Can I interest you in some movie talk? Perhaps...a Count/Pointercount review of "Alien: Romulus" with a bonus chaser of "Borderlands" slander? Well, do El'Ahrai and John have a show for you! There's also some talk about the apparent resurrection of one of the most notorious films of the past 60 years, and...I dunno, a DVD gets mentioned. So listen in! Like sauerkraut, it's good for you! You do things someone else's way and you take your life into your own hands.
The Neon Movie Bunker
The Neon Movie Bunker -- Episode 357
(upbeat music) - Welcome to another episode on Neon Movie Bunker. I'm John Robinson. - And I'm L.R.A. Stanek. - And we're here to talk about movies. - And clowns. - And in this case, movie about a clown. - Yes. - Perhaps the most notoriously vaulted picture of all time is Jerry Lewis's 1972 feature "The Day the Clown Cryed." - Yeah. - Which soon will be available through the Library of Congress. But that's not the only news on the day the clown cryed front. Deadline reports, "The Day the Clown Cryed" is getting another chance at the big screen. Rewritten by Jerry Lewis, who started and directed a 1972 feature drama that went unfinished and then released, the script for the Holocaust Tales being revived by K. Jam and Media founder, Kia Jam. Jam has been part of the financing and producing of films ranging from the killing game to in the heart of the sea, since he had been able to kill four and numerous others. Jam said he has executed a purchase agreement on the original script by John O'Brien and Charles Denton. Lewis took a hand in reshaping it as a starring and directing vehicle. Jam is going back to the original screenplay. He has said he has production financing and the next step is to secure a filmmaker with the guts to tell a most harrowing story. Lewis disavowed the film and did his best to make sure it ever got released, probably because of a combination of rights issues and an outcry over the audacity of the iconic actor, setting a film in the concentration camps involving the deaths of Jewish children at the hands of the Nazis in World War II. He was accused of unabashedly chasing an Oscar. Lewis starred as helmet Dork, D-O-O-R-K, Dork, a failing German circus clown long past the days when he was a famous performer touring North America in Europe as part of the Ringling Brothers Circus. Things get worse when he is overheard drunkenly mocking Hitler in a bar. He's turned over to the Gestapo and imprisoned in a Nazi camp for political prisoners. There he finds an outlet for his talents, entertaining the suffering Jewish children who are segregated in a part of the camp. After suffering numerous beatings for engaging the children, the clown is used by the camp commandant as a pied piper to help load the children on boxcarched Auschwitz. He winds up a passenger on that train and in a selfless act unusual for the previously self-absorbed clown, he escorts off the children to their deaths and is himself killed. For an unreleased film, "The Day of the Clown Cried" has a mythology rare in the annals of the film to the point of a documentary on the film and it's undoing called "From Darkness to Light" will premiere at the upcoming Venice Film Festival. Lewis made the film when he was squarely known for comedy before he turned into a lot of dramatic performances in films by Martin Scorsese's "The King of Comedy". That and the subject matter led to press coverage largely colored by derision. Since then, numerous Holocaust films have drawn a claim by telling stories of courage and the unbelievable cruelty shown by Hitler's Nazi Germany. Those films range from the most recent Oscar winner "The Zone of Interest" by Jonathan Glaser, to Steven Spielberg's Oscar winner, Schindler's List, Roberto Benini's Oscar winning "Life is Beautiful", the Barry Levinson directed Ben Foster star "The Survivor", E. Mark Herman directed "The Boy in the Stripes", Pajamas, the Robin Williams star, Jake The Liar, the Tycho ITT directed JoJo Rabbit, Quentin Tarantino's and Gloria Spastards, the Mick Jackson directed "Denial", starring Rachel Thais and numerous others. All are hard stories by gutsy directors who importantly keep alive the memory of a dark moment in history filled with genocide and cruelty. Though it has turned into an obsession that led him to spend years cleaning up the rights, James' entry into "The Day of the Clown Cried" began with a chance meeting in a hallway with a rabbi. Quote, "I got approached 14 years ago by somebody I knew "who was a rabbi. "We happened to just work on the same floor of a building "when he had some mutual friends, "and he