel's running their ship now. The action was fine, but I feel like they were a little bit missing compared to other Marvel movies.
Again, this is an origin movie. So I might just be that I'm just getting sick of these origin movies and I like superhero movies. And I'm not saying this one's bad, but I kind of felt like a, I did enjoy a little bit more than man. Although I did, I really like, because Paul, I'm a big, Paul Red fan.
He kind of carries that performance really well. And pretty larcen. She's awesome in this. I really enjoyed it.
The whole, the whole twist with her mentor being the actual bad guy and she's, I didn't mind that. I knew it was coming. You don't need to be a genius to see that one coming from a mile away and especially like all these toys, like the Funko Pops and all that shit, even like Lego sets. I try to avoid like going on these comic books, movie sites and updates on that crap because those fucking poise are huge spoilers.
They come out months before this shit comes out and you see all these little like Lego sets with like Hulkbuster armor or something. I know that was a big spoiler for Avengers two or something like that. Or just like some of the villains right now, for example, like the new Spider-man. movie coming out.
These Lego sets are like getting away all these side villains are going to be popping out. But back to Captain Marvel. It's really good. We're not really good.
Just good. It was just, it was serviceable. I was expecting more. I liked how the twist though, you're led to believe that the Skrulls, all the green, like the Santaical Green Alien men, Shapeshafters were, were actually the good guys.
And in the comics they're, they're like invasion of the body's natures pretty much these guys can take any form of any like living creature and just shapeshifting to them. So they had a big, big comic arc as secret invasion, right? So this is what people thought it was going to lead up to that. And then they kind of do a switcheroo.
Skrulls are the sympathetic people, but at least in this movie, now I'm not saying like Kevin Feige, the big head honcho of Marvel air. He was saying that like, oh, well, they're just like humans. They have the capacity for both good and evil. So maybe we're just seeing a small faction of these refugee Skrulls and this intergalactic police force that Captain Marvel is a part of or Carol Danvers.
It's part of they're actually the bad guys or just a couple of dickheads. All right. But yeah, I just felt that there's something missing from it is empowering 100%. It's really cool.
Really looking forward to see her interact. Real Arson, Carol Danvers, her character interact with the upcoming Avengers movie Avengers ending, which looks unreal, by the way. I'm so excited for it. It's going to be pretty sweet.
And it's going to be like an end of, again, I think Kevin Feige was saying that the Infinity saga is what he's calling this. So it's going to wrap up and enter into a new phase of the Marvel movies where I kind of hope they're going to break away from these origin movies. I think you can do an origin bit really quick. I mean, I get that this character isn't as huge as the other, like, your Tony Stark.
Your Iron Man, your Spider-Man, and all that stuff. And I get you need to have some sort of description there or background knowledge, but still, it just starts repeating itself too much. And I think people are always talking about superhero fatigue and I'm a big superhero fan. I have a bunch of posters and shit in my place and y'all name.
But I'm getting tired of it a little bit. I want to cut right to the meat and potatoes. I want to see my action figures beat up other action figures and two cool shit. Yeah, and then that's obviously made all the money as well.
Again, I don't have all the facts with me. I have some facts for this main topic, which we're going to get to, speaking of shapeshifting and taking over identities and stuff. We're going to slide right into the feature this week, which I was super excited for. Another Jordan Peele original.
Yes, that's right. The man who brought you get out and is 50% of the duo key in Peele. We got us, another horror suspense thriller movie by your boy. Now people were kind of like, oh, is this going to be able to live up to get out because get out was really good.
I love that. And the whole thing was good. The plot was good. Performance is a great direction.
It was awesome. Can he have that and that was success? And does he? That's a fucking lutely.
I loved us. I have some gripes with it. I'll get it later. I enjoyed the hell out of it.
But in mind here, hopped on the 417 and found a movie theater, got a nice matte name for it. And I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it. Now, let's get what is us?
