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OffSeason

[00:00:09] Frank Roll III: Hollywood and the independent video

[00:00:18] Scott Moran: Receive streaming services and ask the question, what the fuck is that? Does this hold up? And just, what the hell is a good movie? Anyway, I'm Frank Roll. I'm Scott Moran and we are the last video store

[00:00:34] Scott Moran: I was at a loss for finding something this weekend. I wanted something very specific.

[00:01:07] Scott Moran: Who's the lead in that? Again? I can't remember her name, but this show has a 90 something percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and I didn't get that from the pilot. So I was kind of like, you know what, let's go with this. I think this is gonna be one of those things that, you know, you can watch something really bad and if you invest in the characters, you'll become really attached to them.

[00:01:35] Frank Roll III: feel like I would remember her face. She was in the new Robocop. Oh, wife of man. She's.

[00:01:56] Scott Moran: Mm-hmm. But they invested some money in that and I actually was like, this is too good. This isn't what I'm looking for. And he camp

[00:02:04] Scott Moran: did things? No, Facebook tried to start a streaming service. Oh, they produced two shows? Mm-hmm. It was when YouTube started doing that too. And then there was, do you remember ciso?

[00:02:26] Frank Roll III: did ciso. Was it ever a button on a Roku remote? No. How many times were there buttons on Roku's or Fire Sticks that never did anything

[00:02:35] Scott Moran: Probably. Oh, a lot. I mean, Does mine have anything? Mine has some weird shit on it.

[00:02:45] Scott Moran: they coughed up the money and then they, somebody

[00:02:50] Frank Roll III: Yeah. Robocop

[00:03:03] Frank Roll III: I stumbled across it, I think on YouTube somehow.

[00:03:08] Frank Roll III: It was somehow they got a suit that was kind of close, but you know, it wasn't the same.

[00:03:14] Scott Moran: sets, like it looked like the tick in the nineties.

[00:03:20] Scott Moran: I think I'm going to, I put it on my cue. That was what, what kind of streak I was on. You're strong, man. You're strong. You have no idea. You're stronger than I.

[00:03:48] Scott Moran: Yeah. Does it have the original cast? Yeah. As far as I can tell. I feel like I would have to rewatch the full Monty and I don't know if I care. I thought it was funny. Did you wait, did you never see the full module? No, I, I saw it, but I think I've only seen it once. I remember enjoying it. Yeah. I don't remember it that well.

[00:04:10] Frank Roll III: or freshman year. Watched it on VHS

[00:04:20] Frank Roll III: No, that's the thing. That one was like funny. It was like these everyday.

[00:04:27] Frank Roll III: of male stripping, not dodgeball. Well, the classic, if we win the contest, we get the money to pay the

[00:04:35] Frank Roll III: And it's, and I said pay the taxes. Yeah. It could have been other things, but like what, 80% of the time it was to pay the taxes on

[00:04:42] Scott Moran: Yeah. It's either that or save the team. That's like the classic underdog story

[00:04:49] Scott Moran: Save the team run in a way. But there were, yeah, angels in the outfield and uh, Rookie of the year are also those sort of movies. Rookie of the Year. Well, rookie of the Year was like, it's a rags to riches story.

[00:05:08] Frank Roll III: It's bomb gardener. The noise that it made when he would throw the ball. Do you remember that?

[00:05:19] Frank Roll III: I finished the days, the Fukushima Disaster. Oh, right. Yeah. I need to check to see how much of it is like Accurate.

[00:05:27] Frank Roll III: series? Eight episodes.

[00:05:38] Frank Roll III: Mini doc. When it's cut into pieces, it's just a different way, way of like limited series for a documentary.

[00:05:53] Frank Roll III: It's like eight or nine episodes, like 45 to 55 minutes a piece.

[00:06:02] Scott Moran: What the fuck is a mini dock? A mini

[00:06:05] Scott Moran: on hbo. Is that like where you park a very small boat Look, ask

[00:06:15] Scott Moran: Was it a mini dock though? No. Why not?

[00:06:26] Frank Roll III: It was when I had kidney stones. I was, I watched so many

[00:06:32] Frank Roll III: No. They use different robots to go into the facility. Just like in Chernobyl, man, the radiation just gets through the, uh, through the equipment too fast. But anyway, it was, it was, you know, I, I feel bad when I say it was good.

