live. Hi everyone and welcome to the Nodio North podcast. It's a Nodio podcast and it's hosted by her northern nerds. I am Waniha Sam.
And I am Paul. I'm Paul. I'm Paul. I am Paul.
Yes. And we are joined by the ever beautiful the wrestling goddess herself, the lovely Nii, who has gristles with her presence coming directly from a wrestling event where she may or not have been partigging in the wrestling. So we might find out. Were you?
Not me actually. Not me but I fellow-funded. Oh, very nice. So someone got busted all the know of was it like a death match?
I was just like the nice friendly one there. No, it was. We had the purge that's our pro today and it was the introduction of the hardcore title. All right.
Oh, you're just common. Get your weapons involved and you know and like so many so many different people came out and then what a fellow fan who's well known in the British wrestling scene anyway, Charlie Corothers. He actually got a pin. So he was technically hardcore champ because he got 24-7 rules.
He would add core champion for like a minute and he got a pin. Oh, oh, looky. Welcome, Charlie. Bless.
So a little bit of rush putting everything together. Everything that we do with Nii, North we always try and do our best and actually if we're a few minutes later, like it's worth the wait. It's always there. And the chat is freaking out as well because the North is done.
Sammy's probably not seen it yet. There is a flying cow that keeps going past the head so often. And Nicky's got a tornado going through hers. Yes.
But yes. So Sammy, do you want to do your wonderful disclaimer? Yes. So everything discussed in today's episode is our opinions and our opinions alone.
If you'd like to discuss anything from today's episode, please come and join us on the Facebook page, the Discord or even the comment section where we can have an open discussion. But what we want to have is anyone coming to us and tell us our opinions are wrong because we can all agree to disagree and find them. So let's keep it fun. Keep a kind and keep the toxic behaviour out of nerdism.
Yes, very well said. And also that has been on the BBC. So I wonder if tomorrow, we'll get a second chance to say it on the BBC tomorrow as well. Do people know what we're doing tomorrow?
I don't think so. I've already said anything so also. Yeah. Spoilers.
Spoilers everyone. We're going to be at the BBC studio tomorrow. I don't even know what we're doing. I know we're going to be live.
So we're going to be live from I think quarter past eight till nine o'clock. I don't know what channel yet, but we will show everyone. But yes, we're going to be talking about, she didn't mention there's going to be games. So we will be playing games live on the BBC trying not to say a fuck.
Oh, yeah. That's going to be that's going to be interesting part. Just to point out Lee, I'll keep a kind the day that you do. Fuck you, Lee.
There you go. There you go. Don't you pick on Sammy? Well, yes.
So do you want to do the thing that you haven't done for a while? Well, you'd say that when I haven't been watching anything. But yeah, I will because there's only the three of us in today. Yes.
So, Nicki, Paul, are you just been watching? I'll go. I'm going to try and find the name of it because I've been watching this TV show on Netflix that absolutely blew my mind how good it was. And I don't think many people actually know about it or have actually seen it.
But did anyone watch the movie attack the blocks? Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
So it's kind of like an urban tale where aliens come down and invade this one. It's a Netflix limited TV show. I think it's about the eight episodes. It's called Supercell.
It's basically a cross between attack the block, cross between misfits and cross between anything urban, anything so busy. Some urban youths start developing superpowers. And say one of them is a drug dealer, one of them is a delivery man. And one of these on the first episode, he goes to the future and he sees the apocalypse, the world ending.
And he sees himself who takes teleports into another place where he shows him his fiancee has died and the de-hecheese died and then sends him back to try and stop her from dying. So it's quite interesting. It's got government conspiracies flying all over the place. There's loads of stuff going on.
But honestly, the writing is so good. It was made by someone called Rapman. I don't know who Rapman is because I'm all down with the kids and stuff like that. But yeah, honestly, one of the best superhero things I've seen done it in a long time.
I did say it advertised. So added to the list. Added to the list, yes. I very much enjoyed it.
Nicky, what have you been watching other than like a copious amounts of wrestling? Yeah. I was going to say, actually, I have been, well, yesterday, before I always wait for her videos to come out. Now it's not a movie or a TV show.
However, it's a series that's on YouTube called Coffee and Cuch. And it's a really brilliant, brilliant in-depth like series. The girl that she's called, ah, she's fantastic. And the episode she actually brought out this week is about Justin Timberlake.
