Movie Chronicles w/ The Powell Bros.
Halloween is for Christians
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Welcome to the power bros movie chronicles, we are here during spooky week, halloween is coming up, we're a week, a week or a little over a week, no, less than a week away from our recording this and a few days away from when this is releasing. And yeah, we are excited to do this episode. We have some fun things in store and planned for you throughout this throughout this episode. And yeah, I'm one of your hosts, Trent Powell. I'm joined by my co-host, Tobias Powell. How are you? Doing good. Yep. This will be fun, halloween coming up, lots of spooky movies, lots of yeah, yeah, lots of fun. Lots of spooky films and fun silly spooky films and yeah, you know, I still feel like Christmas and Halloween is the time where you just pull out the cult classics and the really like kind of dumb movies that aren't ones, obviously not ones you watch me around, you watch during Christmas and Halloween. But they're ones that like probably aren't that good, but they're just fun to watch. Yeah, for sure. And now that I've like, we've become more critical of movies, it's sometimes it's hard to watch those type of movies, like there's a couple of Halloween ones that I've watched and I'm like, oh, this movie sucks, I can't stand that, but it's not supposed to be a masterpiece. Yeah. I get it. What are, what are, what are. Sometimes we do better. A couple of them. Name drop a couple. Yeah, I mean, this is a good one, but like Beetlejuice, I think Beetlejuice is great. You know, it's a perfect film, but it's fun. Haunted Mansion, that one has some problems, but it's still decent. Edward Scissorhands, oh, Sweeney Todd, or Sweeney Todd, I can't, I can't do cannibalism stuff. Like, it's just, it's just a little too much for me sometimes, but it comes to like, it's like, any kind of like body horror, eating people, that stuff is like a little too far for me. Like, I can watch horror movies and I can stomach almost anything, but when it comes to that, it's like a little too much sometimes, but, but Sweeney Todd's a good, um, another Johnny Depp one, uh, Sleepy Hollow, have you seen that one? Uh, I don't think I've ever watched it all the way through. It, like, I'll, I start watching it, but it doesn't usually catch me. It's a little boring. It's not, it's not great. Yeah. It's a fun one to watch and Halloween, yeah, and, um, Casper and Friendly Ghost, um, what's a new one? The other night, it was an animated kids movie called the Monster Family. It was about like, like a modern day Dracula that turns his family into monster, or that gets a witch to turn his family into like Frankenstein, a mummy, uh, a vampire and, and all these things. It was really stupid, but I guess my kids liked it, so, yeah, it's fine. Yeah. Hotel Transylvania, which I actually do like Hotel Transylvania, but, uh, it's fun. Yeah. Yeah, it just, there's fun movies, I guess. Yeah, we watched the fourth one that came out a couple years ago, yeah, for the first time we watched it this year, but, oh yeah, uh, so, I don't know, it was kind of, it's got, well, so, yeah, well, Adam Sandler, Kevin James, uh, what's his name, David Spade. None of those guys were in it. Oh, right. Because all, uh, people sat that, uh, what do you call it, uh, they, they, they sound like them, like they, uh, yeah, I don't know what that's called, they're not, it's kind of like those direct TV sequels, so like this, like the first one, the thing is really good. The second one I did not like, because that felt like a, like a, you know, early Disney direct, direct DVD sequel, whereas it's like a really kind of lame plot that isn't that significant, you know, where it's like his kid, like, or he wants his kid to be a monster or be a vampire or something and so he's taking his journey and it is not really like much driving the plot except for who he just wants to have this time of the sun and I don't know, it's just like, it's not, it just feels like a TV show episode almost. Yeah. And the third one, I can't remember, the third one that was where he met his wife and, okay, and they went in a cruise. Oh, yeah, the cruise. Yeah. That was, that was all right, I guess. Yeah. But all just fun movies to watch, trying Halloween, totally. So we have a lot of news. So I, I am like keeping this almost strictly to Halloween related news, like horror Halloween because there are so many things that I could grab. There are a couple that aren't related to that that I'm going to talk about. But do you want, do you want to start us off with anything? Yeah, sure. Blade has been essentially canceled, I mean, essentially, it's delayed indefinitely. It's not on their calendar, it's, it's gone, it's in the shadows, like a vampire. It was supposed to come out, I think what, end of 2025, that was when it was slated. And they, they, they dropped it from the release date and then they added like a, I think the credit, like a predator. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so that was interesting. Yep. Yeah, it just, that movie's been in development hell forever and it's just that for some reason they can't get, you know, blade killing vampires going on, going on a journey to kill vampires. They can't get that right. Can't get that story down. So, you know, whatever. Yeah. And all, like all the leaks, like the, the leaks were like apparently one, one, one script idea was to have like it focus on four sister vampires that were like kind of overshadowing blades character and Mahershali did not like that and, and apparently that was like legit. Yeah. And so they dropped that and they just, I don't know, it's good figure it out. And then I think Deadpool Wolverine really put an end to it. Yeah. Because everyone's like, yeah, we, we want, um, uh, we don't was, was it snipes back? We want him back. Yeah. He's, he's there. There's only one blade. Yeah. I know they ever will ever, they're only ever will be one. Yeah. That kind of putting down the coffin, I think, and for sure, I don't think it's ever happening. