Hey everyone and welcome to another episode of the Nerdy of North Podcast, the Nerdy Podcast hosted by two northern nerds and one of your hosts Sam. And I'm the other host Paul. And today we joined by another special guest. Hi, my name's Jake.
So Jake's one of our, like say, me and members of the Facebook group I would say, who posts a lot of interest in topics which Alex, Alex, it's not just memes or Jake, he has a lot of good opinions. It's funny and memes. I think it means, I do like a bit of a conversation as well. And I think, like say, your point of view always comes across well, I think.
That's where I was playing. But yeah, I do just want to tell us a little bit about yourself and your nerdism, shall we sit? Yeah, so like I said, I've mentioned a few times in the Facebook group, I do some nerdy drum covers like I've done Power Rangers and the Pokemon theme. And I'm going to do some more once I get some more time and it's a bit less hot in the attic because that's where I record.
It's pretty brutal. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just, you're sort of classic born in 88, played video games in my whole life and loves Nisa movies as well. Why do people have to depress me with that image?
It's closer than the last few. Like I say, wait, I'm 83, so I was 82. So it's getting closer to our age. Very cool.
So I'm in a new look here in this week with three dogs and one of them has just spotted my neighbor outside. So give me two seconds. I'm going to go and close the curtains. Two.
That's fine. But yeah, I think computer games has always been a big part of me. I was always a Sega fan rather than a Hendo fan growing up as well. So I don't know which ones you've played on.
Well, Sega Nintendo was the first, but I had a neighbor who had a Mega Drive, so we used to climb up the fire and skip to each of those flats. I was always a Sonic fan. Mario was too hard, especially Mario 3 with the leaves. But Sonic was always my boy at the back of the day.
Yeah, I was a Mega Drive girl. I was like the first kid on the street to have a Mega Drive. I was the cool one. Sweet.
I've never been to the cool one. That's one. Nothing I've ever been to. But yes, so this week we are returning back to the top five.
So quite excited about it. I know last week we did do the top five Marvel films, which was quite enjoyable. But this week we're going the action route. So we're doing our top five action films, which has been an exhibit of the Bali X, shall we say, where my picks have changed.
It's not a daily basis. And even when I was telling you before we came on, it changed five minutes before we even started the podcast. So I have reverted back. I'm happy with me picks.
I'm going forth. So I'm not changing them again. But I can't change them again. So with Jake being our special guest, we always try and give them a chance to go first.
I know we've done a little nervous when she came on. She didn't want to go first with her picks. But we'll let Jake always first pick straight off the bus. Yes, I'm fine to have a pick.
So what would you think of us said if it bleeds, we could kill it? What do you think of Predator from 1987? I mean, it certainly would. And it is my own might pick as well.
So I think I picked off. Yes. It's one of the ones I did think about putting on. But I did leave it off because I knew this one would come up because it is one of the ultimate action films of the ladies.
And as I've said in the past, the ladies is my jam and all the films from the ladies were definitely better than anything that were bad now. So what made you pick Predator then? Yeah, I think why it had to be on my list was like, well, I definitely felt like I need an Arnold. I loved Arnold when I was a kid, but I didn't watch like a turn.
I don't think I had any video tips like in my own house. It was always just the other people's. But I also do love a creature. So and the credit is like one of the best designed creatures to like debut, like to come out of nowhere that I've ever seen, I guess.
I was trying to eat it as well. But yeah, I do love a creature in, I guess, any type of movie, but the Predator is one of the more interesting ones. And I think it has transcended a lot into other media as well, like especially in the comic books, I think that's where it found its warm a little bit later. But yeah, I completely agree.
Predator is an amazing film and it has, I just said, some of the best cash freezers in the films. It's just a P.E.G.S. fest with Carl Withers and Arnie doing their business, showing off. Yeah.
So does anyone can be oiled at the same time as well? That handshake. Dylan. You've also got Jesse the body of Ventura in there as well, who has some of the greatest lines in the film.
Yeah, former governor of Minnesota. Yeah. Now, Major conspiracy theorist. Yes, he loves the lizard people, doesn't he?
I love this film so much to the point where I was on a teen night out and I got a text message off my ex and said, Predator is on the telly and I pardoned myself and went home. I mean, yeah, I mean, who doesn't want to go see a greased up jungle adventure at that time of night, you know, it's winding down. I think with the Predator films as well, I know there's been a lot of interesting takes after this one. I didn't mind Predator with Danny, Danny Glover in, that was an interesting to see it in a different setting.