And basically she has, she's gone through like all different kind of things. So like, Buffy, you know, like all the kind of beat off that 70s show. Must be one of the ones that I watched and I was like, what the hell? But she's just the one about good old JT.
And really interesting because she has a lot of inside and knowledge as well, like myself, she's worked in TV and stuff. And so she's worked with a lot of these people and she's heard. But yeah, it's, she's really great. And so I've been watching her this week because I missed a couple.
Cool. Is she in the agreement that he's a, he's a crook? Oh yeah, you want to say if you watch it, you don't, it's like, no, no, no, no. I was wrong.
Okay. Coffee and Cults is where she exposes and discusses and really, she's really detailed as well. So like the Buffy one and the 70s show one was hard for me because obviously you've got all the Scientology stuff that comes into and it's round to be in a really long one. All right.
Yeah. That's on YouTube. Yeah. I'll pop the link out.
I always do a little tweet out whenever I want to use. I get more eyes because she she's had me. She details so well. She's great.
Yes. Let's let's start. Let's start trying to upset the Scientology as well because I've done it a few times and there's always been like a helicopter fly over as after I've said it. So it is the way it is called that is out there that's stupid Scientology twats as well.
So yeah. Yes. Come from a Tom Cruise loving bastards. Um, probably Lee is one of them as well.
Um, but yes. So, so why don't you just have any of your watching? Oh, bless him. Did you say the video we put on TikTok today?
Like anyone who follows TikTok because I don't know how TikTok works. Well, anytime like a video pops up that Lee's involved in I have to look at because Lee tortures his misses. So he did a little advertisement at the F of Twister and unfortunately I didn't have the time to do anything with it today. Otherwise, I would have been hilarious.
EBS he drew a picture of a Twister going to the left. I'd say, Oh, it's Bitbloy. Then he got his lovely bag of lovely bags. The beautiful one H is the little cow model and Trent.
Oh, it's good to see someone getting the Bloy and bless her. So yes. So yeah. Yeah.
Bex puts up with so much shit. I hope she knows how much we love her. Yes. She's my favorite.
She's one of my favorites too. Lee, not so much. The video was, how many joking? I'll stop now.
Um, the video was so funny. So funny. What have I been watching? Yes.
What have you been watching some of you? Anything that you can discuss during like live broadcasting or? Um, very fucking little actually. Um, because I have been, I am keeping on top of the stuff that I need to watch.
Um, but when I did watch that was out of that placement was um, I watched a couple of episodes homicide in LA. Oh, yeah. I watch. I caught the Phil Specter one.
What a fucking nutcase. How did nobody know he was a creep? Um, nobody think of themselves. Look at that man.
That's too. That's too. Oh, knew it was like, yes, he has money. Yes, he can bind.
That's that's the problem. He can bind. And this shows you that court case how scared like the D and the like the journeys were scared of prosecuting him because of what happened with all GSM's and like the only of you don't put that was quite interesting case as well. It was really interesting.
What was saying was that the the LA just had been able to successfully prosecute a celebrity in 40 years and it wasn't like, Oh, James was obviously the one that tilted everything over the edge because it was so big. But then you think about all the other things like Michael Jackson, couldn't the D and prosecute him. Um, so yeah, it was, it was good. So the second one's really interesting because that's all about the merger of a very famous drag, drag racer, you know, the cars, not the report kind, no, not that kind.
But he was, he was huge in America and his family, by all accounts from what they were saying, he was just an absolute sweetheart and him and his wife, unfortunately, got wooded. But it was just how the D and piece together. The fact that it, who actually ended up doing it as well, like it was crazy. So that was the one thing that I've watched.
Look, my other time has been spent my other time as being reading. Yes. If anyone has been watching me on TikTok, I have fallen heavy into Boogtok. Yeah.
I found Boogtok. God, did you see that? Did you see the influence it had on me when I went to Waterstow on the other day? I have bought all sorts that recommended by Boogt, or I am in.
But what I'm starting with is a book that I was given by my best friend from my birthday and it's Call of Midwife because I'm a huge Call of Midwife fan. And the Boogt, oh my gosh, it's so interesting. Yes, yes, let's listen to his or Watchers, Sami is, this old, yes. I am, yes.
