Come to Daddy (2019), directed by Ant Timpson, is our 24th episode! There's a real bad Daddy in this movie. And Elijah Wood, obviously.
This titular Daddy attempts to do some really awful things to his son at one point while being in a state of consistent inebriation. Maybe he grabbed the knife to try and give his son a more agreeable haircut. Fix his fringe. Daddy didn't know his actions would be misconstrued. That's it, he was perfectly safe. Ant Timpson's directorial horror/comedy debut starring Elijah Wood is a pretty fun romp.
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Why would you call a child Norville where does normal come from?
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I was really thinking about looking up the origins of that name.
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And I didn't do it because I was like, uh, because it's close to Orville. And the only Orville I know of is of the green bird puppet, um, from back home Orville.
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Orville reddenbacher.
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It was like popcorn. What's his name? Is it Keith? Keith something or other. He's dead now, but yeah, uh, he used to do used to have a funny monkey called, uh, bananas or peanuts or something. Um, and they had a song, I Wish I Could Fly up to the sky, but I can't.
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Would you like to know that the origins of this name is Scottish?
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It doesn't fucking surprise me.
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I would like to talk about the 2019 horror comedy Come to Daddy, starring Elijahood as Normal. Steven MC Hattie, Michael Smiley and Martin Donovan are also in this movie.
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Okay, that's tires from space.
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Yes.
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Yes. It's like one of only a couple of things that Edgar Wright has done. Well.
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I love Michael Smiley. He's awesome.
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Yeah, he's pretty funny. Um, yeah. This isn't to be associated in any way, shape or form with the, uh, effects twin track Come to Daddy, which we all know of.
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I did not remember that song right until last night.
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Remember the video, though? Chris Cunningham videos? Um, basically got like, that fucking ghoulish ogre thing screaming in an old lady's face.
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Oh, God.
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Fuck.
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Now, my God. Well, I'm pretty sure that that song is also in one of the CKY videos.
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Okay, well, I'm sure it's in other things, but. Yeah. Anyway, if I would just put that out there just in case there is another clarifying case, anyone's? Uh, well, I would say that's the original that I remember. It's been remixed plenty of times, and I'm assuming. And I'm going to assume because we live in an age where everyone does, like, a kind of softer edge diversion of an older song to stick in, like a trailer or something.
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Okay.
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It's usually a soft female vocalist and it's really slow and you're always kind of like, oh, I uh, think I've heard that song before and you're like, no, it's just a really slow version of fucking Culture Club or something. You know what I mean?
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I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about right now.
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Right. Okay.
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But the end of this movie, um, has an Apex Twin song in it.
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Okay. Is it the actual track or is it like what I said before? Like it's the soft version?
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No, it's the real song of the actual things.
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Like the sad, soft, depressing version of the song. I'll get some stuff up and maybe let you listen to it all.
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Yeah, okay. But it ends with an Apex twin song and uh, it's a very popular one. It's not April 14, it's Avril 14th.
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April 14. Yeah, well, they named their stuff kind of funny. It's kind of like kind of the same thing. Yeah. Um, I like all that sort of stuff.
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But yes, uh, I do want to say right off the bat or a little bit and I love this movie. I really think this movie is very funny and very weird.
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Yeah, it's fine.
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It um, was directed by Aunt Simpson. So you got some words for me on Ant, only a few.
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There's not a lot going on, really. I'd say he's not new because I think he's been in the film business since like the 90s. Um, but he's produced more than he's directed. He's Come to Daddy in 2019 is the only film that he's directed. So it's effectively a directorial debut. I think that's what we'll call it. But he has had his hand in a few other things. I'm only going to mention in the ones that I recognize. Sensor, that came out in 21, uh, which was decent.
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Yeah, you watched that and I wasn't here, so I didn't get to watch it with you.
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I watched it on Hulu. I think it's probably still on Hulu. I think it's fine. Okay. I think like my truncated review of that movie is that it starts off well. The middle is all over the place and it ends well.
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Okay.
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It's a bit uneven. And I guess that's the state of independent horror films as I feel it is right now. It's kind of all follows that sort of framework. But he, um, also produced Sensor. He produced The Greasy Strangler, which we're yet to see. And he also, um, produced or at least out of hand in the, uh, two ABCs of Death that came out a few years ago, which were like anthology movies, basically.
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Cool.
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So, yeah, his hand is very much in the pie of horror, but, um, yeah, he hails from New Zealand and um, that's uh, it because there's a lot of production company names on the front end to come to Daddy, to the point where it's maybe a little bit too long. It's like five, uh, minutes of, uh, company animations that had the start of this movie where you're just like, Holy shit. Yeah, that's the guy. Like I said, I haven't really got anything else to kind of say about them. We saw, um, some interviews and stuff like that. Remember, uh, we saw that one interview where Elijah Woods getting interviewed by. And I don't know if Elijah Woods particularly tall. And then obviously, aunt, like, they're struggling to kind of keep him in frame because he is huge. He is a massive man, you know, media.
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Yeah. Aunt Tips and Timson, I, um, guess has been producing, like, you were saying stuff for so long, and I really do want to watch The Greasy Strangler, but I feel like we tend to watch our movies at dinner time, and I know that the movie is going to be real gross.
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Yeah, it's the same reason we haven't, um, sat down to watch Ricky. Oh, yeah.
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Uh, or society.
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Or society.
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Because I know it's going to ruin my dinner.
