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Oh yeah, this guy has wives. The Theory Men. His favorite instrument is? What is it?
The Theory Men, right? Dude, I love it. It's been quite the little journey, A-Rob, since August. Oh, what a cute little journey you've gone on here.
Oh, look at that. What, some 12 to 15 adaptations? If I'm Stephen King, I'm laughing. Yeah, that's laughable stuff.
And it's weird, because he's laughing even though it's not scary, and he has such a sick sense of humor. Yeah. How are you feeling at this point, our journey? The end?
The end? Our final episode. What's going on behind me? You're like a lens flare, you know?
Yeah, it looks like what was it? Who directed this? Fucking Len Wyser, J Abrams. Len Wyser has been more like Len's full men.
Hey, knock off all those Len's flares, right? I don't want to look like a jackass out there. All right? Act like you know where to put the fucking lights, please.
You know who doesn't need it? You know who doesn't need lens flares? Is that the Deek? Yeah, the Deek.
The Deek don't need no lens flares. No, you know what, in this movie, there could have been a lot of lens flares, and I didn't see a single one. Disagree. The sky is clouded over with crud.
That's true, but how all the unnatural lighting is coming from all directions here. He could have saved up to buy like an artificial lens flare. Yeah, his computer. Maybe next time, Deek.
I meant Ryan Gosling's character, but also also the Deek. Yeah, he's got to save up. He's pinching pennies. It's been a series filled with ups and downs.
I think more downs than ups by a lot. And all concentrated in the middle. We're sort of like bookended with better material, and I do mean like the very ends. Yes, the very ends, right?
Because, you know, Robo, we're not Robo cops. I totally recall right before this. RoboCop is on the Patreon. That commslash came me pod.
Right. Total recall, total dud. More like a adjustment bureau. Could have used some adjustments.
Yeah. Radio free album move. No notes. Perfect movie.
Perfect movie. I like how long it was. But yeah, we are kind of going out on a bang. You love this movie.
You called this a masterpiece. I stand by it. I feel like I have my expectations set to high. Yeah, and I think that's my fault, but which I always try and manage expectations.
I got so excited for this. I understand. I understand. I also think you generally, you love world building.
I don't need that so much. I'm sort of a fly by night sort of. I love world building. Taunt.
Yeah. I love. See, like specifically, I love sci-fi world building. I think like the world of the original Blade Runner, like that hellish sort of LA where it's like overcrowded, constantly raining.
And there's like a place that I think as we're watching, we're both like, I would love to live. Yeah, like this place sucks. Where can I go? Just walk up out of the rain, you eat some noodles.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What could be better?
What is that? Real snake? Of course not. It's serious.
It's just it's like, it feels like a video game. Like when it was open world video games, you want to just like walk around and explore, you know? I had that thought because something I kind of didn't like about this was the like it was so video open world video game in the sense that there was like a wet region, a cold region, a hot region, like it did. There were like, you need one of each weather is kind of my complaint.
I know that's stupid, but it's like part of what I think is so great about Blade Runner is like it just traps you in this world for the most part. Like you go to like the corporate headquarters or whatever, which is like this weird beautiful temple, but it stands in starker relief to the rest of the world because of that. So I can't I can't disagree with you there. I think I'm gonna make you hate this.
No, no, impossible. I hate it. I don't hate it. You were just kind of lukewarm on it.
So I the the original, it just I don't think we ever leave. It really like there are only a few sort of set pieces, right? It's like, you know, deckers, apartment, you go to like the like the Tyrell Corporation and there's a couple shot, you know, a couple scenes in that office, you know, setting or whatever. You're bounced around sort of interiors or whatever, more exteriors in this, but you're we leave LA.
All exteriors, basic kind of how it feels. Yeah, we're outside a lot. And not in LA a lot, right? We're sort of bouncing around the shots that the stuff that takes place in LA, I think is like the the first I think it's when K of course, play by Ryan Gosling, right?
Tommy Lee Jones. Hey, these are the only K in my book. You could luck wiping him from my memory. They had that conversation.
They're like, are people gonna get this confused with Tommy Lee Jones? They're gonna think they're watching that in black. Is this a prequel? Does Ryan Gosling grow up to be Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black?
