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(Ep. 229) Nosferatu hosted by Ron and Gute

#nosferatu #podcast #vampire #billskarsgard In this episode, Gute and Ron discuss the remake of the classic silent horror film Nosferatu, directed by Robert Eggers. They explore the differences between the original and the remake, the performances of the cast, particularly Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok, and the film's artistic direction. The conversation delves into audience reactions, themes of love and horror, and the overall cinematic experience. Both hosts express their admiration for the film, ultimately giving it a five out of five rating for both enjoyment and critical analysis. Check out Barrel Aged Flicks on social media: • Twitter: @Ron_Barrelaged • Facebook: Barrel Aged Flicks Podcast • Instagram: @barrelagedflickspodcast Get 10% off your entire order at https://coffeebros.com with the code BAF10!

Duration:: 1h 9m
Broadcast on:: 01 Jan 2025
Audio Format:: other

"Come to me, come to me, hear my call." "Come to me." [SCREAMS] Professor. My dreams grow darker. To see who come from within us. Or from beyond. [SCREAMING] He is coming. He is coming. He is coming. He is coming to us. He is coming. Who? Who is coming to you, my child? [SCREAMING] [SCREAMING] We are here encountering the lump here. [SCREAMING] [SCREAMING] What is up, everybody? Welcome to BAS. Good to have you. It's an odd bit in mind if you've been labyrinths. I have no idea what that fucking means. [LAUGHS] Good evening, my fellow film lovers. Awesome. I love that. Sure, man. You've been teaching yourself that stuff, haven't you? No, I speak so, Deutsch. Really? I didn't know that you were seriously. How long can you speak the language? I can understand everything you say to me. It's speaking and I'm still working on. Oh, man. That's pretty fucking awesome. I'm learning a lot of the languages being really hard for me. It'd be very difficult. I've always wanted to learn German language. And also-- It's bad English. That's what it is. Bad English, the German language. So what's podcasted in German? What? Podcasting. [LAUGHTER] You know, that's kind of funny because when I watch the movie and see them talk in German, sometimes you can hear the words but just said it in a different way. So I can understand what you're saying by that. But speaking of Germany, we are doing a hot take on the remake of a German horror film, which is the 19-- I think 1923? '22, baby. '22, yes. 1922, Nusferatu, which is a very interesting watch. It's a silent film. You know, it's when film had not talkies yet. And I think it was the first-- I think it's the first adaptation of the Bram Soaker's novel, in a different way, basically borrowing from it. So it's my fellow mentor, Joe Bob Briggs, who said when he aired Nusferatu for his last drive-in show. Yeah. Fuck Florence Broker. Broker. Broker. Broker. We know what? Broker. What's the last thing? Damn it. What's a-- [LAUGHTER] Bram Stoker. Fuck Florence Stoker. Oh, OK. Yes. The widow of Bram Stoker, because I think she wouldn't get the rights to the story. So it was-- and for what I heard, I think I read-- I did some-- looks at some trivia about it, but basically on the original movie that it got-- they tried to destroy all the copies of it or something like that. That's true. Took three years of litigation in court, and they ordered every copy to be destroyed. But thank God somebody kept a copy of it. [LAUGHTER] So boom, they made the movie. Yeah. I had a criterion collection of it, and I saw it a long time ago and then seeing it again on YouTube because I got rid of a lot of my criterians, which I wish I didn't do. I got rid of a lot of good ones, rare ones. I even had a criterion collection of the original Robocop, the X-rated cut, as they called it. But I had so many of them. And watching this on YouTube, I watched it untinted, because I remember-- or the tinted-- there's two versions. There's a whole bunch of versions. I saw one on YouTube where I had the worst fucking soundtrack where a lady was going like, "Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh," like singing in the background. And I watched first five minutes, like, turn this off and find another copy. That was horrible. And then I did one with more of like an orchestral score, and I enjoyed that one. But the black and white fucked with me because everything is supposed to be nighttime and it's in the daylight. Yeah, that's why silent movies kind of suck, because the eye can pick up like 14 frames per second. Yeah. So when they do their hate-crank radio shit, like you can only process so much. So when you like realize when crowds are running really fast or things move really fast, you went up to like 17 seconds. Yeah. So it's a hit or miss. I mean, just imagine this movie is probably the oldest movie we've ever watched in our lives. Really? Dude, it's over 100 years old. That is fucking crazy. 1922. Yeah. It is, it is old and, but it wasn't that, okay, see, I've seen many silent films. I've seen a lot of like the Chaplin films. I love Chaplin. I love a lot of Chaplin films. I love, uh, what's his name? The guy that does a lot of stunts. I can't believe I forgot his name. Um, you know who I'm talking about? The guy with the, uh, the big guys, oh, you know who I'm talking about. I, I, they even had a nice documentary about him. I have to look it up real quick. But, uh, silent films, I don't mind, you know, because, you know, it was talkies. You had the subtitles in the middle and stuff like that. But when this came out and the whole thing about the daylight and, uh, nighttime, that's why the tinted version came out where it was like almost like a blue color when it was ever night. And it was like almost like a yellowish color whenever it was day. But then there was like greens and stuff like that. Do you think that added to the movie to make it better to see it by nighttime? Are you referring to Buster Keaton? Yes. Buster Keaton. Thank you. Yeah. So, yeah, the original, it does an amazing job for even the black and white aspect that I, I have and I watch, they do a tremendous job of the shadows, like the different light and darkness and like the effects of that. And just with kind of Orlock obviously, you know, with the, some of the differences from Dracula to Nusferatu, you know, Chasing Count Dracula to kind of Orlock, Jonathan Harker, who was Thomas Hutter, you know, being a Harker who's, you know, Ellen Hunter, for example, yeah, they do a fantastic job just even though it's a sound movie of you, the music and, you know, the background, but just when they capture those, you know, their face reactions and like you, the theater acting compared to like the, you know, live acting nowadays, but it's, they do a fantastic job with the setting, the mood, just like Gothic setting. It was like one of the first Gothic movies ever made. Yes. Yes. Just to show the difference in shadows was just amazing. It's, for me, it's still watchable. I enjoy watching it. No, I definitely enjoyed it into the fact where I'd like to actually buy myself a copy of it. When you're talking about the shadows, that scene where you see the hand going up the stairway classic scene right there and just seeing the outline of Count Orlock in the background and also just seeing a lot of shots that there was a couple of shots that maybe chuckled them. And I realized in the, in the remake, they kind of missed out on that. I was like, Oh, where's that scene where he's putting all the coffins in the back of the wagon and then he climbs into it and it's going like a speed and everything. I was like, I was kind of laughing at that scene. I was like, Oh, I wonder how they're going to do this in the new movie. And I didn't see it. It wasn't in there. Didn't need it. I know that. I see that's the thing. I think we're going to, I think it's going to be very interesting talking about the differences between both of them, but we're, like I said, we are doing the remake of Nosferatu directed by Robert Egers just released Christmas Day. And I believe you saw Christmas Day, right? I did. The theater was full. It was, I was envious because it was full from back all the way to the front. I sat more to the front because I was waiting to see because traditionally, most movies they'll, they'll have a day prior release. So I was like, when did you see a Christmas Eve? Right. So I got down with all my family stuff in the morning, then I got tickets to my wife, like let's go. You know, we got a seven o'clock showing and it was packed. There was only like four showing yesterday, like a three 37, a 12 and a 10, 10 30. The funny thing about me is I got fucked with ours. And I should have asked for a refund of the ticket, but I didn't. So because I walked out because I was so very happy with the movie, I'll talk more into it later on that. But the whole thing about