Oct. 5, 2025

Francis Lawrence - Constantine

Francis Lawrence - Constantine
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Season 6 A Film By...

How about just one more Keanu Reeves movie with Jeff and Garret? It's scary movie season, so there's never been a better time to discuss Francis Lawrence's 2005 supernatural superhero film, Constantine, which stars Keanu as the chain-smoking, demon-fighting, occult detective!

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All right, We're gonna do a little word association. I'm

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gonna give you a list of character names, and then

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you give me the one name that comes to mind.

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Are you ready, all right? Johnny Utah, Jonathan Harker, Johnny Knumonic,

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John Wick, Johnny Silverhand.

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I would have to say the name that comes to

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mind is mister Keanu Reeves, who we've covered twice here recently.

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Keanu Reeves. I feel like, if you need someone to

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play a badass character named John or Johnny, Keanu Reeves

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gotta be at the top of the list.

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I think at this point in time, he is the

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top of the list. If you're looking for someone named

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Johnny that brings that charismatic energy to that leading role,

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this is the guy for the role.

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You know. I didn't name them all though. Twenty twelve,

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he plays a character named John in a movie called

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Generation Um.

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I don't think I've seen that.

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I haven't seen it yet, but now we have to

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see it now because I've seen I feel like I've

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collected all of the Keanu Reeves John character films at

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this point, so now now it's a must watch. There's

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just one more name we didn't we didn't cover. So

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let's talk about a film by Francis Lawrence, his two

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thousand and five underrated supernatural film Constantine. Hello everybody, I'm Jeff.

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Johnson and I'm Gary Gibson, and this is.

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A film by Podcast Garrett. My apology, sir. We we

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initially were thinking we were going to talk about Counta

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Reeves playing John Constantine at the end of September, but

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I'll tell you, ten hour drive across America had me

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a little wiped out and I was not ready to

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talk about Constantine.

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Hey, I completely understand, and this is a film that

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needs the dedication to it, So, you know, being a

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little tired, being a little war out from the road,

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we'll go ahead and take a couple extra days to

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do this film some justice. Absolutely.

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I appreciate your patients. I appreciate the listeners patients. Last

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week we kind of kicked off our Halloween stuff early

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with David. David stop bye, We did thinner. They probably think,

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what the hell happened to Garrett and count of Reeves,

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you know, but we're.

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Here, We're back. There's always time for Garrett and counter Reeves.

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You know, we'll find it eventually.

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It's It's okay, we certainly will Constantine. Let's talk. Let's

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talk about this movie. Let's talk about this director, Francis Lawrence,

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because it's a name a lot of people probably aren't

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familiar with.

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Yeah, it's a name that you don't really think about

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too much because for the first bunch of things he

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did in his career, it was music videos.

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Man, a lot of music videos. Well, let's just jump

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into it. How about let's talk a little Let's talk

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some facts, let's talk some trivia about Francis Lawrence.

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You're right.

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He is one of the most popular music video directors

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in the business, with more than sixty to his credit. Garrett.

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He's worked with Sarah McLaughlin, Aerosmith, j Lo, Destiny's Child,

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Green Day, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Pink Audio, Slave,

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and Nine Inch Nails, just to name a few.

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I noticed you out Ricky Martin there, but I'll forgive

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you for it. It's okay.

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Hey, look, no issues with Live in Levita Loca. You

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know I'm cool with that. I'll tell you another one

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I left out. It was the fifty third Grammy Awards,

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where he won Best Short Form Music Video for Lady

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Gaga's Bad Romance.

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Oh man, okay, so yeah. His music videos are noteworthy,

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to say the least.

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He's all over the map, man, I mean, think about Aerosmith.

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He did it for the arm again, what was it.

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I don't want to miss a thing.

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Yeah, I don't want to miss a thing, lived Tyler.

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Yeah, yep yeah. Now. Before earning his bachelor's degree in

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film production, he worked as a second unit director on

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what could be my favorite Christian Slater film ever, Pump

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Up the Volume.

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Oh that's a good one.

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That's such a damn good movie.

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Man.

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I love Pump Up the Volume. Oh yeah, great, great

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for it's great soundtrack.

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The young young Slater. I mean, you gotta love it.

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I'll tell you what else I'm loving. Have you seen this?

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This amazing TV mini series on Apple Plus with Jason

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Amoa called a Chief of War.

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I have not seen it, but I have seen several

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previews for it, but haven't haven't cracked into it yet.

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It is a must watch Garrett and also is executive

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produced by Francis Lawrence.

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Man, he's just out here right now, anywhere.

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Yeah, he's having a moment, right, He's having a moment.

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I wouldn't go breaking into this guy's house. I mean,

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you shouldn't anyways. But the reason I say that when

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it comes to home security, he does happen to own

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the Holy shotgun that Constantine uses in this movie.

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Does he really?

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Yes, it was actually purchased from Warner Brothers and gifted

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to him by Keanu Reeves.

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That's pretty awesome, honest, it's awesome. Right. The thing that

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I love most about this is like, if you look

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through his filmography as far as director goes, it's all

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these music videos and then bam Constantine. It's like, this

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is how we're kicking it off with, Like.

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Yeah, his feature film debut is he's getting a DC

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superhero film Constantine.

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YEP, with Keanu Reeves, with.

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Kanu Reeves attached. Yeah, yeah, there's been some other people attached.

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We'll get to that. But before we do, Garrett, I

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know we have listeners that have not seen Constantine. We

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most likely have listeners that have not read the Constantine

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comic book. Can you tell it? Can you tell us

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a little bit about what this movie is all about?

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Yes? So this film follows John Constantine as he helps

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a detective Angela Dots and played by Rachel Weiss investigate

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her twin sisters apparent suicide, uncovering a supernatural plot involving

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a proxy war between Heaven and Hell based on the

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DC comic DC Slash Vertigo comic Hell Blazer.

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Fantastic h I got to point out excellent pronunciation on

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Rachel Weiss. She's got one of those names. You know,

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everyone sees her name and you immediately want to say

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whyse Yeah, it's Vice. It's Vice, like miamy Vice.

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It is. Yep, it's a I forget where that comes from.

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I can't remember if it's Austrian or what it is,

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but yeah, yeah, yeah.

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The movie is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year. Hard

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to believe because the film is gorgeous.

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It truly is, And I would say their special effects

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in this film were kind of groundbreaking at the point

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in time.

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Absolutely, because I was watching this the other day and

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I thought, wait a minute, this is twenty years old. Yep,

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this could have been made this year with the with

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the effects.

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Absolutely, I think with the effects that we're given in

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just the direction of the film, for being something that

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was done in two thousand and five, it's crazy to

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be like you know what, I could see this blend

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right in with the superhero world right now.

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Absolutely, as you mentioned, based off the hell Blazer comic

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book series from DC Vertigo. Loosely based, we should say,

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because well, I'm not overly knowledgeable about the character John Constantine,

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but I've spoke with several diehard fans of the comic

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who are anything but happy with this film at at taption, So.

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Yeah, not too many actual comic fans are very happy

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with this. He didn't wear the trademark, you know, Tan

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dust are in this one. He didn't wear the red tie,

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he didn't have the blonde hair. He had the mannerisms

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and everything. But a lot of actual comic boys kind

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of picked this one apart.

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I got a few film versus comic book uh comparisons later. Uh.

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But you know, interestingly enough, the film's title, which originally

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was hell Blazer, like the comic book, had to be

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changed to avoid confusing it with hell Boy, which had

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come out of the year. It just came out a year.

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Before, yep. And I mean with Vertigo being attached to

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this and a smaller indie group kind of running with

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hell Boy, I could see that being an issue there

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and kind of pulling the audience away from that film

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a little bit.

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Yeah, people going, yeah, did you see hell Boy Help

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Help hell Blazer? Hell, Hell, We're help. And then there's

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Hell Razor out there, There's Hell. It's tough out there,

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you know. But uh, you know. Coincidentally, both films feature

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the spirit Destiny. Yes, and it's it happens to be

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the exact same movie.

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Problem is it? Really?

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They didn't even make a new one for this movie.

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They just said, hey, that works, can we have it?

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Can we use it? And you'll have to someone will

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have to fact check me on this. But I'm also

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I'm almost positive this prop shows up again in a

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Supernatural TV series.

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Oh my gosh. Yeah, yeah, okay.

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Because I feared the episode, but I think Dean was

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kind of looking at it wondering about it.

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I could see that. I've always kind of thought like

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that falls into that realm of Constantine kind just that

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super natural but also good versus evil age old battle,

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you know. I feel like that universe fits very well

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with him.

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I gotta be honest, I always get excited when you

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hear when you see like a biblical weapon, yes in

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a film. I mean obviously the goat is the arc

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of the covenants.

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The loss has to be.

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But I feel like, I mean, the Spirit Destiny, it's

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a real relic. Yeah, and I feel like it hasn't

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got it to do yet, Like when are we gonna

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get a proper Spiritdestiny film on one?

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Oh man. Man, that's a tough one. It's one of

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those things that I think is a very vowed question.

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But I don't think too many people are clamoring for it.

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I just feel like Indiana Jones should have went after

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this probably thirty years ago.

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Oh absolutely. I mean, you go ahead and give Harrison

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Ford enough money. He'll go after it next year. I'll

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tell you now, Hey, that's what he said. He's like,

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I'm still in the film business. He's like, they keep

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offering me money. I'm not gonna say no.

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Oh man, if we could, if we could have a

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Indiana Jones and the Spirit of Destiny, Yeah, just to

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wash the bad taste of uh, the last one. I

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don't I can't remember the name. It was so bad.

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I can't remember the name of it. Uh, the time

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travel gizmo.

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Honestly, I remember the name. Wait, yep, there it is.

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I don't want a Dial of Destiny. I want a

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spear of destiny. You had one, you had one job,

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you know.

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You know they tried to top themselves on the Crystal

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Scall movie. They yeah, and they did. They did yeah,

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and they're like, yeah, could we do worse? Oh? We did,

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all right?

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I remember, I remember the first time I saw Constantine.

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We got that black title screen and it just comes up,

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he who possesses the spear of Destiny holds the fate

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of the world in his hands. And then next paragraph,

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the spear of Destiny has been missing since the end

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of World War Two. Now you're like, it's on, We've

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got our Spirit Destiny movie.

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Yep, we kind of do.

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It takes takes a real back seat to like the

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rest of the plot of the movie. I feel like.

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You get maybe five minutes of screen time with this thing.

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Come on, you know, we find it.

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You know the dude, you know, the Mexican guy gets

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it out of cool and then he stops a car

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like that's traveling at least sixty miles an hour, just

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destroys it.

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But you know he's holding the spa, so he's invincible.

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He's all powerful.

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Which is by far one of the cooler scenes in

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that film. I absolutely love that great.

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Opening this movie. It's this movie succeeds in having a

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great prologue and then and then a great prologue and

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then we start the movie because you know, I don't want,

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I don't I want to jump to it yet. But

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we'll get to the our first. We'll get to our

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introduction with Constantine. But before we do that, I know,

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we got to talk about this cast. Let's take a

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quick break and then we'll do that welcome back. We

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are talking about Constantine from two thousand and five, the

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feature film directorial debut of One Francis Lawrence. So we

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got Keanu Reeves now Garrett again. We talked about the

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comic book fans. They weren't happy with Keanu Reeves playing

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John Constantine. We'll get to we'll get to the reason.

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Mainly it comes down to the fact that he's not British,

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and he's not he doesn't look like Sting but yep,

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but from nineteen ninety seven to two thousand and two,

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the role was intended for Nicholas Cage, which.

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Is kind of crazy. I know. Nick Cage is a

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die hard Marvel and DC fan absolutely loves comic books

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named his son Lucas Cage Ke. I mean that's pretty cool,

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but oh my gosh, now I could not see Nick

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Cage playing this role.

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You can't see it. I mean, I feel like Nick

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Cage is just he's always gone after, like if it's

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a Superher movie, he's in, right.

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And yeah, yeah you see everything.

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Yeah yeah, he almost was Superman. Technically you could say

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he was Superman with that little moment in the flash. Yeah,

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you know, obviously he played ghost Rider. So yes, I

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don't know. I feel like like a late nineties Nick Cage.