But like I said, the storyline is generally as similar as the come getting hundred and negative survive. But I love aspect. I love the gadgets in Predator as well and how, like, they used things against like the idea of using modes to cover the heat vision and how the plot about that and how Arnie worked out as well was quite cleverly done. But I remember watching this as you I didn't have this on David on video, I didn't have this on David, every year, just back in the day.
I think it was on channel four when I first saw it. So it was one of all the video that I said, the TV breaks. So I think I stayed up later than I should have been there and stopped it. But I was, as I said, I was blown away from Predator came out because there wasn't a film like it and I have tried to replicate it so many times.
This might be a bit of a hot take, but I didn't mind the most recent one. I think it was more because of the design of Predator. I actually really loved it. The story was a bit met.
The acting and it was what you would expect. But I just had the design of the Predator on that one. I have to do incarnations in the house of Predator to the point where I have a stuffed toy. Nice.
I definitely hated the latest Predator. But I think it was a Predator fan. I do get it, but I didn't. I'm the person who like the new Mortal Kombat.
So you can take that. Well, I loved that. No, no, I loved that. I think like for me, it felt like it was like a really kind of like the script was like really sort of like toxic in a kind of way like all the characters kind of hit each other.
Yeah. There was no union there. I kind of missed the camaraderie like the whole like, you know, like tight knit group picked off one by one sort of aspect. I blame Shane Black.
Yeah. I know there was a lot of controversy about that film as well. It's like with like say a lot of stuff that did came out after the film and the actual kind of the film wasn't what the original was intended to like chop its own move things in position. There was a lot of stuff that I think I can't remember the actresses name now with my notion played psycho-op and X-Men.
She came out and absolutely slated the behavior on set of I think it was Shane Black and if it was a few others. So I think the studio got involved with that one. So the one I didn't mind. Like I said that one again when the Broadway Predator dogs that was me finished was like this is shit.
But the one before that with Adrian Brody I thought that was an interesting concept where they put all these dangerous like say assassins and military fork on an island and said who can survive and that you've got like Topha Grace as a sequel to Seagull's Seagull's kind of kind of elements I quite like. That's the only good role for him is like a betrayer sort of like jerk. Or a very racist kkk, a higher drag any person because he's in Black Kings with the Black Kingsman. I can't remember what he's saying is he's talking about Grace's and he suits that part down to the ground.
I generally can't remember that Adrian Brody won and I know I've seen it. I just can't remember it. I like battle royals. I think that was the premise.
But the only thing that jumps out of my mind like the only thing I've really made it very weird was Lauren Schischberg's character. He went all good. Very strange and I didn't quite get his point. But I think what I look about the original Predator as well is because I'm sure I've read it.
I don't know if this is true. Wasn't John Claude Van Dam the original guy in their suit but he was too short. Yeah it wasn't. I think it was like a lobster creature.
I remember right. But I remember because he was supposed to be like the president. The posy he was either on the outside or the thought he was too short or something. But it was the end he saw.
I think John Claude Van Dam was a bit ahead of his self there. He did. He had a lot of, he liked his cocaine and doing what he wanted. Pretty much.
We were going into your top one ball because my was predator as well. Cool. So I'll go with my only pick. I'm just too much.
My only pick that's not from the 80s. So it gives you a taste of what's the call. So this is quite, I wouldn't say a modern film. I like this modern.
It was, it's had a few sequels since then but this came out in 2014. It's like I said, the story for this is very basic which I think a lot of action movies is but it's so well done and so stylized and I just think it's, as a film, it's just entertaining from start to finish. Even though the start is a little bit sad. It's amazing because it's on my list as well.
So I've got John, I picked John Wick with Keanu Reeves. Oh yes. It's not on mine but yes I've seen it. It's on mine.
Yeah. Like I said, the premise is just, I can say it's so simple and it doesn't treat the audience like the stupid as well because it doesn't overlap explain anything. It kind of hints at this world. That's normal for them but we wouldn't kind of go in and I know they're going through a bit more in the sequels.
That's why I like about the first one. It kind of hints at this world of assassins and this such and doesn't overlap explain it and let you make up your own mind as well. And again, when it tells you stuff like how we got out of the situation, it doesn't actually go into it and tell you what you had to do just it was an impossible task. And I love the premise that it's all because these Russian dickheads took away something that he loved.