The interest in parts are, yes, it has a lot of stories that are resembled the shore. But what I found so clever is how the shore writers have taken her stories and mixed them into the shore, saw differently, but saw the sea, it's just so clever how they've done it and learning all about Nursen in the 1900s. Did you know that Nursen was frowned upon as a profession by women? It was a disgrace occupation to have and they give it to people with low intelligence because it was like, they'll just listen to what we see and they'll do.
But yeah, Nursen, Midwifery, that's just what I want, look after us, someone with low intelligence, but yeah. That's not how, but that's it though. All the doctors, the doctor is king. The doctor is a king, so why do we need a nurse?
Why do we need a midwife? This doctor should be able to do everything and they really look down upon it, but it's such an interesting book. But yeah, I've fallen hard on Boog talk, I'm tired. My bank account comes up and I know what's fucking here.
Bless you. But yes, so we are joined this evening to talk about a very interesting movie, shall we say? This was again one of Sammy's picks, I believe, because we're still on the birth dear celebrations for Sammy, because not only does she get a dear, she didn't get a week, she gets a month. So Sammy is throwing a weight around and getting the power hungry person that you don't see behind the scenes when she throws abuse and makes their death stares that she's going to be now.
That was a living stare. It's not in the corn side with the release of Twisters that's come out this weekend. We thought we'd pay homage to the original, to the orgie, to the summer blockbuster of 1996, which is Twister. And I have for you lucky people the taglines.
Hold on to your drawers. Is that a tagline? Is it? I wish it was.
The first one is quite Tim, the dark side of nature. Right. Don't breathe. Don't look back.
I don't quite get that one. Why don't breathe? Is it like taking a breath away? Oh, we have no talk on moment.
Take my breath away. I don't get that one. Next one is gopher a ride. You'll never forget.
You'll fucking die. You've got to guess if you'll ever forget if you're going to die, if you get into that. And the last one is the beautiful yet destructive side of life. I like that one, but that sounds like I would like the David Amber to read it out.
Yeah. Yeah. My Macam, my Macam Torons don't really do it just because it's so so with this kind of 1986 and with maybe an old fart, I remember going to say the cinema. Watch your earliest memories of this movie.
And when I actually come on down, you were said you were quite deeply disturbed by this movie. No, this movie traumatized me. I was 10 when it came out. I don't think I saw it at the cinema.
I think I saw it on TV. I'm not sure where I saw it, but yeah, it was one of those that it just kept popping up. But yeah, I didn't get to see that at the cinema unfortunately. So did you say it on VHS or did you always like a TV job?
I saw it on VHS, but my first experience of this movie was a bloody ride. Right, okay. Tell the story about the ride. So Universal Studios in Orlando, they have twisted or they don't have it anymore.
They use it. They heard it's gone. I know. It's been replaced with some awful as well.
You know me? But that's the thing though, because it wasn't a ride. It was an experience. It was called the Twister Experience.
Yeah, because you weren't sat down on anything. So I remember, but I'm about 10. So still quite young. And the queue for it alone traumatized me because the queue has got all this all these like bits of chairs and dolls and debris and stuff and all that.
Tags on them. And it has like on the tag, it's a label. So like tornado, what date the tornado was, where this tornado was based. This is all people's, apparently people's just as you can see, listening to this wonderful little pre-death one in like how horrible fricking tornadoes are.
It's like, oh, quick, everybody go out. We've got to go this way into a scene. And it's the scene with the diner sign and everything. So it's kind of like that scene.
And you are getting this down. You want to platform and you get to stand and watch all hell break loose and hold on for daylight for the tornado, rips through things blow up and you get dropped. And I was just terrified. But that's always a thing with what intrigued us about like the parks in America.
Because let's be honest, in the UK, the health and safety levels are quite high. In America, I don't think the health and safety regulations are as high. Because there's two rides that scared the life of me when I went to university. One was the twister, just simply because of how close the objects come to you, how hot the fire fits.
And like the sparks are like, like a pasty, or like how the fuck have the past is. And also the mummy ride, because the mummy ride, you go on to the tunnel. And then there's a flame from like, comorbid. And you feel the flame on your skin.
And it's like, how the fuck is this past? How is the other way? Oh, yes, this will be okay. This no one's going to get a lot of damage to this thing.
But the twister one, I'm sure someone must have got pretty clear in there. Because like, I've seen a lot of litigation, so they go out of their way to get it is like, on the dock, as close as you can legally get people. Right. Yeah.
