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It's just hilarious because you've worked with Full Artie before. It's like, oh yeah, I love your material. I love your work. I've never seen Flatliners.
I've never seen Flatliners. Peter's. Sorry. I did write my very first note that I wrote that one.
It's always heard about this movie, never saw it until today, had no clue how stacked this cast is. Same cast. I forget how stacked the cast is. Maybe this is my fifth time watching it.
But I haven't watched it in the last 15 years, so I completely forgot. Movies like this with an ensemble cast are something that I feel doesn't happen anymore. Well, that's not written as an ensemble cast though. It's not, no.
It's just trudge of dudes that end with Julia Roberts. But it's all people that were just on the cusp of being super fucking famous. Yeah. I was thinking about that through the context of Kevin Bacon arguably is probably the most famous, Heming Keith of Sutherland.
Well, at the time. Because they're like all for the 80s. Yes. But this was at least shot before Pretty Woman blew up.
It was shot right after, if I remember correctly. And it came out the same. They both were 1990 movies. Yeah, that's what I mean.
They literally came out either right before or right after this movie. Yeah. So Julia Roberts was not this huge get at that point. No.
I mean, let's be honest, Oliver Platt has never been a big get. But we love him so much. He said to light any time you see it, whether it's Lake Placid or the bear, I always have a smile on my face when I see Oliver Platt. I was fine with William Baldwin this whole time too.
I really was messing with William Baldwin's ever been. It's the most. Why are we calling him by his government name? He's really.
I'm just saying that's what it came up as is credit on the on the credits. He's a tour. Yeah. It's super, super funny that one of the things that I saw on the trivia on IMDB, because there's like 60 pieces of trivia and a lot of them were really dumb.
But one of them was kind of funny. It was like, this is the second film that William Baldwin was cast in where his character videotapes women having sex or something like that. What a thing to be your calling card is it? Yeah, exactly.
I'm like, man, thank you. What was the other thing? Sliver you said? Yeah.
That's crazy. I've never seen because I don't do erotic thrillers. Well, as I were 11, though, that's written by Ira Levin or the book is. Yeah, I don't remember.
And that's like a pretty big actor, a pretty big director too. Is it supernatural? It might be. Oh my God.
Someone look at it. I'm too busy telling you the guys what happens in this movie. I'll give you a little taste of it. I'll give you a sliver.
Oh. Oh, speaking of a little taste as well. It's a hundred degrees in my basement. So I can't believe it.
It is so goddamn humid on the East Coast right now. Yeah, it's gnarly. I'm going to cool off with Brightwave West Coast style IPA because what's the opposite of a flat line? Brightwave.
And guys, that's a terrible idea. What time? That orange. Yeah.
Love. Very nice. Love to see it. Oh, that's a really good beer.
I mean, it's always I buy the beers for this or make the drinks for this literally for the laugh and the vibe. So it's always a nice surprise when a beer that I never had before doesn't suck. It's got to happen once in a while. Before you dive into the plot thing, I want to talk a little bit and I'm curious Kyle's perspective on this too is as the first timers here are watching this because I feel like this is one of those movies where when I mentioned I haven't seen those people are kind of shocked.
Offended even. Yeah. But I really do think that two of the big compliments that I gave right out the gate on this one was we are like about 11 minutes into this movie. Like the entire concept is already like quickly and efficiently laid out on like this is the conceit.
This is what these people are doing. I think that it's impressive. It's a pretty impressive film that is clearly a big budget studio from this isn't like a small indie film by any such imagination has a really is is a small cast with pretty limited locations all things considered and is like especially in the first hour insanely compelling. Like the first like half of this movie where they're just in this laboratory basement like causing each other to flatline and reviving them to see what happens.
Because I had no clue what the rest of this movie was about. I'm just like, face on the hands like really kind of wondering where the next it is. It is a really well crafted script. I must say.
But Kyle, I'm curious. Obviously you know your pseudo boss wrote this but you know taking that off the table you could be honest. Yeah, no I so I mean I without mentioning a potential double feature I think that movies that tackle this medical science spiritual like sort of opposite thing that happens sometimes it's budding of heads that happens can be a little can be a little too lofty and you're right. I mean the setup for this gets us right in easy and then we have five characters that are either going to flatline or not going to flatline and they keep upping the ante.