comes up to me one day and says, "I have a script I'd like you to read. "I'm thinking to myself, oh, great, "now I'm getting a script from a rabbi. "He's such a nice man that I said, "of course, sure, no problem. "I put it on my desk and maybe I was shooting something "or mixing a movie, but I was not very available. "A week goes by, he calls me off, and he says, "Hey, have you had a chance to read it?" And I said, "No, I'm so sorry, it's right here." He says, "No problem, I'll call you in a week." He calls me in a second week, I still haven't read it. I don't take his phone call and I feel like a jackass. I'm like, "Who the hell am I that I don't have an hour "to read a script for this nice man?" I shut the door, told my assistant to hold my calls, and I start reading. His mindset quickly changed into passion. But the first 20 or so pages were a little clunky and felt very dated. Then I got into the story, I was so taken by the script. When it was done, I was sobbing. I ended up just going home. I couldn't really do anything for the rest of the day. I called him up and I said, "I read it, "and it is as powerful as you said." I said, "Telling you on the chain of title. "I've been down the chain of title rabbit hole a few times." And he's like, "Yeah, I got it all." He shows up to my office with one of his boxes of rolled-up facts paper, fated documents, so unfortunately we're missing signatures. It was a complete disaster, Jam said. But I decided that this movie is worth it and I was going to take this on. It took me probably three or four years on the small fortune and legal fees to track everybody down and clean up the rights. There were signature pages, missing documents that had expired. There was a lean put on the project 20 years ago when Kushner Lock headed under option. They went into bankruptcy, but they didn't release their lean, so I had to track down who was controlling the bankruptcy. It was a whole ordeal. Finally, I managed to clean all that up. I found all the right people, got all the right documents with the rabbis help and started working financing the picture. I had to finance once or twice over the years, but it wasn't enabled to bring on the caliber of filmmakers that this needs. You really need a master craftsman to tell this story. The actors that sign on to be in this movie are going to want to know that they're in very good, capable hands, I was unable to do that. He kept renewing the option unable to shake what he'd read while fully aware of the history with Lewis. Quote, I haven't seen the movie and I really don't have a desire to. That's not the movie we're going to make. I have nothing but respect for Jerry. I grew up watching his movies and he was clearly the master. Jerry took the script. I believe they headed under option, but they never exercised their options. They never had their rights and he rewrote it. The movie that he shot was not our script, not the script that I own and control. I just kind of wanted to distance myself from it. The script that I own, the original one that was written by the writers back decades ago is by far the most powerful script I've ever read. Armory Films, Tim Zajaros and Christopher Lemoll came aboard with the financing for the film after Jam finally executed the purchase of the screenplay of the search for Zoobas for the filmmaker who'll shoot in Europe. I mean, there's a little more, but... So apparently, well, at least in theory. Yeah. We're getting a new take or arguably the original take on the day the clown cried. Count me as intrigued. Me too. This is... I mean, Notorious is certainly a word that is apt for the Lewis original. We will see what happens with that notoriety here. Mm-hmm. Just the production of this other script, other scripted version of it prompted such passion from this producer. This producer. It speaks well. Yeah, I'm really curious. Well, we'll see. Anything else worth mentioning? Um, nothing. Paramount is cutting people, including in their home entertainment division. Yeah. But, you know, 15%, that's not great. No. But also that happens a lot. You get a new owner and they want to do things their way and cut staff and whatnot. That's just, well, it's part of the whole capitalism thing. Yeah. Particularly the late stage part. Yeah. Yay. Indeed. The accolade has been canceled. Mm-hmm. That's not surprising. There are a lot of people. There are people who liked it a lot. As with basically everything else. Star Wars, TV related, I haven't watched it. I think that that's all the news that's fit to fit. Well, what if our listeners had some news that they wanted to share? How