And then if anyone gets that on them. Yeah. That's on them. They move forward.
They move back. That's on them. I thought it was a Jaws to be honest with you, Pa. Jaws was the same.
Well, in the fire and the fire. I would never see a Jaws scatters because I just wanted to jump in and cut a big brusi and the shark there. Brusi gets cool. And my most scariest ride at Universal was King Kong.
Oh, that was so funny. So only because I've been on King Kong and been around the whole ride while the full lights have been on. So we got on and this gentleman could not get the bar over himself. No.
And the ride had to be restarted for them to get the bars up. But we had to go around for them to be able to restarted. The poor guy at the front had to pretend don't look over here. Don't look at that giant monkey over there.
You should have seen the size of that thing. It was hocking huge. And then the first time somebody said that, by the way, just to see. And then they got round and then this poor guy had to then go back, picky script up and be like, right guys, we're going on a tour now.
And I say, oh, well, yay. My first experience, I had to double check with my parents today because I couldn't remember. I wouldn't remember if we, because I went to Florida from the age of 15 up until it was 21. So I experienced the twister experience many, many times over.
And I couldn't remember if we watched Twix to be cause of the ride or before the ride. And my dad was absolutely adamant. We've seen it beforehand because my mom would not be able to get the references when we got in there. And she knew them straight away.
Yeah. So then I proceeded to find the point of view on YouTube and send it to my dad who was so happy to watch the point of view of someone walking around the ride. And oh my God, you are so right. The detail in that house is ridiculous.
I don't think as a 15 year old walking around there, I fully appreciate it. What it is I was looking at. Yeah. Because that was a movie set.
That wasn't just a ride. That felt like a movie set. Yeah, it was beautiful. I do find it interesting as well.
As Nicki said, the movie, well, the ride itself is scary. The movie has scary tensies. But I think when this movie came out, and Nicki will probably attest to this as well, with the big living in Manchester or down south, the weather and stuff did actually take a little bit of a turn. Like in the UK, there was things like things that we've never experienced before.
Like there was earthquakes. I know when Manchester got able to look and there was even like small tornadoes like impressed and stuff like that. So these were the things that I was hitting the news. Then this movie came out and as I said, the real?
Yeah. When you think of it like at the Scorpio, say this movie as well, like the special effects that they did back then, like far enough, get up on what to be ultra critical. There's a few Robbie shots here and there, but that's 1996 that they're talking about. It's 1986.
That's right. Now, this is a movie of practicality. Yes. There is 95% practical effects and 5% is the tornadoes.
That's the only thing the director is. So you see, just before we move off that point as well, just so you want to upset Kelly in the chat. The cow was CGI Kelly. That was not a real flying cow.
Yeah, let's make that very clear that cow was perfectly fine and perfectly computerized. Yes. But yeah, the director is a Jandavant. Wow.
What a fucking crazy person this man was. This movie has the names of all names attached to it. You have as producers, Spielberg, you've got Kathleen Kennedy, and Walter Parks, Laurie McDowell, and Gerald of Molten, who are all executive producers. You have some big fucking Hollywood names attached to it.
Oh, and they chose Jandavant to direct this movie, who by all accounts really put his cast and crew to the limits. When you see the tanker being thrown in the air and smashed on the ground, that's actually happening. He did that. He did a lot of things without pre-warning people, because he generally didn't know what he wanted until he saw it.
He punched a cameraman because he missed a shot. To where his cameraman and the crew went, oh, this, and they walked out. The whole camera crew, everyone on set just went, we're not having this, not having that. So they had to replay it, have another crew come in to finish off the set.
If I, but what you get out of that madness is this absolutely amazing movie. Yeah. So, and again, I totally, I enjoyed this movie more as a kid than I did as an adult. And I know it sounds weird seeing this, because everything about this movie is great.
The cast is absolutely phenomenal, and we'll talk about the cast. But the one thing that did shock me, but take a bit of surprise when I watched it again, yesterday, is how much of an assault on the senses this movie is. Because my lovely wife had a ticket hearing aid out as well. Obviously, I'm sorry, I just want everyone to hear me.
Sorry. Basically, because the noises in this movie just went through it too much, like the, the shattering, the sheer volume, because again, we didn't probably experience this back then when we got the TV's, like if you look at the big, flat-tomb TV's without surround and stuff. So we just basically got flat noise. Now with all the modern technology, hearing it properly, it blows your mind.