So he just decided right, he's going to bring a lot of hurt and Keanu Reeves, I know he gets a lot of shit for his acting and his accents and stuff because he's a bit weird. I'll never forgive him for Bran's talk. I will never forgive him for Bran's talk just because that was absolutely horrendous. But you are right.
It seems like Rawls are just being made for him because he doesn't, he's not really changing much. I think it's John Wick to Bill and Ted the new one. You've seen a trailer for the Matrix. He had a share for the new Bill and Ted so he was completely different characters.
It was looking but he is not different but these films that there's no bullshit about them, like non whatsoever, what you see is what you get and you write call the Dawn Treat the audience stupid that you're not out, stupid. I absolutely adore this franchise. Just the whole franchise. I love it and I can't wait for the fourth one.
I'm playing with somebody amazing. I still get sad about the start when the killer and the puppy dog is heartbreaking. when it comes to animals and stuff anyway. But I don't think anybody told me that that was going to happen.
Otherwise, I would never have watched it. I was heartbroken. I think that's why I like this one as well, because I came out with nowhere. There was no big, because no one only went to big action films coming out of those big trailers and advertising campaigns.
I think we've got a small trailer then it was on the cinnamon red. We'll go and say, well, it isn't. It was such a big surprise. And the elements in it, it's like, he's the bogeyman.
I'll try and say the question. But Baba Yagan, that whole premise where it's just not the baddest person or not the more skilled person. He's just the one that's most determined. He's hard as fuck.
He was willing to feed on all these assassins because he murdered his dog. If that's how far he's willing to go for his dog. Yeah, but it's a term, because he gets his ass kicked a lot during the film and you don't really expect, but it's a determination that he's willing to go further and throw everything more. And I love the whole continental aspect as well and the rules to it.
And then going back to what I said, it don't over explain it. Whereas this is basically this because of that. It says these rules. They can't do this.
I'm good. And you don't know who these hire people out. I know they're going to go into it a little bit. I think they're going to do a TV show as well about the continental.
Oh, that's good. Have a good start. And so on. But on the cars, the fucking cars, I'm all about the American, like say, like say the power cars and stuff like that.
But his cars in that film is absolutely amazing. Hope they're with the charger from a supernatural, shall we say? I was just going to say they were Dean's car. Is it a Dodge charger?
I know it's called Baby. But even the cast as well, like, even the things like William DeFor, like Amy McSian and the guy who was coming to the guy now, he was just playing the mechanic. Like I said, a little small role like that, but he's a big, big actor. But adds more to it than like say, if they got someone in that wasn't part of it.
But on the action scenes, if you like an action film, it's all about like the moves and all the director of the third one made it purposely. Because he wanted the audience to feel absolutely exhausted after the film. Yeah, I totally got that. We watched the second and third one straight off each other because we couldn't, literally, could not wait to get into it again.
And then when I finished, I actually don't want to leave. Holly Berry was in the third one. We've got Lawrence Fishburn. Keanu and Lawrence Fishburn were working together again.
Their chemistry is just magic. I had to pick this one because it is a recent one for us as well. I watched the first one when I came out and didn't bother with the other ones until I popped them in the core. And I kicked myself away in that long.
But then again, I was just so happy. Then I was like, oh, I'm going to be back in this world again. Yeah, you got like a massive block like hit all at once. But yeah, going back to what you were saying about them respecting the audience with this hint of like, we'll snore the coins and everything.
Just putting it out there. I think in the action scenes, the weird shot, I think the respect audience there as well, they're just like, we're going to go. He's never going to stop. Then we think you're going to come along for this ride.
It doesn't stop to focus on stuff too much. It's just boom, boom, boom. He's over here now. I'm dead.
I'll give you a bit as well because I know a lot of films these do. They do the quick takes, the quick cuts. I love that I don't know if I'm saying it yet. I'm just saying, yeah, Chang Shih, okay.
Just a lot of the action scenes and the fight scenes there that do the quick cuts. So you close up, quick cut and you don't know what's going to happen. But you pretty much see everything that's happening in these ones as well, which is sometimes very brutal but in a good way. Yeah, you feel every punch, every kick, every smack to the ground.
You feel it all because there's no cutting in between. You just watching it as it's happening, it's just out. I love it. Yeah, like I'm saying, I love it.