Well, we open with a family. It is husband, wife. I guess we don't open. Let me backtrack a little bit.
You get flashbacks throughout the entire movie. So little girl separates from her family at the amusement park on Santa Cruz boardwalk. She bumps into someone who looks exactly like her in a funhouse, a mirror funhouse, or whatever. Traumatizes her.
Or at least that's what we're led to believe. Traumatizes her. Didn't know what was going on. Freaks out.
Now present day, this was in 1986. Lots of fun little Easter eggs for the time. I think the Goonies is on a VHS or TV reflection or TD stand or something. You get hands across America, which is a huge, I forget what it was for, specifically it's for some sort of what's the word I'm looking for here.
Charity organization where everyone links hands and it's all hunky dory. I don't know. I wasn't even born in Christ. But that's on the TV and it's ads for that.
I forgot where I was going with this, but let's go back to the family. Flash forward, it's Adelaide. That's our main character, Adelaide. That was the young girl.
She's now married to what's her name, Gabe. These are both played by Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke. So you're Adelaide and Gabe. Well, husband, wife, and they have two kids.
Let's see. I forget their names. I'm going to give them credit here because they're really well. I think their kids names are Zora.
Let's see. It's going to be Bear with you guys. Zora and Jason. They are played by God.
I'm using up all my data right now. It's going to be fun trying to upload this later. Bear with me folks. You probably guys are yelling at me right now.
Goddamnit Chris. How the shit ready? Well, shut up. This is my podcast.
Goddamnit. Okay, here we go. I'm going to show you how to write Joseph, Zora, and then Evan Alex's Jason. Nice little family.
We meet them. They're going on a little vacation too. There's Summer House. Summer Vacation House.
I'm going to go down the beach and Gabe wants to show off to his new friends who are played by. I know one is Elizabeth Moss, who's from my area. I don't watch the show but apparently Handmaid's Tale is the shit. The bees knees.
I want to get into that. But again, no Wi-Fi. I can't really watch again. And then of Tim and Eric Awesome's show, fame, Tim Heidecker.
They play the other couple's friends and they're always trying to hold up each other's names. And they have two daughters as well. So you go to the beach, blah, blah. Adelaide kind of tells Gabe that later on that she had this traumatic experience at the beach.
That's why she was really hesitant. That's after they go there. Meanwhile, at the beach, Jason sees a man kind of covered in blood with a bread jumpsuit. That's kind of spooky and he has 11-11 on it.
And that's indicative. That was kind of warps back to the flashback as well. He's a guy at the beach. And he's holding up a scripture Jeremiah 11-11, which comes back over and over again.
That scripture. And actually it was bugging me. I really wanted to know what it was. I was watching that.
I had to look it up. I had to look it up. I was like, oh, here's the Bible. See, also references.
All right, here we go. That was taking me too long ahead of pause. But you didn't know that. Let's go into it.
Alright, Jeremiah 11-11 reads, therefore, best say it the Lord. Hold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape. And though they shall cry unto me, I will not harken unto them. So that's not fucking evil at all, Jesus.
That's kind of chilling. Actually, that's in the Bible. It's a lot of shilling shins in the Bible. But I read that.
That is frightening. Oh man. It makes perfect sense. It's tied in the movie.
So we see that repetitive scripture pop up either. You hear that. You hear that. Or see it.
But I like how they don't, like it's just there. You have to kind of figure out on your own later. But anyway, I'm getting sat-tracked all the time. You don't have someone to bounce off all these thoughts.
I'm going all over the place. I don't do notes. So I probably should, though. Show notes.
Anyway, anyway, we have the family. And one night, as Adelaide is telling Gabe over her childhood trauma, boom. Power goes out. Kind of spooky.
What timing? That's great timing. There's a family at the end of the driveway. And it really kicks off from here.
It doesn't slow down at all. From here on out. The family, this family terrorizes the Wilson family. And shit hits the fan.
They're all lined up. You can see it in when they're driving. There's stupid little family stickers on the back of many vans and shit. We have little stick figures.
