Half in the Bag: 2019 Movie Catch-Up! (part 2 of 2)

half in the bag oh my god Jay the [ __ ] wildfires are out of control oh wait that's California oh my god Jay the [ __ ] snowstorms are out of control I wish the fires have make their way this way can we have a car for myself yeah yeah but just like fold the country in half it's kind of overlap just just for like an hour jump all the snow on the fires and then just like out like a mad like a mad magazine oh yeah yeah get them together and you have a new image yeah yeah yeah can we ask our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to do that for us God perform a miracle dump our [ __ ] snow on the California wildfires well I've got a great segue from Pet Sematary to a very similar kind of movie it's called hole in the ground I miss town once too yes Alan sweetie maybe oh yeah Australian Irish and or Scottish I was curious to see that yeah great great well if you're looking for a slow atmospheric creepy kind of very simple horror movie yeah that's uh that's a mother and son move into an old creepy house and as you see in the trailer there's a hole in the ground in the backyard a big hole like an acre was the little boy ends up going down in the hole and then he comes back and he's changed he's chained and there's a creepy old lady and there's some scares the creepy kid movie much like The Prodigy which I think you saw this year oh yeah I enjoyed the prodigy yeah we're not gonna waste time talking about it but it was fine yeah yeah yeah so creepy kid movie but but done tastefully and not not schlock Lee Hollywood style Dook yeah I enjoyed the battle too that director has a new movie out I haven't seen it yet Hobbs in shock that's how they do you made an independent film that was mildly successful now we're gonna give you Fast and Furious 12 hey who doesn't like checks true well speaking of horror pictures since we're on a roll with that so I'll talk about one that you might think is a horror movie but it becomes something else it's called one cut of the dead and it was until a movie I just saw recently it was my favorite movie I'd seen this year it's a Japanese movie and it's hard to talk about without getting into spoilers because you got to go in completely blind don't read anything about this movie but the set up is the first like 4045 minutes first half of the movie is one continuous shots actually one continuous shot no like hidden cuts or anything and it's people making a movie in a old abandoned warehouse they're making a zombie movie but then there's real zombies outside and they have to defend them off it's all done in one shot they're going in the building out of the building running around but there's lots of weird little moments very like that's an odd choice like as far as filmmaking goes but then after that first 45 minutes it takes a complete shift it goes in a completely different direction that recontextualizes the entire thing and explains why those odd little eccentric moments are in there and I can't say any more than that without giving it away but it is one of the most satisfying and like feel-good movies I've seen in a very long time up there with dolomite if you like movies about filmmaking it's really charming and fun can't say any more than that but if you're even if you're not like if like if you're sick of zombies which I think everybody is at this point but you know you make a good movie was on B's in it it still holds up so even if even if you don't care about zombies even if you're not a big horror fan stick with this even though you might not be into it for the first half-hour so and and very very charming and really well made well speaking of the opposite of all those things let's talk about the dead don't die zombie movie yeah this is like this is like more segways than a weird al' yankovic video starring Adam driver who's also in something else he's on a TV show called the rise of Skywalker called rise of Skywalker's pants he's Unger's and girls but he was in some other movies he was in Jim Jarmusch's last night yeah he's a writer paper writing which I never saw that movie I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch I've liked a lot of his movies but I heard I think I saw the trailer for Paterson and I heard what it was about which is animals Abbas and he meets people that inspire him to write his stories and it's a Jim Jarmusch movie I was like oh I've seen it I just saw the movie in my brain I don't have to bother yeah yeah I was a little more curious about this one because yeah it's got the slight horror aspect to it [Music] he did a vampire movie a few years ago called only lovers left alive that's really really good - murmurs yep Tilda Swinton's in that Tom Tom Hiddleston and I like that movie a lot and there's like a Jim Jarmusch it's not really horror but it had vampires and so I was curious about this one and I liked the first half until and it's weird to say Jim Jarmusch movie isn't going anywhere because that's kind of this whole thing they're very you know laid-back and very dry Oh yuck but this one I just kind of lost interest cuz it just felt so meandering but the first half I enjoyed quite a bit but yeah I would I wouldn't call it meandering it it felt very I'm forward moving the first half - yeah the