It's like oh my god if you could have told me that you could build a staircase really simply I would be building stairs. You know I mean like the way that you can just like continue to elevate this is crazy and it's not overly complicated. So I appreciate that. I do think that like at times it's almost a two hour movie.
So I think sometimes it felt a little repetitive or like maybe I was catching what the next thing was before we had to like flatline another person or before another flashback or whatever the sort of like reality death veil is you know there's a couple too many like veil reveals revales. But also it's like I mean but I think it's also of the time and it's like that's you know there's not many of these types of things going on. This really cool sort of down to earth sci-fi thing that's happening and then you know years later into the mid to late 90s we're going to get some really huge sci-fi like epics right. So I really enjoyed my watch.
I mean I never I mean it's a little late it's a little bit later for me so like if I bring up not seeing flatliners or even the movie like some people have no idea what I'm talking about you know Joe Schumacher directs but like you know he's known for a handful more movies than this you know but it does especially with his work with Keeper Sutherland like oh I just like screams Schumacher and Lost Boys like I just see so much of that in this and it's really especially some of the lighting stuff like it really it's a nice nod or a nice elevation from the horror in Schumacher's past. It's also really funny like I believe that I read that Joel Schumacher casts Keeper Sutherland in five movies. Really? Yeah as the lead in five movies and so obviously it was Lost Boys then Flatliners and then three more and I didn't write them down but it just I mean and in 1990 I feel like Joel Schumacher was a big enough name that you know this kind of I can't I can't say that this didn't have a positive effect on all these people's careers you know like all the actress careers I didn't and I know I made a little joke about how it was like not really an ensemble cast because it's not written that way.
I mean I think that it kind of shows the lines you're not wrong but it really is done in such a way that that it's like everybody gets to breathe you know I'll be out or platter is the only one that doesn't since he doesn't flatline he doesn't get like that part of the story but they all want all the other ones doing I think that you kind of have him as a straight man which was interesting. Like Oliver Platt is kind of your comic relief through moments in this movie the part that made me laugh uncontrollably is fairly early in the movie where he's you know he's the one documenting everything and they're sharing their experiences and he's just like adding commentary to every single thing that every person has to say where they're just be like you know I went under for three minutes he's like didn't think you could do it but they didn't three minutes just like this running side commentary is so funny in that he's like a weird ad lib libber at that moment. Yeah. He's like growing in that's he's great.
The one that I laugh the most when we do sort of reveal what his what his sin would have been if he did flatline and it was something about like stealing a sandwich. Yeah. You're going around with the sandwich after him. I was like that is so charming.
There's there's a little bit of levity to this which is nice it doesn't feel it doesn't feel straight horror but a lot of the movies that I was thinking about while watching this aren't but I think that they fit in this category quite easily. I think that any other person in 1990 would have had almost zero levity in the movie right like it would have it would have just been a straight thriller and nothing else and like this it kind of dabbles a little bit into comedy because that's like what Schumacher's good at and it dabbles a little bit into horror because like that's one of the things he likes you know I mean like he it is like this nice hodgepodge of like a couple different genres while still being primarily a thriller I wouldn't I feel like the I would call it more money. Yeah there's literally zero body count. Well no no no.
Makes a little bit of a bit of a bit of a bit. That's true. But you know I mean of our main characters like our our five main characters are fine. They'll hold them actually die.
They all get their happy ending. Yeah and you know me picking it and me also saying this isn't a horror movie I really think that I only picked it because you guys hadn't seen it. I was munching two or three options and we were like oh I've never seen that and we're like none of you had seen this. Yeah I mean I guess I would have at some point mainly because I know Peter even without that fact no dude I don't even think I would anybody see the remake.
No absolutely not. Yeah I'm not interested. I do know that the key for Sutherland has a part in it and he originally had said oh yeah that's that's my character. You know that as an adult who's kind of like it's a direct sequel to the original flatliners and then he had a different name in the film and then and people were I guess they're upset and then there was either a post-credits scene or maybe like a deleted scene that went into like the DVD or whatever where it showed that it was he was the same character he just had changed his name and was living anonymously and I'm like that's just so fucking dumb.
It's so dumb. What a waste of time and money to do that. Yeah but also like what how is his character so fucking rich like he has the most dope ass crib of anybody I've ever seen in a medical like semi-supernatural medical thriller. Yeah he's got like that.
