The Last Voyage of the Demeter Review

0:00 You get more out of life when you go out to a movie and no on with the shoal. Hello everybody, and welcome back to the box office. I'm Jeff Johnson, I'm David Burns, and we are here to provide a quick spoiler free review for a film by podcast. Today we are setting sale with the last voyage of the Demeter something Rick to Pat the animals.

0:45 This looks like a bite evils. I'm bold we called him ka. I don't know about you. I went into this with very low expectations. You know, when we talked about seeing this movie, I was like, yeah, I'll go see it. It sounds interesting. But wow, what a great movie. Jeff, I know, I know it's getting just buried at the box office because because nothing is going to stop Barbenheimer. But nothing. Man, I can't believe this movie is not just I can't believe everyone's not seen it. If you're a horror film fan, you need to see this movie. And Jeff, I think you kind of mentioned it too. They should have waited a little bit and released this closer to October. Yeah, well, look, we all, we've all heard the story. This is based off of a section of brom Stoker's Dracula Log of the Demeter. This is all about Count Dracula making his way from Transylvania to UH to London.

1:53 This seems like this would have been perfect timing for this would have been like mid September, don't right. I mean absolutely, it's it's chili, It's we're ready to go. You know, see some scary stuff, do some scary stuff. I don't get it, but I'll tell you what I do get. Uh. Corey Hawkins as Clemens. Clemens got this guy's unreal. I was blown away by his performance. Man, he did so good in this movie. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from, you know. I uh, we were talking about that when we just left the theater, and then it dawned on me. I do recognize him. I remembered him. He played doctor Dre in the Straight Out of Compton movie. Oh okay, Corey, Corey Hawkins is the real deal.

2:38 I was so great to see him lead this film and be the protagonist. Beat it well. He did lead it well. He did. Yeah. Hats off to uh Liam Cunningham who played Captain Elliott. You know he that guy's great and everything you know, if you if you know a Game of Thrones, he played Davos, So he does great in everything he does us. Yeah, yeah, so Davos as the captain of the Tragic Demeter. Excellent casting there. Another another big win was David Desmalkin. And I think I'm saying that right. If I'm not, I apologize, but play on wolcheck the first mate. Yeah, that guy's great too. It seems like he ever since like like the Dark Night. It's like he's on He's on a slow but steady rise. Yeah. And anybody, anybody knows who knows this story of the Demeter knows that there are no survivors. So we're not giving away anything here to our audience because it's spoiler free. So you know what you're going in with this story, but you know it is done really well. Yeah. The book's been out since like what the late eighteen hundred, so so you know this story about if we've given you all the time you need. Yeah, Dave, anyone, I mean, aside from the guys that we just mentioned, anyone really shine in this for you, Like anyone like a breakout performance. Everybody did really good in this Man equally I want to go with the hats off to Woody Norman who plays Toby.

4:04 Oh yeah, the kid, the kid. I thought he was incredible in the Thurstain performances that a child his age shouldn't be able to pull off, but he pulled off extremely well. I'm gonna absolutely agree with you on that he was. He was fun to see. You know, sometimes in these kinds of movies, like the child character can be a little annoying. Yeah, uh in this in this situation, Woody Norman, Uh, just he is holding his own with these amazing actors. I was really impressed by by what he did. Yeah. Absolutely, And I gotta say hats off to bar McCreary. My hat is off to this guy. I've not seen his name for a little while and composing music for a film, and you know, I've had this discussion recently about how music has been kind of lame in movies lately. But Jeff Bear knocked out of the park in this movie.

4:56 Halfway through this movie, I'm like, this is incredible. And then something major happens in the film and then it just goes and notch up with his music, and I'm like, I'm buying the score and I haven't said that in a long time. Man, house lights go up. The first I think the first thing you said about the movie was I need this, I need this film score. I've always been a big fan of his. He's one of those I think he's underrated. You know. He brought back a feeling I haven't had it a long time in a movie when it comes to music. So kudos, do you man kudos? Do you bear kudos? Absolutely? I'll tell you another thing that I was really impressed with the cinematography because we're on a we're on a boat for ninety percent of this movie. But the fact that it the you know this thing, you know, I think I said this to you when we're walking out. The bottom line is this a movie that takes place mostly at night. You're either the audience you're either going to complain that you can't see anything because it's pitch black, or it's gonna look perfect and you're gonna be able to see everything. It's gonna look gorgeous. Andrea Avradell's film Here looks gorgeous, beautiful, beautiful, lighting was just gorgeous. You know. The photographer in me is like, how did they do this? Because it looks so good. Yeah, the lighting, the set design, the costuming, it just felt perfect. And you know, even the tight quarters that this ship would have been, they did a really good job with the cinematography of making it feel and look bigger than it really was. So to the to the cinematographer of this and the director,

6:26 great job, Dave. I know, we can't we can't do this review spoiler free otherwise without talking about the big bad himself. What what your your thoughts on the representation of Dracula here? It was fantastic. You know, you get bits and pieces of in which I love it when they do that in horror films, and then you obviously get the big reveal later on. I love his look so so much, and you do good glimpses of it in the trailer, so it's not giving away anything. And Jeff you mentioned it, it's very not Feratu look, and it was fantastic. Loved it, very scary. I loved it. I love seeing it. Yeah, And like I said, if you're a fan of horror movies, you need to see this movie because they did it really well. And if you like the movie Alien, it has that vibe too. And I love that about it. You know, I'm laughing because you said that as we were walking again, we were walking out out of theater. You said, man, I felt like I was watching Alien. That is exactly what our director Andre Avridall said about it. He goes, basically, we have done Alien on a ship in the eighteen hundreds. They did a great job of it.

7:31 He's absolutely right, and it looks fantastic. Dave. You know, I don't think we're we're fooling anyone, but I'll go and ask see it, stream it, skip it. Where are you at on this one? I really want this movie to see seed because it's it's so good. It's such a surprise. Please go see it. I think it's gonna have some legs. I think people, I think this is gonna be a slow word of mouth, like, oh I saw it and it was awesome. Because truthfully, I want to shout out. I know we don't normally do this on on our movie reviews, but a quick shout out to a film by Patreon James Buckley, who was the first person to hit me up and say, Hey, this movie's fantastic. You're gonna love it. You gotta check it out. So and and James, if you're listening, you are right.

8:20 This movie was fantastic. I say, see it, Dave. I already told you I want to see this one more time, just to hear that score and that you know, and that big screen environment. See this ship rocking and thrashing on the water. Just an awesome movie. Uh. Definitely see this one because if you don't, you're you're gonna you're gonna regret it, because like it's gonna blow up on streaming, right yep, oh absolutely it will. Hey, go see it. Yeah, everyone's gonna be like, Yeah, everyone's gonna be like I wish I would have saw this in theater. That would have been awesome to see on the big screen. See this one. Yeah, absolutely. Uh And if you want to see it with us as always, Uh, I'll buy the tickets. I'll buy the pup