Nosferatu is we had a one o'clock showing over at, I guess the Paragon theaters near us, Sammy bought tickets. I asked her to get it two weeks right at the top center. I always like, like back right in the center, right when we got there, the whole back started filling up to the point where we had no, like every seat was filled up, which I was shocked at. The theater was filling up. Our movie was starts, it was supposed to start at one 40. It didn't start till two 35. Oh, God bless. Yeah. So what happened was the theater went black and it still had the music playing in the background and everybody's just like, okay, what the fuck like it went black, like there was no lights on the ground. I like that it was pitch black in the theater and I was like, what the fuck is going on here? Like the movie's 10 minutes late, all right, now it's 15. I walk out of the theater. So I'm not the people walking out of the theater, we're letting, no, hey, the movie's not starting. What's going on here? And I'm like, we're about to get a free movie ticket here because this is fucked up. And we waited and wait about 45 minutes later, it finally turned on and we didn't even get to see any previews. Like they completely skipped out on the previews and went straight to the movie. I think I missed like the first minute because I walked in and it was finally starting. Jesus. Yeah. We didn't have a good experience. Yeah, thank you experience in the theater that day and usually that theater is not bad. But yeah, it was late. I think they said they had to reset their thing and everything else, but we got to see it because I was getting pissed off. I was like, I have a show to do. I want to get that. I want to watch this movie. I've been excited about this movie since the beginning of the year because I was actually on my taste room for the top five movie movies, anticipated movies. So I've been excited about this one and I was just so the Lord works in mysterious ways that that's only happened to me once at the LMO. It was for the amazing Spider-Man 2, a thunderstorm happened and it knocked the power out. So I just got like maybe 20, 30 minutes in and I owe to my wife and I was like, F this, I'm leaving. Like, I can see you doing that. I can see you being like, I don't, I'm not fucking with this, I'm going home and everything else. But I'm shocked that we say, I think a couple of people did leave, but yeah, I've never been to a 40 minute wait for a movie to start. I don't know what the hell happened, but we watched it and I even said to myself, I was like, I'm going to go in there. I'm going to complain. Hey, we got to see the movie, but it was 40 minutes. I like to have a free movie ticket, but I was so happy when I was walking out after seeing the movie that I completely walked out the park and I was like, oh fuck, I should ask for a free movie ticket. So what were people saying around you? That's what I'm most curious about. Because I heard some mixed reviews. I was, I was arguing with people. It was my wife was like, stop, stop, let's go home like, that's the funny thing. That's the funny thing is that right after the movie, I even said, I enjoy this movie, but I could see a lot of people are not going to because I'm sure people are expecting a Bram Stoker's like remake like a Dracula remake and like, what the fuck is this shit and seeing all kinds of differences? Yeah. And I enjoyed it because after seeing the original, it made me love it even more. And that's the thing. I've seen the original long time ago, but it was, it's been such a long time that I only remember glimpses of it. I've seen scenes of it in movies, but seeing it now, like two or three days prior to the movie, it made me appreciate it. Now watch it, hearing other people when I was walking out of the theater, some people were saying, I liked it. It was good. And some people were like, that, that didn't seem right. Like people were complaining. Some people were complaining. It was, it was mixed, mixed feelings from people from what I saw. Yeah. I got to the argument with this one girl, there's a couple and I guess their friend was a third wheel. They were like, both like gasping back, it was a 10 or 10 and he goes, like, it's a six out of 10. I'm like, excuse me? What was wrong with it? She's like, it was too long. Blah, blah, blah. I'm like, like, do not enjoy storytelling. And both guys are laughing hysterically. And I was like, all right, let's go. You know what I felt? I liked that. Oh, go ahead. So then I was walking to the bathroom. Yeah. There's a couple of girls were talking about it because yeah, I fell asleep about halfway through. I'm like. Oh, let's just keep walking. See, I felt like that before when I saw Blade Runner 2049. Yeah, I saw that because I mean, Blade Runner is one of my top 10 movies. I love that movie and I went to see the sequel at the theater. People were walking out of the theater. I loved it. I thought it was great. I thought the slow. It was my type of movie. I enjoyed. I thought it was a very true good sequel to the original and people walking outside me, they've never seen probably the original Blade Runner. And I remember I was talking to a couple and they said, did you because they were saying they didn't like it. So why didn't you like it? And they said, it didn't make any sense. He said, have you seen the original Blade Runner? Like, no. It's like, you got to watch the original to understand everything that's going on and stuff like that. But it's it's weird how somebody is people on this opinion and seeing this movie in the theater, I already knew for a fact that this isn't for anybody. I mean, this isn't for everybody. A lot of people will not like this movie because they're expecting even from the trailer, the trailer makes it look like it's a Bram Soaker's Dracula remake. That's what the trailer makes it seem like. It makes it look like a Nosferatu remake. But there is scenes of Bram Soaker's Dracula where people might get excited, I think. Yes. Like the Alamo, like pre-showing, they showed a lot of the Dracula scenes that like kind of like compared to it or the original. So they had fun with that. I love how they showed the history of like, you know, the Nosferatu, then you know, Bram Soaker's Dracula, then just a bunch of the other like random vampire movies like they brought up like Hammer Films, Christopher Lee, just the mantle of Dracula and where it's gone from. It was a fantastic history. Thanks. Did that before the movie? Every movie that they do something special wise, if it's like that special, they'll go far to it like the history wise from like, you know, Nosferatu, we don't have mass direct playing is fantastic portrayal of how Ralach, Bella, the ghost see, then the people after him, then the Christopher Lee, and then there's apparently like a version that came out on 1932. That was like a lesbian vampire scene, but it's Denmark. So they went to that movie like saying what happened here and they jumped to the timeline. So then obviously now today, so interesting, see that's the thing because there's been a lot of Bram Soaker Dracula movies. I think there's like over like 10, I remember quote to angry video game nerd, he did an episode on all the different Dracula movies, which are the good and the bads of each of the movies and stuff like that. And Nosferatu, to me, I don't see it being as Bram Soaker's Dracula, I think it's a completely separate store. Yes, it has some of the themes, but it has a completely different ending. It has a lot of things changed around. It just borrows a couple of things from it. Would you say it's a true Bram Soaker's Dracula adaptation, or would you say it's a Nosferatu like a brand new different version? I mean, what would you say? It's an adaptation. I see why Florence Stoker got upset by it, you know, trying to copy off the book, which had no movie made, so I can see why she's upset. I know they changed some characters around. They changed the location, obviously from, you know, Transylvania, but that origin, they moved like to more of a German origin. Yeah. So I can see why it's an adaptation. They changed some things around story wise. But it works. I think it was great. I, I, so I guess let's go ahead and get into it. I mean, we're like, so we've been back and forth on the original movie and the new one, but your first experience watching this just you've seen all of Robert Ecker's films, right? You've seen which the North man, which I love the lighthouse. I think it's great. I think it's something weird, interesting. I love the whole foot, but I believe this movie was also full screen because looking at the theater, did it feel feel like a full screen format? Oh, yes. That's what I thought it was. Okay. See, I, I, when I was watching it, I could see the bars on the right and left side. I was like, yeah, you can see it squeezed in. This is full screen format, which