Yeah he's a doctoral student and he's got like this amazing apartment. They all have amazing apartments it's fucked up. But he's got like this beautiful like low lighting that along the baseboards and everything's like painted white and crown molding and goddamn dude I mean I could live in that apartment. Imagine he renovates this weird church to be a medical facility like he's got a beautiful thought.
I think he's they're they're they're squatting he's not doing anything yourself right. No he's got to be. Yeah I don't quite understand I've never understood or given enough of a shit to try and like understand why that is the place that they picked and I'm guessing. You don't even get your time to they just like they just throw you in.
That's what I mean though but I love that you think you're just like here. I love that they just tossed you in the deep end with this. Yes. That's what makes it work because I would not enjoy a I think that the pacing of this is actually quite nice for an hour and forty five minutes or whatever I mean it's not a long movie I find myself each time being like there's a lot happening and it never feels like my only gripe my only gripe and has nothing to do with the pacing as much as just the fact that it feels a little padded and that they keep on having the same argument which is like oh you shouldn't be going under oh you shouldn't be going under for longer oh that you know blah blah blah like why did you lie to us about your keep yourself a lens character why did you lie to us about your reasoning for doing this and it just feels like they could have truncated a little bit of that and it would have been just fine we didn't need all that.
Yeah yeah I totally I don't think I didn't take me out of it by any means. No. It was like oh there's another section of this another section. And we didn't need it.
I don't think we need it. Yeah well I mean it's a cool concept but it also I feel like this movie is so of its time. Yeah. Because it really like it has a lot to do with two things in my opinion one the tone which is quite uplifting.
I guess I guess the answer is the tone and the tone comes from the plot and then it also comes from the orchestral choices. I feel like the stingers are very I mean like in the flashbacks and in the like the semi supernatural areas areas of the film the stingers are right it's like horror you know like it's horror adjacent I think this will be still lives in like a horror adjacent place. Oh I mean someone described it as a horror movie where the ghosts are haunting your body. You know I mean like and that's like a really interesting way to explain it because it does have that element.
It bothers me really what bothers me more than anything else is that they can do these things where they are making you hallucinate more or less and I love that but I don't love the fact that Billy Mahoney is not actually a corporeal entity. This never bothered me until this watch. So because which it would make a lot more sense if he for Sutherland's character is getting the shit beat out of him by an angry ghost. But he's actually being the shit out of himself.
At least that's what's implied when Kevin Bacon's character saves him from the pickaxe that he's holding over his own face in the back of Kevin Bacon's band or truck order. So it just seems a little odd to me that they didn't go a little harder into the supernatural aspect of it. But I think that that's also again of its time it's trying to be more of a psychological philosophical discussion instead of a oh they've passed the veil and they brought something back. That would make it more of a horror movie less of a religious philosophical discussion.
You could however argue to a certain extent that it's not that much different than something that's happening even in modern times would say smile. You know I mean like theoretically in smile the ghost or the entity never touches you but you feel compelled to do something to yourself under its control. So like you could argue that ghosts are. Yeah that it's almost a little bit more possession slash hallucination.
Yeah but we're almost 20 minutes in Scott do you even feel a need to do the rundown? Do you still want to do the rundown? Oh yeah let me do a quick rundown. Yeah I still want to do a quick rundown just because for the fact that both of you were or are well past the age when you should have seen this I'm going to assume that some listeners have not seen flatliners or haven't watched flatliners in a long time.
So flatliners is the movie about a man who wants to die but he never finds the right day in which to do it. This is Kiefer Sutherland's character and he you know I actually didn't oh Nelson Wright. So we have this banger all-star cast of Kiefer Sutherland is Nelson Wright a brilliant but possibly insane medical student getting a doctorate and then some of his some of the other you know doctor students that he has wrangled into this near-death experience study that he's doing that is very unethical and absolutely not approved by medical board including Julia Roberts, Billy Baldwin, Kevin Bacon and Oliver Platt those are the main characters and so we have Kiefer Sutherland, Nelson goes under first and I believe he goes under on Devil's Knight if I'm not I mean because this all really happens over the course of like four days which is kind of cool. That's right.