Like literally, we kept it and spent like most time watching the movie. I've turned it up or turned it down. So we can like get through the film as well. So that experience as well, I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but it's kind of like, it takes the whole experience to a different level.
It does. And I didn't actually watch it on my 75 inch, I watched it on my normal tally with a coolant thing in the background. So I was like, oh, I really am feeling this every brings here. But do you know what the sound was for the twister?
No. Please tell me, I've tried to get it out of the way. It's a camel. It's a camel.
I'm not even saying the animal. It's a camel. What you hear? I don't know, it's so cool.
And just to go back to the way. So basically the camel was the noise for the twister. Was it like the camel going, yeah. Or was it a camel farting to blow wind or?
A camel making that noise and it's slowed down and sped up. That's a camel. It's a camel. It's a twister.
And the directors saw, we got Jan de Bont as an actual director. However, Spielberg really wanted to do this himself. Right. Not surprisingly.
Generally feel. I'm generally feel we would have had a very different movie if Spielberg was attached to it. Not in a bad way. I was like, I was coming in chess and after the time I was.
Potentially. Potentially. That's what saved the day. Right.
Do you know what I'm saying? Do you know what I'm saying? Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah.
By the way. But yeah. And I don't know how then he's attached to this would have changed things. And that's being James Cameron.
Right. That would have been interesting. Would it have been dark? Yeah.
And we would have had like a dark movie. Everyone would have died. Yeah. Yeah.
And Tim Burton. No. No. No.
No. Sorry. No. Tim Burton.
And finally, Robert's a mechas. I would have liked that. Thanks. I think.
I think it's a mecha. I think him and Spingleburg together. because of what I mean being a second producer. I think that would have been magic.
Yeah. And put then you get Jan de Bont actually signed on to Twister. Because he left Godzilla over Korean differences. That's how we got the job.
Oh. Look at us. It's an interesting one. Because when you think about Twister as well, like you always think of it as good memories.
But you don't think of it as a huge movie. Like if you think of like the type of movies that kind of like independence. Yeah. Armageddon.
Like if you think about action blockbuster movies. Twister's kind of like it feels like it's like a little the bastard steps, some kind of like people kind of like, oh yeah, I enjoyed that movie. Well, it's never really held in like high regards. If that makes sense.
Yeah. I always cast it as a it's a Sunday afternoon disaster movie. Yeah. This film always leaves me with woman fuzzies when after before starting the movie, ending the movie, I feel on cloud nine as I'm watching it.
Even today I was like, this is one of this is one of my favorites. I absolutely adore this film. And I've got so many so many facts on this. By the way, so.
But before we start going into the facts, let's talk about the cast because the cast in this is unreal. Like if you look at it from like bit part to the gun to everyone who's involved with like the main movie side, we've just got bona fide stars and performances as well. Like going from Carrianness as the bad guy, should we say, or like the smarmy side is that's like. Who brought Jonas?
Who brought Jonas? Who brought Jonas? Who brought Jonas? Who brought Jonas?
Who brought Jonas? And then like for the same old Hoffman playing a complete different role to what we've seen before as well, just being so much fun and so much joy. And then I'll say if I get any name right, I'll just call a star from Lost Boys who does not like, you wouldn't even recognize her as being like, like in the same movie as Lost Boys as she is now. Like whoever told her short needs to have a word for themselves because that was a bit of a, it didn't do it justice to me for.
We'll call him Melissa because I can't pronounce her actual name, Jamie Gens. Good. Good. Good.
We'll call him Melissa. It took me forever in a day to realize that that was start. The one thing that gave it away was when she said, I know how to find my way home. That just something about that line and how calm she was in that moment.
I was like, oh, I see it now. Yeah. You could say that the eyes were the accent and everything kind of, like take it all out there. What did you think of the main two, like the stars of the show, Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt as kind of the heroes?
Because they were the like, ten-ple thing, but would you class them as like, Brock Buster's names to be attached to a movie like this? Well, that is such a great segue into one of my facts. Because Helen Hunt wasn't going, Helen, the studio didn't want to, because she wasn't a big Hollywood name. Yeah.
So she wasn't a blockbuster star. No. And Bill Paxton is a second choice. Right.
Okay. Because the original choice is someone who, we would be talking about this movie in a very different fashion if he actually did it. Was going to be Mr. Tom Hanks.