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It's going to be a bit slimy, and it's probably going to be a little bit gross. Um, even I kind of draw the line. Even my desensitized self kind of draws the line while I'm trying to eat my dinner.
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Yeah, of course.
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Someone's stomach start to gargle.
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So the synopsis of this film, I actually wrote, um, down two, because one is very short and one's a little longer.
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Okay. Um, it's a bit greedy.
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It's a little bit greedy. Yeah, well, I thought one was more to the point, and I kind of liked it better. So the short one is, uh, a man in his 30s travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father.
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That, uh, is not a tagline. That's the log line.
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Yeah, that's what this movie is. Okay, that's not the tagline. The tagline is terrible. But the other synopsis is.
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I wasn't wrong. It wasn't a tanglay.
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Right. Okay. After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norville travels to his dad's oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experience. If only he'd known the dark truth about his old man beforehand.
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Hold on, hold on. Wait, which one was the synopsis and which one was the synopsis?
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They were two different ones.
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Oh, okay, right.
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The tagline is just not a tagline. It's from, um, the team behind the Witch and the Greasy Strangler.
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Uh.
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Those are from letterbox.
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I thought you said there was two.
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Two synopsis.
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Oh, two synopsis.
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I might have said that.
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Yeah. See, that's, uh, why I'm confused. Anyway, okay, um, well, I think the first synopsis is better because lends more to the imagination as opposed to. Let me tell you the entirety of the story, just minus all the jokes.
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Yeah. It's like, just know that something weird is about to happen.
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Yeah. Just in case you got 40 minutes and didn't think it was going to twisty turn. Well, it's going to twisty turn.
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Yeah. I didn't know what this movie was going in. This is the second time I've seen this movie, and I really like Elijah Wood, so that'll pull me in no matter what. But the thing is that it's super fun to not know what is going to happen in this film, because it is weird and it's so awkward and funny. And that's kind of what pulled me in, because you don't know what's happening until, like, halfway through the movie.
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Yeah, I guess, uh, there's elements of it where they're trying to, like it's, trying to behave like a horror movie. Um, I'd say take the horror genre completely out of it. You wouldn't realize it had anything to do with horror. It's more kind of suspense thriller comedy. It plays very much for less. I mean, you're going into this. It's very silly. Certainly a lot of the dialogue is incredibly lent, uh, in a very particular direction where it is played completely for less. Because there's no aspect of, like, a lot of these characters that you're meant to take 100% seriously.
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Yeah. Well, right off the bat, you have Elijah Wood getting off of a bus wearing this ridiculous outfit. He's got a hat and this mustache, which I'm a fan of. But luckily he loses that hat right away. It was a terrible hat. But then you revealed with this ridiculous haircut.
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Yeah. I mean, unfortunately, he loses the hat, but he does not lose the hair. The mustache, uh, is fine.
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Yeah.
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He's got a very particular look at me at one point. He wears a jumper that has holes in the elbows, and the sleeve continues to flow. And I don't fully understand that he's, um, a bit artifarty in the stereotypical sense, I would say.
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Yeah. They had, um, a style before they even filmed the movie on what they wanted Norfolk to look like. And I guess Aunt had texted Elijah Wood and said that he wanted, um, the character to look like Skrillix the DJ. Yeah.
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Rep in Fat Beats.
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Yes. Right, absolutely. And I think that, um, the haircut came about because there's a lot of La Douche bag type of people, probably baristas that have that type of haircut.
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It's a loop I've seen before. And I'm not going to judge too many people on this particular look, because, guys, let's be honest, I have a very particular look, and it's a T shirt and jeans. I mean, that's pretty much it like I'm settled into my later life lifestyle, and it's basically a nicely, brightly colored T shirt, maybe has something offensive on it and then just a pair of trousers.
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Very stubborn man you are.
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Yeah. But you know what? It's not the clothes that make it the man. I'm pretty sure someone said that at some point, but. Yeah. No, I think.
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Well, he called it La Douchebaggery is what Aunt Simpson said.
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I wouldn't even say it's la specific. I mean, I've seen that sort of stuff before. It looks. The problem is it seems like incredibly impractical clothing. It's fashion, baby, all style, no substance. That's just kind of what it is.
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Well, I think that was kind of the problem with that. I mean, that shows the character itself is that he's trying to layer everything on top because he is insecure and not a success, as he wants to feel and show off that he's very successful.
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Yeah. I guess that's one of the primary issues I have with characters being written this way are certainly characters that are reflecting, I guess, like, millennial culture is that they lean super heavy into this sort of stuff to the point where it is becoming a little bit of a stereotype.
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Well, why would you have a problem with a character being like that?
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No, his character gets better, but on the face of it, it's literally like he's just pandering to stereotypical millennial behavior. Right.
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But that's how the character is. He is terrible, and you're not meant to really like him all that much, but you still need to root for him.
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Yes.
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It's like you have someone that's a douchebag. He's a liar. He's a little bit pathetic. But then you still want them to succeed.
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Yeah, I'm not saying that it's a slight against the character. I'm just saying that's just the way it's written and it's put together like that's all it is.
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Yeah.
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And he does get better. It does get better as the film goes on. But obviously when you first see it, you're just kind of like, Here we go. Uh, yeah, it's another one of these.
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Well, also, he comes out to be sort of an alien in this world. You have this beautiful landscape and it's very green, and you've got the water and this insane looking house, and you have this guy just planted here who very obviously doesn't belong.
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No. I mean, certainly he took no consideration as to what his ears would look like when selecting that haircut.
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No.