Blade Runner 2049, shits on the legacy of Men in Black. I remember that was a huge, that's why this underperformed at the box office. Yes. I just like how shitty everything is in general.
Like we leave LA, the shots that are the stuff that takes place in LA looks bad in a very in a specific sort of way. Like it looks like a bad place to live, but also like the advertising has become so much harsher and worse. An assault. Big huge, big huge lady won't leave you alone.
Big huge naked lady won't leave you alone. And you're like, lady, I'm just trying to cross the bridge. Yeah, you're just like a like a hundred foot tall and a darmus. I'll pink and blue and shit naked.
And you're just like, what am I supposed to do? Yeah, what am I? Okay, I guess I keep walking. What?
A lot of big lady stuff in this. Of course, of course, women, the very idea of women. Oh, yeah. Loom say there's it's physically big ladies, but also just ladies spiritual, the mother.
Yeah. Right. Like that is such a predominant theme. And the literalize it in that way I did think was like kind of funny.
It's just like big chicks everywhere. Yeah, big chicks. But I like going outside of like the main city here and like, you know, I mean, it's all pretty cool. Yeah, I mean, just just going to these other places and like, yeah, I mean, not just the city sucks.
Everything sucks. Don't worry. Yeah. There's no.
I'm also not huge on the dunes, Dunie Villeneuve. I know. And this is a thing that you have said before that you feel like he is a screen saver filmmaker. I thought of a new one, which is that all of his movies look like music videos for EDM DJs who live in Dubai.
It's just all so super specific, very slick. It's like, I may have even said this on the show. They're like music videos that only play at gyms. And it's all like that kind of music.
And they're always like on like four, four K cameras in like the desert. And it's just like a guy to turn table in the desert. And it's just like beautiful, very beautiful, but like sterile imagery. Now this is not that.
There's not sterile. But I do think like, I think something I liked more about this than I like about the tune movies is that because it's Blade Runner and because the set design is all terrific, like it feels more lived in whereas Dune is just like so you're not like, oh, what's that on the table there? You know, there's like none of that. And it's a different story.
I get it. I also don't hate Dune, but like, and also Roger Deacon's dead for Dune, right? Or doesn't work on it at any rate. Is he dead?
Is he dead? I assume he's dead. He could be. He feels dead.
It's the name of a guy who doesn't exist. But whether or not he's dead, he's dead too Denny. No, he's still alive. Okay, still very much alive.
Did not work on Dune. And I think that really shows also like Dune is so sterile and beautiful, but also there's nothing to grab onto. I think in the way that this is incredibly visually interesting at all times. Well, yeah, I mean, that's also sort of the nature of being like, oh, this movie is set in the sci-fi future.
And this is set in a future so far away on a desert planet that you don't know. But again, it's like, have fun with it, you know? Yeah. I mean, in this, I feel like you can like, you can kind of, again, like, you want to look around and stuff in the Dune movies.
You're like, what am I going to see here? It's all fucking sand. It's all sand and spice here, baby. I don't know.
Yeah. Probably also, you can make a case that like, it's more necessary for Dune to like kind of keep things focused because there's so much more plots to get through. You're like, you're getting distracted by like visual, like, you know, I guess one of the things and then you're like, wait, who's this Liz Menell guy? Yeah, I'm basically like, what are they all on about?
Yeah, I was like, you know, you know what would make this movie better is if you did all the things that made Dune 1984 fail. Yeah. What is it like visually rich Yeah. Yeah.
What if, what if your shield was a little bit boxier? I like it. Yeah. Anyway, this is not the Dune episode.
No. It was about Blade Runner, the remake from 2049. That's right. Which I thought was interesting because that year hasn't happened yet.
Ah, the original takes place in 2019, I believe, which has happened and was like that. Yeah. Surprisingly, it was worse than Blade Runner. It wasn't even raining in LA.
Yeah. Well, everything was on fire. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. No rain, but a lot of fire. So, I mean, off the top here, right, the original Blade Runner is considered like a masterpiece, right?
People love that movie for a lot of different reasons, right? And it's, you know, like, really Scott has gone back, recut it, I think like five times now with the final cut being like the definitive one at this point until, you know, he gets a little fucking a wild hair up his ass again and he's like, no, this time, fucking everybody's a replicant and I'm the only real man in the world. But where the inverse is like, oh, they're all humans. It's me.