Oh, there's mom, dad, and the kids. And dog, whatever. They have that. And actually, the way the doppelgangers, these people are, I guess, the spoiler.
And the doppelgangers are all lined up. The way they were on the sticker on the back of the Wilson family car. That's kind of cool where you were able to pick that up because there's all sorts of these little e-stars. And I'm sure I've missed a handful.
At least I was looking over some trivia stuff. I missed a couple things. But I wouldn't have really got it unless I really dig for it or else watching it because there's so much. So much to think about in this movie.
It just keeps going. You have to just questions, questions, questions, questions. Let's get back to the house entry. Fourth century.
I thought these group of people, they're all wearing Birkenstocks, sandals, red jumpsuits. They have these leather gloves. They all have a pair of shears. Just giant pair of scissors.
They break into the family. They start terrorizing the Wilson's. And lo and behold, guess what? They're doppelgangers.
They're identical to the Wilson's. And you explain how they call themselves the tethered. So kind of like the shadow people, the red who is Adelaide's doppelganger. She's the only one that can speak.
It's very raspy. It's very, very off-putting the way she speaks. And awesome job by Lupita Noger. She's already a phenomenal actress.
She's great here. She really cares the movie, I think, personally. They're all great because, again, they're playing two different roles. And they're all creepy.
They're all creepy. And in fact, they can't speak other than red. Adelaide's doppelganger. It makes it even more disturbing because they bark, they groan.
And it's kind of humorous in a way too. And I think that's what you might be saying. You're surprised with the level of humor in this. But it's Jordan Peele.
You got to know that he's going to sprinkle in his own flavor. His own flavor is on the brand. I mean, he's been known for comedy. And now, guess what?
He's going to get known for horror, I think. Because he's on terror. And I'm really excited. He's attached to the next Twilight Zone.
I don't know if it's going to be like a series or movie or whatever it is. But I know he's attached to it. I don't know if he's going to be directing and writing it. But I have 100% faith in this guy.
So we're back in kind of shit hits fan. I'm not going to go right into crazy details. Go back into the scenes that I liked and disliked. But from there, doppelgangers, they all split off and start attacking their own individual opposite.
So Red, Stace, Adelaide, Gabe, goes with Abraham, his doppelganger, and the kids go with their own respective ones. Jason gets locked in closet with his doppelganger, the burnt messed up face. And Zora, she's known for tracks. She just hits the road running.
And her doppelganger, I think you forget the doppelgangers thing for her. But always smiling with the slick back hair. Creepy. That smile never stops.
And the fact they all have these sunken in eyes a little bit. So off-putting. But just that's what it's for. You want to get horrible?
You want to feel super fucking uncomfortable for two hours? All right. Well, this is what you signed up for. So yeah, they go with their own ways.
They all have their different experiences with them. And all of a sudden, they're not the only ones being attacked. It's just it's hitting the fan all over the place. Shit is hitting the fan everywhere.
Not just them. All these doppelgangers are coming out of nowhere. I think the young people who are here are going to be here. All these doppelgangers are coming out of nowhere.
I think the other family there, Elizabeth Moth and Tim Heidecker's family, they get attacked, murdered just ruthlessly with these shears. My question is, we're going to get in this. We're really getting this stuff. It's all perfect.
Like they sharpen their shears before they come up. Like they don't have any other weapons. Just thousands of pairs of scissors and a red jumpsuit. Sweet sandals.
We're going to find some of those sweet Birks, baby. Fuck. One side fits all, I guess. Anyways, let's get into what I liked.
Besides mostly all of this. There's not a lot of action, but the set pieces for when they're fighting each other are really cool. I enjoyed the dad humor from Winston Duke. He's just a typical dad who just tries to be intimidated but he's just not.
He's a lovable, just a dad. He's a typical dad jokes most of the time. Really funny. Let's see, his little fight with his doppelgangers is kind of cool.