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I think I think he could have done this.

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I think face off Nick Cage. Yes, I see in

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that movie ten out ten times the hair was very

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similar and walking around chain smoking cigarettes and not on stop. Hey, yeah,

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I give you that.

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Now, our comic book listening fans right now, if they're

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going Nick Cage, that's not good. Also in the running,

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Mel Gibson and Kevin Spacey, her face, Kevin Spacey not

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making it man.

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Dude, Okay, Kevin Spacey is and just the absolute worst

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decision for this film, I've got to say. I mean,

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he was coming off like American beauty and stuff like that,

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and everyone's like, you know, he's an Oscar winner and everything,

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but gosh, now he would not have done greatness. Mel Gibson,

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I loved a lot of stuff he did the eighties nineties.

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Not a chance would he be a good John Constantine.

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The irony here is that we are in an age

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now where every American hero, every superhero, pretty much played

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by a British guy. If you think about it.

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You're absolutely right. I've got to tell you something, you know,

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side note real quick. That just destroyed me. Looked up

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David corn Sweat the other day. Found out he's a

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year younger than me. I'm officially old, Jeff.

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No, you're hey, you're officially old enough to be Superman.

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That's what that's true.

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That is he's gonna make some sequels. But but think

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about that, twenty years ago, we have a British character,

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a British superhero, and they're throwing every American actor at

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the role.

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You're not wrong, and it's the exact opposite of what

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they're doing currently. I mean, you've got Tom Holland, you

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had Henry Cavill, you had all these great actors, but

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they're all, you know, British or Australian or whatever it

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may be. And it's like, okay, but the one time

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that we actually need the British actor everything, but right at.

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It now, if you if you just dismiss the MCU completely, Like,

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let's go travel with me to an alternate reality where

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there is now MCU. I'll tell you what American actor

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who looks good as a blonde has, the snarky attitude,

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has the sarcasm would have been perfect. It's it's ardyj.

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Gotta be a right yep.

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Robert Downey Junior playing Constantine would have That would have

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been fun. And I'm talking like mid nineties.

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I've got to tell you my oddball pick, just because

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of the time frame and everything, someone with blonde hair,

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chain smoking cigarettes. Bruce willis from the fifth element. I

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think he out beats say male gifts and he's not British,

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probably not great for the role, but.

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I would Yeah, Bruce could.

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Have done this right, I mean, and very look very

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similar in Sin City.

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I honestly, I gotta be. I gotta tell you I'm

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liking Keanu Reeves. I think I think his Constantine character

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is awesome. Now, when I saw this movie, I wasn't

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even aware that it was based on a comic book.

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I was not introduced to the Constantine hell Blazer, so.

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I only knew it was a thing because of like

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the darker d C stuff that I grew up with,

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like the Demon Realm and all of that with him

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and Aragon and all that.

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Oh, that's right, he's he's probably Justice League Dark.

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Right, Yeah, the Demon Detective and everything.

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Yet, I will say that currently there's a lot of

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these DC animated films, and I love the the John

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Constantine interpretation in these movies.

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I think, yeah, Justice League Dark is pretty freaking amazing.

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I absolutely love it. Yeah.

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I would, you know, listeners, if you like the DC

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animated movies or if you haven't seen any of them,

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they pretty much all kick ass. I think I haven't

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seen a bad one yet.

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And honestly, if you want to see John Constantine done

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Justice and you did not like this film, I would

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check those out absolutely.

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I'll tell you who I like checking out. Rachel Weiss.

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Oh yeah, she is Detective Angela Dotson also briefly plays

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her twin sister, Isabelle Lawrence, you know, talking about you know,

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he's got Rachel Byss on board. Lawrence famously stood his

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ground and refused to do a love story subplot for

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this movie between John and Angela. And there's several scenes

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I call it the X Files effect where they are close,

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you think it's gonna happen, and it doesn't happen. Like

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they are just just seconds away from a kiss. They

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are Yep, they're inches away from a kiss in some cases. Incidentally,

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Rachel Vice admitted that she wanted to get kissed by

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Keanu Reeves. You know, there seems like there's a couple

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of times where it's gonna happen. They never it never does, uh.

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She She was quoted as saying, no, we didn't shoot

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a kiss scene because we thought if we did, they

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would use it. They being the studio, you know, someone

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would get their hands on it. So we made sure

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we didn't want there to be a kiss. And then

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she goes on to say that the movie is already

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pretty intense all the way through. She loves shooting it,

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especially the rooftop scene. She said this felt very noir

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to her. And then you know, she finally thought she

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was gonna get kissed and then nope, not meant to be.

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I think it just adds to the tension. Of the

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film and everything that is coming. So it's one of

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those other things that you're like, Oh, this kiss is coming,

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isn't it Now? Now they don't deliver on that, but

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they deliver one hell of a storyline with it, and

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they also give you a lot of will they won't

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they kind of while all this craziness is going on

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around them. So I think it does build that little

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bit of tension between those two characters.

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I really enjoy her performance here because everything she's in

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she's she's amazing. Let's let's call it what it is.

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She's a fantastic actress. Think about her in the Mummy

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series or even even if something is like dark and

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realistic as Enemy at the Gates, she has this wide

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eyed innocence. She's got this pleasantry about her. She didn't

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here here, She's that it doesn't exist. She's she's bitter,

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she's a little a little hardened, a little jaded, you know,

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by your job and about you know, the death of

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a sister, which she says is not a suicide. She's

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sure of that it's a murder, just can't prove it.

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And the moments where she's she is showing a little

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bit of lightness. Are those those glances, those fleeting glances

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at Kano or like the minute where he leans in

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and you're like, is he gonna kiss her? And then nope,

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he's just leaning to grab the crucifix or to pick

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up the you know, the matchbook or you know whatever

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he's doing. I love I love her reactions to Kanu

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reason this.

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I get that. No, I've got to say I absolutely

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love her because of the Mummy film nineteen ninety nine.

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I believe it was, but just it stole my heart

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as being a young gentleman at the point in time,

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I was like, oh, well, there she is nothing that

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was gonna stack up. And then you see her off

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and on over you know, the years, but towards the

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twenty twenties and everything, you don't see too much of her.

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And then then you get her as the mom and

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black Widow and it's like, oh, nope, there she is again. Yeah,

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and just the Weaver is an awesome performance in that

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as well. So I mean not I will say she's

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ageist and so is their acting capabilities.

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You knew who I think is having a lot of

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fun in this film is Creamer Chaz Kramer, asshole Shia

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la buff playing playing the apprentice to Constantine Chaz Kramer.

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He is recommended for this role by Will Smith. They

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had just worked on a movie called I Robot him.

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Will Smith a Kiva Goldsmith like he and Will Smith

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is like, hey, this is your guy.

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Which it's a pretty freaking solid role for Shia there.

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I gotta say, uh, just the first scenes that you

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get to see him sitting down in the car, He's like,

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move the car, like if you told me you were

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pushing the demon out of the window. And the.

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Further yeah, we we kind of use some more Chazz

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Cramer in the movie. Yeah, he's the comedic sidekick. And

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I get why they didn't. You know, for every scene

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that you have with Chazz and Constantine, that's one less

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scene you're gonna have with Angela and Constantine, right, So

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I get it. I just I really enjoyed his character.

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You gotta remember, this is this is Shia on the

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cusp of adulthood. You know, he's he's the child actor

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from Disney and then he's slowly transitioning into the adult

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character you know, in the in the film world.

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Yeah. I think this was right before the first Transformers film.

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Came out.

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Yeah he'd done Uh, I think he had done like

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Holes and the Battleshaker heights. Yes, and then he shows

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you know I wrote, then he shows up here, and

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then the next time you see him, he's, oh, look

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the guy grew up.

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Yeah. Is this guy you know? Main star right now?

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He sure as hell is.

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Yeah, yeah, he's. Uh, he's cool in this one.

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I like.

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I like him a lot, pleasantly surprised Garrett. I completely

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forgot this guy was in the movie until we watched

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this recently. Talking about Pruett Taylor Vince playing Father Hennessy.

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Uh, do you mean paw Kent?

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Yeah, most recently he's he's he's Superman's dad now and

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uh in James Gunn Superman. I don't know what it

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is about this guy. You know, he's a great character

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actor for one thing, Yes, but no one knows his

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name until you say, you know, he's the guy that

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has that does the weird ie twitch. Yes, because that's

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kind of like his his thing, his claimed to fan,

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which he didn't do it in Superman. Didn't need to. Uh,

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but did you notice even in this movie playing as

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Father Hennessy, who's completely on it edge? You know, walking

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on eggshells. He his whole thing is he can see

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the halfbreed demons. He can. Yes, you know, he drinks

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heavily to.

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You know, especially in that Morge scene.

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Yeah, oh yeah, you know he's trying to just you know,

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he's he's definitely dealing with a little PTSD from fighting demons.

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But he has that eye twitch thing. Not not that

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his normal one, but he did. Did you notice that,

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like when his scenes he's yeah, he does that. It's

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it's a little more subtle, a little more reserved.

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But it's still What's crazy is the first thing I've

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ever seen him in was I think the film was

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called Identity came out two thousand and three. Yeah, actually

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really saw it. Film, great cast in that film as well,

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But I did notice his eyeing twitch, and I was like,

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what's going on? Like years later, I would meeat this

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guy that we all referred to as blind Alex, which

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he was not blind, but he was missing a muscle

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in his eyes that would refuse to what focus, so

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he would lose sight of things like that was not

470
00:27:05.119 --> 00:27:08.039
directly in his face. And believe it or not, he

471
00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:11.880
actually suffers from that as well. And I was like, wow. Okay, okay,

472
00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:15.319
So his eyes will never steady, he said. Certain days

473
00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:18.720
they're a lot better. Other days he is almost as

474
00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:22.200
blind as a bad because he can't literally focus on anything.

475
00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:26.759
I'm not gonna give away the big reveal of identity

476
00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:31.039
because well, one, I hope we cover the film at

477
00:27:31.039 --> 00:27:35.599
some point. I love it. It's it's John Cusack, one

478
00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:37.960
of the best John Cusack performances.

479
00:27:38.599 --> 00:27:42.160
John Z McGinley, Yeah, Michael, I mean, it's it's all

480
00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:42.720
star casts.

481
00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:47.519
Rebecca, Rebecca de mornay, I mean, Ray Liota based on

482
00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:53.400
Agatha Christie story. Okay, We're yeah, we're covering it. We're

483
00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:58.279
gonna We're gonna do that one. But also I don't

484
00:27:58.279 --> 00:28:00.880
want to spoil it because you know, I'm not a dick.

485
00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:03.519
So but it does it. It's got one of those

486
00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:07.200
dings where you're like, what you know, Yeah, but Pruett

487
00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:11.960
Taylor Vince has got a very memorable role in that movie.

488
00:28:12.039 --> 00:28:14.319
So that's all We'll say. What do you want to

489
00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:18.880
say about uh Jaman Hunsu Papa Midnight.

490
00:28:20.279 --> 00:28:24.279
I absolutely love this character. He's just played so cool

491
00:28:24.920 --> 00:28:28.519
and I absolutely just love every second that he is

492
00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:31.240
on the screen. And he's like I'm the neutral side

493
00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:34.480
in this war and did just that whole scene between

494
00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:37.440
him and John is absolutely freaking amazing.

495
00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:41.839
Papa Midnight has so he he was a witch doctor

496
00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:47.640
fighting Hell and then he becomes neutral and basically he

497
00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:53.960
has this bar that is neutral grounds for archangels, demons

498
00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:57.960
and guys like Constantine to meet. But you know there's rules,

499
00:28:57.960 --> 00:29:01.920
you can't. You can't kill anyone, you can't. It's neutral territory.

500
00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:06.160
Sounds a whole lot like something else who canter Reeves

501
00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:07.079
was in recently.

502
00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:11.680
Right again, this this movie comes out in two thousand

503
00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:16.480
and five, and you completely forget about Papa Midnight in

504
00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:20.720
this place. Meanwhile, we've got Winston and the Continental Right.

505
00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:25.960
It's the same premise that I dig it man absolutely love.

506
00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:30.960
It haunts Wu's Papa Midnight is he needs his own movie.