Isn't it like in the first one is when he goes through like a dance club, isn't it? Or some kind of similar place? Oh, and I think that's the third one when he goes back. Yeah, when he goes back to it because you find out he's actually Russian because I have a new Russian and I'm just an engineer Houston.
Yeah, yeah. She's like his family and he's got to go back and then he gets disowned by them by using a medal or something. But you still reflected in forest. You don't have a lot of tech arms.
But yeah, I think I think what we said before, he was born to play this role. I don't think anyone else could do it as well unless it was an American, if that makes sense. I think it had a very eastern feel to the film, like John Wues style, I think. Yeah, direction style.
But that's definitely where you're coming from there. I only have a fair self to reference when it comes to John Wues. Lots of dubs. Very good.
So that's my first pick, John Wick. Well, as I've had my first and second pick. You can go next, Jake. Yeah, yeah.
So another one that is a pretty famous film and could be considered by someone of the greatest Christmas movies of all time. It's so hard. Emu list. And I'll join with this one as well because it is in my list.
And this is one of the ones I was debating to, you know, which because I wanted to keep it for Christmas. But I don't think you can have an action film. Well, the top five action film without having die hard, even though Bruce Wallace has meant to be a valent in real life. His album is a kind of tipster off.
Very true. But no, just finish it. Again, go inside track here. I've just finished watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the reference to die hard throughout these that show.
It brings back me love of the film as well. Yeah, same here, Jake's because we just finished the series and then gone back and finished it again. And Jake's love for that movie just makes you want to watch it. And especially then, it's all where he gets to recreate it in the shop center.
Yeah, I'll read that. I got trapped in the Toni Plaza as well. Yes. That was a generous surprise.
I didn't know that. And not a Toni Plaza existed. So then when I saw that in that show, I wanted to go to there. Just to just find it for the Toni Plaza.
That's where Hans Gruber fell to his death. Yeah, yeah, the buildings. I don't know if any of the interiors were real, but yeah, the outside definitely. Well, I suppose they had some outside scenes with the cars and stuff.
Yeah, I think we're dying hard as well. Not just a great film, but it was, in my opinion, had the greatest bad guy in Alan Rickman. Yes. Hans, Bobby.
I just said Hans, Bobby, like the creepy guy. No, Alan Rickman. And he's sure for not knowing them, they're like just on par with each other. He's just absolutely fantastic.
And he's hot as hell in that film. He's just like, he always has a good line reads like Alan Rickman and kind of everything he's in. But it's just the kind of fact that it's kind of like the stereotypical American cup guy versus the kind of straight list, professional gangster. And just like the delivery on like, now I have a machine going, oh, oh, oh.
It's just like, oh, it's perfect. You can tell he's like pissing him off. Such an amazing impression, by the way. Well, I like my lot.
The change up in it as well. And when Alan Rickman first meets, I can say Bruce, kind of thing of his name, that would be Prince by the way, he changed his accent. John McLean, yeah, that's what I got him losing points here. Where he changed his accent to an American accent to try and trigger.
But Rickman being the actor is, there's a flawless American accent, which like always blows his away. Yeah, that's one of my favorite scenes is when you see him flip because he saw you here in that, he's German, isn't he? Yeah, German. I think Hans was meant to be, was it Austrian?
I don't know. I don't want to offend anyone. I was British, British, I mean, life when he was playing. And then they got another British, and then they got another British actor to please, bring another Asian.
Oh yeah, Jeremy. She went up that scenery. Massively. As he always does.
He does. If you watch, Watchman, he does. What was I going to say, the cast in this man that you've got, I haven't, I haven't come prepared as normal. But the guy who plays the policeman, who sees, who sees on the ground guy.
Oh yeah, Reginald Bell Johnson. Yes, I would be as Missy. I love it. Like the cast has a little friendship when he's just like, you know, stay safe, John and stuff like that.
Like throughout the movie, like on the walkie-talkies. You just feel like, oh, you really want something out? Let's take check with him. We love each other.
Well, again, it's a simple premise. Terrorist taking over like a building, wrong place, wrong time as with all of John McKim's exports. You can learn. It's a good place in the house.
But it must be the most, or it must be the most, as well, because I win like fuck at this film as well, when he takes his shoes off and then they realize on his ship to glass. And he's seen him running, and then pulling the glass out of his feet and the sink. That was up there with misery for a pain threshold. I'm not going to come to the feet and stuff like that.