Before I get into things, I get into things. I get into things. One thing that I didn't like. So many stupid fucking choices.
Why are these characters always so dumb? So dumb. I want just smart decisions. Not just even smart, but realistic decisions.
The dad, for example, Winston Duke, he's just such a beta. He's such a beta. There's so many opportunities where you can just survive a little bit better. You have a baseball bat.
You're getting your house broken into. You've just been assaulted. You've got your baseball bat stolen. You've got your knee almost caved in.
Then once you get the baseball bat and they start running at you again, defend yourself dude. Man, do better. It's just so frustrating. It does eventually, but God damn it.
Finish it. The girl has more of a killer instinct or survival instinct than Adley gets there, but all of them. God, it's so frustrating as a viewer. Obviously, it's fiction, but what would you do in that situation?
I'm being assaulted. I'm going to defend myself. There's four of them. There's four intruders.
You don't know. Anyway, that really pissed me off. There's a couple instances throughout the movie where it's just they don't. You've seen Zombulan.
What's an important rule? The double tap. Go back and finish the business. Shit.
I don't even care. Break their knee caps in. Do something. Just survive better.
Survive better. Maybe it's 11-y. I don't know. That was my main bugaboo that I was just pissing out.
I'm tired of that. I want realistic characters. Give me a character or a group of characters that are like the stoner fella from Cabin in the Woods who are just always calling out the bullshit in the scenarios. And just wait, what?
No, this is stupid. I want that. I want that. You can't have everything though.
Now that was the main thing I didn't like. That's just me. Moving forward now. What I did like.
Performances. Phenomenal performances, as I mentioned earlier, I definitely want to highlight the film I think for sure. What else we got here? The direction.
Jordan Peele knocks it out of the parking lot. His direction is awesome. Just the way he shoots his angles, his shots where people are right in the middle of the screen and they follow them like super closeups, eyes. Obviously a lot of reflection being associated here.
Seeing the doubles. How some mirrors. Just little things like that. Or even when analyzing your head, jumping down against the coffee table and you see a lot of that with her.
You get a lot of that. It's just shot really well in the movements of the characters. Awesome. Like the little Pluto super.
Like he's wearing a GIMMASS for Christ sake. It's probably like nine, ten years old and he's wearing a GIMMASS. Like it's just fucking... It's disturbing.
And what helps with this whole atmosphere. They're going with these shots and the way he's filming it. The music, the music being used in here. Really good use of music.
The trailer, you know, like a vibe on it. Super eerie that kind of slow it down. Like I got five on it. Mmm.
Like that song. And they played a couple times here with like differing, you have the real one. They have a slowed down more eerie version. You get like a lot of string background music to set the mood.
It's like a lot of like plucky strings. And they all don't really go together. So it makes it feel, it adds to kind of like the... Can't speak, goddamnit.
The disjointed movements of the characters. So you're getting all of this at once. It just builds up the whole feeling of just uncomfortable. I was uncomfortable.
I was on the edge of my seat for a lot of it. So that's awesome. I really credit Jordan Peele for that phenomenal job directing. Can't wait to see what he does next moving forward.
Another one last thing I got to mention here. I really enjoy it. He does really well at Jordan. Jordan has a fine...
I know I'm on a first name. Yeah, but Jordan, you know, I mean, no, him is a famous director. No, Jordan Peele. He's really good at showing him.
He's developing the story with the audience. And he's taking his time. This movie's two hours, I think two hours. Just under two hours, just over two hours.
He's taking his time. It felt long. It was long at points. But that's because I want answers.
But he's showing you answers, not telling you answers. It kind of gets that at the end where Red and Adelaide have the final little showdown. And it's a brutal little showdown, by the way. A lot of stabby stabby actions.
I feel like people getting merged with knives or shears. You might feel a little more... Yeah. Yeah.
Just kind of shake it off a little bit. You know, you got that little chill on your spine. But he's really good at just kind of developing those answers. But if you really need to know absolutely everything there is to know about this plot.