[00:06:51] Scott Moran: you're like, I get it. I've had an erection. Yeah. For like 10

[00:07:01] Frank Roll III: Still slow motion still, like everybody just looking somber. And then, oh, it's another one. And you're like, I can't

[00:07:10] Frank Roll III: Um, but then I also watched Viking Wolf. What the fuck is that? It's a Norwegian werewolf movie. Ooh, dude. It like had some good reviews. You're smiling a lot. I'm just confused by the ending.

[00:07:40] Frank Roll III: It was cool though. I mean, I liked the concept of it. I don't know. Apparently it was like top 10, first week it was out on Netflix and it was, I don't know. It did really good for like a foreign horror movie. I'm there, it's got some people in it. Well, the lead outside of the mother who's also a police officer, she was in uh, Midsummer.

[00:08:06] Scott Moran: It's kind of cool when you recognize a foreign actor.

[00:08:11] Frank Roll III: Yeah. I've more than one movie. Um, they all just happen to be like sci-fi, like

[00:08:22] Frank Roll III: Yeah. Yeah. Um, but no, Viking Wolf was a good whore. It looks good, you know?

[00:08:29] Scott Moran: feel like the last time I really enjoyed a random, like werewolf movie mm-hmm. Was Dog Soldiers. Did you ever see that? No.

[00:08:46] Frank Roll III: Oh, oh, that one? Yeah. Yeah, the movie. Okay. I never saw that. You know what my last favorite one was? The Jack Nicholson. Was that Wolf? Yeah, it's Wolf. Okay. Yeah. Uh, Michelle Pfeiffer. Yeah. That was a good one. That's like my favorite. It's an underrated, actually,

[00:09:04] Scott Moran: Yeah. You know, we're doing it one

day.

[00:09:14] Scott Moran: months ago. Yeah. I don't know if it's because of when I saw it in my life or, Does

[00:09:23] Scott Moran: feel the same way.

[00:09:43] Frank Roll III: you know?

[00:09:47] Scott Moran: back in the day. I feel like I just lumped them into like, this is like how you start to be like, I like, you know, darkness. Darkness is only I can see the spiders. Well,

[00:10:05] Scott Moran: I'm not gonna lie, I forgot we were talking about

[00:10:21] Frank Roll III: But I mean,

[00:10:27] Frank Roll III: Well it's cool, you know, cuz we talk about like the Norwegian black metal and stuff like that. Dude, there's a shot with like one of those churches in the background. You know, those like medieval fucking just, it looks like a black church. Um, and you know, it's probably old as shit.

[00:10:53] Scott Moran: do you know? Was it like a close call or something?

[00:10:56] Frank Roll III: It's been weird. Like I said, had the day off did way too much. So I watched the movie today.

[00:11:16] Scott Moran: Like So you were stationary? Yes. Yeah, it happens. We did watch vice principals,

[00:11:40] Scott Moran: It's going down easy. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, cool. Walton Goggins, old clogging Goggins. I love that man. What his big fucking teeth sounded like. He's from West Virginia. He's the bad guy and justified He was in uh oh

[00:12:00] Scott Moran: a big ass teeth that sometimes has crazy

[00:12:04] Frank Roll III: Was he in righteous gemstones? I think I know who you're talking

[00:12:12] Frank Roll III: American Ultra. Yes. He's that

[00:12:18] Frank Roll III: Yeah. Dude, the

[00:12:20] Scott Moran: He's cool, man. He's the bad guy and justified, but he's kind of like, you start to like him.

[00:12:26] Scott Moran: Yeah. He's what made that show for me. Okay. Timothy Oliphant was fine. Mm-hmm. He looks great in a hat. Walton Goggins though. Well,

[00:12:37] Scott Moran: good.

[00:12:45] Frank Roll III: been in some

[00:12:55] Scott Moran: He was, but he was in a house of a thousand corpses. That's the first time I remember him. He's the sheriff that shows up and dies immediately.

[00:13:05] Scott Moran: yeah. Yeah. I always think Jeremy's Cito was in that too. I

[00:13:11] Scott Moran: watched.