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So, you know, just look like he was going to flap away in the wind.
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So he's going to meet his father, who apparently had left when he was just five years old. So he doesn't know him. Doesn't really know what he looks like. His mother never talks about him.
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No.
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He's never talked to him.
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No.
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So it's weird and it's super awkward. And walking up to this house after getting a weird letter to meet his father, it's so weird. He opens up the door and he just goes, dad. So weird.
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Yeah. Because there's probably going to be ways. I mean, this film is more than three years old at this point. There's going to be spoilers, and these are going to be big spoilers.
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Yeah, that's true. Uh, I think most people at this point, from the feedback that we get, is that they want to watch the movie first. So, I mean, if you've gotten this far, this movie is on Amazon Prime.
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Yeah. There will be spoilers. We're not going to be reciting any of the jokes and stuff like that. Everyone kind of turns out to be a little bit of a parody of themselves until things start to, um, get a little bit more real.
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You think we're not going to see any of the jokes? I wrote down a lot of the jokes. It's so funny.
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I don't know if it'll be funny coming from our minds.
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The whole interaction between the father and Norville is so bonkers. I don't know what it would be like if you're meeting your father after 30 years.
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Is that first Daddy naming him first? Daddy.
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Daddy.
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It's just Daddy.
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Yeah.
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From the office. Daddy. We're just calling him Daddy.
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Yeah.
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Okay. When he does meet him for the first time, it seems incredibly plausible that he would be his father. And the history that they would have had between themselves, uh, would be legit.
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Yeah, of course.
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Because they seem to, I guess. And it's a very deliberate thing. And obviously it is a very deliberate thing. But the generational gap in attitudes between the two, uh, of them is fairly self evident.
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Yeah, absolutely. There's that part where Daddy tells them they want to take a selfie picture together to send it to his mom, and he pulls out this gold phone and Norville goes, uh, oh, well, Lord gave this phone to me. The artist.
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Yeah.
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Lord. I don't know anything about Lord.
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I knew a song. I knew a song because I was like, Could I make a Lord joke during the point of the podcast? And then I was just like, It's Lord. I just don't care. It's not my generation's music. I just don't have any loving for it whatsoever.
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The name is familiar to me.
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But I don't know the name of sound like a granddad all sound the same to me.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Yeah. Like Billy Eilish and Lord and stuff. Like, I literally couldn't tell them apart.
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Okay.
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There's no way. But yeah, no, he gets.
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Um, this gold phone and it's made of real gold.
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Only 20 in the world.
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Yes. And so the Papa is taking this photo and then drops it over the side of the balcony of this house, plonks on a rock, plunks into the water. Like you said, there's only 20 of these in the world. And then Papa goes, oh, there's 19 now and then, just walks away. Doesn't give a shit.
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But you realize as the film progresses and you remember these things, it's a very deliberate reason why he destroys the phone. You know what I mean? Yeah.
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There is, um, a sense of unease and awkward dread throughout the whole half of this movie.
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Yeah. You're not really 100% sure what's going to happen. I mean, the minute you get to the house, because he's walked up to the house. The house looks rife to become a climate. Uh, disaster. Tragedy at some point.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it's right on the shoreline, literally. You spit out your window, it's in the ocean. You are right on the wall.
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It's really beautiful.
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It's a delicate, I would say.
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Yeah.
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Like I said, I don't think it's, um, particularly practical in the modern sense of the word. Obviously, the sun is going to destroy itself in 7 billion years. More than likely the tides are going to rise within a fraction of that time. Right, certainly. Um, yeah.
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But the point is, we should just enjoy ourselves now.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Heroin for everyone.
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Yeah. They have very interesting interactions and interesting conversations. Um, there's a point, uh, where Normal is saying that he lives with his mom still for a time that's been. He's been. Had a rough couple of years.
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And then what is the dad saying that's like, well, you must sleep with your mom. You sleep in the same bed with your mum. You don't live with your mum?
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Um, no, I don't share a bedroom.
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What? You share a bed with your mum?
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God. And what was that whole part when they end up sitting by the fire, um, and they're just having a chat and then Norville is trying to make himself, make his dad proud, maybe. These are all amazing things I do. Oh, I'm like a really famous DJ. I'm really famous in the music industry.
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Yes. Do I produce blazing beats?
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Yes. Do I tickle the ivories? Yes. Yeah, hilarious.
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It was pretty funny in context. The thing is, the film skirts a super fine line between trying to take itself seriously, but then obviously not taking itself seriously. I think if you go in here taking it as a comedy, you'll have a much better time.
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Absolutely. And I think that that is a really fun thing about genre films and horror genre and being able to have fun with that.
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Well, this is the time of. There's a real resurgence of the comedy horror. Now. We saw it with Freaky, we saw it with the two Happy Death Day movies. There's a real need for stuff to feel a little bit lighter in the horror genre. And this also does that relatively quite well.
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I think that it's a really good marriage of the two. And I find that to be some of my favorite type of genre horror films as ones that don't take themselves too seriously but can still be scary.
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Yeah. Because if you want to think, like, what would I rather be watching? Would I rather be watching some of the films or the countless stream of, like, exorcism films that are horror things and they just take themselves far too seriously?
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I do like a spooky ghost movie very much, but these are also very high up on my list of, um, stuff that I would like to watch.
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Yeah, of course.
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Because I don't have to worry about having nightmares.
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No, that's very true. But you wouldn't be scared of, like, a bad Daddy.