At the end of the movie, well guess what? Tough shit. You're not getting it. You have so many questions that are left unanswered.
And guess what? It's going to be frustrating because I want to know, again guys, how many times have I gone over this on this podcast? Just add nauseam at this point where I'm like, I want to know, I want to know, but don't you fucking tell me. I like the mystery, but shit, I want to know.
I want to know, but I'm glad they... I'm glad I have more questions because that just makes it even more disturbing. It makes the impact of the film, the horror element of it, last long because you don't know. And guess what?
Not having knowledge scares their shit out of people. Because it's just left without a paddle. You're left without a paddle. You got no life preserver, you're Foxville.
But I like that. I like that. Some people are really outraged at that. I don't get it.
Well, guess what? You're stupid. You're really not kind of supposed to get it. Yes, it's there.
You can take this, there's all sorts of deep meanings. This movie is a giant metaphor. It's literally us versus them, essentially. It's the fear of the other, the xenophobic other.
I guess not. I guess the other one would be xenophobic, but society as a general, you know, class versus like upper class, lower class, middle class. You have levels in society. And this one, they just kind of, they literally have these people below ground, like subterranean.
So they're obviously beneath us, right? At least that's the whole metaphor of it. That's what I got out of it. The whole get out was more of a racial message, obviously.
This one, sure, there can definitely be intonations of, you know, race being that. But I think it's mainly class. It's up to your interpretation. Like there you can go a thousand different ways.
I'm not going to get into that too much because guess what? I'm not a film agent. This is armchair reviews for a reason. But that's what class versus class, literally.
And then the whole kind of yourself, the fight against yourself, your inner body. The fight against yourself, your inner battle. I don't know. Maybe I was making this shit up.
Very well, maybe. Who knows? But yeah, there's so many questions. And like the whole rabbit thing, I guess they're getting raw meat and rabbits just, you know, always making new rabbits, you know what I mean?
So I guess that's their food. Let's get into the tether though. I'm going to get into the tether right now. Just give it a little more information.
They're, we're led to believe that this is where I kind of, where I wasn't too much of a fan of, where Red is talking to Adelaide again at the final showdown. And she says, oh, we're a failed government experiment. Or made to take over the people in the above world and to control society a little bit. So the opening, you see like over thousands of miles of underground tunnels and blah, blah, blah, blah.
So that's where these people live, underground. Just miles and miles and let's hallways. And I guess they're eating rabbit for food. And I guess it's described that they don't have a soul.
They're missing their, they can be everything, like perfectly, like clones, essentially. They don't, they don't go into how they're made. Again, it's just a government experiment that fucked off and the government just took off. They're just like, all right, well, this didn't work.
Let's just leave all these clones in the basement untended and leave them to their own devices. It'd be fine. It'd be fine. Someone dropped the ball and I went, because a lot of people died because of that shit.
But yeah, they're, so they're soulless and they're mirrored reflections. So really, before Red kind of makes this whole uprising, you, you kind of see the glimpses of how she grew up in this underground living environment, where everyone is just mimicking their above ground doppelganger. Their actual person, their clone, their, their mimicking their actions. Again, that's, it's a scene that's, it's gonna cut it with the flashback of the, of the, of the mum and dad of Adelaide.
Who, by the way, I'll mention this right now, play by Anna Deup, who is on the new DC Titan show. She plays Starfire, I think it is. And then also the, the dad of Adelaide, he plays Black Manta on the Alcoma movie. So you get to a DC Universe actors coming into play mum and dad there.
That's, it's just kind of like a fun fact for you guys. What is that gentleman's name by the way? Here, it's okay. So, yeah, yeah, Abdul-Mateen the second or junior.
I guess it's just the second. So come a second. Yeah, yeah. Cool.