507
00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:36.119
He truly does. And what's funny is I remember originally

508
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:38.440
watching this and I'm like, you know why I didn't

509
00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:40.680
then get like a Tony Todd or something like this.

510
00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:45.000
But when I rewatched it this time, I was like, no,

511
00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:48.200
I don't think anyone else plays this role and successively

512
00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:51.720
like successfully pulls it off as well as he did.

513
00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:53.440
I absolutely loved his character.

514
00:29:54.119 --> 00:29:56.599
Now to your point, if we could have had a

515
00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:00.440
Papa Midnight movie that also featured Tony Todd in some

516
00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:03.200
and you're playing a good guy or a bad guy, yeah,

517
00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:06.279
or Poppa mid Knight's brother, I take my money.

518
00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:09.839
Yeah, I would also be cool that. Yeah.

519
00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:12.759
Yeah, this is a situation where he only has a

520
00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:17.359
handful of scenes, but he is very effective with his

521
00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:19.960
screen time. I love I love the fact that he's

522
00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:23.559
got this electric chair from Sing Sing. I think it is.

523
00:30:24.039 --> 00:30:26.319
That's where it is. Yeah, I couldn't remember the prison

524
00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:27.480
and sing sing Yeah.

525
00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:30.240
Yeah, because like you know, the constantine thing is he

526
00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:34.039
needs he needs a conduit to go to the other side,

527
00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:36.119
right to to kind of it's kind of like his

528
00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:37.880
way to take like a little sneak peek into hell

529
00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:40.359
and then you get right back out. You know. Sometimes

530
00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:42.880
you use a bucket of water or a bath tub

531
00:30:43.599 --> 00:30:46.200
or an electric chair that executed two hundred inmates from

532
00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:48.240
Sing Sing, So that would.

533
00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:50.119
Be the trick every now and then. It is, but

534
00:30:50.359 --> 00:30:52.880
it is such a cool thing, dude.

535
00:30:53.799 --> 00:30:56.480
I gotta like think about this. If if you were

536
00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:58.920
in a museum or a bar, or like like a

537
00:30:58.920 --> 00:31:03.000
pop culture type or or you know, I don't know,

538
00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:06.839
spooky museum, whatever you wanna call it. If they had

539
00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:12.759
an electric chair from a prison that had executed inmates,

540
00:31:13.319 --> 00:31:14.559
how much is it gonna take for you to sit

541
00:31:14.599 --> 00:31:15.160
down to that thing?

542
00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:18.319
I don't even think you would have to pay me

543
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:20.920
or anything. It would be Yeah, I would be the

544
00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:22.759
idiot that would just sit down there.

545
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:30.920
Man. Yeah, yeah, okay, you know what I'd have to

546
00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:33.720
sit down to, just because exactly how many people can

547
00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:35.200
say they've sat an electric chair?

548
00:31:35.880 --> 00:31:40.119
Right? Yeah? I think that's a forgotten art form anymore.

549
00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:41.400
I don't think they're really around.

550
00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:47.039
I think that's gonna help or hurt your your chances

551
00:31:47.799 --> 00:31:51.240
of meeting a woman, depending on where she's from and

552
00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:51.920
what she's into.

553
00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:55.640
So well, you know, it could just mean the things

554
00:31:55.640 --> 00:31:58.480
that are going to happen between you will be electrifying.

555
00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:01.599
Oh okay, I walked into that one.

556
00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:02.000
It is.

557
00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:07.039
You mentioned the special effects. We talked about how this

558
00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:10.359
movie could have been filmed this year. I really feel like,

559
00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:14.920
you know, what we're seeing definitely way better than two

560
00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:21.000
thousand and five effects. Stan Winston. Now, obviously, if you

561
00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:24.240
are a movie buff, you probably know that name, because

562
00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:28.079
this is the four time Academy Award winner, whose work

563
00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:34.599
can be seen in Jurassic Park, the Terminator Movies, Predator, Aliens,

564
00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:40.440
Monster Squad, Batman Returns, Iron Man, Galaxy Quest, and the

565
00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:43.920
Star Wars Holiday Special, just to name a few.

566
00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:48.559
See. And that is just too freaking cool, because I

567
00:32:48.599 --> 00:32:51.880
mean everything he did on Jurassic Park was amazing, the

568
00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:54.960
practical and the special effects, and that just the way

569
00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:58.799
they worked together amazing. And then everything in Terminator And

570
00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:01.240
did you also say Teach he was in there as well.

571
00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:05.799
Oh my gosh. Yeah, just such classic like special and

572
00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:08.279
practical effects. I mean, amazing work.

573
00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:10.400
We'd be here another thirty minutes if I if I

574
00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:14.079
if I give you this whole whole rundown here. Yes,

575
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:18.599
but I mean he again, Stan Winston, That's that's you know,

576
00:33:18.599 --> 00:33:21.279
that's about Rushmore name. You know, it is up there

577
00:33:21.319 --> 00:33:22.599
with Baker, you know.

578
00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:25.599
Yep. As far as special effect, yep, you're absolutely right.

579
00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:29.640
I think that's why this film looks so amazing though,

580
00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:34.920
because it's we're right there, like where CGI is is

581
00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:38.799
coming in to its own. It's it's it's now it

582
00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:41.799
looks good, you know, it's we expect it to look good.

583
00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:45.839
Yeah, we're just past the point of the terrible explosions

584
00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:49.400
behind people, and we're actually starting to get some believable

585
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:50.160
things happening.

586
00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:53.359
Yeah, and then we but we're still we're still heavily

587
00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:58.160
relying on practical stuff and Stan Winston's makeup and creature effects.

588
00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:03.319
It's film looks fantastic. That's all I can say. One

589
00:34:03.319 --> 00:34:06.359
more guy behind the scenes. This movie does have some

590
00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:11.880
really good fight sequences. You can't have good fight sequences

591
00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:16.519
without a good fight choreographer, right, yep.

592
00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:20.559
A good fight choreographer and a great stunt coordinator typically

593
00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:21.800
the best two ways to go.

594
00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:26.320
Yes, sir, would it surprise you to know that it

595
00:34:26.360 --> 00:34:29.800
was Chad Stahelski that was doing it for this film?

596
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:33.679
It would not, because I've recently watched the film myself

597
00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:34.519
the name pop up.

598
00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:35.079
But I.

599
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:38.559
Yes, I would be terribly surprised.

600
00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:41.039
Well, I mean, think about that two thousand and five.

601
00:34:41.440 --> 00:34:44.840
Chat Stahlski is not the guy that's directing John Wack movies.

602
00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:47.000
Oh no, not at all. Yep.

603
00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:52.360
Speaking speaking of that, we did a chat Stahelski episode

604
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:56.360
couple like two seasons ago. Go back check out our

605
00:34:56.400 --> 00:35:03.159
episode on Atomic Blonde Asset. I mean, I dare say

606
00:35:03.199 --> 00:35:04.679
it's better than some of the John Wick movies.

607
00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:08.159
Yeah, it definitely beats up Part four for me at

608
00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:08.880
the very least.

609
00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:12.559
Well, let's talk a little bit about this film's background,

610
00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:15.920
a little bit of production history for you. The character

611
00:35:16.119 --> 00:35:19.880
was created by comic book great Alan Moore and introduced

612
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:23.440
in the Saga of Swamp Thing number thirty seven back

613
00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:26.280
in nineteen eighty five. So while the movie is celebrating

614
00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:30.800
its twentieth anniversary, the character is celebrating his fortieth anniversary.

615
00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:34.000
It was nineteen eighty eight when he was given his

616
00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:39.159
own series, hell Blazer by DC Comics producer Lauren Shuler Donner,

617
00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:45.280
who is pretty well known in Hollywood, a very famous producer,

618
00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:51.320
wife of Richard Donner. She began developing this film back

619
00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:55.320
in nineteen ninety seven, but after creative differences led to

620
00:35:55.360 --> 00:36:00.719
opposing lawsuits, the film found itself in purgatory. So I

621
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:02.519
did there see.

622
00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:05.920
Yeah, there's a lot like what happened with that Superman

623
00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:10.599
film way back when it's you know, production differences and

624
00:36:10.599 --> 00:36:13.559
they're like, yeah, we'll shelve it, it'll come out next summer,

625
00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:16.280
and then it seems like five years passes and it

626
00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:20.199
never happens. So to actually get this film and it's

627
00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:23.079
still by the Donner I think is that the Donner

628
00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:28.000
group is what they're Yep, they still deliver this film

629
00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:33.599
and they get someone like Counta Reeves to play John Constantine.

630
00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:36.960
It's just awesome because of course the cast you were

631
00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:41.920
throwing out originally from the nineteen ninety seven like, oh

632
00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:44.519
my god, that was our top build right there.

633
00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:49.480
Oh boy, it was. Now there's one more cameo in

634
00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:52.920
this film we haven't we haven't talked about talking about

635
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:57.960
the scene where Constantine basically wipes out a whole room

636
00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:05.239
full of halfbreed demons with holy water. One incredibly attractive

637
00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:11.480
demon others the line holy water before her face melts off.

638
00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:12.360
Uh.

639
00:37:13.559 --> 00:37:17.519
This is a character named Ellie who is featured in

640
00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:21.559
the comic book. She's a demonus that Constantine sleeps with.

641
00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:26.159
For information and yes, listeners, that was in fact actress

642
00:37:26.199 --> 00:37:28.159
Michelle Monahan, get.

643
00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:30.239
The heck out of here. That is something I did

644
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:31.760
not pick up on on the Resa.

645
00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:34.480
I saw that face, I was like, wait a minute,

646
00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:39.320
mission impossible. Yep, that's that's Michelle Monahan. And I watched

647
00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:42.480
the whole credit sequence just just to know sure enough

648
00:37:43.400 --> 00:37:46.679
she actually she actually had more scenes with Keanu, but

649
00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:50.440
Lawrence cut all of them because he wanted he was

650
00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:52.599
like in the editing process he was trying to convey

651
00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:56.880
that Constantine is a very lone, lonely guy. Yes, and

652
00:37:57.079 --> 00:37:59.360
you know, he can't have a can't have a very

653
00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:02.719
attractive mache Monahan just hanging out his apartment about the

654
00:38:02.760 --> 00:38:04.519
bowling Alley, Which.

655
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:07.159
That may be another thing that the comic fans just

656
00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:10.360
didn't really care about, because in the comics he's he's

657
00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:15.000
a charleton. He will do he gambles, he sleeps with people,

658
00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:17.400
he smokes all the time, he's a bad influence, and

659
00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:19.400
he kind of does whatever the heck he wants to.

660
00:38:20.440 --> 00:38:23.679
And then this film you don't really get that side

661
00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:24.079
of him.

662
00:38:24.519 --> 00:38:30.960
Now you don't. He's more monk than Charlatan. I feel like, yeah,

663
00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:34.679
absolutely right, And you know, I think even even though

664
00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:38.000
it's always great to see more Michelle Monahan, but if

665
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:40.840
we've got those scenes, I feel like the audience is

666
00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:44.079
kind of now they're getting confused as to well, wait,

667
00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:45.679
is this so will they won't they? Or is he

668
00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:47.679
a scumback who's gonna hook up with both of them?

669
00:38:48.519 --> 00:38:49.920
Or what's happening?

670
00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:56.159
So I think you're absolutely right. Yeah, on the big screen,

671
00:38:56.360 --> 00:39:00.880
especially like throwing this detective in there. You're right, it's

672
00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:01.880
the correct call.

673
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:07.840
Now, two things that John uses, aside from the holy

674
00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:13.039
shotgun and his his lighter for his cigarettes. He uh,

675
00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:15.440
there's this character name Beamon who kind of hooks him

676
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:19.320
up with all kinds of supernatural and religious artifacts to

677
00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.800
use to wage war against the demons. So I thought

678
00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:24.920
this was kind of cool. The rag that he uses,

679
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:29.280
he wraps around his hand to immediately light fire and

680
00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:33.559
then scare off the demons. Apparently that is cut from

681
00:39:33.599 --> 00:39:34.800
the Shroud of Moses.

682
00:39:35.639 --> 00:39:39.840
Oh okay, so very cool. Right. Yeah.