You have to watch out for it. He's got like a big red sort of like cyborg. Yeah, like the Terminator like a red. But when they announced that they were making a sequel to Blade Runner, like people not got up in arms or whatever, but they were like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Like, because it's such a sort of individual movie, right? The ending, the ambiguous ending of like is decorative replicant or not is like one of those questions in like sci-fi in movies, really in general. That's like, oh, that's kind of like one of the best sort of like, ambiguous endings, like is he replicant? Well, there's evidence that he is.
There isn't, you know, the different depending on which cut of the movie you see, like that has an effect on, you know, all this kind of stuff, right? So when they're like, we're going to make a sequel, that's like a big thing that people are thinking about is like, how are they going to do this successfully? That's such a sort of such an amazing movie. And how do you do it?
And still honor the original without, you know, like, like a lot of like, you know, we get a lot of legacy sequels now. And it's like, you know, I'm thinking of like the Halloween movies off the top of my head, right, where they're like, all right, we're going to ignore everything after the first movie and just pick up directly after the first movie, right? You see a lot of movies doing that where it's just like, ignore everything, right? Start over, whatever, which is fine to whatever.
But like, you can't do that with this, right? It has to be like, it has to be good. You have to fucking make it like, you know, especially now everybody, like, how do you make that world so interesting presently when movies just don't look the same, they're not made the same, they don't tell the same kind of stories, you know, it's just like, how do we make this sequel from 35 years ago, good and feel a piece with the original, right? Which I guess is part of good that falls under.
Well, yeah, right. How do you keep it? Keep the quality while maintaining, you know, honoring the original. And weirdly, like, I mean, I guess the question you ask yourself when you're making something like this is like, who's the, who are the analogs to present day, right?
To sort of like, helm things. And I do feel like, Denis, I'm not a huge fan, but I'm also not a huge fan of Ridley Scott, generally speaking. I do feel like they, I'm gonna fucking say a wild statement and I like more Denis movies than Ridley Scott movies. Sure.
I think Ridley Scott has like some really great movies, but ultimately is bad. He might just be a journeyman. I think he is, I maybe said this last time we talked about him, but he reminds, he is like a power, a baseball power hitter who strikes out his 190 batting average by every time he puts the bat on the ball, it goes 500 feet. Yes.
But there, there's a lot of fucking misses. So many misses. So many misses. I'm gonna say something else.
The wrong brother died. I would agree with that 100%. I want 100% if I could do it all different. Yeah.
Yeah. I feel like one of those like bad fathers from a Steven Campbell. Yeah. Yeah.
One of those, the thing that happens in standby, I feel like it happens in other King things, but yes. The wrong brother died. Or what's the walk hard? Oh, yeah.
But I think, yeah, but point being like, I think, you know, Denise probably, he's had more success, he makes consistently more successful movies than Ridley Scott. But in terms of like ability to sort of like balance spectacle with like, I don't know, there's like, he's got a, he's got a knife for big, for grand scopes. He can do that very well. I could do big.
He can do big and he can do big all by himself. But also like, yeah, plenty of commercial success and not really like an art, no pretensions of being like an art house filmmaker. Like, yeah, I think Denise just out here making popcorn films. Well, now he is.
Yeah. I think I saw it's enemy is like one of the early ones. Enemy. That's my new film enemy with Jake Gyllenhaal.
That's like, I wouldn't say it's an art house movie, but it's definitely a much smaller sort of movie, but it still has the Denny feel to it. So on a wide shot, a lot of establishing the where was establishing shots. He's always establishing stuff. He does it there.
There is like, you know, we're gonna talk about Sicario on Friday. Yeah. There is one edit in that. I wish I could remember exactly what it is, but it just like cuts away from the action for a second to give you like a fucking drone shot of like the city and then it just cuts right back.
Like they're editing around something with lavish, beautiful drone photography can't help himself. Yeah. And we started on these drones, oh, they're everywhere. They're scaring the they're scaring the people of New Jersey.
They are scared. Yeah, I'm not scared. I ain't curious, but I'm not scared. I saw one last night.