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. I want, I want, like, I want to bleed. I just want Marvel to handle the character, right? Yeah. Like they did with the first, at least the first movie and, uh, oh, that's actually, you know, I should go back and watch it. I know we rude, we rude all three of them, but I should watch the blade again for Halloween. Yeah. But blades, I believe it's awesome. I would blade, you know, he's basically just a demon vampire killer and he's cool. He's awesome. Got great weapons, great powers. Yeah. Pretty easy to, to, to do and they can't figure it out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Actually, and speaking of Disney and Disney brands and movies canceled, uh, did you hear that the writer, the screenwriter for rise, or the rise guy walker, the race guy walker film, uh, he, uh, I think he stepped down. Or really? He got stepped down or fired. I think I'm pretty sure he stepped down. Even night was slated to write it. And so they just, this movie that's supposed to come out in, what, 2026, uh, just lots, lost its writer. So while we need to put together a list of, of directors and writers that have been either let go or quit and we'll step away from a Star Wars project. Or that we're announced and we've heard nothing about for however many years. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. That's funny. Do you think about the blade movie is it was announced in 2019? That's crazy. That's, that's five years ago. Yeah. Well, on, on the track of vampires, there's strong rumors that Christopher Nolan's next movie is going to be a vampire movie set in the 1920s, starring Tom Holland and, um, Matt Damon. Matt Damon. Yeah. So that sounds really fun. That totally does. Yeah. Really curious. It's, it's a period piece. I'm really curious what they're going with as far as story. And I, I know it's, it's Christopher Nolan. He'll have his own, his own twist to it. And I'm totally here for it. Yeah. Like that sounds awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I think, I think, yeah, I just, I love Christopher Nolan and a lot of, a lot of his films. And man, I think that with his cinematography and his screenwriting abilities, like, I think he can make a good vampire movie, hopefully. Yeah. It's interesting that Tom Holland's doing it, like that will be, that will be interesting. I wonder what kind of character he's going to play. So. Yeah. No, for sure. Yeah. And then we got Matt Damon, who's been in a couple Christopher Nolan movies. Couple are just one. Maybe just one. I don't think of inception, not inception, interstellar, interstellar. Is he an Oppenheimer? Yeah. I think so. Yeah. Where are some things that you got? Well, that was two of them. Yeah. Well, since it's Halloween, let's, let's go ahead and talk about Hollywood's biggest clown, Mark Hamill. I don't know if you heard about this. So Mark Hamill suffers from what many call and rightly call a TDS Trump derangement syndrome. And on Carrie Fisher's birthday, this is her birthday, she would have been, I think, 68. I think she passed away eight years ago and she passed away around when she was 60. On her birthday, Mark Hamill posted this because I'm pretty sure Donald Trump runs rent free in his brain every single day because he said this for Carrie, happy birthday. And for those wondering how she would vote in this election, one of the last of many arguments we had was who hated the orange atrocity more. After half an hour, we had to agree to disagree, hashtag carry on forever. So Mark Hamill takes an opportunity to tell, say happy birthday to one of his closest friends, one of his biggest co-stars, and he used an opportunity to, of course, bash Donald Trump. This is how sick and deranged are you. I don't, I don't, I don't care about if it's, and the other way around, if someone, if a conservative was posted about Biden and they just have to, you know, say, say happy birthday to someone that passed away and they're just so deranged by Joe Biden, they had to say something about him in that post. It's retarded. It's stupid. But now let's say that word, it, it's just like, dude, it's just, he, he is, I've, he, I've convinced it, convinced that Mark Hamill is just a psychopath. If you see all the things that he tweets and, and stuff, he, you just can't shut up about Donald Trump. Yeah. It's like, do you just get over it? Yeah. We know you hate him. Move on. Get over it. Live on with your life. Stop being a miserable human being. Yeah. So. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't even, I started that off by saying he's Hollywood's biggest clown. I forgot that he was, I mean, I didn't forget, but he voiced Joker and that was totally unintentional. I was just saying he, he just acts like a clown. He's buffoon and he's mad in the brain. Yeah. He's also the Joker. And hey, the best voice acted actor of Joker ever, one of my favorite characters in any movie Luke Skywalker, like great actor. And you know, with Hollywood, like, I mean, we can bring up Zachary Levi, you know, and that's everything related to him. Well, he said this past week, you know, it's like, that was a few weeks ago, but we talked about it already. We did. Okay. I'm, I'm looting and forget things, but yeah, it's like Hollywood is there, you know, there are very few people that align with our views on really anything. And most people are, you know, leaning lean one way and they lean one way and then they villainize anyone that leans a different way or has any different views. We talked, we've talked about JK Rowling and, you know, how she has one different perspective from all these lunatics and because she has one different perspective, they completely turn her into the worst person in the world and what she, she's a left, she is a leftist lunatic, but because she doesn't think that women should act or that men should act like women or become women and vice versa that she's the worst person ever, but yeah, anyways, it's just, we've also, I'm sorry, but yeah, it's just you have to disconnect the character from the actor. Yeah. And when it comes to movies, it's like, yeah, you have, you're, you're exactly the advice. You have your Gina Coronos, but it's like, you, you got to disconnect who the person, who the actor is from the character oftentimes because then you, you know, then you just end up hating pretty much everyone Hollywood, which, you know, pretty much we do, like, I think everyone, I'm pretty convinced that everyone Hollywood is a pedophile and a piece of crap. Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, I kind of disagree, like you shouldn't disconnect it that much. Uh-huh. Cause I'd say if you want to enjoy like movies and stories, but there, there are certain people, I, like, I won't watch their stuff because they drive me nuts. Oh, sure. Like, I just won't. Like, I know that I wouldn't be able to enjoy it because I know their personal life too much. I'm like, I have no desire to watch anything that they're ever in and, um, and you shouldn't, and we shouldn't support their stuff anyway and, and shouldn't support their, their lifestyles. Mm-hmm. But, but yeah, I mean, you can't get away with it. Get away from it completely with the world we live in and, um, um, so just just use discretion, I guess. Mm-hmm. Call it Spade, Spade, and call out, yeah, I mean, just be honest and be honest with yourself. Be honest with what you're watching and who you're supporting and, and yeah, I think sometimes you do have to disconnect it and at least if you want to enjoy movies because like we've, we've said, like stories are universal. Um, there are universal truths and, and objective truths and store, and, and aspects of stories that we, that we, by nature enjoy and are drawn towards and Hollywood, uh, is actually capable of telling good stories, but that's because they live in, in God's world. They live in a, in a world, um, made by a creator, by an artist, by a storyteller. And they're in that story. God likes to tell stories even through wicked people, even, you know, he likes to strike straight blows through bent sticks and he does that often and, you know, I've, I talked about Transformers one last week. It's like, that was a good example of like, oh, there's actually a really good story in this, in this film. Uh, I don't think any of the creators were intentional in telling that story, but it's literally, it's basically, you know, the story of the gospel writes right there, um, and very explicit, very clear, um, way, in a very clear way. Um, but they, they didn't intentionally do that and, but sometimes they can't help, but telling good stories. And guess what? When you tell good stories, you make money. When you tell nihilistic, morally gray, uh, pointless stories, uh, joke or two, you lose money and that's just, that's how it is. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. What else you got? Well, it's, uh, keeping it in the Halloween theme, the, the Warrens are back for one final time with the conjuring for just started filming this past week for, I think they're, well, actually, I don't know if they're going with the title four, I can't remember now, but it's a little last rights or last rights, something like that. Mm. So, yeah, could be good. Um, I, I don't know, like there are a couple of stories that like the Warrens, uh, that they could tell that the Warrens investigated. I don't know what they're doing because they have, they're going to tie up the whole universe. Uh, I think, uh, yeah, so the conjuring last rights, it doesn't have the four in it. Um, so I don't know, I'm, I'm really curious what they're going to do it, you know, because all the, all the movies are like loosely, loosely based off of real cases that the Warrens investigated and, and that they were involved in. Um, and of course they holly, the holly would eyes it for the most part. And, um, I'm just curious, because like the none films, I'm pretty sure the none are like the, are the more like fictional ones. If I'm not mistaken, I think they're based loosely off of different stories, but for the most part, those are the kind of more, um, fictional ones. So I wonder if this one is going to be more fictional and just loosely based off of certain stories, but they're going to maybe tie up, Valak and Annabelle and everything. I don't, I don't, who knows, but I, I enjoy the conjuring films and we're watching, we're watching through them and, uh, so my wife's watching them for the first time. We've watched, we've watched the first conjuring Annabelle and conjuring to. Yeah. What you think of the second one? A lot of things that were incorrect in it, but the, as a movie itself, it was, it was pretty good. It was fun. Yeah. Yeah. There's some redeeming aspects. Yeah. Yeah, those films, um, and a lot that's, you're, you're redeemable because they do Hollywood, Hollywood eyes. Yeah. And like this, like the second, is it the second one where like the, the, how, she defeats the, the demon by, by her through her love for her husband or something. I don't know. Oh no. Okay. She, it's one of those, she, um, she defeats the demon by saying its name, uh, saying its name. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That sounds dumb. The third one. Maybe I haven't seen the third one. There's a point where I haven't seen them anymore because I, I know I've seen the three that we've watched. I've seen those three. I don't know if I've seen anything past this. I haven't seen the nun movies. I haven't seen the curse of La Llorona. I haven't seen either of the other two Annabelle's and I definitely haven't seen the most recent conjuring. Yeah. Mm hmm. So that's it. Yeah. So it's like the first one. Talking to me new from here. Right. Oh no. For me. Sure. I don't know about like the, so I've not seen it. You haven't seen the nun. No. I'm really, I, I want to, I want to talk to you when you watch those. Yeah. Well, let me know. Well, one, one of my problems with the second one is there's so many times where it's like the demon played like a Christmas Carol, like a Christian Christmas Carol singing to God like a worship song, a hymn, and like a demon would be able to even be in the presence of that. Like, no, no. And then there's lots of times with crosses where it like didn't affect them. And I'm like, yeah, no. Yeah. Yeah. That's one thing. I, I think the first one is probably the most more and more redeemable. And the first one actually had a lot of, I think the writing team had at least one or two Christians or at least self-proclaimed Christians that I don't even know if they work in Hollywood anymore. And I don't think they did really any more of the movies. And, but it, and like essentially the first one, if I can remember, it's been a while, but that the demon is cast away, you know, through the name of Christ, right? In the first one, I think so, yeah, because he, because Ed does a, an exorcism. Yeah. He, yeah. He exercises the demon, condemns it back to hell and like pretty, so like I've, like, I've studied and