could they get that to us? Like we listen to our listeners. Well, I'm imperious. I do not do these things. Okay. But if they really, really wanted to, they could send it to mail@neonmoviebunker.com, I guess. That's not the only way to reach us, though. Well, there's facebook.com/neonmoviebunker. Mm-hmm. There is twitter.com/neonmoviebunker or @neonmoviebunker. I am @JohnNMB. Then, of course, there's blue sky. There is blue sky @neonmoviebunker.bsky.social. I'm on Letterbox as user JohnNMB. That's what there is. Yes, indeed. And so if you're, you know, want to see what I'm seeing there, you can do that. And then, of course, please subscribe to the show and Apple podcast through YouTube or Spotify, wherever it gets your podcasts. And www.neonmoviebunker.com is our website, which has stuff and things. And twitch.tv/neonmoviebunker is our event space where things sometimes happen. So, we should talk about a movie. Yeah, I think we should talk about Alien Romulus. You do? I do. I was going to talk about the rules of the game. You know, the... Yeah. But I guess we can talk about Romulus. Okay. Okay. Good, good. Fine. 'Cause you were a good boy this week. I was. Alien Romulus, directed by Fettie Alvarez, written by Fettie Alvarez, and Roto Sayagweis. Based on characters created by Daniel Bannon and Ronald Schusit. Stars Kaley Spaney, David Johnson, Archie Renau, Isabella Merced, Spike Fern, Alien Wu, Rosie Edie. And, well, there's one more. Kind of. A bit of a surprise cameo. Yeah. Yeah. It is 20 years after the events of the original Alien film. And Rain lives on a mining colony in the middle of nowhere called Jackson Star or something like that. Something along those lines. She is accompanied by her, quote, brother Andy, who is a synthetic anandroid. But Rain's father pulled Andy out of a garbage patch and did what he could to repair him. And Andy's vaguely useful, but gets beat up a lot. And, well, not the brightest. No. If anandroid can be said to have a good heart, he does. Yeah. But. Rain has a couple of friends. And she has been saving up 'cause she works for Raylin, Utah, and he is everyone does. She's been saving up to finally get the hell off of Jackson Star. And. So she's finally the day comes where she's gonna cash in all her credits and get the trip to that bar off world whose name I've already forgotten. Eevee, or whatever. Something along those lines, yeah. And. She brings, she gets the front of the line at the way when you, Utah, the office, the bureaucrat behind the computer looks at her and says. Yeah, we're extending you for another five to six years. The price to get off the rock is doubled. She is non-plussed by this. So she goes over to see a couple of her friends and. Well, they have a plan. Ish. They have. Part of a plan. They have an idea. Yeah, there we go. There is a, what they think is a ship in a decaying orbit around their planet. With, worth pointing out this planet has rings like Saturn. And if they can get up to it, they can probably, there might be a, you know, a cryo unit in there. At least one. Yeah. 'Cause the planet that Rain is trying to get to is nine years away, which with cryo sleep, you know. No problem. Yeah. Without it. Big problem. So Rain and her friends decide to, the war of heist gets thrown around a lot in life. But. Yeah. Scavenge. Sure. So they just, they have a bit, a ship more or less. And they launch it to get to this, what they think is a ship in this decaying orbit. Yeah, they're, it's not actually a ship. It's more of a space station. Seem to a seemingly abandoned, or at least devoid of life space station. Yeah. Well, that, that belief is quickly, refuted? Yes. Found to be inaccurate. Yeah. And well, there's xenomorphs on the station. There's also another synthetic on the station. Rook. Mm-hmm. Who you got a bit eaten, or a little damaged. Yeah. So rain figures, oh, I can pop his not actually a SIM card, but that's what I'm going to call it. Right. Into Andy. And that'll give Andy the ability to, to do everything. To basically run the complex. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well. SIM cards got other ideas. Yeah. And other objectives. And then things start to go bad. And things start to go worse. And then things start to go. Yikes. Yeah. And then we have an ending. I, for most of this, we saw this together. Yup. For the record. For most of this, I was impressed most with how the script was structured. I'll give you an example. At one point, the group of would-be scavengers are split up. And there's a piece of information that rain and Andy and the other, one of the other scavengers have that the other the others don't. And that affects how the others choose to deal with their situation. And I thought that was kind of smart. I think it's, it's layered well. It, it, it moves through the station. Well, can't we spainies bloody terrific? Yeah, she's fantastic. I mean, seeing this made me sad. She wasn't nominated for Priscilla last year. David Johnson is Andy. He's doing some fun work. Yeah. Playing basically two different roles in one body. And then there's Rook. The, the synthetic from the station. Who has a face I was not expecting to see ever again. Yeah. And makes for an unusual Paul Reiser. But, and then there's the way it's directed, which I was reasonably happy with. There's enough tension at the right times. That it's, it's well-paced in general. I thought, um, you're never once it finally gets going. It doesn't really slow down. Right. Yeah. And it takes a little bit of time to get to that point. But. Yeah. I've seen and talked to people who were less than thrilled with it. Really? Yeah. Didn't like the, well, there are a number of Easter eggs, large and small. And I can see a little bit where they're coming from, because one of the large ones made me roll my eyes. I don't know. I was, I was recently satisfied with this. I was, I was too. Yeah. I'm interested to hear what you have to say, because you're more of the, you're much more of an alien's guy than I have ever been. I, um, correction, you're much more of an alien guy than I have ever been. Yeah. I enjoyed the look into this world from this vantage point, you know, from the working schmuck. Yeah. Bantage point. And getting to see a little bit more of what that world entails and what living on a terraforming facility, you know, things we got a little glimpse of in the previous films. Now are made quite explicit. Yeah. Mixed and matched elements from all throughout the series, which I rather enjoyed. I was not expecting quite as much of an influence from one particular film in the series, but. Yeah. There were, there were things that surprised me. Yeah. You know, and that is. Things that surprised me, but yet we're still of a piece with the established lore. I. I really enjoyed this. Yeah, I am. I, I liked it while I was watching it, certainly. And I, I, to me, it has the feel of something I don't want to think about too much. It might fall apart on me. And I really don't know that I want to see it again any time soon. Because it really might fall apart on me if I do. So I'm going to treat it like it's made out of spun sugar and just kind of leave it there and be happy with what I got. That I can see that I can see that I will definitely be revisiting this, though, shocking. Yeah, I know. You know, Fettie Alvarez made the evil dead remake with Jane Levy. Was it don't breathe? Yep. Don't breathe also with Jane Levy. Yeah. That's even lying. Yeah. And then grow with a girl in the spider's web. Yeah, he certainly knows what he's doing. He knows how to shoot action. Yep, does a good job with that here. Yeah, it'd be interesting to see what he does next, of course. So alien Romulus in theaters now. If you're an alien fan, you've probably seen it already. And if you haven't, you need to, if you're just kind of a general sci-fi slash horror fan. This is worth a watch. Yeah. But if that's not something that appeals to you, you might want to give this a pass. And while this does draw on a lot of the lore, I don't think it's adding a lot to it. Well, no, I wasn't going to say that. I was going to say I don't think it's something that you need to know that lore in order to get what, you know, to enjoy the film. Got drink. Got you. I see, you know, that's fair. So don't feel like you have to do homework and. Yeah. Yeah. But wait, there's more there's briefly more. Oh, do tell. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this picture, even though many people have. Considering how long it was in development and post production and et cetera. Mm hmm. Let's take a minute or two to talk about. Borderlands. Directed by Eli Roth. Screenplay credited to Eli Roth and Joe Crombie. With the screen story by Eli Roth. Mm hmm. It stars Kate Blanchard, Kevin Hart, Edgar Ramirez, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Wintianu, Janina Gavankar, Gina Gershon, and the voice of Jack Black. As clap, clap, clap. Kate Blanchard plays with who is a bounty hunter. Okay. And. There's a, it starts with as all great science fiction movies do, which this technically is, it starts with a couple of minutes of voice over exposition. Ah, I don't, I don't know. What is basically a blank screen. Oh, no. I