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A bad dad? Uh, well, I know what my dad looks like, and my dad scared me enough when I was a kid because he had the mustache.
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Stuff like that on the podcast. It's going to come back on you.
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I'm not saying he was a bad dad. I'm just saying he was an intimidating dad.
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That's even worse. Other than that. Yeah, of course it is.
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No, he rode motorcycles. All my friends were scared of him.
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I don't talk about my dad for obvious reasons.
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Because you could end up in a situation like this film.
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Well, no, because I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't answer the letter. We talking about seeing my dad in over a decade at this point. Like, it doesn't really matter.
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You put yourself in normal shoes.
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Yeah. You see these fucking shoes with the rest of his clothes? Yeah. I'd be questioning myself in the mirror before answering a letter to be like, uh, yeah. What will my dad think of me? This fucking call me a rat fucker and a cunt.
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Yeah, they sure do say the word cunt many times, which I appreciate.
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Uh, well, let's put it this way. Like, at one point, Daddy, this is also the thing. Daddy just tells them a story because, uh, he does a thing where you kind of just tells them random things to intimidate them because there's a lot of Daddy, um, posturing, um, for the first part of this movie.
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Yes.
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It's just like my man, you know, all this sort of stuff. And he basically tells the story about how he kicked someone in the head so hard his ear fell off.
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Yeah.
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And it was acting like a sea in his brain. And then that becomes something later on and we figure out exactly who that person was. Basically, what comes to be is Daddy drinks a bit too much.
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Yeah.
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Daddy's a little bit violent.
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Yeah.
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And Norville confronts them. It's a way to find out. Why did you write the letter? Why did you ask him to come here and Daddy gets a knife?
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Yeah. He won't answer his question. He's getting really mad.
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He's angry and he's drinking heavily. He won't stop drinking.
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I think you sent me the letter because you're an alcoholic and he grabs a meat Cleaver.
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Yes.
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Which is. I just want to point out that at 27 minutes and, uh, 43 seconds, we get the all the beautiful titular line, which I didn't think we'd actually get a titular line in this movie because it's called Come to Daddy. You think, are they actually going to be able to pull this off? And they do.
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Yeah.
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I think it happens twice.
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I do.
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Awesome.
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I do like it. I do like it where he's just like, he's beckoning him in and he's got the knife in his hand and he's like gum to Daddy, which is exactly what I was wanting.
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Oh, yeah. But the thing is my favorite part.
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And, I mean, when we look back on the movie, that first section of the film before, like, a lot of stuff gets revealed. That first section of the film is a little strange. It's a little weird. Like, I wonder why Daddy let it go on for as long as he did.
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Maybe two days.
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Yeah, I'm kind of just like you would probably potentially dispatch them, you know what I mean?
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Well, you heard, uh, Daddy having conversations with other people and trying to figure out what to do in this situation.
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Yes, I guess that's kind of how they cover it up. That's how they kind of justify it all a little bit.
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Because I don't think that Daddy was intending for harm initially.
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Well, he didn't know about the letter because. Spoiler alert.
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Are you going to do it?
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No, fuck it. This film is three years old, okay? He's not his Daddy. Yeah, he's not his Daddy. Oh, my God. So my dad didn't even know about the letter. I didn't know anything about him. He's not his Daddy. And what kind of comes to be is that they call the Coroners. The body ends up. This is one of the weirdest things in the movie. And it's, uh, one of the things I don't really like was that they ran out of space at the morgue or at the Coroners. So the body had to be brought back to the house. So the body is just in the house. So also there's this kind of feeling, and I kind of got those feelings. I was like, I turn into, like a supernatural thing where he is actually the Daddy and he's just going to wake up again. Even though they've had all these fluids and these fucking organs drained out of them, he's just going to be this fermaldehyde Daddy, like, wandering around the house.
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I want to back you up a little bit.
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What's that?
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Because Daddy has a heart, uh, attack.
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Yeah. Daddy dies, right? Yeah.
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So Daddy has a heart attack. During this whole confrontation with Norval, things got really heated. An attempt on Norville's life is made. Um, and then while this is all happening, Daddy just drops dead. And Norville doesn't know what to do. He sees his father, sees Daddy laying on the ground, and it's a shocking situation. He calls his mother, he calls the coroner. And, yeah, that's when the coroner comes by and says, oh, I'll bring the body back in a few days or tomorrow. He's like, why would that happen? Because they ran out of room.
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Yeah, I don't understand that.
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So you're right. Yeah. You don't know what's, uh, happening when Daddy comes back. Because Daddy's in this room, normal, sitting there for a couple of days, losing his mind, having nightmares. He's hearing noises.
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He went back to drinking, even though he had. He had dependency issues.
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He sure did.
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So he's decided and there's noises in the house. There's a lot of banging of metal and stuff.
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Right. So like you were saying, you don't know if this is like a supernatural element. Has Daddy come back?
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No.
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What is going on?
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Yeah, Daddy hasn't come back. I mean, he was the first Daddy. We were about to be introduced to the second Daddy, like the real Daddy.
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Right.
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And I guess this is where the film takes a, um, massive turn. Basically all the horror elements are chucked out. And basically what we're introduced to is more of the suspensey crime comedy caper. Uh, that the film is.
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Yeah. Because then we, uh, get to meet the other characters and find out why this Daddy was doing these things and what these noises are all about.
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Yes. Uh, so basically there's a basement, and these criminals have put Daddy in the basement.
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They put Normal's, actual Daddy.