So that's nice. Again, small, small roles, but, but you see them walking up top, like the actual versions of them at the, at the carnival or the boardwalk. The Sankers boardwalk, kind of like shimmying and kind of dancing music and then it cuts down to the underground version, like the clone. And they're kind of shimmying too, but there's no context and there is context, but there's no background music.
They're just kind of like shuffling. It just seems weird when they're just in a blank hallway. It's really unsettling. And like even the people that, you know, cuts this people on the rollercoaster, see people on a rollercoaster.
And then they're double gangers like stuffed into this like this classroom type thing and they're reacting or shaking as if they're on a rollercoaster, but they're just standing. Really kind of creepy to look at. But again, no one's speaking. They don't speak.
They just grunt and shit. But, but Red can. She's the only one. Oh, they have their showdown.
That's really cool. Oh, blah. Then you see how it's affecting the everyone else. Like it's not just, it's not just home invasion movie.
It expands elsewhere. And this is where you can have a sequel if you want. But again, I think you can just have this as a standalone. I don't know if this is going to be, I think there's rumblings that maybe this might be linked to the get out movie as well.
It's all same universe type thing. I think you need to do that though. Like you really know, it's not time to make universes happen. Like movie universes happen.
It happens cool, but you just have one off. You can just have a one off. I like the questions here guys. I don't need a follow up to keep going.
Like, maybe, again, yes, it'd be fine. But I feel sometimes we have a sequel that ruins the impact of the original. This original will have a better impact if you don't have a sequel in my humble opinion. But you see them, they're all doing hands across America.
So you start thinking, okay, well, this is kind of an outdated thing. I was from 1986, what's going on here? You can kind of start as a viewer if you're actively paying attention to this movie. The wheels in your head are already turned in.
And I like, there's a twist here. There's a big twist. For me, I kind of could see it coming from a mile away. Like, you don't need to be paying that much attention to me honestly.
But the twist wasn't all that twisty. I like to believe that it was Adelaide and Red fighting each other and Adelaide's the mom. Whoops, whoops and Aziz. The flashback expands at the end of the movie.
Red at the end is like the, I see dead people. The whole twist. Oh shit, Adelaide is Red. Red is Adelaide.
Whaaaaa? You mean she's from the Underground? Adelaide is actually Red. Oh fuck yeah dude.
You go to the flashback again. When Adelaide goes into the house of mirrors, Red chokes that motherfucker out. She chokes her out, brings her downstairs, drags her to the underground facility. Cuffs her.
Cuffs her to her bed, takes her Michael Jackson thriller. T-shirt. Puts it on. Boom, takes her place.
And it goes back into that whole therapy session where the parents, they're like, I just want my little girl back. I just want my little girl back. Legit. She's not just saying that.
Like, oh, you know, she's traumatized. You know, she's laughing. No, no, no. It's almost like she knows.
It's kind of funny the way it's worded. Like, I want my little girl back. Like, it's not her daughter. It really isn't.
And you just thought like she was traumatized. But no, no. It's an entirely different person. So this person is in a shell.
She starts learning the language. She has all the things that Adelaide had. And now she's learning to, she obviously learnt how to just be a human or act like a human. And then on the same version, the real Adelaide or who were led to leave as red, she devolves.
She's the only one that can speak because she could speak beforehand before she got kidnapped or whatever. So they'll switch through. That's why she can speak. So there's little clues that like, why is she so special?
You know, she had the first interaction with the clone. So again, little bits and pieces here that you can definitely, definitely kind of figure out and not be too, too surprised when it happens, but makes perfect sense. And then also her like demonstration where the course, like that was the last thing she saw was Hands Across America was on that TV. So what is everyone doing?
They're doing Hands Across America. And literally, literally, they are tethered together. They're holding hands like, oh, it's kind of just in your face a little bit like that. This is the whole symbology of like when, when bread slash Adelaide cuts the paper chain of stick figures finally untethered.
Anyway, okay. So I'm going to do this right after watching the movie, but I actually had everything set up here. And then my computer started to update and took 14 hours to finish or whatever the hell I just left it. Then Nick Balen, I just didn't have the patience to wait for an update.