[00:13:13] Frank Roll III: was in it? I was listing movies. We'll get there. Doug, you wanna just talk about Theto Effect? Yeah. Tell

[00:13:20] Frank Roll III: Effect. You know, we kind of look for, I don't know, similarities in movies sometimes, and you know, the dinner party, the themes. So movies where you're stuck, you can't get out, you're trapped.

[00:13:48] Frank Roll III: Yes. Yeah. And I will watch season one and see if I'm, you know, I'll get there and, but you know, I just saw that and CTO's in a movie called like population 4 36. Oh my god, I remember that.

[00:13:59] Frank Roll III: yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'd watched it before but I was like, wait, I remember the premise. But I was like, was he trapped there?

[00:14:09] Scott Moran: You guys always getting lost. Well, yeah. Long turn.

[00:14:17] Frank Roll III: 13. He, you know, he's like the, the guy in the life of a lost 13 year old.

[00:14:36] Scott Moran: those movies. It's a concept I like. Mm-hmm. If done right, well, what do you, how did you feel about this movie? How did I feel?

[00:14:58] Frank Roll III: They did it. And I think you know exactly what I'm talking about. Think I might like the end. I think I might. I was like, look, if it's going this direction, this is what has to happen to bring it in for me. This has to, this has to happen to wrap it for me. I

[00:15:18] Scott Moran: Yeah, and that's because I think this movie was really fucking well made. Like as far as the lighting, the scenery, and the acting Go,

[00:15:35] Scott Moran: don't think I would recommend anyone watch this movie though.

[00:15:56] Scott Moran: Yeah, I'm

[00:16:00] Scott Moran: Oh, so 90. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So an hour and

[00:16:12] Scott Moran: the people dead center. And it gets even weirder because this movie also has a 67% on Rotten Tomatoes, but its audience score is 15.

[00:16:28] Frank Roll III: There you go. So people that were pissed off found a place to be pissed off

[00:16:39] Frank Roll III: That number of people and that score, they were that mad. They wanted to

[00:16:48] Scott Moran: I looked.

[00:16:52] Scott Moran: said, people on I M D V are much more articulate with like, they'll write a fucking essay. About why they fucking hate this movie. They will write for longer than it took them to watch this movie. Like you sat down and wrote a fucking essay like for an hour and a half on I M D V.

[00:17:28] Frank Roll III: It would've been better, like Vikings versus

[00:17:33] Frank Roll III: He had his own idea of what this movie was like, us

[00:17:42] Frank Roll III: Yeah. So it's weird that you brought that up because I haven't gotten that into him for a while.

[00:17:52] Scott Moran: got into it. I mean, my first thought was that this is a Viking who is also a wolf. No, I'm sure that's not what it is, but I feel like that's more reasonable than thinking that it's vikings and werewolves fighting each other and like both sides have to be people.

[00:18:11] Frank Roll III: The battle sequences, man, like the wolf jumping out is like some tree tree lines. The Vikings were with their shields and

[00:18:22] Frank Roll III: on that sharknato level.

[00:18:29] Scott Moran: Not being happy with what you got.

[00:18:32] Scott Moran: season. It was just, uh, off season was what I expected it to be. Mm-hmm. It's just I had gripes about some of the. Thought there would've been more jumps. It was a little slow at first for no particular reason. Like you're saying, it was pretty, it was a pretty movie.

[00:18:53] Frank Roll III: Yeah. There's some things about the time period. That I wanted to

[00:19:07] Scott Moran: It's super easy to think that a streaming service is worth, is based on original content. It's like new releases or it's offerings of like TV series, but. We think the real soul of the streaming service is in the movies you find when you have nothing in mind to watch. So we're picking stuff solely based on its trailer and its description, and I went through and hoped that the algorithm was accurate enough to, uh, satisfy me for another month because I'm starting to really wonder why I pay 20, almost $20 for who It just, it.

[00:19:57] Frank Roll III: extra because we have Showtime tied in through our Hulu, so we've almost got a two and one there.

[00:20:06] Scott Moran: Disney plus. I don't need espn, so No, I don't do that. But But you, you don't have it. I don't need E doesn't you? Plus all the time either. The only reason we did the

[00:20:16] Scott Moran: It wasn't cheaper that I could see. Mm.