But yeah, that was the first time I've noticed a gore in a film as well. Like when I watched him die hard, because I think my parents must have thought it was a Christmas film. Sorry, Dad, if you're watching this. Because they would have watched this as a kid when I was far too young to watch it.
But it was absolutely brilliant. How many talk you some valuable lessons, you know, about, you know, if you ever in a situation, get in the air vents immediately? Right. Actually, some of the best catch first as well, like I said, I got a machine going, what was the other one?
Welcome to the party. Welcome to the party, pal. Yes, I love that when he took the guy out of the window to get the pups attention. Yes, it's such a good one.
That's underrated. That's like, yeah, because I think the most famous one, the Yibi Kaya one just gets too much credit. Have you ever seen the, like, what the change that to, like, American TV, broadcast? Like Yibi Kaya and Mr Falcon.
It makes no sense. It's not just changed it instead of leaving it. I know, I like Charles is one of the, like, like, Brody 99 Yibi Kaya and Mother Bucket. Oh, Charles.
My favorite character, by the way, I am all the child. I identify too much with Charles and his anxiety. Me too. The fact he's such a weird, like, he's weird food habits.
I am like, I am very weird with food, but just not as enthusiastic as him. I just have the weird side. Not the throw spoilers. I think he's having watch season eight yet.
No, I'm a Netflix boy for that kind of thing. So I got to wait. I told you I was watching it when I finished and you picked as last night to say it was finished. So I am watching it when I go home because, as you can probably tell, I am not at home in my usual surroundings.
I am at my parents' house. Just the one, yes, I did cry. So that's odd. Oh, God, it's like, it's creak is it.
I'm not going to be like the day is afterwards. Not, not, not, not, not for anything, but yeah. Not, not, not, not, not, but it was emotional. But I think as well, one of the most underrated characters in the die-hard franchise, and he's the most annoying one in it is the reporter guy, the William Atherton, on the film.
Yes. And, and that's not, that has no dick. Yeah. I don't think other than what makes a William Peck on ghostbusters.
Do I hate anyone as much just for trying to do their job, basically? You know what, that's why you took the role. It was exactly the same guy from ghostbusters. It was so different.
Instead of getting a little bit marshmallow or dog dog dog, we got stuck in the face. It's the same character. Like, one thing I want to bring up is how it's kind of like, it's really like densely packed. It's kind of like a perfect movie because like there's no wasted motion.
Like, you were saying about the feet thing, which they like, they obviously like set up because he's trying to like get over his jet lag and he has to take his shoes off and the guy on the plane tells him to do that. And then you see everything, like all the moving parts. It's just like really like tightly knit script and everything script. No, I can't fault a single part.
I know it's cheesy and it's, well, name it action film that isn't cheesy. It's all blown. I like it when the FBI agents coming in, they called Johnson and Johnson, like somebody says, it's like a throwaway. And I was always confused as well.
Because I first watched as a kid, I didn't quite get to understand that part. I thought the FBI were part of the bad guys. And they're just basically being ourselves doing what, like the normal protocol for what the FBI were doing. When I watched it when I was a little bit older, I got that moment.
I was like, I'm not going to be a suspect more. So it's a little bit, you realize you don't probably don't get when you're watching when you're a kid, but the more you. And I can say his wife Holly is absolutely stunned. I'm in the same eighties households all the way up with that perm.
What do we want to be? Yes. What do we want to be teenage questions? Shall we say?
So there's my first second and third pick gone. Yep. Sorry. So that's my inject second pick.
So back to Jake. Back to Jake. Okay. I think this one, it's probably going to be quite a unique one.
Because like you were saying Paul, it's like I'm kind of getting out of the eighties and nineties with this one finally. It's the Red Two, which is from 2014. It's like an Indonesian martial arts action film. Has it sort of either of you seen it?
I've seen the first. I've seen the first Red. Actually, I've not seen the second one. It's the same.
It's the same main character. I'll try and get his name. I go with it or it's wise. But it's just like, I had to see this because a lot of people have held it up as like greatest action movie of all time when it was coming out and stuff.
And I never got around to watching it. But when I was offered to come on this podcast, I was like, I've probably got to watch the Red Two now just to make sure. I rented it. And yeah, like what a lot of people said is kind of it's kind of accurate.
It's a lot like John Wick. I mean, story wise, it's just you saw a classic undercover car. Has to infiltrate. He gets put in prison for something he didn't do.
And then has to infiltrate the mob. Like many gets in lots and lots of trouble. But it's kind of like it's all practical effects. Apart from like the deaths.