he likes to use. He did that for lighthouse. I don't think he did that on the witch, but he, I know he, he didn't do it on North man either. But the thing is about all four of his movies now, I saw the witch and I didn't care for it when I first saw it. I gave it a second watch and then a third watch. And now I really appreciate it more to the point where I watch lighthouse and I, the North man, I fucking love like I love the North man. So when I saw the trailer for this and I saw how much Robert Eggers puts into his movies, the details, the research he does for everything, I was excited. Doing a complete remake of Nosferatu was like, this isn't brand. So because directly he's doing his own vampire movie remake, but oh man, visually this movie was beautiful. I, I loved every minute of it. Yeah, so, so how to write them then. Rank the Robert Egger films. Um, North man is going to be number one on my list. Why start number one, start four. I always do that. I don't know why. Okay. I probably do a witch, lighthouse, Nosferatu and the North man. Can I have a strong love for the North man? I, I, I smile so much when I see that movie. I love it so much. And the lighthouse is fun. Nosferatu will be probably one of my favorite or remakes ever made. I think it is beautiful, amazing. I thought Bill Skarsgard was amazing. Bill Skarsgard knocked it out of the park and that fucking voice was so freaking amazing. And the thing is, because you never got to hear Nosferatu's voice because it was a silent film of force. He never knew what he sounded like. Yeah. So obviously, um, Ron's mentioned the North man check out episode 80 for barely to flex. That was a tremendous episode. Hot take goes, uh, Ron Sammy, Ragnar and snow did a fantastic job. So it's fun. So it's fun to hear Ragnar speak, you know, the, uh, the Viking language of the other difficult names. Um, yeah, he did do that. I remember every single time fuel in our form. Yeah. It was something. He didn't add it. Yeah. He doesn't add it. And every single time I was like, Ragnar, you know, he was dead. I remember, I think we also, uh, we reviewed a mead for that one too. That was good. Yeah. That was a very fun episode. So yeah, all his movies, they do a fantastic job. Just the scenery, just the, just the balance they have, the scenery, the amazing cast they have. Um, so yeah, if I'd break them, I'd break the lighthouse, the witch, the North man and Nosferatu. Oh, so Nosferatu's your number one. Oh, yes. Just. So it's funny. Some of the questions I was asking out through the words, I'm like, is this really a Christmas movie? Technically it is. It's a reference. But I'm like, I don't know if I can watch this on Christmas. I can watch this like, you know, the darker days, like December or January, the longer days. Yeah. Well, I was like, I don't know if I can watch this on Christmas. No, technically this, this very much so I could watch any Christmas now because, you know, watch it. You watch it on the day of Christmas. I watched the day after Christmas, but when they have the little scene with the Christmas tree in the background, the old fashioned tree with the candles and everything, I was like, oh, this is a Christmas movie. You know, they always have that thing, you know, like die hard and shit fucking Rambo. It's got a Christmas tree. It's a Christmas movie. So now people can say Nosferatu is a Christmas movie. So that's a good. You reference Bill Scarker as a voice. It took him six weeks of training to raise his voice and other octave up. Yeah. So he'll record his voice and like he said, it was like Mongolian throat exercises that he was doing. Uh huh. That role in that role in the back part of the, um, the, uh, dialogue basically that I don't know how you do it. But it's like a German, but it's like, it was fantastic to hear him do it. It was just amazing. And the fact that you said that, cause I was, I never did the research or the movie. I wanted to make sure if it was actually him doing the voice. It was. That was the, he, he knocked out a part because he's as soon as he, they go up and to the table and they're, you know, he's with the, um, harker, uh, harker, right? Yeah. So even with it, uh, Thomas Hutter, uh, so even the beginning of the movie where he's like, you start the intro with a Kim and, uh, Johnny Depp's daughter. Um, Ellen. Let me roll his debt. I think. Yeah. So, uh, with him speaking, like I heard it get her like, you know, attention, like whatever spell is happening, um, it was fantastic to hear him speaking German. So it was, it was really cool. Oh man. I, I, even the look of him, cause you don't really see him in the beginning of the movie. And like I said, this is full of, um, spoilers right here, spoilers, spoilers. So I'll say it in the description of the episode. So hopefully you guys know that this is all spoilers right here, but the look of him in the beginning, you see it. It's just darkness. You don't see much of his face. And then you start to see him more and more in the movie and the look, Bram Soka's Dracula has always had in the book, uh, a mustache, a mustache, we're actually on Dracula in this, the way they did it. Cause it looked like he had his hair like parted on the side, but he was like bald and you could tell that he was already, he was basically our corpse. That's basically what you'll look like, especially when you see him at the end, when he's laying on top of her, his one, one of his legs is just like basic skeletal, basically to the point. Um, that I did not, I don't know if they, cause in Nosferatu, it mainly the way he looked in Nosferatu if he'd never seen the original, but I suggest it and I recommend you go see it. Um, and definitely see it before the movie, because actually makes it a better, better in my opinion, but he's more of like a white pale face. Have you ever seen the movie shadow of the vampire? Yeah. That's what I wanted to foes in there as well. He plays, uh, that's true. Yeah. Um, basically just a white bald head and he's got like hair behind his ears, like going up, almost like balding stuff type of thing, but like really like tall, uh, you know, very long fingernails and the eyes and then the two buck teeth, uh, basically vampire, like the, uh, the middle almost like Salem slot, but not as overdramatized. Yeah. And this one is more of like a, um, I don't know how to say, you look like an old, old nobleman. Yes. Like a noble person, like so he came from the city in Germany called, uh, Visburg, so then he came to Trent, Sylvania and he was stuck to that was his natural ground. So I love the whole origin. The once in movie, you know, with, uh, Thomas Hutter going through and like you doing his old bit. I, I think this is the first time I've seen a, uh, a vampire go for someone's heart. Have you seen any like other adaptation of that going on? No, no, usually it's always the neck and this one, you see the pinholes right in the chest area of the heart. Yeah. Uh, that's one scene where he's actually on top of him, um, in the castle before he walked, runs, runs out the window and stuff like that getting chased by the wolves. Um, you see his body on top of him. And basically there's like, just, you could hear the, the, the, the gulping sounds are like really intense. You can hear it just like basically like almost like drinking out of a milkshake out of his chest and everything. But no, I've never heard of the heart. I don't, and I don't even recall that in the original. Was that in the original? Two? No. So that was something that they did differently. Yeah. What do you think is better? Am I? Like the neck or the heart is a better place for the, uh, blood, I was, I would think the neck is the arteries right there. It's always flowing. But the, but the neck is more seductive, like this one, Hollywood, you know, Hollywood eyes. Yeah. That they make it more of a seductive for the heart. It's more. I don't know. I mean, I, I, I, I thought it was very interesting in how he did it and I, and the fact is is that it didn't give him life, like it didn't make him more powerful. It didn't make him look any better. He still looked exactly the same. So I thought that was a different interpretation of it. Like, do you feel like his look was better than what they have made Hollywood, Hollywood eyes, all the other Dracula's and vampires and other movies where they've made them all like slick hair and beautiful and sexy and stuff like that. This guy was, which I actually remember reading reviews and very gross, very disgusting, not, a, a good looking vampire. So yeah, so according to, yeah, to like vampire folklore, some vampires, they go for your heart. Really? So yeah, it's the, there's different, that's the two different versions, but yeah, that's the first I ever seen on the big screen. Well, then Robert Eggers probably did his research finding that himself to put that in the movie because that's one