683
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:42.000
He does use a pair of brass knuckles.

684
00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:45.079
Wait, yeah, which is also pretty cool.

685
00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:47.960
Which is I will get to that scene they're dipped

686
00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:51.320
in gold that was blessed by a bishop during the Crusades.

687
00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:54.920
Really some fun stuff, you know, in his bag of tricks.

688
00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:58.719
Yeah, yeah, okay, Now you.

689
00:39:58.239 --> 00:40:01.079
You mentioned a few of these earlier. I got a

690
00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:07.000
couple film Constantine versus comic book Constantine, and when you

691
00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:10.440
hear some of these, I get it like we're in

692
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:13.039
a world where we argue whether Superman should have red

693
00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:17.199
trunks or no trunks. Right, Yes, should Batman have eyeballs

694
00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:19.599
or should he have like white slits?

695
00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:19.920
Yep?

696
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:23.000
Right, So I understand, you know, there's that's that's petty.

697
00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:27.360
That's petty stuff about a costume. Right, So when you

698
00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:31.199
take into a into account some of these differences, I

699
00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:36.719
understand why the comic book readers are a little pissed. Okay,

700
00:40:37.559 --> 00:40:41.880
the film takes place in Los Angeles, the comic book

701
00:40:42.199 --> 00:40:47.840
takes place in Liverpool. In London, Keano plays the character

702
00:40:48.119 --> 00:40:52.039
he's got black hair, and he's using his Canadian accent,

703
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:56.480
which is his real accent in the comic Guys obviously

704
00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:00.960
has an English accent, and as far as his physical look,

705
00:41:01.199 --> 00:41:05.199
he resembles musicians sting and then has like the blonde

706
00:41:05.199 --> 00:41:05.920
flowing hair.

707
00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:11.159
That or a young Gordon Ramsey either way or yeah.

708
00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:13.480
He's got the he's got the the the Tan trench code.

709
00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:16.360
In the comic book, Constantine red tie.

710
00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:18.679
Red in the red tie and Constant in the film,

711
00:41:18.760 --> 00:41:24.639
he's it's a lot of blacks and dark you know. Lastly,

712
00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:27.039
and this, I think this might be a big one

713
00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:30.840
for the for the fans of the comic Keanus Constantine

714
00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:34.119
has the psychic ability to see half breed demons as

715
00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:37.039
they really are, and this, of course leads him to

716
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:40.679
attempt suicide, and that brings about his damnation, as the

717
00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:44.719
movie explains to us. But in the comic books, it

718
00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:50.400
was seeing these demons is his punishment for summoning a

719
00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:53.199
demon that inadvertently killed a young girl.

720
00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:57.360
So okay, yeah, yeah, see I could see. I could

721
00:41:57.400 --> 00:42:02.119
see fans being a little more that one. Yeah, yeah,

722
00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:05.920
I think you're right. Yeah, I get that wing gloss

723
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:07.519
over and be like, oh, his tie is not the

724
00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:11.400
right color. But also if we're absolutely changing his origin story,

725
00:42:11.960 --> 00:42:13.880
yeah yeah, I can see.

726
00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:17.440
I mean, yeah, you know, it's just trench coats, not ten.

727
00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:18.960
I'd be like, who gives a ship?

728
00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:20.800
Yeah, but you've.

729
00:42:20.599 --> 00:42:24.440
Also turned him American and his hair color and his

730
00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:28.639
his his powers. It's, you know, loosely based on the

731
00:42:28.639 --> 00:42:31.000
comic book. I think that's the best way to say it, honestly.

732
00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:35.239
Yeah, which is that if you read the IMDb, the Wikipedia,

733
00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:37.920
whatever it is, they will say it's loosely based.

734
00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:43.320
Garrett. Let's uh, let's take one more break and then

735
00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:45.559
when we get back, there are some scenes we have

736
00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:50.679
got to talk about, all right, Garrett, I have got

737
00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:53.599
a couple couple of moments that I want to discuss,

738
00:42:54.599 --> 00:42:56.679
and I'm gonna lead, I'm gonna I'm gonna finish with

739
00:42:56.719 --> 00:42:59.639
I with what I feel is the pivotal moment of

740
00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:03.480
this whole movie. I have to believe that you're gonna

741
00:43:03.519 --> 00:43:07.239
you're gonna agree with me, but you know who knows.

742
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:11.239
We'll see. Let's start off nice and easy. The exorcism

743
00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:15.960
in Mexico. This is our introduction to Constantine. He's got

744
00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:21.639
this is this is John whispering this little thirteen year

745
00:43:21.639 --> 00:43:24.159
old girl who's possessed, and.

746
00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:29.920
He's like, yourself, I did you have no idea where

747
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:32.280
that's going? And then he's like, give me a mirror,

748
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:35.119
at least a three by three, And it's like, hell,

749
00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:36.239
is he calling for a mirror for?

750
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:41.199
I gotta say that I love the mirror trick. Yes,

751
00:43:41.719 --> 00:43:46.679
we've seen there's there's a there's dozens of exorcism movies, yep.

752
00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:50.760
And we're always gonna see the priest reciting from the Bible,

753
00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:56.000
and you know, the possessed person is tied down, they're

754
00:43:56.039 --> 00:43:59.679
screaming and they're spitting and vomiting, and it's kind of

755
00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:03.719
like a it's cliche, but the way he goes. It

756
00:44:03.760 --> 00:44:06.239
is like when you see this thing kind of bulge

757
00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:08.920
out of this this little girl's neck and he punches

758
00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:13.280
it right in the face. Like his face is cool,

759
00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:17.119
you know, no regard for this little girl. He's like

760
00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:19.360
whatever that little coin thing is, he like puts it

761
00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:21.159
right up und her temple and burns the ship out

762
00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:24.880
of her. And but the mirror, you know, I love

763
00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:28.000
the fact he tells it. He warns everybody, whatever you do,

764
00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:31.360
don't look. You know again, I don't know what it

765
00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:36.760
is about movies with supernatural religious artifacts. You know, don't look.

766
00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:39.199
You rais the lost art. Whatever you do, keep your

767
00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:42.599
eyes shut. You know this one poor bastard opens his eyes.

768
00:44:43.079 --> 00:44:47.000
Cool effect. His hair immediately turns white and he has

769
00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:53.119
a meltnow his face just like ah, but the whole

770
00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:58.360
idea of like blinding the possessed person and then you know,

771
00:44:58.679 --> 00:45:01.280
smile and then all of a sudden it opens its

772
00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:03.159
eyes and it sees itself and it just kind of

773
00:45:03.199 --> 00:45:05.119
gets trapped in the mirror.

774
00:45:04.840 --> 00:45:09.679
And transpnotized, yep, get stuck in there. And just that

775
00:45:09.880 --> 00:45:12.119
scene where it's like beating on the mirror to get

776
00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:13.079
out of and like.

777
00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:17.360
Just slowly cracking you know, throw it out, get it out.

778
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:21.559
Yeah. Yeah, he's like pulling on the leverage rope there.

779
00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:26.079
Yeah. I give this credit for giving us an exorcism

780
00:45:26.159 --> 00:45:31.880
scene that we've never seen before. Definitely, definitely cool. There's

781
00:45:31.880 --> 00:45:35.360
been a couple couple couple people we didn't mention earlier,

782
00:45:36.199 --> 00:45:37.880
and I'm glad we didn't because now now we're going

783
00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:40.960
to talk about some of them. Let's talk about Constantine's

784
00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:44.480
first meeting with the archangel Gabriel.

785
00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:47.519
Oh tell this went? And all right?

786
00:45:47.679 --> 00:45:51.920
Yeah, what is it about her that's so creepy?

787
00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:56.079
I don't know if it's the mono tone or what

788
00:45:56.320 --> 00:45:59.960
it is, just every little bit in this film it's like,

789
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:01.280
oh my goodness.

790
00:46:01.639 --> 00:46:05.039
Well, you know, the cool thing about the the angels

791
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:11.719
is the decision that they're they're almost androgynous, right, And

792
00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:15.920
I don't know if there's a better option in Hollywood

793
00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:18.639
than Till the Sweaton. Like, she has this ability to

794
00:46:18.760 --> 00:46:21.800
just it's I don't know what, I don't know what

795
00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:23.480
the word is, but she's just ethereal.

796
00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:26.719
You know, I just thought about something. How is she

797
00:46:26.840 --> 00:46:30.079
not cash as Constantine. She's got the accent, she's got

798
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:30.920
the blonde.

799
00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:35.119
Hair, she does she's got the flowing blonde hair that

800
00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:44.679
you know, she's got the accent. Okay, well, yeah she

801
00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:46.679
she is really good in this film.

802
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:47.880
She really is.

803
00:46:48.239 --> 00:46:51.480
I love the fact again, like when we see the wings,

804
00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:54.960
like the like when they spread their wings. I know

805
00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:58.880
that Lawrence was big on I don't want beautiful, white,

806
00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:02.719
fluffy feather wings. He wanted more like bird wings. He

807
00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:06.639
wanted them to look a little a little little dark,

808
00:47:06.719 --> 00:47:07.559
little little ugly.

809
00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:11.559
You know, they really were. And just like the attention

810
00:47:11.719 --> 00:47:15.320
to detail and the wings are is truly extraordinary because

811
00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:18.760
again special effects, but just knocking that out of the

812
00:47:18.760 --> 00:47:19.840
park with this one.

813
00:47:20.199 --> 00:47:22.719
Well, and I won't spoil it in case people are

814
00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:25.239
like this movie sounds awesome. I think I'll go watch it.

815
00:47:26.079 --> 00:47:26.280
Yep.

816
00:47:27.199 --> 00:47:31.400
The story, you know, the motivation that that Gabriel has,

817
00:47:31.480 --> 00:47:38.079
because automatically you you hear Gabriel. You know it's an angel.

818
00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:40.400
Story of Michael and Gabriel.

819
00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:42.559
Yeah, you're just gonna assume like, oh, well, okay, here's

820
00:47:42.599 --> 00:47:46.599
one of the good guys. But maybe Gabriel isn't a

821
00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:49.239
good guy. That's all I'll say. But this is such

822
00:47:49.239 --> 00:47:53.760
a great moment though, because I feel like Constantine, like

823
00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:55.760
you said, you know, in the comics, he's more of a charlatan.

824
00:47:55.760 --> 00:47:58.039
He's more of a he's more of a rogue, right,

825
00:47:58.039 --> 00:47:59.000
he's more of an anti hero.

826
00:47:59.239 --> 00:47:59.960
Yeah. Absolutely.

827
00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:03.079
I kind of like how he's just using this moment

828
00:48:03.119 --> 00:48:06.920
to just bitch about his situation, right.

829
00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:08.599
And how he's his way.

830
00:48:08.840 --> 00:48:10.960
Yeah, yeah, how many people do I gotta save? You know,

831
00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:14.440
he's he's a little pissed, you know, he's like, you know, hey,

832
00:48:14.639 --> 00:48:16.880
I could use some more time. You know, why me?

833
00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:22.119
Because we know that he he's damned right, he knows

834
00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:26.320
where he's going. Meanwhile, he's got like stage four cancer,

835
00:48:26.360 --> 00:48:29.880
lung cancer. There's no coming back from it. I love

836
00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:33.880
that she says, you're going to die young because you've

837
00:48:33.880 --> 00:48:37.159
smoked thirty cigarettes a day since you were fifteen, and

838
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:39.760
you're going to go to hell because of the life

839
00:48:39.760 --> 00:48:43.519
that you took. You're fucked. Now. Early on the movie,

840
00:48:43.519 --> 00:48:46.480
you're like, who did he kill? He's a good guy.

841
00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:49.519
You don't realize that she's talking about him taking his

842
00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:53.119
own life, and that really cool, really cool.

843
00:48:53.639 --> 00:48:57.320
Really cool. And that's the one aspect I did like

844
00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:00.559
about them switching up the story as that is his

845
00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:04.159
one way ticket to hell. Essentially, and that's why they're

846
00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:05.199
waiting on him.