problem with it is I mean okay Adam driver and Bill Murray great until this went in great yeah the relationship between the two cops Adam driver and Bill Murray it was the best thing of them yes of course there's they're so dry and and and they even break the fourth wall a couple times with referencing this song the the soundtrack it's the dead done done by Sturgill Simpson why does it sound so familiar well cuz it's the theme song but then they talk about script I read the script Jim gave me a copy and yes yeah the meta aspect was so underdeveloped I was like why is this in here it was very weird yeah it's like if you throw a meta fourth wall breaking thing in just a regular movie for one thing and don't follow up on it and so that was odd it made me laugh you know and I think of one point Bill Murray goes what are we ad libbing now yes and I and I thought maybe that was like a real take and so the movie felt like he was just making a movie and not caring at all and and it's so sick that's I was waiting for it to pull back towards the end and expand on that and it never really did right yeah and needed to go bigger with that concept I mean that the zombie stuff was fun there are some good gags some good like Tilda Swinton with the sword samurai sword I like dusty zombies I don't know if I've seen Dusty's of these before and the lady yelling for Chardonnay Carol Kane it was a Scrooge reunion yeah Bill Murray it seemed to have a quasi message about environmentalism or politics that didn't really solidify yeah okay Steve Buscemi has a not a make America great again had it's just make America white again yeah it's like trying to push it if it's too too far it's stupid well yeah and then so it's like okay are they is he saying like the Trump voters or zombies or like politics in general people have become zombified and then there's like a consumer element consumerism angle to with the people looking at their phones which is you know George Romero asked the zombies in the mall and so I'm like oh they're doing this consumerism politics or environmentalism yeah because they talk about fracking polar fracking but they say it's on the polar icecaps and then it causes the axis of the earth to spin and [ __ ] up everything which bring the dead back to life so yeah now and then Tilda Swinton's an alien that's that's the movie yeah REE distracted at all during the the ending like they're fighting the zombies in the cemetery and it's very clearly day for night oh yeah that was yeah I was that don't do day for night ever but yeah that's the thing is that's why I enjoyed the first half just as this laid-back kind of really dry Jim Jarmusch comedy and then it's like oh he's trying to say something many things it's to just kind of I don't know fizzles out it's like yeah laid-back zombie movie I mean you take the the king of them all Shaun of the Dead yeah where you have kind of slacker characters who treat a zombie apocalypse as as they should throwing records at head zombies yeah sort of poking fun at the genre but Shaun of the Dead crescendoed with great characters and emotion yes at the end and this just fizzled out with some sort of quasi message that wasn't quite clear it's weird because of like with the Jim Jarmusch movie they're usually very laid-back and very simple but they feel focused on like characters specific characters or in the case of like night on earth it's a series of vignettes of different characters in this movie like there's enough kernels there that feel like it's trying to say something that don't feel developed as opposed to just a simple story of the small town with these zombies in it so it feels underdeveloped which is a weird thing to say about a Jarmusch movie but he planted those things in there it's it's a it's a fork in the road situation mm-hmm and you crash in the middle yeah guys yeah you go either go with a message in a metaphorical sentence with zombies and whatnot or you go for a dry zombie comedy mm-hmm that you're you're going to have a fresh take on fresh take with Shaun of the Dead was the comedic yes that hadn't really been done too much before and only in the fact that the zombies in that are still treated seriously the horror specs of that are still there yeah but like I said Shawna the dad comes to comes to a head with with good characters that you care about yes and when your characters are too dry and sarcastic and self-aware and then it's like okay then yeah fork in the road fork in the brain my girl's poor Mexican hmm really how can you tell I have an affinity for Mexicans they're like my favorite people I like Adam driver a lot as an actor oh yeah he's good and obviously everybody loves Bill Murray his big news story was like lately was that he applied for a job at PF Changs it's just cuz cuz he's Bill Murray yes cuz he's grown married he was at a it was an airport PF Changs in some random city yeah and he's like he's oh no and he filled out the application for PF Changs while he was there and he's like he's like that looks like it would be fun and then he left and they're like hey we'll hire you Bill Murray yeah if you want to work at our PF Changs yeah no one's gonna turn down Bill Murray right so he's an interesting interesting character that guy he's what you would call a probably a