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And they changed them. They kicked his head so hard that accidentally. And then what they reveal later is that they got him to eat his own ear.
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This I love so much. I love so much because Michael Smiley has been torturing this guy, I think. Or was it the other, um, guy? Was that other Daddy?
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I mean, both of them have been doing it right?
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So his ear gets kicked off and they gave him a choice, uh, they gave actual Daddy the choice to either eat his own ear or drink a cup of semen.
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Yes.
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And he eats his own ear. And then Norville says to him, well, you know, there's a lot more protein and it's probably a lot better for you to drink the semen.
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And he goes, well, they were starving. And that's why he was so hungry.
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He said, well, the semen was yellow. That's why he ate his ear.
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Yes. There's a lot of gross out stuff in the movie as well. He comes back, um, he's like, here's a pen. I've covered it in my own excrement. I know it's excrement. He stabs him with this shitty pen. He's like, it's going to stab you. It's going to cause an infection. You're going to die.
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Poo pen.
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I mean, the thing is, it becomes more of like a crying paper at this point, because what we reveal is that Daddy has been an estranged Daddy because he's lived effectively a criminal life. And, uh, these people have come back into his life demanding that they get their money back. He stole money from them from a job they did in the past. So you're kind of then flung into this kind of, like, criminal element in the movie. And I guess this is where it becomes something a little bit different from what we were experiencing before.
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Yeah. There's definitely a turn about halfway through the movie where, like, you're saying it turns into more of a keeper. It's a weird thing because, uh, normal has to track down Michael Smiley and ends up in the trunk of his car, effectively on his dad's request to murder him.
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So, like, uh, the minute second Daddy turns up and all this stuff starts to happen, I just feel like there's a lot of little questions and things that I kind of want answered. And the fact that he just kind of goes along with what his new Daddy's saying, okay. And just believing him and just going along with it and then killing people. He's actively murdering people. I mean, they're trying to murder him, but he murders that they call him the Hunchback. Poor Dandy's just taking a poop.
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Yeah.
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And he walks in and obviously the, uh, toilet paper still stuck to that. It's very funny. It's just like you're kind of just scratching your head a little bit. But he stabbed him in the deck and then he fucking, uh, bashes his teeth out of his fucking mouth with that Saran Wrap. And he chokes them with the Saran Wrap. It's very brutal for what it is. And then the entire time I was like, they called Dandy a Hunchback. And I'm like, he didn't look like a Hunchback. No, he really didn't.
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Maybe it was just an injury that we didn't really get to discover.
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Maybe a quasimotor looking motherfucker. It's a real shame. Real shame. Just doing the toilet. Yes, it's porky pig in it.
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Yeah.
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Another one of those occasions where we're like, Jesus Christ, someone's just not wearing pants.
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Now it's going to be a Gutenberg.
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Yes, we can't do that. That is not going to happen. I'm not going to allow it to happen. No.
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Yes, that's my thing.
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Now, I would much rather pull on the Disney or the Looney Tunes like dictionary characters like that whole thing than fucking bringing Gutenberg into my life. Yeah. This film is, um, funny, I guess. Let's just say keep it nice and short. Comedy of errors happens and he ends up at this hotel where we follow one of the criminals, um, because he's taken the suitcase tag off of his luggage, which basically details the address of Norville's mom and where she lives, um, and stuff. So it's now brought her into the mess. And he's just a fucking crazy Irishman. He's going to murder everybody for the revenge of Daddy's ills. And I guess, uh, that's how the quote at the beginning of the movie makes sense. It's like the sins of the father will be paid by the son. Yes. So it's very literal. But yeah, we're getting to the Dixie scene and we're at the hotel.
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We're at the motel. And apparently Norville needs to get to Michael Smiley to get the luggage tag back so he can save his, um, mom.
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So this is a little bit confusing. So I'm not too sure if he needed to get the luggage tag back or he needed to murder Smiley.
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Maybe a bit of both.
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Right?
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Maybe one is more important than the other, and he really wanted to get the address back, so he was worried about his mom, and maybe he would murder him if he needed to.
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Many people would take a moment of pause and just be like.
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Well, look, maybe I shouldn't murder this person.
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Maybe I should think about what I'm doing first before I decide to go through with it.
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Not in this type of movie.
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No, I guess not. Because then if there was any moment of pause, there would be no movie.
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This would be a drama.
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This would be a drama. Well, no, he'd be sitting on a park, uh, bench in the dark, probably in the rain, just, like, thinking about what he's doing.
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Yeah. Why is my Daddy such a bad Daddy?
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I wish my Daddy was in my life more.
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I wish I never came back to meet my Daddy.
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Credits when track, actually.
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Yeah. Well, this movie could have, um, been a very different film if it wasn't so funny and ridiculous. Yeah, um, well, based on. Based on the subject.
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Yeah, well, all the characters are entertaining. They're all parodies or some sort of, like, exaggeration of people in real life, because real people in real life don't behave this way. The person who's watching the motel, he loves big boobs, and that's his thing. The motel guy loves big boobs.
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Who doesn't?
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Yes. Like, huge boobs. It's like his personalized license plate is Jugs. He was reading a copy of Jugs.
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Okay, I don't remember that part.
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Yeah, he's quite easily swayed by the prospect of seeing a woman with gigantic boobs. Uh, and fair enough, that's how Elijah Wood, he's all scarred up and fucked up from fighting these goons, basically doing his Daddy's will he basically distracts him, uh, with the prospect that there might be a woman with big boobs near his car? That's why I kind of garnered from it. And by getting him to leave, he's able to get a whole bunch of hotel room keys. Now, just before this, there was the prostitute who went into Smiley's room who just puts people in headlocks. And then you pay her money, um, for it.