[00:20:23] Frank Roll III: Yeah, we're good. Um, but yeah, so I mean that just

[00:20:42] Scott Moran: Yeah, for a little while. Mm-hmm. But Hulu is very expensive. The trick of, oh, you pay more so you don't have to have commercials that shit's over, man. You're not gonna fool me with that. They lost a

[00:21:01] Frank Roll III: Used to be with Hulu. I would hit back, like on the remote. And it would go back to the beginning of that row. It takes you back to the sidebar now. Oh, somebody else got that though that didn't have it. I don't remember which one offhand, but I'm like, wait, was there a trade of power here?

[00:21:17] Scott Moran: So the IMDB app, when you go look at something in an actress thing, Uhhuh, and then press back, it'll redo the row. Yes. You're scrolling through and it drives me fucking crazy,

[00:21:38] Frank Roll III: I was trying to find the, uh, troll guy today and I was able to get, that's weird. We're seeing the same shit this week somehow. All right. Nice. Noticing the weird little fucking things. It's cuz

[00:21:52] Frank Roll III: Marie receives a letter in the mail informing her that her mother's grave has been desecrated.

[00:22:12] Frank Roll III: The couple give up and head back to the bridge. That whole fucking the repeater. Here comes the repeater. Oh, this road looks familiar. I've seen that mailbox. Is that the

[00:22:28] Frank Roll III: This was pre Google Maps. I bet you could.

[00:22:34] Scott Moran: Eighties. You

[00:22:38] Scott Moran: You know me? Uh, yeah. I'm gonna need some explanation. I've got the

[00:22:53] Frank Roll III: For Mari to tell George that her mother had specifically asked not to be buried here and that someone had changed her will, it seemed like a stretch and it did seem fucking crazy. But also, why are you not telling the fucking person you're dragging into this? Just tell him ahead of time. Oh. Her mother also told her that the people of the island had sold their souls to a sea monster.

[00:23:17] Scott Moran: end, you know how old people do. Yeah. When they talk about elder gods rising from the ocean and cursing a

[00:23:30] Frank Roll III: People don't know how to drive in these situations, in these movies. Um, they miss the bridge somehow, cuz when she wakes up it's fucking. Through the trees in the opposite direction. It's like right there. It's a crazy ass fog they got going on. Like I was like, wasn't

[00:23:44] Scott Moran: That that's what they thought too. In

[00:23:52] Scott Moran: This movie had the biggest fog budget I have ever

[00:24:00] Frank Roll III: Dude, the, when the old lady, Emily. Miss Emily. Miss Emily. Yeah. Um, oh. Over there and it's like, it was like fresh gust of fog, dude. It was like,

[00:24:28] Scott Moran: Ty West's kind of first movie, Joe Swanberg. As George Darrow, who was the older brother Drake in your next, and he's also a director and

[00:24:41] Scott Moran: There was another one of those guys that's in all those movies that I saw in the background in the bar. I forget who it, who it was.

[00:24:51] Frank Roll III: Real, real quick. I feel like that's a good thing to yell at somebody like they're in a bar. It's like, yeah, I'm a writer, director. You are a writer director. You look like a writer director. Like what would, what would their reaction be if you like came at 'em a little aggressive?

[00:25:10] Scott Moran: fine pants and your stocks with the elastic. That still

[00:25:17] Scott Moran: Writer director.com. Richard Bra plays the Bridgeman, which is literally his name in the credits. Bridgeman Bridgeman.

[00:25:36] Scott Moran: Bridgeman Bridgeman. And uh, he's also the. Guy in the fucking basement in

[00:25:46] Frank Roll III: He is.

[00:26:06] Scott Moran: I always think of her as sad lady from Magnolia. Okay. John C. Riley. Yeah. She was really sad. She was bummed, man. Yeah.

[00:26:23] Scott Moran: was like wife One Big love is kind of like, it didn't stick in my head because it stressed me out so much. I love big love.

[00:26:46] Frank Roll III: Uncle. At one point I was like, dad, question mark.

[00:27:04] Frank Roll III: Sorry, another Viking Wolf comparison, grossed 57,000 worldwide. So I thought 57 was

[00:27:12] Scott Moran: Yeah, but 13. That's, uh, maybe to be expected though. Well, I would really like to see Marie Aldrich in more things. She's good. She was a good actress. Wait, Jocelyn Donahue? Yeah. Jocelyn Donahue. Yes. You'll only see, she's convinced me that she was

[00:27:34] Scott Moran: hint.