mean, I think they're like, it's like a starfield. There just might as well be a blank screen. Yeah. There's apparently a vaults on a planet and there are aliens who did some kind of thing with evolution. If anybody can find the vaults, maybe they can get into it and find the treasures within whatever. Well, it is not particularly interested in finding this treasure. Okay. She's interested in collecting her bounties and drinking in between collecting bounties pretty much. Yeah. Good to have hobbies. Yeah. Yeah. Well, one day, uh, atlas, one day atlas shows up by badger Martinez and, um, says, find the vault for me. I got this clue and this one, or find this girl who knows something about it. I'm a, I don't need your money. Are you sure? She looks at the number that he quoted or it says, well, I guess I am interested in your money, but. Okay. Eventually they collect a rag, a group of mercenaries and goons and Ariana Greenblatt plays a mildly psychotic, uh, teen girl with a named tiny Tina with a penchant for explosives. Okay. And then there's clap trap, which, if you can imagine someone. If you can imagine Marvin, the paranoid androids brother voiced by Jack Black. Okay. But dumber as everything in this movie is. Okay. I, I found family explosions, prophecy, flashback. The chosen one is not who you think it is. Open vault ending. Okay. There's, there are, there's one genuinely good thing in this movie. Seeing Kate Blanchard wheeled a flamethrower while motorheads, ace of spades plays on the soundtrack, fulfills some previously unknown part of what passes for my soul. Okay. That's the good news. You know what the bad news is virtually everything else. I saw an interesting article or Twitter thread or something this week after seeing a borderlands. Joe Crombie, the credited screenwriter or co-screenwriter with Eli Roth. Yeah. Um, may or may not actually exist in the traditional sense of the word. There are two other names that were associated with this script in one form or another throughout its long development and post production process. Okay. Craig Maison, who originally came to fame doing things like, um, the hangover part to screenwriting credits for Craig Maison. I'm going to start at the beginning and work my way up. Okay. Rocket Man from 1997, not the Elton John biopic, the Harlan Williams vehicle. Yeah. Yeah. Censeless. Featuring Marlon Wayans and David Spade. Scary movie three. Scary movie four. Superhero movie, the hangover part two identity thief with Jason Baitman and Melissa McCarthy. Well, I remember that one. Yeah. The hangover part three, the Huntsman Winter's War. With Charlize Theron and, uh, family blunts in that and, uh, that, uh, Hemsworth Chris Hemsworth. Here's where things take a bit of a turn. Have you heard about the HBO mini series Chernobyl? Mm hmm. Yeah. Craig Maison created and wrote most of that. Okay, then. Uh, and then have you heard about the HBO series, The Last of Us? Yeah. He wrote most of that too. Okay, then. You begin to understand why he might have wanted to, I don't know, take his name off of borderlands. Yeah. And then Joe Crombie may or may not be a chosen pseudonym for respected science fiction author, Joe Abercrombie. Hmm. Or it may not. We will never know. There will never be enough residuals to have to pay anybody. So yeah, that's true. Uh, this movie has made, uh, 12 cents in two weeks of release. Against, uh, a five quintillion dollar budget. I may have fudged those numbers just a bit, but not, not as much as you might think. This is a bad movie. This is a bad, so it deserved a bomb. Yes. The other thing, um, worth mentioning mentioning about it. If anything, it can be said to be worth mentioning about it. Eli Roth shot this in like 2022 or so or early, 23. Yeah. And was busy. Doing, making Thanksgiving. When the reshoots came around for this, and so they were handled by Tim Miller, yeah, of Terminator, dark fate and Deadpool fame, 18.6 million dollars worldwide. So far, for borderlands, it's $110 million budget. That's not good. Yeah. That's not good. This is based on a video game I've never played. And it's just one of those who thought this was a good idea, kinds of things. Unfortunately, I think I've an answer to that too. I believe it was because his name is on it as a producer. Uh, Spider-Man, impresario, Avi, erod. You know, this, this does strike me as in Avi, erod, sort of. Yeah. Yeah. The venture. Yeah, but do not see borderlands. Do not see it in the theater. If you, it shows up on some streaming servers that you're not paying a lot of money for. Give it a spin just so you can hit the scene