thing Robert Eggers is really known for is putting a lot of research into his movies, just everything, especially with the Romanian village and the, that the business where he goes to kind of relax castle and everything. The gypsies. I love that whole scene, like cooperating them just to give you like that feel it's like that, you know, the universal movies, you know, the wolf man and obviously scenes with Dracula, the werewolves, but I love that whole connection that felt whole to me. What did you think of the, the gothic, like the, the look of the castle, especially that scene where it's showing them going to the castle kind of reminded me of Bram Soaker's Dracula Gary Omen's version, where you see the castle in the background. Did you think that was, and also the color of the film. That's another thing I want to ask about. But what did you think of the castle? Oh, the castle was authentic. It was a hun, hun Dura castle. This were Vlad the Impaler was held prisoner. Mm hmm. That's an authentic castle and where is it remaining in Castle in Transylvania. Check that location on purpose and it, it fit the movie perfectly. And the tone over us, the tone of the movie. They did a fantastic job. I mean, he took the original and made it a thousand times better just capturing the shadows. Even though there is some color is almost a black and white film, but just to capture the shadows and like him moving through, you don't have to see the whole bat flying and shit. But I mean, just him the evil, the evil spreading and just the rats and the plague and just that symbolism of death coming. It was fantastic. Yeah. See that, that when you say that the movie is almost black and white, I can understand what you're saying, because a lot of other movies done that where it's basically almost like a filter like Sleepy Hollow does it. Yeah. Squeen tide where it's basically, it's color, but it's, it's like a black and white color but it's, it's like very, very mid color. I don't want to say like a more weaker of the brighter colors and making it more like a dark grayish color. But what I loved about it is that it had a lot of blues. There was a lot of blues in there. There was a lot of grays and blacks. It fit just like the tinted version of the original in my opinion. And wasn't any like brightness and everything else? There was some scenes, I don't know how your theater is where it was hard to see. Like it was so dark. It was hard to see. Not at all. Yeah. And then maybe our theater is not as good because there, there were some scenes where I was like squinting at the screen. I even had my glasses on and I was still having a hard time seeing it. And I know in watching it, when it comes out digitally, I'll watch on my TV. I'll probably see a little bit of difference, but I don't know if your theater has a difference in the way that does that, but there were scenes that were very rough and hard to see. So, nope. Not at all. Thank God. Are we a bad theater than that I have? You got it. I need to come to your place and go to a movie at one point, especially when you got history playing in the beginning before to the movie that relates to the movie. That's pretty fucking neat. Oh, every movie that do that. I mean, whether the main character, his pirate movies or if it's a big movie like this, they'll go into deep history. It's amazing. Yeah. What did you think of Aaron Taylor Johnson? I love how he's getting his run now fantastic actor just a few months. I mean, he has Craven Hunter out. That's indeed yours. He just has this coming out. He's a 28 years later, 28 years later. Yeah. You're right. The one he's on. I mean, he's an amazing actor. I'm so happy for him. Okay. Before this was what? Bullet train. He was good. Yeah. He was great in that. Yeah, that is only and you probably disagree with me for what I can tell you already do. That's the only part that bothered me in this movie was there was some scenes where I felt his acting was a little rough. That's the only thing that bothered me. I remember walking out with Sammy on this and there were some scenes where it's just his acting didn't work for me on certain scenes like when he was arguing with Willem DeFoe's character and everything else, the professor and also before he basically went to the cemetery to see his wife, his dead wife in the coffin and everything, his acting was a little rough and everybody else was great. I wouldn't say it's like like very bad, but you wouldn't agree. You thought his acting was great for this? That's fantastic. He was playing his character. He got into his character mode. He was a father and a husband. He was a shipman, so he played that part well, being of wealth. He came from wealth. He had money. He had a big house, the surf and stuff like that. I loved it. Have you seen that movie, "The Void to the Demeterror," the ship movie recently? No, I've never seen that one. The part with the boat, I love that scene. It was better than that whole entire movie except for like "Dismasstion." He was not moving. That's the best part of it for me. But the entire movie is on the boat where Nosferatu is coming to England or coming to Germany. Oh, okay. I heard you wrong. You talking about "The Last Void to the Demeter?" Yeah. Oh, yes. I did see that. I did see that. I thought you were talking about something else. I thought I heard you wrong. No. I did see that. I actually watched that. I'd say probably the beginning of December. I remember I downloaded and watched it and me and Sam, you both watched it and I thought it was okay. I thought it was good. Not as good as this. This was by far better. I thought that the ending would drag you at the end when you see them inside the restaurant or everything else with the cane and everything. I thought that was really cool. It kind of made me want to say, "God damn it. I know this movie is just about that little sentence in the book, but I wish you continue to see what happens and goes on." Exactly. But Nicholas Holt, though, see, I think you say how Aaron Taylor Johnson's rose from him. I've ever since the first movie I saw him in, which was "Mad Max Furry Road." And now I see him in just about every single movie. I know he's in some other movie called "Warm Bodies" or something like that, where it's like a... The zombie love story. The zombie love story. Sorry. Zombie. I've never seen it. But I heard that that was... Is it good? No. I haven't seen it either. Oh, okay. I've only seen a trailer. Like, I more know him from at the Beast in X-Men Origins. Yes. Oh, so there's another X-Men or another person in here from Deadpool vs. Wolverine? I know. Good old Cassandra Nova. Yeah. Well, the thing is, when I watched this movie in the theatre, I was like, "God damn it. How the fuck do I know who this chick is?" Like, she looks so fucking familiar. And I was like, watching the movie all throughout. I was like, "Man, she's pretty. I mean, you're blonde here and everything else." And then I looked on lines like, "Oh, she's a bald chick in Deadpool vs. Wolverine." I was like, "I can... Okay. Now I see it." I was like trying to figure out where she came from, but I thought she did a very good job. It was... Her fucking death sucked, though. You know, eating all the rats on her and everything? Yeah. You know, for a second, I thought she was Elizabeth Moss. Elizabeth Moss. Elizabeth Moss. Elizabeth Moss. Why is that familiar to me? The visible man. She's in the housemaid's tail. Oh, yeah. I know... Yeah. I could see that. I could see the resemblance. Yeah. She was also... I believe she was also in "Get him to the Greek." She was the girlfriend to Jonah Hill from "Get him to the Greek." I don't know if you've ever seen that. Oh, yeah. But no, the other actor's "Womblafoe" is always great. The other actor that I really enjoyed, you probably have the name in front of you because I don't have my phone in front of me, but he was also in "The Witch." He's also... I think he's also been cast as Galactus, I believe. Yes. He's also... Yeah, "The Witch." He's been in... No, he wasn't in "The Northmen." He wasn't in "The Northmen." He wasn't in "The Northmen." I don't think he was in "The Northmen." So... Ralph. In... Innocent? Yes. Yeah. The "Green Knight." I don't know if you've seen that one. I've seen bits and pieces of it. I heard mixed things about it. I just never finished it. I never got to finishing it. I heard... The remake... The remake of the first "Illman." That's why I last saw him in. Okay. I see. I've seen him in a lot of other movies. I remember he was also in "First Knight," the Sean Connery and Richard Gere. Yeah. I don't know if you remember that movie. He was in that. That was the first movie I saw him in, but I really enjoyed him as kind of like the protege to "Womblafoe," the professor and everything. I enjoyed his character, but he's also just got a great voice. I love his voice in the movies that