lovable [ __ ] I'm sure someone like Harrison Ford might just be an [ __ ] yeah or like Jim Cameron James Cameron James good old James Cameron he's probably just just a grade-a [ __ ] yeah you know but Bill Murray is a lovable [ __ ] who doesn't give a [ __ ] about anything but at the same time still gotta love them well Mike I saw a Marvel movie a Marvel movie did you marvel at it talk about spider-man we were done with Marvel movies after Avengers n game that felt like such a strong kind of closure to that whole thing but I did finally see spider-man fire from home what did you think of spider-man far from home it was fine this is why we didn't do a half on the bag on it cuz it was just fine it was entertaining it kind of it's weird because it's like we enjoyed the first spider-man spider-man homecoming I think we both liked it quite a bit but if this isn't a case of like oh I liked the spider-man movie and then three or four years later you get the sequel it's like in between that last one and this one you've seen [ __ ] spider-man and like five other movies yeah it's just like never never ends it never leaves your mind you don't have any chance to miss Tom Holland is spider-man because he's in everything this isn't just a sequel to a movie it's you know a part of this bigger thing and after Avengers I'm game was like okay we're done with that thing so the smaller aspects of this one I liked it was like a cute like teen comedy where the class goes on a trip to Europe sorry sorry there's like oh this is cute this is charming oh now spider-man has to fight [Music] it seems like a movie that probably should have happened five years ago before the biggest cinematic event of the century yeah like it touches on that you know the whole course the events of the Avengers endgame but yeah it just feels like oh now we have another spine back to it back to normal are we gonna take a class trip yeah I mean I got to keep going so they're not just gonna stop even though from a creative standpoint it would be nice to take a break but so spider-man Mysterio is turns out to be a villain I assume that's the thing is like even if you have a passing knowledge of comic books you know who Mysterio is sire artists name is Mysterio but the entire arc of the movie is you can see coming but it's Jake Gyllenhaal and he's good it's kind of funny because he was potentially gonna replace Tobey Maguire and Raimi spider-man 2 and when it's helped me a wire or hurt his back or something the most exciting appearance in the movie was by Peter Billingsley who played Ralphie in A Christmas Story he had one small scene in the original Iron Man movie because he's friends with Jon Favreau who direct but Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave with a box of scraps and that character from the first Iron Man movie shows up in this and it was the most exciting thing to me that happened in the entire film like ah it's Ralphie hot-diggity-dog you know what's on tonight the - our Ghost Adventures show that well speaking of haunted and spooky movies I saw the curse of La Llorona its sec nicly connected to the conjuring universe right nobody cares sure it is this Annabelle make an appearance no I ain't about got our own movie again this year third a third or fourth Annabelle far from home homecoming Annabelle antibiotic cameo in Shazam that's true yes I don't know but ok curse of La Llorona the lead actress Annette is oh it's Linda Cardellini yeah the sister from she's on Freaks and Geeks I think she was a madman for a while yes and hawkeye's wife she was on new girl ah ok new girl she plays Zooey Deschanel's older sister so crazy older sister this is all fascinating but back to the curse of lalalaura wanna talk about something more interesting like so first of all let me tell you all about this movie right I think just to correct you it's pronounced la Llorona oh yeah yeah my sharona that's unrelated but Oh Oh cuz it's a double el and Spanish double Elle's like like like poyo it was just was just the Spanish word for chicken yes it has a double al so yeah yeah LLL Rona yeah yeah right you're right double else equal wise I never took Spanish so I don't know this [ __ ] but I do know that double ELLs who pronounced as as wise Thank You Jay hey you're welcome thank you for for checking my white privilige so how was the film was whoring his [ __ ] there was a curse there was a curse of yeah you Rona I think it was like a like an old lady a ghost I guess it's a it's a it's a Spanish or Mexican folklore kind of thing yeah get that based on a true story that's not a true story with 15 quotation marks around it when I'd like the chupacabra the chupacabra was in it what really yeah that was their pet pet in the house of a triple Cobra oh my god but okay I think Oh Oh la Llorona I think it was the ghost lady lost a child and so she wants to take your child and then and then it ended oh my god on that that's probably [ __ ] you're for move right yes that's what I'm saying is like I've watched much more TV we can talk about TV TV's is tough cuz there's so much you know it's kind of fascinating too though is is I mean I think we've talked about this before but TV is like has has a the essica burn out possibility with shows because they are not episodic yeah yeah