You did. Yeah. And it's not a plane. No.
So my quick drone story here is that I was driving home from work. It was, you know, very late, like 2 30 in the morning, and I'm on the parkway. And I see it. And I thought it was a plane like very far in the distance, right?
And I'm getting off the parkway at my exit. And I can still see it. It's kind of like directly in front of me. And again, I still think it's a plane.
And then as I'm like going through the toll and whatever, it's getting like closer. And I realized that it's not a plane off in the distance, but a drone much closer to me. Oh, okay. Because, you know, it's dark.
I can't really like depth. I can't really tell or whatever. Right. And then also you're driving.
So you're drunk. Yeah. Right. That makes it hard.
It's 2 30 morning, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's the safest time to drive drunk.
Um, so, and then like, I end up passing right underneath it. And it just, it looked like, you know, I was like, I was driving. I couldn't really tell. It was dark and stuff, but it kind of just looked like a long stick in the air with like a green light on one side and a red light on the other side that we're like blinking.
Like it's changing. Yeah, like a plane. Yes. But like I said, like much closer and right over me.
Weird. It was very strange. And I don't know what it was. Well, thank you for sharing your drone story.
Thank you. I'm glad I was able to say. I must say, because of your story, storytelling style and all your stories, your drone stories. I don't mean it.
I just, when you said drone story five minutes ago, you're like, I was like, I better keep that one in the chamber. I was wondering why you were winding up your hand like that. It is like, you're we go. Wrapping my knuckles.
I got to clean his clock with this one. But yeah, the drone shots, typically in movies, I hate drone shots. In scenario, it kind of works because it's like a diagetic, whatever the visual term for a digech is. It's part of the story.
Yeah. Yeah. So like it makes sense that it's there. But the using drone shots instead of like helicopter shots, obviously understand why they do it.
It's much cheaper and easier. But it just never looks as good to me. It's just it's too, too still to stable and whatever, too smooth that I just don't, I don't dig it, but whatever. Not much of that in this considering the whole thing is set in frickin fairy tale land.
It's fucking make them up. It's all made up. I like movies like Sicario. Give me that.
I am interested to watch the Sicario sequel, which is supposed to be just like the dumb meathead version of the original Sicario. One, I cannot imagine anything I'm less interested in than a sequel is basically like heart of darkness to apocalypse now to. Yeah. Yes.
Yeah. Take away like the sort of like the vulnerable character, you know, and just leave like the foil to everything happening. Yes. Yeah.
Just leave the guys that are fucking shit up. Cool. The wolves. The wolves.
The wolves. The wolves. I think it's I think it's even called like day of the dead or something like that. So.
Dude. I tell yeah. And we'll talk about Taylor Sheridan. I think a little bit more.
Yeah. We'll talk about it more Friday. Interesting. Day of Soldado is the name of it.
Is the Soldado mean death? No. The of the of the of the of the more those means. Oh, of course, of course.
Of course. Okay. What's the data? I don't know.
Excuse me. Zoey. Soldado. I mean, soldier.
Day of the soldier. Day of the. Right. Even that is just like shut up.
Shut up. Shut up. Was it? Oh, man.
And the, you know, you want to know the jumping off point for day of Soldado? What is that? A suicide bombing by Isis in a Kansas City grocery store. There you go.
Like, yeah, no. No. The full like that is like Taylor Sheridan off the chain. Yeah.
That I don't think it's is it directed? It's not written by a terrible. No, it is. Is it really?
It is written by him. Yeah. Not just like a story by like not the characters. It's written by written by written by him.
Interesting. He apparently I heard. Well, he also has like what's considered sort of a loose trilogy, not in this universe, but like, right? He's got two other movies that sort of like go ahead and him with this or maybe this is one of the other two.
It doesn't matter. It's not that episode. Yeah. We'll talk about that.
We're talking about Blade Runner. Yeah. Blade Runner, Blade Runner, going faster miles an hour. Jonathan Richard, Modern Brothers.
I'm in love with out of the arm is she's a little computer. She is a little computer. So, all right. Who's in this movie?
You got Ryan Gosling as K. Man, I'm kind of in the bag for Ryan Gosling. I think he's terrific. I think he's really good.