he's done because he was great in "The Witch," and now knowing that he's going to play Galactus, I think they'll work out pretty good. I don't know the Galactus character. I know he's a very big Marvel character, but... Oh, yes. Big bad. Yeah. So, another choice is, like I said, Bill Skarsgard, that guy is just fucking all over Hollywood now. It is just crazy how much he rose from being in Stephen King's hit to being in the John Wick movies to being in this. And then he was also in the movie. I'm sure you've seen "Barberian," which everybody thought he was the villain, and he really wasn't. I'm darn sorry. I'm fucking enough for everybody. Whoever sees that movie, I'm going to erase that. What do you think of... What do you think of the crowd remake of "The White Hills World?" I don't care to see that whatsoever. You didn't see it, did you? No. Are you going to? I mean, from being a movie critic, I figured you'd want to watch it. We can do a bad review on it and see how bad it really is. The day it's on streaming, and I have a ton of liquor. I will drink it. When it's free and easy to watch, oh, that's great. But I remember the first show he was on, a show called Hemlock Grove, where he was the vampire in that TV show? No shit. I didn't know he was a vampire in that. It's crazy because the scar's guards, it's just... I don't know what it is, but he's just... His acting is legit. Like he said, the conor luck, doing that voice, like you said, with the voice coaching and everything else. I didn't think it was him. I thought it was somebody else doing his voice, and the fact that you're saying he's doing that voice makes me love him even more and figure out that the casting for him was perfect. You feel like he was great casting for that role? A thousand percent. I mean, his dedication to anything, like him, just for his mindset, I watched an interview where he said, "Yeah, I'm done playing this kind of evil character. I don't want to go to that death of her again." You know, from Pennywise the Clown to this, it was like, "Yeah, I don't want to do that again." No, he said that this movie actually truly scared him being this character, but did you hear the gift that he gave to Nicholas Holt? No. Oh, yeah. It was all over social media. I saw it today. I was like, "I'm going to bring it up on the show." So Nicholas Holt got a framed piece of the cock piece that he wore, framed as a gift from a Bill Skarsgard, the fake dick, basically, because you actually see him rise out of the coffin, which I thought the coffin was beautiful. I thought the coffin looked great, very tall and very narrow. I really like how the coffin looked, but yeah, that was a little gift to Nicholas Holt, and he's got a picture of him wearing his costume, smiling a whole weekend right here. Yeah, look up online, you'll see what I'm talking about. And then I thought the score was beautiful, too. I thought the score to this movie is great. I thought everything about this movie was so good for a gothic. See, a lot of people say this is an art house film. Would you say this is an art house film? Art house, you mean, like A24? No, like art house, like basically like very artsy, very like if some people are not into it, it's not for everybody type of deal. No. This is a perfect gothic horror movie. It uses the scenery to make the movie even better. The cast was amazing storytelling. It's almost a perfect movie. Now, what scenes would you say? Is there anything in the movie you did not like, or that you felt like a flaw? Like I already told you my flaw that I thought was the acting of Aaron Tilland Johnson, and I thought that some of his acting was a little rough on it. Was there anything in this movie negative that you have to say? I mean, not unless you think this is a completely perfect film? No. I wish I got more. I was a little confused, I have to watch it again, but like the whole origin of the Ellen Hunter bringing Nosferatu to life. That whole scene where he's staying his love for her and like how he, she saved him, she brought him back. I was, it left me wondering like, wait, how? Like where? Is this a prequel to something else now? So that's one part I was confused by and like, but I guess that's about it right now. I can think of right now, top of my head. See that scene right there. I think that's when you think of a remake, a remake is not going to be a complete remake. It's going to have stuff added to it to add to it. You know, people don't want to see the same thing. There's some new stuff added to it. There's going to be stuff that's been taken out, like the whole story about her knock. Basically the guy that went crazy that sent him over to, to counter lock so he can repurchase his land and everything. In the original, I remember him being chased and being thought that he was the vampire and that he was killing everybody. And this one, that wasn't the effect. He left the, he escaped the asylum and then he ended up going to his master counter lock, which that wasn't in the original. They never got to exist with each other. They never got to talk to each other, basically. You can tell that they changed things on that basically where a hair knock was sitting in the coffin that they thought that counter lock was in. That wasn't in the original. The original, they were hunting him down like they thought that he was the part of the plague, that he was the one that was killing and murdering everybody. Yeah. Did you notice the difference in that? I liked it. It was a different change to the pace of the story, how the, how the space, the movie was going. I, I enjoyed that whole different part to it. I, I was looking at the composer of it, Robin Carlin, he also did Salem's lot. But yeah, that was, he's a composer. I'm like, wait, who was the composer? I missed that. He's on the limit of Salem's lot. Yeah. The one that was, that came on streaming. Okay. Got you. Um, but no, I like the different variations of, you know, the, the knock character having all the satanic stuff there, him, whatever, Dilly had with Nosferatu. And I appreciate that storyline being different. And like, you know, obviously, Eggers, like taking so much of a historical facts, like the folklore and stuff like that and bringing a story and making it pace well. I appreciate that. So I didn't care for the difference. Yeah. That scene we're, they're looking inside the book and they see that picture with the beast on top of the, you know, the, the woman laying in bed, naked in bed and the beast on top. I was like, this is going to be a scene. This is something that's going to happen. Yeah. The death of Nosferatu at the end, I thought was, okay, in the original, what happens? Stay light. He walks to the window and it says shot where he's just putting his hand up and then he just disappears. Simple and easy. He disappears. The light kills them. Just like light would kill any vampire. This one was actually more, more dramatic because he's on top of her, you know, she's naked. He's sucking him based on her heart, he's on top of her and then when the sun comes, he knows it's coming. And then she kind of just pulls and just keep suck, basically keep your feeding on her and he's going for it. And then he looks at it and you just see his eyes roll back white and you just see him just die. But he doesn't fade. He doesn't turn to ash or anything like that. He just dies and just falls right. His body just falls on her, which I thought was very different for a vampire because most vampires, they, you know, they, you know, evaporate, blow up and turn to ash. He just basically just died. His life force left. Yes. I actually like that version better than other ones when it comes to vampires because I think it's been overused too much. I mean, you can't remember like blade movies, they fucking explode and turn to little skeletons, everything else. I mean, it's something that's cool and everything. But this one just seemed more realistic in a way, I guess, the way that he died. And seeing his eyes roll back white, oh, and plus you got to see him in the light like perfect. And it was just like, I thought the look of him was great. I thought he was actually a really, it was a very different take on the Nosferatu care to compare to the original one being just like a white. And you've seen the Warner Herzog version, right? Yeah. So I didn't watch it, but I went on YouTube to look at scenes from it. And I know Warner Herzog directed it and everything else, but it's done by an actor that's got big eyes and everything else. It looked like a complete remake of the original. How is it compared to this? I'm just curious. Because if you said you've seen all the way through, what do you think of that one? So yeah, Joe Bob Briggs last year. He did. Yeah. It was a back-to-back feature. Did Nosferatu, the 22 since 100 years old, then he did the Herzog remake and that was in 1978. So I love when I