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Some people like that.
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Yeah. Either way, she looked like she was glow. She was quite right.
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Like a wrestler.
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She was quite a hefty lass. She looked like, uh, she could put you in a headlock. I think she just, like, goes up to Elijah weirdo. If I was really funny, she was like, Get the fuck away from me, you little motherfucker. But, yeah. No, there's this big thing about, like, there's a bunch of geologists and stuff. That's why he's not able to get a room. There's a bunch of geologists there.
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Right?
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And the reason we know they're geologists is they have, like, little rocks and stuff on the window Sills. Okay, I guess I may be the only person who knows this, but there's a lot of rocks on, like, windowsills and stuff like that. But basically they're geologists, but it's just a front because they're all just having. They're just all having orgies.
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Oh, yeah.
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It's just a swinger's party, pretty much. So he grabs all these keys, and he tries to kind of go, um, into one of the adjoining rooms. It's a really kind of, like, madcap moment where he's, like, grabbing keys, looking at the map, like the geography of the rooms and how you get into each room and all this sort of thing.
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Yeah. He's trying to get to Michael Smiley, and he ends up in the room with the geologist, as you say. Right. And it is dark. The TV is playing porn, but it's on mute. Right.
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It can look like porn, though.
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I assumed it was porn because when the sound does go on.
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It sounds like porn, but there's no porn taking place.
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Well, I mean, you have to lead up to porn. A porn can't just. You need a story, too.
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It's a lot of mumbling and moaning.
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Well, you got to have a little chat first. You got to toss up the ladies.
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That's true. You got to answer the door. You got a pizza. Maybe you've got the whole cow at the bottom of the pizza box. And it's like a dig pizza. Or you're a plumber. Like you're a man of.
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Uh, you got to fix the pipes.
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Yeah. You got pipes that need.
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You need a preamble in order. So maybe there was the preamble part that he walked in on, but everyone's in bed, they're, um, asleep. But there's a pantless man who's also gotten it. He's wearing a shirt.
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It's Porky Piggin. I'm not allowing you to do this. He's Porky Pigging.
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And then there's a couple of other people in bed. So it looked like they just had a good old fashioned. It's an orgy if there's more than three people. Right.
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I don't know if that's what's the technical. I don't know if that's particularly because there's still for some.
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Is there?
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Yeah, I'd say for some.
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How many people do you need to have an orgy? Doesn't need to be an odd number.
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I think it needs to be like a bunch of couples. No one's gangbanging on one particular.
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No gang bang is completely different.
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But what I mean is, I feel like there has to be equal numbers so that everything kind of balances out.
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But you can have five people and have an orgy. Yeah. You can kick out.
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You can.
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Greg, over here.
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Yeah.
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Get out of here, Greg.
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It's all consensual. I mean, you have to. You're just bouncing from person to person, or you're bouncing from couple to couple.
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Four people is not an orgy. You're saying?
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I'm saying. I think in order for it to clarify, qualify as an orgy in, like, let's say, in the Roman sense. Right.
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Okay.
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It has to be more than five, and it also has to be couples as well.
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I think you can have a bunch of singles.
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I feel like maybe me, I am maybe in the more conservative camp, and we're like everything has to be shared equally.
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I feel like I need to Google how many people do you need for an orgy?
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Look into the day. We haven't got vomitoriums anymore. I'm just trying to make sure everyone gets a piece of their pie if they want one, you know what I mean? There's not some sad fact. Just fucking jerking off in the corner, sitting in the corner chair. You know what I mean?
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Well, you can still be involved anyway. I think that you can have an orgy for four.
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That seems sad. And I just, uh, think everybody wants to get involved. They can either way. There are five people on this bed.
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There's five people.
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I think it's four is dark. It doesn't. It doesn't matter. How many folk can you fit on a Queen size bed? How many folk could we fit on our bed? Because our bed is a Queen size bed.
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You could probably fit three people comfortably. Three.
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What if you're trying to do something on the bed, though?
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I mean, if you're trying to do an orgy on a Queen size bed, you could fit plenty of people, depending on what you're doing.
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I think some people might slip off, like a knee might fall off of the bed, and you maybe got to put your foot on the carpet.
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It's not like the floor is lava or anything. You get people around the floor.
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Yeah. I'm not saying that there are Sharks in the carpet. There's no carpet Sharks.
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But, like, obviously, I think you could probably fit four people if you're doing an orgy on a Queen size bed.
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Okay.
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If you're having a nap side by side, maybe four.
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Yeah. I think if you're all spooning each other, maybe get the four in there under the covers.
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Okay. I think they were in that situation. So let's just comfortably say there's four people on the bed in the motel.
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Yeah. All right. Elijah Wood goes into the room, and he's got the keys, and he's trying to get into the adjoining room. Obviously, TV is on there's porno on the TV. Yes. Everybody's on the beds.
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Correct. Sleeping.
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The way that we see it, as he looks over, he glances over to the bed, and it pans across, and there's at least one girl in there.
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Yeah. I think it's like what you're saying. A couple of girls. A, um. Couple of guys.
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Couple girls. Yeah. Couples keep it fair. And the camera pans can be. Well, the camera pans across to the man. Porky pig in it, and you just see it resting on his thigh. This is the first time we see it. It's resting on his thigh.