learned, I've read a lot of like the actual stories of Ed and Lauren Warren. And they're, they're a little wacky, but they, they're believers, I would say, I, I think, I think they were. And, wait, are they still alive? I don't even remember now. It's been so long. Lorraine died in 2019. I don't know when Ed died. Right. Ed did die before her. Okay. So anyways, like, yeah, so like, and like I said, they, Hollywood eyes the film, I think it wasn't as like, as much of a happy ending, if you can say it was for, in real life, just because they, they, the family ended up just leaving the house and I think they dealt with some more paranormal stuff, but eventually just went away. But there was like, I think there was an extra, there was an exorcism that happened and so forth. And, and so I say all that, like that movie makes it clear what's, what's good and what's evil. And like, and the other country moves do the same thing. Like it, it draws a clear line between good and evil and it, and demons are real. The demonic, the spiritual, that's all real that this thing, these things do happen if people do, people do get possessed by demons. And like I said, the, the country moves are loosely based off of true stories. Like the third one, it's not very, it's not a very good movie. I don't like the ending. But it did take a real case that happened. It was based off of a man who pled, basically pled innocent or not, it pled not guilty because he was possessed by a demon. So he was possessed by a demon and he killed someone, I think he, he just killed one person or something or he wanted a killing spree. I can't remember. But he, he murdered someone and then he pled not guilty because he was possessed by a demon. So Adam Lorraine came in to investigate and to determine whether or not he was actually possessed by a demon and, and everything. And then they, they, of course, expand upon that in the movie a lot more and bring in all these different elements, kind of building the world of the conjuring universe in a fictional, like the fictional world of the conjuring universe. So yeah, and, you know, and there's like the whole thing about like saying the demon's name, like there, there's some reality to that in cases of like, you know, saying the name and like does terrify it. But oftentimes like it, it, it, demons need to be cast out in the name of Christ. It's through the name of Christ, Christ is authority over the, the physical and the spiritual. He is, he is put to death, he is, he is defeated death and defeated all things, both spiritual and physical and he is reigning and subduing the world to himself. He is given authority and heaven and on earth. And, and it is in the name of Christ that, that demons flee. There's actually, man, okay, this is, I think this is important to talk about, but like there's actually a case where the, the Warrens, that the Warrens of Eschade, where there is this basically this ghost town in this forest and I think New Jersey, where it like in studying ghost towns and in the US is wild, there are a lot of ghost towns and just the stories and accounts of like why these towns are ghost towns and people do not go there. There's this one, there's one town where it's literally illegal to go to because there's all kinds of weird stuff that happened there. Like there are actual creatures and shadow monsters that people have, have captured and seen and, and then a bunch of like people go, like cases of people going insane by being just being in this, in this forest. But there's one where Ed and Lorraine Warren, they went to this, to investigate this forest and they basically determined that yeah, that this has a very dark demonic presence here. And you know, like people need to avoid it. But like I've just thought about like there, there are places where Satan has gotten full control over and gotten his grip on and it's just, it's just interesting to like think about like, oh yeah, those are, that's, those are places that Christ will one day conquer. Those are places that will be turned where Satan will lose its grip. He's grip on like like Christ will trample him underneath his foot, he will defeat. And you know, those are places where like the gospel needs to be go forth, you know, where Christ's name needs to be proclaimed and where demons need to be cast out because they do dwell in places even in our, even in the United States, even in our homeland, which is wild to think about. But my point being there, there are redeeming aspects of the conjuring films. The nun movies, they're not, they're just not good movies, like the stories are just I think terrible, but they're, they are interesting because they have more of a Catholic aspect to it. And well, basically both movies and with not, I mean, it's not spoiler, but like the blood of Christ, like the, they actually have like the physical, the quote unquote physical blood of Christ. And they use that, that to cast out the, the demon, basically, and to defeat it because it gets the blood on any time. So it's like, it's very ritualistic and sacri, sacrilegious and, you know, I, you know, it's idolatry. And no, they do not actually have the physical blood of Jesus. Yeah. And if they did, it doesn't matter. It's the blood of Christ was spilt once and for all, for the forgiveness of sins of all time, for all those who trust the name. Yeah. Um, so the, so the second conjuring, it does, she does use the, well, she says in the name of the father, son, and the Holy spirit, I condemn you to hell. So she, she does mention God. Yeah. To cast, to cast Valakow. Right. And, and did that work? I can't remember. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, so yeah, I mean, yeah, it's in the name of the train God, it, that there, there is no other power that can defeat the demonic that can defeat the darkness in this world, the name of the train God. And specifically through the name of Christ, who is the representative of the father who sends his spirit to dwell into those people and go forth and conquer and defeats those that are aligned against him and against his people. So yeah, it, like I said, there's, there are redeeming aspects to movies like that, like the conjuring films that I, I can, they, I can pick apart and I can enjoy in, in, in some ways, because I know, and because I watch those movies and I know where True Hope is found. I know, uh, where the remedy is for these demonic cases and these things that do happen. But the demonic fish in Israel, and it's, I think it's just as prevalent nowadays than no one's ever has. I mean, I do believe Christ is, is, is putting all his enemies beneath his feet and he is conquering. And, and he's being victorious, but, you know, but I think Satan, as scripture says, walks around like an angel of light, like he, he is out in the open a lot more than we like to realize, and speaking of Hollywood, Hollywood was filled with, uh, uh, demon obsessed people. I'm just gonna throw that out there and it is, I 100% believe you know, well, yeah, there's a lot of child sacrifice in Hollywood, a lot of, um, yes, pedophilia and all kinds of and put in nasty stuff, yeah, all right, what else you got for Halloween? What else do I got? Well, oh, well, no, I'm gonna say that for the end. Um, that's actually it for Halloween specifically, have like a few rapid fire things I could throw off, shoot off or one. Yeah, go for it. All right. So I saw Venom three, uh, two, sorry, you haven't seen Venom three, do you want me to say Mike, just one sentence opinion of the film, sure, or would you rather I don't care? Okay. It is a typical Spider-Man Sony. It sucked. Oh, really? I don't know. It's just really dumb. It was fun. It was a fun Venom film. It was not as good as the first one. Probably on par with the second one. Maybe a little bit in a second. I don't know. Cause I don't remember much about it. There's that. Dang. Yeah. I was a lot more in the sentence, but yeah, it sucked. All right. What else do you see the trailer for Dune prophecy? No. Oh, so it's the, um, Benny Jesuit, uh, TV show set 10,000 years before the events of Dune, uh, speaking of Dune, I got my, my house of tradies, signet ring, nice. My favorite things, um, nice. My wife got it for me for, it was in my birthday or Christmas. I can't remember. Nice. Anyways. That's one of my favorite, uh, little, uh, props I have, I guess. Yeah. I should have a lot. I should show off my stuff. But anyways, yeah, uh, Dune prophecy. It looks really good. Uh, you should watch the trailer. Like I'm like, oh yeah, oh, and also got me super stoked for Dune. So I started reading the book again. I'm like three chapters in. I'm going to read again. It's so good. I'm totally back in a Dune. Nice. And yeah, I don't know. It was, it looks good, but it's, you know, it's, it's a, it's female lead, uh, you know, but it's taking like actual lore from, uh, uh, from Dune and then expanding upon it. So it, if they stay true to it, there's not a whole lot of lore that they can mess up, um, because there's not a whole lot written, uh, on this timeline, well, sort of, I mean, there's a whole book that's a prequel. So, but, and that talks about the Vangiazu, it's a lot and, and so forth, but it, it could be really good, but it also can be super lame and, and gay. So who knows? So we will find out about that. Um, oh, today, did you see that they had, there were set photos for, uh, Nicholas Cage's spider noir? Mm-mm. Yeah. So it's, he's in his suit. I mean, I don't know if it's actually a cage in the suit, but it looks super cool. I'm, I'm totally here for it. Um, I should have sent, sent them to you, but, um, you can just, yeah, look them up. But he's like riding on a motor car and, and standing super cool, super cool pose. I mean, it, it looks like, you know, straight and from animated to live action, I'm, I'm here for it. Mm-mm. So, so that was released today. Looked forward to that and that was pretty much it for me, actually. Nice. Yeah. Um, yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm looking forward to this. I think it has potential of being good, but also, well, no, it's not so many. It's Amazon. So. Yeah. Who knows? Interesting. When speaking of N3, we have Craven left this year still. Oh, yeah. I, I don't know. I, I, I, I wanted to be good. I, I wanted Vam3 to be good. Who knows? Yeah. Jeez. I almost got that. Oh, I, I almost got the Venom, uh, pop regal popcorn bucket. Yeah. And it's like his face. Oh, yeah. And I looked at it. It's like, it's really lame. It's like really cheap plastic and it wasn't as big as I thought it was and his teeth are really small and it just, they're kind of double. Yeah. I didn't get it. Yeah. And it was like 40 bucks. Yeah. Yeah. Um, one thing that we haven't talked about. We haven't talked about because it came out like, I think, I think it's the night that we recorded last week, uh, the Daredevil trailer that got leaked. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so it was, I think, was it New York, New York Comic Con? Yeah. It's New York Comic Con. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The trailer got leaked. Uh, I mean, yeah. Yeah, it was like, yeah, it was a boot legged version of the trailer. What'd you think of it? Looks good. Yeah. I'm excited. I mean, totally, I don't know if there's, I can't remember if there's necessarily much of the story in, in the, the trailer, but, um, not really, a lot of it had the same feel as the, the original show, which is very, very good. And it didn't have a, a strong Disney feel to it at all. Mm hmm. So a lot of hopeful things regarding it and hopefully it'll, it'll live up to, to the original three seasons or whatever. Yeah. I want to go back and watch those. Yeah. I think I'm going to. I just, some of the best adaptations of, of superheroes, um, I think ever. So I mean, I, I loved it. Um, you kind of setting up the, you know, rivalry fight between kingpin and daredevil once again. And it had everyone in it had, um, you know, obviously a foggy and carol. It had, um, Punisher, it had bullseye and, yeah, everyone was in prison. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kingpin. Yeah. I'm, I'm here for it. Yeah. Yeah. I'll see. Yeah. And that the whole, the whole, I mean, all three seasons were so good. Two, I think is what the one that lacked the most because I feel it feel like that was like the season where they're introducing all the other shows that they were going to do. Like they're, they introduced Punisher so that they could do the Punisher series. They introduced. Did they introduce Luke? No, he wasn't. Was it Luke Cage or Jax's good Jones in it? I don't think so. I can't remember. I don't think so, but oh, and there, it was a lot of a lecture was in that one. That was all. That was all. Oh, that's what it was. It was the hand. That's what was really introduced in that was the hand because then they did all the other series and then they did the defenders series and all those like led to the hands. Like that was the season to introduce the hand. It was like the intro to the hand and then you watch all the other seasons of the different shows and then you watch the defenders and then so like it was, it was really heavily tied to like all these other things that still kind of made it a little sloppy, but the other two seasons are like just top notch TV like absolutely the best. Not this season. It was like fun. Season two is still fun. It's still fun. It's still fun. It's okay. Better than anything we've gotten as if recently. Yeah, so, I think that's it for news. Anything else? No. That's it. So to buy, I have a question that is pressing in this time in the season. So to buy is the nightmare before Christmas, a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie? I always watch it on November 1st. I think that's the day to watch it because it's a transition movie from Halloween to Christmas. Yeah. Yeah. I can. I agree with that. That's exactly what we did. Yeah. It's kind of our becoming our tradition where we do that and we put up Christmas decorations because Christmas starts on November 1st. Okay. Everyone says, "Halloween's done, it's Christmas season." So yeah, I mean, but is it a Christmas movie or a Halloween movie? It's more of a Halloween movie than it is a Christmas movie. Yeah. I agree. Yeah. And apparently it's considered a Halloween movie. It's set in Halloween towns, takes place during Halloween, but then he goes on a journey, finds Christmas, and gets involved with the Christmas stuff and everything and then comes back to Halloween. It's a Halloween movie, but Christmas elements, there's a lot of Christmas elements to it and I get why. You kind of got a, it's like a transition film. Yeah. Secondly, what about Gremlins? Is Gremlins a Christmas movie or a Halloween movie? Like is it a movie you watch during Halloween or Christmas? I haven't watched Gremlins in many years. You have to. It was so good. So I thought it was a Christmas movie, but then I get on all these streaming services and I keep seeing Gremlins pop up or whatever, whatever streaming service is on, maybe Disney Plus. I don't, I think that's where it is. And it's under, I think it's Max and it's under, yeah, probably. And it's under Halloween movies. I was like, wait, I thought this was a Christmas movie because I was planning to watch it this coming Christmas season. And so I was like, what, so I'm going to watch it in November. So if it's Christmas or Halloween, it doesn't really matter. Okay. That's exactly what prompted this question because I saw it on the streaming service. I was like, oh, it's, it's this says Halloween movie because it's, it's actually not, it's a Christmas movie. It takes place during Christmas. Yeah. It's, it's a hundred percent Christmas movie. But it's like creepy, it's kind of like a spooky movie. Okay. Yeah. That's what I thought. I watched it during Halloween. It's fine. But it's set during Christmas. Yeah. It's, in my opinion, it's Christmas movie. I watched it every Christmas. Yeah. Nice. I, I, I watched the first one. I never watched the second one. And I haven't seen the second one in years. So I want to go, I want to watch this year. Yeah. Yeah. That's fun. All right. Yep. Are we doing, are we doing a tier list? Yes we are. So I have a whole list of most, I tried to like do mostly is Halloween themed movie. And not necessarily horror movies. I did put some horror in here, but I'm just have a whole list of films and we'll just see how far we can get. Let's rank it. S tier is the highest A, B, C, D, F. We'll skip E and we will figure this out. Okay. And this is Halloween movies. So like, what is your S tier Halloween, best Halloween movie that you've, that you've seen. That's where your S tier is. And you put those, however many is up there and they got the rest. So I'm gonna start with, I don't even know if you've seen all these, if haven't, okay. Corpse bride. Corpse bride. Right. A lot of Tim Burton on it. Yeah. Corpse bride is, that's probably, I don't know, maybe A. Yeah, I'd say it's A. Yeah. It's just a solid Halloween film. Oh, I mean, a lot of Tim Burton films are, at least for me, I'm a, okay, I'm a fan of Tim Burton and more of his style and his cinematography and filmmaking. I, I just don't think he's that good of a writer and director, cause a lot of the stories I just don't think are well written, um, sort of, but he does have a lot of, a lot of good, like he, when he, when he, um, makes good films, they're really good, at least in my opinion. So yeah, I'd say, I'd say A tier as well. So both go A. I, I, I put a sleepy hollow on here. Um, I know you said you hadn't seen it or hadn't seen all of it. Uh, I'd say it's probably B tier. It's good. Um, it's not like great, but let's say B tier. Yeah. I mentioned Sweeney Todd. Did you, have you seen Sweeney Todd? I couldn't get through that one. Uh, as soon as it starts singing, I turned it off. Oh, which is the two minutes and I think as like, as a Halloween movie, I think they get through their credits and then they start singing. Yeah. That's fair. Uh, I'm going to, it's probably like a C tier for me. Yeah. Um, all right, let's do Haunted Mansion Eddie Murphy. Oh, man, um, let's pray, um, of B, that's B. Okay. I mean, that's one that I go back to every year and I do soon. I love it. I love it every time. And like, it's like a Halloween film. It's just a fun Halloween film. I'm going to say age here. It's like a low A, but a lot of the ones, because like, I feel like all these movies are like all the movies that I watch every year for Halloween are like peak movies. That's why I watch them every year. So it's like, but I can still put them on the list. So like, even the lowest one is probably going to be like a really good movie in my opinion. Right. That's very, oh, yeah, it's probably like realistically like a beach here. So I'll stay here. It's fine. Uh, hotel, Transylvania. Um, let's see, the first one, uh, probably, it's hard, it's like animated, animated kids. Yeah. Like, probably B, I guess. Yeah. I, yeah, I'd probably say it's like a beach here. It's, it's fun. Yeah. It's not great. Um, it's that, that's