847
00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:09.199
Yeah, I like the realist. The realism too here because

848
00:49:09.239 --> 00:49:12.639
any other superhero movie, a good superhero is just gonna

849
00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:18.159
accept his fate or his destiny or whatever. Meanwhile, Constantine,

850
00:49:18.280 --> 00:49:19.840
he's got a value, He's got a valid point. I

851
00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:21.679
feel like most people would be asking the same question,

852
00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:24.960
like isn't it enough? Like I just saved a thirteen

853
00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:28.000
year old girl in Mexico from a demon, Like how

854
00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:31.320
wins it enough to let me get get back upstairs?

855
00:49:31.360 --> 00:49:36.440
You know, he's got a real selfish outlook on it,

856
00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:37.480
but I think it's one.

857
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:42.079
That we would all Yeah, yeah, it's him doing selfless

858
00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:45.840
X for a selfish reason. So yeah, no, I think

859
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:48.000
absolutely right, Garrett.

860
00:49:47.679 --> 00:49:51.199
You nailed it. That is the film adaptation of Constantine.

861
00:49:51.920 --> 00:49:55.639
It truly is. I mean, because again, how much is enough?

862
00:49:56.400 --> 00:49:59.119
But also what they're wanting him to pay for?

863
00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:04.239
So he is. Yeah, I don't have a specific scene,

864
00:50:04.880 --> 00:50:07.440
so can I just say a name and then we

865
00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:07.880
just talk.

866
00:50:09.639 --> 00:50:10.880
Absolutely yeah.

867
00:50:11.440 --> 00:50:19.079
Balthazar the half breed demon played to perfection by Gavin Rosdell.

868
00:50:19.960 --> 00:50:23.920
He absolutely crushed in this roy I don't care if

869
00:50:23.960 --> 00:50:26.480
it's the just like Little Back and forth that they

870
00:50:26.519 --> 00:50:29.920
have or the Final Showdown that they have, or whatever

871
00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:34.519
it may be. I mean, I did not have one

872
00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:38.239
issue with any time he was on the screen. I've

873
00:50:38.280 --> 00:50:40.519
got to tell you, knocked this one out of the park.

874
00:50:40.639 --> 00:50:44.159
And my favorite scene is the final Showdown, of course,

875
00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:46.840
but it's because he was talking sit up until the end,

876
00:50:46.960 --> 00:50:48.159
and it's just amazing.

877
00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:54.960
He's so creepy. But damn is he not the best

878
00:50:55.159 --> 00:50:56.960
dressed demon you've ever seen?

879
00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:02.679
He looks so good he does, and the three p

880
00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:05.119
suits are on point. I won't tell you that right now.

881
00:51:05.280 --> 00:51:09.559
And then just the final scene with him and how

882
00:51:09.679 --> 00:51:12.320
sure of himself he is, like you're going to fail,

883
00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:16.599
and it's just like, oh, like the cockiness. It's like, yeah,

884
00:51:16.800 --> 00:51:19.400
that's exactly what you would be doing if you were

885
00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:21.159
a hafty Garrett.

886
00:51:21.599 --> 00:51:25.119
Garrett, I don't know if it's a g thing, but

887
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:28.320
I think the only person I've seen wear a tailored

888
00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:32.079
three piece suit on the same level as Gavin it's

889
00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:35.559
probably you, Garrett. So you know that's my comment to you.

890
00:51:35.719 --> 00:51:40.440
I do enjoy a good three piece suit. Yeah, actually

891
00:51:40.599 --> 00:51:42.559
just got another one the other day. It's fine.

892
00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:47.360
Oh man, I'll tell you I recently went to a

893
00:51:47.360 --> 00:51:51.400
Shine Doown concert where Bush was the opening act, which

894
00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:56.639
kind of surprised me that Bush was gonna not you know, headline. Yeah,

895
00:51:57.159 --> 00:52:01.480
that is well their nineties band it. But here's what

896
00:52:01.480 --> 00:52:04.679
I don't understand. I'm here to tell you Gavin might

897
00:52:04.760 --> 00:52:10.000
actually be a half breed demon because I saw him

898
00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:12.920
up close at this concert. You know, they got the

899
00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:15.519
big screens. He actually ran through the crowd like the

900
00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:19.159
entire like he does. He did a three three sixty,

901
00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:21.679
made his way one song, He made his way up

902
00:52:21.679 --> 00:52:24.880
and down the levels, you know, walking right through people.

903
00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:28.159
The guy looks exactly the same.

904
00:52:28.880 --> 00:52:31.800
Oh and I mean again, that's twenty years ago. He's

905
00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:35.119
probably mid fifties by now. Something gotta be midfield.

906
00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:40.400
Yeah, and he has not I mean, he hasn't aged.

907
00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:43.000
It's it's weird. He actually he kind of looked younger

908
00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:45.599
earlier this year than he does in this movie.

909
00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:48.320
I don't even know that's possible. Probably all the touring

910
00:52:48.400 --> 00:52:51.159
and everything is just he kept the guy in phenomenal shape.

911
00:52:51.239 --> 00:52:53.039
I mean it happens, man.

912
00:52:53.639 --> 00:52:58.280
Man, when when father Hennessy meets his end and you're like,

913
00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:01.079
what is going on with you know? Very again, very

914
00:53:01.079 --> 00:53:04.039
cool special effect the guy is just trying to drink

915
00:53:04.920 --> 00:53:08.320
his sorrows away, and every bottle he opens, whether he

916
00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:12.400
takes the cap off or cracks it open, it won't

917
00:53:12.519 --> 00:53:14.599
pour into his mouth.

918
00:53:16.440 --> 00:53:20.559
It just it's such a sad scene. Man, Oh, it

919
00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:24.199
kills you. You love this character and you're like, all right,

920
00:53:24.239 --> 00:53:27.880
he just wants it gone and nothing comes out of

921
00:53:27.880 --> 00:53:31.480
those bottles, and it's like no, man, it breaks your

922
00:53:31.519 --> 00:53:33.480
heart a little bit in those moments.

923
00:53:33.880 --> 00:53:35.840
And you know, and then we come to find it.

924
00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:39.440
It's Balthazar. He's he's he's in the liquor store. He's

925
00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:41.000
there grinning watching this happen.

926
00:53:42.360 --> 00:53:42.639
I did.

927
00:53:42.719 --> 00:53:44.559
I do dig the fact that the guy working the

928
00:53:44.559 --> 00:53:48.000
counter who jumps over to check on him, yep, spreads

929
00:53:48.039 --> 00:53:50.480
he spreads his wings. It's like, because we get this

930
00:53:50.519 --> 00:53:53.320
whole thing, you know, as Constantine explains it to us.

931
00:53:53.880 --> 00:53:56.760
You know, basically, God and the devil kind of have

932
00:53:56.840 --> 00:54:00.320
a game going. You know, they can't interfere, but they

933
00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:04.599
can influence and you know, very cool, you know, because

934
00:54:04.599 --> 00:54:06.599
we're not going to get into whole like religion and

935
00:54:06.639 --> 00:54:08.519
the Catholic faith and all that stuff that the movie does.

936
00:54:08.559 --> 00:54:13.760
But I dig the fact that it definitely plays on

937
00:54:13.840 --> 00:54:18.719
that whole belief system because Constantine, I think it's uh.

938
00:54:18.760 --> 00:54:21.519
I think it's till the Swinton's character Gabriel, who says,

939
00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:24.880
you're you're you believe, you know they exist, but you

940
00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:27.679
choose not to have faith, like you know, and he

941
00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:30.159
what's And he has a great line to to uh,

942
00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:32.320
to Angela because he's like, hey, God's just a kid

943
00:54:32.320 --> 00:54:34.039
with an ant form, you know, because she said God,

944
00:54:34.360 --> 00:54:36.480
God wouldn't do that, and God cares and God and

945
00:54:36.519 --> 00:54:38.079
he's like, God's a kid, He's a kid with an

946
00:54:38.119 --> 00:54:38.480
ant form.

947
00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:42.239
He does and he's not wrong again because like you said,

948
00:54:42.280 --> 00:54:45.840
they can both influence, but they cannot intervene at any

949
00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:48.559
point in time. So you're right, it's essentially a science

950
00:54:48.599 --> 00:54:51.440
experiment where they just watching.

951
00:54:51.920 --> 00:54:54.840
Yeah plot, you know, if I'm nitpicking, I'll say the

952
00:54:54.840 --> 00:54:58.039
plot gets a little convoluted on how you know what

953
00:54:58.119 --> 00:55:00.840
the spirit of destiny is being usedul because more than anything,

954
00:55:00.840 --> 00:55:03.400
it's just a tool to bring the son of the devil,

955
00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:06.880
you know here, you know, bring him, bring him to earth,

956
00:55:07.079 --> 00:55:09.480
you know, basically like the you know, we know God

957
00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:11.400
has a son, Well, now we find out the devil

958
00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:14.840
has a son. Only the Devil's son's kind of like, well,

959
00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:17.599
he's a shithead, and he's like no, he wants to

960
00:55:17.599 --> 00:55:21.119
take over dad's business. Right, So, yes, you need something.

961
00:55:21.199 --> 00:55:22.639
You need a spirit destiny, you need it. You need

962
00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:26.159
a psychic, you know, like like Angela, Yeah.

963
00:55:26.039 --> 00:55:29.320
Which is blocked it out throughout the years, faked until

964
00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:32.800
it went away and then bam. Right here she's been

965
00:55:32.840 --> 00:55:34.599
standing in front of us the entire film.

966
00:55:34.960 --> 00:55:38.440
She's standing there in front of a bathtub because she's

967
00:55:38.440 --> 00:55:41.400
gonna cross over. I like that this is a lighthearted

968
00:55:41.400 --> 00:55:44.440
moment because it's it's a scary moment. We're gonna we're

969
00:55:44.440 --> 00:55:49.239
gonna see hell, right, which real quick your thoughts on

970
00:55:49.599 --> 00:55:53.039
his choice, uh, Francis Lawrence. He makes the choice to

971
00:55:53.079 --> 00:55:57.440
make Hell look like a modern day post nuclear war,

972
00:55:58.440 --> 00:56:01.920
ravaged everything on fire, like did you did you like that?

973
00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:05.280
Or where you want more medieval planes?

974
00:56:05.320 --> 00:56:09.159
And honestly, I kind of liked it because it goes

975
00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:11.840
well with the like Heaven and Hell story of like

976
00:56:11.960 --> 00:56:16.960
John Constantine, because essentially it's Hell becomes Earth in that

977
00:56:17.119 --> 00:56:23.079
like universe wants the devil wins the war and he's

978
00:56:22.079 --> 00:56:27.000
kind of stand right kind of absolutely, yeah, I do like.

979
00:56:26.960 --> 00:56:30.679
The light the light moment though, because you know he's

980
00:56:30.719 --> 00:56:34.480
getting the tub ready, she ticks off her jacket. Let's

981
00:56:34.519 --> 00:56:38.960
be honest, Rachel Weiss very easy on the eyes, especially in.

982
00:56:38.920 --> 00:56:42.159
A whole Yes, a tight white tank top.

983
00:56:42.039 --> 00:56:44.679
And you know, her hair's looking on point and just

984
00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:47.480
she looks fantastic. And she says, do I have to

985
00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:50.320
take off all my clothes? I like that. He has

986
00:56:50.320 --> 00:56:53.079
that moment where he's like, he doesn't, he doesn't say anything.

987
00:56:53.920 --> 00:57:00.639
She's like, she's like John. He's like, I'm thinking, She's like,

988
00:57:01.480 --> 00:57:03.760
you know, but but she's flirting, you know, because then

989
00:57:03.800 --> 00:57:07.239
she smash's like John, he goes, You're You're fine, just

990
00:57:07.840 --> 00:57:10.880
keep your clothes on, you know. And it's a fun

991
00:57:10.920 --> 00:57:13.559
moment because it shows like there's a tender side to him,

992
00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:16.039
as you know he can he's he's doesn't have to

993
00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:19.239
be an asshole the whole time. But man, we go

994
00:57:19.400 --> 00:57:21.800
from one spec end of the spectrum to the next.