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It is indeed.
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It's not in focus because we're focused on their faces, and we're basically it's not the most flattering shots, let's put it that way. But it's from their thigh. And it's basically just going because the line down is from their thigh all the way across to their face. And obviously the penis is just there.
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Yes, it is. There the man on the far left of the bed. And you see it several times throughout this interaction because inevitably, uh, because the TV is, uh, muted, it's got to turn on, right? So Normal has to step on the remote precisely on the mute, uh, button somehow.
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Perfectly steps on a used condom. Worst of all, steps on a used condom.
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People are being safe.
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He steps on it in such a way, it creates, um, this horrible little come bubble thing, like in the bottom of the fucking condom. You're just like, right, okay. And it's like, oh, no, what's going to pop first? But no, he steps on the remote in a classic comedy fashion.
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Yes.
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Whether you like that or not, that's what happens.
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Um, it's very stressful.
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Everybody wakes up. And here's the thing. By the time he makes that mistake, he's been rushing to get into the room where Smiley and the wrestler are.
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Yeah. He never gave up and, uh, wanted to run outside. No, he is still desperate to get in through the adjoining door instead of. But here we are. I'll accept it. It's fine.
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Yeah. It's a comedy of errors. That seems like what ends up happening. Because we'll get this nice and fast. Because we get to the other bit of the deck. He gets in there, Smiley's and getting a headlock with this woman because that's what he wants.
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Yeah.
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And then for whatever reason, she gets up, they get Norville he's in a headlock. And Normal, uh, had already picked up. I don't know what you call those things. Those little, uh, needle things. You put the receipts and stuff on them.
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Yeah. I do not know the name of them, but you would see it at maybe, um, at a diner, a restaurant. And so when you're done with the check, you'd pop the check on that needle.
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Yeah.
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And you'd collect all your receipts on it. And using that as a weapon.
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I'm sure it's been done before, but before he goes to even inspect any of the rooms, he slashes the tires of Smiley's car with the receipt. Poker, let's say. And this ends up being Normal's, uh, weapon of choice because he doesn't even really get to use the fucking thing. He ends up getting stabbed in the stomach by fucking Smiley maybe eight times. He just calls them all sorts of, like, horrible expletives. And then gets the poker all, uh, the way through his cheek.
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Yes.
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And, uh, Smiley apologizes and says, I was going for your ear. But it's during this altercation as he's being stabbed and being obviously stabbed in the face. This is when we also see the concerned couple, um, from the adjoining room. He's porky. He's got his T shirt on and stuff like that. We see everything. The woman in the group is also naked. I don't know where they're from. I was going to say Scandinavian.
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Okay.
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That was just my thing.
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They're very concerned and very worried because they had just witnessed a horrible, horrible crime.
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They have witnessed a crime. Even the prostitute was also kind of like, fuck. And then Smiley screaming at her, like, as he's packing his suitcase, uh, basically saying, no, I saw you. I saw you like, I saw you, like, choke him out. It's your fault you've murdered someone.
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He also yelled at her that she needed to wear some more deodorant. Quite low blow.
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It's a little bit of a low blow. Not only are you accused of murder, you're also accused of having bow.
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It's like an injury.
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I had a kick up crying lady of wrestling in the stomach, in their armpit. Horrible.
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Oh, my goodness. We're kind of at the end of the movie here because that penis scene, I don't even think I mentioned it yet. Comes in at an hour, 18 and 6 seconds.
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Yes.
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There's not much of the movie left.
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No. He confronts Smiley, and then he ends up walking all the way home. That's really kind of what happens. I really like that there's not much of a resolution to the story other than the people who you feel like are dispatched, are dispatched. And then the movie kind of ends with from his father.
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He never gets an answer as to why he wanted to get in touch with him or why he contacted him.
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No.
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And that's kind of a bummer.
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It's a little bit of a bummer.
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And then his father's piece of shit.
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Yeah, it seems that way.
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Although he did fund his entire life, which is pretty solid.
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Yeah. Supposedly he was living in a mansion, his mother was a prostitute, and all this other sort of stuff, like, a lot of other things get revealed and stuff like that. But at the end of the day, he doesn't get the answer he's looking for, which is kind of, uh, some sort of basically the stepping stone to reconciliation with his father. That's what he's looking for.
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Yes.
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Never happened, and it never happens. But, yeah. What a fun romp.
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I have a very interesting thing to tell you about this film, and I wasn't sure if I should bring it up earlier, and I didn't, so I'm going to tell you now.
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Well, I'm literally on the edge of my seat.
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You should be. This movie actually came about from a bit of real life truth from Aunt Timson, who watched his dad die right in front of him.
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Um, okay.
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And his dad's partner at the time, she had suggested that they keep the body in the house for five days so that the family can, um, come and reconcile their feelings and kind of chat with the father and just kind of grieve altogether. And I guess this is kind of a Maori tradition because he's from New Zealand. Um. Um, I'm sure it's common in certain cultures, but it wasn't common to him himself. He thought it was a little bit weird, but they had the body involved, had it taken care of, brought back to the house, and they're going through the grieving process. But then people would come by the house, people he'd never met and were also grieving and telling stories. And he's chatting with these people, and he's almost feeling like his father. He never knew him at all.
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Right. Okay.
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Just from meeting all these strangers and all these people. And then he was having weird, um, dreams and these really surreal dreams while his deceased father is in his home.
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Okay.
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So from that is where he ended up talking to, um, what was his name? Toby Harvard. About working on a script about the story.