watch a movie and you watch it and then he breaks it down afterwards. He'll have like an actor or like more stuff in that background that's going on, why it was ripped off from Nosferatu and stuff like that. But it's pretty much a German remake of it, trying to give more appreciation to it. I mean, it's okay. It's not the best movie, but it's not bad. Is that one like a shot-for-shot remake though? Is there any added scenes or is this basic shot-for-shot remake of the original? I'd say about 90% shot-for-shot. There's a few other creative interpretations. Okay. Okay. What did you think? The one thing that I also was a little sad about in this movie that I wish they would have added more is more of being on the ship. They didn't really show that much on the ship. And I was hoping they would show like an iconic scene, like a scene where would she see a character or being the shadow like over the from underneath looking at the top where he's like walking the deck of the boat and stuff like that because they did that in the original. I was curious if they're going to do it in this one and he didn't even bother with that. In fact, it didn't even bother with him, his coffins going on the raft and everything else. It was all of a sudden just on the boat, like there were some scenes where it just like jumped right way too fast to another scene. So that's why I have a little, you know, flaw that I wish that they would have fixed. I think the pacing went a little too fast on things. I think they should have drawn it out more, but I don't know. This movie didn't seem that long. Do you feel like this movie seemed long to you or do you feel like it was a perfect length? I think it was two hours and 16 minutes. I believe so. It was two or two, two hours or twelve minutes. It did feel long to me. It did feel long to me, but I appreciated it. Like there were some parts where I felt like it like slowed down way too much. I was like, like, wow, I was like, my head thinking, what time is it? Like how much more is left, like what's what's left to remain? Yeah. But it didn't bother me from the movie. I enjoyed it. I would imagine if there's ever a director's cut, who knows, it could be over three hours long. I definitely still watch it. Oh, I mean, I agree with you on that. I like director's cuts. I like extended cuts. A lot of people don't like long movies. I do. I don't mind it. To me, it didn't feel, I felt like there could have been more to it. But I wish they would have, like I said, the whole day with the ship and everything. But I think the original is only like 80 minutes. It's like 80 or 70 minutes or something like that. I wonder if you had the runtime of the original. I think it's like 70 or 80 minutes. One hour and 21 minutes. What was that? One hour and 21 minutes. So 81 minutes. Yeah. So about the same. Yeah, that's what I thought about 81 minutes, which a lot of silent films were actually shorter than that. It was pretty long for its time, but because you got to remember all the scenes when they're playing every single piece of subtitle, it's usually lasting on the screen because it's usually like a long paragraph, it could be there for almost like a solid 30, 40 seconds or something like that. So you make sure you get it all. But I did like how the original movie had like the act one, act two, act three, act four. That could have been cool if they added that into that, but added that into this. But I'm surprised they didn't. I'm Robert Eggers. I figured that he might have added that into it, but no, I guess, would you have minded if that was in there or not didn't need it didn't need it because what are what the purpose what to give a pause for the audience to collect your breaths. I don't know. I mean, what's why did they do it in the past for the just like a chapter marker, basically. I mean, that's basically what it is, but like some of the movies back then, like the audience had a break or something like that, it feels like you got an intermission. Yeah, intermission, basically the intermission, the whole purpose of that was so people can go use the bathroom, go get themselves a snack or something like that. It's usually on the long like medical movies or three, four hours because movies back in the 60s and 50s were like four hours to three hours long. I mean, they were expansive and to the point where even Oliver Stone put an intermission in his Alexander movie, the his long final cut to make it feel like the old films from the 50s and 60s and stuff like that. Although the intermission in that movie is only like 30 seconds long, it's not like where it's like two or three minutes where it plays like a long whole piece score and stuff like that. So any other things you want to talk about this movie, any other things that you think about that you enjoyed or did not enjoy or the special effects, I thought were great. I thought that the the special effects were beautiful. I mean, I thought the rats, they did really well with the rats there. You couldn't tell much CGI in this movie. It looked a lot very practical and a lot of things. I don't know. Robert Douglas doesn't really use that much CGI in his movies from what I've seen. No. So the budget was about like less than 50 million. It's just not a bad budget actually. I hope this movie makes money so far in what two days it's made almost 20 million. It's a shocking for Christmas day. I know. It's like, unless you're hit your family, she would get away from that. Yeah, I wouldn't go see it on Christmas day. You did it. I saw it the day after Christmas, but the theater was packed for what I saw. I mean, other than waiting for 40 minutes, I don't know how many shows they did. But I think this movie, hopefully word of mouth, word of mouth happens and people go save this weekend. See, that's what I just said word of mouth. People might say that if you're expecting a Bram Soker's director of a movie, don't see it because I've seen people say that online already where it's like people are expecting like a nice romantic because this is a Gothic romance. And in a different way, people are expecting something very beautiful and very dark and you know, horrifying. And that's not what this movie is. This is a remake of the original. And I will tell people in this review that we're doing right here, see the original before you watch this movie, see the original, it's, I think it will change your opinion. If you see this out of the blue with not watching the original, I don't think I think a lot of people are not going to like it. That's just what my opinion. I think this is not a movie for everybody, but I could be wrong. But I do think seeing the original does help raise the opinion level on this movie. I could see how I see why as well. But so the Bram Stoker's Dracula is what the runtime is two hours and seven minutes long. You're talking about the Gary Oldman version? Yeah. Yeah. I love that movie. Even though I picked that movie and everybody hated me for pick it because I ruined it apparently for everybody. Because they watched, oh, yeah, I don't know if you ever listened to that episode. That was our, one of our Halloween episodes, our bloodbath episodes where we did a lot of vampires and I picked Bram Stoker's Dracula and Stu and even Ragnar was saying, oh, that's a good movie. I'm looking forward to doing that. And then after they watched the movie and did the review, they're like, I hate you, Ron. I hate you. I was like, why? Because this movie is stupid. Like they hated it, watching it a second time. What is your opinion about it? Are you a fan of Bram Stoker's Dracula? I have to watch it again. Oh, see, yeah, you've listened to that review. I got so much hate for making everybody watch that movie. At this age, they hated it this time because I thought it was not a good movie. So our fans, that's episode 111. Thank you. Yeah, that was, that was a fun one that was, I remember we did absolutely for the drink too. That was a, that was a fun episode. But yeah, I got, I got a lot of hate for that one. I personally liked that movie. I even like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with directed by Kenneth Bra with Robert De Niro as Frankenstein. Wow. I enjoy it. I don't, I don't, some people may, I think it's a very good adaptation, which I'm excited as fuck for Guillermo de Toro's version of Frankenstein. I, I'm, I'm looking forward to seeing that in the theater. I will see that in the theater, most likely. So, um, which actually at the end of this episode, I want you to give me your top five films that you most anticipating, by the way, for next year. Okay. Okay. If you can. I'll put it down. I'll give you a review. Yeah. See, I, I, I, I, cause I, we did an episode and I feel like if I want to hear what your top five films that you'd like to see because there's a lot of different films coming out. I mean, you're really curious about