[00:27:43] Frank Roll III: Yes. My phone wants it

[00:27:51] Frank Roll III: I didn't pick up on that on this one, but cool. I, I normally notice shit like that, but that's one of those weird things like, well, which is it?

[00:27:58] Scott Moran: as an English major and I went and looked, I looked at the cover of the movie and everything, and I was like, that's a

[00:28:09] Scott Moran: proper? It'd be off season Two, two words. Yeah. Off season. Maybe the off season becomes one word.

[00:28:19] Frank Roll III: maybe shit just

[00:28:33] Frank Roll III: The letter sand trapp bar.

[00:28:40] Scott Moran: Yeah. It would switch chapters right there. Well, wait,

[00:28:45] Scott Moran: the chapters all fall on these story points, like bam, bam, bam. Yeah. Right on them. All the way to heaven. The opening monologue had me fucking worried though. Like I was like, I know that lady, but is she talking to me or was she talking to somebody at the side of the bed?

[00:29:02] Frank Roll III: the zoom out over somebody else's shoulder? Maybe just like some profile. I think

[00:29:11] Frank Roll III: Kendall, the scream. I appreciated it, but I felt like. I would've used a different, I don't know.

[00:29:22] Scott Moran: end. I thought some of the best scenes were the ones with the mother. Yeah.

[00:29:30] Scott Moran: Yeah, bridge Guy was another good. Perform.

[00:29:33] Frank Roll III: He was my favorite character. I think he

[00:29:42] Frank Roll III: yes. And uh, to me he was the most believable, uh, next to Jocelyn Donahue. I think she did. She did good. She did

[00:29:53] Scott Moran: Yeah. So wait, like say what you will about Bruce Campbell, but Bruce Campbell has done whole movies where he is the only person in the movie. Can you do that? The opening of Congo, for fuck's sake. Bruce Campbell is alone. Well, he's got what's his name? Yeah. But that guy goes missing immediately. The rest is just, Screaming and running,

[00:30:17] Frank Roll III: And was

[00:30:19] Frank Roll III: Florida? No, she was like back to New York. There were palm trees everywhere, so, but Well, okay, so that's one of those things though, is there was. It almost looked like the Hamptons at some of the beach scenes.

[00:30:35] Frank Roll III: Or, well, that's the whole thing. And I almost googled the name of the drawbridge. Did you notice like the name was on the side of the, uh, like drawbridge

[00:30:45] Frank Roll III: was on there and I wanted to see if that was an actual drawbridge and where that was at, but I didn't.

[00:30:51] Scott Moran: was thinking they were in Florida and if they were in Florida with the palm trees and stuff, I was like, why would you close down until next spring? Like this isn't like Maine, where it's gonna turn like the summer folk are leaving and we're gonna, we're gonna have to go back to Towny life.

[00:31:11] Frank Roll III: Let's all go to the general store when the storm rolls in.

[00:31:19] Frank Roll III: Especially if there's a character out of place from outta town

[00:31:34] Frank Roll III: lady. It had a cemetery lady. Miss Emily worked at the florist on, uh, main

[00:31:38] Scott Moran: And did she take Emily's job at the end of this movie? Yeah. People come in from outta town, they take your

[00:31:49] Scott Moran: her grandmother.

[00:31:52] Scott Moran: grandmother. See, some of the story was so spaced out.

[00:32:01] Frank Roll III: I didn't

[00:32:09] Frank Roll III: beach. But while the scenarios were creepy, I wanted to be, I wanted them to try and get me to jump a little bit more.

[00:32:18] Scott Moran: It was like the distance between things like the actual foot travel distance didn't make

[00:32:33] Scott Moran: what completely over my head. I didn't even attempt to figure it out.

[00:32:48] Scott Moran: and there were like little moments when like things were going crazy where the cam, like the frame rate would change and stuff. And I was like, we don't need this in this.

[00:33:00] Frank Roll III: How about the joker at the uh, bar?

[00:33:12] Frank Roll III: Does anybody know where the caretaker, I mean, check the cemetery then with this little fucking and everybody in the bar just cracking up?