Or maybe five days. In Chicago they're going to some medical school in Chicago and they kill Nelson. Nelson is under for three and a half minutes I believe and he or two minutes whatever it is I didn't write down the timestamps but he's dead for a while a little bit and then they bring him back and he is unable to quite put into words the experience that he experienced and it seems all well and good until he begins to have flashbacks from what you find out is a time when he was bullied he bullied a kid at his school to death. The other people in the study go under as well they flat line and bring back their own ghosts so Kevin Bacon's character brings back a girl that he bullied mercilessly in an elementary school and he sees her on the L as he's going around Chicago and she never touches him but he is doing a piece together that something has come back with them.
Julia Roberts really really wants to go under because she believes that she wants to believe that her dad who committed suicide when she was six years old I'd say six or seven is in a better place and is not in hell basically. Before she can go under Kevin Bacon goes under and I'm sorry Billy Baldwin goes under and then Julia Roberts gets to go under. Billy Baldwin is kind of a sex addict who has been secretly videotaping women that he's having one night stands with and keeping this video library of women which is very very very inappropriate. It's actually criminal it's inappropriate and then on top of all this he's doing these things while engaged to a different woman.
So Davis yeah so on top of all of the other fucked up criminal stuff he's also unfaithful to the person he's supposed to be faithful with. His stuff is the most I think his reality breaks are sort of the most visually interesting. Oh absolutely. It's all jerry on television and then going up his tooth loft.
Good shit. And then Julia Roberts one is really interesting because there's so many light changes that I think are really interesting that very feel very lost boys. Like the Red Rim kind of stuff. Yeah yeah yeah.
Love that. Which I think is so cool because this movie is so able to move in and out of well I'll say our dream sequence is there they are not dreams necessarily. That's what I'm saying. That's what reality hallucinations right but they get to move so seamlessly in the story that I really love that.
There's not a lot of movies that do that well and I feel like this was really cool in that way. Yeah and when Rachel so Julia Roberts when she finally so as they go forward with their reanimations their their resurrections they realize that also Kevin Bacon calls up the he finds his the the girl from elementary school that he taunted mercilessly he goes and apologizes to her in person and she accepts his apology and forgives him. That frees him from his quote unquote haunting which great awesome kind of falls flat 35 years later to have a black woman saying it's okay that you treated me so shitty to a white man who is now like a medical student and you know it's it's it's rough like this movie really is dated in that way and also I don't really like how it lets everybody off the hook. Oh yeah.
You know but so in any case they kind of like Kevin Bacon's character cracks the code and so before they can do that Billy Baldwin's fiance comes to visit him she finds the tapes she breaks up with him and he's despondent but at the same time I would argue that even more fucked up in the Kevin Bacon one that that the way for Billy Baldwin to be absolved from the ghost is just being caught. He doesn't even like the best to absolutely regardless. Yeah he just gets caught and then it's like all right ghost is gone. I think it's because what Florida but also Joe Schumacher and you know like a more specific way we're really going for with this is that I think that they were trying to say that going beyond the veil of death and coming back doesn't really curse you with ghosts it just shows you the worst shit you ever did or what you believe you ever did and you have to forgive yourself which okay so you make Kevin Bacon's arc worse because he's like oh the black girl who I taunted mercilessly forgave me so everything's peachy keen I'm no longer cursed and but you know and then Billy Baldwin's is like well I lost something that matters to me because I was a shitty fiance and a bad misogynistic man I'm absolved like I the worst thing that I did the worst thing could happen in reaction and then that flows forward into Rachel so Julie Roberts she has an extended scene where it is discovered that her dad committed suicide because when he came back from the war which I'm guessing as Vietnam he is addicted to heroin and she found him shooting up and killed himself and so he's asking for absolution which is really just her asking for absolution from her father from her for herself if you think about it as a totally non-supernatural film which I again that really kind of takes the piss out of how much I used to like the whole point of this movie yeah because I want it to be more supernatural but that's also me in my 40s about whatever I really got to say though I loved how when Rachel embraces her dad and there's that catharsis vote the walls that were so close together in that bathroom where he was shooting up you can see them roll out and it expands the bathroom and it no longer feels so claustrophobic really really nice subtle piece of effect there yeah yeah really good and there's a lot of the eye I can I can see why maybe a little bum that it's not as there are other there are other movies that have some more of that that this does not but really well really well pieced together flick yeah well and then the ending is that it's it's the the the the spirit haunting Nelson so keep yourself