yours. So, um, other than that, yeah, I think, uh, I think we pretty much, pretty much nailed this out. So what do you think, uh, you ready for the review? The part reviews on this one, you go first. So I got, I got to type out my top five. Okay. All right. And you're going to make me go first because I wanted to hear yours first. All right. You asked me this question. I wasn't prepared for. Yeah, I know. I know. I should have asked you prior to. So I, maybe I should take a punishment shot for that because I didn't really give you the, uh, the time to research that, um, no, for this movie for, uh, no spot to the enjoyment for this movie is going to be a five. Believe it or not, it is a five. I, I love horror films. I think that, uh, I really like gothic romance, gothic horror films, gothic anything. I mean, I, you know, when it comes to like sleepy hollow, when it comes to, uh, uh, movies with that, you know, the dark undertones, the nice shadowy effects, the, the beautiful music and everything else, but it's horror. I really enjoy that. I even like Phantom of the Opera, which is a musical. I don't mind that one. And it is a gothic romance. But, uh, this is, to me, the, the visuals, the, uh, the directed, the direction Robert Douglas direction has never, never failed me so far. And I've enjoyed all four of his movies. I'm looking forward to whatever he does next for his fifth movie. And the fact he's the only, he's got five movies on his filmography and the fact that they've all been great, just well reviewed and done so well. But I thought that all the acting in this movie, other than Aaron Taylor Johnson, there's the only little flaw, but it doesn't take away from movie for me. And just, I just noticed, he's like, eh, not as good. But, uh, overall, everybody else was just amazing. Wanda Foe was wonderful. Um, Bill Scarsgaard nailed it as a counter lock. I thought the, the sound in this movie, especially like the gulping effects when he, when he's sucking on the blood of his, uh, victims and everything, um, the, uh, everything about this movie is pure, I mean, gorgeous. I love it. I think this was, I was very happy watching this, like sitting in the movie theater and looking at the screen and smiling basically, when I am smiling, watching a movie, I'm enjoying the hell out of it. And I'm glad to add this to one of my favorites for my critical for this movie though. I would probably give this, see, I wanted to give this a five and I'm still tempted on doing it because of the acting of Aaron Taylor Johnson, but I also said that it doesn't take it away from me because to me, like North man was a five out of five and even lighthouse is a five out of five. His direction is so great that I, there's really nothing to nitpick. I mean, we've nitpicked a little bit here on the, you know, the pacing on some things being a little slow here and there, uh, some scenes I felt like I kind of wanted to see in there that were taken from the original, uh, but altogether it still worked out and it still was a well done movie, um, and I don't know, it's kind of hard to nitpick this. So that's why I don't think I can get, I'm still tempted. You know what? Screw it. I'm giving it a five. It's going to be a five critical. I think, uh, the stuff that's in it and a lot of people say that it's a perfect, a perfect movie has to be a five for critical, but the thing is, is there could be something and if it doesn't take away from it, it just, it gets to you, but it doesn't take away from the film, then I'm not going to, I'm not going to ding it for that. So I will give it a five for critical and a five for enjoyment, which I don't know. I'm probably going to get a lot of shit for it, but it's a beautiful movie. And I look forward to watching it again to the point where I'd like to go to the theater and see it again. I actually want to go to the alimony and see it and see what this, you know, the history stuff that you play in the beginning because someday I'm going to have to come over there to get on with you and see it. So I'm going to go ahead and make it happen. It's only like, it's like what an hour from your house? It's about 45 minutes. I pass through there many times when I used to work for Watsontown. I wasn't that, that wasn't too far out. It's the same distance from my house. Oh yeah, which is about an hour or 40, 40 minutes, about 45 minutes. Yeah. So it shouldn't be too bad. I take all the back roads and stuff like that. I know, I already know the back roads to get over there route 17. So yeah, I definitely, I take happen, huh? That's the way I take to get into your house. I just wish that some of the movies that you have that are released like on a Saturday or a Sunday. I wish it was like on a Saturday. It's always during the week. It's like a cinema. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I, because you've told me of so many movies that I missed. I think the thing, I think it was alien, I believe that I missed. It was alien. And I think, well, wasn't it like Star Trek II, Rat the Con or something like that? I remember? Oh yeah. We wish it a lot. Yeah. I would love to see that in the theater because that's, that's one of my favorite Star Trek movies right there. But I need to get out there. I just wish we'd be on a Saturday. But you know what, there's, I have a feeling I'm going to have a lot more free Fridays now. So, but we'll, we'll figure it out because I, I still want you to let me know the schedule so I can see something because I would love to go see a movie with you over there, man. Oh, we'll see that to you. All right. So let's go ahead and get to your review. Well, first, my top five 25 movies for the next year. Oh, I figured you would say that. I'll start it now. So I am excited to see moral combat too. I, I'm very much looking forward to tournament actually starting to have me, it's gonna be fun to be watching. Like God bless. This was bad. Then, then finally, so the tournament, that should be fun. So I hope it's good. Fantastic four. I have a soft spot for the, the first family of Marvel, but I'm a deep combo nerd stew. And I had that kinship, I'm very, oh, I'm surprised because you said that you really weren't excited about many of the MCU films. I'm excited for this one. Just keeping my, I have to keep my excitement even keel. I'm excited for the cast. I'm curious of like, you've seen the origin twice now. So I'm curious to see how they take this because most of the fan base, they know the origin. So let's just get right to it. Do you got this right? I know they have a female, female doing silver surfer to a silver surfer. So I'm like, who I can hopefully let that slide by me because there is, there is a comic version where she is a female or silver surfer is a female. So I mean, unless you're a comic book nerd or hear it through whatever channel, and we'll see what happens. Hopefully it's made good. I'm familiar here. There's a female version of almost every other character out there. I'm sure they have like a different gender of every character is in a comic book world. So there's so many comics out there. The monkey. I'm excited to see that movie. The Stephen King adaption. I never heard of that one. Yeah. Um, it's one of his short stories he wrote, Stephen King. Is that the one with the monkey that does this? Yeah. Okay. Okay. So like one of those like, it kind of goes into the conjuring, like he'll have those like uh, haunted items that have like that spiritual connection energy. Yeah. Yeah. So it goes into that. So I'm excited for that. Um, and then ballerina, the John Wick legacy, you know, that next chapter, I was very excited about that one. Oh, I was excited to see, um, Amadir Anna Derimas, you know, her acting, like it's grown so much. And like she can pull off the action stunts. I mean, she's dedicated to the role. I love her. I enjoyed it. I loved her in Blade Runner 2029. Yeah. She was great in that. So yeah, same as the last Bond movie. Um, the first one, I'd say I, I, I personally love this movie, uh, nobody to I'm excited for that one. Okay. Okay. And a couple of people say that one too, uh, the big favorite of everybody was Mickey 17. Really? Mm hmm. Yeah. The Robert Pattison movie. Yeah. I John. Yeah. He also directed the snow piercer, which I love. And he also did, um, uh, to silent night. That was very silent night. Yeah. But you also did another one that won an Oscar. I forgot what it was called, uh, parasite parasite. Yeah. He did parasite also. Good. That's a good list. Good list. I'm a little shocked by the, uh, uh, fantastic for, I mean, I, I was, I want to see the thunderbolts. I didn't have it on a list, but I'm still kind of curious about that. They're going to fuck that up. It's going to piss me off. Well, they do the century. So, but what if they make it good? What if it? I'll still see it, but I'm, uh, because yeah, Superman was like number six, because