I just started a show with Paul Rudd in it I know that yeah well there's two of them yes yeah and and it's the first episode of 30 minutes and it's perfectly the first act of a movie oh sure and I'm like and it's only like six or eight episodes right yeah so it's basically a long movie yeah but I mean you know it's one of those things where it comes back that could come back for season 2 season 3 and it's like yeah I'm like I only need two more episodes I just need I need yeah what is how is he gonna handle this situation then how is it going to get resolved and and it's technically a TV show but it's really long movie and then you have shows that become popular that I just give up on because I want the movie to end and I could list ten of them where it's like and then some of them just get cancelled so they're not quite up osanic yeah they just keep going but the the quality is there as far as like the way they're executed and acted and writing all that stuff is really good sometimes better than movies mmm I didn't see the lie your own a movie cuz it just looks like Y cheap to make teenagers watch it horror Sookie yeah although I think that one did flop I think you gotta have something more to it not really what else you got well let's shift gears to something good something great in facts I saw the lighthouse take me once a timber man walked with being a wiki alright the this surpassed one cut of the dead for me as far as best movie of the year oh my goodness this is of course from Robert Eggers black and white it's in black and white it's in I don't even think it's four by three I think it's even narrower it's like a ghost story no it's not I I would hesitate to even call it a horror film it's for me I'm talking about before man there goes a ghost story head oh the movie Ghost yeah that's for yeah yeah yeah the same aspect ratio 16 millimeter with the I thought you were saying the lighthouse was a ghost story no no no I don't know what it's about other than a lighthouse well it's it's the movie it reminded me that most of them is the shining because one they're both about people in isolation going crazy and there's even an appoint in this movie when Willem Dafoe chases Robert Pattinson with an axe or did he that's the whole thing unreliable narrator stuff going on but like The Shining it has a very kind of simple story of just yeah these two guys stuck out in this lighthouse slowly going crazy and getting drunker and drunker it's like a cinematic retelling of the filming of an episode of best of the worst but like The Shining there's a lot you can read into it there's like hints of Greek mythology and like the story of Prometheus not the Ridley Scott film but the actual story it's kind of like cuz the guy directed to which which the witch is like a straight-up horror film this one there's a couple kind of creepy moments but it's really more of a bizarre surreal character drama like a really good student film why would you say student film because it's in black and white no well that's that's that's worth pointing out though because it's like director is so good at like not just having interesting techniques but where it actually ties into the movie it's not just in black and white you know it's it's shot on old camera lenses because that's the period that the movie takes place in and it's all like in service of the story and experience of the film wait wait this just came through on Twitter Robert Edgar's is directing Hobbs and Shaw too but like the which is a very feminine movie it's about a girl kind of becoming a woman and becoming her own individual person stripping away from her family and this one is like the polar opposite it's a very masculine movie it's about two men left alone going crazy there's some homoerotic stuff there's mermaid vaginas it's very there's a lot of like sexual tension it's a whole lot going on so the first thing we have seen him forever weird like the minute it was over I want to just watch it again because I think it would take on a different interpretation and re-watch where it's like like Hobbs and draw like Hopson Shaw - I can't wait for Robert Decker's but you have shot - how long have we been on this rock five leaps do days have me do they connect I love the witch it was like my favorite movie I don't know the last decade or whatever but I think I might like the lighthouse more okay well that's that's perfectly okay there's so much going on in it but it still works it's not just all like you got to figure it out like it works as a story and satisfied at the end it doesn't leave you like confused no it's not one of those where it just cuts to black and you're like what the last shot of the movie is fantastic and yeah Willem Dafoe farts a lot there's some really great monologues Robert Pattinson just screaming at Willem Dafoe about how much he stinks just a really really great stuff a great actor movie a great filmmaking movie and a solid story there's a wonderful shots this is less than subtle but like I've mentioned there's a lot of the weird like kind of sexual frustration stuff because it's these two men that are just stranded in the middle of nowhere but there's a shot of the actual lighthouse which is a crisp very phallic looking what the camera is completely sideways on it and