995
00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:24.079
Because she gets under the water, he tells me, you know,

996
00:57:24.119 --> 00:57:26.480
you have to be completely submerged. He places his hand

997
00:57:27.559 --> 00:57:30.679
like on her chest to keep her pin down, and

998
00:57:30.719 --> 00:57:32.760
she has that moment where she's like, oh, I can't

999
00:57:32.760 --> 00:57:33.400
breathe anymore.

1000
00:57:33.400 --> 00:57:34.079
And she starts fight.

1001
00:57:35.360 --> 00:57:37.559
Yeah, and he doesn't let her up because she's got

1002
00:57:37.559 --> 00:57:41.480
a cross over. Awesome scene, man, especially the fact that

1003
00:57:41.559 --> 00:57:46.119
she kicks the tub like in the Two Pieces, yep,

1004
00:57:46.559 --> 00:57:50.119
when she when she pops back in hell. Yeah, awesome,

1005
00:57:50.320 --> 00:57:54.440
awesome moment. You know, that's when we find out about Maman,

1006
00:57:54.719 --> 00:57:56.679
you know, the son of the Devil. We get, we

1007
00:57:56.760 --> 00:57:59.800
get basically, it's like an exposition dump, but but a

1008
00:57:59.800 --> 00:58:01.199
cool one, a really cool one.

1009
00:58:01.800 --> 00:58:05.599
Kind of leads right into the heel turn of a

1010
00:58:05.719 --> 00:58:08.440
character that we thought was good. Yeah.

1011
00:58:08.480 --> 00:58:12.400
Absolutely, and that's gonna bring us to what I feel

1012
00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:14.360
is the pivotal moment. And Garrett, let's just call it

1013
00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:18.880
what it is. It is the main event, Lucifer coming

1014
00:58:18.960 --> 00:58:20.360
up to collect John soul.

1015
00:58:21.559 --> 00:58:25.440
I will have to agree that that is the pivotal moment.

1016
00:58:26.599 --> 00:58:28.679
I don't want to give anything away. Of course, this

1017
00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:33.960
movie's been out for twenty years, so of course Constantine

1018
00:58:34.400 --> 00:58:39.360
sacrifices himself in a way yep, essentially called Lucifer because

1019
00:58:39.400 --> 00:58:42.280
he knows Lucifer wants to soul that bad, so he

1020
00:58:42.360 --> 00:58:47.000
knows he's coming directly for him. And my gosh, if

1021
00:58:47.119 --> 00:58:49.880
the actor and that shows up as a Lucifer just

1022
00:58:49.960 --> 00:58:50.920
top notch.

1023
00:58:51.760 --> 00:58:55.840
Peter. Is it Sta MARII or Stamar? I think it's

1024
00:58:55.880 --> 00:59:00.519
Stor Mari Stormy Peter Ster Mariy. Now let's let's can

1025
00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:06.480
we talk about the look. Because producers wanted his costume

1026
00:59:07.239 --> 00:59:12.280
to be bare chested, black leather head to toe, spiked

1027
00:59:12.440 --> 00:59:14.960
dog collar, and full sleeve tattoos.

1028
00:59:15.639 --> 00:59:17.760
Well, I'm glad they did not go with that goofy

1029
00:59:17.800 --> 00:59:21.320
shit because what he does show up and is pretty cool.

1030
00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:24.880
He's got the white suit on, he's got the slick hair,

1031
00:59:25.440 --> 00:59:28.599
he's got the tattoos peeking out, he's got the grungy

1032
00:59:28.639 --> 00:59:30.119
looking hands and everything.

1033
00:59:31.599 --> 00:59:36.199
All I can think of is is like they're they're

1034
00:59:36.199 --> 00:59:40.440
holding up costumes from the Blue Oyster from the Police

1035
00:59:40.480 --> 00:59:45.280
Academy movies, and he goes, no, thanks, I got this.

1036
00:59:45.400 --> 00:59:49.119
It was his decision to wear the white linen suit

1037
00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:54.400
and specifically have the the black tar dripping feet.

1038
00:59:55.119 --> 01:00:02.719
See that is such a clash. Yeah, I mean yeah.

1039
01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:04.000
What's going on with is eye Like, there's no eyebrows.

1040
01:00:04.280 --> 01:00:06.880
There's no eyebrows, And I think that is the only

1041
01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:09.599
part of this that trips me up. Anytime that I

1042
01:00:09.639 --> 01:00:12.280
see this movie, I'm like, oh yeah, Peter storm Mari's

1043
01:00:12.280 --> 01:00:15.400
about takes uh oh shit, he looks weird as can be.

1044
01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:15.840
What is this?

1045
01:00:17.440 --> 01:00:19.800
I think in any other any other movie, he can

1046
01:00:19.840 --> 01:00:23.639
just look like your uncle Rick. Yes, you know who's

1047
01:00:23.679 --> 01:00:27.239
who's maybe had a hard life. But but uncle Rick

1048
01:00:27.280 --> 01:00:30.440
has eyebrows and Lucifer, which, by the way, I love

1049
01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:33.840
that John Constantine calls him lou Yes, like like they're

1050
01:00:33.920 --> 01:00:35.519
like they're like their bowling buddies.

1051
01:00:35.199 --> 01:00:37.079
Like they're yeah, old pals.

1052
01:00:37.480 --> 01:00:41.079
Yeah. The fact that Peter Stamori is missing his eyebrows

1053
01:00:41.119 --> 01:00:44.800
just gives him a creep vibe like like no other

1054
01:00:44.960 --> 01:00:46.480
and it it kind of helps.

1055
01:00:47.199 --> 01:00:50.000
It just rubs me the wrong way. So yeah, they

1056
01:00:50.000 --> 01:00:52.320
went with it because it's like, ew, well.

1057
01:00:52.199 --> 01:00:53.920
It's like there like like we said, there's something about

1058
01:00:53.920 --> 01:00:57.800
Tilda Swinton where she just looks I don't know ethel

1059
01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:03.519
you know, she looks like wow. But he's got he

1060
01:01:03.599 --> 01:01:06.320
makes you also say wow. But where you're looking at

1061
01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:09.679
Tilda and you're going wow, you're looking at him going wow,

1062
01:01:09.880 --> 01:01:14.480
like exactly just there's just yeah, he is so good

1063
01:01:14.480 --> 01:01:18.360
in this like the just his uh just invading Constantine's

1064
01:01:18.360 --> 01:01:22.599
personal space, getting like when he's like yep, that tongue

1065
01:01:22.719 --> 01:01:24.960
lash thing he does to his cheek, Like.

1066
01:01:25.039 --> 01:01:27.519
One of my favorite things is where he's like trying

1067
01:01:27.519 --> 01:01:29.360
to light the lighter and he's like, you cut too

1068
01:01:29.440 --> 01:01:32.639
deep and you hit the tendons. Fingertip controls the first

1069
01:01:32.639 --> 01:01:35.159
thing to go and then he like wanes in and

1070
01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:38.239
lights it and he's like, oh, it's like moving from

1071
01:01:38.239 --> 01:01:42.039
his Yeah.

1072
01:01:42.079 --> 01:01:47.000
He the physicality he has with the rule, like how

1073
01:01:47.199 --> 01:01:49.719
I guess, I guess it's playful. The way he's he

1074
01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:51.639
pulls up the chair and sits down next to John

1075
01:01:51.639 --> 01:01:52.920
who's slumped down and dying.

1076
01:01:53.800 --> 01:01:58.199
He's like a little kid he is. It's uh, the

1077
01:01:58.239 --> 01:02:02.360
little kid that's you know, burning and kind of it's like, yeah,

1078
01:02:02.400 --> 01:02:04.039
you're at my mercy right now.

1079
01:02:04.559 --> 01:02:07.039
Well, the little kid who throws a tantrum when he

1080
01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:10.440
doesn't get his way because he is he's ready. He's

1081
01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:12.440
like I finally got you know, he even has the

1082
01:02:12.480 --> 01:02:16.960
line he goes John Constantine, the one soul I would

1083
01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:20.440
walk up here myself to collect and you know, yeah

1084
01:02:20.440 --> 01:02:24.320
that's what they say. You know, but this is just

1085
01:02:24.360 --> 01:02:27.159
an epic moment because we you know, we get the

1086
01:02:27.199 --> 01:02:31.159
reveal on you know who who set this whole thing

1087
01:02:31.199 --> 01:02:35.119
in motion. Does this plan kind of pisses Lucifer off,

1088
01:02:35.960 --> 01:02:40.199
and he he he he, he exacts some revenge.

1089
01:02:40.599 --> 01:02:44.079
I think, yeah, yeah, you're absolutely correct with that.

1090
01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:49.280
Yeah, but the deal, like Constantine, you know, hey, I'll trade,

1091
01:02:49.320 --> 01:02:52.360
I'll I'll you know, let let me have the sister back.

1092
01:02:53.119 --> 01:02:56.519
I'll take your place. You know, he's it's he he's

1093
01:02:56.519 --> 01:02:59.480
a chartleton. He's setting the devil up. He's got he's

1094
01:02:59.480 --> 01:03:02.039
got something his back pocket. He knows he's gonna he

1095
01:03:02.119 --> 01:03:03.400
has made the ultimate sacrifice.

1096
01:03:03.400 --> 01:03:07.239
So that's that. That's the thing about him being the

1097
01:03:06.519 --> 01:03:10.800
uh cheat and the gambler and everything else. He's already

1098
01:03:10.800 --> 01:03:14.119
got the loaded hand. He knows he's going to win. Yeah.

1099
01:03:14.880 --> 01:03:16.280
And now, of course.

1100
01:03:16.079 --> 01:03:18.519
Again, I know it's different than the comic book, but

1101
01:03:18.519 --> 01:03:22.760
I love the fact that the Devil, so pissed that

1102
01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:26.000
he got screwed over by Constantine, decides not to let

1103
01:03:26.079 --> 01:03:29.920
him die, not to let him go to heaven. He pulls.

1104
01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:32.639
I love this moment where he pulls the cancer out

1105
01:03:32.639 --> 01:03:37.280
of his lungs yep and basically says, no, you get

1106
01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:41.199
to live, because you will screw up. You will he wanted,

1107
01:03:41.280 --> 01:03:45.800
he wants to well, I'm gonna get you but it's

1108
01:03:45.840 --> 01:03:47.800
not like he's not playing something. He just says, you know,

1109
01:03:47.840 --> 01:03:51.960
he basically is saying Constantine will We'll screw Constantine. He's

1110
01:03:52.039 --> 01:03:55.719
He's like, you'll, you'll do something, made a wife of it.

1111
01:03:55.760 --> 01:03:57.000
Trust me, I've got time.

1112
01:03:57.639 --> 01:04:03.000
Exactly fantastic, awesome moment for this movie. I just I

1113
01:04:03.039 --> 01:04:06.239
love it. Let's uh, let's let's wrap things up. And

1114
01:04:06.440 --> 01:04:07.639
is there is there any other seeds you wanted to

1115
01:04:07.639 --> 01:04:09.440
talk about before we wrap up? I feel like we

1116
01:04:09.519 --> 01:04:10.360
hit the heavy hitters.

1117
01:04:10.360 --> 01:04:13.760
But I think we hit the heavy hitters. Uh. Just

1118
01:04:13.800 --> 01:04:18.079
another great special effects scene. Uh when he encounters the

1119
01:04:18.159 --> 01:04:21.840
weird guy that's made out of bugs and crickets.

1120
01:04:21.440 --> 01:04:24.239
Oh yeah, yeah, the demon that thing?

1121
01:04:24.400 --> 01:04:29.239
Yeah yeah again. That just another good special effects scene

1122
01:04:29.280 --> 01:04:31.199
where it's like, oh dude, that is cool and then

1123
01:04:31.239 --> 01:04:33.840
it just splattered, but yeah, pretty cool.

1124
01:04:34.360 --> 01:04:37.159
Do you know how bad it's gonna feel to punch

1125
01:04:37.199 --> 01:04:40.079
a guy in the face who's made out of roaches.

1126
01:04:39.679 --> 01:04:41.320
And beetles and all that.

1127
01:04:41.760 --> 01:04:44.239
Yeah, And then when you do punch him, like, he

1128
01:04:44.360 --> 01:04:46.480
just splatters all over the ground and there's cockroaches and

1129
01:04:46.480 --> 01:04:49.800
ship Just yeah. I love the cow just stopping everywhere

1130
01:04:49.880 --> 01:04:51.079
trying to get as many as he can.