I could, like, I have so many different questions without moving like what earth is this on and like all these, why you have Mr. Terrific. Nobody knows who he is. And you've that retarded, uh, green lantern. Yeah. The one with the bowl cut. Yes. And it's brilliant. Yeah. I saw the picture and it showed the, like it showed the comic book characters next to the movie character. Like the Mr. I've never heard of Mr. Terrific. I don't even know what the fuck that is. And, uh, but the green lantern core, but the guy's got like a fucking weird ass bowl cut. It's like, and, but it's actually looks like that in the comics, like this is going to be weird. It's a fucking dog. I don't understand the dog. I, I don't know. I don't read comics. I don't know. I didn't know that there was a dog for Superman. So, uh, yeah, crypto, this is a dog for Batman too. What? There is? Yes. I don't know. There was a bat dog. Yeah. Is this like in the cheesier comics or was this in the, it's more on the, uh, Batman Beyond storyline? Oh, okay. Okay. Well, that's probably different because that's more of a kid. And that's a teenager being trained by Bruce Wayne. I think. Yeah. Um, so I'll say that for a different rant later. Um, well, let's go ahead and review this movie. So I, I, I love this movie. It has so much watchable, um, value to it. I, I could watch this. This is a, this will go my, my rotation probably December. I don't know if I could watch it on Christmas again. Oh, come on. Even for Christmas. You saw it on Christmas. You might as well make a tradition of it. Yeah. I'll do my best as a late night feature, but, uh, get wanted with the kids. My son, my son, he's desperate to watch it. He was begging, begging for him to come with us. Um, he's only eight years old, but he's, he can handle it. He, um, it's, I gotta keep his innocence, but yeah, he's begging me to watch other movies asking what to watch next. Yeah. Um, yeah, it probably will be a Christmas tradition now, but, okay, you were. You're going to be able to speak for your birthday, you might as well have an us for watching for Christmas. Yeah. Um, I'm going to listen with you. So yeah, I'm going to give this movie a solid, you know, five for enjoyment, just a buildup to it. I, I own purpose, uh, avoid watching trailers or watching. I'll watch the teaser trailer just to get the feel for it, just to suck me in. Yeah. But then I, I want to keep my excitement, like even keel or just thought to go way too high. Don't have my hopes down. Um, I'll never forget and write exports. You said, oh, it was Bill Scarskart. I'm like, what? Yeah. I was just about to bring that up and you brought it up. I, and you were pissed off and he was like, why did you tell me that? So I ain't told my, I ain't told my wife that she, as we walk out of the theater, she's like, that was Bill Scarskart. I'm like, I know I didn't tell you on purpose. Yeah. Um, you don't even notice it though. You don't see Bill Scarskart's face. It's very hard to tell that it's him. The makeup was very heavy. Oh, yes. Um, so it's a fire for enjoyment. I love the modern re-imagining of the Silent Horror Classic, you know, it's a feast for your senses, the masterclassmen filmmaking, in my opinion. Just the, the effort and the, the joy, like the, the care that Eggers puts into this, just the methodical approach of making sure you keep that gothic, you know, that, that black and white. But you said earlier with the different tones and just the, the different types of different colors that make it look like that way. It's the highlight, the emphasize, all the shadows was tremendous. Um, it stays true, in my opinion, yeah, it's a few things missing, but yeah, I'm happy they didn't do a shot for shot remake of, you know, the original mass faratu, but it's a, it gets a, it enhances the eerie suspense and like you can feel, I don't know, just the death coming for everybody when you, you know, um, he is coming, you know, he's here, like you could just feel the urgency from the people like they, they were scared to death. It was a plague. People were dying left and right in the streets. It was, yeah, fantastic to see just the authentic, like dresses, just the authentic feel of just the filmmaking, the locations of the film. Yeah. Um, just, yeah, just to go back to the enjoyment from the first frame, it, it, it grips you, like you don't know where it's going to go. It's like almost an original IP. It just feels, it just feels, they'll keep you at your seat the entire story. Um, I have to be, we've highlighted Bill Skars guard, you just just unforgettable performances court, kind of our lock, um, it's a creeping dread, keeping, creeping dead dread and dark beauty. It's just a beautiful balance of both. Um, I just love that part of the story, um, it does the most important thing. It doesn't rely on cheap jumpscares or cheap scares. I love that. It just, it's a slow burn to the shadowy, shadowy embrace of the whole storyline. I love that. Well, the thing is about this movie is the, the scare effects in this movie where they say that this movie is horrifying and stuff like that. There wasn't any. Yeah. But you can tell that like the whole, the demon possession, which I didn't even think about, uh, talking about the demons possession part, I can see that scaring other people. This movie didn't scare me at all, but it, it's, I think it's a very deeply horrifying film. I think it's a good horrifying, uh, feel to it. Yeah. The jumpscares. I don't like jumpscares. I, I think people are just, you know, they go to movies to get a jumpscare. No, I, I like it for the story. So. Thank you. Happy. Got that reaction at you. No, no cheap scares. It's, it's authentic. Authentic dread. Um, so critically, I, I give it a five as well. I know I'm trapped in the moment. I can't wait to watch this movie again, but, uh, it was a five. I, um, I left the movie theater just happy like I'm like, I hope this movie does well. I hope Eggers gets, um, to keep doing what he loves doing, like he puts so much heart into this, um, just as meticulous attention to detail. That's, I just love it from the lighthouse, the witch, the north men. I, I fucking love it. Just a period accurate costumes, just the atmosphere is just done so beautifully, just the attention to detail, it's crafted with care, um, it's, it's a, it's a layered work of art. I love that. There's so much layer. This is the horror trope. There's so much layers of the love story, you know, death and this, the dread, there's so much layer to it. I, I just love that. Um, so yeah, quickly, five and Germans are five. I think ultimately the, this movie honors the original movie and it kind of stands in his own masterpiece as well. Yeah. And, um, but yeah, I think it's a movie. People should go see, I hope people will see, I hope the word of mouth really does work. And, um, lastly, fuck Florence Stoker. Well, the funny thing is, is that I told, um, snow texted me and asked me, um, how was it? I told her it was a very beautiful remake of the original movie. And I think it was a great, but you might not like it, but it, to me, it's worth seeing and they're going to go see it on Monday or Tuesday. So I'm curious to hear what their response is to it, but I will tell a lot of people who asked me about this movie and I'm saying it in the show, see the original, see the original. I think he'll help your opinion about this movie even more. If you're going in thinking, cause I think a lot of people are going into thinking that's just a Dracula movie remade and it's not that at all. Cause there's a lot of things changed. Yes, it borrows a lot, but I feel like this is worthwhile and I think this is a perfect theater movie. I, I've read a lot of reviews online, uh, when I came home after seeing this and noticed that a lot of people thought it was dull, it was boring, it was too long. It was like, oh, it was fucking perfect. I thought it was great. Then you just don't fucking, uh, um, uh, enjoy movies the way they should be that this was a good retelling of, uh, the original Nosferatu, uh, 1922 classic. I thought it was great. And it's a different story. And I love the fact that takes days in Germany, you know, do you have this Transylvania for Ramsoka's Dracula and it's not the slick vampire. It's not, it's, it's something different. It's a, it's almost like a beastly character, but still horrifying, but also still romantic in the same way, you know, and his, the fucking voice is awesome. I, yeah. Sorry, I'm getting more back into my review again, but the fact that we both gave this a five out of five, that's fucking great. So we both recommend this movie. So all right. So I guess that is the end of our episode for, uh, Nosferatu. We definitely me and Goop both recommend this. I hope you guys enjoyed this little hot take on it. And we will see you guys later. 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