[00:33:41] Frank Roll III: You can't tell someone. They'll think you're crazy. They okay. Exactly. I was gonna go there. They'll think you're, I don't give a fuck. I, I don't care if I see some shit. People are hearing about it. I'm telling everybody I can. I'm sleeping with lights on. I might even have slumber parties for a couple weeks, but I wouldn't go that route.

[00:34:09] Scott Moran: yeah, this, she doesn't even tell her boyfriend, who I was like thinking it was her husband for a

[00:34:17] Scott Moran: yeah, I don't know.

[00:34:27] Frank Roll III: offers her money for support at one point. Oh, does he? Yeah. Okay. He's like, I know things are something, something. He's like, you know, if you need any help in the meantime, you can ask me.

[00:34:40] Frank Roll III: before I sell it. And he's like, oh shit. I, you know, I'm going to bank town. Yeah, he got really excited. Yeah. That was the bank town invitation. That was like the only little moment of happiness between them. I felt there was

[00:34:51] Scott Moran: It wasn't properly conveyed. I, that's what I mean, that those are my complaints is like in the space that you used to build tension that didn't actually kind of pan out. Mm-hmm. You could have been telling me a little bit more about these people's relationship with subtext and that could have happened a little more.

[00:35:24] Scott Moran: I know when it's already creepy. Yeah. Also smoking outside the car if it is the eighties. Alright, and tell me. Why is it the eighties?

[00:35:46] Frank Roll III: I feel like that's too modern for 70, but too old for 80 or nineties. You know what I mean? I was like, that's an eighties receptionist phone. Okay, clothing. I'd say like, oh, that may be seventies. But then like, I don't know, from far away I'm like, that's kind of mid eighties. That's like mid eighties style.

[00:36:12] Scott Moran: saying. Yeah, you count on no one. Remembering

[00:36:21] Frank Roll III: When he get number 24, like, okay, is that what fucking street? That street over there. What are there, what is there? Only one street. Sorry, that wasn't even one of my

[00:36:36] Frank Roll III: and then in that, uh, bridge control box, some of those buttons, some of the controls, some of that equipment was just like, that's newer.

[00:36:53] Frank Roll III: However, the TV V C R combo would not have been available in the seventies or eighties in that model, I believe. Like if you look at that TV V C R combo, I'm feeling like, okay, that was mid late nineties TV V C R combo, no cell phones.

[00:37:18] Scott Moran: maybe it was just being ambiguous about it. Like, uh, it follows,

[00:37:27] Frank Roll III: Yeah. Where they, it follows must

[00:37:32] Frank Roll III: But then also as far as location, I think where it was supposed to be was east

[00:37:39] Frank Roll III: north season? Well, so possibly one of the Carolinas.

[00:37:48] Scott Moran: Like why that could even make sense. That would need to be in like Maine or something. Well, and when

[00:38:02] Frank Roll III: Little town that she was in. That's not the smallest fucking main street for a town that shuts down in the off season. That was a little bit bigger than that town that you

[00:38:15] Frank Roll III: all the smog.

[00:38:17] Scott Moran: fog, the smog. It's

[00:38:23] Scott Moran: Smoy fog. Yeah, I guess so.

[00:38:37] Frank Roll III: Man, and no, it wasn't her dad. It was her uncle. How'd you like his, uh, invasion of the body,

[00:38:54] Frank Roll III: Tentacles would be coming outta all kinds of shit back in the

[00:38:57] Scott Moran: Yeah. Come back and you guys watch this movie. It's called Dagon.

[00:39:14] Frank Roll III: Yeah, that sounds

[00:39:22] Frank Roll III: it's child. It's not a Death Rat. I was just as critical as I, as I am now then, oh, they

[00:39:32] Scott Moran: He's the new guy. I don't know. Except it. Take it. I know nothing. You like it? I know. Nothing. Spread yourself for a new host. What?

[00:39:50] Scott Moran: were white? The, the threat felt real.

[00:40:00] Frank Roll III: to. Well, things I liked, I didn't jump right? Like I wasn't jump scared. I wasn't like, oh fuck. It was definitely creepy. I love the way how this character handled herself, though.