1131
01:04:52.440 --> 01:04:53.079
So funny.

1132
01:04:53.440 --> 01:04:57.039
Yeah, that guy, that guy, That guy was gross Garrett,

1133
01:04:57.199 --> 01:05:01.800
if you uh, let's talk. Let's talk Francis Lawrence one

1134
01:05:01.880 --> 01:05:06.239
last time. Someone watches Constantine and they say, hey, I

1135
01:05:06.360 --> 01:05:09.440
like it. What do you got? What they're looking to

1136
01:05:09.480 --> 01:05:14.320
you to recommend more Francis Lawrence? What are you gonna

1137
01:05:14.320 --> 01:05:14.880
tell him?

1138
01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:19.039
I mean another film that I absolutely loved that he

1139
01:05:19.119 --> 01:05:22.559
did and it had the person that recommended Shaia for

1140
01:05:22.639 --> 01:05:26.039
the film, Will Smith and I Am Legend.

1141
01:05:26.960 --> 01:05:30.159
Okay, two thousand and seven, Right, okay, let's let's talk

1142
01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:33.960
about I Am Legend for a second. Have you read

1143
01:05:34.880 --> 01:05:36.400
the novel I am Legend.

1144
01:05:36.840 --> 01:05:38.199
I am not unfortunate.

1145
01:05:38.320 --> 01:05:41.440
Yeah, I'm gonna be a Constantine comic book guy here

1146
01:05:41.480 --> 01:05:44.480
for a second and just say, well, I do like

1147
01:05:44.920 --> 01:05:47.360
Will Smith I Am Legend. Don't love it?

1148
01:05:48.880 --> 01:05:50.719
See? Okay? Yeah, I get so.

1149
01:05:51.599 --> 01:05:55.320
Here's the thing. So, following the Vincent Price classic The

1150
01:05:55.400 --> 01:05:59.239
Last Man on Earth from nineteen sixty four, YEP and

1151
01:05:59.280 --> 01:06:03.639
The Omega Man in nineteen seventy one with Charlton Heston,

1152
01:06:04.440 --> 01:06:09.159
it's the third film adaptation from Richard Matheson's novel from

1153
01:06:09.239 --> 01:06:14.639
nineteen fifty four, and it's post apocalyptic core and it's

1154
01:06:14.719 --> 01:06:20.599
so amazing because the plague that devastates the world, when

1155
01:06:20.639 --> 01:06:23.559
it kills people, it brings them back as vampires. Yeah,

1156
01:06:23.599 --> 01:06:25.880
and this guy the whole novel, this guy is just

1157
01:06:25.960 --> 01:06:29.760
fortifying his house and every night they come and they

1158
01:06:29.800 --> 01:06:33.519
taunt him, and they they antagonize him, they try to

1159
01:06:33.559 --> 01:06:37.119
get in and he's just one guy by himself, hoping

1160
01:06:37.199 --> 01:06:39.360
to survive. And then during the day he goes out,

1161
01:06:39.400 --> 01:06:41.920
he kills as many as he can, he forges for supplies.

1162
01:06:42.719 --> 01:06:47.480
But where in the movie they're like CGI plague zombies.

1163
01:06:47.199 --> 01:06:49.280
I guess ye, yeah.

1164
01:06:49.199 --> 01:06:51.159
Essentially not and I don't think they look that good.

1165
01:06:51.239 --> 01:06:54.599
But in the in the book they're speaking, they're they're

1166
01:06:54.760 --> 01:06:57.599
like vampire vampires, so you know, they're like.

1167
01:06:59.039 --> 01:07:00.480
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1168
01:07:00.519 --> 01:07:02.280
The book, you know, you gotta think this is nineteen

1169
01:07:02.320 --> 01:07:05.480
fifty four. But in the book, there's they're screaming at him,

1170
01:07:05.480 --> 01:07:08.559
come out Neville. They're banging on the doors. There's female

1171
01:07:08.639 --> 01:07:13.480
vampires that are exposing themselves trying to tempt him, try

1172
01:07:13.519 --> 01:07:16.480
to seduce him. The book is awesome. It is a

1173
01:07:16.920 --> 01:07:20.079
I recommend anyone that wants to read an awesome vampire

1174
01:07:20.719 --> 01:07:24.880
story read. I am legend. But let me give you

1175
01:07:25.039 --> 01:07:30.599
a little elseworld's situation. In nineteen ninety eight, we almost

1176
01:07:31.119 --> 01:07:33.199
now this is before this Will Smith, I am Legend.

1177
01:07:33.840 --> 01:07:37.239
In ninety eight we almost got a version directed by

1178
01:07:37.280 --> 01:07:43.519
Ridley Scott starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, WHOA Okay, it would have

1179
01:07:43.519 --> 01:07:46.960
been very close to the source material, but sadly the

1180
01:07:46.960 --> 01:07:50.800
production was put in turnaround after Warner Brothers had several

1181
01:07:51.119 --> 01:07:56.079
high profile big box office failures and given that this

1182
01:07:56.199 --> 01:07:58.840
was going to be a very R rated movie and

1183
01:07:59.000 --> 01:08:01.679
cost one hundred and twenty five million, which was really

1184
01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:06.199
high in nineteen ninety Absolutely, yeah, Warner Brothers pulled the plug.

1185
01:08:06.400 --> 01:08:08.480
They said, this is too risky, even with Arnold starring.

1186
01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:09.559
They said, no, we can't do it.

1187
01:08:10.159 --> 01:08:13.440
So see that's crazy. I mean, that's after you've seen

1188
01:08:13.480 --> 01:08:17.079
so much success with like Running Man in the Terminator series,

1189
01:08:17.199 --> 01:08:20.600
and yeah, for them to not take the gamble on that,

1190
01:08:20.600 --> 01:08:22.600
that's kind of crazy to me. Honest.

1191
01:08:22.640 --> 01:08:25.840
Well, he had just done Batman and Robin and we

1192
01:08:25.920 --> 01:08:31.039
all know how that was so shit. Yeah yeah, all right,

1193
01:08:31.119 --> 01:08:33.960
so I'm with you though, I still I still recommend

1194
01:08:34.000 --> 01:08:37.279
I am Legend. I got another one for you. Have

1195
01:08:37.319 --> 01:08:40.520
you seen have you seen twenty eighteen a movie called

1196
01:08:40.560 --> 01:08:41.239
Red Sparrow.

1197
01:08:42.239 --> 01:08:45.960
I have actually real good I enjoyed that thirt It

1198
01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:47.399
was it really, that's a really.

1199
01:08:47.479 --> 01:08:49.920
Yeah, that's that's a that's a that's a Francis Lawrence.

1200
01:08:50.520 --> 01:08:54.479
I did not know that. Okay, I remember he was

1201
01:08:54.560 --> 01:08:58.920
doing the Hunger Game films. If I'm not mistaken, I

1202
01:08:59.039 --> 01:09:01.600
never watched any album. I'm not gonna say if they're

1203
01:09:01.640 --> 01:09:03.680
good or bad. It's just not my cup of tea,

1204
01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:07.439
not my thing. Yeah. I know they had good actors

1205
01:09:07.520 --> 01:09:10.760
like Woody Harrelson, Donald's other One, stuff like that, but no,

1206
01:09:10.840 --> 01:09:12.680
I never cared to even look into him.

1207
01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:17.000
Well he so Lawrence meets Jennifer Lawrence on the set

1208
01:09:17.039 --> 01:09:19.880
of this. He's got this idea for Red Sparrow, but

1209
01:09:19.920 --> 01:09:22.680
he's kind of nervous because you gotta remember this was

1210
01:09:23.000 --> 01:09:25.199
this was her first when she does Read Note or

1211
01:09:25.239 --> 01:09:28.760
when she does Red Sparrow. There's there's a lot of

1212
01:09:28.800 --> 01:09:30.199
nudity in that movie.

1213
01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:31.840
Oh absolutely yeah, and.

1214
01:09:31.760 --> 01:09:34.479
She had famously said that she would never do nudity,

1215
01:09:35.159 --> 01:09:38.159
not comfortable. So he was like, ah, she's she's perfect

1216
01:09:38.199 --> 01:09:39.840
for the role, but she's probably not gonna do it,

1217
01:09:40.600 --> 01:09:44.439
you know. But Uh. The funny thing is when questioned

1218
01:09:44.439 --> 01:09:48.199
about the film's comparison to Marvel's Black Widow, which, as

1219
01:09:48.239 --> 01:09:51.560
you said, Rachel, weisers close. It's pretty close, right, well,

1220
01:09:51.680 --> 01:09:54.760
Francis Lawrence was quick to remind everybody that Red Sparrow

1221
01:09:54.880 --> 01:09:58.239
was adapted from the book Red Sparrow, which was written

1222
01:09:58.239 --> 01:09:59.840
by a Cia guy.

1223
01:10:00.399 --> 01:10:03.239
And so that's exactly why it fits that description.

1224
01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:05.920
Yeah yeah, and it's it's it's not an action film.

1225
01:10:06.000 --> 01:10:10.720
It's a suspenseful, spy thriller. So yeah, yeah, guy was

1226
01:10:10.760 --> 01:10:13.039
writing about his life more or less. So he's like,

1227
01:10:13.159 --> 01:10:15.720
I get it, like, you know, the Russians like to

1228
01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:17.199
have ballerinas.

1229
01:10:16.600 --> 01:10:20.800
And exactly, and yeah, brainwashing, assass and stuff.

1230
01:10:20.880 --> 01:10:25.159
Yeah, it doesn't look at John with Colreno doesn't who

1231
01:10:25.199 --> 01:10:28.199
doesn't all we all want. Every time I see a ballerina,

1232
01:10:28.199 --> 01:10:31.039
I just loot like, well she's an assassin's.

1233
01:10:31.159 --> 01:10:33.680
Yeah, that's exactly what I think every time.

1234
01:10:33.800 --> 01:10:40.039
Yeah, uh yeah, So you know we're coming up a

1235
01:10:40.039 --> 01:10:41.640
little bit short, like wait, like we said, he's he's

1236
01:10:41.640 --> 01:10:44.800
directed over sixty music videos. I know he's done some

1237
01:10:44.840 --> 01:10:47.720
other work. I haven't seen it, unfortunately, But let's talk

1238
01:10:47.720 --> 01:10:50.239
about let's talk about a couple of things he's got

1239
01:10:50.279 --> 01:10:52.359
in the works, because, like right now, his new film

1240
01:10:52.520 --> 01:10:57.880
The Long Walk, which stars Mark Hamill based on as

1241
01:10:57.920 --> 01:10:59.079
Richard Bachmann.

1242
01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:01.920
Stephen King is Richard talking, Yeah it is Yep.

1243
01:11:02.439 --> 01:11:04.239
Looks good. I know Garrett, I know me, and you

1244
01:11:04.279 --> 01:11:06.720
were hoping to get getting to see that and do

1245
01:11:06.800 --> 01:11:09.000
a review. Maybe we might still if we have time.

1246
01:11:09.039 --> 01:11:14.119
It's been a busy, busy late summer early fall though.

1247
01:11:13.960 --> 01:11:15.800
So yes it has.

1248
01:11:16.279 --> 01:11:19.479
But he's also in production. He's in pre production on

1249
01:11:19.600 --> 01:11:26.279
sequels to The Hunger Games, I Am Legend, and Constantine.

1250
01:11:26.279 --> 01:11:30.039
Which are all three like just crazy out of the

1251
01:11:30.039 --> 01:11:33.239
blue things that you never think until you actually start

1252
01:11:33.279 --> 01:11:37.319
deep diving into his filmography and you're like, okay, wait,

1253
01:11:37.359 --> 01:11:40.600
they've got a few actors attached to his product project

1254
01:11:41.000 --> 01:11:43.800
and you're like, oh, okay, it's a sequel. It's not

1255
01:11:43.880 --> 01:11:48.079
going to be split off for reimagining or anything like that.

1256
01:11:48.479 --> 01:11:51.880
He's actually doing a legit sequel for the film.