keep yourself in yeah and he's the one who has the most really a battle yeah forgiving himself or forgiving the situation yeah because you know you know could you could you kill the kid as a kid and he's flat like the first flat line so he's also sort of obsessed with with the process of this and everybody else's stories and dealings and he's just sort of like pushing aside the dealing with the thing that's haunting him most in order to try to figure more of this out so he has a and that's that is a full like horror moment like it feels the way it is set piece for you know bullying this kid in the woods is pretty good pretty freaky that feels again feels very lost voice to me yes well I think that it's also because that the way they set that sounds age up could be the woman in white it could be watching the woods it could be yeah so I mean it's got all these classic tropes with the like the dead tree branches and the white misty background and I mean it's it's great you know I mean I could have done without seeing Kiefer Sutherland's nipples quite so much in this movie but it's a Joel Schumacher flick I'm with it I was kind of expecting it I know that's true I asked you guys a quick question Keith or Sutherland's character are we of the feeling that he probably should have died at the end of this I mean he is I you know a lot of these other characters are haunted by a ghost and they care like he has such I feel like yeah he is all of the big things that are who dies at the end of the movie because they can't see past their own like desire for fame like I'm kind of bothered by the fact that we're with the catharsis for the you know that's the that's I really think that what maybe Peter I don't know what Peter's like original screenplay look like for this but I know that when we discuss the craft with him he talked about movies really are a group effort they and I think what he was saying in a really generous way more generous than I probably would is that executive producers and directors get to have a lot of leeway and say in the the thing this was a weak sensation that you would name in this movie at the end of it yes I think Joel Schumacher was like not my beautiful blonde baby boy that's absolutely right that's absolutely right I I I actually I'll try to pick his brain a little bit that might just be an offline conversation that never comes because I don't want and let me be clear I'm putting those words out there as me I'm not putting those words out there as Peter because he's been in the business for long enough he knows not to share it's but I have never made money from my art and so I've never had the privilege of shooting not shooting where I use it you know but you're right like I don't really love that he survives I don't I feel like he's the only character that should have done I would have like 100% stakes are so low you know this is just so low because no one in the group dies when we see everybody's process based off of what he's somewhat taught them right like they have been able to process all of their issues and Kevin Bacon's character been able to like provide this new information on top of something that Kiefer Sutherland has studied or at least has like started the experiment right and he's unwilling to I feel like there could have been a little bit more like med student drama that I got a pitch for a new ending to this movie and tell me what you guys think so here's my 30 years later how I would end this movie I wouldn't let any of them be absolved just yet like instead of having them all find their their way of being absolved through being caught or whatever I would say that all the four characters have to flatline a second time and face their demons quite literally head to head and what it is is that Kiefer is the only one that absolutely refuses to admit wrongdoing and thus is the one that dies in the end like that Oliver Platt is there like reviving people as it's as their body seems to give signs that like they're absolved and Kiefer just flat out refuses like you still get that scene where he's like look at as an adult watching the kid in the tree but he's like taking the stance of I mean imagine if he sets up long lines like I was just a boy boys were just being boys man we were just playing around it wasn't intent like that conceit of like you can't blame a 12 year old for what happens like I think that there's a little bit more cinematic you know I mean you're like what it's like a ticking clock for less like 20 minutes is all four of them are under like are they gonna get out I like the I also really like the idea of Oliver Platt just like being surrounded by four bodies off like being like some reason they have to go to bed for it.
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We're also on Instagram and Blue Sky. Hear that Elon? Blue Sky. Well Scott, unless you have a lot more that you need to do on the plot summary.
No, that's literally everybody gets their happy ending except for your bros at Room of the Night. They don't get their happy ending because no one dies. Scott, what would you double feature with this one? After watching a Not Horror movie for Horror Movie Night, I would just keep the Not Horror Rolling with 1993's past future sequel prequel starring Keeper Sutherland and Oliver Platt, the wonderful Three Musketeers.
Wow. Didn't Kyle just say a couple months ago that he hates that version of the Musketeers and you would not finish it? I am so upset with you. Yeah, I don't think it goes on because he sucks.
I don't think those are no words. Well, they might have been. Somebody can go back and listen to the tapes. But we 30 minute ruled it, which in the TK household means that we watch 30 minutes of it and we decide we don't want to go any further.