All right. He was the original Billy, the original Bill. And he had to drop out and it literally Paxton. Well, there's a laundry list of people who were going to be, who were kind of like in the name of Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner, Dennis Quiard, Travolta, and Richard Gia.
Gibson? Nicholas Cage. Nicholas Cage. Nicholas Cage.
Well, Nicholas Cage would have been interesting. I think that the only other one I could see playing it like seriously would be Mel Gibson because he has that kind of craziness or like almost like the Switch. Like Bill Paxton, it was perfect casting for the role because you don't want someone too clingpuk. Do you want someone on the edge?
You want someone that's like, as you said, this is the guy that when he's pissed, throws up and bought the Jack Daniels after Tony had ordered that. Which we saw that. Yeah. I wish there was some flashback scene where we saw it.
But with that list of names, it continued with Bruce Willis, Val Kilmer Kerber, Russell and Michael Keating. That's action. That is like pure action. So like what direction were they going into have their names?
Then Tom Hanks. Then Bill Paxton. Tom Hanks would have been too clingpuk. That's a thing.
I couldn't see Tom Hanks leaving his fiancee to go with the woman who he was meant to be. But again, having that torn side of him was like, oh, this is my good life now. But I want to be into the dangerous one. Like, I think where Bill Paxton had that kind of craziness where you saw that clip in his eye.
I just said, Mel Gibson would have the same type of approach, I would think. Someone like Tom Hanks or even Dennis Queer possibly. But again, Kevin Costner would be fucking awful. I'm sorry.
Yeah. Yeah. It's too much. I think we've, Mel Gibson, it'd be too intense.
Part of intense. With Tom Hanks, it wouldn't be as intense. And I think Paxton is just like the right person, right in the middle ground. Yeah.
Uh-huh. I was actually tempted for, at some point, to break out into the speech that Paxton gives at the beginning of the ride. I'm Bill Paxton. Did you know?
When I told me, Mamja was like, you can't. I was like, I'm so tempted to go and write that down. Word for one, I just read it out. It's the funniest shit I have ever.
The whole thing's so dramatic. But I mean, have you seen the look? So you've got two screens and you've got Bill Paxton talking about one. Tell them one's talking on the other and they look at each other and the way they kind of look at each other.
For some reason, just made me laugh a lot because I was like, nobody's there. Little bit on the other. I was so tempted to do that speech. Yeah.
That Helen Hunt lends a lot of gravity to this role as well. I think she gives a lot of realism as well. Like if you kind of, like she is a beautiful woman as well, but there's something quite normal about her, if that makes sense. And again, I'm not saying that as a negative or a thing, there's a realistic value she gives.
Yeah. If you've got someone that looks out the box, saw like a Nicole Kidman or someone that was just absolutely stunning, it wouldn't translate as well because you wouldn't say, or I can't see her in that situation. Like I totally saw Helen Hunt being this deranged person. That's been obsessed with tornadoes for Deanna Father.
Like that kind of like person in that role just fits all perfectly with her. So that was one of the castes I think the gods were on with it. The plane, Jane, the plane, Jane works perfectly. Mm-hmm.
Because it doesn't, it's got such a great story throughout all this. With the death of a father by an F5 that obviously has sparked a career in meteorology to where she needs to find out what happened to her. That's essentially what she's looking for is what happened to him. The science that comes with it is just part of our job.
That's not the real reason why she's there. And I love following Joel from start to finish on this. But I love the relationship between that gang. I want to be part of that gang.
It looks so fun. It's when from the first meeting them, you just want to be amongst it. To when they're all in their cars and every single one of them has their own music playing. Yeah.
And it blends into one. And it is just, I love it. I want to be. I'll read the maps.
That's how much I want to be part of this game. I'll fold them. Roll them. Roll them.
Roll them. Rabbit is wise. Rabbit knows. Rabbit.
Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, like if you think about like everyone plays the part of that gang. Everyone's got the rules.
Everyone does the job to the team. And as I said, Neil that was one word fun. They absolutely love what they're doing. And he's not like the leader in them, but he's kind of like the unofficial like person that kind of like that you're wonderful.
He's the full of Seymour Hoffman's character. Just, Dustin. Dustin, everything he does in this is just, he's so kind-natured. And he's just like, I know it sounds really, really just got a beautiful spirit about him.