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Okay.
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From that particular real life trauma.
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Yeah. From that traumatic event comes the comedy Come to Daddy.
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Well, it makes sense because we were saying before that you could have made this a really intense family drama, which you do kind of work through it in a way, in the beginning. But then I think seeing how Ant Simpson is and the kind of films that he likes and produces and works on, you could see why this would be more of a cathartic thing to work through it as a, uh, comedy. Because I think this is also the type of films he would like to watch with his father.
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Well, yeah. Not to obviously question his inspirations and things like that, but, yeah, uh, for some people, filmmaking is a kind of therapy in itself.
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Yeah.
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I remember saying that in, uh, a pitch meeting once, and I got thrown out.
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What?
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Yeah, I wrote a story about reconnecting with my father. It was a rough one. It's not as funny.
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Okay.
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I would say that much. You watch it and you're appalled by it, probably.
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Well, I'm really excited to see other kind of. I've been enjoying, like the Spectra Vision kind of company that Elijah Woodland and, uh, a few other people have put together because we've seen some really cool movies come out of them that companies like Mandy and Colorado Space, stuff like that. So let's get into our ratings, which I'm annoyed that I have so far switched, um, the visibility and context ratings to be separate. And I feel like I'm going to rate it the same for this movie as well. But it'll come a point. I swear, we'll have a movie where the visibility rating and the context rating are starkly different. But for now, I'm just going to keep doing my best.
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Okay. So what would you say?
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So in terms of visibility, it's five.
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Okay.
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Five stars, visibility and context. Maybe just for fun, I'll give it a 4.5%.
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Okay.
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Because he's getting snuck in on and it's a little creepy.
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Okay.
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And obviously this naked man doesn't want to see someone get an attempted murder.
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No, uh uh. I don't think he's intent on seeing that. I'm just going to agree with you because I didn't really think about it any more than that. It's going to be marked relatively quite high. It's like an extra layer to something that's already relatively quite ridiculous. So why not? Why not just have someone with their Dick out?
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It's definitely played for comedy. Not that this man's penis is played for comedy. Um, it's more just the situation that normal gets himself into. And then these poor people are privy to this other horrible situation just when they wanted to have a good old fashioned orgy for some.
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Yeah, either way. Either way, mhm. It's what it is.
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So what did you rate this film overall, Ryan?
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Three.
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Okay.
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It's slightly better than average, just purely because it did make me laugh, but it just kind of falls into it's not as good as other films of it's. Ilk. I would say, like, comedy horrors of the past of the last, say, even the last decade or something like that, where there's been more of a resurgence of it. Yeah, I don't think this one is as good as those ones.
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You're going to have to point them out to me. So, um, we can watch them.
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I think Happy Death Day is a better film than this one.
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Oh, I like this one better.
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Because it just plays in a lot harder. This one, I feel like it's like skating a really fine line, and I think it points. It does it really well. And certainly everyone's a category, but then when the film stops being being kind of a horror and it kind of takes away a lot of the suspense and all that sort of stuff, I'm like now it's just a kind of silly, like a silly crime keeper. And I kind of lose a little bit of interest. That whole motel scene thing. And I mean, I know there's a Dick there. That whole motel sequence just kind of makes me beg belief and I start to kind of lose a little bit of attention at that point. I'm quite happy for the film to have finished by that um time. I do start to question everyone's behavior, and I'm like, what are you doing this for? Why are you doing this?
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I love the beginning of this film so much. It is funny, it's uncomfortable, it's tense, awkward, and you don't know what's happening. And I really, really, really like it up until you get to Daddy switch and you go through the rest of the journey. And that's my favorite part of this movie. And also you get to be in that really cool house that looks like a UFO on the water. And it's so beautiful and such an interesting spot to have a story be told and I kind of want to be in that house. I think it's really nice.
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Yeah.
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But yeah, I do agree with you that when, um, you get into the later part of the movie, even though you have the addition of Michael Smiley, who's lovely and so fun to watch and was apparently ad libbing and improv, he was doing a lot of improv for that part of the film.
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Michael Smith is also in Sansa awesome. He, uh, plays film producer in that movie. He's very good in that movie.
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He's great.
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He's probably one of the stand out parts of that movie.
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He's great to watch. And so him, uh, coming in towards the end of the middle of the film is awesome and super fun to watch. So I'm not mad about it but I gave this film four stars and I'm very happy about that score and I would watch this movie again because I've seen it twice already and I enjoy it very much.
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Good.
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I think it's funny.
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Okay.
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And, uh, there's a Wiener in it. Well, G golly. Thanks so much, Ryan, for being here with me today and letting me watch an Elijah Wood movie with you.
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That's fine. I don't know if there's any more Elijah Wood movies that we're going to have to see.
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I'm going to find them if there are.
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Okay.
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Don't worry about that.
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Yeah. Frodo with. What do they call this sword? Sting. Sting. Sting?
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It glows when there's I think when there's goblins around.
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When there's danger.
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Not just danger. Mhm it's like very specific.
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Only just goblins.
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I think it's just goblins.
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Okay.
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I don't think it's orcs. Oh, God, I used to be the nerd that would kill me if I got that wrong.
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That's why it didn't blow when they saw the Spider.
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Correct?
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Uh, there you go.
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Yeah. Thank you guys so much for being here with us today. Coming to you from the trunk of Michael Smiley's car. I have been, Laura.
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I'm Ryan.
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See you next time.
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Goodbye.
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Uh.