then it goes like this oh my god that's a boner and it is a really funny movie too it's got that really kind of dark dry humor to it which the witch didn't have that movie was so stark and serious but how long is it um I saw I saw ma would like shaving a Spencer while you were watching the lighthouse did it leave you with a lot to think about and interpret you said I had to rewatch it again yes get all the subtleties I didn't see why I actually wanted to see it because it looks mildly campy wasn't it wasn't no it was it was serviceable and it was it was fine you guys want a party like rock stars follow me let's a via Spencer go crazy I know it never really reached like that peak potential of being goofy and self-aware as it should have yeah it's just kind of turned out to be a sad villainous character and then and then that team characters were so bad you know interesting premise and but just kind of petered out I was like Activia Spencer finally gets her her lead performance she's always like background characters ya know he's the best friend the best friend yeah and then I'm wearing a shape of water yes good yeah yeah she's she's the friend but then now she gets to like go crazy and this is her like Kathy Bates you know misery kind of role where she's bonkers and I should have played up the camp it looked like it was gonna be kind of a slightly silly horror movie but that's not the case no if you have EXO Octavia Spencer like partying with high schoolers like there's limitless potential for the nominate they were going like yet the way it's or when you watch the trailer you see that and you're like oh my gosh that's why I was curious about it it's like I don't know she is she was like emotionally scarred when she was younger like bullied mocked oh so they gave her like she's a back story like a back story yeah she tried to make a real movie yeah and then our teens have a dated token black friend that she puts in Whiteface at the oh so he could be white and and and I think they thought it would be creepy and it just came off like odd and does she hacked any up with a butcher knife I think she stabbed somebody crazy Octavia Spencer running around with a knife killing teenagers would be wonderful slaw she has a daughter that she keeps like locked upstairs that never is let out or is rarely let out while all the kids are partying downstairs there's like a gate that separates her she's trying to protect her obviously from the outside world from being hurt so yeah it goes more in that direction and it doesn't go in lock like like I'm gonna stab everybody yeah yeah I'm crazy I just think it's so kind of seriously that's unfortunate it doesn't let loose with the fun now I think I think there may have been may have been aiming a little higher than they should have they should have aimed much much lower because Octavia Spencer is great you know she was a great actress she's good I've seen her nothing but she's seen her no pivotal performances MA in MA you know she's in the first spider-man movie the Sam Raimi spider-man movie there's no featherweight division you small fry next started there now she's in MA this is the most fun I've had in a long time movies like ma or the curse of La Llorona disposable well there there are things that I know will end like unlike TV show I don't I mean sure I know this will end yeah in 1 hour and 28 minutes and and I don't have to keep watching it yeah in order to ultimately be disappointed well that's something rich and I kind of talked about when we talked about the boys the Amazon series you know what I never watched your show about it because I hadn't watched the boys yet oh and then I finally watched the boy yeah but that was that was we talked about that how it's like oh this is really well done this is engaging and interesting and then you get to the end and it's a cliffhanger and you're like oh that's right it's a TV show it's like I wanted to see this conclude this weird thing where like TV shows are trying to be more like movies but they still have to continue on for seasons or they just stop that's true and you get no conclusion did you ever watch the santa clarita diet oh yeah that I I started watching I didn't really like it but that was like three seasons and then then it's just no I watched the first two yeah and it was like I've got the gist I I see what they're doing I got the premise now I want to get closer to then I don't I don't I don't even well I was like I like I would have been happy with the closure but but I didn't need more so I don't know there it's it's a weird it's a weird um it's a weird thing because it's a certain like talk about Star Trek discovery right oh you're gonna just like this continuing thing and I'm like and I got it where it's not what what story do we want to tell it's what do we have to do to make this last longer yeah that's it that's exactly it some some shows it works with like I don't know I always talk about breaking bad cuz you never seen it I know I know breaking baby see El Camino I have not seen El Camino I should I should have watched it before this but Breaking Bad is a really well done storyline yeah that keeps going and then you got shows you got like madmen where it's like they're almost like soap operas where it's like there is no written