one thing that's really interesting. It's like with those movies. And I feel like this, this happens a lot, um, which I, I'm really forward to Nestor, Nestor Foratu. Uh, I think I pretty mispronounced that, but it's the Dracula film by, um, what's his name? I talked about it last week. It's the van, it's like the Dracula, with, uh, the, the guy from, he was in the Hobbit. Luke Evans. Wait. So that's, I'm talking about something else. No. That's when you mentioned that. No, he actually, he did a movie called Dracula. Oh, huh. Oh, I don't know what you're talking about. Um, anyways, it's, it's, uh, yeah, no, no, no, it's foratu. So I'm looking forward to Nestor foratu. It's, it comes out, uh, it's actually like a Christmas day. It comes out, um, but it's based off of a, a movie from the, like a silent German film from the twenties, uh, just loosely based off of Dracula. And, um, I can't remember, um, who's directing the, the, the new one is, let's keep going on the list. Okay. Sorry. It's, well, I, I made a point, I'm making a point in hotel Transvania. It's really interesting that, uh, Dracula and Frankenstein are like celebrities. You know, they're like, they're not scary anymore. Like, those were like the, the, those were the beginning of the horror, uh, well, book genre and then film genre. I just finished reading Dracula. That was, uh, well Frankenstein was like the first like fictional horror book ever written. And then they made films about it. And like those were like horrifying, those were the scary films. And now it's like changing our culture where it's more demonic and, and so forth. And there's a lot of commentary that I can give on that. Uh, it's why that is why it shifts in different cultures. But now we see like Dracula and Frankenstein and like the mummy, like they're just common. Like we laugh at them. They're celebrities. We, we, we dress up as them when we find them silly, when they actually used to be horrified. Yeah. And so forth. I was just, it's interesting that they do that. The culture, hotel Transvania. But yeah, you say B tier. I say B tier as well. Uh, Coraline. Have you seen Coraline? Oh, yeah. We watched that every year. Nice. That's probably a, yeah, it's a fun movie. It's actually been a while since I've seen it, um, but I remember it like it, you know, it's just, it's weird, uh, but I like weird and yeah, I'd say it's, I'd say it's eight tier. That's good. Beetlejuice. I can't just put everything in a, I mean, well, we got what, what's your S tier? Like do you have, I think movies of mine that would be yes tier. I have one in mind, I guess I don't know what, what, what would, I don't know, yeah, I mean, I guess I might go back and put like corpse bride in S tier. I really like corpse bride. Okay. Um, yeah. Beetlejuice could probably go in S tier and then there's the other one. The other one that I think you, the other one that I'm thinking of that would be S tier. So I think, yeah, I think I put beetlejuice and corpse bride in S tier. Okay. I think, I, I agree. I think how, is Halloween film, I think it's top notch. It's great. It's funny. It's a little spooky, but, you know, it's just a good Halloween film for sure. Deals with a lot of, you know, it's just interesting aspects of like, of death and, and then of course, incorrect understanding of the afterlife. But also like, there's a lot of good messages that will win throughout of it and that I enjoy and I appreciate and yeah, overall, it's just a fun Halloween movie. Uh, we're about the sequel, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. We haven't talked about, Beetlejuice since we've all seen it, I don't think. Who did the, did I do a mini review or did you do a mini review? Yeah. Uh, you did. Okay. It's just generative, it just drives me nuts. Oh, really? Like as an actor? Yeah. Huh. She, and she makes two comments in the movie that are so annoying, like two feminist comments. Yeah. One, well, one about feminism, like strictly about feminism and then one about climate change. Well, yeah, and, and not to like get too much into it. I, I, I do remember those, those lines and it's like, it kind of bugged me first, but I thought like, oh well, no, they're kind of making fun of it. Cause like this is, and, cause it's showing her worldview is like, is a certain way and it actually changes throughout the film where she doesn't believe in the, and the after life, she doesn't believe in the spirituals, doesn't believe in ghosts and all these things. And so she has this like very, like in form, like a get in line, stand in line with everyone else worldview that is kind of silly, uh, at least from the, from the perspective of the movie. Yeah. And they set, I think they set that up well where it's like, oh wow. And she actually kind of changes throughout the film where I was like, I was actually kind of okay with it, um, cause like, and, and she was representing what a lot of like gen ziers are like, and it's kind of, kind of showing it's kind of silly, uh, may, that's might not be what they were going for necessarily. And maybe they just wanted to shoehorn those, those lines in that's what I felt more like for me. Um, but maybe when I watch it again, it'll, it'll not come off that way, but it's just I know like, that's how Jenner take it is. So that's why I would be like, that's why I would say like, that's probably not what they were going for, but it could, it could come off that way. I don't know. It's either B or C for me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like it was a big step down from the first one. Yeah. Basically, I think good about it was all the references to the first one. So, uh, it's, it's yeah, C tier for me. Yeah. Do you want to list off a couple before I'm going to, well, here actually one more, uh, hocus pocus, um, I think that's a hocus pocus. I would say that's a really, okay. Do you not like it? No, I don't know. I'm kind of like torn on it because I could, like, like they don't glorify witchcraft or witches necessarily actually show it's like, like these, like these witches are bad. Yeah. You know, there's a reason that they were, uh, they, they hung them, right? I think they, yeah, it's like they died by hanging, uh, in the beginning and they burn them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways. Yeah. We used to kill witches, um, uh, which was actually a good thing. And