It's so hard to like, you know, it's not like the original Blade Runner where you don't know he's a replicant. Yeah. And to play this as like an obedient quote unquote replicant. Yes.
And still, still have something going on there. Right? Like that is his arc, obviously. But wow.
Yeah. Really, really tall order. And he does a great job with it. Yes.
I love it. That's, I mean, that is another thing that I like about this movie is that like the, you know, the main character, there's no ambiguity about like, no, you're a replicant. We know you're a replicant. We know these people are replicants.
We know they're replicants. We know who is who isn't. We've got this whole thing basically under control now, you know? Yeah.
And the way he plays it. And like, I don't know. He's he's been in some like really fun movies in the last like 10 years or so that I'm like, this guy might, you know, he get, I think he knows that he is like, like this very handsome guy. And he I think he thinks it's as ridiculous as everybody else.
Yeah. It's the, the what's his name? From Twilight, Robert Pattinson. It's that arc.
And you see it more and more, which is great. I'm kind of the same thing. Yeah. It's like a lot of handsome hunks having fun.
Yeah. Like a super handsome guy, but like talented, like not just being like, maybe early on, they're just like a face or whatever. But you know, they like turned into like real actors and whatever. And they're like, no, I know it's ridiculous that I look like this.
Let's we can use it though. Yeah. Play with that. Yeah.
You got Dave Batista and this is Sapper Morton, really only in the opening scene here. But like fucking what a starting what a jumping off point. It's so good. He's one of the I mean, not that he's not handsome, but like, I guess what I'm saying is he's another guy where you have a presupposition about him because of his body of work and he's really kind of transformed himself.
It's reputation. Yeah. Into being just like a solid, solid character actor. It's so strange to be like, I was a professional wrestler.
And then I got like, I'm casting these movies as like just big fucking like muscle guy. And then he's in Guardians where people like his character, people love his character and his whole like the joke of his whole deal or whatever. And then he's like in movies like this where he's like, yeah, I'm enormous, but that has very little to do with my character. Yes.
I do also love that it features his signature move as a serious actor of at least for a few seconds wearing tiny, tiny glass. I was just gonna bring up the tiny glasses. I know I've heard that is like a conscious thing on his part. Uh-huh.
He wears the little tiny glasses both to accentuate how big he is and sort of like conveyed to the audience that there's a guy in there. Yes. Under all that meat. Yeah.
I love it. Because in this one, he truly puts them on and then immediately takes them off. Yes. But I do love how like, let me put on these extremely tiny glasses.
They're just like, like the lenses are about the size with dime. Right. Right. Also kind of works because it's like, you're like, oh, he's huge, but he's gentle.
He's not a violent man. If you were, you think his raw strength would just crush these tiny, tiny glasses, but he's got such a good touch. Yeah. I mean, and him being a replicant and being so big and whatever, right?
You're like, oh, well, you know, he was, you know, they make a reference to him being a medic during like a war or whatever, but like, he seems like he was made as like some sort of a soldier. Some sort of war hammer, 40k killing machine. Yeah. Exactly.
And of him being like, now he's just his protein farmer, where he's just like, you know, growing grubs. I mean, I think we know he's farming it for himself. Well, yeah. Look at things.
Yeah. Really hitting the fucking sauce there, man. Yeah. Well, dip in double dip in.
Yeah. Yeah. When you're getting high on your own supply there. So he's in it.
He's in it. We have Robin Wright as Lieutenant Josie. Yeah. I think so, Josie.
Right. Josie. Josie. Nah.
Yeah. Which was a great affordable wine, Josie. Yeah. Yeah.
I love Robin Wright. I'm always kind of excited to see her pop up because you don't really don't see her much in movies. Sometimes like, I don't know, you just don't see her very much. And I don't know, I think like her like hard ass attitude here, this look back hair, really like that look.
I just, yeah, it's a good look. It's a good look. She looks great. She seems very intimidating.
I would be intimidated to be in with this character. But she's also got a harder goal, doesn't she? Kind of. Kind of.
She is like, she is mostly talking about killing the child. Kill the child. Very good boy. You know, we'll get to it and whatever.