And. No clever. Yes. So clever as well.
He comes across as so funny and fun-loving, but at the same time, he's so fucking intelligent. I actually was, when I was watching it, I took me to North Paden with it because I was like, I'll, in fact, write stuff down as I'm going. And there's one scene I've never seen before. I have never noticed this until today.
When you first meet the gang and Melissa is talking to Dusty. And as they're walking back to go up to Joe and Bill, he's holding her hand. He's got a hold of her hand and he's going to cross the grass. And I, at the pause it and was like, I have never noticed that before.
And that just takes Dusty to a whole new level for me. Yeah. He really takes his job that he's clearly been, he feels he's been given to look after her very seriously because I know I watched it today while I was getting ready to go to the show. And I noticed the hand holding that he was doing, he does it through well.
And also, you know, when she gets out the car, she's like, just clearly traumatized. She's like, he just goes up and grabs her face. And he's like, that was awesome. That was awesome.
But the way he like, he grabs her face is very much, hey, look at me, he's looking at me, it's fine, fine. But he's still like, be very dusty, but I was fucking awesome. But in a really reassuring, beautiful way, she seems to really, considering she's like a psychiatrist as I was like, she really seems to just like, okay, okay, this guy's telling me what he's trying. So I believe it's like, at first she's like, who's this guy?
At the end of it, it's almost like she's looking for him for reassurance. She clearly calms her down and I think that little kind of, I love him so much. No, no, I think a lot of it is like human interactions. That's why the other team kind of feels like, very robot and very like process driven and.
And again, not to slag off the movie in any way, but there is a lot of movie magic in this thing. Again, it's a blockbuster about tornadoes and like, but the survival, like I love the science aspect, but the bit that makes his roll me eyes a little bit is Bill Paxton's character, Bill, from you know, where he has the power to read. He has the power to understand and read whether situations just by updating. And I was like, oh God, we've got a weather walker or a weather watch or whatever he's called.
Like it's again, the taking all the scientific, because I've got all the equipment and I find that aspect interesting, but it's like, we've got to turn this way. It's like, just because he feels it. It's like, oh, come on. Yeah, yeah.
Well, I was saying this to Paul before we came on, this movie is a lot of fact and fiction, because the science that they are dealing with is real life science. It was, it's actually being tried and tested. And but the fiction is obviously, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But just like, just all of a sudden, he's like, there's a wind and he looks at like, I'm sorry though, that everyone can explain this to him.
There's a change. It's like shit. Um, um, is he Karen from Mingle? It's not Spinner Boob, it's in the head.
It's in the head. It's in the head. It's in the head. Do you know how you mentioned earlier about Spielberg, bringing in dinosaurs and we all had a good laugh about it.
Did you know who wrote this movie? Oh, I did. It was Michael Kitchener. Oh, well, he did.
And his lovely, lovely wife, Anne-Marie Martin. If you guys are watches of Monsters Up North, you will know that I brought this up in the prom night episode, because Anne-Marie Martin is one of the ladies in Prom Night and she, her husband, Michael Christian, Christian, however you pronounce it, wrote this movie for 2.5 million. That's what they got out of this. When I said there was big names attached to it, I really, really wanted it.
Everyone's on it. Everyone has a piece. That's, I think, because when we started, I would blockbusters to season, like, talking about the blockbusters movies, which, the 90s were huge for the big blockbusters to set pieces to Temple movies. Like, everyone wanted, uh, either it was all over the world or alien invasion or something to do with natural disaster.
These are the things that were coming out at the time and having big blockbusters or big, uh, they weren't really bothered about awards or going towards things. It was literally just in the big spectacle. And this does that so well. And with the cast as well, like, you do get, like, certain aspects.
Um, like, I just said, you got things thrown out yet that you do think off or fuck off. But other things that you do get your, when you're back with is like the little scenes, like the, this is Kelly said in the chat, the scene where they go to, like, uh, the house to have breakfast. The Rant House. The Rant House.
It's my favourite scene of the whole movie. Say, I love it. I want that much material. And get to stay at the next as well.
That was always the American thing. Get to stay at the breakfast. I'm all for it, please. Give me more.
No one day. Give him a register. It's like, it's like, it's like, a big, huge, little girl. That's it.
But when they talk about where the stay at come from, sorry, Kelly, the cow disappears. I love that line. It's like, oh, Meg, you've got a lot of meat. Did you see my cows out front?