1257
01:11:52.039 --> 01:11:56.039
Well you figure, you know, James Gunn and Peter Saffron,

1258
01:11:56.039 --> 01:12:01.159
they're they're doing all this new DC stuff. So you're like, well,

1259
01:12:01.199 --> 01:12:03.960
we're gonna get Constantine, We're gonna get It's probably gonna

1260
01:12:03.960 --> 01:12:07.399
be the one that is more comic accurate. But as

1261
01:12:07.960 --> 01:12:12.159
as recently as February of this year, Keano did reveal

1262
01:12:12.199 --> 01:12:15.760
that he and Francis Lawrence have developed a story for

1263
01:12:15.800 --> 01:12:19.880
a sequel. They have presented it to DC Studio's co

1264
01:12:20.039 --> 01:12:24.920
chief James Gunn, and he has approved the development. He said,

1265
01:12:24.920 --> 01:12:26.600
go write the script and it's gonna be part of

1266
01:12:26.640 --> 01:12:29.039
the d C Elseworld's film series.

1267
01:12:29.359 --> 01:12:34.039
Yep, which the batman for the els World is Robert Pattinson.

1268
01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:40.319
Yep. So I'm excited for it. H Keanu kind of said, hey,

1269
01:12:41.359 --> 01:12:43.520
you know, last time, him and Lawrence were talking about

1270
01:12:43.520 --> 01:12:46.520
this in an interview recently and they said, look, last

1271
01:12:46.520 --> 01:12:49.439
time we were kind of caught in that PG. Thirteen

1272
01:12:49.720 --> 01:12:55.159
possibly are you know, make the studio happy, Yeah, situation,

1273
01:12:55.399 --> 01:12:58.119
And he says, now we feel like we can go darker,

1274
01:12:59.000 --> 01:13:02.880
we can get a little creepier, a little scarier, and

1275
01:13:02.920 --> 01:13:05.239
in more in the world of the occult that John

1276
01:13:05.279 --> 01:13:06.239
Constantine belongs to you.

1277
01:13:06.319 --> 01:13:09.159
I mean, it was what a hundred million dollar budget

1278
01:13:09.279 --> 01:13:11.159
or something they had for this film, So, I mean

1279
01:13:11.199 --> 01:13:14.039
the studio did show out quite a bit and it's

1280
01:13:14.199 --> 01:13:17.720
you know, an earlier DC film actually came out same

1281
01:13:17.800 --> 01:13:21.159
year as Batman begins, so there wasn't a lot of

1282
01:13:21.239 --> 01:13:25.560
traction for DC until that happened. So I could see

1283
01:13:25.560 --> 01:13:28.399
how they would be kind of walking on Ehll's going

1284
01:13:28.399 --> 01:13:28.960
into that one.

1285
01:13:29.039 --> 01:13:33.159
Get it, Garett, you recommend Keanu Reeves Constantine.

1286
01:13:34.439 --> 01:13:38.479
I definitely do. It's a film that I didn't really

1287
01:13:38.520 --> 01:13:41.399
care for at first, but the more that I've watched

1288
01:13:41.399 --> 01:13:44.079
this film, I've actually grown to love this story.

1289
01:13:44.760 --> 01:13:48.880
I feel like you watched this movie recently. There's badass

1290
01:13:49.920 --> 01:13:52.119
forum tattoos he's got you know.

1291
01:13:52.239 --> 01:13:53.680
Oh yeah, I forget.

1292
01:13:53.920 --> 01:13:55.560
I looked it up. I forgot. There's a whole story

1293
01:13:55.560 --> 01:13:59.319
behind what the symbol is, which is awesome. I was like,

1294
01:13:59.399 --> 01:14:01.560
you know what, Garret, go go get those probably next weekend.

1295
01:14:02.000 --> 01:14:06.159
Hey, you're damn right, buddy, Come on now, you never

1296
01:14:06.239 --> 01:14:07.840
had a room for forearm tattoos.

1297
01:14:09.239 --> 01:14:12.439
You are not my friend. You are not. Here's the thing.

1298
01:14:12.479 --> 01:14:15.399
If you're a fan of the comic, I'd advise you

1299
01:14:15.479 --> 01:14:18.880
to have a real open mind about the movie version.

1300
01:14:18.960 --> 01:14:21.720
But if you just want to watch Keanu kick some

1301
01:14:21.760 --> 01:14:25.279
demon ass in a supernatural superhero movie, it's a hell

1302
01:14:25.359 --> 01:14:25.840
of a good.

1303
01:14:25.680 --> 01:14:30.600
Time, is yeah. And it's got some good scary stuff

1304
01:14:30.600 --> 01:14:33.279
in it that you know, at times reminds me of

1305
01:14:33.359 --> 01:14:35.760
like some of the scary spooky stuff that you get,

1306
01:14:35.920 --> 01:14:38.439
like the Evil Dead movies and stuff like that. Just

1307
01:14:38.560 --> 01:14:40.720
the special effects that we get.

1308
01:14:41.119 --> 01:14:44.000
Garrett, I don't know where you watch this, but I'm

1309
01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:46.479
gonna copy something right now. I was playing, I was

1310
01:14:46.520 --> 01:14:50.199
gonna be lazy. I immediately turned on HBO Max, went

1311
01:14:50.239 --> 01:14:56.239
to the DC tab cause you know it's gonna be there. Yep,

1312
01:14:56.439 --> 01:14:57.359
except that it isn't.

1313
01:14:58.119 --> 01:15:01.960
Yeah, I thought the same damn thing, Jeff, trust me.

1314
01:15:02.880 --> 01:15:08.640
Now, Fortunately, I've got a copy of Constantine sitting right

1315
01:15:08.680 --> 01:15:09.640
there on the shelf.

1316
01:15:09.399 --> 01:15:10.880
So yep. Same.

1317
01:15:11.039 --> 01:15:14.600
Cracked open my DVD and listen. If you do like

1318
01:15:14.640 --> 01:15:17.399
the movie, well just know that you're not gonna stream

1319
01:15:17.439 --> 01:15:19.359
it unless you're gonna pay for it, because you can

1320
01:15:19.359 --> 01:15:19.720
rent it.

1321
01:15:20.279 --> 01:15:23.079
I think it's three forty nine through Amazon. Yeah. No,

1322
01:15:23.239 --> 01:15:26.279
I ended up finding my DVD of it.

1323
01:15:26.760 --> 01:15:29.560
Okay, Yeah, get get the DVD, get the blue ray

1324
01:15:29.600 --> 01:15:33.119
because there's audio commentary. There's like eighteen deleted scenes, and

1325
01:15:33.199 --> 01:15:34.520
every one of them are awesome.

1326
01:15:34.600 --> 01:15:35.840
You're pretty freaking cool.

1327
01:15:36.079 --> 01:15:38.960
Yeah, Like, this is a situation where we could have

1328
01:15:39.039 --> 01:15:41.319
just had the unrated director's cut and put all the

1329
01:15:41.479 --> 01:15:42.880
back in. I would have been fine with that.

1330
01:15:43.720 --> 01:15:45.920
Yeah, And it's one of those things. I think the

1331
01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:48.399
movie was like two hours and six minutes in the

1332
01:15:48.520 --> 01:15:51.399
right we've got, you know, thirty two minutes of de

1333
01:15:51.439 --> 01:15:54.399
weighted scenes. Yeah, we got to cut this it up.

1334
01:15:54.439 --> 01:15:59.199
Yeah. Now, but listen, go to Amazon. Don't don't rent it,

1335
01:15:59.279 --> 01:16:01.920
just buy it because it's it's loaded with extras and

1336
01:16:01.960 --> 01:16:05.760
it looks great on disc. That's where I'm at with it.

1337
01:16:05.880 --> 01:16:09.119
But well as it helps top off that ConA Reeves

1338
01:16:09.199 --> 01:16:11.840
collection that I know so many people are working on.

1339
01:16:12.640 --> 01:16:16.600
You better be, you better Bell. What do you think? Yeah, listeners,

1340
01:16:16.600 --> 01:16:19.399
what do you think of Keanu Reeves and Constantine? Did

1341
01:16:19.399 --> 01:16:22.760
you see it? Are you excited about the future of

1342
01:16:22.880 --> 01:16:25.680
Constantine in the DC elseworld? So you can let us

1343
01:16:25.720 --> 01:16:28.680
know on social media. You'll find us on Facebook, Instagram,

1344
01:16:28.720 --> 01:16:31.239
and x You can check out a film by podcast

1345
01:16:31.279 --> 01:16:35.520
dot com for all the episodes streaming on all the platforms.

1346
01:16:36.199 --> 01:16:38.000
We got some fun stuff on the website. You know,

1347
01:16:38.159 --> 01:16:42.319
there's some games, you plenty of articles, so check it out.

1348
01:16:42.520 --> 01:16:45.039
You can always email us from the website or you

1349
01:16:45.079 --> 01:16:46.960
can get a hold of us at a film by

1350
01:16:46.960 --> 01:16:51.119
podcast at gmail dot com with your questions, comments and concerns.

1351
01:16:51.800 --> 01:16:53.439
We may just read your response on the show, and

1352
01:16:53.479 --> 01:16:55.399
if we do, we will definitely send you some of

1353
01:16:55.399 --> 01:17:00.239
a film by Swag. Garrett. I don't know when we're

1354
01:17:00.239 --> 01:17:03.000
gonna talk about another Kianu Reeves movie. I know it

1355
01:17:03.039 --> 01:17:07.079
will happen because me and you seem to be listen.

1356
01:17:07.199 --> 01:17:09.039
Yeah, we're the Kiano crew.

1357
01:17:09.439 --> 01:17:12.880
We're the Kiano crew, right he You're born in September.

1358
01:17:13.560 --> 01:17:16.720
I'm born in September. Keanus born in September.

1359
01:17:17.640 --> 01:17:18.439
I mean great things.

1360
01:17:18.479 --> 01:17:21.720
We all play football, we all fight demons.

1361
01:17:21.479 --> 01:17:25.359
You know, get well, you know, across the board. I

1362
01:17:25.359 --> 01:17:27.319
think we just give him a call. He might be

1363
01:17:27.359 --> 01:17:29.159
our third best friend. We're just gonna have to look

1364
01:17:29.199 --> 01:17:29.760
into this. Fine.

1365
01:17:29.800 --> 01:17:33.359
Well, yeah, we're gonna work on that. Yeah. Another one, listeners,

1366
01:17:33.680 --> 01:17:35.479
is there a kna Reeves movie you want to hear

1367
01:17:35.520 --> 01:17:38.920
me and Garrett talk about. We might do it. We'll see.

1368
01:17:39.560 --> 01:17:42.720
But Garrett, I know what we're talking about next week

1369
01:17:42.840 --> 01:17:45.800
is not a Keanu Reeves movie. What do you got

1370
01:17:45.800 --> 01:17:46.239
for us?

1371
01:17:46.800 --> 01:17:52.039
We are talking Adam Green's Hatchet, classic film that came

1372
01:17:52.039 --> 01:17:57.479
out in two thousand and seven, absolutely amazing slasher super

1373
01:17:57.560 --> 01:18:01.479
Gory got some great practice coal effects in This has

1374
01:18:01.640 --> 01:18:05.000
legendary Kine Hotter in it, a few other great actors,

1375
01:18:05.079 --> 01:18:07.800
and if you haven't seen it, I would suggest watching

1376
01:18:07.840 --> 01:18:09.640
it before tuning into the episode.

1377
01:18:10.159 --> 01:18:12.680
Brother, I'll tell you right now, if it's a slasher

1378
01:18:12.880 --> 01:18:16.760
starring Kane Hodder, we have got to call David Burns.

1379
01:18:17.600 --> 01:18:18.920
He's got to us for that one.

1380
01:18:19.359 --> 01:18:21.640
I am all for it. I think me, you and

1381
01:18:21.760 --> 01:18:26.319
David covering a great iconic slasher film. It's going to

1382
01:18:26.359 --> 01:18:27.720
do it some justice.

1383
01:18:27.880 --> 01:18:31.279
All right. Well, to all of you listening to the show,

1384
01:18:31.520 --> 01:18:35.199
following us on social media, and subscribing to our Patreon,

1385
01:18:36.239 --> 01:18:36.840
we thank you.