But I really like the scene where she's over at K's apartment and she's like, what happens if I finish this drink or whatever? And he's like, you know, shouldn't I get back to work man? Like, she's basically like, you can fuck me. We doing this.
Yeah. And she's like, fine K. Fine. Can't blame me for trying.
Yeah. You're my obedient, replicant under, under mench. Yes. So.
Anadarmis we mentioned before as Joy. Joy. J.O.I. Makes sense.
Nothing further to say about that. Of course. Of course. She plays a character of Joy, which is like an artificial intelligence girlfriend, I guess.
Yeah. She's a hologram. Yeah. In.
And kind of K's girlfriend. Yeah. All the shots of them like not touching each other is so good. Yes.
By the way. Yeah. But she's hyper realistic. It's not played like, you know, there's never a moment where like K says something and she's like, I'm sorry.
I don't have a response for that. No, it's like, the only thing making her not human effectively is the fact that she has no corporeal body. Right. She's got a heck of a hologram.
So she plays K's girlfriend. Also, she is like, you know, we see advertisements for the, for her, for her. Yeah. For, you know, the, for the Joy AI hologram that you can purchase or whatever.
It's just like we said, like the 100 foot tall Anadarmis naked or whatever on the street. And she's like talking to K as you know, as he's walking my whatever. There's that one. There's also like the one that's like with the, you see, it's like a quick shot of him when he's like walking through somebody's walking through a street or whatever, but it's her like dressed sort of like a school girl with like a mini skirt and like blue pigtail things and like, like I would say like kind of baby dollish.
Which like in general, like a whole idea is like out like we met the K girlfriend version of Anadarmis here, but like just, you know, just so you know that like, oh, there's actually, you know, that's not how she's advertised. It's like the, you know, sort of doting housewife. It's much more of like, yeah, she'll be like a, she's a pleasure model. Yeah, she is a pleasure model.
She is like, it's for like, you know, creeps to to jerk off to receive jerk off instructions, maybe. She, and she also, when we meet her exists on a, there's like a camera on a track. Yeah. On the ceiling.
Yeah. That's how she's projected is from a camera. Yes. Also, all right, let's get through the cast.
And then we can talk about that stuff. Sylvia hooks as love, who's, she's the assistant to Wallace, who we didn't get to yet. But love is. Yeah.
Can't wait to talk more about him. She, she's the assistant to Wallace. Wallace is like the new Tyrell and love is sort of the, she's, she's a bag man, man. You know, she's, she's getting things done.
She's taking care of the dirty work. She's, she's a replicant. And she's also like cold as ice. By far the biggest performance in the movie.
Sure. Yeah. Not in a bad way. Also funny that she's styled like, uh, polyperet from NCIS, I want to say.
You remember polyperet? Polyperet. She's like, yeah, she's like the goth lab lady on that show NCIS. Surely you know, I'm talking about that.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Yes. That's, I mean, shades of shades of parrette for sure. Yeah. It's like, she kind of has like, uh, yeah, it's the bangs, right?
A ponytail most of the time. Um, it's similar to Rachel in the original, we're like wearing a lot of like sort of angular outfits, you know, very lines and whatever. Very meticulous. Yeah.
And possibly meticulous. Um, and of course, uh, playing, uh, neander Wallace, we have Jerry Leno. When he's talking about his angels and stuff, uh, he was born for this. I was born to play this role.
Dan, I think this is so perfectly cast. 100%. And so originally, it was supposed to be David Bowie, uh, in this role, which I also, I like that one a lot. I think Bowie in a sci-fi setting, like there are other movies where he does it too.
And he's great. And I think he would have been great as this sort of like older sort of, uh, sci-fi guru, silk robe kind of guy. But, you know, Bowie died in 2016 before the movies made whatever can't do it. Uh, uh, it was too dead.
And now we got to get Jerry Leno. Jerry Leno is so perfectly cast as this. As the ultimate creep? Well, yeah.
Ultimate creep for sure. But also like this, this guy who takes over the Tyrell Corporation, right? Tyrell dies in the original. Um, after some time, whatever, uh, Wallace, uh, acquires the Tyrell Corporation, starts making replicants or whatever.