[00:40:24] Frank Roll III: We're gonna scavenge. Know if you, if you're gonna fucking gun shop and it hasn't been like looted yet, you stock up, load the gun and run out of a gun shop, especially when you're fighting all these the damned sea

[00:40:42] Scott Moran: I could have done without the abrupt thing that followed that. We should go back and talk about George first though.

[00:40:50] Scott Moran: George e Boy. He was less of an actor when he was just George. And I thought he did a really good job on the bridge at the Big Bridge Standoff or, uh, George who, uh, found Salvation George.

[00:41:18] Frank Roll III: and I mean the, to me that was a big part of the story building.

[00:41:26] Scott Moran: Yeah. And the monologue felt like it came out of nowhere, but it also grounded that character. Did

[00:41:39] Frank Roll III: Did you see something? No. One of the times when they back up and it's like the conversation between her and her mother, there's like this red, um, sort of like tribal marking or something on a doorframe. Mm-hmm. Because I wanna say the paint's like a light color, like white. And there's this like red pattern at the uncle's house when she's looking for him.

[00:42:13] Frank Roll III: That's two different, it's two different places in

[00:42:29] Scott Moran: Mm-hmm. And, uh, I don't like how abruptly it ended after that. Like how it just jumped straight to the epilogue. The Sea Monster reveal was not enough of a climax for me cuz it was like Bridgeman brings her to the cemetery. Sea mom walk into the ocean. Can we go super

[00:42:47] Scott Moran: Yeah. Okay.

[00:42:50] Frank Roll III: When she's, when she's kneeling at the end and she's kind of going back in her head like, yeah, they all, they all sold their soul. She was saying like, no, like I don't agree. Right.

[00:43:04] Scott Moran: Just like,

[00:43:25] Frank Roll III: Like she's one

[00:43:34] Frank Roll III: point, and then it cut out. I was like, oh, that's the end of the movie. They got her. It's gonna be like one of those

[00:43:42] Scott Moran: Well,

[00:44:00] Frank Roll III: Like, no, really See you next season. Uncomfortable those people. But, um, to me, That's what brought it, because it, that point at the end, after the monster reveal when she's taken, I was like, that's what's gonna do it for me. And it happened. I

[00:44:19] Scott Moran: Mm-hmm. When it got going, it got going. Yeah. You know,

[00:44:39] Scott Moran: No, and that's why I was a little upset with the waiting, because if you're gonna be slow burn like that, you, you've gotta surprise me a little bit. Something like a twi like, yeah, you gotta make that worth it. And I don't think that he did enough to make it worth it. So that's probably why I wouldn't, I wouldn't recommend, I don't think

[00:44:56] Frank Roll III: Well, but let me say this, I don't regret

[00:45:08] Frank Roll III: existence. I think this one would go in the pros, the pro column. Because Yeah, like you're saying, if this wasn't like a topic of discussion, if this wasn't pre-planned, you know, like, oh, we're watching this.

[00:45:22] Scott Moran: 20 minutes, it may have been a fine, it is a fine 80, I would've been three minutes

[00:45:32] Scott Moran: are. If you write a three page long review of it though, let me just say that like, I mean, I've done just as weird a thing.

[00:45:48] Frank Roll III: time. I don't wanna tear this one apart. But about the thing with the paint on the doorframe, I wouldn't mind a little more explanation of

[00:45:59] Scott Moran: That was my complaint, was you could have made a better movie with the time you had. It was. Beautifully lit. I like the fog. Oh, that

[00:46:10] Scott Moran: geographic location. Being a little more specific would've helped me too. World building. Mm-hmm. You know, just put it somewhere.

[00:46:30] Scott Moran: Uh, but it was fine. Yeah. It's, it's not a mark against Hulu. It's not a good enough reason to keep it either. Yeah. We'll see about next time though, cuz next time we're gonna watch a movie called Worm. It's like an alternate nineties. Timeline where kids have collars and when they pop their collar open, when they kiss a girl for the first time.

[00:47:01] Frank Roll III: Oh wait, sci-fi Angus? Uh, that'd be a band name.

[00:47:06] Frank Roll III: dude, band name Galactic Beef.

[00:47:13] Frank Roll III: Thanks everyone for joining us. For the last Video Store Clerks podcast, be sure to leave a rating and subscribe. You can find us on Twitter, last clerks Instagram at the last video store clerks. And you can find Scott at dispatches from the pit.com.