with Cape Blanch in the flamethrower. OK, but beyond that, there is nothing to recommend this film. Now, that is to the average movie goer. Somebody seeking sane entertainment from their films. Yes. You, on the other hand, I was going to ask. This will not do a whole lot to redeem your opinion of Eli Roth. OK. If you want to, you know, bring out the whip for the whipping boy. Yeah, which you do occasionally want to do. I still wouldn't recommend going to the theaters, see it. OK, but, you know, when it comes around on physical media or streaming or maybe maybe you should, but OK, OK. But no, uh, yeah, it's one of those things that makes makes me say, Cape Blanch, it's only got how many movies left in her and she did this. Yeah, it made did make him mildly interested in seeing how's the clock on its walls, which is the first time he worked with Ross. Yeah. So. And Jack Black for that matter. Yeah, sure. But, uh, yeah. I'm sure Jamie Lee Curtis is not exactly thrilled that this is her first major project after winning her Oscar. Yeah, strong catwoman vibes a little bit, a little bit, a Kevin Hart character that's too bland to be annoying in the Kevin Hart way. Oh, yeah, there's no reason you necessarily needed to have Kevin Hart play this guy. Huh, OK, well, give Borderlands a wide berth. Dooley noted. So listeners, did you see Alien Romulus or did you see Borderlands? A movie I am probably going to be talking about in December? Please let us know what you thought mail it in the on movie bunker dot com. In the meantime, there are DVDs and Blu-rays and stuff and things. Anything catch your attention this week, John? Yeah, I've got a choice. Martha Coolidge made Valley Girl, I think, and among other things. Has a picture coming from the Criterion Collection this week. Ooh, entitled Not a Pretty Picture. Yeah, Valley Girl, Real Genius, who doesn't love Real Genius? Yeah, Idiots, that too, somewhat ironically. Grammarly Rose, almost just TV stuff, et cetera, et cetera. One of the very first things she made was a picture called Not a Pretty Picture in 1976, somewhat ironically. And what it is is basically her it's no, it's an auto fiction piece. That is more or less her processing her years ago rape. Gotcha. Yeah. This is one of those of Criterion says it's worthwhile, but it's worthwhile kinds of things. It's not something I had a lot of familiarity with before it was announced. But after doing the reading up, I'm certainly intrigued. Yeah. And what do you have for us? Well, reaching back 22 years now, my word, something of a catalog title. Death to Smoochie makes its way to Blu-ray. Another one of those ones I'm proud to say I saw in the theatre. Yeah, which is not a claim a lot of people can make. No, it is not, particularly with this one, but just brilliant work by Edward Norton. Not in Williams and Danny DeVito in this. Catherine Keener. Oh, my God, yes. Yeah, it's it's it's definitely on the darker end of dark comedy. Oh, yeah. Story of the battle between two warring children's show hosts. Yes. Rainbow Randolph played by Robin Williams and Sheldon Mopes, aka Smoochie the Rhino. So that makes its way to Blu-ray. Hooray. Making its way to 4K and Blu-ray this week is Red Eye. Remember that one? The Killian Mercy. Oh, yeah. And Rachel McAdams, Brian Cox, West Craven. Yep. Did I leave anybody important out? No, no, that covers it all. Kind of shows what Craven could do, you know, how talented he was at ratcheting up tension. There's a lot of tension in this one. Oh, boy. Got anything for us to avoid this week? This is most definitely well, yeah, this is definitely more a me thing than it actually being bad. OK, but Wolf Creek. Yeah. 2005 is getting a is part of a series of titles that getting re-released on steelbook this week. And I'm not a fan of Wolf Creek. OK. You have a question for me. I do because I think I have one for you. Yeah. I love Kate Blanchard in ways that are unhealthy. OK. It hurt me physically to see her in borderlands. Even even despite the flamethrower in the Ace of Spades. Right. Right. What are your top three examples of someone absolutely slumming it? Leaning actor, but could be a director, I suppose. Or, yeah, you said leaning actor, but it could be a director. Yeah. Well, I had a director for you. OK, but he's acting. OK. And it is David Cronenberg and his appearance in Jason X. Ah, OK. Yeah. Definitely makes a lot of sense. I mean, he's great. He's fine. He's good, Ned. But you can. There's definitely a. How did you end up here? Yeah, just for the for the shits and giggles, I think. Similarly, a another director who doesn't really usually act Gus Van Sant. OK. In Jay and Silent Bob Strikeback. OK. There's a little bit of slumming it there. True, but that is at least something like self parity. Yeah, nothing wrong with nothing wrong with that. Yeah, nothing wrong with slumming it either. I mean, depends on your definition of slumming it. But anyway, well, and Anthony Hopkins in that one Transformers movie last night, the last night. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's that's a that's a good one. And John, yes, serious. This strikes me as something that you might may have given some thought, maybe. What did you get? Does name Vince offer mean anything to you? Rings a bell. He made a movie about 10 years ago. But before he became a director, he was both the slap chop guy and the shamwow guy. Oh, yeah. Now, I'm not calling out Vince offer here for for the slumming. The picture he made that which came out in 2013. I was called in app Ropriety comedy. OK. And I'm going to read some of the cast to you. Rob Schneider. Michelle Rodriguez, OK, someone I quite like, actually. Lindsey Lowen, OK. Adrian Brody. Oh, some 11 years after he won his best picture Oscar for the pianist. Oh, OK. OK. What is Adrian Brody doing here? And why world may never know. He's made some interesting choices. Indeed, he has predators, the jacket, splice. And then there's all the stuff he's done with with Anderson, you know, and King Kong, and yeah, in the village and kind of all over the place. This is typically interesting. Indeed. I don't know a lot about director Joe Arbanic, but in 2000 he released a picture that starred James Spader, Marissa Tomay, Ernie Hudson, and Keanu Reeves, called The Watcher. I remember that movie. You know who wishes he didn't Keanu Reeves, spader Tomay Hudson, kind of, you know, whatever. But Keanu Reeves had no interest in doing this movie at all. Someone possibly his then assistant forged his name on the contract. Oh, no. And depending on who you listen to, Keanu was either fine, whatever, or Keanu was I was. I don't want to spend all the money it'll take to get out of this. So he just bit the bullet and did it. Yeah. He was also he renegotiated his deal a little bit to the point that he agreed not to mention the whole forgery thing for one year after the release date. But after that year was up. He he had a thing or two to say. Oh, wait. So that's two. OK, that one. I mean, at least I can understand what happened. Yeah, I don't like it. I'm sure he doesn't like it, but but it is what it is. Natalie Portman, one best actress in 2010 for Black Swan. Yeah. And three movies come out in 2011. OK. The best, most prestigious and highest brow of them was Thor. The first one, the Kenneth Brannell one. Yeah. The other two. No strings attached with Ashton Kutcher. Yep. And your highness with James Franco. Yep. That fucking movie. So, yeah, I think I think those are three good relatively recent without breaking out into my dad's favorite of Jose Ferrer in Dracula's dog. But a classic is it? Hey, all right, let's go to the movies. OK, Doki, are we going to see Dracula's dog? We are not nor are we going to see borderlands. OK, first of all, this is the things that's here right now continues to be that Paul and Wolverine. Yeah, because it's a good time. Next notice of things is right now is alien Romulus or the real seekers. And then Dee Dee is in theaters and I think it's worth the effort. If you're going to stay home and pop something into your home video player of choice, be it DVD, Blu-ray or streaming, first thing I'd recommend to you is the bike riders available on Blu-ray and on streaming. Follow that up with Death to Smoochie, available on Blu-ray and round things with Red Eye. OK, I'd like to take the opportunity to mention our email address one more time. Mail at neonmoviebunker.com. We are on Facebook at Facebook.com/ neonmoviebunker. We are on Twitter at neonmoviebunker. I am at John and MB. We are on blue sky at neonmoviebunker.be sky.social. We are available. Oh, I'm on Letterbox. This is your John and MB. We are available through Apple Podcasts and YouTube and Spotify or wherever. For podcasts, please visit www. neonmoviebunker.com. The Mo Ryan interview is still there. And twitch.tv/ neonmoviebunker is a place where things sometimes happen. So we come to the end of another episode on the Unmovie Bunker. This week's episode is produced and edited by L. R.A. Stannick, the executive producer is Maggie Stannick. The theme song is by Dr. Awkward and the Monkey Man Triad. So until next time, I'm John Robinson and I'm L. R.A. 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