It's not necessarily because of bad movie or that we're hating it or any of that, but I was bored and so sorry. So yeah, that is rare. I think I don't think it was, yeah, I just don't have any interest in that style of... It's just very silly adventure stuff from the 90s and I probably have a nostalgia for it anyway.
That's the reason why it seems like fun. And it's not, hey, I've seen it's not a bad movie or I've heard that. There's no buttercream game though. Nothing's about a cream game.
Scott, you're going to be kicking yourself when I say this double feature because I'm going to pick another movie about a mad scientist that's trying to prove things about death and pop on Reanimator from 1985. No, I mean, I understand and I would love that, but I don't think that that would be, I really am not in the mood to watch a horror movie if I just watch flatliners. You know, like I'm not trying to save the night with horror. I'm literally trying to just...
Save the night vibe. Trying to eagle like Cherry that shit. Oh my god. Yeah, I can't.
What do you think this is? One hit thunder? I'm getting a good hit. You know who Eagle I is, his real first name?
Legally? Yeah. Legally? Cherry?
Cherry is not his last name. Cherry is in fact his last name. His sister was Nina Cherry who had to hit Buffalo's stance in the late 80s, early 90s. Also, real name.
For real man. I'm one hit thunder. Anyway, sorry. Cherry.
No, that's great. I don't even know her. I have two. I have two.
One, I both are great options in my opinion. One is altered states, but I think that one is the one I have to watch, which is I know I've said before, but the one I'm actually going to pick is talk to me. I think if I, I'm going to get a little more horrific, I'm going to get a little more near death slash into death. And it's going to be the demonic possession that we all know and love in this moment.
So I'm going to go talk to you. I really want to like that movie more than I did. So yeah, I can't say you watching this movie for me. So I felt like talk to me was a absolute three out of five.
Yeah, like it's like half, you know, yeah, didn't hate my watch. Didn't think it was like the greatest shit I've ever seen. But hey, guys, do you want to talk to us? Well, great news.
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Or you can buy some merch by going to hmnpodcast.dashery.com or our website hmnpodcast.com. Now Scott, what is something you suggest or maybe don't suggest our listeners watch this week? Well, so before we get into an absolute suggest, not suggest I have three things that I want to talk about. And I promise that they make sense.
So the first thing is kind of a little dovetail to flatliners. I read this book called The Sleep Experiment. It was not good. I got it for like three bucks at half-race books.
But the reason I mention it is it was very funny to be reading it and finishing it the day. I read it over the course of like, you know, three days, whatever. It's not long, but it was not good. I was forcing myself to finish it because I was like, this has to get better.
It didn't. But it was, I think it's Jeremy Bates is the writer. And it's in this series of books that are kind of like real life horrors. So you know about the sleep experiment, like urban legend, where they keep people up for two weeks, and then they start ripping their faces off and killing each other, blah, blah, blah.
It's that but in book form. And the funny thing about it is that it felt very flatliners where there's the doctor who's like, I have to do this thing for science, but it also, he's a sex addict. And so it was kind of like taking keep for Sutherland and Billy Baldwin and making him one character, but also a murderer. And anyway, not a good book.
Do not recommend. I also do not. And I cannot stress this enough. Do not watch Ash from Flying Lotus.
It is currently streaming on Shutter. It is an absolute pile of dog shit. It is basically like somebody asked chat GPT to write them a slow burn dead space ask story with the thing slash xenomorph as the big bad. But then like have a little bit of psychedelic CGI in it.
It's supposed to try and give this idea of like cosmic horror. And that's what I was like super stuffed on really ready for it. And everything about it was bad. And the first round of critics were like, oh, it's so good.
You need to watch it. Blah, blah, blah, blah. They had to have paid them off. It's so bad.
It's so bad. But you know what isn't bad is a movie that I watched directly after that also on Shutter. Sea Fever, which is an Irish horror movie, a quarter horror movie, also kind of like a quarantine movie from 2020. I think there's probably released in 2019 and then it hit.
Streamy Services in 2020 during the pandemic when you're all in lockdown and have watched it since. And I was like, oh, I kind of remember liking it. And it's summertime when we're, oh, I didn't mention during our discussion that this we should have picked flatliners in October because it's a Halloween movie. But, oh, well, I'm probably the only person that gives a shit.