so, and then so they come back and this show, it makes it pretty clear, like, yeah, they're evil. So like they're the villains. It's silly. It's funny. Like, Halloween film. Yeah. It's, it feels like Halloween film. So did you say B? Yeah. No, I think I said A. Okay. Oh, A. Okay. Uh, maybe this would be yeah. I'm okay. I was saying H here though. It is a, a decent Halloween film. It's got a pretty straightforward story, um, and it's fun. Yeah. Good ending. Yeah. Well, you also get a good, a good work with the, the main, uh, male character. Because he, he goes from getting bullied to standing up to, to bullies. He doesn't stand up to the bullies from the beginning, but he stands up to the witches. And, and so there's a good arc of like him, uh, kind of becoming a man and saving the day. Yeah. What were you saying? Totally. Um, do you have, you, you had at least one that you put next year? Yeah. I wrote the rest of mine. I had like a few, uh, horror movies. I wanted to, uh, shoot off. Oh, okay. Monster house. That's two. Oh, monster house. That's my, I haven't seen that since we watched it every year. Top one. Is so. Really? Okay. Yeah. So good. It's a girl house. That's the uvula. Oh, so it's a girl house. Yeah. No, that's great. I, I need to watch that one. Yeah. It's been, yeah. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm fine saying S to your, I don't, I don't remember much about it. I don't know. It's been a long time. I'm sure it's good one. So. All right. So the conjuring. Where would you put that? That's probably us. Yeah. I'd say it's really good. It's, it's really good. Yeah. It's, it's really good. Yeah. I don't remember what about it. I don't remember. It's been a long time. So. I'm sure it's a good one. So. All right. So the conjuring. Where would you put that? That's probably us. Yeah. That's really good. It's a good horror film, but good Halloween spooky season film. Yeah. Staying within that Annabelle first one. The one. Um. Let's see. The first one. What was, oh, that was the, the couple, um, the kit that, that baby. Yeah. The baby. That was good too. Mm-hmm. I would say if we're like comparing it to conjuring, I would put it in like a. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's say it's a, you know, spooky doll, it's, it's horror, it's fun horror. Uh, have you seen the ring? Mm-hmm. Oh. You got to watch the ring this year. Dude, put that in your list. Okay. Watch with Marylle. Yeah. Oh, dude. No, you got to watch the ring. Have you seen Psycho? Like the. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's really good. It's probably S tier. Yeah. Yeah. I'd say S tier. Yeah. That's a really good movie. Um, six cents. That's probably A from me. Not, not that there's really much wrong with it. It's just, uh, I don't know. It's a good movie. What'd you learn the twist? It's not as fun. I wouldn't say it's solid like what, I mean, I wouldn't say it doesn't, I wouldn't say it ruins it or anything, but yeah, I don't know. I would say ruins age just not at, I don't know. Yeah. It's good. It's still good. It's solid. Yeah. Yeah. Like I think the village is way better than the six cents. Village is S tier. Hmm. Really? Okay. Man, I don't know. I have seen the village recently. I don't know if I'd say it's better. Village I would probably, ooh, I'd probably be like B tier. Wow. Um, I just, it's, it's not like, like I like the twist. It's spooky. It's just not like one that I'd love to go back to, I guess, and that's kind of like where I would. Yeah. I kind of have to rank some of these movies like, oh, this one, I, I, I, I want to go, I like to go back and go and watch. All right. We're in about an hour. Do you have any that you really want to get? Get out of the way. Okay. So let's do, and my Shyamalan again, uh, signs. I know you like signs. Yeah. Like signs. I don't watch it really for Halloween. Yeah. Most alien movies I stay away from for Halloween. I'm not sure. It doesn't really put me in the Halloween mood. Yeah. What about alien? Yeah. Uh, not for Halloween. Okay. Um, that's fair. As a movie, I would put it in probably AIDS here. Um, okay. But it's not really a, I don't consider it a Halloween movie. Sure. Or it's not spooky enough or like, uh, it's not like, no, I feel like with aliens, you just don't watch alien movies for Halloween. Yeah. Like alien. Okay. But as far as alien movies in general, yeah, I'd say signs would be as a Halloween film. I kind of would agree. Like, it's kind of like a C tier. Yeah. Yeah. For me. One last one. Five nights at Freddy's. More recent film. Actually, I don't know if you've seen it. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Would you? It's like a B or C. Okay. Um, I, there's like, as a, like a movie, it's C as a Halloween film. Like that's, I think it's great. Yeah. I guess. Yeah. So I'd say Halloween movie. I guess it's, yeah. B. I'm going to say A tier. I guess. Yeah. You're putting all your other A tier is the shame. What? You're putting all your other A tier movies to shame putting that at A tier. What? Oh. Oh. Wow. I, I like the, the Five Nights at Freddy's Getty universe. I think it's fun and I've kind of, I know a lot about the lore. Yeah. And so there's aspects of it that I like, but I understand, like I said, it's like C tier movie, but it's like Halloween movie. Yeah. It's, it's haunted animatronics. Yeah. You know, it's. All right. Do you want to call it now? Yeah. Let's, let's do that. All right. This was fun. Yeah. For sure. Happy Halloween. Yep. That was. I didn't really get much into the whole topic of Halloween itself, but yeah, it's, yeah. It's okay. This Halloween, one's Halloween. 31st. Thursday. Thursday. Okay. Yeah. This is our last episode for Halloween. Cool. Mm hmm. Well, yeah. Thank you guys for listening. Hope you enjoyed this Halloween episode. Enjoy the spooky movies leading up to Halloween and, uh, remember that Halloween is a Christian holiday. So go out and, and celebrate all Hallows Eve. With joy knowing who is conquered. All that is evil and death that we can masquerade and laugh at, at the demons because they have no power and yep, yeah, which is the point of how we, yeah, it's not based off of the pagan holiday. Yeah. That's for another day. Yeah. It's not, it's not what the lady and hocus pocus said that Halloween is about. Right. Yeah. 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