But I'm glad because now I have time to think about it. I'm digesting everything. There's going to be so many things that you can pick apart from this movie and like, and realize and come back to me like, oh, wait, but does it mean this? Does it mean that?
Us them? Am I a dollar ganger? I don't even know. Questions, questions, questions, questions, questions.
I want to know your questions, email the show. Oh my god, an audio, gmail.com. Oh, H-M-Y-G-O-D-I-N audio at gmail.com. I want to know your questions seriously because I got plenty, you know, and I'm just going to keep coming.
I'm just going to keep coming. I'm going to see it again. I'm not probably in theaters. I'm going to wait until it comes back out for, for rent or digital download or hell.
I want to see it again because there's going to be now that I've seen the full thing. I want to go back and like pick apart all these Easter eggs. Like you get a lot of gimme these references where you're going to have a lot of underground action in that movie. Yet, chud.
I think it's a cannibalistic humanoid underground something. Another older movie reference that they have in there. But I think that'll be good for that. Kind of just a little bit change of direction.
You see a lot of the influences that this, that Jordan Peele brings to the table for this. You get a lot of, obviously your home invasion movies. I got mixed in with some other stuff obviously because of how wacky and outlandish it gets. But you know, yet I was thinking of the strangers.
I think that came out 2008, lived Tyler and Scott Spieven. That movie was super creepy and it just ends. It just ends. And there's no point.
Like the whole like, why are you doing this? You're home. So you get that home invasion, that really claustrophobic, you're stuck in your own house, being hunted down in your own house. That fact of, you know, you feel like if someone's watching you or in your own living space, it's a violation.
It is a violation of you, of your space, of everything. That's what's kind of so uncomfortable with those movies and watching them. Because it is just that's the best word I can describe is a violation. So you get that.
Another one that I actually really like this movie. There's an original I think that came out in 1997 and then the remake was done by the same director. Funny games. It was an originally Swedish film, I think.
I saw the original and I also saw that the remake has Tim Roth, Michael Pitt and Naomi Woz. Again, really good. Kind of just fucked up again. Another home invasion where there's just ultra violence for the sake of ultra violence.
Why not? Again, I really recommend that either one. They're both equally deserving of it. But I like Michael Pitt's performance in the remake quite a bit.
He's just, I find him to be pretty good actor. So again, six cents that the whole twisty, twisty to the end there. You get a lot of that. And even the shining, you know, I was just saying like the family friends, they have two daughters, right?
And get a whole lot of imagery associated with the twins from the shining. You know, how they're, how they're kind of just always together, you know, even when they're when they're murdered and then when they're laying on the ground, it's very reminiscent of how those twins in the flashbacks of the shining, how their bodies are kind of positioned in the death scenes and stuff. So you get that and even kind of making fun of Jason for playing instead of like, oh, you want to play with us with shining is like these kind of mocking him for playing in the sand or whatever. So you see those, those things, if you're into like a lot of horror stuff, I think there's a couple other things that Drampiel had said in interview where he got his his motivations or his inspiration, I should say, but those ones for me, I can easily see all of that and then the accumulation together to bring this movie.
Just like to shout outs to, you know, Michael Jackson, thriller for Christ sake, all these little tidbits all across like that's what I want. I think there's a good, good amount of rewatchability here just so that you can pick up on all these little things. I find that really fun for me too, especially when this movie, because you're just thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking like, what did I just watch? Like, I think I feel it's important to kind of go over it again.
Now you've had time to digest and see what you can pick up. So having said this movie crushed it at the box office, North American box office. I think it had over 70 million in domestic, domestic, United States and Canada. It's insane for for a hormone.
I think even today, today is the 24th of March came out that this is the highest grossing original horror movie of all time for a single weekend debut. That's massive beat out a quiet place. That's unrequited place was dope. That would be sick.