But Sea Fever, don't get in the damn water. Stay out of the damn water. It is a pretty fun movie. No one ever learns.
I've stopped even mentioning it. Yeah. You guys ever watched Sea Fever? No.
I don't like it. I think it's low budget. It also understands the edges of what it's able and capable of handling. And it does an amazing job.
I highly recommend it. I'm going to give a very quick recommendation to a series of documentaries that are on Netflix right now called Trainwreck. Is it Poopoos? Yeah, so Poop Cruise.
There is the mayor of Mayhem. They did one on AstroWorld. There's a lot more coming out. We're recording this July 1st.
I think this episode is going to come out mid-August. So, yeah, it's been a I'm just saying I haven't been able to vet all of these, but I'm looking at the July documentaries that are coming out. And at least three of them jump out of me as being really interesting. We've got the Real Project X.
There's Balloon Boy. It's coming out. Is the series called Trainwreck? The series is called Trainwreck.
So originally they did Trainwreck with Stock 99. And it was like this three part documentary about what happened with Stock 99. And I guess because that documentary did so well, Netflix essentially threw money into those filmmakers to do a series of documentaries about other just like absolute memorable fumbles in pop culture history, including the one I'm very excited for at the end of July. Storm Area 51, they all can't stop us.
Oh my god. So it's like just, you know, the poop cruise one so far is the top of the heap for sure. I introduced the phrase poop lasagna into my life, which I didn't know I need it. But I mean, that thing is just 55 minutes of like, what would you have taken your life?
Like you're just like watching it. And you're like, what do you flound? Yeah. I mean, I already like don't ever want to be on a cruise, but like watching that just like further solidified like, oh, this is a scenario.
There's a scenario where the boat can lose power and the toilets stop flushing because of that. Like that's horrific. And you might be just trapped at sea for like three weeks with no food to eat because the refrigeration devices stopped working. Like that's insane.
But yeah, so the Trainwreck documentaries, they're not, I'm not going to sit here and pretend they're the best made documentaries in the world, but boy, are they entertaining. Bounce it over to you Kyle. Take it. I watched Bringsby Bear, Kyle Mooney's written, Dave McCray directed it.
It's from 2017. It has Greg Keneer in it. Kyle Mooney plays the lead. And it's all about, I was talking to a friend of the show, Evan Fonseca about it.
And he was like, he was like, he Evan Fonseca. He was basically like, it's room with Kyle Mooney. And so Kyle Mooney plays a young man named Jacob who is living, he lives at home with his parents. And he is sort of encapsulator.
Like he loves watching the show Bringsby Bear. And it's like a 90s, 90s, educational TV show that is very Barney-esque, right? Turns out he was kidnapped and Mark Hamill and Jane Adams play his parents. Turns out that they're not his parents.
They actually kidnapped him when he was a baby and have been living in like a bunker and feeding him Bringsby Bear. And he has like online friends that he communicates with their actually all, you know? So he gets rescued from this captivity situation and then reunited with his actual family and then has to live in the real world with all this knowledge and lack of Bringsby Bear and lack their knowledge of the real world. But he strikes up a friendship with the police captain who saves him and with his biological sister's friends at a party and he basically like relays, and he's like, he's known as the kid who got saved.
So like he's not, you know? So he has this reputation and then he basically convinces and learns how to finish Bringsby Bear's story arc. He wants to make a movie. He learns that you can make a movie.
And it's all about the matches. It's like, it's equal parts like really funny reality breaks but also like, it's not Kyle Mooney Bombastic like SNL Kyle Mooney or I forget his comedy troupe but like it's actually pretty heartfelt. It's all about like at the heart of it sort of making movies with your friends. It's a little clunky.
There's a couple like big jumps, you know, but it's more heartwarming than anything, heartwarming than anything. And I really enjoyed it. So that was Bringsby Bear. It's from 2017.
I remember coming out and I didn't catch it or watch it and I ended up getting it at that FYE sale that I'm still powering through all those discs that I got. What a tough life you got. The reason other than the newsletter, which you can see when I pick up every month on the newsletter. Well, and if you want to know about that email I said hmnpodcast.gmail.com but otherwise we'll be back next week and every other week here on Horror Movie Night.
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