conclusion to a soap opera it's just tune in every week yeah sure yeah ads but and that's a continuing story line that just keeps going yeah we you know I like Star Trek shows old Star Trek shows because it's a encapsulated episode yeah we set up a problem and then we have a conclusion for this episode cheers or whatever you say there's an episode it ends yeah and of course there are always going to be overarching little plot things that go on but each you could pull an episode of cheers out and watch it you pull an episode of Star Trek out watch it lot of shows now you can't do that you can't pull out an episode of maniac with Jonah Hill and just watch it right right so you have to be invested from the beginning to the end and and and if it doesn't hook you it falls apart yeah like they're like there's a show called the Oh a with jason isaacs I was on Star Trek discovery and it had an interesting premise and then and that had just petered out so yeah I mean that's just the way it is I think if they hold in long enough to where they know the end is coming then they can wrap it up yeah and go ahead meant end it there right every day then you have quality [ __ ] like Barry the Barry is it's like breaking bad to where it's good to where I mean at least after the second season it was much better than the first it just gets better yeah but will it will that fall off the rails I mean that's that's always been the case with TV shows but yeah they use it's weird cuz it used to be like TV felt so disposable or it's like this is just something to put on to say that we can have ads play and now it's like movies feel more disposable with stuff like the curse of La Llorona yeah it's like yeah put it in theaters it'll make money opening weekend and then we move on right well it's not a piece of art it's not forever yeah the lighthouse is a piece of art the lighthouse will last that's not faint praise when I compared it to the Stanley Kubrick film so it's it's well well worth seeing and then everything else this year was [ __ ] what Marvel movies came out this year spider-man far from home I talked about it I should have just reviewed cuz the only reason I watched that movie was I have a very nice Dolby Atmos surround sound set up and I mostly watch old crap that's just in like two channels stereo so once in a while you gotta you gotta flex those speakers sure and it was a wonderful Dolby Atmos surround sound mix and that's my review of Spyder bed and far from home other than that movie spider-man far from home what were the summer movies this year yeah even like bigger movies there wasn't much out there this year aside from Avengers endgame that was like the biggest movie of all time now we had Star Wars to look forward to oh that's a that's a that's an end game right there yeah for Disney they should call the movie end game Star Wars on game why not confuse people let him go think they're seeing something else it's an inch it's going to be an interesting turning point because November marks the release of the start of the mandalorian TV show on Disney Plus which is weird timing it feels like their focus should be on the main story the main movies it's almost like they're doing that November to me like this hours this other stuff really they're like they're anticipating rise of Skywalker not being very successful yeah well I mean I think it's a very good bet the rise of Skywalker will do well at very least its first weekend or two yeah kind of like last Jedi that that you know did really well and that it tapered off more so than the first one I'm very curious to see what the rise of Skywalker is and how it will do yeah because it really is it's like a big turning point because I think they just announced that the game of Thrones guys are not oh they're gone another Star Wars thing and Rian Johnson was supposed to have his own trilogy which seems like a very bad idea they've been talking about that for years and then it's like mmm and so it's like what are they gonna do after rise of Skywalker and I think after that they're gonna focus mostly on TV stuff that seems to be the the safer bet because because this new trilogy is not Knut's or not all they probably hoped it would now they didn't plan it up because they didn't plan it out so that's their own fault for not for just throwing it in the lap of Ryan Johnson and here write and direct a sequel yeah so this very important [ __ ] thing you have complete creative control go ahead that seemed weird but yeah I'm wondering to see how like if the mandalorian is successful and versus the movie theater fork in the room its fork in the road Jim Jarmusch Forks which way do you go TV or movies yeah and is is rise of Skywalker going to be worth the investment especially since solo kind of flopped yes yeah but we'll talk ourselves literally in circles about this topic talk ourselves the new Grave talking about Star Wars there's plenty of other videos on the internet that I'm sure are talking about there are other people doing videos about Star Wars yeah so you can watch those I'm not gonna get into all that right now well here's to 2020 and more years of forgettable junk it's gonna warm up the coffee Oh you [Music]

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Published: Sat Nov 23 2019