And basically can't crack the code. He is like, he is in this movie, Elon Musk to me. He is the guy who thinks he's the fucking smartest man in the world. But other people have come before him and have done things that he can't do.
All he did was buy the thing. Yes. And really all he can do is destroy the things he makes. Right.
That's his one fucking gift. Right. And right. And his whole demeanor, his whole like God complex that he has, right?
Feels so yeah. I was gonna say, subtle woo woo to it all. And the literal God complex, of course. Yeah.
And just the fucking and that it's all done through brute force, right? If there's no skill or vision, no beyond control beyond control. Just being just domination, whatever, the whole and like to have Jerry Leno doing it too, as like, like Jared Leto is such a fucking like piece of shit. Yeah, he's such a piece of shit.
And he's so he just feels like this guy, you know, where he's just like, he's got nothing going on up top, you know, like, yeah, but he thinks that he is like, yes, you know, he's like, I don't know, he thinks that he is a lot bigger and smarter than he actually is, whatever. You ever watch, you ever watch Vanderpump Rules? No. Never do that.
All right. They're mine. I'll spare you the. Is there a general?
I think of Tom Sandoval as a bit of a Jared Leto. No, I don't know. But that doesn't mean anything to you. It's nothing.
Sorry. You had a better look in your eyes than Jared Leto in this movie. His eyes are corkscrews. Yeah, he's blind in this.
And I do like this little thing and said he's blind, but he has like a little microchip kind of deal that he like attaches to a port in his head. Yeah. And these little floating cameras come into the room and there's like maybe six of them. So he like in theory, he could see like almost like a bug in all different directions and shit, you know.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Also very neurolink coded. Yeah. Your point. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yes. So you know who else is in this?
Who else? Harrison Ford. Oh, that's right. Harry Ford.
Harry Ford. He's here doing the legacy sequel thing, right? Get the hell out of my goddamn Elvis show. It's true.
All of it. The king is still alive. Yeah. So he's there Edward James Almost.
Also reprises his role. Yeah, we get a cameo from Almost. I think I really like Harrison Ford's performance here. I think it's, you know, I think when it when it uh, force awakens is what 15 or 16, right?
Something like that. So this is after that. And in that it's it's the same thing. It's like, oh, you know, classic sort of Harrison Ford character taking up the mantle again.
One last time around. And what are we going to do with it? Whatever. I think this is just a better execution of that of bringing back Harrison Ford as like this classic character who is just sort of, he's more broken here, you know, and he's just like, he's he's out.
He's out on everything and you know, whatever just it also fits more in what I think of Harrison Ford as now of being like this old curmudgeon who hates like he doesn't want to talk about Indiana Jones or Han Solo or anything. And interviews people are like, so what do you think Harrison or Han Solo would think of this? And he's like, that's a fictional character. I don't know.
Okay. This also, I feel like. Full shit. Yeah.
And like, of course, this is like a huge role in his career, but it obviously doesn't loom as large as either of those. No, I think there's probably more satisfaction for him and coming back to this. And the fact that it's like, it's a really thoughtful, um, thoughtfully written sequel. Yeah, it's not Star Wars, for example, which is an insane incoherent cash grab.
Yes, you're right. This is a much more thoughtful, uh, sequel. And yeah, you have to imagine that he was into like the whole story of like what happens to Rachel and Decker after the original, you know, yeah. Anybody else?
Anybody else? We got Mackenzie Davis in this as Mariette, right? Um, I was like, is that, um, that's the sex worker with the aren't you? Yeah, yes.
I always like to see her. She has this real like sort of endrogynous quality that I find really gets your motor running. Kind of does. Yeah.
I don't think I, I don't think I know her from anything at all. No, she's in the remake of Speak No Evil. Oh, so I'll continue not knowing her from it all. Yeah.
Yeah. She's also, she's in that one episode of Black Mirror. Um, hold on. The one San Junipero.
That's the one. That's the one. Um, yeah, she's in it. Haven't seen that actually.
No. Everyone's like, it's sad. So I said, there's Miss Me With That. Yeah.
I mean, I did. I just watched Paris, Texas. Oh my god, damn. Pretty good movie.
Holy shit. I love that movie. Talk about a frickin visual feast. Oh my god.