No. Ah. That is, I actually wrote down my favourite favourite part of this movie. Meg's house, by far, is my favourite scene.
Anytime you've got that gang together and they are just talking. I mean, the food aside, because that is just mesmerising. And the fact that just them sit and have in a conversation, talking about their lives, their stories of them, storm chasing, is probably more exhilarating to me than the actual tornado scenes themselves. Yeah.
And I loved when they started talking about the different tornadoes, and like, it almost goes on a lot of the ride when they're conversation, because it's sort of like really excited to talk about, oh, this was a level four, no, no, it was a strong level three. And the tick builds word for it. Notice nobody tries to combat a combat emergency. It's like, build season.
Build season. And the tick is possible. And then they're laid up to you and all level four. And then Melissa asks the question, so has anyone seen a level five?
And just the hush and the looks and the change in the room. Again, just performances that are just done absolutely amazing. Because something is sort of so simple, but it gives you goose bumps and kind of like a shiver down your spine, thinking, oh shit. And then you find a story saying there's only one person that's seen it in this jaw.
And I do love the kind of comeback scene as well, because you get that breathtaking scene at the driving cinema, where that just gets ripped apart, and that is done amazingly well from like, say, it's almost like going back into the ride that Nick was describing earlier, you're just like going through that all over again. But then the realisation of where that tornado is heading. And it's like having that conversation with you as well, I think the tornado is not like a natural thing. It's a live thing that's targeting something.
It's like missing this person out, missing that person out, going directly for you. It's like that element kind of freaks you out and scares you a little bit. But then you realise it's good to pass shit, it's going to where the gang's just come from, like the auntie that's busy there. And you think, and then all where Sam's brain went straight away, it's like not the auntie, it's like, what's happened to the dog?
Yes. So soon as I say, yes, I love Aunt Meg, I love the actress who plays her. She is Aunt Meg, she is grams in true blood. I absolutely adore her.
I love the fact that she's like Megan, all these like metal like pieces of like elaborate art. And I'm like, wow, what a live, like, Minim Antonio Ali is not great. But wow, she just, she looks so cool. I do love Aunt Meg, but yeah, I was very concerned about her dog.
Yeah. I was very glad. I was so glad when Bill Pass is like carrying this like golden retriever out the window. Like a strange little, goes on a little journey.
But I always surprised me as well, because I know this is probably his meat talk and shit about America a little bit. How poorly constructed and made their houses on? The meat from cardboard. Cardboard, pre-fab, yeah, it's just, it's paper.
It's paper mash here that is not as great as steel to it, but this is how they get them up so bloody quickly and how elaborate they can have them as well. Well, if you think about it as well, if you think like, I know it costs everything as well, but if you're living in a place that's called Tornado Ali, you would think you would construct something a little bit more sorry. I think that's how they're being most dirty. Yeah.
Well, you're right. I mean, I feel like my house would withstand something because it's all brick. Um, but yeah, I totally get what you mean. The production company actually bought eight blocks of houses.
So they could flatten them. Yeah. I remember hearing that. I remember, yeah.
Ten thousand dollars per house. I wonder if they could get away with that today. Like say, it's not a ten thousand dollars per house. They wouldn't know.
Not a way. Could you imagine the uproar, especially like say it's in today's climate. A film production company buys ten houses, just and kicks out families just to knock them down. Right.
But this is, this is, I feel like when I was told to me, I'm like, this is probably moving me again. This is like going to the tenth degree of getting the detail in there. There was another thing that I read which sparked my eyes went straight to it because I am so fascinated with this case. The cast, the cast and crew took some time out to go and help with Oklahoma City Bombing.
Right. It took place right next to them and they actually went and were part of the relief crew. Okay. Now how fucking amazing is that?
That they actually just forgot about themselves and what they're doing and their paychecks and just to go and be able to be part of a relief team for one of America's biggest humans of the 90s. It's crazy that they just put themselves in the line for that. But yeah, may, April, April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City Bombing. That kid, I don't know why Timothy Mervé has fucking asked all that he has interest the life out of us.
But he does. You're a weird creature. I really am because it all links into Waco and Ruby Rage and the whole thing is just fucking fascinating. I'm right there with you.
Thank you. At least I'm not alone. I'm currently constantly up there. Check the same thing for different like, yeah.
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