Like there's plenty like CGI blood and broken bones and stuff. But the guys just legit like stuntman martial artist, like some of the fastest punches I've ever seen. And it's just it's like non stuff. Like there's plenty like downtime story, but like action.
It's sometimes claustrophobic. Other times it's like a beautiful like artistic scene where like, you know, it's a one on one or it's like a massive crowd of prisoners. All just like kind of like. But I loved it.
So I would definitely recommend that to anyone listening who wants to check out some martial arts. No. I think it's the red two. Was that one that was on the tree and all of a completely different?
No. So like the red one was like an apartment building wasn't it? Like dread. That's why I watched the first red because I was told it was pretty much exactly like dread.
And dread. And I love dread. So this one it's not it's not specifically set anywhere. It's like it's like in a city basically.
Like I said, it starts out in a prison. So you get some of your classic like prison scenes like Intimidant and then you go, they don't know where the cop obviously. But yeah, also it's kind of like it scratches that video game image for me because it has like special boss characters that he has. It's like this blind girl with two like claw hammers.
A guy with like a baseball bat and a baseball bat. He like hits people with it. And then like the big boss who like shows him up early on is just like, I guess the same fighting style. But it's like, yeah, it's totally like video game as hell.
I'm sure I'm being begging us to watch this. Yeah, I just I just rented it. I don't think it's streaming. I had to rent it.
But it's definitely worth like a watch gets and beers in and have a fun time and see some impressive stunts. I have heard good things. I've been a lot of people's always recommended. It's one of them things where you put on your list.
What do you think of? I know with me, I've not been able to take on taking any new films really over the last year or so I've been going back to the world's favorites. Yeah. It is.
I'm definitely going to look into now because that sounds like it's like watching a video game that I'm all in. It's like the action is more realistic in a way. Everyone's like, obviously the most skilled martial arts you've ever seen, which wouldn't normally happen. And it is subtitled.
So it's like in I guess the native language. So it's a bit of a you know, you've got to pay some attention if you want to get the mob story. But it's nothing super complicated. It's just like warring mob faction type of stuff.
And you're kind of there for the action. Great car chase as well, which I feel like is being missed in modern movies. Practical effect car chase. That is a good point because I can see a lot of the car films these days.
You don't really get the feel of the old ones. Yeah, it's probably CG, which is a lot safer. But like this guy, the main character of the movie is like jumping out on the wind screens and stuff because he's like a stuntman. And martial arts.
It's scary. It's one of those wets like you know, your hearts and your throw because it looks real. And it probably was. I probably would have been someone getting injured on the set.
Because I said it was with a being an Asian film. Like they probably don't have the same self and health and safety guidelines. That's what we do over here in America. Possibly.
And I think when you get when you get martial arts, who would do in their own stunts, I think it was like a pride element. It's like, no, I can jump out this window and you're like, okay. I will check that one. I'll go.
You have definitely sold me on it. That was a good pitch. I love that. I had to check it out.
I couldn't come on an action movie podcast without seeing it. Because I just seen too much talk about it online. So that was gigs. Yeah.
So I'm going to my third one. This will probably be on the picks as well. Again, it's from 1986. When I picked the first film of this, it was a bit controversial because used to others.
It wasn't a horror film, but this argued that it was. This sequel is the action film in the franchise. Again, it was one of the female leads. Shall we say it in an action franchise?
So go on and wave it. And it's aliens. Not in my lose. Yeah.
It's not in mine, but I did watch it in the run up to this on Disney. So I've had a recent viewing. I love the elements to this. I know the colors used and the design and everything.
I watch the quite recently again just because I noticed it came on Disney. And I thought it was quite funny watching aliens on Disney. I don't know. Sorry, David.
It hasn't really come on Disney plus because I've been trying. I sold my massive alien box collection. Me too. And completely got us all that and it's really difficult to get a hold on line.
So is it on Disney plus? Yes. Only that one I think. That's okay.
Is that the first one? Just the first one. Just the second. The second one.
I'm not the first one. Well, die hard. They've got two and three on Disney plus and not one because I was going to check out. I think it's about licensing because Disney plus is with a big fox.
They're still trying to get all the licensing backed to view on different countries because I know Deadpool's just came on with Deadpool too. It's been on for a while. But I think other streaming places probably sell all the rights to the other aliens. So this one I think aliens came on about a month ago.
And that's why because of Flash the one the stars thing we don't have aliens. I'm like, Oh, God, check that out. And but again, it's still beautiful. Like other film that was filmed in 1980, 1986.
It's not a lot of brand new, like the special effects. And again, a lot of all that when most of it was practical at the time. And then make sure that the Zeno moths are absolutely terrifying. If you think they're a monster film as well, you'll not get better or scary monsters.
Then make sure that even the little Facebook is freaking me out. Yeah, two spider like aliens are kind of the Zeno moths is like the sort of only movie bad guy I've had like multiple dreams about is a kid because I just hated them. I mean, I still don't really like looking at them because they're just all like spidery and. I have a big and big and big so that sits in and room above you's com.
I'm not sure if it's next to his computer. It's a plush toy. Okay, well, at least it's less spidery in push form, but I wouldn't want that. One of the real faces that I hid behind it.
It's in his room, not mine. So I'm fine with that. Like I said, I thought we remember because I was lucky enough to go to Florida the first time I went and there's a ride. I think I said Hollywood studios or Magic Kingdom, but it's called the greatest story ever told or something.
It's got a replica of the big Chinese theater where all the premiers are in earlier. And you can you go in and it takes you through all the movies in history. I thought it was called the great story. I thought it was the movie ride.
I'm not sure. Of course, down will be a big mistake because you feel like I was sort of wizarding and the Wicked Witch, popped out, but you're going through the spaceship and you see the steam coming around. You're thinking it's going to pop out and it doesn't so well. It pops out the ceiling and it comes down again.
It's like probably gnarly and mouth pops out. Even though you know what's going to happen, it's still freak out and it's still done really, really well. Yeah, that would be my nightmare. I was like, please, in the wrong bit in the ride though, because you just come out of a wizard of Oz and then smack fan right into the alien world.
I was all in for everything. So I was just in awe of it. But this one, as I said before, Alien is a horror film. It's suspenseful.
It's the whole way in for these things to come out. And this one thing come out and this one, it is bolts to the wall action from the get go. As soon as Ripley, again, great lines, as the intelligence drops since I've been asleep when they're going back to this planet. And she knows what they're going to go back for, but she still goes back because she's a nice person and she wants to help.
But even the Marines, I was laughing head off as well because this has meant to be in the future. And then the boardroom and the old talking and discussing what they're going to do. And they're sitting there smoking tabs and stuff. And I was like, this is the eighties.
This is showing you how toxic cigarettes and stuff is now. You can't even show them in movies and stuff there. But then it's in the future, they're discussing what they're going to do with the business and all having tabs and then going through. And then it's getting out to one attack of these beasts and all smotting the weird, having tabs in the hands and stuff.
So you can tell, like, must be on a big nicotine career during the innings as well. The commanders never got like a cigar out of his mouth. He wakes up out of the cryo chamber and he's just like... Have you watched the cigar in his mouth?
It's mesmerizing because he moves it. He moves it around his mouth and mirrors it. And that sounds really weird. But it's like, there's one bit where he's part of Ripley.
It's on his right side. He moves it to his left side. Then he's got his top lip. But he's hanging on his back.
But it's like, how the fuck is he doing that? I think I noticed that is that we're like just talking about the power line of things. Oh yeah. Go ahead.
But as I said before, but Dagon, there's great foreshadow in the early on the story of the power lords. It's so riply he isn't. You don't know what he ends. That's going to be used to a good thing.
And this one introduced us to the alien squine, which was one of the most badass monsters used in cinema history. And that was a frightening thing to say as well. It gets on the elevator. It's evil.
That part's horrible because it's like crap. Some of these things have got intelligence. So then that's another layer of like, it's kind of like clever girl. It's a clever layer of thing.
Oh, this thing could navigate its way through a structure to get me still. It's still coming after you as well. Yeah. But I can say when you click on the cast as well, it's got Michael Bien, who's fought every single bad guy in the universe.
Now he's tackled the Terminator. He's tackled the Mandalorian as well in the Star Wars world. And Bill Paxson absolutely brilliant in this role. And it's Hudson game over man game over.
Yeah, he's like, he's me. Like, I was like, I was like, I was like running immediately. I'm 100% that will be going through my head. I'll be like, I want to get out of here.
I do not want to be involved with it. Please let's get a sword. But he's like, sorry. Sorry.
I was just going to say, like what I didn't know is like when I was a kid, but on this later view. And I didn't know is how like, how the corporate guy is just so evil. And it's obviously like a send up of like, you know, he's like, you know, Wolf of Wall Street culture. And it's just like, it's still kind of scary, really relevant.
It's like, if you work for a big company, which kind of sucks, but he's a great bad guy because you just want, you just want to really like blow his head off. But she doesn't, but like, she could justify. Oh, no, because it was Paul Ronda, wasn't it? Paul, I've got a name name name.
Yes. Someone about me or something like that. Paul Ronda, stranger things as well now. Right.
But you have the same start-up thing. He actually tells you I'm the good guy at the start. That's the word. That's the word to go out to your nose.
You know he's going to be a fucking dick. But the whole sinister part, when he locks a riply in mute into that, in the medical beer and takes the gun from him with the face-hoggers to get around getting the aliens back was so sinister and so well done. You just wanted him to hear the guy after that. As an action film, it's got every single element that you were looking for.
Like I said, the gun fire, the actual fighting, and then there's a robot fighting the giant alien at the end, which is just amazing. And all about the giant robots. Yeah. I'm all about the giant alien.
I think the alien design in this is just absolutely unreal. Who did the design again? It's a giga. H-I-gaga.
Yeah. It's an absolutely amazing thing. I remember seeing one of his books in America once and it was just a page after page of all this beautiful artwork and obviously a lot of alien in there as well. And it was much money.
Yeah. It was always interesting how far it was. It was all quite sexual organs and all your tears as well. Sexy as hell and his work.
Like unreal. I just wish I had a camera for when I was just taking pictures of it. I don't even have any of that. Starting, we're going to pick number four.
Jig. Yeah? Yeah. I feel so much I haven't even got to tell us one of her picks to start with.
We was not my week and I knew that coming. I knew what I would have happened. I'm just really prepared for this. Cool.
Okay. So I've got a slightly more obscure quote for this one. But what would you think of it? I said, tell you better.
Oh, and don't listen man. Yes. Maybe 93's demolition mounds are slightly slow. At least nights.
Awesome. Not on my list. Oh God. That's the God.
Still trying to work out the three two shells. Yes. They even showed in JSX and that's an experiment. Brilliant.
I remember watching this again. I think I didn't get on like for the church. I think I watched it on like it when it was being premiered. But completely caught with the fails.
You didn't expect the videos as good as it is. Slice don't Sandra Bullock, Wes and Snipes. Wes and Snipes is absolutely stark. Obviously it's one of these best films.
I'll be honest with you. Yeah. He's still like fun, but also like scary at the same time. It's just like a really interesting performance.
Cause like, you know, we could like kill you, but you also make a joke right before he does it. Yeah. But again, even with the premise of the film, it's an evil corporation in the background. That's running the show.
That's playing them off each other. It's a very shady theme, isn't it? Evil corporation. It's definitely a theme in my list as well.
It's a theme in mine too. And he's the embarrassing thing for me. I have seen it, but it was only a couple of years ago. That's not an embarrassing thing.
I know you're not very pretty. How does it hold up from a modern view by? It's like first watch. It was absolutely unreal.
It just takes you back to when you used to get flutters about films. Cause now it's everything's all recycled and you always say, oh, they'll never make one as good as that. And that's that kind of film. I loved it.
I love Sylvester Stallone anyway. I generally adore that man. So it was right. I already enjoyed it.
That's my professional thing. I enjoyed it. That's just interesting if it was like a nostalgia thing. Cause I don't hear like a ton of, I mean, people talk about it down by shit man, but like not a ton.
There isn't really many memes made out of it other than like three seashells. That's the thing. It's like comedy and action. It's kind of like, it's got a bit of everything.
And my favorite's like the thing that like stops them. It's like John Spartan. It's just like John Spartan's like every time he says. Anything.
Also, is that the most ridiculous man character name I've hit on tonight? John Spartan. Which I would possibly, yes. And Simon Phoenix, for the bad guy, wasn't it?
Simon Phoenix. Yes. And I remember Sandra Bull's Code, but as you said, the comedy aspect, I absolutely found hilarious a bit when she invites him over to Half Sex, and he's getting all excited and stuff. He had to put the weird helmets on and it's like, it's the most bizarre, sexy, never.
He's like let's get down, and let's do it. Let's do it and this is the most disgusting thing she's ever heard. And it's like exchange of fluids has been outlawed. It's like, well, when you say it like that, this wasn't an 80s film though.